Rock and Roll Garage

Rock and Roll changed completely when Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon released their first albums in the 1960s. Every record The Beatles released became a major source of inspiration for musicians all over the world, encouraging them to experiment and discover new musical possibilities. They are credited as being among the precursors of Progressive Rock because of albums like “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” and also of Heavy Metal because of songs like “Helter Skelter”. Over the decades McCartney talked about many heavier bands and gave his opinion on them, including AC/DC, created by the brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. What is Paul McCartney’s opinion on AC/DC Paul McCartney is a fan of AC/DC and a good friend of the band, especially the vocalist Brian Johnson. "I like Rock and Roll basically and I know the AC/DC guys and they're loud, have you seen them live? Oh baby... That's one of the joys of being in a band, you get to plug an electric guitar and turn it up just as loud as you want and it's such a sort of cool feeling that I could see why you would form a group based around that idea," Paul McCartney told noopenerGQ in 2018. He had the chance to meet AC/DC members on the road during the past decades a couple of times and there was a special night where he invited them to go to dinner with him and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl. That meeting happened in 2015, after the Australian band went to the Grammy's to perform "Rock or Bust" and McCartney can be seen enjoying a lot the music as part of the crowd, right at the beginning. The night Paul McCartney invited AC/DC to have dinner with him and Dave Grohl Dave Grohl recalled in an interview with Waterstones in 2021 the incredible story of the surreal night when he had dinner with AC DC and Paul McCartney and prepared a remarkable surprise for them. "There is one year where I was asked to present an award at the Grammy's. Not to perform, just to present. I kind of hate those after parties where it's like music industry and people wanting selfies and stuff. I was just like 'Man, let's go just have a dinner. So I called Pat (Smear) our guitarist and our drummer Taylor (Hawkins). (I) said 'Why don't we get the wives and we'll go to some nice restaurant. So we book a table, Paul McCartney was coming into town. When he comes to Los Angeles, we usually say hello and have dinner." "His wife texted my wife and said 'What are you doing after the Grammy's? She said 'Well, we're just gonna go to this restaurant and Nancy said: 'Would you mind if we tag along? So my wife texted me and she says 'Hey, do you mind if Paul and Nancy come to dinner? I'm like 'No, that will be great! This will be fun.' So now we've got four couples then Paul bumps into AC/DC in the lobby of the hotel or in the gym, or something like that. They say 'What are you doing after the show?' Because AC/DC was performing. Paul said 'We're gonna go have dinner with the Foo Fighters. Do you guys want to come?'" Dave Grohl continued: "So then I got a text from my wife saying: 'Hey, do you mind if AC/DC comes to dinner?' Now this was huge to me, because I really was a huge AC/C fan when I was a young. The thing about AC/DC, you never see them unless they're on stage, you know. It's not like you see them walking the carpet at a movie premiere. It's like the only time you see them, there's like walls of amplifiers, cannons, explosions. So to see them in the flesh, offstage, in the wild. I was like 'This could be amazing!' It blew my mind, it was such a huge deal. I was a huge fan and really influenced by them when I was young. (...) Then my friend Ben Jaffe from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which a New Orleans swing band, legendary (one)."] "(He says) 'What are you doing after the show?' I'm like 'Oh my God, Ben. Come have dinner with McCartney and AC/DC! You gotta come!' He says 'Well, can I bring the whole band with me?' There's like 10 of these guys, you know. They march like a marching band in the streets, like in a parade. It's my favorite type of music, I love New Orleans Jazz so much. So I booked the back room and they said 'If you want, we will march down the street and into the back room playing.' I was going 'this is gonna be the greatest night of my life'." He continued: https://youtu.be/flWxU2ny_bA?si=x-VyRyv11AntHCuD&t=22 "So we kept it a secret, we didn't tell anyone. We're all hanging out in this backroom with AC/DC and Paul. We're just sort of sitting there and then you could hear music coming down the street and it's loud, dude. I mean, it's tubas, trombones, trumpets, bass drums coming through the restaurant into the room. Everybody's face is just like 'what the f*ck is going on right now?' I got to swing dance with AC/DC. It was insane." "I mean, by the end of the night, honestly, (I thought) this must be happening to someone else. It's like having an out-of-body experience. I'm just like 'I can't believe this is my life.' Because I surely don't consider myself like in the lofty, god-like ranks or status of Paul or AC/DC. I still feel like a kid on my bedroom floor. But here I am getting high with the New Orleans Jazz band and drinking whiskeys with AC/DC while Paul's dancing behind me. This f*cking awesome, it never grows old," Dave Grohl said (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). Brian Johnson was starstruck when he met McCartney and could barely speak Since Brian Johnson became the frontman of AC/DC in 1980, he has had the chance to meet many famous people he admired, but the one who truly left him starstruck was Paul McCartney. As the singer told QFM96 in 2022, he could barely speak when he finally had the chance to meet the Beatle. "I didn't know what to say to him. I mean, for the first time I was absolutely tongue-tied. Then Ringo Starr walked in beside him. And it was Paul that spoke to me, 'cause he heard me talking to somebody. And he said, 'Hello, Geordie.'" "You know, because they call us Geordies, with the accent. And I went, 'Hello, Paul. Sir Paul. Your honor. Your majesty.' I didn't know what (to call him). (Laughs) I just came across like I was breaking a friend's teeth in — I couldn't speak. So it was hard. And then we became friends, which is even harder to describe. If you're in a hotel and somebody like McCartney says, 'Fancy a spot of lunch, kid?' And you go, 'Yes,'" Brian Johnson said. Although AC/DC was formed only in 1973, three years after The Beatles came to an end, Brian Johnson is only a few years younger than McCartney. He was born in 1947, five years after Paul, and is 8 years older than Angus Young, who was born in 1955. Unlike AC/DC, Paul McCartney said the Beatles didn't like to repeat the same musical formula During the interview with GQ magazine in 2018, when he praised AC/DC and said he liked "loud Rock". McCartney also recalled that The Beatles never liked to repeat the same musical formula. That's curious, since even the guitarist Angus Young once joked saying: "I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same (laughs).” Paul McCartney said: "Thinking about The Beatles stuff, looking back on what we've produced, there's not two songs that are alike. A lot of record artists will find a great formula and the next three singles are kind of the same song, you know. We were young guys and we would have got bored doing that, it would be the worst thing ever. We were allowed to get in the studio, we were allowed to play guitars and things. The worst thing ever would be just to sit around bored." "So we always changed whatever we were about to do and did something different. So I had this 'Helter Skelter' thing and we did that, it is pretty raw, it's pretty screamy. It was good to do, we did a lot of takes on it. It was hard on Ringo and in one of the takes you can hear him, right at the end. He says: 'I've got blisters on my fingers!' (Because) he's been drumming so hard and so loud. I wonder (if) Heavy Metal bands heard that and thought 'That's the way to go," Paul McCartney said (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage).

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