Comme nous vous l’avons rapporté dans une dépêche d’actualité, Jason Falkner a participé aux sessions d’enregistrement de l’album « Chaos and Creation in the Backyard » de Paul McCartney, à paraître le 12 Septembre prochain. Chaos and Creation In The Backyard Fine Line / How Kind Of You / Jenny Wren / At The Mercy / Friends To Go / English Tea / Too Much Rain / A Certain Softness / Riding To Vanity Fair / Follow Me / Promise To You Girl / This Never Happened Before / Anyway Chaos and Creation In The Backyard Fine Line / How Kind Of You / Jenny Wren / At The Mercy / Friends To Go / English Tea / Too Much Rain / A Certain Softness / Riding To Vanity Fair / Follow Me / Promise To You Girl / This Never Happened Before / Anyway Chaos and Creation In The Backyard Fine Line / How Kind Of You / Jenny Wren / At The Mercy / Friends To Go / English Tea / Too Much Rain / A Certain Softness / Riding To Vanity Fair / Follow Me / Promise To You Girl / This Never Happened Before / Anyway Fine Line Fine Line / Comfort of Love Fine Line Fine Line / Growing up Falling Down.
Nous vous proposons de découvrir ci-dessous un extrait d’une interview dans laquelle il relate sa collaboration avec Paul :
Q: I meant to ask you, when you were recording with Paul McCartney, did he follow your work, and if so, what did he think about the Beatles instrumental album?
Falkner : Ah, yes, this is my favorite story about what happened. He was unfamiliar with my stuff when we met. The odd thing is, when my Beatle record was still pretty current, a girl that worked at Sony in New York said she was at a party and she was talking about her work at Sony/Wonder, and she said that Stella McCartney like was standing right there and said ‘excuse me, did you say you worked at Sony/Wonder? Did you have anything to do with the ‘Bedtime with the Beatles’ record?’ And this girl was like, ‘well yeah we put it out but Jason Falkner did it.’ And she was like ‘oh my god, I love that record, I’m sending it to my dad.’ So I heard that story that f*king rocked my world. But then the second day of working with Paul…the way we were set up in the studio, we were the only two people in the main track room, which is this huge tracking room, and poor James had his drum set stuffed in this tiny vocal booth. Cuz Nigel (Godrich) likes the really really dead sound. So he was just in this little room, we couldn’t even see him, we could just hear him through the headphones. So Paul and I were like facing each other when we were recording. And I was still kind of wetting myself, you know, looking up and there’s Paul McCartney with his Beatle bass, looking at me and sorta pointing his finger and smiling and stuff. So then we put down our instruments to go listen to what we’d just done, and I was like ‘hey Paul, did you ever hear this ‘Bedtime with the Beatles’ record?’ And he was like ‘no, no. Let’s have it.’ And he said ‘what is it?’ And I said, well, I did it in this same room, and I played every instrument on it, and I just kinda took you guys into outer space, and it’s to put your kid to sleep. And I know you have a new daughter, so here’s the pink one for your daughter, and here’s the blue one for you.’ And he was like ‘ah, no, I’ve never seen this!’ And so there went my Stella McCartney story.
So then, it was incredible, he was sitting down — we were listening to music — and he opened it up, and he kinda kept looking up at me and looking back at the thing and looking up at me, and uh, we were listening to music so we couldn’t talk, the music was loud. But when it was done he was like, ‘oh, mate, you’ll have to sign it for me.’ So I signed my little Beatle record for Paul McCartney. And then I didn’t come back for a couple days. Nigel was just working with Paul on his own. And the next time I came in was maybe three or four days later, and I had to pick up some of my stuff, cuz I had a solo show — i had to pick up my guitars and stuff. And I walk in, and I see Nigel first and he pushes the button and he’s like ‘Hey Paul, guess who’s here?’ And before Paul and I could see each other he goes ‘is it Jase?’ Cuz he calls me Jase, which is just the most surreal thing, period. He’s got a little nickname for me. And I’m like ‘Hey Paul, how’s it going?’ And he says ‘ah Jase, ‘Bedtime with the Beatles,’ man – nice one!’ And I’m like ‘ahhh, ok. cool, cool.’ And he finishes his tambourine or whatever, and he comes out of the room and he’s like ‘yeah, man, me and my friends listened to it. Me and John’ — uh, his other friend John — ‘and Keith, we listened to it last night. We had a bottle of wine and we listened to it, it’s amazing!’ And he had all these really specific comments, like he really listened to it. And that just blew my mind. And you know, he met my girlfriend a week later and the first thing he says is ‘ah, Bedtime with the Beatles’. You know, he just kept saying that, like I’d be walking down the hall…’ah, nice one!’ It was f*king bizarre.
So that’s kinda my favorite McCartney story. The stuff that we worked on, it actually turned out really good, but it’s kind of a hobby for Paul at this point, you know? He splits really early, he’s only there for a few hours, maybe five or six hours, really giving it all of his attention and everything, and then he’s got a life. A different life. So, that was mind-boggling. And maybe a month ago, I got a Fed-Ex thing came and I saw that it was from MPL, which is his company, and I thought that it was maybe some sort of receipt for what they paid me, you know for tax or something, and I opened it up, and it was a letter on stationery, like a real letter, and he said ‘Still playing ‘Bedtime with the Beatles’ in between naps’ and you know ‘thanks for the amazing stuff you did.’ It was just so nice, I got an actual letter and he drew a weird little face on it and whatever. Pretty cool.
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