Seiwell, who was a respected session drummer when McCartney hired him to play on
Ram, recalls to ABC Audio, “It was so unique in time: the angst of the Beatles breaking up, New York session. Paul was on a tear, man.”
Denny remembers, “When [Paul] came in and he played the songs to us, we’d just look at each other and say, ‘Ooh, that’s a big responsibility to come up with the right part here, ’cause people will be listening to this 50 years from now! ”
Adds Seiwell, “I’ve made maybe a couple-hundred records over my 50 years of doing this, and that’s my favorite by far…[I]t was truly one of the highlights of my life.”
Seiwell, who was a respected session drummer when McCartney hired him to play on
Ram, recalls to ABC Audio, “It was so unique in time: the angst of the Beatles breaking up, New York session. Paul was on a tear, man.”
Denny remembers, “When [Paul] came in and he played the songs to us, we’d just look at each other and say, ‘Ooh, that’s a big responsibility to come up with the right part here, ’cause people will be listening to this 50 years from now! ”
Adds Seiwell, “I’ve made maybe a couple-hundred records over my 50 years of doing this, and that’s my favorite by far…[I]t was truly one of the highlights of my life.”
Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again.
Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather,
Ram is a jolly thing, scrappy but fun, with an unpretentious thrown-together quality, songs such as lo-fi Beach Boys pastiche “Dear Boy” rubbing up against the entertainingly silly, music hall rockin’ ode to marjuana “Monkberry Moon Delight”. It does, indeed, sound like a man decompressing after the monumental, generational expectations placed on his previous band. In gatefold, it also comes half-speed mastered so sounds great. Lennon’s first solo effort, the
Seiwell, who was a respected session drummer when McCartney hired him to play on
Ram, recalls to ABC Audio, “It was so unique in time: the angst of the Beatles breaking up, New York session. Paul was on a tear, man.”
Denny remembers, “When [Paul] came in and he played the songs to us, we’d just look at each other and say, ‘Ooh, that’s a big responsibility to come up with the right part here, ’cause people will be listening to this 50 years from now! ”
Adds Seiwell, “I’ve made maybe a couple-hundred records over my 50 years of doing this, and that’s my favorite by far…[I]t was truly one of the highlights of my life.”
Capitol/UMeToday, May 17, marks the 50th anniversary of the release Paul and Linda McCartney's Ram album. Ram, Paul's second post-Beatles project and .