Paul McCartney Defends Experimentation
A Links entry from Tuesday, November 25, 2008Paul McCartney Defends Experimentation
A short response article to a recent Guardian critique of McCartney. In the first piece, the author wondered why McCartney had a need to prove to the audience that he was experimental by releasing an electronic album and a sideways sounding Beatles jam. McCartney replies:
The thing about experimenting is that it’s good fun. It’s interesting to do something you don’t do normally. It takes you into places you didn’t plan to go to. That’s quite an interesting aspect. Linda always liked to go for a drive and try and get lost. Most drivers don’t want to get lost - but she’d like it. And that idea of losing your bearings, as long as it’s not in deepest Africa, is something I like. I’ve always liked it. Because when you don’t always know what’s going on, that’s when you can really surprise yourself.
Bryan Klausmeyer
That qualification about getting lost, but not too lost, strikes me as strange. If you can determine the difference between getting “lost” vs. getting “really lost,” doesn’t that mean that you were never really lost to begin with?
Mark Elliot Cullen
I remember a quote from the drummer of U2 strangely enough:
“For me at least, there’s a thin line between making interesting music and being self-indulgent.”
Or maybe it’s like being on a tether on a space walk and yelling at the space station vs being on no tether and flying away into oblivion as your shrieks turn into faint pleading whispers.
Mark Elliot Cullen
markelliotcullen@gmail.com
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