Quincy Jones - Search & Destroy

an 85-year-old studio genius only a decade younger than the Beatles but generationally as distant as T.S. Eliot says stuff about rock music.

I spent every second of reading that wondering if I was actually reading a spoof article.

at least 3/4 of Jones' takes are solid, which is extremely high for an 85-year-old

He slept with them? How do you know that?
[Frowns.] Come on, man. He did not give a fuck! You like Brazilian music?

We judge Paul on his recorded output, which could've taken him 100 takes plus overdubs to get right, idk.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 9:59 AM (fifteen minutes ago)

He's supposedly talking about first hearing them. First Beatles album was recorded in 13 hours.

But clearly he's delusional about this and many other things.

Ah. I thought people give Paul props mainly for latter era Beatles + solo stuff, which was more labored over in the studio? Does just seem like jazzman dissing rockers. Would like to know which rock bassists Q approves of. I'm guessing it'd be almost exclusively studio musicians.

rumors have swirled about studio musicians being subbed in for the beatles on some tracks/records for a long time from a bunch of sources. Doesn't really seem all that surprising given how common the practice was.

Yeah he clearly appreciates a jazz-trained studio musician who is super schooled and can execute anything in one take. Reminiscent of Prince trash-talking musicians who clearly have something to say, but aren't complete-package monsters.

the beatles content in this intvw is the least hilarious/interesting!

Anyone know who played bass on the Nana Mouskouri albums Quincy Jones was producing round about the time the Beatles were doing Please Please Me?

klaus voorman iirc

OMG! This film just showed up showing the recording of the drum track for Love Me Do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5p80BMHYk

lol.

Much better drum miming there than in Whiplash!

Q seems as permanently high as Peter O'Toole was permanently sauced

In that GQ interview Q was dissing Elvis and citing others who felt likewise, plus he was mad about Jerry Lee's subsequent version of "Whole Lotta Shakin Going On" getting more airplay and money than the Big Maybelle version that Q produced years before. So his take on the Beatles arguably had its roots back in the 50s

I spent every second of reading that wondering if I was actually reading a spoof article.

"My favorite memory of Elvis was when he fucked a space alien in Sinatra's backyard and just left her there on that damn UFO. But that was him. I wouldn't fuck around with no aliens. Anyway, we probably shouldn't be talking about this in public. You ever eaten a mango before?"

Now that's what you call an interview.

lol, he even jams with the son of Benito Mussolini. He's literally done just about everything.

And then she told me something that really hit home. She told me everybody in the Third Reich was on cocaine. See, I worked for pimps when I was 11, and they used to do that, too—they'd take cocaine because it raised the propensity for violence, from the primate brain. That's the primate in us, the four F's: Fright, Fight, Flight, and Fuck. I never understood why sex and violence were so commercial—it's the primate brain, the animal brain. Heavy."

She saw Hitler using cocaine?

"Of course, man! She was Goebbels's girlfriend." (This is not generally understood to have ever been their relationship—in fact Riefenstahl often spoke of her dislike for Goebbels—though in his diaries Goebbels did write of socializing with her in the early 1930s.)

So how does she think it affected Hitler?

"Well, shit, the history proves how it affected him. He killed every motherfucker he could see."

You think a huge part of the horror of Nazism was just down to cocaine?

"I think it had a lot to do with it."

Now that MES has died we need QJ more than ever.

I think the bulk of the scholarly work links amphetamines to the Nazis.

this is the book:
https://markgorman.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/methode-times-prod-web-bin-4442ed14-8a14-11e6-aa51-f33df6df2868.jpg

Hitler was given tablets by his quack that contained human excrement and shitloads of 'phet wannit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NalkOQBWeGk

So we called each other Leroy till the day he died.

lol he bought drugs from malcom x? good god

quincy jones is forrest gump

Richard Pryor's Widow Confirms He Slept with Marlon Brando https://t.co/BqBDnB6gRu

— TMZ (@TMZ) February 7, 2018

looool

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVdpTPEU0AASzOO.jpg

Haha, nice

Richard was more of a radiator man, Brando more a mailbox man.

And the Ed Sheeran record is great
;_;

T-Pain, man, he didn’t pay attention to the details.

xxxxxpost - in All These Lifetimes Vol 1 iirc the Beatles mostly played -- or insisted on playing -- on their stuff. This book only went through the very early recordings, but I think the very first session Martin subbed out Ringo, which Ringo resented and sort of held against Martin for many years, but after that they played on their stuff

the whole session musician rumor thing is weird to me just given they are probably the most documented musical artists in history and the BBC was way more meticulous than most in terms of documenting sessions, seems like there'd be more hard evidence if it were true.

"We shouldn't talk about this publicly" vs. "He'd fuck a mailbox!"

i mean, where to begin? incredible interviews

there's the whole thing where Bernard Purdie claims to have played on Beatles sessions too, but it does sound a little questionable at least. I have to wonder if he just played on so many sessions that he maybe played on some other brit invasion record of some band he'd never heard of and later got confused and thought it had been the beatles.

yeah bernard purdie has made a lot of claims

the whole idea that it would be the guarded secret feels very retroactive, as if when they were recording the first stuff there was any reason to believe that the band would be more significant than herman's hermits or whoever

it's also not completely crazy though, like didn't every single band recorded in LA in the 60s turn out to be the Wrecking Crew?

yes

Neil Young was actually The Wrecking Crew in audio disguise and the first album he performed on himself was Landing On Water.

plus weren't the Beatles touted in marketing/PR from the get-go as playing own instruments & writing own songs? a novel concept at the time?

guys as Simon said upthread, the Beatles stuff is the least compelling/hilarious material in these interviews. there are other things to talk about. like marlon brando fucking a mailbox

Q going on a date w/ Ivanka is a good one.

and yet it has compelled many posts to be made here. almost like different people can be intrigued by different things, crazy man.

My man just told us who killed JFK, y'all are arguing about Paul's bass playing? booo

Interview seems like charmless enough bullshit tbh

can't wait for the Trump tweet

Pryor and Brando both spoke about their bisexual histories publicly in the '70s... just not about each other.

I just posted the Beatles thing cuz of that “Beatles fuck off” thread

Soft talking with a rap so smooth