![]() So, let’s talk about Linda McCartney for a second. This opening section lasts for only a minute or so before going into a funk - or “funk” really - interlude, with jaggedy guitar leads from Denny Laine (unless it’s Paul) and some swirling synth from Linda (unless its Paul). ![]() It’s mellow and kinda sad, helping to set up the mood where his band is … locked up for some reason? Maybe for releasing “My Love” as a single? “Band on the Run” starts off with a deceptively simple guitar hook, off of which spins a twirling synth lick, a burbling bass and McCartney playing his ride cymbal and cross sticking his snare. That tape is long gone, but the concept of music as a way to create community - even temporary, false community - has been with me ever since. And there were very few songs more popular in 1974 than “Band on the Run,” to the point where I even got a couple other kids to sing over it with me into a tape recorder. For example: in 1974, I was finishing up 6th grade at a school in a new district where all of the kids in my class had gone to elementary school with each other for six years, and being shy and weird, it was hard for me to integrate.Įxcept that I could talk to people about music, discussing the popular songs of the day - easy to do during the height of the monoculture - because, then, as now, I had ideas and opinions about songs. Which isn’t to say that I still don’t love the shit out of it, and I find interesting how much my love of “Band on the Run” predicted my future interactions with music. “Band on the Run” can no longer surprise me. To the point where, 45 years later, I still know every single nook and cranny. In my room, very loudly, over and over and over again. It’s entirely possible, if you adjust for 2019 dollars, that “Band on the Run” might just be my all-time favorite song.Īt the very least, it’s one of the most important songs in my life, as I loved it more than any song I’d previously encountered, to the point where I went out and got the Band on The Run album and listened to it in the obsessive way only a pre-teen can do.
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