Damon Orion
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- Sep 18, 2026
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“He leaned down and whispered in my ear, ‘Do you mind if I try something else on the solo?’ I had to have faith, and boy, was it rewarded”: The greatest Paul McCartney post-Beatles guitar moments (opens the original)
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You’d be more likely to see a mosh pit at a Dave Matthews concert than a list of all-time greatest bassists that didn’t include Paul McCartney. With all the recognition McCartney gets for his bass chops – not to mention his songwriting genius – it’s easy to forget that he started his journey with the Beatles as a guitarist. Only when Stu Sutcliffe stepped down as the band’s bassist in 1961 did the 19-year-old, baby-faced Paul reluctantly trade six strings for four. Even after switching to bass,
“It was the early Jimi Hendrix days. I was persuading George to do something feedback-y and crazy. I was showing him what I wanted and he said, ‘Well, you do it’”: On the trail of Paul McCartney, the Beatles’ not-so-secret guitarist (opens the original)
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John Lennon once called the Beatles’ Ticket to Ride “one of the earliest heavy metal records made.” Try to imagine that song pumping through the house speakers before a Morbid Angel show, and you might conclude that Lennon’s statement was a bit of a stretch. Still, the song’s lumbering groove and droning riff were unusually heavy for 1965, especially within a pop landscape dominated by tracks like Wooly Bully and Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter. Ticket to Ride was groundbreaking for ano
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