It is interesting to hear Jimmy's voice after all these years. It is nothing like I remember it, it seems almost Australian in its twang! I knew Jimmy in his Cumbernauld days. He lived near me and we occasionally hung out together. We would be in our early teens at the time and he was already playing in a local band called the Jaegars. I can vividly remember a day Jimmy and I spent sitting on grass on a hillside sharing a large bottle of lemonade, chewing the fat, and watching the traffic below making its way from Glasgow to all points north. I don't remember our conversation, but I do remember even then feeling slightly in awe of him. He was a prodigy. Even at that young age, there was a real sense that he was destined for great things. It was such a shame that his time in the limelight was not to be a long one.
Hi, I just called him a prodigy. How lucky you were to have known him 🌟🦁🏴 The main man with the 🎸 guitar. Ps. I heard him talk when he first joined Wings in '74 and he had the Scots accent then.
beautiful man. so young so talented. 💝sending nothing but love. Love u. Rest in Peace. Your name rests on my tongue. May the 👼 s raise you up in God's glory. praise thee. Then and now, Amen💝🌅
I have followed Jimmy all his life been to see him many times, stone the crows and all. we lost another great guitarist to young. it must have been something in the air
For Laurel Harper who doesn't know of this new invention the "Information Super highway" here' an exact quote: "I had cut my teeth on the Chitlin Circuit, where it was a lot of hard work, drama and the money was always a little funny, ” says Dorsey “With Paul, everything was first class, nice big hotels, limos, airplanes. It wasn’t what I was used to. And Paul was a beautiful person, so easy to work for and so professional. I really enjoyed my time with him.” (Tony Dorsey.)
Jimmy was lead guitar of Thunderclap Newman (Pete Townshend founded) "something in the air" song great tune knocked Elvis off the charts ....damn he was only 26 years old....
@JimmyMcCullochFan: I bought a DVD of Steve Marriott. It contains a live show with his band called 'Packet of Three' and there is an interview with Nicky Horne. That where he talks about Jimmy. I think it is Steve Marriott's last interview before he died. The interview lasts about 15 mins. I could extract the interview and upload it if you want ?
Woah, now that takes me back. I remember asking my mum to write his name in my notebook, as I was only a wee wain and couldn't write neatly enough to respect his name! I would have done the same for Jimmy.
+Gianmaria Framarin Yeah, his accent was a bit garbled. Because although he was born in Dumbarton, you have to remember his parents, James & Lilian, moved the family to London when Jimmy was 12, so he was exposed to the accents of London from then on.
Ye,Brian Connolly of Sweet fame was also Scottish but spoke with an English Accent after he had moved to England from Scotland when he was about 12 years of age to the best of my recollection.
wow jmf! you're the dan matovina (badfinger) of jimmy! have u read his book "without you?" he visited me a coupla weeks ago and we were talking about someone else you might know of-- danny kirwan.
not sure where you all get your info from? Jimmy came from Lyndoch Street Greenock played in a band called 666 at the Red dragon disco (every Sat afternoon) and attended St Marys School Greenock
Wrong. I don't know who you're confusing him with. Jimmy was a Dumbarton boy and then the family moved to Clydebank and Cumbernauld. Then London. He had other family roots in Clydebank. He had nothing to do with a band called 666 and probably couldn't have found Greenock, if he tried. Not that any sane person would want to. His first band was the Jaygars and they became One in a Million. Jack was the drummer. St Mary's is a Catholic School, by the way. The McCulloch family is a Protestant one and would never have been near a Catholic school, in religiously-divided Scottish schooling.
Jimmy didnt leave Wings because of money ! I have an interview with Steve Marriott, who tells the story of how he talked Jimmy into leaving Wings and joining him. Steve had a liking for staying up all night drinking and partying, as did Jimmy ! This is confimed by PM on the 'Wingspan' DVD. PM gave Jimmy the chance to be huge and famous all over the World. The facts are there if you research properly, instead of making stupid, totally untrue, comments.
McCulloch didn't leave wings over money; absolute b.s. Joe English spoke for all of the other band members when he said "we were on wages - very, very good wages mind you but ..." and he then states that as they'd all added 'bits' to Wings songs, they felt entitled to royalties. Whatever PM's vicissitudes were, that's kind of silly. They weren't the principle writers and were not entitled to royalties. Note Joe said, "very very good wages." I THINK McCulloch was angry that Wings (stupidly) did not follow up the smash 75-76' world tour with another; PM was busy having a son, etc. I really miss Jimmy and loved his guitar playing. Few guitarists have much or anything to say or add! He did ...
Well, I was in Jimmy's Rolls Royce, often enough and in his, not cheap, flat in Little Venice, so he was doing ok. Certainly better than any other Scottish musician, at the time.
@@mjh5437 On Maida Avenue and just a couple of hundred yards from the junction with Maida Vale (A5). One of the, upmarket, mansion blocks, overlooking the nolly.
@k3304 Its not true that everyone around him is either dead or pissed off at Paul. When you get to be around 70 years old, you lose a few people. Read the new book about him called Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes. In the book the author portrays Paul as a generous soul. You can't believe all the myths. During the early days of Wings he couldn't pay them huge amounts because all his money was tied up in the Apple litigation. They lived on Linda's money.
Ironically speaking, Manchester United had just come back (I'm talking about 1975) from relegation in the Second Division (at the end of 1973-1974), so this wasn't one of their best periods... they were probably touring around for promotional purposes after such a blow... Not so many Scots supporting Man Utd, apart from some glory-hunters and others with Irish ancestry, Man Utd is a huge thing in Ireland indeed... Scots support Rangers mostly, Celtic comes second, Liverpool is the English team with a definite catch on Scottish society (most probably because of their 'Scottish Contingent' in the '60s-'70s-'80s...) Chelsea might only exist in the minds of few Rangers supporters who are obsessed with the 'Blues Brothers' thing, otherwise we don't care much for them at Ibrox (and now you can easily tell I AM a Rangers supporter). Man Utd and Arsenal are big in Ireland, not here... we don't need English stuff, the Irish might do because of the Irish diaspora in the whole of the UK.
You might be too young to remember but, through the Busby era and until Ferguson took over, Manchester United were loved in Scotland - Munich triggered it. I remember the daily updates, on Matt Busby in the Daily Record, the Evening Times and the Evening Citizen. They always had a Scottish contingent, too, of great players.
LaurelHarper - you 'madame,' are an fool. You are aware of an invention called the Information Super Highway? PM's horn players - English, Laine, McCulloch all state explicitly that not only were the weekly wages fabulous (12K per week for the horn players alone- do the inflationary math) but in the words of Tony Dorsey (whom Macca employed even in England for another 3+ years) "the accommodations were always the most luxurious, first-class." But then Ms. Harper YOU know better - you were there, MLOL! Patrick Jordan - I don't know why McCulloch left. He certainly had massive substance problems including the dreaded 'H.' P and L. Macca stated he did crazy shit like break into their hen house and scare several birds to death...when Denny Laine was asked if McCulloch really pulled a gun and "was on his way" to kill Macca, Laine gave an altogether unconvincing "I'm not sure." The guy was super screwed up. With self-warnings like Wino Junko and Medicine Jar - it certainly sounds to me as if he was in no hurry to stay alive.
PM wrote the words to "Medicine Jar". Jimmy was given the task of arranging it. PM seemed to hope that the words would get to Jimmy so he would get off drugs. The words were a warning from PM to Jimmy. Too bad he was too far gone by then to listen. Watch Jimmy's face when he sings "Medicine Jar" with Wings. His eyes are dropping and his style of playing was not up to his normal style.
@@mountainchief2163 thanks for straightening that out! Odd that the only two songs he wrote and recored with wings were both about addiction...and he later succumbed to it. Great guitarist and died far, far too young.
