Paul McCartney & Wings: The One Hand Clapping Story.  

This is great news, you must be stoked !! I cant wait. RIP Denny Laine sadly missed, never forgotten

I am looking forward to this so much. I have to agree with you, Brittan was a very exceptional drummer. Always loved what he did on Wings Over America. Greetings from Ireland.

Ordered it! Bought it! Received it! Love it!

I preordered the 2 LP + the 7" a few days ago.

Seriously folks, this is the greatest Wings album I've heard. Paul flexing his peak vocal performance riding high during the Band on the Run album's multi-week dominance on the pop charts.

Definitely getting the Vinyl copy! ❤

Rumors are, a newly restored cut of the film will be uploaded to Paul's official RU-vid channel. They are supposedly doing this, instead of a physical release. I think the "One Hand Clapping" sessions are very good. I have a bootleg CD and DVD. Unfortunately, the piano segment song, "Suicide" was left off this release. Likely due to P.C. reasons. I'm getting the 2 CD set. It's unfortunate that "The Backyard" segment isn't on the CD. It easily could have fit. CD 2 is significantly shorter than CD 1. CD 1 has all the songs from the original unreleased film, except the previously mentioned "Suicide", plus a take of "Junior's Farm". The take offered on CD 2 is a skillful edit of the film version and an alternate take. I have both on my CD bootleg.

Hope you Wings fans enjoy! I'm headed over to see what other content of yours I've missed. Keep up the amazing work!

Great job covering this release. I’ve always enjoyed the bootleg footage of this. Paul’s voice was in amazing shape during this era and these sessions were a great precursor to the 75-76 tour.

Hey Michael, I'm definitely getting this. The picture you showed of the bootleg cd at 6:06 is the one I've owned for years. Now that bootleg CD sounds pretty good but after I heard Junior's farm coming from the new version of one hand clapping it is really cleaned up. I believe it's remixed to Michael maybe you can help me out on that. But anyway definitely 100% getting this. I've seen the movie of one hand clapping if you want to call it a movie and so I hope they do release that soon. See ya Michael.

Your commentary makes me even more interested in hearing this new/previously-unreleased album. I'll be sure to pay extra attention to the snare drum.

I'm definitely in, preordered and waiting impatiently!

EXCELLENT VIDEO ❣️❣️❣️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 … and Wings Over America was … WOOHOO ❤❤❤

Hey brother, It’s not often that I get excited about a new release, but you have me really looking forward to this one! Almost as excited as I get when you drop a new video! What ever it is that you do to prepare for these videos, I think you should put it in a bottle and offer it. You won’t be able to count the money fast enough. I hope the family (and you) are well. Peace my friend, DrRick

I just encountered a Wings documentary yesterday, I guess Paul is up in the algo again for this album release. Indeed the singles he did with Wings are some of the brightest songs in my first three years of life not conscious of my path as a Bard, but listening to the world and talking in the local language before I was two, but those memories have no ID marks on them as to who did them. It's always a joy to discover the people who made the sounds that impressed upon me when I was not exactly pre-verbal, but still small and taking in all the sounds of the world with fewer filters than I constructed by learning my take on the craft of music later on. Prog nerd I am what with my astrology map showing so many advanced intelligence cues, and things like Live And Let Die sound to me like prog rock supreme. Wings is nearly unexplored for me so it's a joy to find some fresh explorations in the golden age of Rock. Speaking of astrology, my Venus is retrograde in Aquarius and indeed all my life I've taken in the sounds around me and then looked into their influences. Granny music, give me some of that! John would only cast his music anchor as far back as the rock and roll of his childhood, where Paul took in the tropes of Ragtime, Irish and English folk tunes, and 30's Jazz, music of his generation's grandparents, my great grands. When I was younger and more unconsciously rebellious I did like John more. At 50 my skills are more advanced, thank you Tai Ji and nutritional improvements and bicycles that have so far given me an improving sense of health, fitness and strength as I age. I'm glad the algo tossed some Wings my way as it reaches me when I appreciate Paul's more refined edge better now that my youthful rebellious tendencies have cooled, and been trained by martial arts. I'm also sick of the politics that John and Yoko so passionately supported. Being a John guy in my youth and setting of one of the most woke echo chambers in all the world, Portland Oregon and surroundings the John politics are a big part of what made my trip more ugly and difficult than it would have been had I had a different life where Paul's take on music was more appealing in my youth. It seems far better to me now to build the new world not by fighting the dying beast, but by shining your light with all you've got in the joy and beauty side of things. Lots of John music just seems crass and snotty to me, a proto punk. Lefty politics inculcates addiction to victim identities casting abusive diss turds at all they see as abusers and bigots. That crap made me unfit for the stage which is why I'm not edging my way into bigger music scenes until my 50's. Wings is a breath of fresh air from my deepest present life audio memories and I'm glad that set of sounds now has a group of musicians I'm aware of now that I have some skill in their craft. You and many others like Vinyl Monday and Friday are holding the vibe of not too distant music history that I sense as the source codes for a revival that will get bigger when Neptune reaches Aries in a couple of years. Indeed, track the Neptune sign changes and you can see obvious shifts in the music; Frank Sinatra, Neptune in Libra, granny music that's mostly nice and clean even if the lyrics sometimes sing of magic and devils. Neptune in Scorpio Rock around the clock and shake your hips! Neptune in Sagittarius, make it BIG and make it LOUD, Marshall stacks and jets and coke and junk, uppers and downers supreme the PARTY is the thing. Neptune in Capricorn, Live Aid and producers taking more power and making everything more clean and business suit cut audio with so much glaze it triggered the Grunge later on that really took off when Neptune entered Aquarius and computers began to take over. Around 2011 Neptune entered Pisces, and indeed the music has never been more vapid, sleepy, drugged and idiotic in all my life. Neptune in Aries will let loose the real music again if you ask me. Aries can't express fully through a robot suit. It wants to ROCK.

Pulled the trigger on the CDs. Im amped! Cant wait.

Great one again, Michael. Thanks for posting it. I'll have to do quite a bit of digging into getting a copy of that Wings LP. Got Band On The Run and the original Wings Over America but I've yet to see any new remasters of them here in Bakersfield.

Reminds me of Paul and lovely wife Linda, they were a great pair artistically and romantically.

Looking forward to this one immensely - pre order is in.

Great analysis Makes me look forward to hearing this release

Solo Paul performing 'Let It Be' before 1979 is a revelation, no? When were the three Beatle tracks 'Let It Be', 'Winding Road', 'Lady M.' recorded?

Oh cool, I didn’t know about this. Got it marked on my calendar now.

Brittan played on the Junior's Farm/Sally G. single. He did good work, wish he had stayed around a little longer. I guess this is what Paul had in mind when he first envisioned the Get Back sessions.

Yay, finally! Ive had my own homemade patched together mix of several of the OHC performances for years but this is proper, hell yeah!! I still want my fuckng Back to the Egg, London Town and Press to Play and Off the Ground. AND an expanded reissue of Unplugged would be fucking awesome! So, get those damn things out there, Paul! Your lifelong hardcores would be ever so grateful. If you put together more sets like you did with Flaming Pie and Red Rose Speedway, that'd just be so fucking killer. Because McCartney truly is THE best.

Love the wings

Im beside myself waiting for this one brother! ❤❤

I cannot wait for this one!!

My favorite live album ever has to be Live at Leeds. Keith Moon was a monster on that show. I don't think this one was ever released on album form, but Metallica Binge and Purge was freakin great. I've still have it on VHS. IMHO that was peak Lars. Oh nearly forgot Talking Heads Stop Making Sense. That was one great show...No pyro, no lasers and no flashing lights, just a high energy band with great tunes.

Suprised the there isn't a DVD/Blu-ray together with the 2 disc cd. Maybe that's on the horizon.

I always thought those early records were recorded really well. What I'd love to hear are stripped down/ alternative versions of the Press To Play & Off The Ground albums. I think there's a lot of great material on them, that's buried underneath gobs of reverb

I know you are a big fan of Wings and The Beatles. I can respect that. I won't be a Negative Nellie. I'll just say, y'all enjoy your albums...

Of course i will get a copy!

Latterly, I've been disappointed by Paul's lame releases of stuff we mostly already have. I haven't bought anything by him since McCartney III in 2020. I am looking forward to One Hand Clapping. Best version of Jet with some great drumming. Pity Geoff didn't last too long. His big mistake was not being a druggie. Anyway, I still ask where the London Town/Back to the Egg Archives are.

Hey Michael, i'm very interested to get this set. To finally hear the tracks crystal clear. Looking forward to "Soily" in particular!!

Definitely be getting s copy ,,thx for info

Michael, they’re still literally hundreds of songs that Paul McCartney has not released since 1970. Instead of him releasing the same albums over and over again he had promised in the 70s to release an album called “hot hits and cold cuts” which would include b sides and unreleased music that has never seen the light of day. Still it’s gathering dust in the vaults. Out of those hundreds of songs that are not released he can’t create maybe an album worth of 20 of the best songs from 1970 to now and put it out. What’s keeping him from doing it?

Thanks for the heads up!! Mine has been pre-ordered. ~~/)~~

I plan on getting the LP version with bonus tracks on it it’s surprising that the bonus tracks are not on the CDs which is weird.

Hi Michael, I have got the SHM-CD & 2lp+7" versions of One Hand Clapping on pre-order. I have got a feeling that the Band On The Run Half Speed Master with Underdubbed mix and the upcoming One Hand Clapping release are 'unofficial" Archive Collection. As the releases should have been part of the Band On The Run Archive Collection and would be so if the Band On The Run Archive Collection was released now. I also believe that the London Town Archive Collection + 50th Anniversary Half Speed Master will be released together in 2028 and the Back To The Egg Archive Collection + 50th Anniversary Half Speed Master will be relased in 2029. Why do I think this? Well it is the Flaming Pie Archive Collection release and the 50th Anniversary Half Speed Master releases has me thinking this way. The Flaming Pie Archive Collection vinyl release was released as a Half Speed Master and I don't see any future Arcive Collection vinyl releases being any other the Half Speed Master release and there is no point releasing a Half Speed Master Archive Collection release a year or two before a 50th Anniversary Half Speed Master release. The only album I could see get an Archive Collection release before London Town is the Off The Ground album. Another possible lost Wings album release could be Soundtrack for the abandoned full length Rupert Bear film. One last thing, Geoff Britton was playing drums on the Nashville sessions that produce "Junior's Farm"/"Sally G" single, the Country Hams 's "Walking In The Park With Eloise" single, Denny's "Send Me The Heart" that would eventually see the light of day on his"Japanese Tears" album and other recordings

Can't wait for this album to be released BUT.......that's not what I wanted to discuss. I just finished watching the new "Let It Be" movie on Disney plus. This is the only time, in my 70 years on this planet that I have seen it and I just wanted to say that I do NOT know why George Harrison hated it so much and a lot of fans thought it was depressing. I thought it was great! The way people talked about this movie, I thought the Fab Four were going to be punching each other out after every song and that Yoko was going to be thrown out the front door of the studio - or worse!!! I WILL say that the only thing that aggravated me a little was Paul taking over everything and bossing everybody around. I mean even John!!! It didn't surprise me at all - just irritated me a little bit. It's just Paul being the prima donna he's always been. Other than that I just DO NOT see what everyone was so upset about. All in all, I really thought it was a really wonderful documentary!!!

Hello from England, where CDs are becoming ruinously expensive again! You make a typically persuasive case for buying it, though. Love the show

Sounds like a good one Michael.

I'm getting the CDs. Pissed about the bonus tracks only on the 7".

Why Can't I get a s deluxe CD? I also would really like a Blu-ray of what was filmed even more.

I'm going to get the high-resolution digital downloads and maybe the CDs.

When is your video coming out on Paul McCartney's Hey Jude being Auto tuned. Never thought that would happen.

A new Wings album is good news!

I'm getting the CD set

I’m more excited for the John Lennon Mind Games box set than this one…

what Lennon and Harrison said about “granny music,” it’s a snide remark, but it remains nonetheless true. All that said? McCartney is amongst the immortals. No doubt.

Jeff Brittan didn't like or get along with both Denny Laine and Jimmy McCollough. McCartney soured on his drumming early on in the Venus and Mars sessions. There is an excellent book called Band On The Run that gives a good run down of this period of the group.

Okay...now Paul's not dead...but he ain't learned NOTHIN' IN all those years......

But it's not a rock band, it's ez listening.

It's wings ..meh. Nothing special