Recording studio: Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Previous session Sep 04, 1995 • "Smokin' Mojo Filters" session
Concert appearance Sep 07, 1995 • 20th Buddy Holly Week
Album Sep 09, 1995 • "The HELP Album" by Various Artists released globally
Session October 1995 • "The Ballad Of The Skeletons" session
Interview Winter 1995 • Paul McCartney interview for Club Sandwich
Film Began October 4, 1995 • Shooting of "Real Love" promo film
Next session Nov 01 to Dec 05, 1995 • "Flaming Pie" sessions with Jeff Lynne at Hog Hill Mill #1
AlbumSome of the songs worked on during this session were first released on the "The Ballad of the Skeletons" EP
From The Beatles Monthly, N°244, August 1996:
Paul McCartney has recorded a new track, ‘The Ballad Of The Skeletons’, with legendary American poet Allen Ginsberg. The recording is the result of several transatlantic overdub sessions, which began in New York when Ginsberg, along with guitarists Mark Ribot and David Mansfield, recorded the basic track with producer, rock journalist and Patti Smith’s
long-term guitarist, Lenny Kaye, at Kampo Studios – a small, low-key facility in Greenwich Village. The tapes were then sent over to the U.K., where Paul added organ, drums and maracas. Once Paul returned the tapes to the States, minimalist composer Philip Glass added further keyboard overdubs.
We made a basic track and sent it to him, on 24 tracks, and he added maracas and drums, which it needed. It gave it a skeleton, gave it a shape. And also organ; he was trying to get that effect of Al Kooper on the early Dylan. And guitar, so he put a lot of work in on that. And then we got it back just in time for Philip Glass to fill in his arpeggios on piano.
Allen Ginsberg, from the Flaming Pie Archive Collection, 2020
Written by Paul McCartney, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass
Recording
Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium
We owe a lot to Chip Madinger and Mark Easter for the creation of those session pages, but you really have to buy this book to get all the details!
Eight Arms To Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium is the ultimate look at the careers of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr beyond the Beatles. Every aspect of their professional careers as solo artists is explored, from recording sessions, record releases and tours, to television, film and music videos, including everything in between. From their early film soundtrack work to the officially released retrospectives, all solo efforts by the four men are exhaustively examined.
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