Part of
Flaming Pie sessions with Steve Miller at Hog Hill Mill
May 1995 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flaming Pie
- Album Songs recorded during this session officially appear on the Flaming Pie Official album.
- Studio:
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Some songs from this session appear on:
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In May 2005, Steve Miller spent two weeks with Paul in Hog Hill Mill. “Used To Be Bad” was one of the songs worked on during those sessions, the result of a jam between Paul & Steve.
He turned up with millions of little blues riffs
Paul McCartney, from the “Flaming Pie – Archive Collection” book, 2020
This was just a jam, really. Steve whacked out these blues riffs, I got on the drums and we just went for it – a duet, sung on one mike. We did the vocal in one take.
Paul McCartney, from the liner notes of “Flaming Pie”
I was trying to get Paul to do some Texas blues and stuff. It’s just me, that’s what I like to play. I threw the rhythm track together, and we just started pulling out blues lines and blues lyrics and just throwing them together — just tossed a bunch of stuff on the table, wrote down a bunch of paragraphs and picked them up, and I’d sing a line, he’d sing a line, I’d sing a line, he’d sing a line and it was done.
Steve Miller, about recording “Used To Be Bad” with Paul McCartney, from the Flaming Pie Archive Collection, 2020
A demo version of “If You Wanna” was also recorded on May 5th. It was released on the 2020 “Flaming Pie Archive Collection“.
Last updated on September 24, 2020
Songs recorded
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Written by Paul McCartney
Recording • Demo version released in 2020
Album Officially released on Flaming Pie - Archive Collection
Going further
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.
As the paperback version is out of print, you can buy a PDF version on the authors' website
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