Heh

[ericcoleman]

On the home page LJ has a "writer's block" thingy. I love todays.

"If one day you meet your favorite super star, what questions you would like to do to him/her?"

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Superstar?

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I agree that "How do you 'do' a question?" is a valid question/criticism. And I suspect that Eric is seeing something that the rest of us don't see, and might not even be there. But even so: My favorite superstar is Paul McCartney, and I just want to have the general conversation about growing up as a left-handed bassist/guitarist, with little sidebars like: Have you ever tried to play a left-handed Fender Precision bass? With your stringed instrument playing as brilliant as it is, have you ever tried to play a left-handed drumset? (Paul plays drums right-handed, as does his fellow lefty Ringo Starr.) Have you ever had the itch to play in just a really, really ordinary weekend band, where your superstar status would have no connection whatever with the ordinary weekend crowd that showed up? And is there anybody you have always admired, but never had the chance to meet?

Nate

Re: Superstar?

[ericcoleman]

And I suspect that Eric is seeing something that the rest of us don't see, and might not even be there.

I just found the "do" to be funny ...

There is a friend of mine who is a producer in LA. We both used to post on a now mostly dead message board. I got an email from him some years ago apologizing for not being around, but he had, as he said, "been in the studio with Paul". Years later I he was still giddy about it.

They were working on the demos for the album that came out about 5 years ago (I think, my grip on time is a little sketchy) and he said that he had never worked with someone who worked so hard. Paul was in early every morning, drove himself, no entourage and worked everyone till they dropped. My friend loved it ... said that he could go ahead and quit now since it wasn't going to get any better than that.