Paul McCartney Wants You To Remix His Music

I feel like a modern day Meriwether Lewis or William Clark. A couple of explorers hired by Thomas Jefferson to expose the wild west to a nation getting set to fire up the engines of the future so it can be brought back to the present. Every week I travel outside these four walls to a territory called Radio's Untouched Purchase. It's a bitterly cold and lonely trail made of university campuses, schools of broadcasting and or high schools that couldn't convince the Mayor to visit on Career Day. Stuffed into a duffle bag wrapped around my heart is a four hour lecture that non believers of the message say resembles a Southern Baptist Preacher spreading a disc jockey's off the air gospel. "I don't care if you land the position of answering phones for the hottest most listened to morning radio show in town! If you aren't practicing "Great" studio mixing habits. You're going to the bottom of the ratings. If you're sending out vibrations that doing commercial production isn't your thing because you're better than leading brother and sister listeners to a better way of living... Amen! I'm here to tell ya: You're going to straight to Taco Bell to take orders at the window! At Midnight!" Sitting in a radio station studio pumping up the jams is boring compared to physically participating with huge control boards brightly lit by itty bitty dots of light, mix downs that thrive on your imagination while finalized elements sink between the beats subliminally teaching listeners how to soak up a great way to live. Now put me in a "Real" recording studio and see how I do with music. "F" as in flunk! Two completely different adventures using methods of madness addicted to grasping empty space from the future then swiftly bringing it back to be filled with guitar leads, kick drums and a tambourine. Yeah ok... I mixed my first song under the Space Needle in Seattle. The EMP is a music museum that features a second floor attraction straight from the dreams of nearly every little boy planted on this planet to make music. You are the producer. The songs are tunes you already know. The goal at EMP isn't to score a victory and or injure ambition but to encourage you to slip on a pair of shoes headed straight for the future. To hear each track, study their paths, embrace a dry vocal while mastering the concept of unplugging right from wrong. Because in music there's no such rule . What's right doesn't always become a hit leaving an entire summer full of wrongs on a stage that would be empty if being weird didn't perform. Guess who's taking Social Media toward this very place without having to hop on a plane to Seahawks country? Rollingstone Magazine reports Paul McCartney has outfitted his website with a digital mixing board, allowing users to act as producers on some of the former Beatle's biggest solo hits, Ultimate Classic Rock notes. The program is dubbed the Rude Studio, which was the name McCartney and his wife Linda gave to the recording space they set up in the barn of their Scotland home in 1971 after the Beatles broke up. McCartney's experiments there led to some of his first solo work. In the digital Rude Studio, fans have the chance to rework some of McCartney's biggest hits, including "Maybe I'm Amazed," "Band on the Run," "Let Me Roll" and "Monkberry Moon Delight." You can adjust the levels of the keyboards, guitars, vocals, drums and bass, while also tinkering with effects like flange and echo. When you're finished with your remix, you can save it, and send it in for review (it's not clear who's doing the reviewing), with favorites being posted on the website. Don't miss this book excerpt from Andrew Grant Jackson's Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of the Beatles' Solo Careers about McCartney's transition from the Beatles to solo artist. Good luck! I wish you the best. Just know one truth while traveling the realms of what is and what's about to become... Never let someone silence your music. The opinion of others may sting like a cats claw scraping your bare leg but somewhere out there is a pair of ears that's waited an entire lifetime to hear what first fell from your writing instrument and through you air was moved the moment you decided to make music. arroe@arroe.net