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I always meant to revisit a post I did aaaages ago about David Spinozza but never did. Here’s the original about why he left the Ram sessions.

I knew I’d seen somewhere that the reason given was because Spinozza wanted to play other sessions when Paul didn’t need him and I finally found a source at my new fav website.

Soooo in 2012 Denny Seiwell said Spinozza was replaced by Hugh McCracken because Paul was annoyed at Dave Spinozza taking other work at the same time. This is also what Spinozza himself has said. In 2004 he said he fell out with Linda but didn’t say why. The McCartney Legacy book interviewed Spinozza in 2019 and he said he and Linda argued about him being unavailable for the rest of the week and not dropping everything to work with Paul.

But in a 2021 interview Denny Seiwell said it was because Spinozza was too loose and kept doing things like pinching paul’s bum. No, really, it’s 19 mins in:

If you know the above story, this quote from Spinozza in The McCartney Legacy takes on a slightly different context:

(Obviously the no drinking, no pot, 9-5, is nothing like the later years of The Beatles, but it’s the ‘not a very loose cat’ which stands out re Seiwell’s quote.)

Edit: it’s also possible Spinozza was known to get his dick out during studio sessions but I only have a terrible source, which I guess originated from Goldman? (That link doesn’t say it happened during Ram).

Anyway I’m bringing this up because it’s an interesting thing about the whole rewriting history question. These reasons are totally separate from each other, but unless Seiwell and Spinozza are both great liars I bet they’re both telling the truth in those videos - it was probably both the timetabling and the personality clash. But it’s an interesting thing that Seiwell didn’t bring it up until 2021 as far as I can tell. I mean it’s definitely a more awkward thing than the timetable issue. He’s sort of hesitant about saying it, but I wonder too if the format of interviewing via zoom in the comfort of your own home made him more relaxed and so able to say it.

P.S. Seiwell’s bum pinching reason didn’t make it into The McCartney legacy boo

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David Spinozza on working on Ram with Paul:

Linda didn’t have much to do in the stu­dio, she just took care of the kids. The kids were there all the time, ev­ery day. They brought the whole fam­ily ev­ery day to the stu­dio and they stayed no mat­ter how long Paul stayed. If he was there at four o’clock in the morn­ing, ev­ery­body stayed. I thought to a cer­tain de­gree, it was dis­tract­ing. It was a nice, loose at­mos­phere, but dis­tract­ing. I re­ally don’t know what Linda did in the stu­dio aside from just sit there and make her com­ments on what she thought was good and what she thought was bad. She sang all right. I heard some of the things she sang on the al­bum and she sings fine, like any girl that worked in a High School glee club. She can hold a note and sing back­ground. Paul gives her a note and says, ‘Here Linda, you sing this and I’m go­ing to sing this,’ and she does… There’s one track, which is a cute thing, a blues tune, which I think has a pretty unique sound and I had fun do­ing ‘3 Legs’. Paul likes to dou­ble track a lot of things. We both played acous­tic on some tracks and then tripled. Some­times Paul played pi­ano but he never played bass while we were there. He over­dubbed the bass. It was a lit­tle weird, be­cause bass, drums and gui­tar would have been more com­fort­able, but that’s the way he works … Work­ing with Paul was fun, in as much as it was good to see how he works and where he’s com­ing from. But as a mu­si­cian, it wasn’t fun, be­cause it wasn’t chal­leng­ing or any­thing like that. But it was very good. Paul is def­i­nitely a song­writer, not a mu­si­cian, but he writes beau­ti­ful songs. In the stu­dio he’s in­cred­i­bly prompt and busi­nesslike. No smok­ing pot, no drinks, or car­ry­ing on, noth­ing. Just straight-ahead. He came in at nine in the morn­ing. We were all there and we would lis­ten to what we had done be­fore so that it would get us psyched ready to do the day’s work, then we went into the stu­dio and it was eight hours of just play­ing. He’s not a very loose cat, not ec­cen­tric in any way at all. Very much of a fam­ily man. He just wants to make good mu­sic.

[—from The Bea­t­les: Off the Record 2 - The Dream is Over, Keith Badman]

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Spinozza pinched Paul's ass? Do you know the context? I just find it hilarious/intriguing and would like to know more

Hello anon!

Here you go, full context and make sure to follow this awesome resource blog: https://delightfullyatomicfest.tumblr.com/post/651727957279342592/dave-spinozza-and-paul

Yeah it's hilarious and intriguing for sure. This Spinozza guy is a legend. John Lennon wanted to sleep with him and he pinched Paul McCartney's ass.

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