Album(s) That Took The Longest To Come Around To

@grislybutter: RAM is my favorite of McCartney’s early albums, though I also like his s/t solo debut. I have never heard anything post-Band On The Run, so my opinion is of questionable value. I did get the Wings Wild Life album when it was released, but didn’t think much of it and didn’t keep it. YouTube video maker (and Beatle fanatic) Norman Maslov ("Mazzy") has been raving about the album, so I recently found myself a used copy cheap to try again.

I realize I’m very alone in this, but John Lennon is the only Beatle whose solo albums I own none of. Sorry, I just don’t care for him on his own (or with Yoko, of course ).

My favorite post-Beatle work of any of them are The Traveling Wilbury albums.

When I’m in the mood AC/DC, The Band just won’t do. And visa versa. But I am no longer EVER in the mood for Cream. Or The Jimi Hendrix Experience. I saw both live twice, in 1968 and ’69. And The Who twice those same years (performing the A Quick One While He’s Away and Tommy suites). Seeing and hearing The Band on their brown album tour relegated all that to the dust bin of history.

AND Shoot Out The Lights is a great sounding recording, a bonus. I regularly use it as one of my demo LP’s.

As I have previously recounted on several occasions, I was mystified by The Band's 1968 debut album Music From Big Pink when it was released. I was completely in the throes of my love for the likes of Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Sure, I still liked my Beatles, Byrds, and Buffalo Springfield albums, but that music seemed like the past to me.

It wasn't until I saw and heard The New Buffalo Springfield (only drummer Dewey Martin remaining from the original lineup) live the following year that I finally "got" The Band. Overnight Cream and Hendrix were the past, and The Band were leading us out of the darkness. Or as Eric Clapton put it: "Music had been heading in the wrong direction for a long time, and when I heard Music From Big Pink I thought 'Someone has finally done it right.'" He disbanded Cream, and traveled to West Saugerties, New York (the location of the Big Pink house) to try and get The Band to let him join. Naw Eric, we got it covered 😊.