访谈录 2011-03-23&03-25 斯蒂夫·马丁与甲壳虫乐队

S: The idea of having Paul McCartney sing a song that I wrote has to be one of the most exciting things of his life.

S: But let me tell you. Let me tell you how this happened. Lorne Michaels who is the...

S: Saturday Night Live.

C: Night Live.

S: Good one. That's why you are there, and I am here. He came to me like a year ago, and he said, you know, Steve, he said you don't impose 1 on your friends enough.

C: Oh,really?

S: Yeah, and I thought. You konw I don't. I am very shy about asking people to do something or something like that. I met Paul McCartney maybe three times in my life. So I can't really call him a friend. But Paul doesn't know that. You know he might think, we are friends. Cause’ he meets so many people , he can't remember who his friends are.

C: How would he know?

S: So I manage to get an email of his, Paul's assistant. So, I wrote, at first I recorded the song in my iphone and played it on the banjo and I sing it myself. So it's a litte modest recording 2. And, I emailed to his assistant and I waited about a month. I heard nothing. But I knew Paul was on tour. So it was gonna take some time. So about a month later I got an email back from Paul, said:" I am on tour. Haven't any chance to listen the song yet, but don't worry I will." And I sent another. Might three weeks went by and finally he said, I'll do it. And I was, wow, this is fantastic. So we went in to Asheville where we recorded the whole album and we laid down the track. I don't know what they are applauding 3 for? We? I?  Laid down? Asheville? I don’t know. What else? And I still don't know what they are applauding for. And I went in and laid down the dummy 4 track and I sang it again. And then we send that off to Paul. And now it's time to schedule Paul. So I wrote to him and said we got to set a dates, we set a date. And now we are like  three days before we are gonna record Paul in Amagansen.We got an email from his assistant, and the email says that Paw wants to know what part you want him to sing. Oh, and I said, well, we thought the whole thing, and he said well Paul said he was gonna back you up. And I said, I thought, what, and went all the emails, did I mislead him or something you know, and I said well, Ok, but I 'm a terrible singer. So then I got an email back from Paul and he said, well, as a little-know band from Liverpool once said, we can work it out. So I went in and now I record the song again with me singing doing my best efforts. And we did every trick in the book, you know with the echo 5, the weaver 6, the every, you know, sound trick, I sang like a "Mormon Tabernacle Choir 7 ", you know. And we sent that off to him, and so now I haven't heard it back, so we were flying to Armgance and we were waiting for Paul to arrive at this little studio actually in someone's house, very nice person. And then Paul arrives, and he said, you know, when you said you are a terrible singer, I thought you were being a humble 8, but you weren't.