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11.45am
21 May 2010
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Hey, I was wondering the other day when I was listening to Good Evening New York City , about the band that he plays with. Do they have a name? Do they play with Paul on other albums? I asked a couple of people (well, one, and he didn't know), and searched it on the internet, but I couldn't really find anything.
Thanks!
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1.52pm
13 November 2009
Offline Here you go: Paul McCartney’s longtime guitarist talks about his own music and what it’s like to play with the superstar. No doubt there's more, but this is what I've seen recently.
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4.10pm
4 April 2010
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paulsbass said:
No, they don't have a name. They're just session musicians that play with Macca for 9 years now. However, he said that they kind of “feel like a band” after all this time.
Keyboarder “Wix” Wickens has been with Paul since the end of the 80s and was part of his live band in the 90s.
Drummer Abe Laboriel jr. is the son of famous bass player Abe Laboriel and played on many well known albums, e.g. Vanessa Carlton.
Rusty Anderson is another well known session musician (e.g. “What you're waiting for” Gwen Stefani).
I can never remember the other guitarist/bass player's name and I haven't heard of sessions he took part in. It's Brian Ray. Just googled it, which is always useful.
I think it's a cool line-up, and while I digged his 90s band with Linda, Robbie McIntosh, Hamish Stuart, Wix and Chris Whitten I have to admit it was a smart move for a 60year old to surround himself with some young fellas.
Apart from backing Paul's live act the boys play on his “Driving rain” album and parts of “Chaos And Creation In The Backyard ” and “Memory almost full”.
Wasn't Abe Laboriel jr. the drummer for Eric Clapton?
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5.25pm
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14 April 2010
Offline MrBig said:
Wasn't Abe Laboriel jr. the drummer for Eric Clapton?
Looks like he may have been at one time…
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7.49am
21 May 2010
Offline Awesome, thanks all!
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4.12pm
18 April 2010
Offline Which guitarist is whach? Which one has blonde hair and which one has brown hair?
7.41pm
27 March 2010
Offline The one with brown hair is Rusty Anderson. The blonde one is… the other guy. 
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7.56pm
4 April 2010
Offline A Fiendish Thingy said:
The one with brown hair is Rusty Anderson. The blonde one is… the other guy.
My girlfriend likes the bassist 
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12.57am
1 May 2010
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MrBig said:
A Fiendish Thingy said:
The one with brown hair is Rusty Anderson. The blonde one is… the other guy.
My girlfriend likes the bassist
Actually Rusty is handsome…. eye candy 
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2.27pm
27 April 2010
Offline Both Brian and Rusty are musicians in their own right and have solo material that is well worth checking out and I suppose most informed McCartney fans already have since they have been in his band for over a decade now.
Brian Ray: Mondo Magneto (first CD out a couple years ago) and his upcoming CD This Way Up has a single already called I Found You. He's not just “the other guy”. If the new CD is as good as Mondo, I will be happy.
Rusty Anderson put out Undressing Underwater in 2003 and then re-released it in 2005. It has a song called Hurt Myself that Paul plays on with him. His newest CD out last year really rocks. It's called Born On Earth.
I really enjoyed seeing these guys Monday playing with Paul in Nashville. What a fantastic show!
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7.22pm
27 March 2010
Offline I bought one of Rusty's CDs at the Paul concert just because I saw that the box was full and I felt bad for him. Guess I'll have to check it out now…
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7.34pm
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14 April 2010
Offline A Fiendish Thingy said:
I bought one of Rusty's CDs at the Paul concert just because I saw that the box was full and I felt bad for him. Guess I'll have to check it out now…
Sounds like you have a warm heart!
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7.51pm
27 March 2010
Offline Zig said:
A Fiendish Thingy said:
I bought one of Rusty's CDs at the Paul concert just because I saw that the box was full and I felt bad for him. Guess I'll have to check it out now…
Sounds like you have a warm heart!
I do. I really do. 
😉
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8.34pm
27 April 2010
Offline A Fiendish Thingy said:
I bought one of Rusty's CDs at the Paul concert just because I saw that the box was full and I felt bad for him. Guess I'll have to check it out now…
Good for you AFT! Hope you like it. It's not going to be a million seller or anyhting but hey…it's good music (I think the second CD, Born On Earth, is better than the first, personally).
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1.35am
4 April 2010
Offline A Fiendish Thingy said:
Zig said:
A Fiendish Thingy said:
I bought one of Rusty's CDs at the Paul concert just because I saw that the box was full and I felt bad for him. Guess I'll have to check it out now…
Sounds like you have a warm heart!
I do. I really do.
😉
Deep deep down 
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9.28pm
31 March 2008
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I think Rusty Anderson did the twangy guitar bits on Livin' La Vida Loca, that Ricky Martin song. He also did You Get What You Give by New Radicals. Both pretty distinctive guitar parts.
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7.34pm
27 April 2010
Offline Happy Nat said:
Both Brian and Rusty are musicians in their own right and have solo material that is well worth checking out and I suppose most informed McCartney fans already have since they have been in his band for over a decade now.
Brian Ray: Mondo Magneto (first CD out a couple years ago) and his upcoming CD This Way Up has a single already called I Found You. He's not just “the other guy”. If the new CD is as good as Mondo, I will be happy.
Rusty Anderson put out Undressing Underwater in 2003 and then re-released it in 2005. It has a song called Hurt Myself that Paul plays on with him. His newest CD out last year really rocks. It's called Born On Earth.
I really enjoyed seeing these guys Monday playing with Paul in Nashville. What a fantastic show!
I had an interview for Fab 4 Radio/TheBeatlesRarity.com with Brian Ray here. He was great to talk to and has had a long interesting career in the music business.
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9.49pm
1 May 2010
Offline I'm checking the interview… btw welcome back Happy Nat!!! 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
10.38pm
4 April 2010
Offline Joe said:
I think Rusty Anderson did the twangy guitar bits on Livin' La Vida Loca, that Ricky Martin song. He also did You Get What You Give by New Radicals. Both pretty distinctive guitar parts.
I was just listening to that song “You Get What You Give”. Didn't know he played guitar on that.
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7.30pm
27 April 2010
Offline mithveaen said:
I'm checking the interview… btw welcome back Happy Nat!!!
Thanks much mith, been rather busy lately over in my own corner of the web…so I haven't gotten over here as often as before.
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