Written by: McCartney
Recorded: 2020
Producers: Paul McCartney, Greg Kurstin
Engineers: Steve Orchard, Alex Pasco, Keith Smith
Released: 18 December 2020
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McCartney III
Personnel
Paul McCartney: vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar
Rusty Anderson: electric guitar
Abe Laboriel Jr: drums
‘Slidin’’ is a song on McCartney III, Paul McCartney’s solo album written and recorded in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Slidin' came from a soundcheck jam when we were playing in Dusseldorf in Germany. During soundchecks when I’m checking my guitar, I like to try and make something up and the band will join in #TimsTwitterListeningParty #McCartneyIII
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) December 21, 2020
His bass is flat nearly all the time [on the desk], sometimes I’ll add a bit of mid but 9 times out of 10 it’s just straight in. I have a couple of compressors, Urei 1176s that I’ll use on the way in, but the tone just comes from him.For the distorted sound on Slidin’ we reamped the DI signal. There’s a couple of different pedals on that. There’s the Little Big Trees which is by Audio Kitchen. It’s like a little 2.5-watt valve stompbox and it sounds amazing. Then I also put it through an Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro-Synth. So it’s just a mix of that and the clean signal. I think there might have been a bit of Decapitator going on too!
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We used our Studer J37 Tape Machine on this track. The drums were recorded at double speed #TimsTwitterListeningParty #McCartneyIII pic.twitter.com/1DSVlF6BlR
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) December 21, 2020
The song was originally recorded during the sessions for Egypt Station, McCartney’s 17th solo studio album, which was released in 2018.
I started jamming and this riff came out that I liked, it stayed in my brain, so we recorded it for Egypt Station with my band but it didn’t work out. I had it half finished and I changed some things here and there, and it became Slidin’ #TimsTwitterListeningParty #McCartneyIII
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) December 21, 2020
