Paul McCartney admits, like many people, that the surf rock sound didn’t do much for him before The Beach Boys came along. “The early surf records… I was aware of them as a musical act, and I used to like all that, but I didn’t get deeply interested in it,” he said, “It was just a real nice sound… We used to admire the singing, the high falsetto really and the very sort of ‘California’ lyrics.”
“It was later… it was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. First of all, it was Brian’s writing. I love the album so much,” he said, “I’ve just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life—I figure no one is educated musically ‘til they’ve heard that album. I was into the writing and the songs.”
“The other thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines on Pet Sounds. If you were in the key of C, you would normally use—the root note would be, like, a C on the bass,” he said, “You’d always be on the C. I’d done a little bit of work, like on ‘Michelle’, where you don’t use the obvious bass line.”
“You just get a completely different effect if you play a G when the band is playing in C. There’s a kind of tension created,” he said.
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