“They had to pull us apart because we were talking to each other so much”: Richie Sambora met Paul McCartney by chance at a recording studio – and the Beatle even helped mix his track
According to Richie Sambora, a track on one of Bon Jovi’s live albums was mixed with a little help from Paul McCartney.
The pair bumped into each other (literally) as they were both working respectively in Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood, formerly known as A&M. The pair hit it off, and Sambora even managed to ask for some assistance from the Beatle. Though he sadly can’t remember the exact track McCartney helped with, and he wasn’t officially credited, Sambora does confirm that it was something off the One Wild Night live record released in 2001.
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Sambora shares the story in a recent appearance on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast, in which he begins [via Ultimate Guitar], “I’m the guy that likes to go around the studio and go, ‘Who’s in today? What’s happening?’ ‘Don Henley’s over here in B, and Sting’s doing his thing over there. And then Paul’s in there.’ I go, ‘Paul, who?’ ‘Paul McCartney.’ I had never met a Beatle in my life. I was probably almost 40.
“He was in A and I was in B, and I was working on a Bon Jovi live record that I was mixing, and I was peeking out the door, waiting for Paul to walk in, because his band and everybody was there,” he continues. “It’s like two hours now, he’s not showing up. So I walk out of one studio to go into the other overdub studio to actually do some overdubs on this live thing. I walk smack into him, and he goes, ‘See you’re practising, are you, mate?’ And he takes the guitar, and he’s lefty and I’m righty, and he takes the guitar and starts to play it.”
Sambora adds, “There’s a couch there, and we sit down, and he just goes right into it, man. And they had to pull us apart, actually, because we just got into talking to each other so much. So, then he had to go into his respective studio, and I was in my respective studio, and I looked back, and Paul’s got one of my guitars, and he’s kind of messing around with it, right? And I’m mixing, so I said, ‘Well, if you’re going to be in here, why don’t you help me mix this?’ And he did.”
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