As a music producer, Rubin has alternately been described as a goader and a stay-out-of-the-way guy - usually doing one and then the other at points on a project - and that’s how he operates here. He’s a wind-up toy whose springs sometimes take him down expected paths to familiar anecdotes but just as often turn up something you never realized about a three-minute song you’ve obsessively (or accidentally) heard hundreds of times.
But with McCartney, if your goal is to get him to reminisce about the creative process, they don’t need to be. Rubin’s questions aren’t always deep or penetrating, although occasionally he comes up with a zinger that reminds you he didn’t earn a Malibu compound just by being a fanboy.
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And he always has an answer, and if you care about this recording stuff, the whole series exists somewhere around the intersection of catnip and nirvana. Most of the time when Rubin is getting his idol to join him in a light head-bang, he starts fiddling with the board and pulls up a stem of an instrumental curio and just asks McCartney how he or they came up with something that ingeniously odd. But there’s really not a lot of that over the three hours of Q&A. There are a few moments of that in this, where it’s like the high-rent version of that “SNL” skit with Chris Farley on the elevator, with McCartney acceding that his former group was, in fact, awesome. If you saw the teasers for the six-part series, and saw the shots of McCartney and Rubin standing over a mixing board and both nodding their heads vigorously to the playback of Beatles master recordings, maybe you wondered if there was any value left in yet another interview where an interrogator gets Macca to confess that, yes, in fact, he has realized how great the Fab Four were and is kind of objectively gobsmacked about it himself, now that he thinks about it.
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