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Abe Laboriel Jr. (April 2002 Issue)
Happy With McCartneyAbe Laboriel Jr. was floating on air shortly after the VH1 airing of
the Concert For New York, where he performed
with Paul McCartney. "You
will never get that many amazing people on the stage ever again and I
really hope there never is a
reason for it," Abe says. "There was such
a feeling of camaraderie. Everybody was there for the right reasons."
Laboriel had already done the recently released album Driving Rain,
with the former Beatle, which he was
asked to do by producer David
Kahne. "I had never worked with David," Abe admits, "but we had met a
few times and talked
about music. Then out of the blue he called me up
and asked how I'd feel about doing a Paul McCartney record. It was
an
unbelievable leap of faith on his part to include me in such an amazing
opportunity."
Laboriel went a little
retro on the gear for Driving Rain.
"I used a Ludwig kit that Paul had," he says. "It was a copy of one of
Ringo's
old kits. It was a beautiful-sounding old-school drumkit."
Robyn Flans
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