Once the live show had finished, McCartney hang around for a couple of exclusive performances for the cast and crew, and now the videos have been shared online.
Ferrell famously played the cowbell in a 2000 SNL sketch in which Christopher Walken played the producer of Blue Oyster Cult’s ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’, and angrily demanded that Ferrell’s Gene Frankle play “more cowbell”, much to the chegrin of the rest of the band.
Joined by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith on drums and Ferrell on his trademark cowbell, he ran through versions of two 1965 Beatles classics, ‘Help!’ and ‘Drive My Car’. Watch them both here:
Beatles legend guested during intimate show at Hamptons venue Stephen Talkhouse. (Spin Magazine report)
Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith was behind the kit to back Paul McCartney for one of his Saturday Night Live performances, SPIN has learned. He’ll fill in for Abe Laboriel Jr., who has drummed with McCartney since October 2001 and whose absence has yet to be explained. The musician is believed to have never previously missed a McCartney performance in the time since.
For his part, Smith is no stranger to the nearly 84-year-old Beatles legend, who made a surprise appearance during his 2024 covers set with producer/musician Andrew Watt at the tiny Stephen Talkhouse in New York’s Hamptons. “The people there were losing their minds,” Smith later told Q104.3 about the experience in front of 200 lucky attendees. “It’s a real once-in-a-lifetime thing.”
Simplesmente Charlotte Lawrence, Paul Mccartney e Andrew Watt em um pequeno show para amigos!!! pic.twitter.com/jTsEE0Qwof
— Charlotte Lawrence Updates (@CharloUpdatesBR) August 21, 2024
In 2020, Smith and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme teamed to remake McCartney’s “Lavatory Lil” for the album McCartney III Imagined. And, as previously reported, Watt produced McCartney’s first album in six years, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which is due May 29.
Smith also guests on the Watt-produced forthcoming Rolling Stones album, Foreign Tongues. Earlier this week, he was spotted at New York’s Gramercy Theatre with Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, who was in town to check out a set from U.K. rock trio Tigercub (the group is signed to Gossard’s long-running record label, Loosegroove).
