Guitar Legend’s Surprise Encounter with Paul McCartney Leads to Unexpected Collaboration
Richie Sambora, former Bon Jovi guitarist, recently shared an amazing story about meeting Paul McCartney. It happened when Sambora was mixing a Bon Jovi live album at a studio in Los Angeles.
Sambora was excited to hear that McCartney was in the same building. He waited for hours to meet him. Finally, Sambora walked out of his studio and bumped into McCartney.
“I walk smack into him and he goes, ‘See you’re practicing, are you, mate?'” Sambora said in an interview, writes Ultimate Guitar.
Left-handed
McCartney then took Sambora’s guitar and started playing it, even though it was set up for a right-handed player and McCartney is left-handed. The two musicians hit it off and talked for a long time.
Later, when Sambora was back in his studio mixing, he noticed McCartney playing one of his guitars. Sambora asked him, “Well, if you’re going to be in here, why don’t you help me mix this?” McCartney agreed and helped mix a track for Bon Jovi’s live album “One Wild Night Live 1985–2001”.
Sambora didn’t say which song McCartney helped with, and McCartney wasn’t credited on the album.
