“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?'”: Richie Sambora on the day he met Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney and Richie Sambora composite image.

What’s Paul McCartney really like to work with in the studio? Other than Ringo, the members of Wings and his other backing bands, not many musicians know, but ex-Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was given a peek into what it must be like on the day he crossed paths with the Beatle.

Sambora was talking on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast and revealed how it happened. Bon Jovi were in Henson Studio in Los Angeles mixing their live record One Wild Night, which must date the encounter to around 2000/early 2001.