One of the best rock shows I've ever seen. I gave my two seats to my sons that were 21 rows from the stage and my brother gave me a seat in his box seats. I'm somewhat ambivalent about not getting full up into the action but my back was sore and I didn't feel like standing. It's the first time my 12 year old really enjoyed a rock show and my 21 year old loved it too. The band was incredibly tight and McCartney played two songs he didn't play in the recent past, both from Sgt Pepper's (awesome). I thought Paul's voice was in excellent condition. He ran through a quite a bit of the Beatles discography and some of the most decent music from his solo career. I've never seen such a deceptively striped down stage that had the most state of the art set up I've ever seen (wicked graphics, explosions, rising stage, etc.). I'd rate the show 9/10. I had such high expectations and he delivered on every single level.
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Here's a recent set list. I'm assuming the "Pepper" songs you referenced were "Lovely Rita" and "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite."
01 Eight Days A Week
02 Junior's Farm
03 All My Loving
04 Listen To What The Man Said
05 Let Me Roll It
06 Paperback Writer
07 My Valentine
08 Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
09 The Long And Winding Road
10 Maybe I'm Amazed
11 Things We Said Today
12 We Can Work It Out
13 Another Day
14 And I Love Her
15 Blackbird
16 Here Today
17 Your Mother Should Know
18 Lady Madonna
19 All Together Now
20 Lovely Rita
21 Mrs. Vandebilt
22 Eleanor Rigby
23 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
24 Ram On
25 Something
26 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
27 Band On The Run
28 Back In The U.S.S.R.
29 Let It Be
30 Live And Let Die
31 Hey Jude
32 Day Tripper
33 Hi, Hi, Hi
34 I Saw Her Standing There
35 Yesterday
36 Helter Skelter
37 Golden Slumbers
38 Carry That Weight
39 The End
What an incredible set list. I checked the Ottawa set list and it looks about the same. Lovely Rita was nice but The Benefit of Mr. Kite was incredible. I also liked the banter. Paul taking about her experiences hanging out with Jimi and Eric in London. He also refer to Ringo, John, and George and the audience went wild. My oldest son is in the Canadian Forces and his friend played bagpipe on the last song Paul played (Mull of Kintyre (with Ottawa Police Service Pipe Band)). Unfortunately, we took off after Day Tripper so we missed Helter Skelter and two or three other songs.
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Rule number one: stay until the house lights come on and piped-in music starts playing.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
Great song! Great show. Glad you enjoy it too.
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I've been on a McCartney high all over again with the Cobert appearance.
That's a hell of a list, a little different from last year's. I think I would of melted with Ram On.
I was seriously thinking about driving out to Indianapolis sunday night but just remembered I have Ian Anderson tickets.
Found this on YT. Pretty cool, me thinks................
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http://greylyng.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/floatinglanternsband
http://lightuponblight.bandcamp.com/...-upon-blight-2 (new album!)
http://www.facebook.com/greylyng
http://the-zero-dollar-trio.bandcamp.com
“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac
^ that is interesting. Fascinating. I'd love to see the whole thing & without the background music.
I recently saw the Red Square DVD and was knocked out. Great show!
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We planned for our Boston trip back in January. Our hotel was 1 mile from Fenway, I was looking forward to going to Fenway to watch a RedSox game. But when the baseball schedule came out, the RedSox were out of town for our entire trip. I find out Paul McCartney is at Fenway Tuesday night, the show was completely sold out, but with my dumb luck, we walk over to Fenway in the afternoon, and I was able to buy newly released tickets in the rightfield rooftop, near the pesky pole. And what a show! The setlist was similar to the above, and we definitely stayed until the end. We both marveled at the incredible talents of Paul. He captivated the audience, and it was a very entertaining show.
Went to show here in DC last night. He was indeed as great as everyone has said - an incredibly memorable evening. Killer setlist, sizzling performance. Too bad it was in a huge baseball stadium - a dreadful place to see a show, especially one of an artist you love.
My brother just scored tix for this Friday's show in Seattle from an ex co-worker. They're on the floor and look like pretty good seats (6 rows back in the second section of floor rows). I'm stoked. My first time seeing a Beatle.
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