TOTALLY UNEXPECTED songs/moments @ McCartney concerts
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love2travel:
Did you have "Want to Come Home" on this list? I LOVE this song
I can't wait til we get to hear Is This Love too... hope those rumours are true!!! I really really hope that Paul does play more songs off Electric Arguments... Here's a Hippy Hippy Shake vidI would expect any current single to be in Paul's show. Not sure if I'd add that one, either. Now -- as for "Is This Love?" -- THAT would be a shock! Who knows? Maybe Paul is saving that one for that all-Fireman show that you and I are anxiously awaiting.
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audi:
love2travel:
Did you have "Want to Come Home" on this list? I LOVE this song
I can't wait til we get to hear Is This Love too... hope those rumours are true!!! I really really hope that Paul does play more songs off Electric Arguments... Here's a Hippy Hippy Shake vidI would expect any current single to be in Paul's show. Not sure if I'd add that one, either. Now -- as for "Is This Love?" -- THAT would be a shock! Who knows? Maybe Paul is saving that one for that all-Fireman show that you and I are anxiously awaiting.
I see us getting really good seats!!!
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What about this one?
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Also I don't see I've Just Seen a Face listed - it could be included in a couple of slots, including the 2003 era as well in more recent times
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rich n:
What about this one?
Now THAT is a surprise!!!!
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1990: Strawberry Fields Forever
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rich n:
Also I don't see I've Just Seen a Face listed - it could be included in a couple of slots, including the 2003 era as well in more recent times
Another great setlist addition...but not totally unexpected. I'm somewhat on the fence, though.
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Its funny before he play's 'Too Many People' he say's this is for the Wings fans....maybe a senile moment from Paul.
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I think Paul -- like most of us -- looks at the entire 1970s decade as the Wings era. Linda was on every album.
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Thanks for clearing that up!
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A little more on the 'head scratching' side is Paul's apparent viewing of the early 80's (roughly to about '84) in a 'Wings' light too...although there is some evidence to support why (especially Denny appearing on both Tug of War and Pipes of Peace)...but I don't think Linda is a measuring stick as far as what Paul considered 'Wings'. She appeared on every one of Paul's post Beatles album until the last one before she passed away (Flaming Pie - her harmonies on 'Great Day' are particularly bittersweet given that it was the final song on her final album)...and of course this runs well beyond the end of Wings
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I remember comments about Wingspan's inclusion of several tracks that had "absolutely nothing to do with Wings," as one fan put it a few years back. Rich, I gotta' stick by my assertion that Linda was a more crucial member of Wings than Denny Laine. Denny Laine was a true member, indeed, but Wings just wouldn't have happened without Linda's initial encouragement -- not to mention her support and musical/vocal contributions.
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audi:
I remember comments about Wingspan's inclusion of several tracks that had "absolutely nothing to do with Wings," as one fan put it a few years back. Rich, I gotta' stick by my assertion that Linda was a more crucial member of Wings than Denny Laine. Denny Laine was a true member, indeed, but Wings just wouldn't have happened without Linda's initial encouragement -- not to mention her support and musical/vocal contributions.
I think Wings was Paul's idea of a 'band concept', with encouragement from Linda...I think the idea that she was crucial is true only in the sense that Paul wanted her along for the ride, or we may never have had the version(s) of Wings that we came to know. But after 1980, he obviously found a way to carry on with Linda, but without the title 'Wings'...that right there tells you that regardless of whether Wings was a true band, or just Paul's vehicle to work with, or something that belonged to both Paul and Linda...Wings was an idea above and beyond just Paul and Linda...I don't deny her importance; but I accept that importance more so in terms of moral support and encouragement...and he never lost that, despite the fact that Wings took a powder in 1980 (officially 1981 - but no official work was released by the band after 1980)... I have a gut feeling that Paul ditched Wings because after the Japanes bust, then the subsequent murder of John Lennon, he chose to lie low for a while and Denny didn't care for that...Denny rightly or wrongly wanted to move forward with his career and chose the path he did...in the mean time, Paul probably saw that he could still have his cake and eat it too (work with Linda, without having to worry about other bandmates and their actions)...thus he was again just 'Paul McCartney'. There's bits and pieces of these that has been said and widely reported - although there is some fitting together of pieces by me. So I guess my bottom line is that while I think Linda was hugely important to Paul's post Beatles career...it wasn't so much that he had a band called Wings and Linda was part of it, because Linda was going to be of whatever 'it' there was...did she make a difference in the Wings sound with her supporting vocals and did she contribute lyrics to some of the better know post Beatle Paul songs (i.e the middle section of Live and Let Die)??? Sure...was she a major creative contributor to the band? By all the accounts I read, not so much...but there's nothing wrong with that because she filled her role above and beyond the call of duty (heck, she wasn't even a musician before she met Paul) and ultimately made a difference...that's a great accomplishment, despite the fact that from outside their bubble, it looked like Linda just living a dream life - I can't imagine the pressure from starting at scratch to the point where I wonder if in the beginning whether she even knew where the middle C note was on the piano, and ultimately became...good enough to accompany one of the world's greatest musicians (both on record and on stage) and not detract away from that. And it only happened because of their bond... That's why I see her importance hugely crucial in one sense, but not so much in another.
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Fair enough. But looking back on the decade, does it really matter that Ram was released by Paul and Linda McCartney? ...that Band On The Run was released by Paul McCartney and Wings? ... And that London Town was released by Wings? Is there a practical difference in all of that? The '70s were the Wings era.
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audi:
Fair enough. But looking back on the decade, does it really matter that Ram was released by Paul and Linda McCartney? ...that Band On The Run was released by Paul McCartney and Wings? ... And that London Town was released by Wings? Is there a practical difference in all of that? The '70s were the Wings era.
I'd say I agree with your point in that small space between the end of the Beatles and beginning of Wings (it was a period of 'building' wings)...But the 'Linda' factor never went away, even though Wings did
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rich n:
audi:
Fair enough. But looking back on the decade, does it really matter that Ram was released by Paul and Linda McCartney? ...that Band On The Run was released by Paul McCartney and Wings? ... And that London Town was released by Wings? Is there a practical difference in all of that? The '70s were the Wings era.
I'd say I agree with your point in that small space between the end of the Beatles and beginning of Wings (it was a period of 'building' wings)...But the 'Linda' factor never went away, even though Wings did
Good point! Truce.
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I was listening to Electric Arguments earlier and I couldn't stop thinking about this sound check performance of Sun is Shining! I was imagining seeing and hearing it live. I had to listen to it twice in a row, it's so good! The prospect of warmer weather is making me excited for what's to come! (hopefully!)
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aakiboh:
I was listening to Electric Arguments earlier and I couldn't stop thinking about this sound check performance of Sun is Shining! I was imagining seeing and hearing it live. I had to listen to it twice in a row, it's so good! The prospect of warmer weather is making me excited for what's to come! (hopefully!)
Fingers crossed! For those who don't know this nugget of pop majesty...
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I am hoping to add "Sun Is Shining" to this list. This year.
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I know this thread seems to be more dominated by post beatles era fans' surprises but did it not surprise anyone else when in 2002 he performed Mother Natures son? I mean if I were picking a set list I would have never guessed that one even if you would have said pick 5 off the white album. Like I said this thread appears to be more slanted to post Beatles but you know the Beatles were a great band and there are still many diamonds in the rough he could pull out from that era.