Paul McCartney 2013 Rumours
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nobodytoldme:
RMartinez:
McCartney's current set list is about a third solo material and two thirds Beatle material. My guess is he feels his legacy is primarily as a Beatle and secondarily as a solo artist. For McCartney, it IS customizing a set list to remove 45 minutes of music and arrange current set list songs a certain way for a gig. Maybe a more acceptable mix would be 50% Beatles and 50% solo songs. Maybe fans will get that in 2013.
We both know that's not going to happen ;). Hell, for me it's not even about the solo/Beatles-ratio. Of course I want to hear Paul McCartney playing Beatles songs. It's about the variety. The way he resurrected 'I Will' in a full-band version in 2011 after the acoustic version in 2005, or 'Two Of Us' in 2010 after 2003. Those were golden moments. Who is going to complain about having already heard classics like that live in a tour 5-10 years before? That's why it's so damned frustrating he's playing the same market, years apart, and hardly changes anything. And the stunners he adds, will be gone before he hits another continent. People who saw him 10 times in the US between 2009-2012 heard 80% of the songs 10 times, and for example 'The Word', 'All You Need Is Love' and 'Come And Get It' - ok, solo song, but point still stands - not a single time. Or those who have missed those very few late 2010 gigs 'One After 909'. How on earth did I saw him 7 times between 2009 and 2013 and never heard 'Bluebird', 'Hope Of Deliverance', 'One After 909' among others live!? Same with the US exclusivities in 2005 and the Europe exclusivities in 2004. What's the harm in adding 'You Won't See Me' for the US in 2012 or 'Please Please Me' for Europe in 2009? Just a few examples, but they are endless. I can't see why people are hammering so much on him not having played 'Lovely Rita' or 'Maxwell' or something though. He did about 75% of 'his' Beatles songs live for the first time between 2002 and 2012. They almost all got airtime at this point. He is hardly neglecting anything in the way he does with his solo material. It's really scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point, he almost did every song. If he didn't added 'The Night Before' in 2011 it would have been 'What's Your Doing' or something, and then he would've added the former in 2013 or 2014. He's only got so much time on stage...
Good post. I agree! I didn't even know he played some of those songs live. That's how long they were in the set list!
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FrankieJ:
The funnier thing is that Paul sometimes talks in interviews as if he does put careful planning and consideration into his setlists like Noel. But really he meant "I switch Hello, Goodbye with Magical Mystery Tour and that's it." Did anyone hear that radio interview he did just before the charity gig last year at RAH? He made out as if he crafted the setlist to make it unique to past shows, when really all he did was get rid of about 45 minutes worth of songs to finish for the curfew or something.
true.
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You think that people would have had enough of Silly Set Lists! Tug Of War Take It Away/Jet Another Girl Only Mama Knows Let Me Roll It/Foxey Lady The Long And Winding Road Maybe I'm Amazed Listen To What The Man Said We Can Work It Out That Would Be Something/Every Night Blackbird Rocky Raccoon Calico Skies Heart Of The Country/This One Eleanore Rigby Lonely Road Here, There And Everywhere Band On The Run Back In The USSR Too Many People/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window Got To Get You Into My Life She's Leaving Home Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds While My Guitar Gently Weeps Yesterday Anyway Lady Madonna Let It Be Live And Let Die Hey Jude Get Back I Saw Her Standing There Birthday Lovely Rita Silly Love Songs Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
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LonelyRoad:
You think that people would have had enough of Silly Set Lists! Tug Of War Take It Away/Jet Another Girl Only Mama Knows Let Me Roll It/Foxey Lady The Long And Winding Road Maybe I'm Amazed Listen To What The Man Said We Can Work It Out That Would Be Something/Every Night Blackbird Rocky Raccoon Calico Skies Heart Of The Country/This One Eleanore Rigby Lonely Road Here, There And Everywhere Band On The Run Back In The USSR Too Many People/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window Got To Get You Into My Life She's Leaving Home Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds While My Guitar Gently Weeps Yesterday Anyway Lady Madonna Let It Be Live And Let Die Hey Jude Get Back I Saw Her Standing There Birthday Lovely Rita Silly Love Songs Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
?? THAT'S why Paul don't change set lists, you are requesting THE SAME SONGS!!!!! We all know that there are songs wer all want to hear and songs he won't charge (Yesterday, hey Jude, etc), but please not these over and over and over... Let Me Roll It/Foxey Lady AGAIN?? NOT Please! Live since 1975 The Long And Winding Road AGAIN? Maybe I'm Amazed AGAINNN? Blackbird OH NO, PLEASE NOTTT AGAIN!! Eleanore Rigby AGAIN? Got To Get You Into My Life again? Lady Madonna again?? not only at the concerts but also on EVRY SINGLE SOUNDCHECK!! I Saw Her Standing There AGAIN? What about Can't Buy Me Love instead? Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End- AGAIN? I think that's why Paul don't change the set lists, even people here are requesting the SAME songs.
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mike carrera:
LonelyRoad:
You think that people would have had enough of Silly Set Lists! Tug Of War Take It Away/Jet Another Girl Only Mama Knows Let Me Roll It/Foxey Lady The Long And Winding Road Maybe I'm Amazed Listen To What The Man Said We Can Work It Out That Would Be Something/Every Night Blackbird Rocky Raccoon Calico Skies Heart Of The Country/This One Eleanore Rigby Lonely Road Here, There And Everywhere Band On The Run Back In The USSR Too Many People/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window Got To Get You Into My Life She's Leaving Home Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds While My Guitar Gently Weeps Yesterday Anyway Lady Madonna Let It Be Live And Let Die Hey Jude Get Back I Saw Her Standing There Birthday Lovely Rita Silly Love Songs Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
?? THAT'S why Paul don't change set lists, you are requesting THE SAME SONGS!!!!! We all know that there are songs wer all want to hear and songs he won't charge (Yesterday, hey Jude, etc), but please not these over and over and over... Let Me Roll It/Foxey Lady AGAIN?? NOT Please! Live since 1975 The Long And Winding Road AGAIN? Maybe I'm Amazed AGAINNN? Blackbird OH NO, PLEASE NOTTT AGAIN!! Eleanore Rigby AGAIN? Got To Get You Into My Life again? Lady Madonna again?? not only at the concerts but also on EVRY SINGLE SOUNDCHECK!! I Saw Her Standing There AGAIN? What about Can't Buy Me Love instead? Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End- AGAIN? I think that's why Paul don't change the set lists, even people here are requesting the SAME songs.
Without attacking/defending these songs, maybe you can also post the songs you do like in the set list above. There are concert staples and one must be realistic to a degree when doing these; though I do think the set above is a stretch for Paul. If I really could do Paul's set list he would play Live And Let Die twice and Band On The Run every 30 mins.
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LonelyRoad:
You think that people would have had enough of Silly Set Lists! Tug Of War
Take It Away/Jet
Another Girl
Only Mama Knows
Let Me Roll It/Foxey Lady The Long And Winding Road Maybe I'm Amazed Listen To What The Man Said
We Can Work It Out That Would Be Something/Every Night
Blackbird Rocky Raccoon
Calico Skies
Heart Of The Country/This One
Eleanore Rigby Lonely Road
Here, There And Everywhere Band On The Run Back In The USSR Too Many People/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window Got To Get You Into My Life She's Leaving Home
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Yesterday Anyway Lady Madonna Let It Be Live And Let Die Hey Jude Get Back I Saw Her Standing There Birthday Lovely Rita
Silly Love Songs
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
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audi:
In that case, I'd love for Paul to eight-to-eleven shows in London. I'd be curious to see how he'd handle that challenge.
Roger Waters performed The Wall 9 (nine!!) times in a row at River Plate Stadium here and holds the record for stadium shows in a row.
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audi:
In that case, I'd love for Paul to eight-to-eleven shows in London. I'd be curious to see how he'd handle that challenge.
He did 11 shows at London's Wembley Arena in January 1990.
I went to all of them. As far as I can recall, they all had exactly the same setlist.
He wasn't even switching out a song or two every other night, like he has been doing lately. However, even with those identical set lists, I wouldn't change one moment of any of those shows, and I count all of them (plus 3 in Birmingham) as favorites on my list of Macca concert experiences.
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thenightfish:
audi:
In that case, I'd love for Paul to eight-to-eleven shows in London. I'd be curious to see how he'd handle that challenge.
He did 11 shows at London's Wembley Arena in January 1990.
I went to all of them. As far as I can recall, they all had exactly the same setlist.
He wasn't even switching out a song or two every other night, like he has been doing lately. However, even with those identical set lists, I wouldn't change one moment of any of those shows, and I count all of them (plus 3 in Birmingham) as favorites on my list of Macca concert experiences.
I wish he did so many nights in either London or Liverpool again! How many shows have you seen altogether?
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Guess that settles that.
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Get a new opener, and get lovely rita out of the encore...and you've got a KILLER setlist there!
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Sweet Brown must help out Paul with his setlist choices.... "How about Uncle Albert-- Ain't Nobody Got Time Fo Dat!!"
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This is cool. Paul says the horn section on Wings Over America tour was just right for songs like SILLY LOVE SONGS and LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID. I wonder if he avoids those songs because he'll only play them with a horn section?
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RMartinez:
This is cool. Paul says the horn section on Wings Over America tour was just right for songs like SILLY LOVE SONGS and LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID. I wonder if he avoids those songs because he'll only play them with a horn section?
It's possible but, I doubt it. There's a lot of songs that had horns in the 70's live that he performs now.
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If he can do Eleanor Rigby a million times with no real strings, he can do Silly Love Songs without real horns.
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The May 22-23, 2011 concerts in Rio de Janeiro were announced on April 07 (a Thursday), six weeks in advance: http://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=79522&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=58 The April 21-25, 2012 concerts in Recife and Florianópolis were announced on March 22-23 (Thursday and Friday), just four weeks in advance: http://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=83907&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=13 http://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=83906&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=01 The Secretary said yesterday in Fortaleza that the announcement will be made next Wednesday (March 20), which is a little over six weeks before the first concert in Belo Horizonte, on May 03. That fits the pattern of previous years, so I believe we can expect an an official announcent anytime between March 20 (six weeks in advance) and April 05 (four weeks in advance). By the way, a source said earlier today that Ringo will return to Brazil in November 2013. It seems this will be an expensive year for Beatles fans over here. Not that I'm complaining, of course!
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5th-beatle:
The May 22-23, 2011 concerts in Rio de Janeiro were announced on April 07 (a Thursday), six weeks in advance: http://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=79522&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=58 The April 21-25, 2012 concerts in Recife and Florianópolis were announced on March 22-23 (Thursday and Friday), just four weeks in advance: http://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=83907&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=13 http://maccaboard.paulmccartney.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=83906&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=01 The Secretary said yesterday in Fortaleza that the announcement will be made next Wednesday (March 20), which is a little over six weeks before the first concert in Belo Horizonte, on May 03. That fits the pattern of previous years, so I believe we can expect an an official announcent anytime between March 20 (six weeks in advance) and April 05 (four weeks in advance). By the way, a source said earlier today that Ringo will return to Brazil in November 2013. It seems this will be an expensive year for Beatles fans over here. Not that I'm complaining, of course!
How's it feel!?
Just kidding, but that's how it was in the US last year. Luckily, Ringo was playing literally 15 minutes from my house so I splurged on 5th Row VIP package! But the trip to St. Louis for Paul was QUITE a fiasco...
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It's looking like a great year for USA Beatle fans to save money!!
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RMartinez:
It's looking like a great year for USA Beatle fans to save money!!
I sure hope not!
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FrankieJ:
The funnier thing is that Paul sometimes talks in interviews as if he does put careful planning and consideration into his setlists like Noel. But really he meant "I switch Hello, Goodbye with Magical Mystery Tour and that's it."