Is "your" Macca all good or all bad?
-
Well, 12 songs, if we count, say, 4 minutes per song (including the talk before them), it's 48 minutes of post Beatles songs, which is near the length of some artists' whole concerts... not so bad imo. I'd like some more, especially from Flaming Pie on, but there aren't more than 2 or 3 Beatles songs I'd drop either... A nice solution would be for him to from time to time make smaller concerts devoted to certain post Beatles periods I'd definitely love to see that. I think he'd enjoy it too!
-
I've said many times (esp when he does 2 shows in one city) he should do one night with his regular setlist & the next heavy with solo material. I'd go to both shows!
-
crisstti:
Well, 12 songs, if we count, say, 4 minutes per song (including the talk before them), it's 48 minutes of post Beatles songs, which is near the length of some artists' whole concerts... not so bad imo. I'd like some more, especially from Flaming Pie on, but there aren't more than 2 or 3 Beatles songs I'd drop either... A nice solution would be for him to from time to time make smaller concerts devoted to certain post Beatles periods I'd definitely love to see that. I think he'd enjoy it too!
"I'd like some more, especially from Flaming Pie on, but there aren't more than 2 or 3 Beatles songs I'd drop either..." Not that hard IMO. Are fans really dying to hear "All Together Now" and "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite"? I could easily do without "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Lady Madonna". I would even replace a few non- Beatle songs like "Let Me Roll It" (played to death)and "Another Day" (mediocre) for example. Let's replace them with the following below. 1) Take It Away 2) Dance Til We're High 3) Hope of Deliverance 4) I Can Bet or Early Days 5) Dear Boy 6) House of Wax or That Was Me With the changes I suggested, you still have a majority Beatle set and still keeping the other Wings/ early McCartney favorites like "Live and Let Die" and "1985". This also is a better representation of Mr. McCartney's entire career. Finally, the 6 songs I suggested would not be tough on the band to play live because they have done a couple live (#3 & #6) and recorded #4.
-
oobu24:
I've said many times (esp when he does 2 shows in one city) he should do one night with his regular setlist & the next heavy with solo material. I'd go to both shows!
At this point, I would just go to the solo material show, been there done that with the regular setlist - just saying.
-
While most us would love a concert of solo stuff, have you ever watched from the cheap seats? It's a mass exodus to the bathrooms whenever a new song is played.
-
^^ Which is why, imo, it'd have to be a smaller concert (in a smaller setting). I didn't get the impression at all though anyone was leaving during non Beatle songs when he played here in 2011. In fact, then and in 2013 I remember some of the new songs getting a very warm reception. Queeny Eye for example. OTOH, my sister and her husband were asking me if he played too many non Beatles songs when they were trying to decide whether to go... it is that way with the casual fan, which must make up a big part of the audience at concerts.
oobu24:
I've said many times (esp when he does 2 shows in one city) he should do one night with his regular setlist & the next heavy with solo material. I'd go to both shows!
The thing is, he fulls the stadiums both shows in the same sity with his regular setlist. He'd have to add a third show probably
-
yankeefan7:
crisstti:
Well, 12 songs, if we count, say, 4 minutes per song (including the talk before them), it's 48 minutes of post Beatles songs, which is near the length of some artists' whole concerts... not so bad imo. I'd like some more, especially from Flaming Pie on, but there aren't more than 2 or 3 Beatles songs I'd drop either... A nice solution would be for him to from time to time make smaller concerts devoted to certain post Beatles periods I'd definitely love to see that. I think he'd enjoy it too!
"I'd like some more, especially from Flaming Pie on, but there aren't more than 2 or 3 Beatles songs I'd drop either..." Not that hard IMO. Are fans really dying to hear "All Together Now" and "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite"? I could easily do without "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Lady Madonna". I would even replace a few non- Beatle songs like "Let Me Roll It" (played to death)and "Another Day" (mediocre) for example. Let's replace them with the following below. 1) Take It Away 2) Dance Til We're High 3) Hope of Deliverance 4) I Can Bet or Early Days 5) Dear Boy 6) House of Wax or That Was Me With the changes I suggested, you still have a majority Beatle set and still keeping the other Wings/ early McCartney favorites like "Live and Let Die" and "1985". This also is a better representation of Mr. McCartney's entire career. Finally, the 6 songs I suggested would not be tough on the band to play live because they have done a couple live (#3 & #6) and recorded #4.
I'd mostly prefer other songs, but would LOVE to hear Hope of Deliverance and That Was Me.
-
prudence1964:
While most us would love a concert of solo stuff, have you ever watched from the cheap seats? It's a mass exodus to the bathrooms whenever a new song is played.
IMO - that is their problem. In other words, they want a Beatle concert and could care less about hearing very good music that they don't know.
-
crisstti:
yankeefan7:
crisstti:
Well, 12 songs, if we count, say, 4 minutes per song (including the talk before them), it's 48 minutes of post Beatles songs, which is near the length of some artists' whole concerts... not so bad imo. I'd like some more, especially from Flaming Pie on, but there aren't more than 2 or 3 Beatles songs I'd drop either... A nice solution would be for him to from time to time make smaller concerts devoted to certain post Beatles periods I'd definitely love to see that. I think he'd enjoy it too!
"I'd like some more, especially from Flaming Pie on, but there aren't more than 2 or 3 Beatles songs I'd drop either..." Not that hard IMO. Are fans really dying to hear "All Together Now" and "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite"? I could easily do without "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Lady Madonna". I would even replace a few non- Beatle songs like "Let Me Roll It" (played to death)and "Another Day" (mediocre) for example. Let's replace them with the following below. 1) Take It Away 2) Dance Til We're High 3) Hope of Deliverance 4) I Can Bet or Early Days 5) Dear Boy 6) House of Wax or That Was Me With the changes I suggested, you still have a majority Beatle set and still keeping the other Wings/ early McCartney favorites like "Live and Let Die" and "1985". This also is a better representation of Mr. McCartney's entire career. Finally, the 6 songs I suggested would not be tough on the band to play live because they have done a couple live (#3 & #6) and recorded #4.
I'd mostly prefer other songs, but would LOVE to hear Hope of Deliverance and That Was Me.
"I'd mostly prefer other songs, but would LOVE to hear Hope of Deliverance and That Was Me." No problem, we all have different taste but it seems to me you agree a bit and would like more from his career after the 70's.
-
crisstti:
^^ Which is why, imo, it'd have to be a smaller concert (in a smaller setting). I didn't get the impression at all though anyone was leaving during non Beatle songs when he played here in 2011. In fact, then and in 2013 I remember some of the new songs getting a very warm reception. Queeny Eye for example. OTOH, my sister and her husband were asking me if he played too many non Beatles songs when they were trying to decide whether to go... it is that way with the casual fan, which must make up a big part of the audience at concerts.
oobu24:
I've said many times (esp when he does 2 shows in one city) he should do one night with his regular setlist & the next heavy with solo material. I'd go to both shows!
The thing is, he fulls the stadiums both shows in the same sity with his regular setlist. He'd have to add a third show probably
"OTOH, my sister and her husband were asking me if he played too many non Beatles songs when they were trying to decide whether to go... it is that way with the casual fan, which must make up a big part of the audience at concerts. " Like I said earlier, he does about 25 Beatle songs in a show out of 37-38 songs I believe he does every night. Geez, if that is not enough for your sister and her husband than I guess they don't see too many concerts because people like the Stones only do 20 songs in total. Once again, too each their own.
-
What a weird question. Will he play mainly Beatle songs? I never ask, when buying a concert ticket, "Will the artist play only their big hits?" I saw Eric Clapton and did not ponder, "Will he play mostly Cream tunes?"
-
RMartinez:
What a weird question. Will he play mainly Beatle songs? I never ask, when buying a concert ticket, "Will the artist play only their big hits?" I saw Eric Clapton and did not ponder, "Will he play mostly Cream tunes?"
"I saw Eric Clapton and did not ponder, "Will he play mostly Cream tunes?"" I agree and Clapton never did mostly songs from Cream. Actually, I think the audience enjoys his solo stuff just as much as songs from Cream. The last time I saw him which was in the 90's, my two favorite songs from the show were "Wonderful Tonight" and "Tears In Heaven".
-
And Clapton has recently added his 1989 single "Pretending" back into the setlist. He's occasionally performed the 1998 song "My Father's Eyes." The only predictable thing that Clapton does is that you can pretty much expect the last two or three songs of his setlist to be a mix of "Crossroads," "Sunshine Of Your Love" and "Cocaine." The rest of the show is updated VERY regularly and represents ALL phases of his career.
-
When I saw Clapton I don't think he did Layla (slow or fast) I like the original fast version.
-
And, yet, he lived to see another day.
-
I saw Clapton live in the 80s, a tour he did with Phil Collins on drums, 1986-87. Collins also performed some of his songs, it was an ok concert, it was the mid-80s and I think Clapton at this time was into keyboards, I don't remember the concert being very heavy on guitar. One of my favorite Clapton albums came out in 1983, it's "Money and Cigarettes", I've got it both on LP and a remastred CD. Albert Lee play on the album, it's kind of 'less is more' type of guitar playing, nothing like the extended guitar solos he did with Cream in the 60s or anything, but I just love the sound of the whole album, I can probably sing along to every song, I've played it a lot. I consider it one of my favorite 80s records but it is rarely mentioned as a Clapton classic. Yet in my collection...
-
That was Claprton's August phase. That's the era that made me a fan. Ironically, despite performing "Tearing Us Apart" many, many times, he hasn't performed the biggest hit from that album in in ages: "It's In The Way That You Use It."
-
audi:
And Clapton has recently added his 1989 single "Pretending" back into the setlist. He's occasionally performed the 1998 song "My Father's Eyes." The only predictable thing that Clapton does is that you can pretty much expect the last two or three songs of his setlist to be a mix of "Crossroads," "Sunshine Of Your Love" and "Cocaine." The rest of the show is updated VERY regularly and represents ALL phases of his career.
"The rest of the show is updated VERY regularly and represents ALL phases of his career." Exactly. If you have been out of the group that made you famous for over 40 years, do you really need to have 2/3 of your show to be songs from that time. It is quite obvious Mr. McCartney feels that way but IMO it is a shame that wonderful music from after the 70's is being ignored and not given a chance.
-
audi:
And, yet, he lived to see another day.
Amazing how he stills sells tickets to his shows with fairly high prices without doing a mostly Cream setlist - lol !!
-
I have a 7" of "Tearing Us Apart". It's a duet with Tina Turner, I didn't know he performed it live. I think he can perform "Money and Cigarettes" in its enitry. it's a great album. I don't know if he performs songs from it, I don't follow Clapton's career up close like McCartney, I don't have every record in my collection, more the occasional.