Tampa, FL - Amalie Arena - July 10th - CONFIRMED
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Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
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oobu24:
Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
I was wondering the same thing!
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oobu24:
Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
I'm not scoping, what is happening, a fan onstage dancing? Yes I have seen that before during a show. There was that girl who did the crazy dancing during Get Back a while ago, and many years ago, a pair of well-known fans...
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thenightfish:
oobu24:
Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
I'm not scoping, what is happening, a fan onstage dancing? Yes I have seen that before during a show. There was that girl who did the crazy dancing during Get Back a while ago, and many years ago, a pair of well-known fans...
oh yeah...I remember the crazy dance. Yeah, someone was invited to dance because she had a Pepper jacket on. A mom & her son.
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oobu24:
thenightfish:
oobu24:
Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
I'm not scoping, what is happening, a fan onstage dancing? Yes I have seen that before during a show. There was that girl who did the crazy dancing during Get Back a while ago, and many years ago, a pair of well-known fans...
oh yeah...I remember the crazy dance. Yeah, someone was invited to dance because she had a Pepper jacket on. A mom & her son.
Ah, thanks. What song?
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thenightfish:
oobu24:
thenightfish:
oobu24:
Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
I'm not scoping, what is happening, a fan onstage dancing? Yes I have seen that before during a show. There was that girl who did the crazy dancing during Get Back a while ago, and many years ago, a pair of well-known fans...
oh yeah...I remember the crazy dance. Yeah, someone was invited to dance because she had a Pepper jacket on. A mom & her son.
Ah, thanks. What song?
Get Back.
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thenightfish:
oobu24:
thenightfish:
oobu24:
Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
I'm not scoping, what is happening, a fan onstage dancing? Yes I have seen that before during a show. There was that girl who did the crazy dancing during Get Back a while ago, and many years ago, a pair of well-known fans...
oh yeah...I remember the crazy dance. Yeah, someone was invited to dance because she had a Pepper jacket on. A mom & her son.
Ah, thanks. What song?
Get Back! I'm thinking he likes playing that song with fans
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MaccaBassman:
thenightfish:
oobu24:
thenightfish:
oobu24:
Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
I'm not scoping, what is happening, a fan onstage dancing? Yes I have seen that before during a show. There was that girl who did the crazy dancing during Get Back a while ago, and many years ago, a pair of well-known fans...
oh yeah...I remember the crazy dance. Yeah, someone was invited to dance because she had a Pepper jacket on. A mom & her son.
Ah, thanks. What song?
Get Back! I'm thinking he likes playing that song with fans
Guess so! Wasn't that also a song that somebody was brought on stage to play guitar?
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Great show!
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i have to wonder if the three song changes tonight were due to the proximity to Miami or he's got a setlist rotation going. I guess we'll find out on Saturday in Shreveport or tomorrow.
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thenightfish:
MaccaBassman:
thenightfish:
oobu24:
thenightfish:
oobu24:
Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
I'm not scoping, what is happening, a fan onstage dancing? Yes I have seen that before during a show. There was that girl who did the crazy dancing during Get Back a while ago, and many years ago, a pair of well-known fans...
oh yeah...I remember the crazy dance. Yeah, someone was invited to dance because she had a Pepper jacket on. A mom & her son.
Ah, thanks. What song?
Get Back! I'm thinking he likes playing that song with fans
Guess so! Wasn't that also a song that somebody was brought on stage to play guitar?
Yea...someone VERY lucky and blessed.... I wonder who
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Glad to hear junior's farm!
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liv4art:
Glad to hear junior's farm!
yes! One of my faves for sure
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any word on what was played at soundcheck?
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oobu24:
5th-beatle:
Brian is on twitter somehow, so I asked him to request Helen Wheels to the man. You can't blame a guy for trying, right?
try for Alligator or Appreciate.
Alligator again at sound check, really enjoyed it!
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MaccaBassman:
thenightfish:
oobu24:
thenightfish:
oobu24:
Did he ever do this before? During the show? I know he has people dancing onstage during soundcheck...sometimes.
I'm not scoping, what is happening, a fan onstage dancing? Yes I have seen that before during a show. There was that girl who did the crazy dancing during Get Back a while ago, and many years ago, a pair of well-known fans...
oh yeah...I remember the crazy dance. Yeah, someone was invited to dance because she had a Pepper jacket on. A mom & her son.
Ah, thanks. What song?
Get Back! I'm thinking he likes playing that song with fans
Never as good as the first time!
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Another GREAT night in the books with Sir Paul! My thirteenth Macca gig and equally as unforgettable as the rest! Like every other show I've attended, there was a pretty serious storm just before the doors opened. Beyond that, everyone was wonderful! That being said, I do come with some minor concerns and this is purely out of love and respect for our top guy around here and his future. This is not meant to be critical because it really did not impact the concert much, and that is key. My aunt and I (both professionally and classically trained music educators...not trying to toot our horn, just trying to show some credibility) immediately noticed a difference in his voice from last summer. From beginning to end, Paul was struggling. The man is not taking care of his voice and I fear that irreversible harm is already done. Now, I don't mean that his voice cracked a few times or that he started shouting the lyrics near the end like say last year...his voice was in a rough state the entire night and I think this distracted him from his instrumental duties. He nearly botched the "I've Got a Feeling" jam with a very false, false start. "Maybe I'm Amazed" was the worst I've heard. It was a bad vocal, I'm sorry, but it was. He just couldn't keep the tune afloat. "The Fool on The Hill" suffered from this as well, which sounded really great last summer. The strangest one was "I Wanna Be Your Man". He totally lost the second verse on maybe the easiest song in the show. I don't know what happened first but he lost the melody and lyrics and it was just a mess. Lastly, he nearly wrecked "Band on The Run". He must've forgotten where he was at the end of the second chorus because he looped around and did it again as if it were the third instead of going to the instrumental break but like the superstars that they are, this incredible band of his rolled right along with him. One last piece of "negativity" (I know...the good stuff is coming! I save the best for last!)...maybe it was just my seats, which were nearly the corner of stage right in the 100 section...but the crowd in my section was totally lame and lethargic. Everyone stood for the first four songs, then everyone was down until "Ob La Di, Ob La Da", then it was staggered from there on, but I stayed up. And no one even cared enough to yell at me! It was so bad, that the morbidly obese senior citizen to my left took a call on his phone DURING YESTERDAY. Let me repeat that: HE TALKED ON THE PHONE DURING "YESTERDAY". That sums it up really. Now, positivity!!! This was my first time at Amalie Arena and I was thoroughly pleased with the venue and its staff, as well as the suspiciously cheap parking rate of twelve bucks! Woo hoo! As for the show, "Junior's Farm" totally kicked major ass. That was a nice surprise and I had really forgotten just how great it was since it disappeared after the 2013 tour...so long "Save Us", it's been nice! "1985" was really on point tonight, and Paul's gravel seems to benefit this one, for my taste at least. Paul has a new story about The Stones before "I Wanna Be Your Man" that was pretty cool, despite the song itself just coming up short of an underwhelming disaster. Even though I've complained about it on here, "Mr. Kite" never ceases to amaze me live...in case I haven't said- WIX ROCKS! They also have cool new visuals to accompany "Sgt. Pepper..." I just wish it would've gone into "A Day in the Life"! It was VERY weird to just fade off, and then suddenly be jostled into "Hi, Hi, Hi" (which rocked my socks off nonetheless)! Also, "Get Back" was pretty cool with the Sgt. Pepper mom and her son, hadn't heard that one in a few years either. All in all, thank you for everything forever Sir Paul, and PLEASE take care of yourself!!! There is no shame in hydration! I'll post some more detailed thoughts on the setlist on the appropriate thread and provide some perspective on the crowd over there too. (Spoiler: they like the Beatles!)
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Did anyone have VIP seats? How were they?
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WOW! It was Fantastic! I enjoyed the heck out of every single bit of it. The videos were awesome, the laser and pyrotechnics were AMAZING! Thanks Sir Paul for GREAT evening!!!! D rockon drum band
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Fifth McCartney show for me, and I too really enjoyed myself! First of all, though, I too want to cover my criticisms first and get those out of the way. - The setlist was the weakest it's been at any of the shows I've attended. You have songs like Mr. Kite, which has way overstayed its welcome despite being among the most visually impressive of the night, and Temporary Secretary, which just hasn't been a good song ever. Also, Queenie Eye and New have not done much for me, but my wife liked those two, so what are you gonna do? I just miss the likes of Day Tripper, Paperback Writer, Got to Get You Into My Life, Drive My Car (a song I've sadly only ever heard live once), and I Saw Her Standing There for my heavy-hitters from the Beatles catalogue. The songs that replaced (most of) them didn't impress me nearly as much. - The apparent love for FourFiveSeconds. If anyone else at the show last night felt differently, please let me know, but I felt like it seemed to be a very popular tradition, much to the chagrin of curmudgeons like myself. - Nothing from Flowers in the Dirt. I hoped, hoped, and hoped some more for just ONE song from this album, but nope! My Brave Face would have been a beyond-perfect replacement for the overwhelmingly weak Temporary Secretary and carried the energy of the first four songs into a fifth. - Discontinuing my setlist criticism, I must point out that last night was the first time that I noticed his voice failing throughout the whole show. At the D.C. show in 2013, which was the most recent show of his I'd seen prior to last night, I felt like Maybe I'm Amazed was the only song where I really noticed a struggle. Last night, it was everywhere. Much of it is gone and likely won't ever come back. - The slip-ups. They just kept happening. One is forgiveable and possibly even amusing, but after the second or third, it becomes quite disappointing. During We Can Work It Out, either I just had a hard time making out what he was saying, or he kept forgetting lines. I Wanna Be Your Man endured a similar fate, and that one was blatantly noticeable. The whole second verse was a clear struggle to find lines to repeat that could replace the ones he'd noticeably forgotten. I've Got a Feeling had a false start to its little jam at the end. Band on the Run had issues. It was sloppy, and it's a serious momentum-killer, at least for me. With those out of the way, though, here were the highlights: - A Hard Day's Night as the opener. It seemed like his openers had a shelf life of a year or one leg of a tour, so when this got added as the opener a few years ago, I figured it would be gone by the time I got around to seeing him again. 'Twas not to be, though, and I'm as thrilled as thrilled can be that I got to hear one of my favorite songs ever to open a show. - The opening salvo of AHDN, Junior's Farm, Can't Buy Me Love, and Jet. If there's one thing the man knows how to do, it's deliver a killer opening run. I wasn't expecting Junior's Farm to make a comeback after it seemed to get dropped from the set over the past couple of years, I'd never heard CBML live, and I found myself missing Jet after its absence from the D.C. show I saw in 2013. JF is always fun, CBML is a great, uptempo hit with a lot of love amongst fans, and Jet, a sort of middle-of-the-road hit for me as far as the studio recording, is an absolute monster of a live song. - You Won't See Me and Love Me Do. I never much cared for these songs, but like Jet, they took on another life live. I was extremely impressed with both. - Live and Let Die, for obvious reasons. Bonus points issued for the hilarious look of shock on my wife's face who wasn't expecting it. It took her a moment to process it, and then she was clamoring for her phone to send a video to her best friend of the explosive greatness that was taking place. - Bringing fans up for Get Back. It was sweet, and talk about a story to tell your future kids and grandkids! - The live production inside of an arena. I'd never seen him indoors before, so it was a new experience for me from a production perspective. I felt like the arena afforded him some visual tricks that can't be done as easily outside. - The band. Those four are exceptional musicians through and through, and I like that they get to be lively and are given the chance to shine, and they got even more bonus points for handling the slip-ups like champs. They have spectacular musicianship. - The sound mixing. Things were very clear and easy to understand, and the volume was just perfect. This was especially nice after the downright uncomfortably loud volume of the U2 show I saw last month in the nearby football stadium actually took some of the enjoyment out of that show for me. - Having my wife there with me. I'd always wanted to share a McCartney concert experience with a significant other, and last night marked my first chance to do so. It made the whole thing much more special. All in all, it was another great concert, and as long as Sir Paul wishes to continue touring, I'm going to do my best to get there. I know I won't have that chance for much longer.