Set List critique
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Or, at least if he'd switch it up a little...like this song:
Paul McCartney - You Never Give Me Your Money
The audience didn't seem traumatized that it was a different version.
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corchians wrote:
If you make a tour and call it "Freshen up" then you play the same old song.. there are no more hope.. for the future..
yeah unfortnately my friend. That was the reason I cancelled my hotsound package for krakow conert!!! I visited 3 one to one tour shows and wouldn't see a one to one tour 2.0 again. That he opens the first time with the same opener (like the tour before) and changed only 5 songs (incl. only 3 songs from his current hit-album on tour) while calling the tour as "feshen up" is simply a cunning marketing trick. But as long McCartney performs in sold arena/stations there w'll nothing change. I'll never regret to cancel this tour tickets but i regret that w'll never get the chance to hear a lot's of his solo juwels songs live. Songs like wanderlust, take it away, beautiful night, the world tonight, put it there, despite repeated warning, happy with you, house of wax, ever present past, alligator, i can bet, too much rain, anyway, uncle albert, backseat of my car, ...
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Perhaps his biggest song and its been dropped from the setlist. What a bold thing to do.
I am luck having seen Paul a number of times i have heard it live but i wonder what his thoughts were behind droping the song
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I've been lucky enough to see Paul 9 times, but I think I'm going to skip this tour. We could probably line up childcare and make the trip, but the setlist just doesn't seem different enough. I totally get why he keeps some songs in there because lots of people will only see him once, but it does get a little repetitive. I can also recite all the stories he tells--which I'm sure many people can!
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cpaige wrote:
I've been lucky enough to see Paul 9 times, but I think I'm going to skip this tour. We could probably line up childcare and make the trip, but the setlist just doesn't seem different enough. I totally get why he keeps some songs in there because lots of people will only see him once, but it does get a little repetitive. I can also recite all the stories he tells--which I'm sure many people can!
Welcome to the club, myself and a few others have been saying this for years. The last time I saw him was 2010 and the only reason I did was to share the experience with my daughters who had never seen him in concert. Like you said, I understand the need to play certain songs for the first time people, it is the remaining 10-13 songs that I wish he would radically change. Yes, the same old stories get old also. For the life of me, I can't imagine why he does not want to tell different stories especially since he has a lifetime of things he could tell us that we would love to hear besides the same old Beatle stories. At age 76, he is not going to change and that IMO is a shame.
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Paul should put back Yesterday to the setlist. I missed this song a lot. Oh and he should tour the UK/EU again this year.
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Sigh... the ongoing dilemma. I still dream of a show where Paul leads off with Who Cares, finishes with Beautiful Night, plays Get on the Right Thing and Despite Repeated Warnings as encores, and doesn't play any Beatles in between. But it will always be a fantasy.
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Bruce M. wrote:
Sigh... the ongoing dilemma. I still dream of a show where Paul leads off with Who Cares, finishes with Beautiful Night, plays Get on the Right Thing and Despite Repeated Warnings as encores, and doesn't play any Beatles in between. But it will always be a fantasy.
Yep, like Paul reforming The Beatles in his dreams.
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Bruce M. wrote:
Sigh... the ongoing dilemma. I still dream of a show where Paul leads off with Who Cares, finishes with Beautiful Night, plays Get on the Right Thing and Despite Repeated Warnings as encores, and doesn't play any Beatles in between. But it will always be a fantasy.
Make it a little more doable & let him do 5 "signature Beatles songs". Then we can choose all the rest. We can dream about our ideal setlist but like you say, it will just be a fantasy.
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Bruce M. wrote:
Sigh... the ongoing dilemma. I still dream of a show where Paul leads off with Who Cares, finishes with Beautiful Night, plays Get on the Right Thing and Despite Repeated Warnings as encores, and doesn't play any Beatles in between. But it will always be a fantasy.
Honestly, leading off with "Who Cares" should not be a fantasy - lol. Why not lead off with song that I believe is a single and you just made video of that song - oh well.
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oobu24 wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
Sigh... the ongoing dilemma. I still dream of a show where Paul leads off with Who Cares, finishes with Beautiful Night, plays Get on the Right Thing and Despite Repeated Warnings as encores, and doesn't play any Beatles in between. But it will always be a fantasy.
Make it a little more doable & let him do 5 "signature Beatles songs". Then we can choose all the rest. We can dream about our ideal setlist but like you say, it will just be a fantasy.
A bunch of years ago, I went back on you tube and complied a list of solo/Wings songs that I could find a live performance. I put together a setlist of about 20 songs and posted it on this board. A bunch of these songs were rarely played live (exp. That Was Me) or one tour and done. I put the links in order like a setlist for a concert and when I watched them all it was so much fun. I wish I could find that post now and add a few songs. Anyway, my point is that this was as close to a fantasy concert as I could get - lol.
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Kimsey wrote:
Paul should put back Yesterday to the setlist. I missed this song a lot. Oh and he should tour the UK/EU again this year.
I complain about his Beatle heavy setlist a bunch but "Yesterday" is a song that should never disappear because IMO it is iconic song and can't imagine any first timer not wanting to hear it.
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
oobu24 wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
Sigh... the ongoing dilemma. I still dream of a show where Paul leads off with Who Cares, finishes with Beautiful Night, plays Get on the Right Thing and Despite Repeated Warnings as encores, and doesn't play any Beatles in between. But it will always be a fantasy.
Make it a little more doable & let him do 5 "signature Beatles songs". Then we can choose all the rest. We can dream about our ideal setlist but like you say, it will just be a fantasy.
A bunch of years ago, I went back on you tube and complied a list of solo/Wings songs that I could find a live performance. I put together a setlist of about 20 songs and posted it on this board. A bunch of these songs were rarely played live (exp. That Was Me) or one tour and done. I put the links in order like a setlist for a concert and when I watched them all it was so much fun. I wish I could find that post now and add a few songs. Anyway, my point is that this was as close to a fantasy concert as I could get - lol.
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
Sigh... the ongoing dilemma. I still dream of a show where Paul leads off with Who Cares, finishes with Beautiful Night, plays Get on the Right Thing and Despite Repeated Warnings as encores, and doesn't play any Beatles in between. But it will always be a fantasy.
Honestly, leading off with "Who Cares" should not be a fantasy - lol. Why not lead off with song that I believe is a single and you just made video of that song - oh well.
I'm with you there. I'm pretty sure playing just 3 tunes from the new album he's allegedly promoting is an all-time low, and profoundly disappointing.
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Come on, be reasonable, guys...he fears most of the audience wouldn't be familiar with "I Don't Know" from his new album "Egypt Station" so he doesn't lead with that song to kick off the concert. Also no doubt he prefers a much faster louder more "exciting" number to start out, so the massive crowd gets even more jazzed. Although-- he led with "Venus and Mars Are Alright Tonite" as the first song when I saw him in Charlotte in 2010, and it was very effective
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SusyLuvsPaul wrote:
Come on, be reasonable, guys...he fears most of the audience wouldn't be familiar with "I Don't Know" from his new album "Egypt Station" so he doesn't lead with that song to kick off the concert. Also no doubt he prefers a much faster louder more "exciting" number to start out, so the massive crowd gets even more jazzed. Although-- he led with "Venus and Mars Are Alright Tonite" as the first song when I saw him in Charlotte in 2010, and it was very effective
McCartney led off his 1989 tour with "Figure Of Eight" which was brand new so it is not like he has never done it before.
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He has pretty good instincts. Never fails to put on a great show, so whatever he decides to do.
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Personally, I really enjoy all the anecdotes he tells in between songs.
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Tori in Texas wrote:
Personally, I really enjoy all the anecdotes he tells in between songs.
But he’s told them all already a thousand times! ️ We want new stories!
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oobu24 wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
Sigh... the ongoing dilemma. I still dream of a show where Paul leads off with Who Cares, finishes with Beautiful Night, plays Get on the Right Thing and Despite Repeated Warnings as encores, and doesn't play any Beatles in between. But it will always be a fantasy.
Make it a little more doable & let him do 5 "signature Beatles songs". Then we can choose all the rest. We can dream about our ideal setlist but like you say, it will just be a fantasy.
The very first time Paul played in the USA (after the Beatles), that's exactly what he did...5 Beatle songs in the setlist.