Setlists
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This is not directed at you Nancy but if memory serves me correctly, it seems to me that some complaining the most about glacial speed changes to the set list did not see him when he put Got Back on the road here in US in the spring of 2022. There could be many legitimate reasons for not seeing him—-health, time, distance to show, monetary considerations. That said, making a case for set list changes is greatly undermined by not actually attending a show.
I missed 2019 due to looking at death in the hospital. I started off the countdown to seeing him last year hoping for things like Lavatory Lille, Dominoes, etc but ended up deciding I was thankful to be alive and healthy enough to make a show. Plus, at 81 Paul certainly doesn’t have to be there but is.
So Australia, enjoy whatever he plays. Surely the author of so many great songs has earned the right to sing Fuh You in my face even if I don’t like that song. He likes stepping out of the box of our expectations (witness Pepper, McCartney II, Fireman, etc.) and that undesirable song is simply another way of doing that.
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Well said, couldn't agree more
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GREAT video review of Macca In Melbourne!
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Two things I liked in that reviewed was that he would have loved Paul to do "Beware My Love" and he would have rather had any other "Egypt Station" song done instead of "Fuh You".
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@yankeefan2 OMG! I LOVE Beware My Love! A radio station here played an extended version for me when I requested that song...many years ago.
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That was a fantastic review, especially when he praised how he introduces so many songs with personal insight and makes each attendee feel he is hearing something special. Of course some criticize these little verbal asides as being repetitive, but as someone who once did a considerable amount of talking behind a microphone, you discover what an audience likes to hear and what reaches them, conveys knowledge and humor, and you keep using it and one’s confidence and effectiveness grows over time. This was very important to me, a confirmed introvert tasked with speaking in public, something I once feared greatly. Enjoy it Australia!!,,,,
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Great song and I don't think he ever did it again after the WOA tour.
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If Paul is not used to talking to an audience by now and can't just "Wing it" with his verbal asides than what can I say. Is it that hard to think of something different to say about the song "Blackbird" for example besides his "civil rights" story over and over again. I will give kudos to Paul for at least "talking" to an audience a lot more than most performers. Outside of Springsteen, I can't think of anybody who is "chattier" than Paul in concert.
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@john-mackintosh Thanks for clarifying that John. I haven’t seen him since 2019, but I’m in the minority in that I loved hearing him do Fuh You (still think he should have left the title For You) and Come On To Me (the end should have been left off though)
I will never go see him again though. I prefer to remember him when he could actually sing beautifully (in 2002 I was stunned a nearly 60 year old Paul sounded so wonderful!)
Also it’s the money/cost. I just had to move my mom for the 3rd time! First was Senior Living Facility in Sept. 2022, then Assisted Living in June 2023 and when she started escaping the facility, moved her Oct. 26th to Memory Care at a different A.L. facility which is $6401/mo.! They gave me a 7% discount because my dad lived there from June 2013 until he passed in Jan. 2016 at age just shy of 90 and he was an Army Vet. Mom doesn’t have much money left so may end up on Medicaid and have to move AGAIN to Life Care Center nursing home (which is one of the places she was escaping to from the last facility - it is right next door!) I’d laugh if I wasn’t crying so much.
P.S. They made me hire a 24/7 caregiver at $25/hour starting Oct. 14th and they worked until the 25th when I was able to secure her a room. I’m paying for that and it’s costing over $5000. Luckily I recently received $5000 from the county for a sewer easement!
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@yankeefan2 said in Setlists:
If Paul is not used to talking to an audience by now and can't just "Wing it" with his verbal asides than what can I say. Is it that hard to think of something different to say about the song "Blackbird" for example besides his "civil rights" story over and over again. I will give kudos to Paul for at least "talking" to an audience a lot more than most performers. Outside of Springsteen, I can't think of anybody who is "chattier" than Paul in concert.
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@oobu24 That WAS a fantastic review video! Thanks for posting.
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@john-mackintosh Thanks for clarifying that John. I haven’t seen him since 2019, but I’m in the minority in that I loved hearing him do Fuh You (still think he should have left the title For You) and Come On To Me (the end should have been left off though)
I will never go see him again though. I prefer to remember him when he could actually sing beautifully (in 2002 I was stunned a nearly 60 year old Paul sounded so wonderful!)
Also it’s the money/cost. I just had to move my mom for the 3rd time! First was Senior Living Facility in Sept. 2022, then Assisted Living in June 2023 and when she started escaping the facility, moved her Oct. 26th to Memory Care at a different A.L. facility which is $6401/mo.! They gave me a 7% discount because my dad lived there from June 2013 until he passed in Jan. 2016 at age just shy of 90 and he was an Army Vet. Mom doesn’t have much money left so may end up on Medicaid and have to move AGAIN to Life Care Center nursing home (which is one of the places she was escaping to from the last facility - it is right next door!) I’d laugh if I wasn’t crying so much.
P.S. They made me hire a 24/7 caregiver at $25/hour starting Oct. 14th and they worked until the 25th when I was able to secure her a room. I’m paying for that and it’s costing over $5000. Luckily I recently received $5000 from the county for a sewer easement!
Sorry for going OT, but wanted everyone to know about this.Hi Nancy. I was afraid you were dealing with that kind of situation. I lost both my parents over 20 years ago with both having what are best described as “quick exits” which is what they wanted. I think of them constantly as they ended up being friends of mine as well as parents. The situation with my daughter-in-law sounds similar to yours in that her grandmother has reached her late 90s and is in a home with evaporating financial resources to draw upon. What happens next is hard to contemplate. Life is full of obstacles that become like high walls, obstacles best dealt with by sharing the pain with others which I am grateful you did in what you describe as OT. No need to apologize.
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All the best, Nance.... That's a tough road to travel, what you are going through. Losing family (and dear friends) is a prick of a time. And doing everything to look after your Mum (or, as you US folks say, Mom).
All I can say is, you are obviously a magnificent daughter!! And you're one hell of a strong woman.
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Got Back Tour : "My Dream Paul McCartney Set List"
- Can't Buy Me Love
- Find My Way (McCartney 3)
- Letting Go (Venus and Mars)
- Got to Get You into My Life
- Who Cares (Egypt Station)
- I've Just Seen a Face
- Getting Better
- I Don't Know (Egypt Station)
- Do It Now (Egypt Station)
- Love Me Do
- On La Di, Ob La Da
- Put It There (Flowers in the Dirt)
- My Valentine (Kisses on the Bottom)
- Blackbird
- Here Today (Tug of War) John Lennon Tribute
- Let 'Em In (Wings at the Speed of Sound)
- English Tea (Chaos and Creation)
- Too Much Rain (Chaos and Creation)
- 1985 ( Band on the Run)
- Band on the Run (Band on the Run)
- Ever Present Past (Memory Almost Full)
- Dance Tonight (Memory Almost Full)
- That Was Me (Memory Almost Full)
- Get Back
- Let It Be
- Live and Let Die
- Something (George Harrison Tribute)
- Little Willow (Flaming Pie)
- Calico Sky (Flaming Pie)
- Young Boy (Flaming Pie)
- New (From the "New " Album)
- I Can Bet (From the "New Album)
- I've Got a Feeling (With John Lennon)
- I Saw Her Standing There
- Slidin (McCartney 3)
- Golden Slumbers
- Hey Jude
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that's a very cool update of the current setlist!
I would only change:- Something to All Things Must Pass, While my guitar gently weeps, or Friends to go
- Blackbird to Martha my dear, I Will or Mother nature's son.
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@njr Not really wanting to go off topic, so I'll be short but I am going through the exact same thing with my sister.
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@john-mackintosh Thank you for your kind words, John. Going OT again, but ya’ll will never believe this, but this morning mom fell in the living area of where she stays and broke her right upper femur (thigh bone) Being a former O.R. nurse at the hospital, I requested 2 particular orthopedic surgeons and got my first choice! (he did my ex-husband’s right total knee in July per my recommendation) Surgery for a right total hip replacement is tomorrow afternoon. When it rains, it pours!
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All the best, Nance.... That's a tough road to travel, what you are going through. Losing family (and dear friends) is a prick of a time. And doing everything to look after your Mum (or, as you US folks say, Mom).
All I can say is, you are obviously a magnificent daughter!! And you're one hell of a strong woman.
Thank you so much toris! ️
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Going back to what someone said a dozen or so posts ago, I truly don't believe Paul doesn't think his new songs are any good. I think he just knows he doesn't make hits anymore (no one in his eighties tops the charts, after all), and that the new stuff is unfamiliar to most of his tour audiences. It's not fair to compare 2023 Paul with 1976 Wings Over America Paul. In '76 he'd had a string of number one albums, and singles like Listen to What the Man Said and Silly Love Songs had topped the U.S. charts for a month each (actually, I think Silly Love Songs was no. 1 for six weeks, but I'm too lazy to look it up). He spent several years trying to prove he still mattered without the Beatles, and arguably he succeeded.
But having done that, I don't think he feels he has to keep proving it. He's made peace with the fact that the Beatles were special and are beloved in a way that very few pop culture acts ever achieve. And let's face it, to sit down at the piano and start playing a song you wrote over 50 years ago and have 40,000 people singing along and knowing every word must be a thrill the likes of which none of us have ever or will ever experience.
That said, if he had the voice to still pull off that "nerd show," my set list would include (in no particular order)
Take It Away
Friends to Go
Old Siam Sir
Getting Closer
Single Pigeon
Vintage Clothes
Ever Present Past
Wanderlust
Somedays
Ballroom Dancing
The Mess
Helen Wheels
Cafe on the Left Bank
Find My Way
Women and Wives
Dominoes
Hand in Hand
So Glad to See You Here