Greensboro, NC, Greensboro Coliseum, Oct. 30, 2014 - ARCHIVE
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LiveForever:
DrivinFan:
RMartinez:
DrivinFan:
This being the final show of his U.S. Tour, any thoughts on (minor) change to the setlist (ie: additional song?)
I predict a standard set list.
Yea...I have a feeling you may be right.
You mean, "I've Got a Feeling"
of course.
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Some photos courtesy of the News and Record: http://m.news-record.com/gallery/paul-mccartney-performs-in-greensboro/collection_8941e694-6082-11e4-8abe-0017a43b2370.html?mode=jqm
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Someone got their foot (!) signed tonight. :
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Greensboro Setlist: Magical Mystery Tour Save Us All My Loving Listen to What the Man Said Let Me Roll It Paperback Writer My Valentine Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five The Long and Winding Road Maybe I'm Amazed I've Just Seen a Face We Can Work It Out Another Day And I Love Her Blackbird Here Today New Queenie Eye Lady Madonna All Together Now Lovely Rita Everybody Out There Eleanor Rigby Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! Something Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Band on the Run Back in the U.S.S.R. Let It Be Live and Let Die Hey Jude Encore: Day Tripper Birthday I Saw Her Standing There Encore 2: Yesterday Helter Skelter Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
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Long jacket.
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Alligator played at sound check.
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forget 64:
Alligator played at sound check.
Really? How fortunate for those who were there! Maybe there's a chance he will do one of those NEW songs at soundchecks in Brazil too.
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forget 64:
Alligator played at sound check.
SERIOUSLY? Happy for those of you that were there, tho.
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5th-beatle:
forget 64:
Alligator played at sound check.
Really? How fortunate for those who were there! Maybe there's a chance he will do one of those NEW songs at soundchecks in Brazil too.
I'm hoping you get early days , and a few more.
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thenightfish:
forget 64:
Alligator played at sound check.
SERIOUSLY? Happy for those of you that were there, tho.
one of the FOTR had a stuffed toy alligator and MJ brought it up and put it on the stage in front of Paul. I don' know if she got it back or not.
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forget 64:
thenightfish:
forget 64:
Alligator played at sound check.
SERIOUSLY? Happy for those of you that were there, tho.
one of the FOTR had a stuffed toy alligator and MJ brought it up and put it on the stage in front of Paul. I don' know if she got it back or not.
Awesome!!!! and I believe I know whose 'gator it was.
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thenightfish:
forget 64:
thenightfish:
forget 64:
Alligator played at sound check.
SERIOUSLY? Happy for those of you that were there, tho.
one of the FOTR had a stuffed toy alligator and MJ brought it up and put it on the stage in front of Paul. I don' know if she got it back or not.
Awesome!!!! and I believe I know whose 'gator it was.
I thought you would!
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forget 64:
I'm hoping you get early days , and a few more.
Thank you, I would love to hear Alligator, Appreciate, Early Days, On My Way To Work or Turned Out. The whole album is great, actually.
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forget 64:
thenightfish:
forget 64:
thenightfish:
forget 64:
Alligator played at sound check.
SERIOUSLY? Happy for those of you that were there, tho.
one of the FOTR had a stuffed toy alligator and MJ brought it up and put it on the stage in front of Paul. I don' know if she got it back or not.
Awesome!!!! and I believe I know whose 'gator it was.
I thought you would!
Confirmed. I will find out if she got the alligator back. I still wish that Paul had seen that toy sooner, like at one of the soundchecks that I also attended! I really did want to hear that song. Carlos, I hope you get it in Brazil! So I will have to be satisfied with hearing all of Big Barn Bed in Louisville.
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He did Big Barn Bed in Louisville? I have nearly lost my voice by yelling for that song at soundchecks. Lucky you!
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5th-beatle:
He did Big Barn Bed in Louisville? I have nearly lost my voice by yelling for that song at soundchecks. Lucky you!
I had signs for both Alligator & Big Barn Bed in Chicago...and Appreciate too!
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oobu24:
5th-beatle:
He did Big Barn Bed in Louisville? I have nearly lost my voice by yelling for that song at soundchecks. Lucky you!
I had signs for both Alligator & Big Barn Bed in Chicago...and Appreciate too!
Thanks, Carlos! And, yes, who knows what makes him decide to do those songs? Not to hijack the Greensboro thread with talk of Louisville, but he didn't pause when he finished singing Ram - he just kept strumming and went straight into Big Barn Bed - nobody yelled out for it. I don't think there were any signs for it altho I did not see every sign that was held up. But he kept strumming, started singing, people reacted with screams and clapping, and he did the whole song. Sorry Greensboro folks - back to discussing your concert!
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5th-beatle:
He did Big Barn Bed in Louisville? I have nearly lost my voice by yelling for that song at soundchecks. Lucky you!
Similarly, at the Albany soundcheck I shouted out for and had a sign asking him to play "On My Way To Work". Was so surprised when he played it, and shocked when he did it during the show as well!!
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The following is a blog post to go online on Nov. 3. I'm giving the Greensboro Coliseum administration until then to comment. Paul McCartney played the Greensboro Coliseum on Thursday night. He outperformed the coliseum in every way imaginable. The concert itself was predictably extraordinary. After years of touring together, McCartney and band put on a three-hour show that has to be experienced to be believed. Greensboro was no different. No Beatles fan should ever pass up the chance. ?Nuff said. So McCartney was his typical brilliant self Thursday night. The Greensboro Coliseum, on the other hand, was absolutely horrendous. The people who run the coliseum proved themselves to be thoroughly inept by staging a clusterf--k of epic dimensions. The list of potential grievances from Thursday?s concert is lengthy, including sound that was too loud by a factor of about a thousand, not nearly enough souvenir and concessions outlets, and not nearly enough intelligent people manning the few concessions outlets that were open. Those complaints pale, however, when stood next to the indefensible decision to open the doors and let people into the coliseum?s entryways an hour before the seating area was ready for occupancy. The doors opened on schedule at 6:30. Those of us on the south side of the coliseum and the special events center were herded into a long, narrow entry hallway about 60 yards long. We were stuck in there until the main doors to the interior of the coliseum opened at 7:05. This corridor was not air-conditioned, and with several thousand people packed into that hallway, it got very hot, very quickly. After 35 minutes, it was downright uncomfortable. McCartney draws fans of all ages. Many of the people in that hallway were senior citizens and aging Baby Boomers. Some did not fare well in the heat. Several standing near me got woozy, lightheaded and/or sick to their stomach. My wife got so lightheaded from the heat that she nearly fainted. After fighting it and nearly passing out, she had to go sit down on an umbrella rack along the side of the hallway. Several people nearby noticed her discomfort and asked if she was okay. It was that evident. I was genuinely concerned for her health and well-being. She was not the only one suffering from the conditions. Once we were allowed into the main coliseum building, our problems continued because they still wouldn't let us into the seating area for another 25 minutes, until almost 7:30. So now we had many more thousands of people jammed in the coliseum?s concourses with nowhere to go. Concourses are designed to facilitate the movement of people from one point to another. They?re not intended to be a gathering spot, especially not for that many people. At least the concourse was air conditioned, but it was badly overcrowded. And remember, many of these people had just escaped a 35-minute imprisonment in a hot, overcrowded hallway. Some of them badly needed to get to their seats and get off their feet. Too bad, we were told. The seating area still was not ready. Deal with it. They finally let us into the seating area at 7:30, a full hour after opening the doors. Whoever was running this circus violated one of the most obvious common-sense rules of staging an event like this ? never open the doors and let people into an arena before the seating area is ready for occupancy. It takes a genuine idiot not to be able to figure that out. In my 45 years of concert-going, I?d never once seen that happen, until Oct. 30, 2014, at the Greensboro Coliseum. Once we got into the coliseum, two other problems quickly reared their ugly heads. First, the sound system was way too loud. As a result, the sound wasn?t nearly as clean as it could have been. Second, there weren?t nearly enough souvenir and concessions stands. The few that were open were badly understaffed. Lines were absurdly long. I waited in line 25 minutes just to buy a t-shirt and a concert program at a souvenir stand. That should never happen. The lines at the concessions stands were brutally long as well. My wife and I don?t get to too many arena concerts, but we do go on occasion, so we have some experience for comparison. We saw McCartney at the Charlotte Coliseum in July 2010, and that was the gold standard for how to run a major concert. In addition to being in our seats no more than 10 minutes after the doors opened, the sound was absolutely perfect ? not too loud but loud enough, and clear as a bell ? and there were souvenir and concession stands open all over the building. The lines were short and the wait was brief. We saw both Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty earlier this year at PNC Arena in Raleigh, Springsteen in April and Petty in September. Again, the concert experience for both blew away the Greensboro Coliseum. For both shows, we were in our seats within minutes of entering the building. The sound was terrific. There were ample souvenir and concessions stands. No one had to wait in line for more than a few minutes. I worked in college athletics for nearly 20 years. I?ve seen and been around for the planning of major events. It's not easy, but it?s not brain surgery, either. A group of high school students could have run that McCartney concert better than the intellectual lightweights who run the Greensboro Coliseum. The music made up for it, of course, but it shouldn't have to be a tradeoff, should it? Is it too much to ask ? especially at more than $100 per ticket for the cheap seats ? that the experience at the venue be as pleasing as the music itself? Charlotte certainly met that standard when McCartney played there four years ago. PNC Arena did the same this year for both the Springsteen and Petty shows. All three of the aforementioned shows went off without a hitch for the concert-goer. Greensboro, meanwhile, came up embarrassingly short for Thursday night?s McCartney show. The music was life-changing. That cannot be overemphasized. The experience with the arena, however, could only lead one to conclude that the people who run the Greensboro Coliseum couldn?t find their own ass with both hands.
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The Greensboro concert was my 12th and the BEST ever!!! Just saw Paul in JAX and it was excellent but he was exceptional in Greensboro. His mood was super happy, stories given with a bit more flair, just something really special that night. His voice was brilliant! I am still traveling but have a great video of Paul's arrival that I'll try to post when I get back to Baltimore and on my own computer. I was standing by Nina and another friend and she showed us the sign she planned to hold up during the show. 'Trick or Treat please sign my feet'. Well, as you know by now, Paul read it and signed her foot! What an exciting night for a great fan! Yes, the venue had a few problems but nothing that made me need to post an entire page about it. All around, it was another fabulous night with Paul McCartney that I will treasure forever. Hope to post some pix next week.