Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
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What a great show. Out of the dozen times I've seen him, this has to be the best over all performance. The flow of the show was spot on - and "Ram On" made my night. Rick - you've seen him more than anyone here (or anywhere I believe) - how did this performance rank with the other shows you've seen on this tour?
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Ever-Present-Paul:
cb70:
Anyone notice Paul dresses to the left? Maybe only the guys will understand that one but the girls should get a kick out of it
Plus, it's still cool to hear some unreleased instrumentals from Paul as we're waiting for the show. He's been using them since 1993 and I wish he would release them already. Anyone from around Greenville/upstate SC?
I don't know if it's unreleased instrumentals. In Arnhem, December 9th 2009, he used mashups. I believe.
The mashups are during the pre-show film. The unreleased music is during the pre-show music being played before the film. It was the usual unreleased songs like "A Quite Moment" and "Righteous". Piano instrumentals...
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biggerdave:
What a great show. Out of the dozen times I've seen him, this has to be the best over all performance. The flow of the show was spot on - and "Ram On" made my night. Rick - you've seen him more than anyone here (or anywhere I believe) - how did this performance rank with the other shows you've seen on this tour?
I know you're not asking me..but I'm pretty sure Nashville owned them all. The best in my book, anyway.
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Another question for Rick, how many times have you seen Paul in concert??? I know its a huge number.
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biggerdave:
What a great show. Out of the dozen times I've seen him, this has to be the best over all performance. The flow of the show was spot on - and "Ram On" made my night. Rick - you've seen him more than anyone here (or anywhere I believe) - how did this performance rank with the other shows you've seen on this tour?
I don't like to compare performaces - kinda makes it like keeping score, like sports, religion and politics, where there are losers at every event - where with Macca, Pauly shows up, everyone wins!..........BUT, I have to rank that Nashville show as one of the top tier shows of all......up there with Wings '76 [ never any better than the first time...] and the Joint ;} in Vegas [most intense for sure] and Dublin last winter - best crowd ever. In Nash he was obviously having such fun, band tight as usual, but really on fire, set list, and great crowd too --- and personal bits, I went to school just outside Nashville, so kinda like a home-town show for me, born in TN, myself, the Carl Perkins connections etc......{Carl is The King}......and having so many friends in the audience, too, including my Little Sister, her husband and my cool niece and nephew all singing Give Peace a Chance together! And the number of shows I have seen doesn't really matter, and the number is not that huge anyway....... but the second show in Philly will be number [size=7]100
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Fans-on-the-run:
biggerdave:
What a great show. Out of the dozen times I've seen him, this has to be the best over all performance. The flow of the show was spot on - and "Ram On" made my night. Rick - you've seen him more than anyone here (or anywhere I believe) - how did this performance rank with the other shows you've seen on this tour?
I don't like to compare performaces - kinda makes it like keeping score, like sports, religion and politics, where there are losers at every event - where with Macca, Pauly shows up, everyone wins!..........BUT, I have to rank that Nashville show as one of the top tier shows of all......up there with Wings '76 [ never any better than the first time...] and the Joint ;} in Vegas [most intense for sure] and Dublin last winter - best crowd ever. In Nash he was obviously having such fun, band tight as usual, but really on fire, set list, and great crowd too --- and personal bits, I went to school just outside Nashville, so kinda like a home-town show for me, born in TN, myself, the Carl Perkins connections etc......{Carl is The King}......and having so many friends in the audience, too, including my Little Sister, her husband and my cool niece and nephew all singing Give Peace a Chance together! And the number of shows I have seen doesn't really matter, and the number is not that huge anyway....... but the second show in Philly will be number [size=7]100
How cool is Rick? Pretty cool. I am humbled by your humbleness.
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How cool is Rick? The coolest. A truly nice guy.
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BarbB:
biggerdave:
What a great show. Out of the dozen times I've seen him, this has to be the best over all performance. The flow of the show was spot on - and "Ram On" made my night. Rick - you've seen him more than anyone here (or anywhere I believe) - how did this performance rank with the other shows you've seen on this tour?
I know you're not asking me..but I'm pretty sure Nashville owned them all. The best in my book, anyway.
Why was Nashville better than Charlotte? The setlist is basically the same, was he better vocally?
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That's awesome Rick. Thanks for the input.
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in the wonderful pre-show slide show of mainly pix from the sixties, suddenly david crosby popped up, a big pic of him but not from the sixties. he looked older. i wondered why that was there. also a big pic of nico, velvet underground singer and friend of andy warhol's gang...i wondered why he included nico. i know she was a houseguest of paul's for a while in the late 60's at his london home. i think that was nico he showed (?) did anyone else catch that?
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that doesn't look like paul in the first big pic you posted, mark--the second one does, and it's fabulous. i digress, but i noticed nobody held big distracting signs up in charlotte. i saw a few small ones and one said 'meat free monday' and it was smallish too. paul told us big signs distract him from remembering the song lyrics and chords but admitted the other part of his brain says 'oh what the heck go ahead and look' (laughs)
perhaps he prefers not to be distracted that way. but as ever he's still gracious
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Finally, here are my photos from the Charlotte show!! Hit the link, and hit slideshow to see'em all....... http://www.flickr.com/photos/41674530@N02/sets/72157624547911749/
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SusyLuvsPaul:
that doesn't look like paul in the first big pic you posted, mark--the second one does, and it's fabulous.
I think that's John Hammel.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
that doesn't look like paul in the first big pic you posted, mark--the second one does, and it's fabulous. i digress, but i noticed nobody held big distracting signs up in charlotte. i saw a few small ones and one said 'meat free monday' and it was smallish too. paul told us big signs distract him from remembering the song lyrics and chords but admitted the other part of his brain says 'oh what the heck go ahead and look' (laughs)
perhaps he prefers not to be distracted that way. but as ever he's still gracious
There were lots of signs on the floor, he just chose to not mention them.
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Fans-on-the-run:
Finally, here are my photos from the Charlotte show!! Hit the link, and hit slideshow to see'em all....... http://www.flickr.com/photos/41674530@N02/sets/72157624547911749/
Loved them, thanks !!!
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My daughter had a question I could not answer. She said when McCartney did his tribute to George Harrison (Something), there were pictures of George on the screen during the song. (some with George and Paul together). When McCartney did tribute to Lennon (Here Today), there were no pictures of John. She was wondering why ? Any thoughts?
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Fans-on-the-run:
Finally, here are my photos from the Charlotte show!! Hit the link, and hit slideshow to see'em all....... http://www.flickr.com/photos/41674530@N02/sets/72157624547911749/
Wow, thanks! I was reliving the concert looking at those.
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yankeefan7:
My daughter had a question I could not answer. She said when McCartney did his tribute to George Harrison (Something), there were pictures of George on the screen during the song. (some with George and Paul together). When McCartney did tribute to Lennon (Here Today), there were no pictures of John. She was wondering why ? Any thoughts?
My guess is that Paul prefers a more stark presentation with the entire focus on the song and his performance.