NYC, NY - MSG - 12.12.12 Sandy Relief Benefit - ARCHIVE
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dcshark:
I'm thinking The Boss will be closing the show not Paul.
I know his name is listed first but...Paul always closes.
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WixRocks!:
dcshark:
I'm thinking The Boss will be closing the show not Paul.
I know his name is listed first but...Paul always closes.
To my shock, I've recently learned that Paul's set at the 1986 Prince's trust Concert didn't close the event... ...Mick Jagger and David Bowie did.
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WixRocks!:
dcshark:
I'm thinking The Boss will be closing the show not Paul.
I know his name is listed first but...Paul always closes.
you maybe right but with this affecting New Jersey, i would think Springsteen would close the night with Paul and friends coming out to play on Twist & Shout.
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im so going!!!!
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dcshark:
WixRocks!:
dcshark:
I'm thinking The Boss will be closing the show not Paul.
I know his name is listed first but...Paul always closes.
you maybe right but with this affecting New Jersey, i would think Springsteen would close the night with Paul and friends coming out to play on Twist & Shout.
Point taken BUT, the concert is in New York....so shouldn't Billy Joel Close the show?
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I would love to see this! I'm off on the 12th, but would have to get the next day off too to fly home.
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I have mixed feelings about this. Glad he's participating, but afraid it will lend credence to those who think Paul just can't say "No" to appearances (except for those in Denmark, it seems! Still don't understand that one.)
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reason why I didn't post more in AM I had to leave for work...
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audi:
HEY JUDE ALERT! HEY JUDE ALERT! HEY JUDE ALERT!
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Love it, illwobble!
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"Hope of Deliverance" would be quite appropriate for this show, don't you think? Those of us who have experienced Sandy sure can identify with most of the lyrics.
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audi:
HEY JUDE ALERT! HEY JUDE ALERT! HEY JUDE ALERT!
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WixRocks!:
dcshark:
I'm thinking The Boss will be closing the show not Paul.
I know his name is listed first but...Paul always closes.
Like Mariano Rivera - lol. Sorry, could not resist - ha ha
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audi:
HEY JUDE ALERT! HEY JUDE ALERT! HEY JUDE ALERT!
I laughed
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audi:
Given my limited expectations, I could live with that.
My expectations are low too. If he does the same old Beatle songs, the NY media will have a field day IMO. I think this would be a good 4-5 songs to do. Start off on a serious/somber tone for the occasion and then rock a bit. Think something like "One After 909 would be different (Lennon sang lead but McCartney did a lot of harmony also). 1) House of Wax 2) Too Much Rain 3) One After 909 4) Long Tall Sally 5) The End
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yankeefan7:
audi:
Given my limited expectations, I could live with that.
My expectations are low too. If he does the same old Beatle songs, the NY media will have a field day IMO. I think this would be a good 4-5 songs to do. Start off on a serious/somber tone for the occasion and then rock a bit. Think something like "One After 909 would be different (Lennon sang lead but McCartney did a lot of harmony also). 1) House of Wax 2) Too Much Rain 3) One After 909 4) Long Tall Sally 5) The End
I have no hope of new/different songs, TBH. If he tosses in "Hope of Deliverance" amidst the usual, though, I'd be happy. He threw in "Cosmically Conscious" at the David Lynch fundraiser which made the rest of the unchanged setlist tolerable.
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Why hang so much of your hopes and dreams on what McCartney will play at such an event?? It's a BENEFIT for victims of a hurricane, not a career move.
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RMartinez:
Why hang so much of your hopes and dreams on what McCartney will play at such an event?? It's a BENEFIT for victims of a hurricane, not a career move.
I'm not sure which parts of this post to address first as taking our comments out of context...if I thought for a moment that you'd actually listen, I'd respond. However, I know better.
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walliebaby:
RMartinez:
Why hang so much of your hopes and dreams on what McCartney will play at such an event?? It's a BENEFIT for victims of a hurricane, not a career move.
I'm not sure which parts of this post to address first as taking our comments out of context...if I thought for a moment that you'd actually listen, I'd respond. However, I know better.
Good. :
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RMartinez:
Why hang so much of your hopes and dreams on what McCartney will play at such an event?? It's a BENEFIT for victims of a hurricane, not a career move.
Granted, it is a fundraiser -- and it should be about good will, rather than making an artistic statement. Couldn't it be both, though? Let's use Eric Clapton as an example. I'm a big fan of his, too (that is, once I got over the shock of his onstage drunken, racist rant from the mid-'70s which I'd learned about only a couple of years ago...but I digress)... ...Clapton's song choices don't always cater solely to the "Wonderful Tonight/Layla/Cocaine" fans. Even at charity events. At the Concert For Montserrat ('97), he played the unreleased "Broken Hearted" and an '85 track, "Same Old Blues." Paul played all Beatles songs and "Kansas City."* At the Concert For New York City (2001), Clapton played the relatively unknown -- but highly appropriate -- "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" with Buddy Guy." and it was one of the highlights of the night, if you ask me. The Stones did "Salt Of The Earth." I commend Paul's decision to play then-new Driving Rain songs...but he chose the wrong ones, excluding "Freedom." I was quite encouraged when Paul seized the opportunities to play "Cosmically Conscious" at the David Lynch event in '09, as well as "In Liverpool" in '08. I'm hoping that Paul puts similar thought into this upcoming event, rather than another rousing -- but predictable -- version of "Hey Jude." *=and he had a Top 5 album in the charts only a few months prior