Set List critique
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Everyone who complains about his set list still goes to his shows!! I am in that camp. If Paul played Albuquerque, I would LOVE the set list and enjoy the show. It is, however, fun to speculate and wonder.
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This is why I rely on his albums to give me that special feeling that only Macca's music can provide. It would still be nice -- and perhaps, validating -- for his "Flaming Pie crowd*****" to be acknowledged more. *=as he'd once referred to the solo fans about ten years ago
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RMartinez:
Everyone who complains about his set list still goes to his shows!! I am in that camp. If Paul played Albuquerque, I would LOVE the set list and enjoy the show. It is, however, fun to speculate and wonder.
I'm no longer in that camp, as well. It's hurting every muscle in my body to skip the Nashville gig, but I'm not going.
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I feel most of the people at Paul's concert in Chicago had seen him before...even my son saw him last year in Milwaukee. In fact, after Paul gave the story after USSR, my son...."does he always tell the same stories." If a 9 year old feels that way, I have to believe everyone else does as well. I definitely think this set list is designed for the first-timers. I remember when I saw Paul in 1990 at Soldier Field (I was 13 at the time), I loved hearing Beatles songs because those were the ones I knew. But when I saw him a couple years later, I was most excited by the songs he hadn't played on the earlier tour, like Paperback Writer, Penny Lane, Looking for Changes, Biker Like an Icon and so on. And after hearing the exact same Hey Jude and Winding Road and Lady Madonna so many times, it does make you wonder what Paul is thinking. It has to get old for him to play these same songs over and over...and over. There are so many good Paul solo songs from the last 30+ years that he could play.
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Something like this would be cool: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK JET MY BRAVE FACE ALL MY LOVING JUNIOR?S FARM NEW FOOL ON THE HILL MARTHA MY DEAR FINE LINE MY LOVE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE I?VE JUST SEEN A FACE MULL OF KYNTIRE WE CAN WORK IT OUT PAPERBACK WRITER BACK IN THE USSR LETTING GO GETTING CLOSER TWO OF US COMING UP AND I LOVE HER BLACK BIRD YESTERDAY LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID FLAMING PIE BEAUTIFUL NIGHT LONG AND WINDING ROAD LET IT BE HEY JUDE GET BACK HI HI HI HELTER SKELTER LIVE AND LET DIE GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT/THE END
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The end of the main set is a little jumbly there. Nice song selections, just unusual placement in my opinion. For example, I wouldn't get all country-acoustic for "Two of Us", then get all the electric gear back up and running for "Coming Up" and then calm the place down again with "And I Love Her". It needs flooooow
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WixRocks!:
The end of the main set is a little jumbly there. Nice song selections, just unusual placement in my opinion. For example, I wouldn't get all country-acoustic for "Two of Us", then get all the electric gear back up and running for "Coming Up" and then calm the place down again with "And I Love Her". It needs flooooow
Fair enough! Still, I think the spirit of what some people would like to hear is in this set list. Obviously choices for more recent songs would be different. Or how about they could be changed and rotated?
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Below is a re-arrangement of your set, plus one more song....none of your songs were removed! HI, HI, HI JET ALL MY LOVING JUNIOR?S FARM MY BRAVE FACE NEW FOOL ON THE HILL MARTHA MY DEAR FINE LINE MY LOVE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE I?VE JUST SEEN A FACE TWO OF US WE CAN WORK IT OUT EIGHT DAYS A WEEK PAPERBACK WRITER LETTING GO GETTING CLOSER COMING UP BACK IN THE USSR MULL OF KINTYRE AND I LOVE HER BLACK BIRD YESTERDAY FLAMING PIE LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID BEAUTIFUL NIGHT LONG AND WINDING ROAD LET IT BE HEY JUDE GET BACK HELTER SKELTER LIVE AND LET DIE SILLY LOVE SONGS GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT/THE END
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WixRocks!:
Below is a re-arrangement of your set, plus one more song....none of your songs were removed! HI, HI, HI JET ALL MY LOVING JUNIOR?S FARM MY BRAVE FACE NEW FOOL ON THE HILL MARTHA MY DEAR FINE LINE MY LOVE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE I?VE JUST SEEN A FACE TWO OF US WE CAN WORK IT OUT EIGHT DAYS A WEEK PAPERBACK WRITER LETTING GO GETTING CLOSER COMING UP BACK IN THE USSR MULL OF KINTYRE AND I LOVE HER BLACK BIRD YESTERDAY FLAMING PIE LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID BEAUTIFUL NIGHT LONG AND WINDING ROAD LET IT BE HEY JUDE GET BACK HELTER SKELTER LIVE AND LET DIE SILLY LOVE SONGS GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT/THE END
I could live with that! Hi Hi Hi as an opener would ROCK!!
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RMartinez:
Something like this would be cool: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK JET MY BRAVE FACE ALL MY LOVING JUNIOR?S FARM NEW FOOL ON THE HILL MARTHA MY DEAR FINE LINE MY LOVE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE I?VE JUST SEEN A FACE MULL OF KYNTIRE WE CAN WORK IT OUT PAPERBACK WRITER BACK IN THE USSR LETTING GO GETTING CLOSER TWO OF US COMING UP AND I LOVE HER BLACK BIRD YESTERDAY LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID FLAMING PIE BEAUTIFUL NIGHT LONG AND WINDING ROAD LET IT BE HEY JUDE GET BACK HI HI HI HELTER SKELTER LIVE AND LET DIE GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT/THE END
I'd buy ticket right now if that were the current setlist.
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RMartinez:
WixRocks!:
Below is a re-arrangement of your set, plus one more song....none of your songs were removed! HI, HI, HI JET ALL MY LOVING JUNIOR?S FARM MY BRAVE FACE NEW FOOL ON THE HILL MARTHA MY DEAR FINE LINE MY LOVE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE I?VE JUST SEEN A FACE TWO OF US WE CAN WORK IT OUT EIGHT DAYS A WEEK PAPERBACK WRITER LETTING GO GETTING CLOSER COMING UP BACK IN THE USSR MULL OF KINTYRE AND I LOVE HER BLACK BIRD YESTERDAY FLAMING PIE LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID BEAUTIFUL NIGHT LONG AND WINDING ROAD LET IT BE HEY JUDE GET BACK HELTER SKELTER LIVE AND LET DIE SILLY LOVE SONGS GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT/THE END
...Hi Hi Hi as an opener would ROCK!!
My hand to God: I was thinking that yesterday!
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WixRocks!:
Below is a re-arrangement of your set, plus one more song....none of your songs were removed! HI, HI, HI JET ALL MY LOVING JUNIOR?S FARM MY BRAVE FACE NEW FOOL ON THE HILL MARTHA MY DEAR FINE LINE MY LOVE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE I?VE JUST SEEN A FACE TWO OF US WE CAN WORK IT OUT EIGHT DAYS A WEEK PAPERBACK WRITER LETTING GO GETTING CLOSER COMING UP BACK IN THE USSR MULL OF KINTYRE AND I LOVE HER BLACK BIRD YESTERDAY FLAMING PIE LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID BEAUTIFUL NIGHT LONG AND WINDING ROAD LET IT BE HEY JUDE GET BACK HELTER SKELTER LIVE AND LET DIE SILLY LOVE SONGS GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT/THE END
I dig this
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LiveForever:
WixRocks!:
Below is a re-arrangement of your set, plus one more song....none of your songs were removed! HI, HI, HI JET ALL MY LOVING JUNIOR?S FARM MY BRAVE FACE NEW FOOL ON THE HILL MARTHA MY DEAR FINE LINE MY LOVE HOPE OF DELIVERANCE HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE I?VE JUST SEEN A FACE TWO OF US WE CAN WORK IT OUT EIGHT DAYS A WEEK PAPERBACK WRITER LETTING GO GETTING CLOSER COMING UP BACK IN THE USSR MULL OF KINTYRE AND I LOVE HER BLACK BIRD YESTERDAY FLAMING PIE LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID BEAUTIFUL NIGHT LONG AND WINDING ROAD LET IT BE HEY JUDE GET BACK HELTER SKELTER LIVE AND LET DIE SILLY LOVE SONGS GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT/THE END
I dig this
I can dig this one too I have thought for a while, that "Two of Us" should be his John tribute song
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Actually I would dig this even more if you tossed in a few tracks off Memory Almost Full and a few more from NEW. NEW Early days Queenie Eye Only Mama Knows Mr. Bellamy
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Also wouldn't mind seeing Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey too
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cubsbrad23:
I feel most of the people at Paul's concert in Chicago had seen him before...even my son saw him last year in Milwaukee. In fact, after Paul gave the story after USSR, my son...."does he always tell the same stories." If a 9 year old feels that way, I have to believe everyone else does as well. I definitely think this set list is designed for the first-timers. I remember when I saw Paul in 1990 at Soldier Field (I was 13 at the time), I loved hearing Beatles songs because those were the ones I knew. But when I saw him a couple years later, I was most excited by the songs he hadn't played on the earlier tour, like Paperback Writer, Penny Lane, Looking for Changes, Biker Like an Icon and so on. And after hearing the exact same Hey Jude and Winding Road and Lady Madonna so many times, it does make you wonder what Paul is thinking. It has to get old for him to play these same songs over and over...and over. There are so many good Paul solo songs from the last 30+ years that he could play.
Let's say Mr. McCartney does he standard 25 Beatle songs, that is still 13 songs to really mix it up. He has done just about everything from BOTR so do 3-4 different Wings or RAM songs not done in long time or never. OK, there are 9 songs left, so play 4 from "New" which none of us have a problem with, maybe some prefer one song more than another but no big deal. The remaining 5 songs should be solo songs never played before or done rarely. Some suggestions Solo Songs (5) Take It Away Dance Til We're High Promise to You Girl House of Wax Little Willow Wings/Ram (4) Beware My Love Dear Boy Old Siam Sir Name And Address As for stories, tell us something about songs on list above or about "New". Dedicate "Little Willow to Maureen Starkey. Tell crowd "Name And Address" is his "Elvis" type song - lol. Anything but the same stuff that a 9 yr old remembers you telling before at different show
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I'll raise the bar: I'd pay $1,000 to see a show like "RMartinez'"s and "WixRocks!"'s. And I'd bet that many others would join me.
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audi:
I'll raise the bar: I'd pay $1,000 to see a show like "RMartinez'"s and "WixRocks!"'s. And I'd bet that many others would join me.
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oobu24:
audi:
I'll raise the bar: I'd pay $1,000 to see a show like "RMartinez'"s and "WixRocks!"'s. And I'd bet that many others would join me.
Get rid of Long and Winding Road and USSR and add Spies Like Us and Looking for Changes and I'll be there too
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Let me post a few I've came up over time This seems realistic 1. Figure of Eight 2. Jet 3. All My Loving 4. Ballroom Dancing 5. Drive My Car 6. Junior's Farm 7. Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady 8. No More Lonely Nights 9. The Long and Winding Road 10. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five 11. Maybe I'm Amazed 12. That Would Be Something 13. Put It There 14. I've Just Seen a Face 15. Rocky Raccoon 16. And I Love Her 17. Blackbird 18. Lovely Rita 19. Another Day 20. Eleanor Rigby 21. Fine Line 22. You Never Give Me Your Money / Carry That Weight (full version) 23. Paperback Writer 24. Strawberry Fields Forever / She Said She Said 25. Something 26. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 27. I've Got a Feeling 28. Goodnight Tonight 29. Band On the Run 30. Back in the U.S.S.R. 31. Let It Be 32. Live and Let Die Encore 2: 33. Lady Madonna 34. The World Tonight 35. Day Tripper 36. Long Tall Sally/I'm Down Encore 2: 37. Yesterday 38. I Saw Her Standing There 39. Helter Skelter 40. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / The End