Set List critique
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The full band performances of I Will were fairly poor compared to the acoustic version. Abe's cymbal was always so loud in the mix! As long as he doesn't open with Magical Mystery Tour then I'll try not to complain too much!
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He will open with either "Eight Days A Week," "Magical Mystery Tour," "Drive My Car" or "Hello Goodbye." He should open with the Thrash version of "Hope For The Future." But let me stop myself before y'all think I'm high or something.
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audi:
Maybe that's why Paul McCartney keeps wearing out the same 15-20 songs tour after tour after tour... ...he keeps forgetting that he'd previously performed them. "ZING!"
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audi:
Maybe that's why Paul McCartney keeps wearing out the same 15-20 songs tour after tour after tour... ...he keeps forgetting that he'd previously performed them. "ZING!"
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I think his comments on Hope for the Future are telling. He was really hoping for a hit. (Of course, his marketing does him no favors. It should have been released AT THE SAME TIME as the game. Not months later after it was leaked on you tube. Paul's marketing team really needs to think outside the box. Why not include a card inside each copy of the game for a free download of the thrash version? The download could have been linked to this site. While they were downloading it, why not offer them a chance to buy the eventually realeased EP? The release of the song was completely botched.) Back on topic, if it had been a hit, would most of you agree that it would have certainly increased his chances of playing it live? I would think so. It is not a coincidence that his setlist reflects the time periods where he was a relevant artist to the general public. Mostly Bealtes (obviously) and early to middle Wings. Very little 80s (which started his decline) and 90s, and 2000s. Then there is the handful of current material. It really sucks that his pure solo stuff is virtually ignored. But him playing it in concerts wouldn't change a thing.
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audi:
He will open with either "Eight Days A Week," "Magical Mystery Tour," "Drive My Car" or "Hello Goodbye." He should open with the Thrash version of "Hope For The Future." But let me stop myself before y'all think I'm high or something.
"He should open with the Thrash version of "Hope For The Future." But let me stop myself before y'all think I'm high or something." I have said for years, he should open with "That Was Me"', which is a good uptempo song. I believe he did it once in Paris and it went over well. He could have some neat video on the screen of the different phases of his career.
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Fa' shizzle! Plus, Macca has yet to play "That Was Me" live while on bass. He tears that Hofner up on bass with that song! I'm all for respecting an audience. They deserve to hear the songs that their dollars made hits. But after a while, an audience has obligations to honor, as well. And if an artist isn't sure if an artist will appreciate less familiar songs, it's their job to make the audience dig the songs.
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He stopped being a live perfomer in 1979, then came back in 1989. less progressive than with Wings perhaps. Lots of Beatles on the repertoire. I guess pop and rock never was jazz, they perform to please an audience and they think big. Everything is planned and rehearsed and little is improvised on stage. They know what songs that draw the biggest crowd and play those. The hits. It is a bit static maybe. especially if you go to several concerts with the same artist. You discover that the things said between the songs that you thought came spontaneously is actually repeated every night...
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A gal I worked with once saw Coldplay two nights back in '08. she said that Chris Martin said and did the exact same thing both nights.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
He stopped being a live perfomer in 1979, then came back in 1989. less progressive than with Wings perhaps. Lots of Beatles on the repertoire. I guess pop and rock never was jazz, they perform to please an audience and they think big. Everything is planned and rehearsed and little is improvised on stage. They know what songs that draw the biggest crowd and play those. The hits. It is a bit static maybe. especially if you go to several concerts with the same artist. You discover that the things said between the songs that you thought came spontaneously is actually repeated every night...
Sure it is true for most artists but the two people I have seen twice on the same tour (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen) did not repeat everything on the different performances.
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audi:
A gal I worked with once saw Coldplay two nights back in '08. she said that Chris Martin said and did the exact same thing both nights.
"A gal I worked with once saw Coldplay two nights back in '08. she said that Chris Martin said and did the exact same thing both nights." I like Coldplay but IMO Chris Martin does not have a great personality live so it is not surprising. This is why McCartney is disappointing to me, he does have a good persona on stage and has a wealth of stories (even non- Beatle - lol) he could tell audience.
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yankeefan7:
Hendrix Ibsen:
He stopped being a live perfomer in 1979, then came back in 1989. less progressive than with Wings perhaps. Lots of Beatles on the repertoire. I guess pop and rock never was jazz, they perform to please an audience and they think big. Everything is planned and rehearsed and little is improvised on stage. They know what songs that draw the biggest crowd and play those. The hits. It is a bit static maybe. especially if you go to several concerts with the same artist. You discover that the things said between the songs that you thought came spontaneously is actually repeated every night...
Sure it is true for most artists but the two people I have seen twice on the same tour (Billy Joel & Bruce Springsteen) did not repeat everything on the different performances.
I've never seeen Billy Joel live unfortunately, but I've seen Springsteen live 6-7 times, and I agree, he is flexible and also known for playing lots of b-sides and more obscure stuff. With his latest "High Hopes" album there was a bonus DVD of "Born in the USA" live in its enterity. With a horn section.
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audi:
A gal I worked with once saw Coldplay two nights back in '08. she said that Chris Martin said and did the exact same thing both nights.
I'm not the biggest fan of Coldplay. Never really could get into their music. They were/are quite huge in Norway, at least for a period. I'm maybe a bit more R.E.M. and Teenage Fanclub kind of guitar bands.
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audi:
Fa' shizzle! Plus, Macca has yet to play "That Was Me" live while on bass. He tears that Hofner up on bass with that song! I'm all for respecting an audience. They deserve to hear the songs that their dollars made hits. But after a while, an audience has obligations to honor, as well. And if an artist isn't sure if an artist will appreciate less familiar songs, it's their job to make the audience dig the songs.
" Exactly and McCartney does not work hard enough to do that IMO. Does he ever say anything about a new song besides that is it a new one - lol? Imagine if he actually sounded interested about some solo songs and told a story about some of them in concert.
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yankeefan7:
audi:
Fa' shizzle! Plus, Macca has yet to play "That Was Me" live while on bass. He tears that Hofner up on bass with that song! I'm all for respecting an audience. They deserve to hear the songs that their dollars made hits. But after a while, an audience has obligations to honor, as well. And if an artist isn't sure if an artist will appreciate less familiar songs, it's their job to make the audience dig the songs.
" Exactly and McCartney does not work hard enough to do that IMO. Does he ever say anything about a new song besides that is it a new one - lol? Imagine if he actually sounded interested about some solo songs and told a story about some of them in concert.
Exactly. He said after a song from "New" at last years concerts something about how everyone whips out their phones to record the "old songs" but not so much the new ones.
: Well...they don't know them yet. Keep at it instead of dropping them like a hot potato.
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With 'New' being almost 2 yrs old, you wonder how many songs he will still perform from it. On the press release for the tour he mentioned ' a few surprises' but it could be a lot of hot air
: Guess we'll find out on April 21st.
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The bigger it is the more difficult it becomes to be experimental I guess. Especially when you played in The Beatles and you can feel the demand in your nervous system. it is a bit of shame considered that performing the whole of "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace" in concert is material that most artists can only dream of. And he never play one single song from them! Well, he played "Ebony and Ivory" on the 1989/90 tour.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
The bigger it is the more difficult it becomes to be experimental I guess. Especially when you played in The Beatles and you can feel the demand in your nervous system. it is a bit of shame considered that performing the whole of "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace" in concert is material that most artists can only dream of. And he never play one single song from them! Well, he played "Ebony and Ivory" on the 1989/90 tour.
Here Today is from Tug of War, maybe its that Generation i.e Paul, Elton John, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart etc that come to the conclusion that people just wanna hear the hits!
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Yeah, you could have a point, I guess these are artists who built their careers on hits to a degree, and was dissapointed if it didn't top the charts and considered it a failure if it didn't reach the top ten.
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I caught Billy Joel's name back there a few posts...I've never seen him do this, but I've noticed on recent setlists that he has had an audience vote between two songs live on the spot. Of course, I'm sure most of the time the cheers sound about the same and he just plays whatever the heck he wants...but I think it's a neat gesture!