Set List critique
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mr.flamingpie wrote:
johnpowell wrote:
I know he can't get away from feeling like he has to play certain songs. I just wished he opened up 2/3 of the setlist every time he starts a new leg of a tour (like now).
I know that some songs he cannot sing anymore but these are the songs that I think would be great to add:
Heart of the Country
Too Many People
I've had enough
Goodnight Tonight
Getting Closer
Silly Love Songs
Listen to What the man Said
Helen Wheels (I know he probably can't sing this)
My Brave Face
The World Tonight
ANYTHING off PRESS to Play!
Take It Away
No More Lonely Nights
Ballroom Dancing
Tug of War
Coming Up
On the Way
The weird stuff offf Driving Rain (not what he played in 2001-2002)
That Was Me
I don't Know
My Ever Present Past
Really, just shake it up.
adding 5-8 songs from this selection would change the current setlist to a real freshen up tour and I 'ld surely buy tickets for a further european concerts!
Great list. Although we all have our favorite songs that we'd love to hear...we know it'll never happen...but it's fun to dream. He's written some really excellent songs.
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5th-beatle wrote:
Paul and band rehearsing Back In Brazil!
WOO! I bet you're gonna get to hear him do it!
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oobu24 wrote:
WOO! I bet you're gonna get to hear him do it!
I hope so! His band members seemed excited to be rehearsing a new song for the setlist.
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I would like to hear MMT as the opener when he returns to the States. AHDN has run its course and with the horns it would be freshened up.
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oobu24 wrote:
5th-beatle wrote:
Paul and band rehearsing Back In Brazil!
WOO! I bet you're gonna get to hear him do it!
Doing it now in Santiago!
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Setlist - Chile - March 20 2019
A Hard Day's Night
Junior's Farm
Can't Buy Me Love
Letting Go
Who Cares
Got to Get You Into My Life
Come On to Me
Let Me Roll It
I've Got a Feeling
Let 'Em In
Maybe I'm Amazed
I've Just Seen a Face
In Spite of All the Danger
From Me To You
Dance Tonight
Love Me Do
Blackbird
Here Today
Queenie Eye
Lady Madonna
Eleanor Rigby
Back In Brazil
Fuh You
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 JudeEncore:
Birthday
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
Helter Skelter
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
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Back in Brazil -
AndrewMBarros wrote:Setlist - Chile - March 20 2019
A Hard Day's Night
Junior's Farm
Can't Buy Me Love
Letting Go
Who Cares
Got to Get You Into My Life
Come On to Me
Let Me Roll It
I've Got a Feeling
Let 'Em In
Maybe I'm Amazed
I've Just Seen a Face
In Spite of All the Danger
From Me To You
Dance Tonight
Love Me Do
Blackbird
Here Today
Queenie Eye
Lady Madonna
Eleanor Rigby
Back In Brazil
Fuh You
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 JudeEncore:
Birthday
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
Helter Skelter
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
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How on Earth does he not play I Don't Know live? It's been rehearsed and is the best track off ES. How about bringing back Another Girl or She's A Woman? How about opening with Helen Wheels? Forget lazy dynamite, how about lazy setlist?
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Over the last 40 years I've been surprised that Paul has never opened his concerts with 'So Glad To See You Here', that song would make the perfect opener.
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Kestrel wrote:
Over the last 40 years I've been surprised that Paul has never opened his concerts with 'So Glad To See You Here', that song would make the perfect opener.
He’s long since forgotten he even wrote that song!
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Everything Aflutter wrote:
How on Earth does he not play I Don't Know live? It's been rehearsed and is the best track off ES. How about bringing back Another Girl or She's A Woman? How about opening with Helen Wheels? Forget lazy dynamite, how about lazy setlist?
Agreed!
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If I'm counting correctly,last nights setlist was made up of 37 songs, which can be broken down into 22 Beatle songs, 8 solo songs, 6 Wings songs......and 1 Quarrymen song.
So, out of 60 years of music making to choose from, well over half the set is from the 8 year (62 - 70) Beatles period. I detect a slight imbalance there.
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Nancy R wrote:
Kestrel wrote:
Over the last 40 years I've been surprised that Paul has never opened his concerts with 'So Glad To See You Here', that song would make the perfect opener.
He’s long since forgotten he even wrote that song!
No doubt you're totally correct there, Nancy.
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Kestrel wrote:
If I'm counting correctly,last nights setlist was made up of 37 songs, which can be broken down into 22 Beatle songs, 8 solo songs, 6 Wings songs......and 1 Quarrymen song.
So, out of 60 years of music making to choose from, well over half the set is from the 8 year (62 - 70) Beatles period. I detect a slight imbalance there.
How true! He should have to divide his songs equally between each decade. lol
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oobu24 wrote:
Kestrel wrote:
If I'm counting correctly,last nights setlist was made up of 37 songs, which can be broken down into 22 Beatle songs, 8 solo songs, 6 Wings songs......and 1 Quarrymen song.
So, out of 60 years of music making to choose from, well over half the set is from the 8 year (62 - 70) Beatles period. I detect a slight imbalance there.
How true! He should have to divide his songs equally between each decade. lol
That's a good idea so five songs from each of the seven decades should near enough do it.
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Everything Aflutter wrote:
How on Earth does he not play I Don't Know live? It's been rehearsed and is the best track off ES. How about bringing back Another Girl or She's A Woman? How about opening with Helen Wheels? Forget lazy dynamite, how about lazy setlist?
Paul has done none of the slow songs from Egypt Station. For a guy whose most iconic records are frequently slow and quiet -- Yesterday, Let It Be, Hey Jude, My Love, etc. -- it's kind of strange. It's almost like he thinks maybe the audience will be more tolerant of new material if they can at least tap their toes to it. But I would love to hear him do I Don't Know, Do It Now and Hand in Hand. He won't, unfortunately.
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We all know what Paul's current problem is in concert. His current voice record keeps him from reproducing many songs in his catalog, as the slowest songs, even the fastest and most rock songs, are the most difficult. to interpret at a concert, and the lack in his vocal cords of a 76-year-old man is increasingly audible. For that reason he no longer plays Yesterday or My Love, or Bluebird and many other songs of the 60s, 70s and, above all, 80, someone still thinks that Paul could play ... No More Lonely Nights ... seriously ?
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A set list more adjusted to his current tone of voice and reduced to two hours of concert, and maybe retiring songs like Maybe Amazed, 1985 and Helter Skelter (that destroy his voice in each concert), would help a lot. Mick Jagger already said it ... If I want to continue in this business, I have to adapt my current voice to my songs from before! ...
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Let's be honest, Paul can continue to offer concerts thanks to the second voice of the great ABE LABORIEL JR.
I've seen more than 20 Paul concerts since 1989 and I know what I'm talking about, the vocal change since then is brutal ... well, he's 76 years old ... what more can we ask of him! Let no one think of big changes to the songs set list.