Set List critique
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NJR wrote:
Well, we KNOW he will do Get Back even though he can't do it justice anymore.
I agree with you guys about the removals and swapping out he should do. Instead of Something, why couldn't he blow our minds and do While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Abe could help with the high notes! And ANYTHING but Mr. Kite for John! In My Life would be fantastic, but again, there's those pesky high notes. (he could falsetto the end)
For someone who is a known perfectionist, he sure is lazy about re-learning songs!!
Love the "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" idea and why not do it the way it was done at the concert for George (see link)? Have Paul play the piano (Clapton was lead guitar) and have Paul share the lead vocals with Brian/Rusty. When it comes to the high parts, Paul remains quiet and lets the band handle it. I think you are right, it would blow people's minds and definitely have tons of youtube hits. BTW - saw Brian Wilson 6-7 years ago and when it came to doing the high parts of songs, Al Jardine's son (Matt) took over -lol. (he has great voice).
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
Note *** I made typo above. Song should have been "Let Me Roll It" not "Letting Go"
Agree with you 100%. If I was going to one of the "Got Back" shows, the # 1 song I would hope he'd cut is "Let Me Roll It". It used to be one of my favorite Post Beatle Paul songs, but the way he sings it now, he sounds like Michael Bolton. It is also way too long. Another plus...If he cut it, we wouldn't have to hear the Jimi Hendrix story yet again!
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I was hoping the opening song would be something "new" like I Want To Hold Your Hand but I guess it will be Get Back with images from Peter Jackson's documentary.
Fans are speculating on another forum that the rehearsal video from earlier today points in the direction of the following songs:
Get Back
Can't Buy Me Love
Let Me Roll It
You Won't See Me
Hope Of Deliverance
Blackbird
Here Today
Queenie Eye
Something
Live And Let Die
Hey Jude
I've Got A Feeling
Birthday
Sgt.Pepper
Helter Skelter
Golder Slumbers -
Why not "People Want Peace?"
It has an audience sing along portion. People would love it due to situation in Ukraine. It doesn't even matter if they know it.
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Alright, I'm getting (unnecessarily) hyped up for tomorrow night, considering I'm on the opposite coast of the tour! Here's a dream list I just made up, thinking of the "formula" he's used for the past fourteen years. Very few of these songs have never been played live yet, I feel like this would make everyone pretty happy. If we even got halfway close to this, I'd be over the moon...
- I Want To Hold Your Hand
- She Loves You
- Come on To Me
- Who Cares
- She’s a Woman
- One After 909
- I’ve Got a Feeling
- Let Me Roll it
- Let Em In
- C Moon
- Find My Way
- My Love
- In Spite of All The Danger
- Love Me Do
- From Me To You
- Things We Said Today
- Two of Us
- I’ll Follow The Sun
- Blackbird
- Here Today
- Something
- Seize The Day
- Fixing a Hole
- Lady Madonna
- Good Day Sunshine
- Penny Lane
- Band on The Run
- Live and Let Die
- Let it Be
- Hey Jude
ENCORE - Get Back
- Golden Slumbers
- Carry That Weight
- The End
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
Note *** I made typo above. Song should have been "Let Me Roll It" not "Letting Go"
I was just about to disagree with you LOL because Letting Go had not been in the set for a long time until he brought it back on the last tour, and it is a terrific use of the horns.
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
NJR wrote:
Well, we KNOW he will do Get Back even though he can't do it justice anymore.
I agree with you guys about the removals and swapping out he should do. Instead of Something, why couldn't he blow our minds and do While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Abe could help with the high notes! And ANYTHING but Mr. Kite for John! In My Life would be fantastic, but again, there's those pesky high notes. (he could falsetto the end)
For someone who is a known perfectionist, he sure is lazy about re-learning songs!!
Love the "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" idea and why not do it the way it was done at the concert for George (see link)? Have Paul play the piano (Clapton was lead guitar) and have Paul share the lead vocals with Brian/Rusty. When it comes to the high parts, Paul remains quiet and lets the band handle it. I think you are right, it would blow people's minds and definitely have tons of youtube hits. BTW - saw Brian Wilson 6-7 years ago and when it came to doing the high parts of songs, Al Jardine's son (Matt) took over -lol. (he has great voice).
Yeah, I mentioned it with The Concert for George in mind! Rusty could do the Clapton part.
As far as Wix Rocks' list - it's a lot of the same old stuff, plus he could never pull off My Love! That ship has sailed. I do like I Want To Hold Your Hand as the opener, and the inclusion of Two Of Us, though!
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NJR wrote:
Yankeefan2 wrote:
NJR wrote:
Well, we KNOW he will do Get Back even though he can't do it justice anymore.
I agree with you guys about the removals and swapping out he should do. Instead of Something, why couldn't he blow our minds and do While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Abe could help with the high notes! And ANYTHING but Mr. Kite for John! In My Life would be fantastic, but again, there's those pesky high notes. (he could falsetto the end)
For someone who is a known perfectionist, he sure is lazy about re-learning songs!!
Love the "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" idea and why not do it the way it was done at the concert for George (see link)? Have Paul play the piano (Clapton was lead guitar) and have Paul share the lead vocals with Brian/Rusty. When it comes to the high parts, Paul remains quiet and lets the band handle it. I think you are right, it would blow people's minds and definitely have tons of youtube hits. BTW - saw Brian Wilson 6-7 years ago and when it came to doing the high parts of songs, Al Jardine's son (Matt) took over -lol. (he has great voice).
Yeah, I mentioned it with The Concert for George in mind! Rusty could do the Clapton part.
As far as Wix Rocks' list - it's a lot of the same old stuff, plus he could never pull off My Love! That ship has sailed. I do like I Want To Hold Your Hand as the opener, and the inclusion of Two Of Us, though!
There has been lots of people mentioning "I Want To Hold Your Hand" so maybe that message has gotten to Paul, it would be fun to hear but would would worry a bit about high part. (guess Abe could take over -lol). In my mind the only questions on the set list is how many "McCartney III" songs will he do and what is the new opening song? I normally have low expectations when it comes to him making changes in set list, let's hope Paul surprises us and mixes it up a bit more.
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WixRocks wrote:
Alright, I'm getting (unnecessarily) hyped up for tomorrow night, considering I'm on the opposite coast of the tour! Here's a dream list I just made up, thinking of the "formula" he's used for the past fourteen years. Very few of these songs have never been played live yet, I feel like this would make everyone pretty happy. If we even got halfway close to this, I'd be over the moon...
- I Want To Hold Your Hand
- She Loves You
- Come on To Me
- Who Cares
- She’s a Woman
- One After 909
- I’ve Got a Feeling
- Let Me Roll it
- Let Em In
- C Moon
- Find My Way
- My Love
- In Spite of All The Danger
- Love Me Do
- From Me To You
- Things We Said Today
- Two of Us
- I’ll Follow The Sun
- Blackbird
- Here Today
- Something
- Seize The Day
- Fixing a Hole
- Lady Madonna
- Good Day Sunshine
- Penny Lane
- Band on The Run
- Live and Let Die
- Let it Be
- Hey Jude
ENCORE - Get Back
- Golden Slumbers
- Carry That Weight
- The End
Looking at WixRocks imaginery setlist above, my questions would be:
Can Paul still sing "She's A Woman", "I've Got a Feeling", "My Love" or "Golden Slumbers"
Do we still need secondary songs in the Setlist like:
Come On to Me (he's did that Egypt Station song on the last tour; why not "I Don't Know", Dominoes that haven't been done and are much better songs)
Let Me Roll It (he's done that forever and he can't sing it well these days)
Let 'Em In (he done it many times in the past)
C-Moon (A tertiary song in Paul's Catalog at best)
As suggested by others...why not offer different "Tribute" songs for John and George...he has plenty to choose from
I do think "WixRocks" Setlist is realistic but it could be much better with some of these suggestions.
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"Looking at WixRocks imaginery setlist above, my questions would be:
Can Paul still sing "She's A Woman", "I've Got a Feeling", "My Love" or "Golden Slumbers"
The answer IMO is no -lol
"Do we still need secondary songs in the Setlist like:
Come On to Me (he's did that Egypt Station song on the last tour; why not "I Don't Know", Dominoes that haven't been done and are much better songs)"
I think the songs you mentioned are much better selections from "Egypt Station" and I would add "Early Days", "Confidante", "In A Hurry" and "Home Tonight" as possible additions.
"Let Me Roll It (he's done that forever and he can't sing it well these days)"
This song has become tiresome to me and it should have been replaced years ago with something like "Beware My Love" which unfortunately he could not sing now.
"Let 'Em In (he done it many times in the past)"
Exactly !!
"C-Moon (A tertiary song in Paul's Catalog at best) "
Never liked this song and he has done it a couple tours. Mind blowing Paul will play song like this and not many of his other wonderful solo songs.
"As suggested by others...why not offer different "Tribute" songs for John and George...he has plenty to choose from"
I loved Nancy's suggestion in earlier post, why not do "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" for George. It would blow people away and IMO get some buzz for the tour. It should be done like it was at "The Concert For George" with Paul on piano and Rusty handling the Clapton part on lead guitar and vocals.
As you and I have said a bunch BJ, "Early Days" would be perfect selection for John.
I do think "WixRocks" Setlist is realistic but it could be much better with some of these suggestions."
I agree, it is realistic and I think with some tweaking could be a bit better but that is just my opinion,
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^ Thanks Yankeefan! We know it won't happen, but we can only dream!
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My favorite songs from McCartney III are Pretty Boys and Women And Wives, so I'll be thrilled if they are added to the setlist eventually.
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Some predictions for this evenings show in Spokane:
* Opener- I wanna hold your hand/ Get Back/One after 909.
* My guess is that the Egypt Station songs will be cut and replaced with Mccartney 3 songs.
* Either Can't buy me Love or All my Loving and We can work it out or I've Just seen a Face.
* would guess that the rest of the show follows similar pattern to Paul's last tour though would say he will prob drop Back in the Ussr (for obvious reasons) and could replace with Penny Lane or Good Day Sunshine.
* Encore: I saw her standing there or Birthday, Helter Skelter and Golden Slumbers to finish off
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Based on this screen capture that I made from the rehearsal footage I'm hopeful that With A Little Luck he'll sing a song from the London Town album:
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5th-beatle wrote:
Based on this screen capture that I made from the rehearsal footage I'm hopeful that With A Little Luck he'll sing a song from the London Town album:
I would love to hear "With a Little Luck", but I don't think he is going to shake things that much at this point.
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Wondering how With A Little Luck will sound tonight. Hoping Paul can still do that upper register rock & roll belting towards the end!
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5th-beatle wrote:
Based on this screen capture that I made from the rehearsal footage I'm hopeful that With A Little Luck he'll sing a song from the London Town album:
What if he did the song "London Town"?
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Opening song, apparently:
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5th-beatle wrote:
Opening song, apparently:
Very disappointing opener and setlist is notihng to get excited about IMO. The only good thing I will say it is not dominated by Beatle songs but I am sure that will be later. Still has "Let Me Roll It' that he has played to death. Not thrilled he did "Come On To Me" again. Shocked that he has not done "Find My Way" yet but did "Women And Wives from "McCartney III". "Getting Better is decent addition, has not done that in many years. Always love "1985" so glad that is being played.
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While I had higher hopes for the setlist, there's currently six songs on it that I've never heard and I'll be blessed to see Paul for the 15th time and finally in my hometown, this June. I'm excited and lucky that there's anything new in the show for me at all! I'm also glad to see three songs that have been in EVERY show I've seen, finally get a break: Eleanor Rigby, Back in the USSR, and Yesterday.
That being said, I hope he can concoct a more thrilling opener. "Can't Buy Me Love" is also a tough start, vocally. It's completely exposed 100% vocals to start the show. Not really much of an "opener". As I mentioned elsewhere, I'd love to finally hear "Hello, Goodbye", a much more fitting number...and would particularly love some more material from McCartney III. I'm shocked that just one random track (that strikes me as a drag for a STADIUM concert) is in the set. "Find My Way" or "Seize The Day" would make more sense.
Anyway, Cheers! I'll come back May 2nd and see if any shuffling occurs!