The Rarest Paul Song You Seen/Heard Him Perform Live
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thenightfish wrote:
John Mackintosh wrote:
Rockerdude wrote:
John Mackintosh wrote:
This question came to me yesterday after looking up Ram On the Paul MCCartney Project website. This is a great site documenting all his albums, concerts, songs, since his earliest days. For each song, there is a graph of each year done and then listing of concerts or sound checks where performed. I saw him do Ram On in Charlotte in 2010, watched it on youtube yesterday. This question hit me and I added up13 concerts where it has been done. Tons of sound checks but I didn't count those,
So, for me, it has to be Ram On, although Mull of Kintyre must be close to it. How about you? Anyone catch Come and Get It which has to be a rare one as I think he did it at some European dates 10 or so years ago. Anyone see something like The Mess live in the early Wingsdays fifty years ago?
Hete's hoping for the nclusion of something never played live before during the Got Back tour,
He's played "Mull of Kintyre" evreytime that I've seen him; it's a Canadian thing. So far there's been no Canadian dates set for the upcoming tour. Fingers crossed & ready to blow the entertainment budget.
Actually, it's a Scottish thing. Used to live there but I saw it in Canada as well, just once, in 2010. Great song about a beautiful place. I imagine he will have more dates in September/October and hopefully will visit Canada.
I've seen Mull in both Canada and Scotland, but the most recent shows I saw in both countries in 2018 and 2019 did not include Mull, so he is no longer playing it.
That's great to have seen Mull on both sides of the Atlantic. I am afraid you are right in that he seems to have retired the song as I noticed that he didn't do it in Glasgow in 2918 , which surely is the "epicenter" of the various places where it has been done and where one could expect to hear it.
As far as I know, his December 2017 Auckland concert was the last time he did it. As we now know, that's the show where Peter Jackson was in the audience and met with him afterwards and now we have his great work with Get Back.
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For me, it was getting to hear "Long Tall Sally" at Candlestick Park in 2014. I was on the edge of my seat in anticipation, and when he mentioned he was gonna do the last song the Beatles did at Candlestick Park, I blacked out. I knew it was coming. And it was glorious.
I think at the time it was only the 2nd performance of it in like 30 years. I could be mistaken. I know he did it with Grohl and co. in Seattle a year or two prior to that. But otherwise you have to go back to Prince's Trust in the '80s.
I also loved hearing "Your Mother Should Know", which didn't stay in the list long once NEW came out. It was bumped when "New", "Everybody Out There", "Queenie Eye" and "Save Us" entered the list.
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Long Tall Smalley and Your Mother Should Know fantastic to have seen/heard those live.
Distressed to learn that Women and Wives has already been dropped (one helps temporarily) after two Got Back tour shows. That could end up as the greatest live rarity of all! Can't believe he is leaving out Lavatory Lille, Seize the Day,FindMy Way. And to think when I first saw him in 1989 he did SIX songs from Flowers and lead off with Figure of Eight. Come on Paul, show some well-deserved pride in McCartney III!
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At Seattle soundcheck this week, 5/3/22 -- believe it or not, he played Big Barn Bed on the Ukelele after Ram On during soundcheck. I was astounded, as I haven't heard of him playing it live since the 70s.
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carsondent7 wrote:
At Seattle soundcheck this week, 5/3/22 -- believe it or not, he played Big Barn Bed on the Ukelele after Ram On during soundcheck. I was astounded, as I haven't heard of him playing it live since the 70s.
Very cool! I would have loved to hear that!
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Every song, every note, every everything from Forest Hills '64, Shea '65, Shea '66... +++++++++ Liverpool '08+++++ →Fenway '22 - and all the shows in between
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He played "Ram On" at Rio Tinto Stadium in Greater Salt Lake in 2010. He played it some during that tour, but it was so cool to hear a second song from Ram after hearing "Too Many People" in 2005.
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carsondent7 wrote:
At Seattle soundcheck this week, 5/3/22 -- believe it or not, he played Big Barn Bed on the Ukelele after Ram On during soundcheck. I was astounded, as I haven't heard of him playing it live since the 70s.
That is great that Big Barn Bed is still on his mind. Would have loved to have heard that. He did Ram On in the 2010 Charlotte concert and ii was a pleasant surprised. Very surprised that Charlotte was bypassed on this tour and instead he is having an outdoor concert at Winston-Salem, his only North Carolina appearance. Summer southern heat is best avoided by anyone over 60, which is why I will see him elsewhere even though I am a good deal younger than him.
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John Mackintosh wrote:
carsondent7 wrote:
At Seattle soundcheck this week, 5/3/22 -- believe it or not, he played Big Barn Bed on the Ukelele after Ram On during soundcheck. I was astounded, as I haven't heard of him playing it live since the 70s.
That is great that Big Barn Bed is still on his mind. Would have loved to have heard that. He did Ram On in the 2010 Charlotte concert and ii was a pleasant surprised. Very surprised that Charlotte was bypassed on this tour and instead he is having an outdoor concert at Winston-Salem, his only North Carolina appearance. Summer southern heat is best avoided by anyone over 60, which is why I will see him elsewhere even though I am a good deal younger than him.
I was "only" 54 when he played a general admission show at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, but it was Aug. 15 (2009) and NO WAY could I handle the heat and the crowd! Plus it rained and the place turned into a Woodstock mudbath!
Here was the setlist:
https://www.paulmccartney.com/live/atlanta
So, consequently I had to wait until 2013 to see him again (11 years, since I also missed the 2005 concert as I had twins in college that year!)
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"On a Slow Boat to China" at the Frank Loesser tribute on Broadway. 2009
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NJR wrote:
John Mackintosh wrote:
carsondent7 wrote:
At Seattle soundcheck this week, 5/3/22 -- believe it or not, he played Big Barn Bed on the Ukelele after Ram On during soundcheck. I was astounded, as I haven't heard of him playing it live since the 70s.
That is great that Big Barn Bed is still on his mind. Would have loved to have heard that. He did Ram On in the 2010 Charlotte concert and ii was a pleasant surprised. Very surprised that Charlotte was bypassed on this tour and instead he is having an outdoor concert at Winston-Salem, his only North Carolina appearance. Summer southern heat is best avoided by anyone over 60, which is why I will see him elsewhere even though I am a good deal younger than him.
I was "only" 54 when he played a general admission show at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, but it was Aug. 15 (2009) and NO WAY could I handle the heat and the crowd! Plus it rained and the place turned into a Woodstock mudbath!
Here was the setlist:
https://www.paulmccartney.com/live/atlanta
So, consequently I had to wait until 2013 to see him again (11 years, since I also missed the 2005 concert as I had twins in college that year!)
I was there! And you are right as rain about the rain. My wife couldn't make it so I gave her ticket to an old friend from undergrad days and we went . I saw the forecast that had 10% rain chance but took a hat and poncho anyway, I will attend the Knoxville show later this month but avoid that outdoor venue at Wake Forest. At my age now, either heat or rain aren't good.
Backto 2009, meanwhile, a few miles away whatever is left of Badfinger was playing and according to another friend who was there, did Come and Get It. Think Paul did that the following year I at someEuropean dates,a true live raritu
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thewordispaul wrote:
"On a Slow Boat to China" at the Frank Loesser tribute on Broadway. 2009
Lucky you, and that was before Kisses came out.
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I suppose "rare" is a relative term, but these are the ones that come to mind in my history that I've only heard once or twice, and were not played much ever before or after...
2009- "I'm Down"
2010- "Birthday" at Ringo's 70th Birthday Concert
"Ram On" in Philly
2011- "I'm Looking Through You" at Yankee Stadium (very short shelf life in the set!)
2015- "One After 909" in Charlottesville -
John Mackintosh wrote:
NJR wrote:
John Mackintosh wrote:
carsondent7 wrote:
At Seattle soundcheck this week, 5/3/22 -- believe it or not, he played Big Barn Bed on the Ukelele after Ram On during soundcheck. I was astounded, as I haven't heard of him playing it live since the 70s.
That is great that Big Barn Bed is still on his mind. Would have loved to have heard that. He did Ram On in the 2010 Charlotte concert and ii was a pleasant surprised. Very surprised that Charlotte was bypassed on this tour and instead he is having an outdoor concert at Winston-Salem, his only North Carolina appearance. Summer southern heat is best avoided by anyone over 60, which is why I will see him elsewhere even though I am a good deal younger than him.
I was "only" 54 when he played a general admission show at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, but it was Aug. 15 (2009) and NO WAY could I handle the heat and the crowd! Plus it rained and the place turned into a Woodstock mudbath!
Here was the setlist:
https://www.paulmccartney.com/live/atlanta
So, consequently I had to wait until 2013 to see him again (11 years, since I also missed the 2005 concert as I had twins in college that year!)
I was there! And you are right as rain about the rain. My wife couldn't make it so I gave her ticket to an old friend from undergrad days and we went . I saw the forecast that had 10% rain chance but took a hat and poncho anyway, I will attend the Knoxville show later this month but avoid that outdoor venue at Wake Forest. At my age now, either heat or rain aren't good.
Backto 2009, meanwhile, a few miles away whatever is left of Badfinger was playing and according to another friend who was there, did Come and Get It. Think Paul did that the following year I at someEuropean dates,a true live raritu
Found this online:
https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/come-and-get-it/
Paul McCartney performed the song live for the first time in Bologna, Italy on November 26, 2011. In 2015, Paul McCartney shared lead vocals with Alice Cooper in the cover of the song by supergroup Hollywood Vampires, which appears on their debut album Hollywood Vampires.
Video in this link:
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Ram On and Big Barn Bed at the Memphis 2013 sound check!! It was amazing and I always hoped he would add these to his concert set list, but it wasn't meant to be.
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Thanks for the "Come and Get It" info, Nancy!!! Great video!
I did not know that he had ever performed that song in concert. According to that article you posted, it was performed at sound checks too, during the European tour of 2011-12 and once at the sound check in Uruguay.
https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song-all-concerts/?id=515
Here's another video from a different angle at the Bologna concert.
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carsondent7 wrote:
At Seattle soundcheck this week, 5/3/22 -- believe it or not, he played Big Barn Bed on the Ukelele after Ram On during soundcheck. I was astounded, as I haven't heard of him playing it live since the 70s.
Every now and then he keeps going with Big Barn Bed at soundchecks. That one in Seattle was just a tease. There were one or two other times where he did a couple of choruses--Memphis, as mentioned, and somewhere else. I feel very lucky to have heard it.
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george_e_girl wrote:
Ram On and Big Barn Bed at the Memphis 2013 sound check!! It was amazing and I always hoped he would add these to his concert set list, but it wasn't meant to be.
I was there at that concert! The food was fantastic too!
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John Mackintosh wrote:
Long Tall Smalley and Your Mother Should Know fantastic to have seen/heard those live.
Distressed to learn that Women and Wives has already been dropped (one helps temporarily) after two Got Back tour shows. That could end up as the greatest live rarity of all! Can't believe he is leaving out Lavatory Lille, Seize the Day,FindMy Way. And to think when I first saw him in 1989 he did SIX songs from Flowers and lead off with Figure of Eight. Come on Paul, show some well-deserved pride in McCartney III!
Per the San Francisco Chronicle he played it in his first show in Oakland Friday night:
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Bruce M. wrote:
John Mackintosh wrote:
Long Tall Smalley and Your Mother Should Know fantastic to have seen/heard those live.
Distressed to learn that Women and Wives has already been dropped (one helps temporarily) after two Got Back tour shows. That could end up as the greatest live rarity of all! Can't believe he is leaving out Lavatory Lille, Seize the Day,FindMy Way. And to think when I first saw him in 1989 he did SIX songs from Flowers and lead off with Figure of Eight. Come on Paul, show some well-deserved pride in McCartney III!
Per the San Francisco Chronicle he played it in his first show in Oakland Friday night:
Good! Glad the ladies are back in the set list. Now let's have some more from Macca III
