Memories of past tours
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New songs, old songs he has an embarrassment of riches stretching over a long career so doing a set list that touches all eras fairly is impossible. I doubt most Aussie concert goers care and are just happy that Paul and themselves are doing well enough to be there. Heck, if he tours near here next year I will be out there even though I have seen him a good bit since 1989. Due to working on higher education in the 1970s I had my chances but missed him. Making up for that and thankful he is on the road. All the best to Australia!!!!
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I gave up seeing him in after 2010 show in Charlotte. I see you were at the 1993 and 2010 shows just like me. I had seen Paul in 2009 when he played Citifield (home of NY Mets) and was not going to see him again after that which surprised my wife. We live less than 10 miles from the Charlotte arena but I told my wife it would probably be basically the same show. I changed my mind when our daughters wanted to go because they had never seen Paul in concert. It was so much fun dancing and singing along with my wife and daughters. Of course, before the show, I filled them in on the non-Beatle songs he might play that night so they would better appreciate them. I have stated before I will not see him anymore because I have heard it all a bunch of times before in a much better voice. He would really have to mix up his setlist for me to put down bunch of money for a ticket.
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I grew up near Charlotte and thus stayed with my parents to attend that 1993 concert at what was then Blockbuster Pavilion. Great TV broadcast from that I still have on DVD. Paul at his peak vocally and still with the energy of youth. That 2010 date was vastly different as we stayed in a hotel as the old home place is no more. After that 2015 Columbia, SC I am sure my wife was glad to hear that I was “retiring” from his shows. Two years later he played Duluth near Atlanta and I stayed”retired” although MPL never sent me a retirement check. Lost in the mail, I guess. 2019 I said enough and purchased tickets for the Greenville, SC show. My body said no and I missed the show as I was hospitalized with severe sodium depletion from an out of control stomach virus. Lesson applicable to all—-drink plenty of Gatorade, not water, when fighting a stomach virus and unable to eat, especially if over 60. Tickets were passed on to friends.
I told my wife that the Knoxville show was to make up for missing 2019. I was just glad to be alive but that “dynamic pricing” as they call it is not fan friendly. Guess I should call that show my “revenge concert” but it wasn’t related to the pandemic. As I am sure you know the exploits of the Fans on the Run crowd, some of them have seen Paul over a hundred times but how they do it with a set list that now changes at glacial speed, well the love it more than I and don’t mind the pricing.
Speaking of prices, I tend to think of those 1990s shows as cheap as the tickets were like $35.00 and then the 2002 show saw huge increases. I shredded a credit card from 2011 yesterday and the tickets that year from Cincinnati were much cheaper than Knoxville. Prices keep rising, although at a “sneaky” rate since 2002.
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I was out of town when the tickets went on sale for the 1993 show and only thing left was "lawn seats" when we returned home. It was still fun being on the lawn with our blanket "rocking out" with Paul -lol. I remember it was hot evening and Paul mentioned how hot it was that night. I also remember the infamous "Robbie's Bit" which was played so FOX could fit in TV commercial. I have the DVD of that show also buried somewhere in my house. We actually got pretty good seats for the 2010 show, forget how much they cost.
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@jungledan said in Melbourne, Australia - Sat 21 Oct 2023 CONFIRMED:
The Melbourne show was fantastic. I also loved the pre show with lots of his lesser known solo and wings songs. Country dreamer and b side to sea side were there. Does anyone have a list of all the preshow songs or a link?
There's a few on youtube from previous years.
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@yankeefan2 said in Melbourne, Australia - Sat 21 Oct 2023 CONFIRMED:
I was out of town when the tickets went on sale for the 1993 show and only thing left was "lawn seats" when we returned home. It was still fun being on the lawn with our blanket "rocking out" with Paul -lol. I remember it was hot evening and Paul mentioned how hot it was that night. I also remember the infamous "Robbie's Bit" which was played so FOX could fit in TV commercial. I have the DVD of that show also buried somewhere in my house. We actually got pretty good seats for the 2010 show, forget how much they cost.
Next time you watch that DVD, take special note of how, during “Another Day,” he nods and smiles, gesturing with his head as to if to point about midway through the song. I was on about the 10th row and held up a cup of beer in defiance of the hot night. I think he would have welcomed a drink.
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@yankeefan2 said in Melbourne, Australia - Sat 21 Oct 2023 CONFIRMED:
That’s it! How could I forget that he pointed?
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June 1976. I was 19 years old and travelling around the U.S. I happened to be in San Francisco with a friend on the same days that Wings Over America was playing at Cow Palace. I decided to go over and see if I could get a ticket. I took the S.F. city bus to Cow Palace and just as I stepped off, a guy walked up to me and asked if I needed a ticket. I said "yes, but how much do you want?" He said "15 dollars", which is exactly the amount I was prepared to spend. I bought the ticket and headed over toward the line, which was about 500 feet long and went around the entire arena. Just as I was passing the front of the line, someone kicked aside a sawhorse. I saw my opportunity, so I with several others walked in just as the doors were opening. It was a general admission concert, or "free seating" as they called it those days. I ran to the front of the stage, and there I stayed for the entire show. Stage front, watching Paul McCartney and Wings only a few feet away. It was an incredible show and a night I'll never forget. All because I took a chance that I might be able to get a ticket and went there. It was 16 years later until I saw Paul the second time on the New World Tour, and I have seen him several times since then, up to last year. Every time has been a great and wonderful experience!
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@beatlesfanrandy You lucky dog! I saw him in Atlanta in an arena, up in the 2nd tier, but fairly close to the stage. Had an aisle seat, so walked down to the front to get a better look!
P.S. There was 17 years between 1976 and 1993. You didn’t see him in 1990?