DCBeatle64:
Funnily enough was just thinking about this the other day, I would love something like that, seems more personal and less 'I was once a Beatle once'
I would love another Unplugged show.
DCBeatle64:
Funnily enough was just thinking about this the other day, I would love something like that, seems more personal and less 'I was once a Beatle once'
I would love another Unplugged show.
Wendy2066:
gnome:
Try and find a copy of the PPV of Halifax, it's worth your time...flaws and all (sorry Paul, you did hit a couple of clunker notes as evidenced on the PPV).
I thought from what I've heard that the PPV was complete and pretty much un-edited. If they edited, why would they leave the occasional sour note in?
I have a DVD of the PPV show, and I think there's one song missing. I can't remember what song it is though. Maybe you can find an audience recording somewhere to compare?
To put it bluntly, he isn't fully appreciated as a genius because he's still around. And I'm grateful that he's still making music. But Lennon is more often considered the musical genius - now anyways - is because he was taken away from us for no reason and the only thing we have is the music he left us. At least that's the way I see it. The worst part is that it's as if The Beatles is all he did and "Band on the Run" and songs of that sort just came out in some mysterious forgotten period of his career. Rarely is Paul ever the "ex-Wing". He's always the "ex-Beatle".
I got a book from the library called "Dangerous Laughter". It's a collection of 13 short stories by Steven Millhauser. It's really, really good. There's a story about people who begin putting domes over their houses. Then people put domes over entire blocks, then entire towns, and finally, by the end of the story, they are planning to buy a globe around the entire planet. There's another story about a huge tower built up to Heaven. So tall that it takes a lifetime to climb. There's another about a group of teens who laugh for hours, and it begins to become very dangerous, hence the name "Dangerous Laughter". I highly recommend it. I haven't finished it and it's due back in a few days, but I have another book I have to get done before school - A Northern Light. My mom read it for me and took notes on it, but I decided that it would be easier to read it myself and take notes and use hers as a guide. I started feeling guilty about not doing it myself. I had to read The Catcher in the Rye. Terrible!!! Holden goes around, calling people morons and phonies, and gets scared that he might fall off the Earth. He wants to catch kids from falling into adulthood. Oh please. He's apparently stuck between childhood and adulthood, and is unsure about his sexuality. Come on!!! Jump off the goddamn cliff already. (Hope nobody catches you!!!) And I also had to take notes on every chapter, and then after I read the book, I had to write "double-entry journals (whatever the hell that means), explaining 5 quotes. : Just finished that today. School hasn't even started yet and the teachers are already telling me what to do. : Overall - I recommend Dangerous Laughter. I discourage you from reading Catcher (the bastard who killed John read it. Which is why I refused to read it when it was first assigned.) I'll get back to you on A Northern Light.
oobu24:
I think a hi def is up now
I want a PM from you, please!
Macca's_Tuba_Player:
gnome:
as much as I enjoyed the opening acts, I'm really only interested in having Paul's performance.
The girl that played guitar and fiddle was ok - horrendously bad guitarist, but FANTASTIC on violin! I thought Wintersleep was super boring. But Joel was incredible!!! I wouldn't mind having that performance either!
I didn't like Wintersleep at all... long guitar solos (not very good ones, either) and the occasional vocal which I didn't understand... but Joel Plaskett blew me away. He was great.
Found a clip of the PPV show on YouTube, "Flaming Pie":
This is how all Paul DVDs should be. A focus on Paul and the band, with a few glimpses of the crowd, but not too many.$20-25? That's a really good deal!
Here it goes: How can I possibly describe the greatest experience of my life in words? (Like that I guess.) It was thrilling, magnificent, awesome, beautiful, amazing, wonderful, great, energetic, and heart-pounding. It was amazing to see the bagpipe band on-stage behind Paul as he sang his most beautiful song ever, ?Mull of Kintyre.? It was the highlight of the show for me. Not only that, but he played ?Calico Skies? too! I love Flaming Pie (he played that one too) and I knew he doesn?t play it very often. Who cares if the live version is faster than the album version, it was awesome. As you probably know, Paul turned 67 this year. However, something weird occurred when he stepped on the stage set up on the Halifax Common. 67 became just a number, and Paul gained the energy of a man much younger than him. When he was masterfully strumming his bass and ripping out his best vocals ever, he hadn?t aged a bit since the Ed Sullivan Show back in ?64. He played for 2 and a half hours. Straight. There were no breaks half-way through. A 67 year old man played for over 2 hours and required no intermission. He came back twice to the delight of the crowd two times. I was wishing for a third. I was wishing that Paul would play well into the early morning hours. (?It?s the weekend!? ?It?s my show!?) He didn?t, but when I started to head back to the shuttle, I was speechless. I didn?t say much on my walk to the shuttle stop. It?s hard even now, days after the concert, to describe the incredible feeling of seeing and hearing a living legend play before my eyes. It was? magical, almost. There?s not a self-respecting critic on the planet that wouldn?t be amazed by what Paul did on that night. You know? many people have said going to the concert was a ?once-in-a-lifetime? opportunity?. I hope not! I want to see Paul again! It was great! Would I like to see new songs on the setlist? Sure! Hell yeah! I?ve been asking for setlist changes on this board long before I attended a concert. And when I was at one, it didn?t matter all that much what songs he played. (It?s not like they?re crappy Jonas Brother or Miley Cyrus songs. Each and every song Paul performed was a classic, even after being played a million and one times at countless concerts. Besides, he played all my favorites. ?Calico Skies?, ?Mull of Kintyre?, ?Day Tripper?, ?A Day in the Life?, ?Band on the Run?, ?Hey Jude? (oh God, I loved saying ?na na na na na na? with the other people in the audience), ?Mrs. Vanderbilt?? and every other song he played. Thank you Paul, you didn?t sign my arm, but you gave me a memory I will never forget. I have photographs to remember it, and I?ll replay the concert in my mind for many years to come. Thank you again.
dsmpaul:
dsmpaul:
Still have to upload a few, but I have posted most of my videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/dsmpaul I just started uploading my photos to Photobucket. I inform the link when I am done. I hope you enjoy!
My photos: http://s649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/dsmar1/?albumview=grid
They put mine to shame! You must've been up closer than me. I like this one: http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu218/dsmar1/CIMG0023.jpg (my mom is going to order prints of my Paul photos. Maybe I should print that one of yours also. I really like it.) What camera did you use?
Am I just making this up in my head, or were there NO pictures of Heather (Mills) in the pre-show film? Plenty of Linda, no Heather.
LapisLee:
Beatlesfan94:
And by the way here are a few links to my photos: Flickr - has about 30 of my absolute favorites. These are the best ones I took, I think: http://www.flickr.com/photos/beatlesfan94/sets/72157621404464918/ Photobucket - around 70 photos. Includes the Flickr 30, along with 40 that I didn't think were good enough to be on Flickr. Still really good shots, though: http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc200/beatlesfan94/Paul%20McCartney%20Live%20in%20Halifax/ I have a lot more than that, but because I used zoom on a lot, they came out blurry. When you zoom all the way and then use the digital zoom to go in even further, it's hard to get a nice, stable shot.
Great pics! What kind of camera did you use? Thanks for sharing.
I used a Canon PowerShot A720IS. Just a little point and shoot with good zoom. I was going to bring my film SLR, but I didn't want to risk the chance of not being able to bring it in (I didn't realize then that the security would be a joke.) Not only that, but I didn't want to mess with loading film during the concert.
And by the way here are a few links to my photos: Flickr - has about 30 of my absolute favorites. These are the best ones I took, I think: http://www.flickr.com/photos/beatlesfan94/sets/72157621404464918/ Photobucket - around 70 photos. Includes the Flickr 30, along with 40 that I didn't think were good enough to be on Flickr. Still really good shots, though: http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc200/beatlesfan94/Paul%20McCartney%20Live%20in%20Halifax/ I have a lot more than that, but because I used zoom on a lot, they came out blurry. When you zoom all the way and then use the digital zoom to go in even further, it's hard to get a nice, stable shot.
dsmpaul:
Beatlesfan94:
.... I thought it was stupid that they sectioned off the people who brought in chairs. I don't believe it was mentioned they had to stay in one section on the website. It only got a small mention in the newspaper the day before or of the concert. ...
Actually it was mentioned on the Ticketatlantic website. I don't know when they put the warning there, but I saw it on Friday morning.
But it was definitely after they decided to allow chairs in. So people waiting to get in were excited to be able to bring chairs, only to find out that they had to stay in a certain section. Which is why a lot of people left their chairs and went up closer to the stage. After the concert, there were 200 chairs left over, according to a local newspaper (I have amassed a few of them from my Canadian trip now.) And people were taking chairs they weren't there. "I came with 2, I'm leaving with 2" basically. One guy even had a new chair which said "Canada" on it. I guess he got up and when he came back, his chair was gone.
marco76:
LRitaWebb:
What was the situation with cameras? Could you get them right in or were they checking for them?
only pro-cameras and camcorders were not allowed, but I've always sneaked in my camera at previos shows were not any kind of cameras were allowed
The security was an absolute joke. When someone ahead of me was getting checked, the guy said "you were really not supposed to bring that. But whatever, go in." I thought it was stupid that they sectioned off the people who brought in chairs. I don't believe it was mentioned they had to stay in one section on the website. It only got a small mention in the newspaper the day before or of the concert. And I did see someone with a pro camera. It had a huge lens on it. They did obviously have some pro photographers there (for the newspapers and such), but I didn't notice anything on them that screamed "I'm working for the newspaper!". I'm glad they only let people with beer stay in the chair section. Prevented any stupid drunks from making a mess up near the stage.
The concert was great. Paul was at the top of his game. For a 67 year old, he had all the energy of someone much younger than him. He was feeding off the infinite energy in the crowd, for sure. But it wasn't all perfect. The gates opened late. The shuttles didn't drop us off at the gate, either. When waiting for the gates to open, people were getting closer and closer to each other. Being so close and under that sun, it was terrible. Perfect when we finally got in. Also, there was some jerk who was pushing his way through the gate wait line. There was a guy standing next to me, and that jerk cut in front of him. The guy said something, and him and the jerk exchanged words, and eventually the guy said "morons". (I think there was another guy with him.) So the jerk turns around and says "I don't think so." Then he continues pushing through. Made his way past me. Turns out pushing through wasn't necessary. I found the perfect little spot. Recognized some people from the shuttle ride, and they became my landmark for finding my way back. I'll have photos and my full review later.
Here is some info on the special concert shuttles just for tomorrow's Macca concert: http://halifax.ca/ConcertOnTheCommon/ConcertsontheCommon-transit.html I'll be taking a shuttle to the concert because there is no parking as far as I can tell near the concert site. To all those who are also going to Halifax show, let's all have a good time! And to those who are going to more than one show this summer, then the lyric "all through the summer I have followed you around" from "Winter Rose" applies to you all.
Walrus68:
Beatlesfan94:
Paul Simon and John Lennon at the 1975 Grammys.
Hilarity ensues.
Still writing Paul? Where's Linda? I thought I told you to wait in car.
Paul Simon and John Lennon at the 1975 Grammys.
Hilarity ensues.