@njr

The five disc CD player plus reliability are probably the reasons I keep driving this 2007 Toyota Camry as the original owner.
My wife, not a strong fan is probably happier as the Macca CDs are played there. Her 2020 Honda CRV is naturally devoid of a CD player.

@njr

Your comment pulled me up short and made me realize how many copies of BOTR I have..

Vinyl copy from 1973 bought when it just came out

First-run CD copy from the early 1990s

25th anniversary edition

2010 deluxe edition

Just think if Paul and Linda hadn’t been robbed and the demo tapes taken, those would probably be in there somewhere. Bring on the underdubs!

My wife and I hope to make it back to Britain next year, including a visit to Liverpool. I was curious about the Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts that Sir Paul attended during his school days when it was an educational center for boys, including him and George Harrison. From looking at their website they don’t to be set up for tourists which is perfectly understandable as a bunch of non-students like me wandering around really doesn’t help fulfill their mission. Anyone ever visit?

@njr

Unreleased tracks? Those words always get my attention. Thank you.

@bruce-m Thanks Bruce. A fresh McCartney album will help make 2024 special.

Re: What albums do you listen to most?

In recent times, Egypt Station and McCartney III.

Timeless favorites include Band on the Run, Tug of War, Flaming Pie, Chaos. Nice how one is from each decade starting with BOTR for the 70s, Tug of War 80s, etc.

I would rate EgyptStation his best since Chaos.

Any rumors of when the next studio album will emerge?

@oobu24

This fails the “smell test” and nfortunately is rank, dishonest opportunist trying to take advantage of legitimate fans. Avoid like he plague. M

@njr said in Setlists:

@john-mackintosh Thanks for clarifying that John. I haven’t seen him since 2019, but I’m in the minority in that I loved hearing him do Fuh You (still think he should have left the title For You) and Come On To Me (the end should have been left off though)
I will never go see him again though. I prefer to remember him when he could actually sing beautifully (in 2002 I was stunned a nearly 60 year old Paul sounded so wonderful!)
Also it’s the money/cost. I just had to move my mom for the 3rd time! First was Senior Living Facility in Sept. 2022, then Assisted Living in June 2023 and when she started escaping the facility, moved her Oct. 26th to Memory Care at a different A.L. facility which is $6401/mo.! They gave me a 7% discount because my dad lived there from June 2013 until he passed in Jan. 2016 at age just shy of 90 and he was an Army Vet. Mom doesn’t have much money left so may end up on Medicaid and have to move AGAIN to Life Care Center nursing home (which is one of the places she was escaping to from the last facility - it is right next door!) I’d laugh if I wasn’t crying so much.
P.S. They made me hire a 24/7 caregiver at $25/hour starting Oct. 14th and they worked until the 25th when I was able to secure her a room. I’m paying for that and it’s costing over $5000. Luckily I recently received $5000 from the county for a sewer easement!
Sorry for going OT, but wanted everyone to know about this.

Hi Nancy. I was afraid you were dealing with that kind of situation. I lost both my parents over 20 years ago with both having what are best described as “quick exits” which is what they wanted. I think of them constantly as they ended up being friends of mine as well as parents. The situation with my daughter-in-law sounds similar to yours in that her grandmother has reached her late 90s and is in a home with evaporating financial resources to draw upon. What happens next is hard to contemplate. Life is full of obstacles that become like high walls, obstacles best dealt with by sharing the pain with others which I am grateful you did in what you describe as OT. No need to apologize.

That was a fantastic review, especially when he praised how he introduces so many songs with personal insight and makes each attendee feel he is hearing something special. Of course some criticize these little verbal asides as being repetitive, but as someone who once did a considerable amount of talking behind a microphone, you discover what an audience likes to hear and what reaches them, conveys knowledge and humor, and you keep using it and one’s confidence and effectiveness grows over time. This was very important to me, a confirmed introvert tasked with speaking in public, something I once feared greatly. Enjoy it Australia!!,,,,

@njr

This is not directed at you Nancy but if memory serves me correctly, it seems to me that some complaining the most about glacial speed changes to the set list did not see him when he put Got Back on the road here in US in the spring of 2022. There could be many legitimate reasons for not seeing him—-health, time, distance to show, monetary considerations. That said, making a case for set list changes is greatly undermined by not actually attending a show.

I missed 2019 due to looking at death in the hospital. I started off the countdown to seeing him last year hoping for things like Lavatory Lille, Dominoes, etc but ended up deciding I was thankful to be alive and healthy enough to make a show. Plus, at 81 Paul certainly doesn’t have to be there but is.

So Australia, enjoy whatever he plays. Surely the author of so many great songs has earned the right to sing Fuh You in my face even if I don’t like that song. He likes stepping out of the box of our expectations (witness Pepper, McCartney II, Fireman, etc.) and that undesirable song is simply another way of doing that.