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!!,,,,
Posts made by John Mackintosh
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RE: Setlists
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RE: Setlists
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.
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RE: Touring Band Pay
The book is The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1 1969-1973 by Alan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair. 720 pages and incredibly detailed. Great price on Amazon now, about $18.00 US.
Amazing to think that Wix has been with him since the 1989-90 World Tour.
Given how good all these guys work, I hope when the time comes for Paul to leave the road, they can all retire as millionaires.
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RE: Touring Band Pay
Given the constant line up changes of Wings in the 1970s, I think we can safely assume his current band is well paid, especially since all the money fights over Apple are now over. That big book on Paul in the early 1970s mentioned difficulties in paying all the early Wings members. Can’t recall authors but it covers 1969-1973 to an incredibly in-depth degree. Shocked when my local library had it. Will find title.
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RE: THE NEXT DELUXE/REMASTERED ALBUM FROM PAUL
Well, I am afraid we might as well say it. What began in 2010 with the Band on the Run Archives edition apparently ended ten years later with Flaming Pie. That came out three and a half years ago in the depth f the pandemic. The forthcoming Christmas season would be a perfect time for the next edition, perhaps London Town. There were two released versions of videos of Mull of Kintyre and a third, rarely seen version exists according to an article by Mark Lewisohn in the now-defunct Club Sandwich. All three would have been perfect on the DVD for the album. Here it is almost November and nothing has been announced.
Someone on here said that the Got Back tour booklet had something on releasing that and Back to theEgg.
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RE: Memories of past tours
@yankeefan2 said in Melbourne, Australia - Sat 21 Oct 2023 CONFIRMED:
That’s it! How could I forget that he pointed?
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RE: Memories of past tours
@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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RE: Memories of past tours
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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Memories of past tours
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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RE: Adelaide, Australia - Wed 18 Oct 2023 Confirmed
It is amusing to wonder how many of us hard-core fans attended any of his concerts and thought to themselves “I can’t to wait to hear Fuh You done live tonight!” If any, I wasn’t”t one of them.
Funny how when McCartney II came out in 1980 I took a strong dislike to “Temporary Secretary” caused by the repetitive sequencer but ever since hearing it live in 2015 I really have liked it. Last year, I wondered if taking in “Fuh You” live in Knoxville would have the same positive impact. It didn’t.
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RE: Adelaide, Australia - Wed 18 Oct 2023 Confirmed
Sorry for the broken sentence above, I was saying he is putting smiles on faces in Australia at a time when there is a dearth of good news. TV interrupted my train of thought.
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RE: Adelaide, Australia - Wed 18 Oct 2023 Confirmed
@yankeefan2 Good ideas but like you said that ship sailed a long time ago. I am afraid the Captain won’t make any drastic changes so I just try to be content that is he still alive, can do things like Egypt Station and Macca III and still wants to go out to perform. He is putting smiles on thousands of faces in Australia at a time. Yes, I was disappointed that “Find My Way” didn’t find its way on stage but I honestly think he wanted to keep everything the same as it is easier on his band who, after all, had no appearance on III with the exception of Slidin’. No new songs to learn keeps it simpler. He has kept them happy for over 20 years and perhaps little things like this help.
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RE: Adelaide, Australia - Wed 18 Oct 2023 Confirmed
I remember reading in an interview with him a few years back that he was talking to Mick Jagger about performing live and both agreed that their respective audiences loved hearing the older numbers compared to the new material. Of course, for us hard core fans we know all his material and I must say my personal preference would be a strong set list of newer material, the more obscure the better. On the other hand, someone like my wife knows all his old standard Beatles/Wings/solo hits and would thus jump for joy at something very familiar like “Live and Let Die.” He pitches his shows to people like her and I understand why.
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RE: New Ringo EP with Paul collaborating
Just listening to Ringo singing Paul’s “Feeling the Sunlight” as the rain clouds clear out and the sun comes out in my little portion of the world. This is really a strong Paul song done at Hog Hill Mill with him doing all instruments (except drums and percussion by Ringo) and backing vocals. Reads like the line up of a track off the White album doesn’t it? Great song!
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RE: Adelaide, Australia - Wed 18 Oct 2023 Confirmed
@yankeefan2 Yes, these reviews are fulsome and lack placing the set list in the context of his long career but I would rather read words such as these than encounter the “cut and slash” tripe that we were subjected to in the 1980s which, thankfully, began to be reversed with the 1989-1990 tour. I saw him in Knoxville last May and his voice isn’t what it used to be but I would rather have seen him than others that were out there at the time.
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RE: New Ringo EP with Paul collaborating
I preordered it as well about the time Ringo played Atlanta and Amazon gave me a ludicrous late November delivery date even though release is just days away. So over the weekend, I cancelled that order and reordered on Amazon, just like before, and now I have delivery date of Monday, October 16. Strange but true.
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RE: Ringo Inducted Into Musicians Hall Of Fame
I will have to look at his Facebook page. I have only seen Ringo two times prior to Atlanta. I really liked his 1992 tour when he was doing that great song “Weight of the World” as it was his current single at that time. Sadly, it has sunk into musical obscurity.
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RE: Ringo Inducted Into Musicians Hall Of Fame
Saw Ringo at his Atlanta show at theFox Theatre. His past with the Beatles was well represented—Act Naturally, I Wanna BeYou Man, Boys, What Goes On, Yellow Submarine. Especially enjoyed Octupus Garden off Abbey Road. Solo numbers included It Don’t Come Easy, Back Off Bugaloo, and he also did I’m The Greatest after introducing it with noting that Lennon wrote it for him. He saved With a Little Help From My Friends to the end and wrapping up with the chorus of Give Peace a Chance. Full house
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RE: Ringo Inducted Into Musicians Hall Of Fame
@njr Thanks, definitely want to hear that.
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RE: Ringo Inducted Into Musicians Hall Of Fame
@njr Haven’t ordered it yet, doesn’t it have a song he did with Paul? I may try to make the Wednesday night’s show as I don’t mind a mind a musical trip back to the 1970s. Bout the only way left to sort of get back there.