Any local FM radio stations starting to play more Macca, etc. and pump the show? Which is the best one to listen to for this sort of thing? I always like to tune in on the local buzz as sometime they will do a precconcert interview with Macca, if they are lucky.
Posts made by John Mackintosh
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
Man, I will be GLAD when Wednesday finally gets here! This is like being a kid again at Christmas, this weekend has just dragged by, with the heat making it all the worst. I am sure it will be "Tuesday afternoon is never ending...."
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
As the Fabs sang...."It won't Be Long Yeah!"
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
Time Warner Arena website has 600 as the door opening time. I can't imagine he will come on before 800 but I will definitely want to be in my seat by 730. Charlotte Observer has an article today about someone going to the Denver show and they were selling event-specific t-shirts with Raleigh on them rather than Charlotte! Quoted a local fan as being upset over it and apparently the shirts were made by mistake and Macca's sellers are trying to sell them elsewhere. It said Charlotte will have Charlotte t-shirts for sale. Actually, I wouldn't mind having one of the Raleigh ones, just because it is an oddity, sort of like a coin or stamp with a double-image on it is a collectible.
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
Time Warner Arena website says doors open at six, so imagine the show kicks off at 800
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
Any of you frontrowers planning on making a sign saying PLEASE PLAY RAM ON!!! and waving that around? I was watching on youtube where he did the song in Salt Lake and it sounds like he says something like "wasn't going to play but saw this sign asking for it." Signs seems to help. Wish I was down close but I am in the lower level, about halfway back but not close enough for signs to do much good unless I make a monster one.
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
That's a great sign idea--"Take us Down to Junior's Farm"..how can he resist that??? I know when he played in Atlanta in 2002, a few years after Run Devil Run came out, I was convinced he would play the title track there because he had discovered those Run Devil Run pills in an Atlanta drugstore and then the song grew from that. Of course, he didn't but I would say your chances of hearing "Junior's Farm" ought to be about as high as the temperature has been lately .
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
Y es, indeed, it will be good to have the boy back in the Queen City--hot summer night just like before but indoors this time. I am wondering if he unveils Junior's Farm and/or Sally G for Nashville two nights before as a special treat that he just might keep it in for the rest of the tour. Isn't that what he did last summer with "I'm Down," played it in New York and then it became part of the set list? Of course, I think New York came just after Halifax, last summer's opening city, so it was somewhat different.
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
The Carolina Panthers fans are often criticized for being lame, more interested in chatting amongst themselves than watching the game. This may be where this lame tag is coming from. I have been to a few of their games over the years and these people are reading them wrong--give them something to cheer (as i n winning) and they perk right up. This was true a few years back at the last game I went to in the freezing cold. With Paul, all attendees are winners so everybody will have much to cheer about it. This crowd will be up, believe me.
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RE: Unplugged 2
Definitely Bluebird and I like your other selections. Toss in I've Just Seen a Face and also, On the Wings of a Nightingale that he gave away to the Everly Brothers in the early 1980s.
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
What I would like are some "shockers," songs of his that are so overlooked that no would consider that he would play them. My picks... Come and Get It--He wrote it for Badfinger, you can hear it on Anthology III. It would be a nice reminder to people of the many songs he has given away. Rockestra Theme--Put this in the encore for us hardcore fans. My Brave Face and Off the Ground--Representative songs from the World and New World Tours. Big Barn Red--early rocking Wings!
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
We are up aways in Section 115. Your seats there are sort of like what I have for Toronto, that end area opposite the stage on the lower level. I have never been to Time Warner Arena to know how much of an incline there is that helps provide clearance for those seated, trying to see over someone that might be standing. Seems I have heard that this is a well-designed arena though.
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
Glad she can make it, that will do her good...where are your seats?
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
Neat how this thing spans generat ions now, isn't it? My son was three years old when we caught the 1989/90 tour and of course he stayed home. He finally got to see him in Atlanta in 2005, with his girlfriend along. When I saw Paul last summer at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, the audience was definitely on the younger side, made me feel like an elderly person even though I am in my 50s and not quite there yet.
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
I taped it as well but the tape quality now is just about shot, it hasn't held up very well over 17 years. It's aggravating that the commercial breaks cut out Every Night, Off the Ground, and rob us of the Hey Jude ending. The traffic at the concert was horrible since, if you weren't sitting in the reserved seat area, you had to get there really early to claim a good space on the ground. I had forgotten about this so had a long wait to get in and then up to our reserved seats. It will be great having the Great One back in the Queen City.
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
I have lived in the Charlotte area since I was born way back in the 1050s and 1993 was his first and only time in the Queen City. Due to TV, the concert had a shorter set list and lasted two hours (actually it ran over but Fox cut away from the last part of Hey Jude) so we were sort of short-changed on the set list. I was on the 15th row and it was burning HOT, won't have that problem this time around, provided the A/C at Time-Warner doesn't break.
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RE: letting go ....pauls bass
Rain, definitely great basss. Glad also that you mentioned Arrow Throw Me, the way the bass works in at the start of the song. Another one--the instrumental Momma Miss America off McCartney, on side 2 for us oldtimers. Great bass, especially near the end of the song.
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RE: Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Arena - 7/28/10 - ARCHIVE
I was just getting on here to post that but you beat me to it. Note that he played Ram On live at both concerts this weekend.
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RE: Paul, Hampden Park, Glasgow, 20th June - ARCHIVE
Great reviews! Keep them coming. As for his voice maybe I was amazed he could still do Maybe I'm Amazed as late as the 2002 tour. The most difficulty song I have heard him sing was Jenny Wren in Atlanta in 2005, it was painful to listen to but other than that, everyting in 05 and 09 that I heard came off very well. Looking forward to Charlotte and Toronto.
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RE: Paul, Hampden Park, Glasgow, 20th June - ARCHIVE
stuartjb:
A wonderful gig.The fourth time I have seen him,and probably the best I have seen him.A fanatastic varied set. If anyone tries to tell you that Paul can't sing very well any more,feel free to tell them on my behalf that they are talking utter rubbish.His singing for the ENTIRE gig was excellent tonight - better than Glasgow SECC 20 years ago. The scaremongers who talked about thousands of empty seats were also talking through a hole in their you know where.Apart from a couple of tiny patches of empty seats the gig was more or less full. I was so happy to at last take my wife, my 72 year old dad and 68 year old mum and my three young boys to see Paul live in Glasgow.They all enjoyed it so much. Paul actually genuinley seemed taken aback at the reception he was getting.He used much of the usual speil - but thats cool.Many people would have been seeing this for the first time.It's just that when,he kept on thanking the crowd,there was something simple and heartfelt about it - as if he really sensed how glad we were that he came back.I haven't noticed that at any other of his gigs I've been to. ...and the fireworks - WOW On behalf of my family,thank you SO much Paul Mccartney.
Thanks for your great report, for taking the time to put this up after a long but great day. Glad to hear he pulled a big crowd and the Glasgow Herald had it wrong.