@b-j-conlee said in Top 5 Reasons Paul Frustrates/Annoys You:
@yankeefan2
Yes, I hear your frustration with Paul as much as you do. To me it starts with your #1 of the Top 5 Reasons.
I still remember his Tours/ Setlist after his last 2 Albums...McCartney3 and Egypt Station. In my opinion, both Albums were generally very good. With great anticipation we were guessing which great songs were going to be played. With Both tours I was equally disappointed with the results.
On the tour after McCartney 3, I was the most annoyed. As everyone here remembers, we got only 1 song from McCartney 3. Where was "Slidin"? Where was "Find My Way" and "Seize the Day"? Where was "When Winter Comes" and "Kiss of Venus"? We got none of them and yet Paul trots out the same Beatle songs he's been doing for years. I was so anxious to hear how Paul and his "Full Band" were going to interpret these great "new" songs. And yet we only got "Women and Wives" at only some of the Shows. What a wasted opportunity for big time fans like you and me.
During the tour after Egypt Station it was equally frustrating. Instead of getting great songs like "I Don't Know", "Happy With You", "Dominoes ", and "Who Cares", he trots out "meaningless" songs like "Fuh You" and " Come On To Me". How frustrating!
I remember the 2002 Tour after "Driving Rain" was Released. At that time I thought Paul was the Best "Live" Show on the Planet. After the 2005 and 2009 Tours, it has gone downhill from there. In all honesty, his Tours have become an " Oldies Concert" with Macca just concentrating on his Beatle songs. Instead of Paul being a "Cutting Edge and Unpredictable" artist, his shows are a model for "predictable" hits. I no longer go to his shows for the reasons I hav given above.
I think the reason he didn’t do all the obvious ones from McCartney III is that he intended Got Back to be a short tour, just American and English dates, and thenGot Back was gone. He didn’t want himself or the band to go to a lot of work when it never extended to Europe, Latin America, Japan, etc. I was disappointed as I especially thought Find My Way and Lavatory Lille would have been perfect live. He had dropped Women and Wives by the time I saw him in Knoxville.
He won’t say what he poster of him at the end of a road going into the ocean sad—his touring days are done. Maybe an occasional life appearance or two but, sadly, he is winding down.