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NFT: Saw Paul McCartney for the first time last night

bigblue5611_2 : 9/24/2017 10:11 am

At the Carrier Dome. Wow. I can not believe he still has the energy and drive to put on shows like that at 75 years old. Thirty-nine songs in total over 2 1/2 hours, a jam session or two and some pretty cool stories about the Beatles, Hendrix and others as well as some cool pyro during Live and Let Die. Set list:

A Hard Day's Night (The Beatles song)
Junior's Farm (Wings song)
Can't Buy Me Love (The Beatles song)
Jet (Wings song)
All My Loving (The Beatles song)
Let Me Roll It (Wings song) (followed by 'Foxy Lady' jam by Jimi Hendrix)
I've Got a Feeling (The Beatles song)
My Valentine
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five (Wings song)
Maybe I'm Amazed
We Can Work It Out (The Beatles song)
In Spite of All the Danger (The Quarrymen song)
You Won't See Me (The Beatles song)
Love Me Do (The Beatles song)
And I Love Her (The Beatles song)
Blackbird (The Beatles song)
Here Today
Queenie Eye
New
Lady Madonna (The Beatles song)
FourFiveSeconds (Rihanna and Kanye West and Paul McCartney cover)
Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles song)
I Wanna Be Your Man (The Beatles song)
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (The Beatles song)
Something (The Beatles song)
A Day in the Life (The Beatles song) (with Give Peace a Chance snippet)
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (The Beatles song)
Band on the Run (Wings song)
Back in the U.S.S.R. (The Beatles song)
Let It Be (The Beatles song)
Live and Let Die (Wings song)
Hey Jude (The Beatles song)

Encore:
Yesterday (The Beatles song)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (The Beatles song)
Helter Skelter (The Beatles song)
Birthday (The Beatles song)
Golden Slumbers (The Beatles song)
Carry That Weight (The Beatles song)
The End (The Beatles song)

Good stuff.

Beezer : 9/24/2017 10:15 am : link

As we all know, he is not human.

:)

that's Brucesque

gtt350 : 9/24/2017 10:21 am : link

After last night

bigblue5611_2 : 9/24/2017 10:28 am : link

I am beginning to think he isn�t human, Beezer haha

Awesome. I saw him last week at MSG

jnoble : 9/24/2017 10:46 am : link

He played his alternate set list that didn't include Jet or All My Loving. Not a dry eye in the house with Here Today which is 1000 times better and poignant with the passage of time and his older voice. I can't listen to the 1982 studio cut with the string section because it was still too soon. His introduction of that song with "if you want to tell somebody something important, do it now because you never know when it may be too late" was moving too

100% agree jnoble

bigblue5611_2 : 9/24/2017 11:10 am : link

The little story he gives with that, writing for/about John, to further that message was great. He could just go up and play those songs and do/say nothing else and people would still be ecstatic to just see that, but the fact that he still takes the time to tell some stories and get the crowd engaged is awesome. He started one story about when they were in Liverpool and made sure to quip �not this Liverpool, the other one� (referencing Liverpool, NY).

saw him at Fenway last year

markky : 9/24/2017 11:31 am : link

amazing. Then a friend of mine ran into him at a coffee shop on Long Island the same week.

Saw him twice around 2005....

Britt in VA : 9/24/2017 11:32 am : link

He's incredible and so is his band.

Vegan Power

Giantgator : 9/24/2017 11:45 am : link

I'm glad you got to go.

Ira : 9/24/2017 11:46 am : link

That was quite a program.

Thank you, Ira

bigblue5611_2 : 9/24/2017 11:56 am : link

Also agree with other comments, except Vegan haha. Sorry, not bashing vegan but I like my steaks and burgers.

I was hoping he'd revive...

jnoble : 9/24/2017 12:31 pm : link

..Venus&Mars/Rockshow for this tour but can't get everything you want lol

I'm still surprised he's still never played Tug Of War live, especially nowadays

You saw a true icon...

rmc3981 : 9/24/2017 12:46 pm : link

Have ridden horses with him and his late wife Linda here in Tucson on a number of occasions 20 years ago. He could not be more pleasant or down to earth. Hard not to be in awe around him but he seems more interested in you than the reverse. Truly a nice person who has done and seen it all. Glad that you got to see him.

I saw him 27 years ago at Joe Robbie Stadium

Larry in Pencilvania : 9/24/2017 1:00 pm : link

In Miami. I wasn't a fan, but my friends were were huge b Beatles fans so I went. My buddy worked at a record store and ran the ticket machine and got us 13th route on the field....it was an amazing show. My most vivid memory was just as they started Live and Let Die a huge downpour started and lasers started giving a cool effect.

Fantastic show

RE: I saw him 27 years ago at Joe Robbie Stadium

jnoble : 9/24/2017 1:54 pm : link

In comment 13612452 Larry in Pencilvania said:

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That 1989/90 tour was his first in 10 years. He spend the 80s just doing studio work