Paul McCartney plays the Ed Sullivan theater,NOW W/PICS & VIDEO FROM CITI FIELD!

[HaroldBlvd]

I'm going to see him tonight. I'm really looking forward to it.

http://www.tv.com/video/fzpWCxqAuDZwGgob5UHl_kGg4SWa6qCm/Live+On+Letterman+-+Paul+McCartney+Webcast+-+07-15-09?o=cbs

[HaroldBlvd]

The Beatles...

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[HaroldBlvd]

Lennon and McCartney on the Tonight Show.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x26lwcPJ04[/youtube]

[nec13]

I watched him Wednesday night on Letterman. It was awesome. I didn't realize how funny he was and the rooftop performance was great. Up until a year ago, I made the huge mistake of dismissing Macca's solo work as fluff. I was wrong, he had the best post-Beatle output. And it's not even close.

[dave from knoxville]

I watched him Wednesday night on Letterman. It was awesome. I didn't realize how funny he was and the rooftop performance was great. Up until a year ago, I made the huge mistake of dismissing Macca's solo work as fluff. I was wrong, he had the best post-Beatle output. And it's not even close.

Harrison's better.

[nec13]

I watched him Wednesday night on Letterman. It was awesome. I didn't realize how funny he was and the rooftop performance was great. Up until a year ago, I made the huge mistake of dismissing Macca's solo work as fluff. I was wrong, he had the best post-Beatle output. And it's not even close.

Harrison's better.

I like Harrison too. All Things Must Pass, Living In The Material World, Dark Horse, etc. are all very good to excellent albums.

Hmm. Maybe it is closer than I thought.

I will say that McCartney and Harrison>Lennon

[Tom Scharpling]

I don't know about that, Dave. If you look at the body of solo work, McCartney kinda crushes Harrison. And I say that as someone who considers ALL THINGS MUST PASS to be the rarest of all things - the overstuffed two/three-disc set that is pretty much perfect. But McCartney is responsible for some truly amazing solo albums. George kinda ran out of gas after ALL THINGS in a lot of ways - LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD has decent stuff on it, and DARK HORSE is brilliant, but after that Harrison was in a perennial cooldown.

I like George Harrison as a person like no other; he's a true inspiration to me in so many ways. But at a point he lost the desire to make music. Paul kinda never lost that - even when he's been crummy (which is often) he kept plugging, and plenty of good stuff happened over the years. Maybe it's because I have been showing up to WFMU nearly every week for almost ten years now that I relate to the guy who is building something brick by brick, week by week. That's probably why despite my problems with his actions Neil Young gets my eternal respect for his unwillingness to take his eyes off the prize, even this far in.

Tom.

[JonFromMaplewood]

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You're all crazy.

[nec13]

One of the things I appreciate the most about Paul McCartney is that he makes the music that he wants to. And while there have been some clunkers along the way, most of McCartney's solo work has ranged from pretty good to outstanding. For every "Silly Love Songs," you get a song like "Too Many People" or "Tug of War." The good far outweighs the bad. It's the same with Neil Young. He does what he wants. Not unlike McCartney, Neil's released some subpar material over the years. But that can be forgiven because he's released so much quality material throughout his career and also because he's willing to take risks. Neil could have had a successful career by just making one iteration of Harvest after another. Instead, he made challenging albums like Tonight's The Night and Trans.

With regards to George Harrison-I don't think he necessarily lost interest in making music, I think that other things in his life became more important to him, mainly his religion (and his love of cars). He'll always have my abiding respect, though.

Ultimately, both of them are/were great and people will be enjoying their songs for generations to come.

[HaroldBlvd]

Paul McCartney Live At Citi Field July 17, 2009

Paul McCartney played his first show at Citi Field in Queens NY tonight.
The show was amazing and we are damned lucky that Sir Paul decided to grace us once again with a tour.
He started the show with  Dirve My Car and followed that with Blackbird from the White Album. He dedicated My Love to Linda.
Although the first part of the concert was sprinkled with some new stuff that I didn't know, The Macca delivered the goods big time.
From Beatles classics like Paper Back Writer and Day Tripper to Wings goodies like Band on the Run and Live and Let Die complete with a fireworks show. In between he did Back In The USSR, Get Back, Helter Skelter, A Day In the Life, Let Me Roll It, and many many more.
Paul is a first class showman and he looked like he was having a real good time.
At one point he was talking about what it was like playing at Shea Stadium in 1965.
He said they played through the ballpark's sound system and they couldn't hear a thing except for girls screaming. At that point the girls all started screaming.
Touching moments came when he dedicated his rendition of Something to George Harrison, which he played on George's ukulele. He commented that George played a mean ukulele.
Paul paid tribute to John Lennon with a rendition of Give Peace a chance.

Billy Joel came out during the encore and did I Saw Her Standing There with Paul.

Paul looked and sounded in great form. What a great show!


Here are some shots from the show...






































This is when he played Dance Tonight from Memory Almost Full. This song came out in 2007 and it is as fine a McCartney song as any.















The view when my new Nikon L100 was zoomed all the way out. I bought this camera with 15X zoom with this concert in mind. I am very pleased with the results considering how far from the stage I was.


Here's an example of the camera's video capabilities. The zoom in video mode isn't all that great but not bad considering. Watch it while you can before they make me take it down.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTA9dXfj-GQ[/youtube]

[dave from knoxville]

Many Harrison songs inspire me in a way that McCartney songs never have. That's not a rip on Paul, I love him too, and have everything he released in the 70s and 80s, and a good bit of the stuff since then. But Harrison starts about a mile ahead of McCartney if only for "Beware of Darkness", a song that, despite my having heard it probably 500 times, still gives me "that feeling" when I hear it. And then there's Dark Horse (the song), All Things Must Pass (the song), Bangla Desh, this stuff just gets me every time I hear it. Geez, Wah Wah and What is Life!

It's possible that this stuff affects me so strongly because I was learning to play the guitar as I was learning it, and George used the most amazing chord structures, things that most people would never be able to match a listenable melody to, lots of switching from major to minor chords, and then his lyrics had a sort of mystery to them that, for me, Paul just couldn't match. I do understand the argument in favor of persistence, and I have loved a lot of McCartney's last 20 years (I even think Run Devil Run is really overlooked,) but Harrison wins out in the end for me. But hey, I like Yes, so what do I know?

I would rank them Harrison/McCartney/Ringo (for 35 years of lovable amiability and fun before he went out of his way to look like a dick; he could have hired a personal assistant to just send stuff back unsigned without doing it with a faux press conference/Lennon (who just comes off in retrospective to me as pedantic and narcissistic)

Want me to rank the members of Yes? Number 1: CHRIS SQUIRE

[nec13]

Great pics, HaroldBlvd.

[Christina]

I would rank them Harrison/McCartney/Ringo (for 35 years of lovable amiability and fun before he went out of his way to look like a dick; he could have hired a personal assistant to just send stuff back unsigned without doing it with a faux press conference/Lennon (who just comes off in retrospective to me as pedantic and narcissistic)

I'm more or less with you Dave on the ranking, though Harrison and McCartney switch places at #1 & #2 depending on what day of the week you ask me.

[Tom Scharpling]

I saw Paul McCartney tonight and it was just the greatest. We had awesome seats - sitting one row from Bruce Beck! - and the weather was just perfect, and this show met and exceeded every expectation and hope I had for it. The guy is a living legend and he doesn't need to push this hard, but he did and it was awesome.

Tom.

[HaroldBlvd]

It was breathtaking. Just to be in the same place as McCartney was a thrill in itself. But then I realized that I was watching one of the best songwriters ever, it was almost unreal. Long live the Macca.