C/D Paul McCartney Solo

Enjoyed Paul McCartney's 2 hrs and 45 minute gig Friday night at the Washington Nationals Ballpark. Yes, I now see via google that the story he told about Jimi Hendrix covering Sgt. Pepper and Jimi asking Eric Clapton to tune his guitar, he told before in 2009 and maybe other times. Still liked his instrumental cover of "Foxy Lady" even if his current band are pretty generic. Still enjoyed his other stories even if he has told them before, plus his goofy dancing and arm-waving.Yes, I know his setlist for this tour never changes much.
His bass-playing, guitar-playing, piano and organ-playing all were pretty good-- and that voice of course. "Paperback Writer" and others still sounded great.

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/paul-mccartney/2013/nationals-park-washington-dc-7bd956d4.html

what'd he play organ on?

btw I'd love a list of solo electric guitar greatest hits besides the obvious choices. Unless the album credits say otherwise, I tend to credit Denny Laine or whatever other Wingman.

I just wish he'd tell more stories about, y'know, his post-Beatles songs...

Are you sure.../!

He did talk about going on vacation with his current wife and it was raining the whole time, but she was wonderful and he wrote "My Valentine" for her. He has told this one before too:

http://www.beatlesbible.com/people/paul-mccartney/songs/my-valentine/

x-post-- Hmmm, maybe that wasn't an organ but just a smaller piano. I was far away, and it was turned in such a direction that it was hard to see and the sound wasn't the best. He had a baby grand up there as well, that was bigger. Saw one review mentioning two pianos, and others did not address this. But he has played organ in the studio

I had a couple of friends at that show. One of them took his oldest son (age 9), making it his very first rock concert.

He also had a friend (stadium employee?) grab him an actual setlist off the stage:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1069998_10151812003280337_557449061_n.jpg

"Junior's Farm"!

Yep.

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Nice. Yes, a fair amount of kids there. Plus it seemed lots of folks for whom it was likely their first concert in a long while

wow he does 1985 and Mrs Vandebilt these days? pretty cool, suprising.

Yeah, was stoked to see those in there! Did he do like a "play through all of Band on the Run" set a few years back? Could imagine that kind of kicking those into the rotation. Had "Mrs Vandebilt" stuck in my head the other night while biking up one Vanderbilt Avenue.

Did he ever do a "play through all of Band on the Run" set?

Did not know these details about the recording of that album in Nigeria-- http://www.ibtimes.com/band-run-40-years-ago-paul-mccartney-saved-his-career-album-made-under-duress-nigeria-1346223

I may have just imagined that set! Seems like the kind of thing that could have happened, is all. The making-of that album is so nuts, really points up this thing of "how come Wings stories never get told," that one is out there but I know absolutely zip about the making of most of the other records.

London Town was recorded on a boat.

That's all I got.

PR emil I just got:

GOING UNDERGROUND
Paul McCartney, the Beatles, and the UK Counter-Culture
Coming to DVD on October 1st

In the mid-1960s the often rigid and colourless British way of life was irrevocably transformed by the emergence of a cultural underground movement. Led by a loose collective of young radicals, they introduced new social, sexual and aesthetic perspectives. Operating out of the heart of London, their various activities, from 'The International Times' - a bi-weekly journal that no hipster could be seen without - to the psychedelic nightclub UFO, promoted alternative lifestyles and values, and sparked a social revolution

This film not only traces the history of this underground scene, but also explores its impact on the pre-eminent British group of the era, The Beatles. Although they were well established by the time the movement emerged, Paul McCartney in particular, was closely linked with several of its key players, and through his exposure to cutting edge concepts brought ideas directly from the avant-garde into the mainstream.

Featuring many new interviews with key players from the time including; IT editor and long term friend of Paul McCartney, Barry Miles; founder of IT and UFO club organiser, John 'Hoppy' Hopkins; founder of UFO and Pink Floyd producer , Joe Boyd; Soft Machine drummer, Robert Wyatt; drummer from experimental improvisational collective AMM, Eddie Prevost; proprietor of Indica, the counter-cultural gallery, John Dunbar; Underground scenester, vocalist with The Deviants and IT journalist, Mick Farren; plus author of 'Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground 1961 - 1971', Jonathon Greene; Beatles expert, Chris Ingham and Mojo jounalist Mark Paytress.

Also includesrare archive footage, photographs from private collections and music from The Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Soft Machine, AMM and others.

Been enjoying "The Alternate London Town" for more than any other proper solo/Wings album.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/kronos-quartet-backs-paul-mccartney-on-yesterday-at-outside-lands-20130810

they streamed '45 minutes' of his set yesterday --- which turned into 20 min because they were late adding the stream. What I saw was pretty ace. Bummed that they could do the whole 3 hours when it happened :(

decided to finally go in search of a few solo/Wings albums, I resisted for a long time but I'm down for it now

yeahhhhhhhhh!

right there
that's it
YES

i started easy, with Band on The Run :D

but I will investigate some of the others on spotify and report my findings

red rose speedway

i was gonna suggest you go venus & mars -> ram -> band on the run -> mccartney I & II, and then just jump around from there based on whims and how much you tolerate the big hit from whatever record. i probably underrate band on the run though just cuz it got held up for so long as the 'one masterpiece' or whatever he had after the beatles, his plastic ono band/imagine and i don't think it's anywhere near that good, esp since during this time ram and mccartney II were usually dismissed.

i almost got Ram as well as Band on the Run, but funds did not allow it at that specific moment :/

but from the little bit of reading I was doing, I was v curious to check out Ram, McCartney 1 & II, and maybe if I can work up to it, Press To Play and Memory Almost Full but it might be a while before I 'm ready for those...gotta prime my ears for later-period macca

start with back to the egg

There was a time in the recent past when you could get Memory Almost Full for a couple bucks used or just a tad more for a remaindered new copy.

start with back to the egg, wait ten years, listen to back to the egg again, wait five years, then you can listen to band on the run

you are not the boss of me zachlyon

back to the egg, the departure point

mccartney section was half-full of copies of Kisses on the Bottom

which I don't care if all of you said it was great, no one should have to listen to an album with that title srsly wtf Macca

not that any of you did, just saying IF that was the case

this will draw mockery, perhaps deserved, but that valentine song he played on snl sounded pretty great imo, way better than i would've imagine his rod stewart/linda rondstadt with strings! move ever would've.

That is a great title, damn you MCartney (Back to the Egg is VVVV good, btw, mostly awesome even. Ram is even better. Chaos and Creation is better than I expected)

live a little, be a gypsy, get around, get around, get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around

Ram is indeed the best album - - - so it's kind of good that, as balls hints, BotR is 'only' a pretty-darn-good poppy rock album, short but hooky and fun... so then you get in through that and still get to enjoy delving in and discovering the greatness of Ram. No clue how BotR ever became THE album - maybe just that it's so impeccably produced and structured, like Tug of War very deliberately going for what will "feel" like a complete Album, down to the little reprise of the opening track at the end. I still enjoy the hell out of it but the run of RRS, BotR and Venus & Mars is really the apex of Macca as craftsman/showman with nothing to actually say. Most nights, that's enough for me and I'll take all three over most of Lennon's warbly, moldy-sounding records.

Basically VG I think you've chosen wisely. Soak up BotR and see where you feel like exploring from there. As far as Wings stuff goes, I'd say you can wait longest on Wild Life, Speed of Sound, and London Town.

As far as Wings stuff goes, I'd say you can wait longest on Wild Life, Speed of Sound, and London Town.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:51 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup, I second this. And for his non-Wings stuff, I'd say you could wait the longest on Pipes Of Peace and Off The Ground.

And christ, miss out the Give My Regards To Broad Street soundtrack album completely, I'd say. Apart from 'No More Lonely Nights', which is grade A McCartney as far as I'm concerned.

off the ground is possibly the worst album ever and the thought of it makes me barf

give my regards to broad street is great don't listen to him! it was definitely my favorite movie at age 6, which is saying something

It's an album full of inferior re-recordings of Beatles classics, and far from essential versions of stuff that's already on Tug Of War and Pipes Of Peace, though? I guess there's a couple of tracks on there that are exclusive to the soundtrack, but I couldn't say ('No More Lonely Nights' aside) that any of 'em were worth bothering with, myself.

I did a little S&D of tracks from all Wings/McCartney solo LPs in this thread here a while back.

zzzzzzz your opinion means nothing until you've watched the movie as many times as i did when i was 6

zachlyon's musical opinions are bristling with otm. back to the egg is fabulous, and red rose speedway is a masterpiece.

I don't much care for Ram. Too bloody long.

That's because it's Paul's "White Album".

We've already got one of those.

"Do you love me like you know you ought to do" vs. "you become naked"

Turrican, I remember that post! Good stuff.

I love how much love Back to the Egg gets on ILX, it's not an album I'd ever recommend as one of one's first purchases and I think I only acquired it as a teen because I was at a Best Buy, I had decided I was going to buy a McCartney CD, and it was literally all they had. Some great tracks though, and as I've said before the unreleased stuff from that period ("Boil Crisis"!) is great.

Thanks to this thread I listened to "Venus And Mars". Wow.