I just thought I'd share how awesome Paul McCartney is for those who don't already know. I always loved the Beatles, and Paul was my favourite growing up. I surprised my girlfriend with tickets last week for his concert in Halifax. We both really wanted to go.
Amazing!
I can't even begin to describe how good of an entertainer the guy is. Seems so genuine up on stage performing. He played for 2h45, with two encores, and brought in the traditional marching band at the Halifax Citadel (bagpipes, in kilts etc) for Mull of Kintyre. I honestly can't think of any big hit that he sang that he didn't play (mind you I know even for 2h45 there were lots he didn't).
I'll post a few pictures when I get back to Sydney.
wow
PS: Joel Plaskett rocked the commons too
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grrr..I had tickets for this but I lost my job on Monday and had to sell them BUT Springsteen will make up for it when he comes to Magnetic Hill on Sept 5th.
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Sounds great MQS! Saw Clapton and Beck at various times recently on TV. Also saw Beck live 2 yrs ago.Incredible. Fleetwood Mac comes down here quite often and Stevie Nicks...holy crap!!!!! Is it possible to look and sound that good at 60? Tina Turner was down here last year and she's what 70? Just unreal. Shine on you crazy diamonds!
Ya McCartney's great. I saw him at Billy Joel's last show at Shea Stadium, he stole the show. It was pretty cool to see him close out the stadium with Let it Be.
I always though Paul was the squarest of the Beatles (preferred John and George myself), but even so that guy is a great talent, and really good entertainer.
The Beatles play frequent late night shows in seedy clubs in Hamburg, Germany, popping stimulants — mostly Benzedrine — to stay awake.
August, 1964
Bob Dylan turns The Beatles on to marijuana. He is shocked to discover that they're pot virgins.
April 1965
John Lennon and George Harrison are slipped LSD at a dinner party thrown for them by their dentist. McCartney is elsewhere.
1966
McCartney becomes the last Beatle to try LSD
1967
McCartney is turned on to cocaine by Robert Fraser, an art dealer and a central figure in the London counterculture, who was art director for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover (the image itself was done by Peter Blake). He uses cocaine a bit during his work on Sgt. Peppers, although he apparently doesn't share it around with his mates. Cocaine is very obscure in 1967 and doesn't become second nature to rock stars ’til around 1969.
Spring, 1967
McCartney is the first Beatle and the first major figure in rock to admit that he and the other Beatles had taken LSD. While this would seem to have been obvious to anybody who had been listening to their recent recordings, the great majority of people were way more clueless than they even are now and so the admission stirs up quite a bit of controversy. Lennon is miffed that McCartney came out of the closet as an acid head first.
June, 1967
In Life magazine, McCartney describes himself as "deeply committed to the possibilities of LSD as a universal cure-all."
July 24, 1967
All four Beatles sign a petition published in The Times of London calling for decriminalization of Marijuana. Sir Francis Crick and Francis Huxley also sign the petition. The Beatles also pay for the ad.
1972
Paul and Linda McCartney are busted for smuggling hashish into Sweden. He pays a $2,000 fine.
1973
McCartney is busted for growing marijuana on his farm in Scotland. He is fined the equivalent of $240.
McCartney visits John Lennon and Harry Nilsson, who are living together in L.A. while Lennon produces Nilsson's album, " Cats." A bleary-eyed Nilsson offers McCartney some PCP. Paul asks, "Is it fun?" "No," Nilsson replied. So McCartney passes on the PCP.
1974
According to a book written by May Pang called Loving John: The Untold Story about the time she spent as John Lennon's girlfriend, John Lennon and Paul McCartney drop acid together one day in New York City in 1974 and decide to go visit David Bowie.
Bowie has just received the final mix of his latest album, Young Americans which includes two songs that John Lennon worked on. One was a reworking of The Beatles song, "Across the Universe," and the other was to become Bowie's first number one hit, "Fame," co-written with Lennon. Bowie proudly plays the new album for his two Beatles heroes and they're impressed. And so he plays it again. And again. And again. Eventually, McCartney excuses himself and bolts out the door, Lennon following quickly behind. Bowie's drug of choice in the mid-1970s might explain his obsessiveness that day: mountains of cocaine.
An interesting side note: In The Beatles version of "Across The Universe", the line "nothing's gonna change my world" comes across as a sort of cosmic meditation on the divine perfection of the eternal now. In Bowie's version, the same line becomes an expression of terrified desperation. This might be interpreted as the difference between psychedelics and coke, as well as the difference between the 60s and the 70s.
1975
Linda McCartney is busted for possession of marijuana in Los Angeles, but charges are dropped.
Sometime around 1976-77
I can't find the source so this is from memory, but at some point the McCartneys hosted a party for the original cast of Saturday Night Live. Mescaline was on the menu, according to one of the many SNL histories.
Late 70s
John Lennon, Paul McCartney and wives are sitting around Lennon and Ono's apartment one Saturday night getting stoned on weed and watching SNL, when Lorne Michaels does one of his occasional routines offering The Beatles a ridiculously small amount of cash ($3,200) to reunite. They briefly consider heading down to the show as a lark to claim half of the money, but they're too stoned to deal with it.
January 16, 1980
McCartney famously busted in Japan at the start of a planned tour with Wings with approximately half-a-pound of marijuana in his suitcase. He spends ten days in prison in Japan before being released and deported. After his release, he promises to quit but also argues that it is less harmful than Valium or alcohol. He also later comments that he just couldn't leave the pot behind because "it was such good stuff."
1984
Paul and Linda McCartney busted in Barbados for possession of marijuana. Several days later, Linda is busted again flying into Heathrow Airport in London with marijuana.
1997
McCartney, now a Knight of the British Empire, tells Musician magazine, "I support decriminalization. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them criminal is wrong."
September 22, 1999
At an after-party for a celebration/performance for McCartney's new album, Run Devil Run, held at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, McCartney is observed smoking vast quantities of weed with Woody Harrelson and Laurence Fishburne. McCartney's publicist gives a photo of the red-eyed trio to High Times magazine and encourages them to publish it. High Times published the photo under the heading, "The Three Stoners."
June 22, 2000
McCartney delivers a keynote speech in England on "Drug Awareness Day" about "heightening parental awareness to drug misuse, and to outline Government activity in this area." Rank hypocrisy? In fairness to Sir Paul, the talk repeatedly uses the term "misuse" and singles out heroin and cocaine as "the drugs that cause the greatest harm."
2004
In a prime example of the media's tendency to recycle old news as though it were fresh news, the British press goes wild with headlines like "Sir Paul Admits He Used Drugs!" The articles quote from an interview McCartney gives to "Uncut" magazine. He disclosed that he once smoked heroin, but didn't get high. He says that "Got to Get You Into My Life," off of the Revolver album was about pot and that the hit single, "Day Tripper" was about acid. He also admits the obvious, that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was about LSD, something the song's main author, John Lennon, always denied. While he tells the magazine that he's grown out of using drugs, he also tells them he "was flattered when he was recently invited by a group of Los Angeles teenagers to share their marijuana." McCartney was quoted as saying, "To me, it's a huge compliment that a bunch of kids think I might be up to smoke a bit of dope with them."
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I recall a story by Dana Carvey about when he had the opportunity to hang with Sir Paul. He said that he was hanging out and Paul offered him some pot, and, even though he hadn't used it in years, he wasn't about to turn down getting high with Paul McCartney.
Even though I've never done anything stronger than NyQuil (unless you count gin), I'd probably not turn him down either...
01. Drive My Car
02. Jet
03. Only Mama Knows
04. Flaming Pie
05. Got To Get You Into My Life
06. Highway
07. The Long And Winding Road
08. My Love (for all the lovers)
09. Blackbird
10. Here Today
11. Dance Tonight
12. Calico Skies
13. Mrs Vanderbilt
14. Eleanor Rigby
15. Sing The Changes
16. Band On The Run
17. Back In The USSR
18. Something
19. I've Got A Feeling
20. Paperback Writer (after a false start song is in "G" and Paul started in "A'
He apologized that it was his fault, but it was ok, it was his show. Rusty added, it's your song...)
21. A Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance
22. Let It Be
23. Live And Let Die
24. Hey Jude
- First Encore -
25. Day Tripper
26. Lady Madonna
27. Mull Of Kintyre
28. I Saw Her Standing There
- Second Encore -
29. Yesterday
30. Helter Skelter
31. Get Back
32. Sgt. Pepper Reprise/The End
Pictures to follow when they're done uploading . . .
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video from my camera, I'm going to compile of medley of videos I took from the concert. This and Hey Jude were the only two I got in their entirety (minus the very very start of this song). Problem with Hey Jude is that EVERYONE was singing along (which is good) but you can hear my tone def, off key voice, through all of the video . . . no one wants to hear that - not even me! haha
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Fallon replaced Letterman didn't he? I tend to mix up the two replacements
Conan replaced Letterman on NBC in 1993 and Fallon replaced Conan this year. Letterman has been on CBS since 1993.
This will apparently be the first time McCartney has performed at the Ed Sullivan Theater since the Beatles last appearance on the Sullivan show in 1965.
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about the time she spent as John Lennon's girlfriend, John Lennon and Paul McCartney drop acid together one day in New York City in 1974 and decide to go visit David Bowie. 
which includes two songs that John Lennon worked on. One was a reworking of The Beatles song, "Across the Universe," and the other was to become Bowie's first number one hit, "Fame," co-written with Lennon. Bowie proudly plays the new album for his two Beatles heroes and they're impressed. And so he plays it again. And again. And again. Eventually, McCartney excuses himself and bolts out the door, Lennon following quickly behind. Bowie's drug of choice in the mid-1970s might explain his obsessiveness that day: mountains of cocaine. 
, held at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, McCartney is observed smoking vast quantities of weed with Woody Harrelson and Laurence Fishburne. McCartney's publicist gives a photo of the red-eyed trio to High Times magazine and encourages them to publish it. High Times published the photo under the heading, "The Three Stoners."
album was about pot and that the hit single, "Day Tripper" was about acid. He also admits the obvious, that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was about LSD, something the song's main author, John Lennon, always denied. While he tells the magazine that he's grown out of using drugs, he also tells them he "was flattered when he was recently invited by a group of Los Angeles teenagers to share their marijuana." McCartney was quoted as saying, "To me, it's a huge compliment that a bunch of kids think I might be up to smoke a bit of dope with them."
