Pauls settliste fra Palm Desert

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Da fikk vi rett i at konserten fredag i Santa Barbara var en forkortet utgave av settet Paul McCartney har forberedt til denne delen av Got Back turneen.

Mandag inneholdt den ordinære åpningskonserten en haug flere sanger og varte i over en time lenger enn fredagens «generalprøve» på snaue to timer.

SETTLISTE

1. Help!
2. Coming Up
3. Got to Get You Into My Life
4. Letting Go
5. Drive My Car
6. Come On to Me
7. Let Me Roll It
8. Getting Better
9. Let ‘Em In
10. My Valentine
11. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
12. Maybe I’m Amazed
13. I’ve Just Seen a Face
14. In Spite of All the Danger
15. Love Me Do
16. Dance Tonight
17. Blackbird
18. Here Today
19. Now and Then
20. Lady Madonna
21. Jet
22. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
23. Something
24. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
25. Band on the Run
26. Get Back
27. Let It Be
28. Live and Let Die
29. Hey Jude
30. I’ve Got a Feeling

Ekstranumre

31. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
32. Helter Skelter
33. Golden Slumbers
34. Carry That Weight
35. The End

Overraskende nok var Maybe I’m Amazed fortsatt med, han har jo hatt litt vanskelig for å synge denne i de senere årene, stemmen er ikke hva den var. Det har ført til at en del surmagede blant fansen har ytret ønske om at Paul på grunn av den aldrende stemmen nå burde gi seg, de føler kanskje at han gir Beatles et dårlig rykte? Imidlertid blir Paul møtt med strålende anmeldelser etter konsertene han gir og omtalene fra fans som faktisk har vært på konsertene er alltid positive. So om Paul liker det han gjør og om konsertpublikum liker det, kan vi ikke skjønne hvorfor han skulle gi seg.

Her er en anmeldelse fra David Leaf fra konserten i Santa Barbara:

The last time I was at the Santa Barbara Bowl for a concert was in October 1976 to see Bruce Springsteen. (That was only a few months after I saw Paul McCartney and Wings at the L.A. Forum.)
Last night, I was one of the lucky 5,000 fans who got to see Sir Paul at this most intimate venue. The Santa Barbara Bowl is a treasure, but Mr. McCartney is beyond being a treasure…he’s the greatest songwriter of all time and always an incredible performer. He’s been my favorite since the Beatles opened their first Ed Sullivan appearance with “All My Loving.”
He could have played for six hours and not included every great song I wanted to hear. But he sure covered a lot of Beatles ground, including my all-time favorite Beatles record, “Hey Jude.”
The entire set list is in the comments. So many great songs-still thrilling was the showstopper, “Live and Let Die,” personal faves like “I’ve Just Seen A Face,” “Blackbird,” and “Let It Be,” which he prefaced with a story about his mother coming to him in a dream and telling him to “Let It Be.”
And for the first time, I saw “Now and Then” live, and with the screens filled with Beatles imagery, it carried all the emotion one would expect from the last Beatles song.
Almost forgot to mention that he opened the show with “Help,” which was really exciting. First time I ever heard that live…and put me right back in the Larchmont Theater where I saw the Beatles in color for the first time back in 1965.
For two hours, Paul and his always amazing band (Abe, Rusty, Brian and Wix just are incredible) plus a three piece horn section (especially important on “Got To Get You Into My Life”) and a spectacular visual show behind Macca and on the screens made this a once in a lifetime memory.
Thanks to an old friend, we were able to get tickets.
Unforgettable night.

Og her er anmeldelsen fra Variety.
Enkelte har også stusset over at Paul åpner ballet med en av John Lennons komposisjoner. Sist var det “A Hard Day’s Night”, nå er den byttet ut med “Help!”. Vi velger å se på dette som at Paul fører arven fra kameraten videre, det er en hyllest til John, et publikumsfrieri og sikkert tilfredsstillende for Paul selv.

Fra en uvanlig vinkel kan vi se Wix og Abe i samspill med Paul. Legg merke til hvordan Wix nærmest coacher Paul i sangens fraseringer.

Soundchecken før konserten besto av følgende:
– Instrumental Jam
– Twenty Flight Rock
– Come On To Me
– A Hard Days Night
– Women and Wives
– Let Em In
– San Francisco Bay Blues
– Mrs Vanderbilt
– Ram On
– Midnight Special
– New
– Lady Madonna