November 9, 2005
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The Daily News
and now the time has come,
and so my love i must go
one day you'll look
to see i've gone
but tomorrow may rain so
i'll follow the sun.
1 Hey, I mean, the guy's a Beatle. What can you say...
2 What a show! VERY kickback. But Paul played, and played, and played his heart out for San Jose last night. The show was close to two hours and forty-five minutes, and almost all of it was vintage Beatles.
3 Paul opened with a slide show, and the opening number was Magical Mystery Tour.
4 The magic happened.
5 Miracles.
6 Yeesh.
7 Paul was pretty mellow, overall. T-shirt, the aw-shucks stuff. I loved it. About two songs in, he just said, "I'm going to just drink this all in for a minute." And he just leaned against an amp and smiled, squinted into the lights, looked out at the audience, and just kicked back. I loved it.
8 A minute later, he launched into a tune called I'll Get You, which was the original flip-side to She Loves You, one of the Beatles' biggest early hits. It seemed to me that almost nobody but me knew the tune. I harmonized with Paul. It worked. The funny thing is, I've NEVER seen him do She Loves You. For those of you too young to remember, that's the yeah, yeah, yeah song that made the Beatles famous! And Paul comes in with I'll Get You instead of She Loves You. I gotta love it. SO stupidly wonderful!! To wit:
I think about you night and day
it's easy, 'cuz it's true;
when I thnk about you I can say
I'm never, never blue
So I'm telling
you my friend
that I'll get you, I'll get you in the end
yes I will, I'll get you in the end
oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!
haha!!! SO corny!!!
9 His new stuff was great, although I can't remember the name of any of the songs.
10 But he covered some wonderful songs, because let's face it: all Beatle songs are wonderful!!! So all that being said, I always enjoy when I hear him play a song he normally doesn't do. This was my third time seeing him, and not too many surprises.
11 But at one point, his band left the stage, leaving just Paul and an acoustic guitar. Usually that means either Blackbird, or Yesterday. Instead, he rocked us into a lovely old tune called I Will, which I used to play for Caitlin and Nicole when they were little. I'd play it as a lullabye at bedtime, and it was lovely, and always lulled them to sleep.
11 But he did Too Many People from his Ram album, a rarity if ever there was one.
12 All the rest just rocked. Eleanor Rigby, was particularly impressive. That song was inspired by Hitchcock's Psycho, by the way. But what a lovely tune. He did a long set acoustically, and I loved it.
13 He and his band also played some rather vintage guitars. Of course, he had his classic left-handed Hofner bass, which he played on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1963, a Gibson Les Paul, which made some wonderfully Lennonesque dirty sounds, a classic Hollow-body red Gretch, which George Harrison used to play, and which my good friend Geoff USED to have. Hey, GOOF, do you still have it man? I think you told me you got rid of all your guitars, didn't you?
14 Ah, who knows.
15 One of his guitarists had the guitarLennon used on the classic rooftop Let it Be session in London. I can't recall what type of guitar it was...anyway, they had this look going on...
Paul with his classic Hofner.
16 There's just sooo much more, but probably one of the best songs was the classic Please, Please Me. Just an amazing song. Simple.
17 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, and the final jam on Abbey Road played incredibly, with a three-guitar jam going on for around three straight minutes, followed by the beautiful The End, and the night, indeed, ended.
18 I would love to have heard Her Majesty.
19 Overall, the concert rocked sweetly, not really rowdy, but very kicked back and fun. Paul saluted everyone in the audience, no matter where they sat, and you had the feeling after a while that you were just in a pub, and that you could buy him a beer.
20 So Paul, thank you for a great show. Let it Be rocked my soul at the end. My soul needed rocking. My soul needed rock.
21 Paul McCartney delivered. He left us with this word: paraventure.
it means "perchance, perhaps..."
I'm not quite sure WHY Paul McCartney gave us a vocabulary lesson explaining a word he used in a song, but Sheryll Marmito sent me that word the other night. She saw the concert too.
22 And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
23 Paraventure.
24 Peace.
...her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
some day I'm gonna make her mine, oh yeah
some day I'm gonna make her mine.
~h~
~H~
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