Comments on: Beatles Rarity Of The Week – The Hippy Hippy Shake Live in Liverpool

By: Happy Nat

Happy Nat — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:43:37 +0000

No specific reason. He just had a sort of mischievous smile on his face and explained they just felt like playing that. Other than the addition of Tequila the set list matched the Denver show from last week. Some of the other recent shows (e.g. Lake City, Kansas City) had a slightly different setlist. I think the Nashville setlist had the most songs.

By: lennonista

lennonista — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:52:49 +0000

OMG! Talk about the ultimate tattoo!! What an amazing story that woman will tell for the rest of her life.

Sounds like another great show. Tequila?! Did Paul say anything about why they played that song?

By: Happy Nat

Happy Nat — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:34:28 +0000

Thanks Cara. There was no performance of Junior's Farm or Sally G for Nashville, yet I did enjoy the setlist. I will not list it here because I know there are plenty of people out there who are still going to an upcoming show and are like me and don't like to know ahead of time. Besides if someone does want to know, it's usually just a Google search away, for his shows are always widely covered. I will say it was a Wings-heavy list of songs which, for me, was a good thing) and that there were a lot of tunes included that weren't on any previous tours. There was an interesting cover performed of the 1958 mostly instrumental hit by The Champs called Tequila. I was one of the lucky few who heard the soundcheck and that included It's So Easy (the Buddy Holly song), Yesterday, San Francisco Bay Blues, Dance Tonight, Ram On (with ukelele), and an instrumental that sounded like a new keyboard arrangement of the instrumental part of Summer's Day Song from McCartney II and Lady Madonna. During the encore, Paul called a young Hispanic boy from the audience to come up on stage with him and dance and give a little bit of vocal help on Get Back and then told him to "get back" to his dad. Also Paul read an audience sign where a woman claimed to have Paul's Hofner bass tattooed on her back and that she needed him to sign her back so she could turn that into a tattoo also. During the encore he called her to the stage, and trembling, she told him it had to be signed below the tattoo and Paul told her that in that case she better turn around and not face the audience because he didn't want to her to get him in any trouble. He then pulled the back part of her dress down and signed her back under the bass tattoo and the video screens were zoomed into the tattoo and Paul's fresh new signature. I was able a week or so before the show to upgrade my ticket to Section 3 and viewed the stage from the 10th row which was great. The showtime was 7:30pm and by 7:45 there played about 30 minutes of alternate mixes of Beatles/McCartney/Fireman music while the video screens showed a giant vertically moving collage of memorabilia and Beatle/Wings photos. Paul hit the stage at 8:15 and including the two encores, played for an incredible 3 hours.

By: lennonista

lennonista — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:11:14 +0000

^ Well, there’s a few high-pitched squeals at the end that are spot on!

Have a great time tonight, Mark! Saw Macca at Hollywood Bowl a few months ago and he changed the set list from one show to the next (I got to hear And I Love Her and my friend who went the night before didn’t…), so here’s hoping he’ll do Junior’s Farm for ya!

By: dermahrk

dermahrk — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:09:59 +0000

Energy is great, but the vocals are SO ragged. Maybe he needs to lower the key, or maybe the fact that he opened with it meant he hadn’t warmed up the pipes yet.