Amph The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (or Beatles) thread

I suppose its only fitting I should post some of the great mans music.

This is one of my favourite Harrison solo records; Thats The Way It Goes

 

Paul opened the current leg of his On The Run tour last night in Abu Dhabi. Only 21 days till I get to see him again.

21 days. Jeez. This far out and I'm already getting insanely excited.

 

Tickets arrived!

 

Lucky bastard.

 

If you can, always go and see Paul McCartney.

 

Did you guys hear? The White Album is one of the heaviest albums ever made.

....

 

It's funny that they only point to Helter Skelter on that album.

The other day I was just thinking how heavy the song Honey Pie was.

 

And who can think of proto-metal without thinking of thrasher classic "Piggies"?

 

Yo, Everton. wtf, man?

 

A wonderful, wonderful concert. Didn't get back home until 3am on Tuesday morning! No time for online until this evening.

He played for 2 hours an 40 minutes. The only breaks being the short intervals between encores.

Set list:

Hello Goodbye
Juniors Farm
All My Loving
Jet
Drive My Car
Sing The Changes
Night Before
Let Me Roll It
Paperback Writer
Long and Winding Road
Come and Get It
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
Maybe I'm Amazed
I've Just Seen A Face
I Will
Blackbird
Here Today (dedicated to John)
Dance Tonight
Mrs Vanderbilt
Eleanor Rigby
Something (dedicated to George)
Band on the Run
Ob la di, Ob la da
Back in the USSR
I Gotta Feeling
A Day in the Life / Give Peace A Chance
Let it Be
Live and Let Die
Hey Jude

Encore:
The Word / All You Need Is Love
Day Tripper
Get Back (joined on stage by Ronnie Wood)

Second Encore:
Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

I was amazed when Ronnie Wood came on to join in with Get Back. My Dad (who I went with) is a massive Stones fan. He nearly fell over with excitement!

It was a much better concert than at Cardiff last year. A lot of that was to do with the performance space. A football stadium will - with the best will in the world - always be a football stadium. The O2 is purpose built and it shows.

Here are a few videos I took, but to be honest they're bettered by pretty much all the other videos already on YouTube of the concert. Plus, my camera didn't take too kindly to the harsh lighting and bleached out a lot of the brightest parts (as you can see). So sorry about that.

The first is Something from start to finish. The second is a section of I Will. The third is a section of Get Back. All three go up to 'HD' on the player.

Something.

I Will.

Get Back. (the bloke I turn the camera to face midway though is my Dad)

Magic.

 

So he didn't do his Christmas song? Disappointing. I'd get a refund.

 

Going from Yesterday to Helter Skelter? Wow, talk about going from 0 to 60 in no time flat!

 

Beyond gorgeous. Georgeous.

One of my favourites, but I like to play it in a very slow, bluesy style.

 

Thanks for the report & clips (and photos) Chris.

 

Would have paid serious money just to see

Second Encore:
Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

 

I see what you did there.





EDIT: I should say that although having Ronnie Wood play on Get Back was really cool, when McCartney introduced him he first teased that he had a "surprise for you" [the audience]... "none other than...". The first name that flashed through my head was Ringo. That would've been ten times as awesome.

 

"Unreleased" no more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VxF7L3VVqs

 

// rim shot //

 

legendary.

 

Rhonda sent me this link:

Lost Harrison solo from Here Comes the Sun

 

http://www.happyplace.com/14179/people-on-twitter-ask-who-is-paul-mccartney-during-grammys

Kids suck.

 

Paul who?