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| From | "mkropp" <mkropp@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: McCartney Set List (spoiler alert) |
| Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:44:10 -0400 |
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To me, there is nothing lame (or cheap and sleazy) about going to see your hero perform songs that changed the world with my family. My 10-year-old simply cannot be more excited, nor can I.
I had a feeling this McCartney-bashing would start up all over again as the tour started, the same way it did when the tour was announced and a few of us had the audacity to proclaim our excitement about getting tickets.
We're going tomorrow night and anticipate having the times of our lives.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: McCartney Set List (spoiler alert)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <garymaher@juno.com>
> > Compared to the Beatles, whose solo career isn't woefully
> > inadequate?
>
> That's not really the point. As I pointed out here some years ago
> (the last time McCartney debuted a "new" set list of songs written and
> recorded before I was born), Paul McCartney could do a two-hour set of
> nothing but solo and Wings material that would shred most artists'
> greatest hits selections, and would involve considerably less
> nostalgia-massaging among the baby boomers. The problem is that he
> hasn't got the balls to do it, so he sticks to the cheap and sleazy
> "Gee, remember how great the Beatles were" jive, which as Jaimie
> points out now involves doing songs he didn't write or sing.
>
> It's lame.
>
> S
>
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