Upcoming Macca Live CD/DVD

[mervap]

It will be titled "Good Evening, New York City" and contains a great many tunes we've seen and heard before...maybe the concert DVD will be more band concentrated?

Disc 1 - Audio CD

1. Drive My Car
2. Jet
3. Only Mama Knows
4. Flaming Pie
5. Got To Get You Into My Life
6. Let Me Roll It
7. Highway
8. The Long And Winding Road
9. My Love
10. Blackbird
11. Here Today
12. Dance Tonight
13. Calico Skies
14. Mrs Vandebilt
15. Eleanor Rigby
16. Sing The Changes
17. Band On The Run

Disc 2 - Audio CD

1. Back In The USSR
2. I'm Down
3. Something
4. I've Got A Feeling
5. Paperback Writer
6. A Day In The Life / Give Peace A Chance
7. Let It Be
8. Live And Let Die
9. Hey Jude
10. Day Tripper
11. Lady Madonna
12. I Saw Her Standing There
13. Yesterday
14. Helter Skelter
15. Get Back
16. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / The End

Disc 3 – DVD

1. Drive My Car
2. Jet
3. Only Mama Knows
4. Flaming Pie
5. Got To Get You Into My Life
6. Let Me Roll It
7. Highway
8. The Long And Winding Road
9. My Love
10. Blackbird
11. Here Today
12. Dance Tonight
13. Calico Skies
14. Mrs Vandebilt
15. Eleanor Rigby
16. Sing The Changes
17. Band On The Run
18. Back In The USSR
19. I'm Down
20. Something
21. I've Got A Feeling
22. Paperback Writer
23. A Day In The Life / Give Peace A Chance
24. Let It Be
25. Live And Let Die
26. Hey Jude
27. Day Tripper
28. Lady Madonna
29. I Saw Her Standing There
30. Yesterday
31. Helter Skelter
32. Get Back
33. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / The End

"Good Evening New York City" was recorded at Paul McCartney's Citi Field opening show last July and will be available on November 17 in the US and November 23 in the UK.

There will also be a disc of bonus material...the DVD bonus disc tracklisting is as follows:

Live on the Late Show with David Letterman
1. Get Back
2. Sing The Changes
3. Coming Up
4. Band On The Run
5. Let Me Roll It
6. Helter Skelter
7. Back In The USSR

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available on November 17 in the US and November 23 in the UK.

That's good. A whole week of illegal downloading before it is released world wide. WHY do they do that? I mean really..there are a lot of people who just can't wait and will download it...with every intention of buying it when it comes out....and then they don't get around to it. I know from personal experience.

[Kylenz]

Here's hoping this one finally has less focus on the crowd shots, I want to see close-ups of the BAND, not the friggin' crowd! Concert films should be about giving the viewer an intimate look at the event that you wouldn't otherwise see if you were there in person. I have Korn live at Montreaux on blu ray, and the filming is primarily focused on the BAND - so much that you can see the beads of sweat rolling off the forearms of the guitar player, and you can see the duck tape holding together the drum stool of the drummer! That's the kind of thing they should be focused on - not the crowd. When they go to a crowd shot in the Korn concert, it's usually a wide-angle view of the entire crowd bouncing along, and it still looks great. That's all you need. Maybe the occasional shot of a group of people singing along in the front row, but I'm sick of the Macca live videos that go to the crowd to the point where it's really distracting. If I'm watching a concert, I want to see what the guitar player is doing, where he is putting his fingers, what the drummer is doing, showcase the energy of the band itself. The last thing you want to see is some fat dude in cream slacks with his beer 'n' nuts swaying to the refrain in Hey Jude! It's just 'not cool'!!!!  It's time somebody told whoever directs Macca's live dvds that they need to rent cooler people in the crowd if they want to keep panning to them. Sure in Monterey and Woodstock they show crowd shots all the time but those people were GROOVY - know what I mean? They were sexy! 

[Kylenz]

Just found another example video of embarrassing and distracting crowd shots, this time of Michael Jackson and Britney Spears performing together in 2001 -



It really does detract from the spectacle of the event. 

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The last thing you want to see is some fat dude in cream slacks with his beer 'n' nuts swaying to the refrain in Hey Jude! 

Hang on?.....I'm on a Macca DVD!!! ???   

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I would guess that many of the crowd shots are there to give the director a place to cut and splice out/in better bits of performances from other shows. I know this DVD is supposed to be from New York...but I am sure they film every show and will put in the best bits from every show to make one show look the best it can be. Of course, they could do the cutting using the band footage instead of crowd shots.

[Paperback Writer]

If I hear it's a radical departure into something resembling more of a pure concert, I'll happily get it, if it's the same old thing, I'll cherry pick the previously un-released live songs from ITunes, or if cheap enough or enough around at a used price - I'll buy, download then sell used.
Much rather it be that elusive pure concert and keep it!

[Kylenz]

The last thing you want to see is some fat dude in cream slacks with his beer 'n' nuts swaying to the refrain in Hey Jude! 

Hang on?.....I'm on a Macca DVD!!! ???   

[Paperback Writer]

Yeah..I was the one in Woodstock, Monterey, lol

If that was 2/3, he must have HUNDREDS of twin brothers, I've seen he/them do that all across this nation -  and on film - all over the world!

[Kylenz]

Hey everyone,
go to PaulMcCartney.com and watch the free streaming video of Macca performing 'Highway', taken from the dvd. I'm heartened to see the filming is tastefully done, focuses on the different band members, crowd shots are kept to a minimum and when they are done it is to show the overall spectacle. Love the shots of Abe working hard behind the skins!

And isn't it great to see Macca and his band doing a rip-roaring version of a song from his Electric Arguments album! It's really good, stacks up well as a rocker. Wix on the harmonica. I'm now looking forward to getting this show. Will it be released on blu ray though? I would rather not buy the dvd in this 1080p age.. 

[gettingbetter]

I'm actually kind of excited about this one.  I saw Macca in 2005 and I was kind of disappointed.  I saw him in 2009 and he blew me away.  He was, hmmm, going through a lot in 2005.  I think Electric Arguments gave him a chance to cast off his demons and his performance at Coachella - on the anniversary of Linda's passing - gave him a chance to re-connect with the true love of his life.  (Not that he hadn't already, but this time it was symbolic in a live setting)


From everything I've read about the New York shows this one ought to be good.  Hopefully it will measure up to Wings Over America and Back in the U.S.  I skipped on The Space Between Us.  The Red Square DVD was pretty good but like everybody else I'm just waiting for a full show without all of the interjections.

[Paperback Writer]

Thanks for the tip, Kyle, that clip is encouraging, the price looks really, really good - so I'' probably buy it.

The Space Within - I got - for the previously un-released live songs songs ( I converted to CD) PLUS I attended that concert where Paul did the space talk broadcast concert.

good to see you in the house, Gettingbetter!

[mervap]

Check out this link for all the info you'll need for the upcoming CD/DVD:

http://www.paulmccartney.com/goodeveningnewyorkcity/

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NEW YORK - ABC says Paul McCartney and Beyonce will star in back-to-back one-hour specials on U.S. Thanksgiving.

The evening starts at 9 p.m. EST with a Beyonce concert that was taped over the summer in Las Vegas.

That will be followed by a McCartney special that includes highlights from his July concert at Citi Field in New York City. The stadium in Queens is next to the former site of Shea Stadium, where he and his fellow Beatles rocked at the height of Beatlemania. Footage from that 1965 concert also will air during the special.

Both specials will offer interviews and personal glimpses of the stars

[Paperback Writer]

Thanks, 2/3

 Longshot prediction: 

After stating he is gigging in Europe for the next month - he drops this one:
 
"And I'll be doing some USA concerts late winter, early spring, 2010."

(With Holiday gifts to give  and $$$ recieved as gifts, the timing of this built upon th Re-masters, movie song and Night in NY Concert  discs, leads me to believe Macca is marketing his next shows here.)

See how I do with this one??