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AHORA EN SAN DIEGO, PAUL McCARTNEY ES ACLAMADO POR LA COMUNIDAD MEXICANA
Antonio Cerda Ardura
Beatlescopio
23 de junio
Paul McCartney volvió, éste sábado 22 de junio, a San Diego, California, para ofrecer un concierto, y de nuevo fue recibido con gran alegría y calidez por miles de mexicanos.
El ex beatle cantó, ante 42,000 asistentes, en el estadio de béisbol, Petco Park, operado por el equipo de los Padres, en el que presentó otro show de su gira internacional “Freshen Up”, iniciada en septiembre pasado en Canadá.
Tal como sucedió hace unos días en Arlington, Texas, la comunidad mexicana de San Diego literalmente se volcó a las calles para recibir al músico, que llegó a la ciudad en compañía de Rusty Anderson, Brian Ray, Paul “Wix” Wickens, Abe Laboriel, Jr. y los Hot City Horns, para cumplir con la audición número 31 de su recorrido.
La primera vez que McCartney cantó en San Diego, junto con los Beatles, fue el 28 de agosto de 1965, en el Estadio Balboa, tras la cancelación de un concierto programado en la Ciudad de México y un día después de la famosa visita del “Cuarteto de Liverpool” a la residencia de Elvis Presley en Beverly Hills en Los Angeles.
Después actuó con los Wings, el 16 de junio de 1976, en la San Diego Sports Arena, y el 28 de septiembre de 2014, con su actual banda, también en el Petco Park.
En el área cercana a San Diego, McCartney ofreció una audición, en un evento privado, el 22 de febrero de 2003, en Rancho Santa Fe.
Paul fue abrigado con mucha simpatía por su público y demostró, que a sus 77 años, sigue dominando el escenario con espectacularidad, a pesar de que mantiene el mismo repertorio que ha tocado durante por lo menos una década.
La próxima parada de la gira “Freshen Up” será, el 26 de junio, en la Talking Stick Resort Arena de Phoneix, Arizona.
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Paul McCartney returned, this Saturday, June 22, to San Diego, California, to offer a concert, and was again received with great joy and warmth by thousands of Mexicans.
The former beatle sang, before 42,000 attendees, at the baseball stadium, Petco Park, operated by the Padres team, in which he presented another show of his international tour "Freshen Up", which began last September in Canada.
As happened a few days ago in Arlington, Texas, the Mexican community of San Diego literally took to the streets to receive the musician, who arrived in the city in the company of Rusty Anderson, Brian Ray, Paul "Wix" Wickens, Abe Laboriel , Jr. and the Hot City Horns, to fulfill the audition number 31 of its route.
The first time that McCartney sang in San Diego, along with the Beatles, was on August 28, 1965, at the Balboa Stadium, after the cancellation of a concert scheduled in Mexico City and one day after the famous visit of the " Liverpool Quartet "to the residence of Elvis Presley in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles.
Then he performed with the Wings, on June 16, 1976, at the San Diego Sports Arena, and on September 28, 2014, with his current band, also at Petco Park.
In the area near San Diego, McCartney auditioned, at a private event, on February 22, 2003, at Rancho Santa Fe.
Paul was warmly welcomed by his audience and showed that at 77, he continues to dominate the stage with spectacularity, despite maintaining the same repertoire he has played for at least a decade.
The next stop of the "Freshen Up" tour will be, on June 26, at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoneix, Arizona.
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Review: Paul McCartney transcends and defines time at marathon Petco Park concert
The veteran solo star and co-founder of The Beatles, who turned 77 on Tuesday, turned in a winning 38-song set Saturday night at Petco Park
By GEORGE VARGA
JUNE 23, 2019
Paul McCartney rocked Petco Park on Saturday night. (Photo by Nancee E. Lewis)
Good day sunshine!
Paul McCartney didn’t perform that classic 1966 song from The Beatles’ “Revolver” album at his sold-out Saturday concert at Petco Park — although he did include two other “Revolver” gems, “Eleanor Rigby” and “Got To Get You Into My Life.” (The full set list appears below.)
But the larger-than-life rock legend seemed to bring a welcome change in the weather, with the clouds that have shrouded San Diego for much of June (and nearly all of Friday) clearing Saturday afternoon. At 77-going-on-just-17, " the veteran solo star and co-founder of The Beatles proved to be a warm and illuminating force of nature for the more than 42,000 adoring fans in attendance.
He also seemed to almost simultaneously transcend and exemplify the passing of time at his first area performance since his 2014 Petco Park show, which was also sold-out and marked his first public appearance here since 1976.
“Good evening, San Diego,” McCartney said, after opening the concert with the rollicking “A Hard Day’s Night” and the rock-a-boogie chestnut “Junior’s Farm.”
“I’ve got a feeling we’re going to have a little bit of fun tonight. We’ve got some old songs, some new songs and some in-between songs. This (next) is definitely not a new song.”
With that, McCartney ripped into the 1964 Beatles’ hit “Can’t Buy Me Love,” which and his ace band delivered with enough rousing aplomb to almost suggest the song could have been written yesterday, not 55 years ago.
Paul McCartney in concert at Petco Park on Saturday night. ((Photo by Nancee E. Lewis))
It’s a testament to how deep McCartney’s repertoire is — as a solo artist, with The Beatles and with his post-Beatles band, Wings — that no fewer than 19 of the songs he performed Saturday were different than at his 2014 Petco Park show.
Never mind the fact that, for most artists, 19 songs constitute an entire concert. Never mind that McCartney is older than all but two of the current U.S. Supreme Court justices. And never mind that he sang and played bass for nine songs that lasted nearly 40 minutes before sitting down at the piano for the first time Saturday.
“I saw The Beatles’ San Diego concert at Balboa Stadium in 1965 and they were only on stage for 35 minutes!” said Cathy Worthington, who noted that her daughter attended McCartney’s 2009 Coachella performance.
The first three songs Saturday, “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Junior’s Farm” and “Can’t Buy Me Love,” were all delivered with impressive vigor. So were the next six, two of which — “Who Cares” and the frisky “Come On To Me” — are from his chart-topping 2018 album, “Egypt Station.”
Prior to playing another song from that album, “Fuh You,” which was his 24th number of the night, McCartney shared some perspective with the wildly cheering crowd.
“We know what you like. We can tell,” he said.
“If we do an old Beatles’ song, the whole place lights up with your phones. It’s like a galaxy of stars. Then, if we play a new one, it looks like a black hole. We don’t care — we’re going to play them anyhow!” (The audience took the bait and Petco Park was illuminated by thousands of phones during “Fuh You.”)
To McCartney’s credit, the new songs were all rock-solid. Alas, the same cannot be said of the sound system, which was marred by a slap-back echo that bounced around much of Petco Park. The echo was evident even — and especially —during his spoken introduction of some songs.
This was both a shame and curious, since the echo seemed much less pronounced at his 2014 show at the same venue, which featured the same four-man band (who are being augmented on this tour by a punchy, three-piece brass section). Of course, stadiums are not designed with live music performances in mind, but for an artist of McCartney’s high standards, it would appear some sonic tweaks are in order.
Paul McCartney alternated between grand piano, bass, guitar and upright piano at his Saturday concert at Petco Park.(Photo by George Varga / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Saturday’s concert featured 38 songs over the course of 2 hours and 46 minutes. By comparison, McCartney’s 2014 Petco gig lasted 3 hours and featured 41 songs.
He was 72 then. He’s 77 now and as slim as ever, if not quite as boyish, as his more visibly gray head of hair attested. Likewise, McCartney’s voice is thinner, he has to work harder to hit certain notes and he sang in a lower register on some of his selections.
But, really, so what?
Playing 38 songs, with no intermission and with consistent verve and emotional commitment, is something virtually no other currently active veteran rock star not named Bruce Springsteen would attempt. And The Boss, let’s remember, is still a comparative young pup at just 69.
Moreover, hearing McCartney’s voicin periodically brought a greater sense of pathos to such tender ballads as the civil rights movement-inspired “Blackbird,” which he performed as a solo acoustic number on a mini-stage that rose 15 or so feet in the air.
That he sounded as weathered as the song only added to its enduring appeal and timeless message of compassion and endurance in the face of adversity.
Tellingly, when he and three of his band mates paraded on stage with four flags held aloft prior to the encores — just as they did at their 2014 Petco Park concert — an update had been instituted. Three of the flags were the same: the Stars and Stripes, Union Jack and the state flag of California. But the fourth, a skull and crossbones pirate flag in 2014, was replaced Saturday by a rainbow flag representing the LGBTQ community.
Whether playing bass, lead guitar, grand piano or upright piano (as he did on the Fats Domino-inspired “Lady Madonna”), McCartney sounded fully engaged. He may know most of these songs in his sleep, but there was nothing routine about his performance of them. And, like a veteran athlete, he knows how to pace himself to build momentum over an extended period.
Between some songs, including “Back in the U.S.S.R.” and his loving version of George Harrison’s “Something,” McCartney shared the same anecdotes about them that he did at his 2014 Petco Park concert. Happily, he embellished those anecdotes, adding a new detail here or an added aside there to bring them alive anew.
For good measure, McCartney successfully balanced his Hoffner electric bass guitar, upside down in the palm of his hand, at the conclusion of his third encore, the lacerating “Helter Skelter.” That ferocious 1968 cut by The Beatles rocked with more intensity, incidentally, than any song performed a week earlier at the Petco Park show by Foo Fighters, a much younger band whose admiration for the Fab Four is a matter of record.
Good day sunshine, indeed.
Paul McCartney Petco Park set list, June 22, 2019
1. A Hard Day’s Nigh
2. Junior’s Farm
3. Can’t Buy Me Love
4. Letting Go
5. Who Cares
6. Got to Get You Into My Life
7. Come On to Me
8. Let Me Roll It
9. I’ve Got a Feeling
10. Let ‘Em In
11. My Valentine
12. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
13. Maybe I’m Amazed
14. I’ve Just Seen A Face
15. In Spite of All the Danger
16. From Me to You
17. Dance Tonight
18. Love Me Do
19. Blackbird
20. Here Today
21. Queenie Eye
22. Lady Madonna
23. Eleanor Rigby
24. Fuh You
25. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
26. Something
27. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
28. Band on the Run
29. Back in the U.S.S.R.
30. Let It Be
31. Live and Let Die
32. Hey Jude
33. Birthday
34. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
35. Helter Skelter
36. Golden Slumbers
37. Carry That Weight
38. The End
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Paul McCartney at Petco Park
The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, who turned 77 on Tuesday, brings his current Freshen Up concert tour to San Diego
Paul McCartney in concert at Petco Park on Saturday night. ((Photo by Nancee E. Lewis))
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McCartney Revisits San Diego
BRAD AUERBACH
Jun 23rd, 2019
Paul McCartney is arguably the most critic-proof artist touring these days. He has the deepest songbook in history, and his non-stop three hour concerts consistently leave fans satiated. He shows no signs of slowing down, weeks after starting his 78th year.
In his sold out San Diego show at Petco McCartney mined his songbook, which stretched from a pre-Beatles song through a couple tracks from his improbably strong Egypt Station album from September. Over the various times I have seen him previously (from the tiny record store gig to the Desert Trip biggest box office in history), McCartney has continued to deliver near-perfection in concert.
As folks found their seats, a DJ spun John Lennon’s Beatles songs, which I thought was a nice tribute. I was surprised when the DJ rig was removed from the stage and McCartney’s solo songs were piped through; it is rare to hear the performer’s music over the PA before the concert.
But the setlist was bulletproof. The one-two punch of the opening “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Junior’s Farm” was followed by “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Letting Go.” McCartney spent the majority of the night on bass, but moved nimbly to piano and lead guitar. His band (which has been intact far longer than The Beatles’ six year recording career or Wings’ time together) is well-oiled. The more hirsute members are in the front line; guitarists Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray flank McCartney. Keyboardist Paul “Wix” Wickens and the jovial drummer Abe Laboriel, Jr. rounded out the band. A trio of horn players first appeared deep in the stands, and then popped up several times during the rest of the show (“Got To Get You Into My Life”) in their more traditional spot at the back of the stage.
Other great songs were “Let Me Roll It” and “I’ve Got a Feeling.” The latter was in The Beatles’ final set list, on the roof of their offices in Soho.
McCartney continues to pay tribute to his fallen comrades. The solo versions of “Something” (on ukulele) and “Here Today” were touching reflections on the unbelievable chemistry among Harrison, Lennon and McCartney.
Band on the Run” evoked the summer of 1974, when the song was happily ubiquitous on the radio. Similarly, “Live and Let Die” (perhaps the best thing from the James Bond film of the same name) was another radio staple. Onstage, McCartney uses that song to exceed KISS with pyrotechnics that nearly overpower the stage and extend to fireworks above the stage.
McCartney was the musician who whispered into the ear of a Warner Brothers Records executive, encouraging him to sign an American guitarist who was exploding on the scene in London in the late 60s. McCartney told the San Diego audience about The Beatles releasing their Sgt. Pepper album on a Friday, and by Sunday night Jimi Hendrix was interpreting it at a club in London. With Clapton, Townshend, McCartney, Lennon and others in the audience, everyone knew a new force of nature was emerging.
McCartney winds up his concert with the opus he wrote for the last third of Abbey Road, and it was a fitting way to close. The album was the last time the four Liverpudlians recorded together, and it caps the end of the most influential band in history.
McCartney was a pivotal component of that band, and he honors that legacy in concert among the myriad other songs he wrote thereafter.
It is doubtful anyone left the show feeling less than fulfilled. A splendid time was indeed guaranteed for all.
(photos by Brad Auerbach)
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Shoulda Been There: Paul McCartney at Petco Park
McCartney satisfies sold-out crowd 54 years after Beatles’ only local appearance
by Seth Combs
June 26, 2019
Photos by Seth Combs
Ask anyone who covers the local music scene and they’ll tell you that sometimes San Diego blows it when it comes to hot, up-and-coming music acts. Here’s how it usually plays out: An act will come through town just after, or just before, playing a Los Angeles show. More often than not, that L.A. show will be sold out, which is generally not the case with the San Diego show. In fact, the San Diego show often ends up serving as an encore or warm-up to the L.A. appearance. This isn’t the band’s fault, but because San Diegans don’t show up. What’s worse, the band remembers and is much more likely to skip San Diego on its next tour.
So imagine being the biggest band in the world, selling out stadiums all over the U.S. and Europe, only to come to San Diego and not even selling two-thirds of the available tickets. Such was the case on Aug. 28, 1965, when The Beatles—fresh off a sold-out show in L.A.—came to San Diego to play at the old Balboa Stadium. Those lucky enough to have been there witnessed the band’s one and only appearance in San Diego.
Nearly 54 years later, Paul McCartney, looking as svelte and sounding nearly as crisp as he did in the ’60s, opened his sold-out show at Petco Park with “A Hard Day’s Night,” one of the same numbers The Beatles played in 1965. And with more than double the amount of people that showed up to that Beatles gig in 1965, it seems San Diegans have since learned their lesson. Well, at least some of those who were old enough to remember.
“I’ve got a feeling we’re going to have a little bit of fun tonight,” McCartney told the crowd just after the second song. “We got some old songs for you, we got some new ones, and we’ve got some in-betweeners. This one is definitely not a new one.”
With that, he launched into “Can’t Buy Me Love,” much to the delight—or maybe the chagrin—of the 50-something man with his 20-something girlfriend sitting behind me.
“I’d definitely fuck him,” the woman said about McCartney, just after the song ended. The hilarity of such a statement was not lost on me, but I did find the couple to be representative of the overall crowd on this night. All around me were a mix of die-hard fans of all ages, some approaching McCartney’s age and some as young as their teens. When it came to the younger people in the audience, I got the sense that truly desired to be a part of what they were witnessing. That is, they loved the music just as much as their parents or grandparents.
“I’m here with my mom and it’s her birthday,” a young woman told me. “Her name is June and all I want is for him to play ‘Hey Jude.’”
Of course, McCartney did just that a few songs later, with the crowd of over 40,000 singing along to every word and every syllable. As if sensing the moment, he played “Birthday” right after “Hey Jude.” It really was a perfect moment.
Some other perfect moments: The horn section that magically appeared in the stands during a performance of the Wings hit, “Letting Go.” McCartney taking off his jacket after about the seventh song and declaring—cool as a cucumber and barely breaking a sweat—that it was going to be “the one and only wardrobe change of the whole night” before launching into a blistering rendition of Wings’ “Let Me Roll It.” While I later learned that he said the exact same thing during his 2014 Petco show, he made up for it with his stories in between songs; the ones about “old friends” such as Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Eric Clapton and, of course, John Lennon.
“If we do a Beatles’ song, the whole place lights up with your phones,” McCartney said just after the one-two punch of “Lady Madonna” and “Eleanor Rigby.” “It’s like a galaxy of stars. When we play a new one, it looks like a black hole. But we don’t care—we’re going to play them anyhow.”
It was charming to see the San Diego crowd light the place up with their phones (there were even—gasp—a few lighters) as he played one of those newer songs (thanks to George Varga’s excellent review of the concert, I now know that song is called “Fuh You”).
“OK, you fooled me with the lights,” McCartney chuckled after the song.
The two most beautiful moments of the night, however, came when McCartney played a solo rendition of “Blackbird,” explaining that the song was a statement of solidarity for the civil rights movement. A few songs later he broke out a vintage ukulele, a gift from George Harrison, and played a reverent version of Harrison’s “Something,” a song Frank Sinatra once called “the greatest love song ever written,” and the second-most covered song in The Beatles’ catalogue (after McCartney’s “Yesterday,” natch).
Alas, McCartney did not play “Yesterday,” a song I would have personally loved to hear, but he did nearly burn the place down with “Live and Let Die” (like, literally—there was a pyrotechnics display that approached Big Bay Boom levels). Ash from the fireworks fell on me like snow as I looked around at the faces around me. Nearly 54 years since the first time he came to San Diego, Paul McCartney had a sold-out crowd in the palm of his hand. And he didn't let them down.
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