https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6EvlWxxpI
Two years since the best concert of my life… And of course, in this day and age, somebody appears to have uploaded the entire concert, from start to finish, to YouTube! (If I’d know that, I could’ve saved 250 clams on my ticket!) 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZd1dXGuRu4
Paul McCartney is well-known as a multi-instrumentalist – proficient on drums, skilled on guitar and keyboard and virtuoso on bass. After yesterday’s post about how I used to read rec.music.beatles, I stumbled across an analysis of his bass playing over the years which is quite good. Here’s the end of the article where a few […]
Who knows how long it will be there but right now, there’s a full version of the most recent Paul McCartney concert DVD up on YouTube (I’ve been listening to the CD version on Rdio non-stop for the last week!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKvaosX3VHw
So the recent concert got me curious about the current members of his band – who are they (other than obviously top-flight, crackerjack musicians?) Here are some video clips that feature each of them… Rusty Anderson (Lead Guitar) Brian Ray (Guitar, Bass) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJGbSIdKoTI Paul “Wix” Wigens (Keyboards, Guitar, Accordian) Abe Laboriel Jr. (Drums)
It’s weird being a blogger sometimes because it affects how you think about things (there are theories that social media sites like Facebook have the same effect where you can’t just enjoy experiences because you’re always thinking how to spin them/frame them/present them to your online audience.) With that in mind, I’ll admit that I […]
I honestly don’t know what else I can write about the big Paul McCartney concert tonight in Regina. Yes, it’s only one former Beatle but for me, this is not just a Paul McCartney show (which would be fine in and of itself) but this is also the closest I’ll ever get to a Beatles […]
So after pushing my post from a couple days ago about the upcoming Paul McCartney concert out to Twitter and mentioning in passing a couple reasons why the show in Regina might not have sold out, I ended up getting a call from Shanelle Kaul, a reporter for Global Regina who wanted to interview me […]
