Paul arrived in Prague Saturday evening. He played Prague's T-Mobile Park on Sunday to an estimated crowd of 50,000 enthusiastic fans. The setlist was the same. The preshow started at 8:15pm. People who knew the songs started singing and dancing, as the concert mood was slowly building.
Paul and the band came out, and launched right into "Jet." Macca tried to talked in Czech, but he wasn't always understandable though fans appreciated the effort and found his pronunciations to be humorous. Paul made fun of the spontaneous translation on the screens and tested the skill of the "two ladies in the back" translating what he said. He said something about a "yellow fish."
The concert went well with hardly any mistakes until the acoustic set when Paul started the story of a song saying that this is one song that he never played live before this tour. Then he realized his mistake and said, "Oh no, we've already done that one!" He said jokingly that the audience confused him, shouting requests for "Blue Jean Bop," and "Maybe I'm Amazed," and complained about having to read the signs while trying to remember the chords and the words.
"Drive My Car" and "Penny Lane" went down particularly well, and the crowd went crazy for "Get Back" and "Helter Skelter".
There was no "Yellow Submarine" singalong because of the language barrier and the audience not knowing about the singalong tribute to Ringo.
At one point John Hammel (Paul's assistant) came out, but when he got a big applause from the audience, he fled to the backstage area grinning.
Wix and Abe fooled around at the beginning of "Maybe I'm Amazed," with Wix imitating Abe's cymbal playing.
Rusty had his auto-language translator which was supposed to say something funny in Czech, but it didn't work at first. Paul asked Rusty "Do you have the skill to turn it on?"
The improv song before "Lady Madonna" had Paul singing about how happy he was to be in Prague and how glad he was that it didn't rain! The field was very muddy from rains the day before and fans were full of mud.
At the end of the show, the band and Paul gave each other hugs. Brian and Rusty did a bit of dancing, kicking up their legs can-can style with their arms were around each other. There was a big plush flower and a rabbit thrown on the stage.
Re: Пол снова приедет в Питер! Автор:Lemon LennonДата: 07.06.04 23:51:47
June 4 - Leipzig, Germany - Leipzig Zentralstadion 'early report'
Paul McCartney played to crowd of 45,000 in the pouring rain at Leipzig Stadium, his first concert in East Germany. McCartney's concert was the first concert staged in the 90 million euro stadium finished in March. In spite of the weather, the concert started around 8:15pm with the preshow. Fans were able to bring in umbrellas but closed them after the concert began. While the rain remained constant, it didn't damper the fan's enthusiasm. The setlist was the same.
After "Got To Get You Into My Life" Paul addressed the cheering crowd with "Guten Abend Leipzig. Endlich bin ich hier! Wir sind gekommen, um euch zu rocken!" (Good evening Leipzig. I'm finally be here! We have come to rock you!)
At the beginning of the acoustic set the band left and Paul said, "Jetzt bin ich allein mit Euch." (Now I am alone with you.)
For the intro to "Here Today" Paul said in German, "Lieben Freundes John." (good friend John). Paul led the "Yellow Submarine" singalong as a hommage to Ringo.
He talked about a German poem he learned in school when he took German called the "Jacob the Crow." He said, "Jakob der Rabe war der frechste von allen Vцgeln, die ich je gesehen habe."(Jakob the crow was the rudest of all birds, that I ever saw.)
The fireworks went off as usual during "Live and Let Die" working miraculously well in the rain.
For "Hey Jude" Paul led the singalong, "Zuerst die Maenner!" (first the Men )"Und jetzt die Frauen!" (and just the Women) "Alle zusammen!" (everyone together)
He came back at the second encore with the Germany flag and wore the "no more land mines" T-shirt.
After "The End," he said his goodbyes, and in German, "Bis zum nдchsten Mal!" (See you next time!) Confetti shot out and stuck to everything and everybody because of the rain.
The widows of late rock legends ROY ORBISON and GEORGE HARRISON have teamed up to release a series of lost recordings their husbands made as part of 1980s supergroup THE TRAVELING WILBURYS.
Orbison and Harrison teamed up with TOM PETTY, BOB DYLAN and JEFF LYNNE to record hits like END OF THE LINE and HANDLE WITH CARE, and many fans thought the group died when Orbison passed away in 1988.
But now, Orbison's widow BARBARA and Harrison's wife OLIVIA are planning to release recordings that have been out of circulation for nearly a decade, with a few rare cuts.
Barbara Orbison says, "You can listen to it and it is just like boys having fun together. You can really feel the absence of any business stresses. They are having a good time. There's the excitement of being in a band called The Traveling Wilburys.
"It was a special moment in time. It brought out the best in all of them."
Orbison has been working on a Traveling Wilburys video set that she hopes to release by the end of the year (04).
The Pete Best band will be returning to the U.S. in July, this time playing the East Coast. Here's a list of their upcoming North American dates:
July 1st – Springfield, Mass – Sterns Square July 2nd –Sellersville Theatre, 24 Temple Avenue, Sellersville, PA 18960 July 4th – Maxwells, 1039 Washington Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030 July 5th – Les Foufounes Electriques, 87 Ste-Catherine St. E, Montreal, QC H2X 1K5 July 6th – – Barry Moores Music Hall , 323 Bank Street, Ottawa, ON CANADA , Ottawa, Canada, K2P1X9 July 7th – – The Casbah @ La Luna , 306 King Street, West Hamilton, ON 111111 ,Ontario, Canada Ph: 905-777-7844 July 9th – Village Casino, 1 Lakeside Drive, Bemus Point, NY 14712 July 10th – Centennial Terrace, 5773 Centennial Rd, Sylvania, Ohio – July 11th – Tenny Street Roadhouse , 22361 West Village Drive, Dearborn, MI 48124 July 12th – The Intersection, 133 Grandville Avenue SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49501 July 13th – The Funk Box , 8-10 E. Cross Street, Baltimore, MD July 14th – – Star Hill music Hall, Charlottesville, Virginia July 15th – Jaxx, 6355 Rolling Road, Springfield, VA 22152 July 16th – Aleghanny Country Fair – South Park Ampitheatre. Pittsburg – PA Aug. 19-23: Beatlefest, Chicago.
Re: Европейское турне Пола Маккартни-2004 Автор:Lemon LennonДата: 06.06.04 10:46:28
2Beatlekid2: информация о конкурсе появится на beatles.ru в понедельник.
Re: Международный фестиваль музыки Beatles с 17 по 20 июня с участием Тони Шеридана, Beatween, Yarband иBlues cousins Автор:Lemon LennonДата: 05.06.04 16:13:31
2 Juliaz: конкурс обязательно будет - подробности в понедельник.
Re: Международный фестиваль музыки Beatles с 17 по 20 июня с участием Тони Шеридана, Beatween, Yarband иBlues cousins Автор:Lemon LennonДата: 05.06.04 13:06:35
Re: Новости от группы BEATWEEN Автор: Funky Дата: 31.05.04 22:36:20 С 17-го по 20 июня в Москве и С-Петербурге пройдет Международный Фестиваль Музыки "Битлз". Главной звездой станет легендарный Тони Шеридан, с которым Битлы играли и записывались в Гамбурге в 1961 году. Так же в фестивале примут участие группы "Yarband", "Blues Cousins" и "The BEATWEEN". Концерты в рамках фестиваля пройдут на различных площадках, расписание выступлений смотрите на www.beatween.ru/concerts заказ билетов: alex@beatween.ru
Re: Международный фестиваль музыки Beatles с 17 по 20 июня с участием Тони Шеридана, Beatween, Yarband иBlues cousins Автор:Lemon LennonДата: 05.06.04 12:59:12