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saturday in the (at&t) park with Paul

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Legendary concerts are often few and far between. Well, that is unless you’re Cher or Garth Brooks, who hook you into seeing their “last concert ever ever EVER!” and then decide to take up residency in Vegas. (No, I’m not bitter about being tricked at all… at all!) A couple of weeks ago, I hopped down to San Francisco with my mom to help her relive HER legendary concert experience. You see, she was lucky enough to see the Beatles on the first stop of their first US tour at the Cow Palace back in 1964. So when the opportunity to see her favorite Beatle (aka. Paul McCartney) in concert came up, she just couldn’t pass it up and decided to take me along!

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Here’s my super awesome and hip mom – beaming when she saw how amazing our seats were (Tourists take note: this is what you wear in San Francisco in the summer.)

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(Just imagine Paul standing right behind us… well.. 20 rows up at least)
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I’m sure you had no doubts in your mind, but the concert was entirely amazing and awesome. He had just come off a 2-week break, so his voice was outstanding, and he just looked like he was having the time of life performing on stage. Sure, there were probably more WINGS songs performed than most people in the crowd had heard during their lifetime, but anyone that can perform for 3 straight hours is amazing in my book!
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The set list for the concert:

  1. Venus And Mars
  2. Rock Show
  3. Jet
  4. All My Loving
  5. Letting Go
  6. Got to Get You Into My Life
  7. Highway (The Fireman cover)
  8. Let Me Roll It
  9. Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix cover)
  10. The Long and Winding Road
  11. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
  12. Let ‘Em In
  13. My Love
  14. I’m Looking Through You
  15. Two Of Us
  16. Blackbird
  17. Here Today
  18. Dance Tonight
  19. Mrs Vandebilt
  20. San Francisco Bay Blues
  21. Eleanor Rigby
  22. Something
  23. Sing the Changes (The Fireman cover)
  24. Band on the Run
  25. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (HIGHLIGHT of the show!)
  26. Back In The USSR
  27. I’ve Got a Feeling
  28. Paperback Writer
  29. A Day In The Life / Give Peace a Chance (John Lennon cover)
  30. Let It Be
  31. Live and Let Die
  32. Hey Jude
    Encore:
  33. Day Tripper
  34. Lady Madonna
  35. Get Back
    Encore 2:
  36. Yesterday
  37. Helter Skelter
  38. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
  39. The End 

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And when the show was over, we all piled out of stadium in jubilant awe of what we just saw. Old and young alike, we all had a blast and stayed up way past our bedtime and got rained on by the fog to see a legend in our midst. The guy in aisle next to us paid $650 for his ticket. I heard from others in rows ahead of us that they had spent over $1000 each, and they remarked at the bargain they had gotten. In all, it was pretty darn awesome and I’m happy that I got to enjoy Sir Paul w/my mom!
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If you want to see a glimpse of the concert experience, I mashed up the little video clips I took during the concert into a movie below. Enjoy!
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One Comment

  • brooke @ claremont road

    I took my mom to see Paul close to five years ago… it was AMAZING. I didn’t have the money for really amazing seats, so we were literally in the very last row of the stadium, but I didn’t care. It was my first time seeing a Beatle live in concert, and, having been raised on the Beatles, it was truly unforgettable. Confession — I started to cry when he came on stage!! I looked at my mom, a lifelong Beatlemaniac (who is still in love with Paul), and said, “I finally get it!” I don’t know what came over me… being in the same room as a legend who meant so much to my childhood and continues to have such an impact on me… it was just something I can’t properly put into words.

    I’m so sad that I won’t be able to see him on this tour; he is coming to Philly the weekend after my birthday (too perfect, ugh!!!) but it’s just not in the budget since I started a business this year :( I hope he has many more tours to come!