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 | Title : Back in the U.S. Live 2002
Author : Paul McCartney
Release Date : 20021126
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $19.98
Amazon.com Price : $10.48
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Editorial Reviews :
Critics may quibble over the creative roller coaster that's been Paul McCartney's post-Beatles solo career, but few can deny his status as one of rock's most buoyant live performers and consistent crowd pleasers. That drive to stake his claim onstage (said to be one of the factors that drove the Fabs to dissolution) energizes this otherwise largely backward-looking collection of performances from his 2002 world tour; fully two-thirds of the double-disc's 35 tracks hail from the Beatles catalog, with the rest slanted toward early solo-career standouts like 'Jet,' 'Maybe I'm Amazed,' and 'My Love.' But Mac and his focused backing quartet deliver them with a punchy edge and sense of abandon that's largely MIA on previous McCartney live releases. Other than pausing for tributes to his fallen comrades ('Here Today,' a solo acoustic paean to John Lennon followed by a touching, ukulele-backed nod to George Harrison with 'Something'), it's largely a rollicking career retrospective from a musician whose restless drive to perform invests this collection with something more than mere nostalgia. The singer who invoked Bach at 22 may still refuse to act his age, but here that's not a bad thing at all.
Buyer Reviews :
OK, so the CD has all the songs from the tour on it, whereas the DVD is missing about 7 or 8 songs.
But the CD, for me, is completely absent of any of the excitement and emotion I saw and felt when I saw McCartney in Atlanta. Why? Because the CD is song...applause...song...applause...song...well, you get the point.
NOT ONE BIT of Paul's onstage comments are included in the CD. The omissions that stand out for me are:
1. When he introduced Getting Better, and talked about doing live Beatles songs that they never got to do live...
2. His heartfelt dedications to Heather for Your Loving Flame and to Linda for My Love.
3. My biggest disappointment is omitting his heartfelt words about John when he introduced Here Today, and then talking about playing ukeleles with George before he played Something.
As with the DVD, Paul is listed as Executive Producer of the CD. In both cases, he's a better musician than he is a producer.
(by dbronx)
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