Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Paul McCartney - The Complete Unplugged - Limehouse Studios, London, Britain, 1-25-1991

I just posted a bootleg of the rehearsals for Paul McCartney's "Unplugged" concert in 1991. Here's the actual concert. An album of this show has been officially released, so normally I wouldn't post this. But I'm posting this because it's been two decades since the concert, and a complete version of the concert has never been officially released. The album that was released is missing some songs, has all of the songs out of order, and also misses a lot of the between song banter. This is the way it should be heard.

Specifically, here are the songs that are present here but were missed by the official album: "Mean Woman Blues," "Things We Said Today," "Midnight Special," "The Fool," and "Matchbox." Two of those, "Things We Said Today" and "Matchbox," were released as B-sides in 1993. But it's much better to hear them in their proper context.

The sound quality is fantastic, so I didn't have to do anything there. But I broke all the talking between songs into their own tracks. In a few cases, I also cut out some dead air, but there wasn't much of that. I also removed the two cases where he played the same song twice, apparently due to some videotaping issues and not the musical performance. I've included those (For "Ain't No Sunshine" and "We Can Work It Out") at the end of the rehearsal bootleg I just posted.

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long, as opposed to 58 minutes for the official album. So it's almost 50 percent longer.

01 talk (Paul McCartney)
02 Mean Woman Blues (Paul McCartney)
03 talk (Paul McCartney)
04 Matchbox (Paul McCartney)
05 talk (Paul McCartney)
06 Midnight Special (Paul McCartney)
07 talk (Paul McCartney)
08 I Lost My Little Girl (Paul McCartney)
09 talk (Paul McCartney)
10 Here, There and Everywhere (Paul McCartney)
11 talk (Paul McCartney)
12 San Fransisco Bay Blues (Paul McCartney)
13 talk (Paul McCartney)
14 Blue Moon of Kentucky (Paul McCartney)
15 talk (Paul McCartney)
16 I've Just Seen a Face (Paul McCartney)
17 talk (Paul McCartney)
18 Every Night (Paul McCartney)
19 talk (Paul McCartney)
20 Be Bop a Lula (Paul McCartney)
21 She's a Woman (Paul McCartney)
22 talk (Paul McCartney)
23 And I Love Her (Paul McCartney with Hamish Stuart)
24 talk (Paul McCartney)
25 The Fool (Paul McCartney)
26 talk (Paul McCartney)
27 Things We Said Today (Paul McCartney)
28 talk (Paul McCartney)
29 That Would Be Something (Paul McCartney)
30 talk (Paul McCartney)
31 Blackbird (Paul McCartney)
32 talk (Paul McCartney)
33 Hi-Heeled Sneakers (Paul McCartney)
34 talk (Paul McCartney)
35 Good Rockin' Tonight (Paul McCartney)
36 talk (Paul McCartney)
37 Junk [Instrumental] (Paul McCartney)
38 talk (Paul McCartney)
39 Ain't No Sunshine (Paul McCartney with Hamish Stuart)
40 talk (Paul McCartney)
41 We Can Work It Out (Paul McCartney)
42 talk (Paul McCartney)
43 Singing the Blues (Paul McCartney)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696829/PALMCCRTNY991b_ComplteUnpluggdLmehuseStudos__1-25-1991_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is a screenshot taken from the video of the "Unplugged" concert. For the text, I took McCartney's name from the official album cover but straightened it out and changed the color. I also used the same font as the official cover for the "Unplugged" text.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks Paul. Fantastic setlist. Nice cover.

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    1. Thanks! I'm always psyched when people comment on the cover art.

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