In February 1993, McCartney released the album "Off the Ground," then soon began another world tour. Just prior to that, sometime in January, he practiced songs for the tour in a barn in the British countryside. We're lucky to have very good unreleased performances from that rehearsal due to him playing some of them on his Oobu Joobu radio show. I've put the most interesting songs together for an album that's an hour and two minutes long.
The rehearsals were different from what actually got played on tour in that McCartney was more willing to try out unusual songs, as well as just have play around and/or experiment. Out of the 18 songs here, I count seven Beatles songs plus one solo hit and a song from his new album. The rest generally are covers of the songs he loved when he was growing up.
01 Fixing a Hole (Paul McCartney)
02 Let It Be (Paul McCartney)
03 Twenty Flight Rock (Paul McCartney)
04 No I Never (Paul McCartney)
05 Jet (Paul McCartney)
06 Three Cool Cats (Paul McCartney)
07 I've Just Seen a Face (Paul McCartney)
08 She's a Woman (Paul McCartney)
09 Cut Across Shorty (Paul McCartney)
10 Hi Heeled Sneakers (Paul McCartney)
11 Shake, Rattle and Roll (Paul McCartney)
12 Get Back (Paul McCartney)
13 Matchbox (Paul McCartney)
14 Blue Suede Shoes (Paul McCartney)
15 Midnight Special (Paul McCartney)
16 Things We Said Today (Paul McCartney)
17 Drive My Car (Paul McCartney)
18 Winedark Open Sea (Paul McCartney)
I couldn't find any photos of McCartney practicing at the barn during these sessions. So instead I used a photo of him playing piano during an appearance on the TV show Saturday Night Live in 1993.
Great post. Good sound. McCartney on his rises.
ReplyDeleteThanks.