Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Paul McCartney - Soundcheck Songs, Volume 4: Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan, 11-15-1993

I've posted three albums containing songs Paul McCartney sung during soundchecks for his 1993 world tour. As I've explained previously, there's a plethora of this material because McCartney made a bunch of it available for a later radio show. This is the fourth and last such album. I've put it as the fourth, even after a volume of unknown dates, because it happened near the tail end of that tour.

This volume is unusual because all of the performances come from a single soundcheck. The idea of a soundcheck is just to warm up and test the equipment. Typically, that's done with a few of songs at most. But on this day, McCartney put on a mini-concert that practically nobody saw or heard! 

And, in my opinion, this was a much more interesting concert than the one he did later that evening. I checked the set list for that concert, and it's what one would expect: solo hits, Beatles hits, and songs from his latest album. The only two covers were "Good Rockin' Tonight" and "Ain't No Sunshine." By contrast, this soundcheck was made up of only four originals ("Every Night," "C Moon," "The Long and Winding Road," and "Get Out of My Way") and 11 covers. It seems he was in a nostalgic mood, mostly doing covers of songs he knew when he was growing up.

Although everything here is officially unreleased, the sound quality is excellent. And the fact that there's no audience cheering makes this sound more like studio outtakes.

This album is 55 minutes long.

01 Just Because (Paul McCartney)
02 Every Night (Paul McCartney)
03 C Moon (Paul McCartney)
04 Matchbox (Paul McCartney)
05 No Other Baby (Paul McCartney)
06 Bring It on Home to Me (Paul McCartney)
07 Good Rockin' Tonight (Paul McCartney)
08 Be-Bop-A-Lula (Paul McCartney)
09 Midnight Special (Paul McCartney)
10 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Paul McCartney)
11 Ain't That a Shame (Paul McCartney)
12 The Long and Winding Road (Paul McCartney)
13 Get Out of My Way (Paul McCartney)
14 Linda Lu (Paul McCartney)
15 Twenty Flight Rock (Paul McCartney)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376656/PAULMCCRTNY1993fSoundchckSngsVlume4TokyoDme__11-15-1993_atse.zip.html

The cover photo almost comes from this exact concert, but not quite. It's from the same venue, but he performed several nights there and it's from two days earlier.

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