Paul McCartney - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: Rockshow, Kingdome, Seattle, WA, 6-10-1976

Another day, another big renumbering for my BBC project. Sigh! Sorry, folks, yet again. But I figure more music is always better. In this case, I'd missed a 1976 concert by Paul McCartney. As a result, I've had to renumber five later BBC albums by him.

First off, beware that this album is very similar to the official live album "Wings Over America." That's because it's from the same tour, and McCartney basically played the exact same songs every stop of that tour. But there are key differences. For starters, while the official album used the same set list as a typical show, and thus this show too, the songs were selected from a bunch of different concerts. I believe the only song on that album to come from this show is "Spirits of Ancient Egypt."

This concert recording is entangled with another document from that tour, the concert movie "Rockshow." This is billed as a film of this very Seattle concert, but cut down to the length of a typical movie, about an hour and a half. However, despite the billing on the promotional material, most of the songs come from three other concerts, with only about five songs from this Seattle one. But the BBC did broadcast big sections of this concert at some point. That's why this is the best sounding bootleg from the 1976 tour, and only one of two with soundboard level sound quality.

So I tried to put together an album with all the songs played in Seattle on this date. About three-fourths of this actually is from the Seattle show. For the remaining fourth, I used an audio rip of the "Rockshow" movie. I believe all of those extra songs I used come from Los Angeles about two weeks later. I've put the details in the mp3 tags, as usual. But in case you're curious, the non-Seattle songs are tracks 22 to 26, 30, 31, 32, 37, 38, 39, 46, and 47.

As I mentioned above, the set list for this concert is nearly identical to the "Wings Over America" album. The only key difference is that the song "Go Now" is missing here, since it wasn't played this night. (There was a spot late in the concert for band member Danny Laine to sing a song, and he chose "Time to Hide" instead of "Go Now," his more common choice. On the live album, they included versions of both.) However, this concert is about eight minutes longer than that album, despite having one less song. That's because there's more banter between songs here. Also, the cheering at the ends of songs often goes on longer.

I've previously stated that I prefer having whole concerts over official live albums that select songs from lots of different concerts. I like to hear what really happened. That's especially the case here, because "Wings Over America" reportedly had lots of overdubs and fixes. With this, you get the real deal, warts and all.

One problem with this recording was the lead vocals were low in the mix. (That's such a common problem for bootlegs, and even live recordings, I've found.) This was the case for both the Seattle and Los Angeles sourced songs. So I fixed that for all the songs, using the UVR5 audio editing program. I also had to do some finessing to get the two different sources to fit together, for instance tinkering with the crowd noise between songs from different sources.

Re: the renumbering mentioned above, here are the links to all the renumbered ones, in order (ignore the numbers mentioned in the links):

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/05/paul-mccartney-bbc-sessions-volume-1-in.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/12/paul-mccartney-bbc-sessions-volume-2-in.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/07/paul-mccartney-chaos-and-creation-at.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/06/paul-mccartney-bbc-sessions-volume-3.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/01/paul-mccartney-bbc-sessions-volume-5-in.html

And by the way, at the time of this concert, this very much was a "Paul McCartney and Wings" concert, not just a Paul McCartney one. The other band members played prominent roles, with some of them even occasionally singing lead vocals. But I've billed this as just as McCartney concert since Wings didn't last the end of the 1970s and I want to be consistent with all the BBC albums that come after.

This album is two hours and five minutes long.

01 Venus and Mars - Rock Show (Paul McCartney)
02 Jet (Paul McCartney)
03 talk (Paul McCartney)
04 Let Me Roll It (Paul McCartney)
05 talk (Paul McCartney)
06 Spirits of Ancient Egypt (Paul McCartney)
07 talk (Paul McCartney)
08 Medicine Jar (Paul McCartney)
09 talk (Paul McCartney)
10 Maybe I'm Amazed (Paul McCartney)
11 talk (Paul McCartney)
12 Call Me Back Again (Paul McCartney)
13 talk (Paul McCartney)
14 Lady Madonna (Paul McCartney)
15 The Long and Winding Road (Paul McCartney)
16 talk (Paul McCartney)
17 Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney)
18 talk (Paul McCartney)
19 Picasso's Last Words [Drink to Me] (Paul McCartney)
20 Richard Cory (Paul McCartney)
21 Bluebird (Paul McCartney)
22 talk (Paul McCartney)
23 I've Just Seen a Face (Paul McCartney)
24 talk (Paul McCartney)
25 Blackbird (Paul McCartney)
26 Yesterday (Paul McCartney)
27 talk (Paul McCartney)
28 You Gave Me the Answer (Paul McCartney)
29 talk (Paul McCartney)
30 Magneto and Titanium Man (Paul McCartney)
31 talk (Paul McCartney)
32 My Love (Paul McCartney)
33 talk (Paul McCartney)
34 Listen to What the Man Said (Paul McCartney)
35 talk (Paul McCartney)
36 Let 'Em In (Paul McCartney)
37 Time to Hide (Paul McCartney)
38 talk (Paul McCartney)
39 Silly Love Songs (Paul McCartney)
40 Beware My Love (Paul McCartney)
41 talk (Paul McCartney)
42 Letting Go (Paul McCartney)
43 talk (Paul McCartney)
44 Band on the Run (Paul McCartney)
45 talk (Paul McCartney)
46 Hi, Hi, Hi (Paul McCartney)
47 Soily (Paul McCartney)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ch3YrJ4Z

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/0BE9MlT1Rk68rbx/file