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Hey... I want to jump on the bash-Paul bandwagon too! Paul was always a bit too much of a self-promoter for me and you can even see it in watching AHDN where he is just trying tooooo hard to be cute and funny. But (to state the obvious) the boy has an incredible knack for writing a good pop song. Its a hard thing to do... just try it sometime (as we all have). IMHO, so many songs nowadays just go nowhere... they start with a few notes and think that repeating them over and over makes a "tune". WRONG.

Anyways, back to Sir Paul. I once knew a guy who had toured with the Beatle show ('65 US tour I think) as one of the warm-up act go-go dancers. He got a chance to hang out with the Fab Four in hotels and such and stated that "Paul was the heavy in that band" and described how he was the one who cracked the whip and got the others to stop fooling around and get to work. That statement is supported in lots of books. Paul was the professional showman. Still is.

I have a soft spot for McCartney ... he is a very prolific song writer and a melodic bass player ...

Yes, history does indeed support the assertion that McCartney kept the Beatles going in the right direction; particularily after Candlestick Park in 1966.

And his bass playing is indeed melodic and his pop songs were sublime; a true talent.

(Just so you don't get the idea I detest the man...even the much maligned "Silly Love Songs" boasts a very catchy bass line).

And when I was 12, I wanted to be McCartney so bad.

So, peace to all my fellow Beatles' cats.

But I ain't paying' $150.00 to see him in Toronto; that's a lot of cabbage for an oldies act. To each his own.

"When I was 12 I wanted to be McCartney so bad"...

And then you grew up.

Exactly!

Well put, yet again.

Not a fan myself. the only good thing he did in the Beatles was "I've just seen a face" IMO. It was all about John Winston Lennon.

Saying that though, who knows what we'd think of the guy if he was still alive and touring now!

"When I was 12 I wanted to be McCartney so bad"...

I just want a little of his money, haha!

When I was 8, I wanted to be Ringo so bad...

Then I grew up and became John...only without the dairy farm in upstate New York...

And he was in his time THE bass player, he started a whole new style of melodic bass playing in rock. He is single-handedly responsible for probably 90% of the bass players who started back then who in turn influenced younger bass players and so on etc. He was also part of the greatest, most creative and vastly influental rock band bar none that ever existed. To this day in Lima Peru they have huge concerts on the day of Lennons death and other Beatles milestones and many many Beatles bands. Who would think that in S. america in a place that is dominated by salsa and Meringue The Beatles would still be huge and I'm talking younger people, not only people my age.

When I was 12 I wanted to be 18 sooooo bad!
But that's another story!!!

In a restaurant which a friend owns in Brasil, they have Beatles night every Thursday night. Sometimes it's a live tribute band (there are quite a few all over Brasil!), but more often it's one of the hundreds of locals with Beatles record collections, spinning his/her faves. I have received a number of Beatles tribute albums done by different Brasilian instrumental (Bossa Nova, Jazz, Blues Harmonica) groups. You really need to hear "All My Lovin' " performed on a chromatic Hohner to make your day complete...

That's Hohner, not Hofner.

When I was 12 I couldn't wait to be 56!

And then, overnight, it sorta happened. Now what do I do?

Mommy!!!

Study some Hinduism...you won't be able to wait to be 12 again!

Nothing you can do, Paul.... just gin and beer it!!

I don't really have much to say on the subject... But speaking from a younger point of view, I think it's great that he still tours.
Seeing him will be the closest thing to going to see The Beatles.

A friend of mine and myself are trying to line up a trip to Boston to go see him. It's gonna be expensive but I think it'll be worth it.

You guys I guess had the chance to see The Beatles back in the 60's, but for myself, I was born 40 years too late.
So this will be the closest thing...

I'll tell you then if the whole thing was worth 700$...

I saw him in 1992 at Foxboro stadium in Ma., I didn't pay anyway near $700.00 but it was worth it to see him, the only thing that I was disappointed about was that he didn't play the Ric bass.