Paul McCartney.. Billy Joel.. an all-access pass and a front row seat. It all started when I saw this message from @Stereogum:
“Paul McCartney starts his three nights at Citi Field this evening. He’s making a film and he needs some help from all of you young filmmakers out there. We are looking for thirty people to shoot each show, July 17, 18 & 21, on Flip cameras. We have the cameras, all we need is the talent!”
I replied, and then while driving towards New York I received an email letting me know I had been selected to participate. My friend Mindy and I showed up at the 1st Base VIP entrance where we picked up our “Working Personel” passes and a custom Paul McCartney Flip Cam, and then set off to roam the stadium at our pleasure.
I found myself nice spot in the front row, a few feet in front of Pierce Brosnan and nearby Nancy Shevell.
Here’s a video (shot with my iPhone) of Paul singing “A Day in the Life” and “Give Peace a Chance”.
Read on for the set list and a few photos:
I came across some really good footage from the Paul McCartney show I attended this past June. It’s shot from right about where I was standing. In fact, I think I can hear my friends voice on the video. Anyway, enjoy.
Blackbird:
I’ll Follow the Sun (Intro):
I’m back from the Paul McCartney concert! Time for the recap:
Let me go back a few weeks to explain this. About a month ago I
found out that Paul McCartney would be doing some type of live
performance in NYC to promote his new album Memory Almost Full. Any
large-scale world tour would be postponed to next year due to "personal
issues" (his divorce from Heather Mills). So being a huge Beatles/Paul
McCartney fan, I did some intense research until I found out the
details of what would be going down.
I found out that the show was going to be a small-scale "secret"
show about two weeks ago and that I’d have to win tickets through a
radio station contest in order to go. Only a few hundred contest
winners and invited guests would be given tickets. So after looking
through the websites of nearly every FM radio station from the
country’s major cities, I finally found a contest where you could enter
a raffle to win tickets by correctly answering 20 questions about
Paul. I didn’t win. But my friend Steph did, and she offered to take
me. Amazingly, my friend Bret won as well and offered to take my
brother Justin. So now we had 3 people from CT’s smallest town attending a concert that thousands of people from around the world were trying to go to, and I was one of them.
More below the cut.
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