Paul McCartney; Pointless?

dogload

So I watched jools Holland, and I liked The Arctic Monkeys and Gary Clark Jr, not bothered about the other two, but why oh why do we have to endure Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney?

Is there a mysterious unwritten law that says we must exhume and venerate this living fossil from whatever stately pile he infests at annoyingly regular intervals?

Meh! Let it be , Paul!

chrisj1602

I think the answer was in your question...it's because he is "Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney"

I went to see him in Hyde Park a few years back and it was one of the best gigs I've been to.

fatherjack

Age seems to have caught up with him.  His voice sounded very 'old man' at the Olympics closing ceremony, which isn't a good thing when singing those songs in that way.

I caught him on Graham Norton but didn't really pay attention to the new song, but maybe he needs to do a bit of a Johnny Cash thing - acknowledge the passage of time and reinvent himself appropriately.

Col_Decker

Yup, Hey Jude is well past its use by date now. A great song though it is, it should only be heard on the record imo.

stickyfiddle

chrisj1602 said: I think the answer was in your question...it's because he is "Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney"
I went to see him in Hyde Park a few years back and it was one of the best gigs I've been to. I was at the same show. Absolutely brilliant.  I wouldn't have him close every big event that ever happens in the UK, because that's just predictable and dull but he's still brilliant live- not the same as in the sixties but still far more capable than the last couple of big TV broadcasts have suggested. I suspect the victim of shitty mixing and shittier monitoring.

RocknRollDave

His new album is better than you might expect - and more modern sounding than you might expect.

I'm no fan, don't get me wrong, but as a one-time die-hard Manics fan I found I couldn't get through the first song of their new album, whereas Macca's was pleasantly distracting, albeit in a "I'm only listening to this for work purposes" kind of a way...:D

JAYJO

I thought Macca was ok . I like some songs by The Arctic Monkeys but i cant stand watching the singer.

dogload

JAYJO said: I like some songs by The Arctic Monkeys but i cant stand watching the singer. A colleague described him as 'a slick performer'. 

fatherjack said: Age seems to have caught up with him.  His voice sounded very 'old man' at the Olympics closing ceremony, which isn't a good thing when singing those songs in that way.
I caught him on Graham Norton but didn't really pay attention to the new song, but maybe he needs to do a bit of a Johnny Cash thing - acknowledge the passage of time and reinvent himself appropriately.                                                                                                                                                                                        I think that's the thing. It's almost as if his job title is indeed 'Former Beatle' rather than a relevant musician in his own right. Which of course he isn't is he, really?

ICBM

I thought the new single was shit - totally forgettable post-Beatles-by-numbers. I might give the album a listen but I'd have to do that before buying it.

He was horrendous at the Jubilee and Olympics last year - clearly well past it (as were his band) - but amazingly, great with 'Nirvana' at the Hurricane Sandy benefit... I was really expecting that to be painful, but I thought it was the best thing he's done since the 1970s.

Maybe he just needs to work with people closer to half his age .

fatherjack

ICBM said:

I thought the new single was shit - totally forgettable post-Beatles-by-numbers. 

Ah!  I remember it now, I tuned out thinking 'isn't that cod Beatles stuff what Oasis are for?'

equalsql

I don't know about Macca (yawn), but for me Gary Clarke Jr just blew everyone else out the ballpark on that edition of Later. Have  you ever heard an Epi Casino sound that good and dirty!

lustycourtier

fatherjack;64489" said:

Ah!  I remember it now, I tuned out thinking 'isn't that cod Beatles stuff what Oasis are for?'

 

 Ah THanks for that. Its been a while since the lazy oasis comments have appeared...