The Long And Winding Road On Its Way To Wrigley? Paul McCartney Concert Possible This Summer

he really knows how to clog those basses too… ;-)

about the Wrigley grass if Phish comes. All the audience members would bring their own. This would be far preferable to the country crap they brought in last year.

… not sure how the residents of Waveland would feel about the Nitrous Mafia taking over their block for a couple of hours post-show.

He put on quite a show. I don’t remember the Beatles, but I like their music, I don’t go as far as to say I love the Beatles’ stuff like most people. I know I am in the extremely small minority here, but I get into the Wings music more than the Beatles. That could be because I remember the Wings first hand and not the Beatles.

That being written, at the 1994 show as you might have expected the set was almost all Beatles and Paul’s solo stuff. “Live and Let Die” was the only Wings song I remember being played. It was still a good show.

for $15?

If the likely concert run at Wrigley is July 5-14, Phish would have to double back a month after they were in the Midwest.

6/18 Deer Creek
6/19-20 Alpine Valley

Now, these are leaks and are sure to be incorrect, but if the entire tour leak time frame (late may – mid june) is correct, it’d say it makes a Phish / Wrigley evening very unlikely.

Doesn’t mean i can’t hope… i saw them at Phenway last may and it was probably the best concert experience i’ve ever had.

But the guy who replaced him in 1966 was always more talented anyway.

in 1964 — no, wait. That was the Dave Clark 5. Sorry. Speaking of which, Paul McCartney did play a major league ballpark in Chicago before, on the South Side in 1965.

heh… heh… heh…

… no confirmation of this, nor specific dates, yet.

but I’d be down for seeing Paul McCartney.

and his band when they were in their last decade. They were great. I wasn’t around to see them in the 1930’s and so was grateful to get the chance to see those legends. Just ‘cuz they were old didn’t mean they couldn’t still play, and play great. But we saw Wilco last year in Baltimore, too, and they were great. There’s room for both the acts in their “prime,” although you never know when an entertainer’s prime is actually going to be, and when they are more, shall we say, mature?

Aging just enhances his scary look and he still sounds great.

Also, just recently saw Spinal Tap Unwigged and Unplugged. They also did some of their other work like the Folksmen(Mighty Wind) and some of their other material. It was fantastic.

McCartney is still in his prime. Deal with it.

The Police concert at Wrigley (link to review) was a cool experience, but the sound was just OK… probably better than we had any right to expect.

I think it’d be VERY cool to see McCartney at Wrigley. Hope it happens.

next show will be 33 for me! Can’t wait for summer!!

I have done alpine for the past 6. I will do wrigley instead of Alpine if this occurs.

but somehow I just don’t think Wrigley Field is the right venue for him.

No other band could throw a festival in the middle of a swamp in Florida with no other acts involved and draw 85,000. Few other bands can do multi-night runs in arenas outside of Madison Square Garden and sell them.

Yet Phish does all of this with no radio play and little widespread popularity. The community around them is incredible – they were the third band traded on the internet, after Dylan and the Beatles – and their fans will follow them literally to earth’s end. You haven’t tailgated until you’ve experienced a Phish lot. People from all walks of life come together and just rage and celebrate and party. Its amazing.

Its been compared to the community the Grateful Dead inspired. You really do love them or hate them – very few people are in between. A show is more than just a concert… they are famous for their antics and theatrics, anything from riding a giant hotdog over the crowd to having an ongoing chess match set up with their fans from show to show. Fans have petitioned to make their lighting guy a 5th member, and they are famous for taking on a musical costume every Halloween and performing an entire album from bands like The Who. A lot of their appeal has to do with drugs… no where in the world are they more freely available than a Phish concert.

The easiest place to start – i believe – is with their covers of more mainstream music.

“Cities” (Talking Heads)
“Loving Cup” (The Rollings Stones)
“The Ballad of Curtis Loew” (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
“99 Problems” & “Big Pimpin’” (Phish w/ Jay-Z)

After that, their pop-ier tunes:

Free
Bouncing Around the Room
Joy

And then, roll the fattest joint you’ve ever rolled, and dig in to an epic 15 minute “You Enjoy Myself” featuring trampolines and an extended acapella vocal jam. Part 1 / Part 2

… the Cubs have offered season ticket holders concert tickets.

Its people like you that have enamored me so with the Phish community.

Its people like BeerBaron that make me want to punch a wookie.

1 closer to overtaking your post count this year, Drew. I’M COMING FOR YOU!

Did you know Buddy Holly was going to name his band the Crickets the Beetles. Of course, John Lennon did not know of this. The name “Beatles” refers to the fact that John Lennon wanted to “beat” the rival bands of Liverpool and it also refers of “Beat music.”

REO Speedwagon too…

Like i said, there is only one confirmed DMB date, although Bonaroo is happening. They are still working out routing for his summer tour as far as i know.

Both Phish and DMB do basically the same thing every summer, hitting essentially the same venues in essentially the same order. Picking the dates is a crap shoot, save for the occasional leak on the ticketing side.

… other than what Zeke posted (the photo of the elevator door). There’s nothing on the Cubs website, either.

My guess is, that they are doing a “mini-camp” over those two days. It seems likely that Cubs/Cardinals game could be a night game, which would mean the campers could use Wrigley most of that day, till early afternoon.

They have a day off the next day. For the 25th they get VIP treatment for the game, whatever the hell that means. Then the next day is the fantasy camp is the next day. My brother (mjk83) told me he talked to someone about it at the Cubs Convention because we were thinking Father’s Day gift. Then he found it will be somewhere around 3-4 grand since only 40 spots are being offered. See ya on that one.