Dodger Dogs were doing a robust business Saturday night during Paul McCartney’s appearance at the stadium that shares the delicacy’s name. He is not one of those performers who tries imposing dieta…
, who came out as one of the three guitarists recreating the part of “The End” where McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison took turns doing two-bar guitar solos. There was a bit of tentativeness in who actually was going to shred when, for, as McCartney admitted right afterward about the possibly unrehearsed cameo, “We didn’t have a clue what we were doing.”
Some other things don’t get old, either, like the amusing brief history McCartney gave of “In Spite of All the Danger,” a song he recorded pre-Beatles with the Quarrymen . He spoke of how there was one copy of the tape that had to be circulated among the band members, and the last guy to get it “held onto it for 20 years” and then finally sold it to McCartney at “a very inflated price.” Speaking, in these Swift-ian times, of a long history of not having control of one’s masters.
With the most tried-and-true oldies, a McCartney show offers the chance to find something new in them — and it’s always there to be found, for students of pop. Like, did you ever think about how pretty the bass part is in the quiet opening stretch of “Band on the Run”? Maybe you did for the first time, seeing his hands at work on the big screens. And there were plenty of moments to admire his particularly melodic turns on his trademark Hofner.
So it pleases the court to find that McCartney remains a show-stopping entertainer of the highest order without any “well, for a man of his years…” qualifications. At Dodger Stadium, when it came to his performance level, the crowd was in70s. You could seek out signs of the vocal thinning that is inevitable at a certain point and find it, in isolated spots. But he also sounded better than he did at Desert Trip three years ago.
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