We saw Paul McCartney and his band at the Hollywood Bowl a few nights ago thanks to our friends’ Julia and Brian Ray (who plays guitar & bass in the band). We had fantastic seats and ‘meet the band passes’, but we arrived a bit too late to enjoy them. Hollywood crawls to a halt when there’s a big show at the bowl and it took us over an hour to get there from our apartment which is less than 4 miles away!
But it was magic! And Paul played for three hours! I don’t know how he or anyone can sing for that long. He must have sung 25 or 30 songs! He was outstanding! It was so inspiring. He is a fantastic musician and singer on top of the wonderful song writer arranger and producer that he’s been for almost 50 years!
I dedicate my song Awesome to him in perpetuity!
Here is an iPhone shot of the fireworks during Live and Let Die! I was afraid to bring my camera (git)!
It’s times like this that I remember how much music means to me. Thanks Paul!
My favorite song of the night? Something. He played it on a ukulele that George gave to him years ago. How emotional can it get. And George died in Paul’s house, which is only a couple of miles from the bowl.
