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Originally Posted by VaSteve
I'd go again, as long as it wasn't too much new stuff. Even solo he is captivating.
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FWIW, I thought it was a good balance and tasteful presentation. A few new songs were mixed in, but they were good and most of the stuff was what I wanted to hear, played the way I like. It was pretty straightforward. The accoustic stuff was gentle and heartfelt and intimate. The electric stuff was crunchy and sonic and he beat the piss out of the black Les Paul and tried to bend the tremolo bar and stomped the foot pedals like a man possessed. I think it was a new song, Spirit Road in which he did the long (at least twenty minutes) bit of guitar S&M. It worked. And in the harsh electric set he did the fattest, smoothest Oh, Lonesome Me I will ever hear. Substantially better than the album version, if you can believe that. The great ones make it look easy.
I'll weigh in on the other thing. John was clearly the creative force the other Beatles had trouble reckoning with. Paul was cute and had a golden singing voice, and he was a technician. His chops are like Mozart compared to John's Beethoven. Mathematical. Young bass players would do well to just chart his bass chops. Instructive, on a basic level. Structural. Paul understood music. John understood art. Between the two of them, they were immensely productive. In about eight or nine years, they created a mountain of brilliant tunes.