macca courageous at CFNY?

[Sroundtable@xxxxxxx]

> Two different things.  "Ballsy" = courageous, it was courageous to 
> debut a new song.  

I think not.  Might be "ballsy" to play new stuff at a benefit concert with 
just Paul, but not when people had waited 6 hours for his big finale and he 
debutes this song not once, but TWICE!  I didn't think it was ballsy at all, 
rather arrogant and out of touch.  I might forgive the rotten freedom song if 
it had been sandwiched between hey, jude, band on the run, yesterday, and let 
it be, but not after opening with the god awful I'm Down.  This wasn't a 
Beatles crowd or a mccartney crowd, it was a classic rock greatest hits crowd 
seeing some of the greatest acts in music history.  Essential to play stuff 
the crowd is likely to recognize.  As bad as Backstreet boys are, they were 
twice as bad because they sung sappy ballads instead of doing their dance 
thing and their popular songs.  It's all about understanding the moment.  The 
Who got it, macca didn't.

mc

"Just fucking listen and shut up!"- Pete Townshend live in Long Beach 1971