Blackbird
by Tanya Filichkin
Title
Blackbird
Artist
Tanya Filichkin
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Digital rendering of my photograph taken during Paul McCartney - One On One Tour 2016 - fantastic show at the Moda Center, Portland, OR, on April 15th.
It was stunningly amazing gig!
See the official review below.
http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2016/04/paul_mccartney_in_portland_moda_review.html
Paul McCartney in Portland: As good as it gets
OregonLive.com
Calling a McCartney gig a concert is like calling Star Wars: The Force Awakens a movie. The legacy, the nostalgia, the expectations - McCartney understands all of it. His One on One show rolled out the expected lighting rigs and video screens, but the real stagecraft was his storytelling: he touched on playing ukulele with Harrison, meeting Russian officials who learned English from Beatles songs, being nervous in the studio recording Love Me Do with late producer George Martin, and penning Blackbird to support the 1960s civil rights movement. These moments from rock history were funny and humble or as humble as one can be about, say, Jimi Hendrix learning your new song in two days, as the guitar god did for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band upon its release. On Friday, McCartney returned the tribute with an instrumental jam through Foxy Lady, taking his major guitar solo for the evening.
The set list, matching up with Wednesdays Fresno tour debut, felt erratic at first, swerving from A Hard Day's Night to recent track Save Us and back to the Beatles with Cant Buy Me Love. McCartney's voice, once unblemished gold, has aged into something sometimes more coppery. But the show settled in, reaching a lovely peak when McCartney, alone on a platform that rose above the crowd, delivered acoustic renditions of Blackbird and Here Today. Fool on the Hill and Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! explored colorful psychedelia; a cover of Harrisons Something shifted from uke-only to a fantastic full-band.
And McCartney entered the 2010s like a relevant Millennial by singing his latest collaboration, FourFiveSeconds-taking the vocal place of Rihanna and Kanye West, which meant hearing a Beatle sing Hold me back, Im bout to spaz with a lyric video running behind him. Not to avoid the full arena experience, James Bond theme Live and Let Die included blasting pyrotechnics, sprays of lasers and climactic fireworks that left McCartney clutching his ears in mock irritation...
Its a celebration, of art that deserves to endure and the incoming generations getting the chance to share in their parents' or even grandparents music. We can't always be the lucky ones front-row at the Cavern Club or the Troubadour or the Doug Fir Lounge during a band's early days, but we can still have nights like this. Nights where we get to sing Hey Jude in all its heart-filling, na-na-na glory. As Harrison once sang, all things must pass. But not Paul McCartney. Not yet./ By David Greenwald
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April 30th, 2016
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