Macca -- Scottish Ex-Pat's Blether Bar & Grill

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, [9], 10 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 01:30:09 06/28/10 Mon
Author: BB
Subject:

Macca

Last night I was singing with Paul McCartney. Fair enough there were about 40,000 other people singing as well but the fact remains that Paul and I were singing the same songs in the same place, Cardiff Millennium Stadium.

My eldest son bought tickets for Mrs BB and myself as a Father's Day present. I've been a fan since I was at school but never thought that one day I'd be singing along and looking directly at the man himself. When he sang "Band on the Run" I was transported back to Aberfoyle school camp where I listened to the song on a cassette player after dark with the volume at a low peep so as not to wake the rest of the hut. Since those huts had once housed prisoners-of-war the song took on a spooky significance.

And I watched Paul, not a film or a video, but him, singing "Yesterday", the song I had mangled on my second-hand guitar as a plooky teenager. What the hell did I know about yesterdays when I'd only had a few? Now I realise that my yesterdays probably outnumber my tomorrows, so I'd better dig out the guitar and finally learn how to play the bloody thing.

"Get Back", "Lady Madonna", "Back in the USSR" and lots of other Beatles songs had the crowd on their feet, including one drunken sod in front of us who kept leaving for a piss every ten minutes and shouting "we want Cilla!" at more random intervals.

Paul McCartney has been crticised for being an eternal optimist in his songwriting. John Lennon, who I also admire, was praised for writing some darker songs. Well, last night the sixty-eight-year-old McCartney sang his heart out for nearly three hours to a delighted audience and finished with "thank you Cardiff........see you next time!". The "see you next time" lifted my heart. He may be a pensioner, but his optimism worked for me. I left the stadium a younger man with a younger Mrs BB holding my hand.

Gaun yirsel Macca!

BB

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

Re: Macca -- ANI, 09:16:06 06/28/10 Mon
Re: Macca -- Thingmy, 00:07:50 06/30/10 Wed
- Re: Macca -- Ani, 07:09:08 06/30/10 Wed
Re: Macca -- Ani, 07:11:18 06/30/10 Wed