saturday in the (at&t) park with Paul

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Legendary concerts are often few and far between. Well, that is unless you’re Cher or Garth Brooks, who hook you into seeing their “last concert ever ever EVER!” and then decide to take up residency in Vegas. (No, I’m not bitter about being tricked at all… at all!) A couple of weeks ago, I hopped down to San Francisco with my mom to help her relive HER legendary concert experience. You see, she was lucky enough to see the Beatles on the first stop of their first US tour at the Cow Palace back in 1964. So when the opportunity to see her favorite Beatle (aka. Paul McCartney) in concert came up, she just couldn’t pass it up and decided to take me along!

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Here’s my super awesome and hip mom – beaming when she saw how amazing our seats were (Tourists take note: this is what you wear in San Francisco in the summer.)

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(Just imagine Paul standing right behind us… well.. 20 rows up at least)
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I’m sure you had no doubts in your mind, but the concert was entirely amazing and awesome. He had just come off a 2-week break, so his voice was outstanding, and he just looked like he was having the time of life performing on stage. Sure, there were probably more WINGS songs performed than most people in the crowd had heard during their lifetime, but anyone that can perform for 3 straight hours is amazing in my book!
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The set list for the concert:

1. Venus And Mars
2. Rock Show
3. Jet
4. All My Loving
5. Letting Go
6. Got to Get You Into My Life
7. Highway (The Fireman cover)
8. Let Me Roll It
9. Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix cover)
10. The Long and Winding Road
11. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
12. Let ‘Em In
13. My Love
14. I’m Looking Through You
15. Two Of Us
16. Blackbird
17. Here Today
18. Dance Tonight
19. Mrs Vandebilt
20. San Francisco Bay Blues
21. Eleanor Rigby
22. Something
23. Sing the Changes (The Fireman cover)
24. Band on the Run
25. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (HIGHLIGHT of the show!)
26. Back In The USSR
27. I’ve Got a Feeling
28. Paperback Writer
29. A Day In The Life / Give Peace a Chance (John Lennon cover)
30. Let It Be
31. Live and Let Die
32. Hey Jude
    Encore:
33. Day Tripper
34. Lady Madonna
35. Get Back
    Encore 2:
36. Yesterday
37. Helter Skelter
38. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
39. The End 

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And when the show was over, we all piled out of stadium in jubilant awe of what we just saw. Old and young alike, we all had a blast and stayed up way past our bedtime and got rained on by the fog to see a legend in our midst. The guy in aisle next to us paid $650 for his ticket. I heard from others in rows ahead of us that they had spent over $1000 each, and they remarked at the bargain they had gotten. In all, it was pretty darn awesome and I’m happy that I got to enjoy Sir Paul w/my mom!
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If you want to see a glimpse of the concert experience, I mashed up the little video clips I took during the concert into a movie below. Enjoy!
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