This kind of Breaks my Heart really because I’m a lifelong Fan of the Beatles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob3nHfBHPkg&list=RDob3nHfBHPkg&start_radio=1
His brilliance remains, but his voice is now tragically weak. He either needs better control of the sound or he nees to quit live performances.
2025 Got Back tour is the highest grossing and bestselling tour of McCartney’s career. The guy is 83… his fans want to be at a McCartney concert regardless of his declining vocals.
For 83, he sounds pretty darn good. The sound guy wasn’t doing a great job. Synth was too loud and the bass needed to come up a notch. He could have done some things to make Paul’s voice sound stronger.
I wasn’t a huge Beetles fan but I really like Paul McCartney and Wings, especially Band On The Run.
In five hundred years his music will still be popular.
Man I remember laying on my Grandparents Rope Rug in the Living Room and watching these guys on Ed Sullivan. I was an avid fan for decadees.
We’re watching the slow death of our Rock and Roll Hero’s
Least it tells you he’s actually singing and not faking it over a recording like a lot of other acts do.
I’ll always give credit to the Legends where it’s due music wise, but from what I hear, as a person, he’s a douchebag.
I would never go to a concert for nostalgia either. Either they put on an excellent show or gtfo. Especially at what they are charging now. Being able to say I got to go to a “famous band” concert and paid primo pricing when in actuality they sucked, is really freaking stupid to me….and the people who are doing this are the actual perpetuators of artists like him not calling it quits. If stupid people are going to keep giving him money for dog sh!t, why not give it to them.
The classic example here is Stevie Nicks’s performance at the '92 Clinton Inaugural where she’d clearly let herself go. On the other hand, it was a wakeup call that made her put in the effort again…
Time for another wake up call, she can barely walk.
In addition to suffering knee issues, Nicks had just finished a long period of immobilization due to a shoulder break. Still… there she is in heels on a Portland concert stage at 77-years-old. I tip my hat to her and offer thanks for decades of fantastic music. Hope she keeps performing as long as she wishes… fans will continue to enjoy.
So Honestly, if it’s that bad , why perform?
Obviously, if your time on this planet is coming to a close, perhaps go back to a studio and record everything you have, be creative, enjoy this phase of life.
But dressing up like a sixteen year old and coming out on bad knees and with arthritis ?
No really Old Rockstars are for FM Radio and Late Night Television.
The olling Stones don’t need a Tour, but if we are careful and they are dilligent we might get 3 decent al;bims before Death visits.
They enjoy performing and the fans enjoy being there. Does it need to be more complicated?
At 83 years of age McCartney just had his highest grossing and bestselling tour of his career. He surely doesn’t need the money. I’ve never felt the rush of being on stage with tens of thousands of people wanting me to perform anything but it must be addictive. At older ages it surely gives purpose, self confirmation and a host of other things while maintaining a shared connection with fans that can’t be duplicated with a digital music file streaming on Spotify. Nostalgia is a thing.
And eventually they are lip syncing and ending up like Frank SInatra or Elvis tied to a Las Vegas contract that will have their open coffin on stage if it will make a nickle.
Ugh. Dude, I’m still salty that I was in Vegas in time for the end of an era “Ol’ Blue Eyes & Mr. Warmth, One Last Time” and my mother wouldn’t let us get tickets.
Not that I was particularly a fan of either, but when icons of an era annouce it’s Curtain Call…
And someone threw and album at Eric Clapton while he was on stage recently, he packed his shit and left.
Can ya really say ya blame him? Me, I woulda made sure the whole audience knew to go after THAT GUY for their lost ticket value…
I don’t blame him at all, but when he’s underappriciated and goes from the #3 guitarist to the # 26 Guitar Player in History this year I think his time might be better spent in the studio, don’t you?
Now I really don’t want to see the Man die on stage, I don’t want to see any of them go out like that, but eventually someone will.
It’s too bad we don’t know exactly when because when it happens TicketMaster could really make some money.
I mean, I don’t blame him for walking off. Some of 'em think it’s ‘for the fans who let ne live the life I like,’ some are just narcissists, lots of potential reasons.
If I was a performer nowadays, I wouldn’t do live acts at any age or health, but I’m a misanthrope.
And the thing is every year Clapton does a big Blues Gig for Addicts, when is he getting hit in the head with a beer bottle doing that?
I love good Rock & Roll and Generally dislike most people, so I’m not paying 2 Thousand Dollars to go see Bruce Springsteen so I can get a political lecture, if I want music I have a lot of great options I can exersize, going to another Concert aint one of them.
I can’t begin to understand the phenom of fans throwing stuff at their heroes that they paid money to see. Saw a clip the other day where Angus unslung his guitar and went down to find the sod who had just hit him with a water bottle. I was at a Humble Pie concert in probably 1976 and Steve Marriott got hit with something. He said something like “It won’t take me but three seconds to get down there and kick ass!”
I have to think that people who are so bad at handling intoxication probably don’t last as long as everyone else.
