If you liked the Superbowl half-time show and you don’t yet own copy of Paul’s “Back in the USA” tour DVD, run right out and buy it. He toured with the same band and they are incredible. I put the DVD in the player, sat at the edge of my couch and watched the entire DVD without ever sitting back once. I was just frozen in amazement on the edge of the couch for the entire performance. It was that good.

I also recorded their USSR tour when it was on cable and put that on DVD. You’ve got to see Paul in Red Square singing back in the U.S.S.R. The audience just went wild. At the point he was singing Fool On The Hill and got to the part, “...and the sun going down” the sun was actually going down on Red Square. What an incredible concert that was too.

I gotta agree with all the others about the manufactured idols of today. None of them will be remembered 40 years from now except perhaps for a “where are they now?” show while Paul is still cranking out great music 40+ years later.

I hope I can still rock like that when I’m 62!

~jr

Paul is a gifted musician, songwriter and performer. The Beartles were unique in that they kept evolving and didn't stay in one "rut" like most other groups have. Nice to see a real talent with real depth!

I'm a little skeptical in that there weren't any good lines of view to easily see whether there was any lip-syncing going on - that makes me wonder a little bit.

Having said that, from what I COULD see I didn't see any giveaways, and there were some ad libs that would have had to have been REALLY worked on. At first I thought I "caught him" when he wasn't close to the mic for a count off or two, until I realized that there's no reason HE had to be the one counting off...

AND. The show just friggin' rocked. There's a reason he's a legend and a hero to so many of us. Wish they'd have shown more musicians and less spectacle, but that's show biz.

I just played the entire performance, from the Vegas timeline, again.

There are several camera shots that have the drummer way in the background, but where you can still see him hit the cymbals. These hits were "dead on" in each case.

There is another confirmation that it was live right at the end when Paul returns to the piano after briefly leading the crowd from a stand-up mic. He starts playing the piano for the final chorus, and starts singing, but the engineer hadn't turned the piano mic back up, and the first part of his final "na na's" were cut.

Definitely live.

. . and let's us not forget Mr Lennon . . . Just "Imagine" if he'd lived these past - how many years? :(

John! I really moss yah! .. having fun with Jimi? Betcha you are . . .

g

Yeah yeah yeah Grazie!

In the sixties, in darkest Essex, I was Rick Shaw, leader of the largely undiscovered Rick Shaw and the Coolees, and we'd wait for each new Beatles single so we could "copy" it at our next parish hall gig.

... guess I should send Michael Jackson some copyright money ...

"Rick Shaw and the Coolees" . . er . .did you ever do a gig at a Golf club in .. er. . what was it called? .. It was kinda Woodford/Chingford way? Did you know a guy called Dave Golding?

No, the nearest we got to Chingford was the Bardswell Social Club, in Brentwood, taking over from the PrettyThings on Sunday Nights. Apparently we did wonders ....... for church attendances.

Ah! The Pretty Things . . know a guy called Brian Morrison? - G