PAUL McCARTNEY
Tour: Driving World Tour // Leg 1: North America (Driving USA Tour)
Venue: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
City: Oakland, California, USA
Date: April 1st, 2002
This is the first show of the Driving USA Tour, Paul's first tour of the 21st century and the start of his current era of touring. This is the first full-length show played by his new touring band, as Paul's 2002 Super Bowl appearance was only one song ('Freedom'), and boy, do they deliver! A great audience recording captures the complete show, as well as snippets of pro footage captured by Reuters. Despite being the first show of the tour promoting 'Driving Rain', no new tracks from the album get their debut performances tonight, with Paul sticking with the four songs he's already done live prior to the tour.
Paul is in great shape tonight, embellishing and delivering songs with more joy and passion than we've heard in years, even managing to out-sing his early 90s self a couple times. While there are a couple of rougher performances here and there (he struggles with 'Freedom', for example, these sorts of vocal issues are expected for the first night of a tour as he's still getting used to the set), there are still plenty of highlights from him tonight, including a fantastic 'Jet', a superb 'Coming Up', a great 'Let Me Roll It', and a pretty strong 'Driving Rain', 'C Moon' is a really fun performance with a very ad-libby Paul, and 'Let It Be' is a really great performance with some really gutsy note attempts. The outro to 'Hey Jude' is also fantastic, with some great ad-libs and piano work from the frontman.
The ever-so-consistent Wix is fantastic, with lots of great things during 'Coming Up', and a great solo during 'Let Me Roll It'. Abe's drumming is an absolute highlight, and it's just a joy to hear him tearing through each song with great precision and energy, also delivering great harmonies throughout. There's great moments of musicianship present throughout, with some of them being 'Coming Up', 'C Moon', 'Freedom', 'Let It Be', and 'The End' (excellent guitar work on the latter three, by the way).
Sources:
-Audience Recording (A) (main)
-TV Report (A) (tracks 0, 3, 4, 7, 23, 27, 31)
PRE-SHOW
00:00:00 - Setting up and stage preparation
SHOW
00:01:45 - 00. Intro
00:03:17 - 01. Hello Goodbye (live debut)
00:06:07 - 02. Jet (first live performance since 1993)
00:10:31 - 03. All My Loving
00:13:34 - 04. Getting Better (live debut)
00:17:06 - 05. Coming Up (first live performance since 1993)
00:21:05 - 06. Let Me Roll It (first live performance since 1993)
00:26:35 - 07. Lonely Road
00:30:33 - 08. Driving Rain
00:34:29 - 09. Your Loving Flame
00:39:16 - 10. Blackbird (first live performance since 1993)
00:41:57 - 11. Every Night (first live performance since 1993)
00:45:06 - 12. As I Was Walkin’ Down the Street (tease)
00:45:15 - 13. We Can Work It Out (first live performance since 1993)
00:48:22 - 14. Mother Nature’s Son (first live performance since 1993)
00:51:52 - 15. Vanilla Sky
00:55:12 - 16. You Never Give Me Your Money / Carry That Weight (live debut)
00:58:28 - 17. The Fool On The Hill (first live performance since 1990)
01:02:57 - 18. Here Today (live debut)
01:06:35 - 19. Something (live debut)
01:09:52 - 20. Eleanor Rigby (first live performance since 1990)
01:12:42 - 21. Here, There and Everywhere (first live performance since 1993)
01:16:00 - 22. Band On The Run (first live performance since 1993)
01:21:24 - 23. Back In The USSR (first live performance since 1993)
01:25:12 - 24. Maybe I’m Amazed (first live performance since 1990)
01:30:11 - 25. C Moon (first live performance since 1975)
01:34:49 - 26. My Love (first live performance since 1993)
01:39:45 - 27. Can’t Buy Me Love (first live performance since 1993)
01:42:37 - 28. Freedom
01:47:05 - 29. Live and Let Die (first live performance since 1993)
01:50:52 - 30. Let It Be
01:56:17 - 31. Hey Jude
E N C O R E
02:05:29 - 32. The Long And Winding Road
02:09:16 - 33. Lady Madonna (first live performance since 1997)
02:12:16 - 34. I Saw Her Standing There
E N C O R E
02:17:46 - 35. Yesterday
02:20:46 - 36. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (first live performance since 1993)
02:21:55 - 37. The End
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