So tell me this: How amazingly awesome is Dave Grohl? The best part of the performance (besides McCartney's surprisingly young-sounding voice) is watching Grohl sing along in the background. I'd be screaming at the top of my lungs if I were in his shoes ... I heard tell that he tried to get McCartney to play one of those top-secret-unannounced shows on Saturday night, but McCartney didn't like the idea.
And what a great song choice, too. I know I'm the biggest Beatles homer in my area code, and I'll readily acknowledge that their music doesn't make everyone get all misty or goose-bumpy ... but "I Saw Her Standing There" is one of the best pop-rock songs ever written. What makes it more impressive to me is that it came from "Please Please Me," which is (1) the Beatles' first album, and (2) was recorded in one day, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Listen to that disc now and you'll probably not believe it could be done in one day, so tight and professional was the band, even in its "early" days.
I'd put "I Saw Her Standing There" on the top five best McCartney bass tracks, too. It's very melodic and pushes the song forward in ways that surprised me when I first heard it. You think "Love Me Do" represents how the early Beatles played -- it's very simplistic, not much imagination. To think that only a few months separate "Love Me Do" from "I Saw Her Standing There" ...
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