Paul? Dec 31 1966

[Dave Wise]

True story. In Dec 1966 the band I was in was playing the Blue Gardenia Brighton Sussex. I guy dressed in well pressed blue denim approached me and offered us a high profile gig at Saltdean Lido on new years eve. That would be my 21st birthday so we jumped at it. He asked us to do him one big favor. Try out a singer for him prior to the show. Sure enough, on the night there the singer was introduced by the denim man. I was assured he wasnt wanting to join the band merely it was some kind of jam and an opinion has to how it went. The guy was scruffily dressed, unshaven and looked vaguely familiar with a Scouse accent. Half way thru the rehearsal I noticed he had a gold identity bracelet on his wrist with the name McCartney on it. He played an acoustic guitar wore a sheepskin jacket and the songs although I cant be certain sounded like they were from the first Paul McCartney solo album which came much later. We politely said he was great although I must admit now it did not make of an impact on me. The gig went great and it was a memorable 21st. As the days weeks months and years went by I began to think more about this strange episode. The odd thing not long after Paul McCartney bought a farm in Rye Sussex not more than 15-20 miles from Saltdean. He often records in Brighton and I believe he now has a beach front property at Hove Lagoon right next door to Saltdean where my brother actually saw him in a Range Rover a couple of weeks ago. Crazy story hey! Well this is the first time I have shared it publicly

[Forum Manager]

wow! that is a strange story! dont be shy to register! welcome

[MrMustard]

Yeah, welcome! ;D

You're so lucky, even to have met Faul.... I've never met any of the Beatles, and probably never will either unless Ringo or Paul/Faul do one last tour, which I doubt. The Beatle I want to meet the most is John, life is so unfair!

[Imgonnaopenmymind]

Consider yourself lucky to be one of the few who has had the pleasure of seeing Faul's first performance in the role of Macca.

Except for using the solo songs and the blatant show of identity bracelet, he did quite well.

One question: did he play right handed or left?

[zoltron]

Man, that is a cool story...you must've been shocked when Faul walked in & started playing & singing...not too good, huh? Paul would be 1 tough act to follow. I was all over this, then the radio dj's were explaining that it was all a hoax & I just forgot about it...now this has rekindled my old Sherlock abilities. I guess we'll just have to wait & find out when we're all dead & in heaven, hopefully.

[Tigeranne]

I just got done looking at the photos... couldn't hear
the vocal comparisons on the site that I was on, but
have listened to Beatles/Mac(Faul?) for years...

ok. the reason I am freaking out right now: I've
been kinda thinking for years that Paul sounded
way way different from the early records to the
later ones. I shrugged it off.

I wondered many times how his voice went from
AMAZING to kinda off key and weak. I chalked it
up to years of cigarettes/age/ laziness.

I also wondered why he lost his ability to write a GREAT song. Gave myself the same reasons.

Here's the clincher. I was watching "hard day's night"
on VHS about 4 years ago. I then watched "give my
regards to broad street". I actually found myself wondering why Paul seemed SO different through
the years.

Now, you have to realize, I am too young to remember
the whole "paul is dead" thing. In fact, I didn't even
discover the Beatles until 1989. I read everything
I could find about them, and bought all the CDs.

I have always thought that the paul thing was a hoax,
perpetrated by the group for publicity(or perhaps to
have a laugh on all of us).

I have to say, reading on a website things that made
me remember my own musings about the changes
in paul has got me ALMOST believing. I can't say I'm
'IN'. I'm not ready to say it's a bunch of crap though.

wow. this gives me something to think about, that's
for sure.

[Curious]

Tigeranne, welcome! Sign up and join in the discussion. I'm still having problems with some bits of the theory, but I'm working through them with help from people here, and my own listening/reading/surfing.

[mike]

Guest-Tigeranne said:

I just got done looking at the photos... couldn't hear
the vocal comparisons on the site that I was on, but
have listened to Beatles/Mac(Faul?) for years...

ok. the reason I am freaking out right now: I've
been kinda thinking for years that Paul sounded
way way different from the early records to the
later ones. I shrugged it off.

I wondered many times how his voice went from
AMAZING to kinda off key and weak. I chalked it
up to years of cigarettes/age/ laziness.

I also wondered why he lost his ability to write a GREAT song. Gave myself the same reasons.

Here's the clincher. I was watching "hard day's night"
on VHS about 4 years ago. I then watched "give my
regards to broad street". I actually found myself wondering why Paul seemed SO different through
the years.

Now, you have to realize, I am too young to remember
the whole "paul is dead" thing. In fact, I didn't even
discover the Beatles until 1989. I read everything
I could find about them, and bought all the CDs.

I have always thought that the paul thing was a hoax,
perpetrated by the group for publicity(or perhaps to
have a laugh on all of us).

I have to say, reading on a website things that made
me remember my own musings about the changes
in paul has got me ALMOST believing. I can't say I'm
'IN'. I'm not ready to say it's a bunch of crap though.

wow. this gives me something to think about, that's
for sure.

Thats how we all start out. I thought PID was a load of b.s. when I first heard of it, but after looking at the sites here (mainly Uberkinder's) I must say it is very possible 60IF is true.