{"id":154,"date":"2009-07-25T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefest.com\/news\/index.php\/2009\/07\/25\/paul-live-at-citi-field-incredible\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T13:37:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T18:37:01","slug":"paul-live-at-citi-field-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/paul-live-at-citi-field-incredible\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Live at Citi Field – Incredible"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PaulPiano\"Just before 9:00PM, Friday, July 17th,the sold out Brand New Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, greeted its first concert with music’s biggest star. The sound was deafening as Paul and his band took the stage and ripped into Drive My Car. The energy never stopped. Paul began is set with familiar songs from recent tours, adding two songs from his recent Fireman Cd and a few from Memory Almost Full. It was the songs he chose that he hadn’t performed in the states that got were truly amazing. Song’s like Day Tripper, A Day In the Life\/Give Peace A Chance Medley, Paperback Writer & I’ve Got A Feeling. The light to middling rain for a while didn’t seem to bother anyone. He talked about the Shea Concert and how they couldn’t hear a thing because of all the screaming girls. This was a perfect cue for the screems of 2009. He played I’m Down, the song The Beatles closed the 1965 Concerts with. Live and Let Die was and always will be a showstopper with explosions and fireworks befitting a Fourth of July Celebration!! He then followed that up with Hey Jude. The band took a bow, left the stage and when they came back, Paul introduced Billy Joel, who as a hometown favorite received a thunderous ovation. He playing piano for I Saw Her Standin There, trading verses with Paul. It was an historic evening and one we will never forget. It was great seeing and talking to som many FEST regulars. Quite a few fans came up to us to say I was at the First one back in 1974, or I remember Mal Evans, from 1975, or Ronnie Spector was incredible this year. The Beatles ROCK BAND set up near section 333 and Michelle and I tried it out on Back In The U.S.S.R. It was a lot of fun and for all Chicago FEST attendees, do try it out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just before 9:00PM, Friday, July 17th,the sold out Brand New Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, greeted its first concert with music’s biggest star. The sound was deafening as Paul and his band took the stage and ripped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefest.com\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}