Lately I've bumped into a number of very nice musical clips to be found on Amazon. They are attached to certain product description pages. The first one I found was this wonderful performance of "Born to Run" by Springsteen. It's a performance from the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975, the year that Born to Run exploded and put Bruce on the covers of Time and Newsweek in the same week. It sure looked like very effective hype at the time, but Bruce has proven himself to be a lasting artist, and this performance from '75 proves what the fuss was all about. What an incredible performance. I enjoyed seeing parts of Bruce and the band's more recent Live concert DVD, until he started into his mock preaching mode, which I found offensive. Give me the 70s Bruce. This clip demonstrates what all the commotion was about.
This weekend I was pointed to this Paul McCartney performance of "Please Please Me" from his 2005 tour rehearsals. He's great as always. I love it when he digs up old material that hasn't been part of his repertoire for the last 20 years. His 2004 European tour had at least 10 first time concert performed songs, and this year's US tour had another 6 to 8 brand new appearances, including "I'll Get You", which was the b-side of "She Loves You", if memory serves. I never need to hear "Hey Jude" or "Jet" live again, but they show up on every tour, and I guess I understand why.
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