Saturday, October 5, 2024
Buenos Aires
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the South America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on October 12, 2024
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Concert • By Paul McCartney • Part of the South America leg of the Got Back Tour
Last updated on October 12, 2024
Location: River Plate Stadium
Concert Oct 01, 2024 • Uruguay • Montevideo
Rehearsal Oct 04, 2024 • Argentina • Buenos Aires
Concert Oct 05, 2024 • Argentina • Buenos Aires
Concert Oct 06, 2024 • Argentina • Buenos Aires
Concert Oct 11, 2024 • Chile • Santiago
Paul McCartney’s 2024 “Got Back” tour kicked off on October 1 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Following this, he traveled to Buenos Aires for three shows in Argentina. A rehearsal took place at the River Plate Stadium on October 4, in preparation for his upcoming concerts on October 5 and October 6.
The setlist for the October 5 concert featured several changes compared to the October 1 performance. Paul kicked off the show with “Can’t Buy Me Love” rather than “A Hard Day’s Night.” “Drive My Car” was performed in place of “She’s A Woman.” Additionally, “Hi, Hi, Hi” made its first appearance since 2019, substituting for “Birthday.”
I had the incredible blessing of winning a contest this past saturday and got to meet and chat with Paul. It was a marvelous, unbelievable moment, and I also met Charlie Lightening there. I didn’t know he was following him EVERYWHERE. […] I won the meet and greet contest on a local radio show. We were there around 3 pm and met Stuart Bell, also saw Brian from security walk by. They walked us into soundcheck which was great – I’d already attended one in 2019 but this was a necessary one since there were issues with Paul’s piano monitors (“We usually just go through soundcheck and that’s it but this is a real one” he said). He played Let it Be a few times to check everything was working. Ten minutes before soundcheck was over they walk us to the right side of the stage and we rehearse the group pic with Stuart posing as Paul. We had to put everything aside. Phones, wallets, markers, etc. And then he showed up. He’s the coolest guy you’ve ever met. No acting, no “I have to meet fans” posing, no rushing through meet and greet, the man is genuinely happy to meet fans and have a chat. He shook everyone’s hand. Someone asked him if he played guitar on “It’s All Too Much” which he didn’t even remember. After we hummed it he just said “I don’t know”. He said it was him playing bass on helter skelter (…) He looked at some of our shirts and at one point he noticed a “Fans on the Run” pin and said “that’s bootleg. Sue him” while looking at his security guy. Then he asked about ourselves and how we’d won each contest. I told him I got married on Monday, I entered the contest, I was there with him and – only if I didn’t pass out – it was my birthday in a few hours, to which he replied “Really? Awwww. Come here” and he pulled me into a hug. He didn’t hug all of us so I was quite amazed of what was happening. It was a strong hug and he did get into it, contrary to what I would’ve thought that he’d try to avoid any close physical contact. I could hear the other guys whispering ‘Oh My God’. Another girl was about to get married and he hugged her as well. We did a group picture and it all feels like a dream, we’re waiting for MPL to send the photo. He is really, really down to earth. He disarms your “crazy fan” ways in a few seconds. He looks GREAT. No makeup, long soundcheck in the sun with a jacket on, cleanest guy I’ve ever met. When he opens his mouth and his voice comes out, you realize you’ve never heard that voice outside of a video or a speaker. He is the coolest guy ever, for real. I had the craziest week of my life and I’m still trying to put it all together. The dream of all dreams !!
User “Suffragette” – From Steve Hoffman Music Forums
From LA NACION, October 6, 2024 (auto-translated from Spanish):
The concerts of artists who have already become legends, more than musical moments, are emotional experiences. No one (or almost no one) in that great tide of public that observes the stage in a dazzled way has any expectation of how much they can be surprised when the lights go out; rather, he expects an experience: how much the evocation of those songs will influence his feelings. And that was exactly what began to be experienced as soon as the first of the two shows that Paul McCartney scheduled in Buenos Aires for his Got Back Tour kicked off this Saturday.
At 9:20 p.m., the great living hero of rock began to go through a repertoire of about three dozen songs without haste or pauses, during the more than two and a half hours of music that lay ahead of him. In what he puts on stage there are essential elements and others that might not be there, but they are, nevertheless, his best allies. You don’t need to hang a hem on your right shoulder, but it’s something you can’t stop doing. It is an extension of your body. Fortunately for his bones, he continues to choose the lightest electric bass that was created in the last 69 years. Neither by contract nor by the demands of the public does he have to play and sing for almost three hours, but for some reason he needs to spend that time there, hand in hand with songs that work like a photographic album that begins in his adolescence, with a postcard that he brings from the prehistory of his success, The Quarry Men. And with all that nostalgia, of course, that embellishes memories.
On the vertical screens guarding the ends of the stage, the image of the iconic Hofner 500/1 bass disintegrating in the explosion of a big bang was seen, seconds before Sir Paul and his band entered and took their places. Then the first sign of what was to come next was heard. Definitely, it was not a musical journey but an absolutely emotional one, with “Can’t Buy Me Love” that sounded powerful, like a vertigo of sensations that made the audience explode in a scream and everything became an emotional flashback to the heart of The Beatles.
After the second song, “Junior’s farm” (another old, although not so old, from his band Wings), he offered the first words to the audience: “Hello, Argentina, good night, Buenos Aires. Oh yes!“, was his laconic presentation, so as not to cut the rock climate of his powerful beginning.
From then on, many songs by The Beatles would begin to be played, from McCartney’s solo stage and until the last release, created with Artificial Intelligence, which allowed a piano recording of John Lennon to be included in a version of the song “Now and Then”.
Although it is little noticed, Paul McCartney is not the alien that some suppose he is. He is a man of flesh and blood, 82 years old and vocal cords that honor his age. Only that their professionalism allows the aging of their throat to become a simple fact of the passing of the years. Anyone who has seen him in previous shows will have noticed how significant the changes in his voice can be in the last two decades. And yet, it has not lost its particular signs at all. Just a few tricks are enough to distract him over the years. Setting a trap for him. Use another diaphragmatic volume and phrasing that allows you to round notes that you didn’t need to round with effort before. It is difficult to explain in any other way the fact that he can arrive, thirty songs later, with nuances and singing strength, to classics such as “Helter Skelter” which is one of those he saved for the final stretch of the concert. […]
This was the 7th concert played at River Plate Stadium.
A total of 8 concerts have been played there • 1993 • Dec 10 • Dec 11 • Dec 12 • 2010 • Nov 10 • Nov 11 • 2024 • Oct 4 • Oct 5• Oct 6
Instrumental Jam
Written by Joe Turner
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Richard Penniman / Little Richard, Enotris Johnson
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Midnight Special (Prisoner's Song)
Written by Traditional
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Medley
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Jimi Hendrix
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by John Lennon
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by George Harrison
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Encore
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
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Nahuel • 1 day ago
I started reading and I noticed it was me!! I’m suffragette from the Steve Hoffman Music Forum.
Thank you for sharing my story. I still can’t believe it and I don’t think the penny is going to ever fully drop.
Unbelievable. Out of this world experience. What a guy !!
