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Paul McCartney has entered 2018 with warm-up gigs in Liverpool and London in June and July. Then, on September 7, 2018, a special live performance was held at a special stage in New York’s Grand Central Station. Although the set list is simpler than usual, there is no sense of Paul’s decline as a musician, and although the band has already entered its 16th year since becoming a member, everyone is performing wonderfully. Finally, they announced that they will be going on a new tour titled FRESHEN UP TOUR, replacing the previous ONE ON ONE TOUR. The tour will kick off in Canada in September 2018, include festival appearances, and has an American schedule scheduled for 2019. Then, in 2018, a performance was held in Japan as part of this FRESHEN UP TOUR. Even he himself would not have expected that at the age of 76, more than half a century after he first came to Japan at the age of 24, he would still be performing large-scale stadium concerts in faraway Japan. The schedule is as follows. October 31, 2018 Tokyo Dome November 1, 2018 Tokyo Dome November 5, 2018 Ryogoku Kokugikan November 8, 2018 Nagoya Dome This is the first Ryogoku Kokugikan, and the 1980 Wings was scheduled. It is unique in that it includes the Nagoya performance, which was originally canceled. Although the number of Tokyo Dome performances has been reduced from three last time to two, it would be impossible for an artist other than a big name like Paul to have the mobilization power to fill the dome stadium over and over again. This work is a complete recording of the first day of the 2018 Tokyo Dome performance, including the sound check. A distinctive feature of the FRESHEN UP TOUR is that they have added new songs from their new album “EGYPT STATION” to their repertoire. Moreover, he played two songs, “Who Cares” and “Come On To Me” at the beginning of the concert, and “Fuh You” in the middle. All of these songs seem to have been designed with concert performance in mind, and serve as an important accent to the stage composition. Also, “From Me To You” will be premiered on this tour. It is one of the Beatles’ representative songs from the very early days, and is featured as one of their acoustic corner songs. Other than that, if you just look at the songs on the set list, contrary to the tour title, there are no fresh selections, and there are songs that have been played before. However, if we were to highlight the characteristics of this tour, we should focus on the arrangements rather than the songs. The major difference from traditional Paul stages is the addition of a brass section. Until now, with the exception of Wings in the 70’s, basically no one other than band members joined Paul’s stage. Of course, there were times when bagpipe bands took the stage and guests performed. However, there were no musicians who accompanied the tour and participated in the concert production every night. For the first time, a brass section joined the band. The arrangement intentionally takes advantage of the fact that the sounds that had previously been substituted by Wicks’s keyboard are now played using real instruments. The brass section makes its first appearance on “Letting Go.” What’s more, the audience is excited by the surprise performance that is suddenly performed by the members who are lined up in the audience seats instead of on the stage. In the second half of the song, a short brass solo is inserted into the break, making the arrangement even more outstanding. It is also featured extensively in the new song “Come On To Me”. The brass section also plays an important role in “Let ‘Em In,” “Lady Madonna,” “Ob La Di Ob La Da,” “Live And Let Die,” “Hey Jude,” and the final Abbey Road medley. . Additionally, the Japanese word “ichiban” is used in the song “Back In Blazil” from the album “Egypt Station”. It was previously rumored that this song would be premiered in Japan, but in the end it was added as an intro at the beginning of “Come On To Me”. Although it is a small detail, this is also an arrangement that was first introduced in Japan. [October 31, 2018 Tokyo Dome Performance] The first day of the 2018 Japan performance opened with “A Hard Day’s Night”, a feature of the FRESHEN UP TOUR up to that point. This time, the acoustics are excellent, and the sound is more dense and looming than before, which is what surprises me. This is Paul’s stage in 2018, which has a thick sound image suitable for facing an audience of 50,000 people with only five members. What’s more, a horn section has been added, making it a “fascinating” show with beautiful lighting. The recording of this work was recorded in the front row of the stage, and it is recorded with the best sound quality in the performance in Japan since 2013. Also, Disc 3 is the sound check sound source that was held before the actual performance of the day. A public sound check for VIP tickets that will perform rare songs and cover songs that will not be performed in the main event. On this day, they played songs such as “Day Tripper” and “Things We Said Today”, which they haven’t heard in a while. From the 2018 performance in Japan, the first day’s Tokyo Dome performance on October 31st was completely recorded in ultra-high quality from the front row. It is recorded with the highest sound quality in the performance in Japan so far. If you can follow Paul’s live performances since 2003 in real time, this time as well, you will be able to get the latest tours from time to time with the label that has been delivering them in high quality as soon as possible. I think that many titles will be released this time as well, but there is no need to compare them with others, as long as this work is the definitive one, it will be enough. ■Complete recording of the Tokyo Dome performance on October 31, 2018 ■Super high-quality sound that gives you a sense of realism with front row recording from the stage cover ■Complete recording from the sound check before the Japan program TOKYO DOME, TOKYO JAPAN October 31, 2018 DISC ONE 01 Introduction 02. A Hard Day’s Night 03. Hi Hi Hi 04. All My Loving 05. Letting Go 06. Who Cares 07. Come On To Me 08. Let Me Roll It 09. I’ve Got A Feeling 10. Let’ Em In 11. My Valentine 12. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five 13. Maybe I’m Amazed 14. I’ve Just Seen A Face 15. In Spite Of All Danger 16. From Me To You 17. Love Me Do 18. Blackbird 19. Here Today DISC TWO 01. Queenie Eye 02. Lady Madonna 03. Eleanor Rigby 04. Fuh You 05. Being For The Benefit Of Mr.Kite 06. Something 07. Ob La Di Ob La Da 08. Band On The Run 09 . Back In The U.S.S.R. 10. Let It Be 11. Live And Let Die 12. Hey Jude 13. Yesterday 14. SGT. Pepper’s Reprise 15. Helter Skelter 16. Golden Slumbers – Carry That Weight – The End DISC THREE SOUNDCHECK 01. Settings 02. Paul’s Greeting 03. Tokyo Dome Jam 04. Honey Don’t 05. Coming Up 06. Day Tripper 07. C Moon 08. Let ‘Em In 09. San Francisco Bay Blues 10. Things We Said Today 11. Ram On 12 . Midnight Special 13. Sound For Massages 14. Lady Madonna 15. Paul’s Greeting
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