Paul McCartney - 1993-09-03 - Berlin, Germany (soundcheck) (SBD)

Paul McCartney
1993-09-03
Soundcheck
Waldbuehne
Berlin, Germany
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

01. Can’t Buy Me Love
02. Jet
03. Back In The USSR
04. Live And Let Die

Paul McCartney - 1993-09-03 - Berlin, Germany (soundcheck) (SBD)

Almost every rock band has been influenced by The Beatles, and the Grateful Dead are no exception. According to one biography of Jerry Garcia, the reason Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions morphed into the Grateful Dead was all thanks to the Fab Four."For one thing, like half of America under the age of 25, Jerry had been seduced by the Beatles, especially their film, A Hard Day's Night, which depicted life in a rock and roll band as just about the most fun that could be had on planet earth. The Beatles were deliciously irreverent and in-your-face anarchic; untameable gadabouts on an endless lark, always living in a completely different universe than the pitiable straight forces that were constantly trying to control, or at the very least, restrain them." "The Beatles were why we turned from a jug band into a rock and roll band" said Bob Weir. Over the years, The Grateful Dead incorporated a host of Beatle tunes into their live shows, including A Day In the Life, Blackbird, Day Tripper, Hey Jude, I Want To Tell You. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Rain, Revolution, Tomorrow Never Knows and Why Don't We Do It In The Road.. They also played McCartney’s That Would Be Something. Jerry Garcia’s solo shows included covers of I Saw Her Standing There, Eleanor Rigby and Dear Prudence, as well as McCartney’s Let Me Roll It. In 1995, in the wake of Garcia’s death, Paul McCartney released a 9 minute film about the Grateful Dead, using 4 rolls of photographs his wife Linda had taken of the band during the 1960s. McCartney admitted he had never been to a Dead concert, but after making the film, regretted he never took the opportunity to do so. Perhaps that's why he invited Bob Weir to join him on stage during a July 17, 2016 concert in Boston to play Hi Hi Hi and Helter Skelter. This soundboard recording captures the aforementioned Sir Paul on September 3, 1993, 2 dozen years ago today, during his soundcheck prior to that night's concert in Berlin.