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PAUL McCARTNEY "unplugged:the official bootleg" cd,1991.[B] #7 UK, #14 US[/B]

after his massive world tour of 1990, Macca headed into the MTV studios to face an audience of some fifty or so fans...
some of those fans taped the show and were selling it on the "www", so Macca ruch released this set to combat the bootleggers,thus,the aptly titled set!
this one was actually recorded totally acoustically with all instruments having their own mic's to pick up the sounds rather than being plugged in, giving a real acoustic session...
included on this one is,according to macca, the first song he ever wrote in "i lost my little girl". elsewhere there are some rare covers in "blue moon of kentucky", "hi heel sneakers","singing the blues" and "be bop a lula" to name a few...
we even see him pull three tracks from his debut solo set "mccartney" also(tracks 8,12 and 17), along with a rare live version of The Beatles "she's a woman"...
even band guitarist Hamish Stuart pulls a couple out of the hat showing his talents as a vocalist on "and i love her" and "aint no sunshine"...
interesting to note the false start at the beginning of "we can work it out" where macca starts the second verse instead of the opening verse at the beginning, but like he says "seeing as its informal, we'll start again"...LOL!
i just feel as though Macca's vocals are quite flat at times which lets this one down a bit, but in the scheme of things where else can you find him singing a lot of these tracks...nowhere i suspect, unless its around the dining table, and i guess i'll never get that privilage, so this will suffice!
also, this album became Macca's best selling album in the US since 1982's superb "tug of war" set....

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: hi heel sneakers
best track: singing the blues

tracks:

1. be bop a lula *
2. i lost my little girl **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITgCAXvyEK0 live
3. here there and everywhere **
4. blue moon of kentucky **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl_KZ5Z-D9s audio
5. we can work it out **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhlFDE_3Ewk live(includes false start with wrong verse!)
6. san fransisco bay blues **
7. ive just seen a face **
8. every night **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzv3ERy0sAM live
9. shes a woman **
10.hi heel sneakers *
11.and i love her **
12.that would be something **
13.blackbird **
14.aint no sunshine **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwz0VGr6-7U audio
15.good rockin tonight **
16.singing the blues **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbCHXVOtDP4 live
17.junk **

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2s=15
1s=2

rating: 1.9