Paul McCartney LIVE in Israel! (56K warning)
Posted: 2008-09-27 11:06am
I was among the 50,000 spectators in the concert in Tel Aviv on Thursday night, featuring the one and only Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE.
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I wasn't that close (But I was in the inner fifth of the total volume, despite arriving only an hour before the start of the show), so the pictures are crap compared to the Deep Purple concert ones, but I thought I'd show them off, er, let you feel the concert atmosphere
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50,000 people. Almost 1% of the total population of Israel.
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This was just a line behind me, the panoramic view was more impressive.
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Paul on his piano. (Apparently he had a screen there with some of the lines. He definitely had one fir his "Engrish" type Hebrew. ("Shalom Jude").
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The drummer
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Ah, to be there. (Lucky overpaid bastards).
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Some got very emotional..
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For "Live and Let Die" (Hurrah for James Bond!) there was a very awesome series of fireworks and gasses released.
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Some "propaganda"
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More hippy fun
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A final informational tidbit: In the Beatles heyday (the full band, before the troubles) they wanted to come to perform in Israel. David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the state of ISrael and it's prime "Founding father" refused on the grounds that it would "Corrupt the morals of the youth". Bloody socialists
a quickr pickr post
.I wasn't that close (But I was in the inner fifth of the total volume, despite arriving only an hour before the start of the show), so the pictures are crap compared to the Deep Purple concert ones, but I thought I'd show them off, er, let you feel the concert atmosphere
.IMG_0039
50,000 people. Almost 1% of the total population of Israel
.IMG_0044
This was just a line behind me, the panoramic view was more impressive.
IMG_0110
Paul on his piano. (Apparently he had a screen there with some of the lines. He definitely had one fir his "Engrish" type Hebrew. ("Shalom Jude"
).IMG_0082
The drummer
IMG_0084
IMG_0102
IMG_0111
Ah, to be there. (Lucky overpaid bastards
).IMG_0124
IMG_0125
IMG_0129
Some got very emotional.
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IMG_0152
IMG_0162
For "Live and Let Die" (Hurrah for James Bond!) there was a very awesome series of fireworks and gasses released.
IMG_0166
IMG_0133
IMG_0136
IMG_0140
Some "propaganda"
IMG_0142
More hippy fun
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IMG_0154
IMG_0156
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IMG_0158
IMG_0164
IMG_0176
IMG_0183
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A final informational tidbit: In the Beatles heyday (the full band, before the troubles) they wanted to come to perform in Israel. David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the state of ISrael and it's prime "Founding father" refused on the grounds that it would "Corrupt the morals of the youth". Bloody socialists
a quickr pickr post