Paul McCartney LIVE in Israel! (56K warning)

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Paul McCartney LIVE in Israel! (56K warning)

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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 :P .

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50,000 people. Almost 1% of the total population of Israel :P.

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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" :P).

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The drummer
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Ah, to be there. (Lucky overpaid bastards :P).
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Some got very emotional. :D.
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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" :D
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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 :P

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How much did it cost?
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salm wrote:How much did it cost?
My standing ticket was 145 US dollars. A seated (VIP) ticket would have been 3 times as much.
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PMC and his band should be executed.
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salm wrote:PMC and his band should be executed.
You mean PAul McCartney? Yeah, the price was a lot, but I convinced my parents to make it a family excursion. (Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to afford it myself). The seated tickets were just nasty, 1,500 NIS is roughly half a months work at the minimum wage level here.
Paul came out of it with a 15 Million Shekel paycheck. (Almost5 million US dollars). Not bad for 2.5 hours work :P
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