Paul "effing" McCartney

I said I wanted to see Paul McCartney in concert when he came to Atlanta @ Peidmont Park, and I did...

In the Gates house - McCartney and Band on the Run was a road trip tradition. Everytime my parents and I would hitch up the boat or go on a little va-ca, we became "the band on the run". Not to mention the Beatles... hello?? Arguably one of the best bands ever to make music.

McCartney had not been Atlanta in over 40 years and he has been singing for nearly 45. This was a moment not to be passed up- by a long run.

This stage took two weeks to put together, they closed down 10th street which is no smal deal in A-town. PS> this is only 1/2 of it:

Now when I say I went to the concert, ya- I went... I just wasn't inside the venue :). ha! On the outskirts of Peidmont Park there is plenty of grassy areas to plop a blanket and relax & listen to the music. I can tell you now that we were alot more comfortable in terms of the 60,000 "standing room/call your space with a blanket" only. Not that you needed a blanket to sit on because I would imagine everyone was on their feet the entire time Paul sang.

And it wouldn't be a true outside concert with out a tiny bit of rain. Well, luckly no thunder or lightning- so Paul sang on. All the guppies who thought they would melt left the venue, but a lot stuck around. What was a sprinkle turned into an absolute down poor. And we got wet... here we are when it started to rain in our little hippi fort:

And here we are dancing- IN THE RAIN, soaked!

So here we are on our little part of lawn that is now drenched. After we dance to a few songs like... Jets, Hey Jude, Yesterday, Black Bird, Helter Skelter, Beep-Beep Beep-Beep, YA!, SGT. Pepper; (the list goes on...) we move around the outside of the park and walk down 10th and stand right behind the stage, we can see Paul on the big screen TV's -just barely, but still singing it up. So then we walk two more blocks to get a better vantage point/and or better sound quality in the back of someones yard.

We stayed there for the remainder of the concert until a little lady said we had to leave because we were on private property... so we totally walked right next door to someone elses lawn :) ha! She was like I"'m gonna call the cops," and we said - "go ahead, all of them are on duty for the concert, they're a little pre-occupied" PS>there are tons of peolple tresspassing tonight. (I didnt' really say it, but I was thinking that)

We stayed here for nearly another hour listening to the concert and the crowd sing, it was amazing. Then, when concert was nearly over, the excitment was just about to begin...

THE GRAND FINALLE.....

In these next epic moments you will hear my great friend Deborah talking to me while I am just standing there in awe and amazement. Forgive my video taking capabilities as even thought it is dark at the perfect possible moment, my camera lense points downward because I was waving to Sir Paul himself. After the concernt finished in a solid single encoure fashion- Paul dipped out. Where Deborah, her husband Jerome, and I were standing (in the woods behind someone's house with perfect amplification from the hundreds of speakers blaring into the crowd of 60,000 + on the Peidmont Great Lawn) the three of us were able to make a quick get away as well.

Sure enough, as we get ready to cross the street on Monroe a police escort turns onto Monroe from 10th. You will see the police and the black suburband immediately following. We thought he would be in the smaller car so you hear Deborah say "Wave Julia!" and we did... then we thought Paul was gone... but just beind the 'burban', the tour bus passed, and in blazing glory both arms stretched WAVING TO US from the front bus window is Sir Paul himself!!!!!!!!!!!! You can feel the excitment in our voice and in pure joy and happiness we couldn't help but laugh and I think Deborah shed a tear... :)

YES!!! HE WAVED AT US!! WE SAW SIR PAUL!!!!

Nothin' but smiles by the end of the night...

I feel I might have let down some of my readers, I posted on Twitter that I would curtsy if I ever saw McCartney- and in that split second I was completely abscent minded and was preoccupied waving :) ha. But I have curtsied at Prince Charles before!!! He totally nodded at me and I curtsied back :) That story for another day...

Truth: I would take a single encoure and a wave from one of the greatest Beatle legends who ever lived- any day.