Paul Fournier
Feb-17-2009, 17:36 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | I attended Paul Simon´s two concerts at the Beacon Theater in NYC last Friday and Saturday nights. The concerts were just excellent - and a dream come true for any Simon fan. I plan to post my comments about these two shows very soon (with a link to some photos and videos). However, I prepared the following report regarding my Paul McCartney experience at the Friday show that I thought some of you might be interested in reading.
You can imagine my Surprise when, after the lights went down on Friday night at the beginning of the show, I see Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell pass right in front of me! My seat was in the left side front orchestra in the third row very near the center aisle. Paul and Nancy walked in front of my section and then down the center aisle to their seats about six rows in back of me in the center front orchestra section. Paul´s seat was right on the center aisle. As a result, they were very close to me for the whole show.
Luckily, there was an intermission between Acts I and II. At the intermission, Paul and Nancy walked back down the center aisle the way they came in right past my seat again to likely go hang out backstage during the intermission. I took some nice video of this which I posted at the following link.
When Act II was ready to start, with the lights still on, Paul and Nancy came back out from backstage and walked in same direction towards my seat again to get back to their seats. As a result, I saw a great opportunity to go say hello. I told Paul that I was a huge fan and asked for a photo. He joked, "you´re not that huge." I think I was still laughing from his joke in the photo, but it´s all good, the photo shows how happy I was. As he walked off, I patted him on the back and thanked him for all of the excellent music.
Paul seemed to really be enjoying the show. They stayed until the very end, which makes sense because the final encore was three song set by a reunited Simon and Garfunkel. After the show was over, Paul and Nancy passed by me again and then went backstage for a few minutes where there was a get together of the performers and many famous guests that were in attendance (including Mayor Bloomberg, Jon Bon Jovi, Rosie O´Donnell, James Galdofini, Whoppi Goldberg, Jimmy Fallon, etc.).
I went outside to the backstage door after the show ended and Paul and Nancy were amongst the first to come out. Paul was very gracious, taking some time to sign autographs and converse briefly with people waiting out there. Being a fan since I was 10 years Old (30 years ago now!), this evening was very special to me so I wanted to share it here with other McCartney fans.
Here´s the link to some photos and videos. Be sure to also click the link at the bottom of this page to move to page 2 to see the video of Paul exiting the theater, signing autographs and talking to people out there.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v517/paulfournie
r/McCartney%202-13-09%20NYC/
Paul A. Fournier
Washington, DC
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Ans
Feb-17-2009, 18:10 GMT
Netherlands
 | Thanks Paul, you had a great night and you are a lucky guy, being so close to Paul & Paul, a lot of Paul´s here :)
A very nice review, loved to see your pictures and video´s and I am looking forward to your review, pictures and video´s from the concert´s.
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