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Helter Skelter by Paul McCartney Halifax NS 2009
Paul McCartney’s successful 2009 North American tour was released as a DVD Good Evening New York City
Helter Skelter is the rock screamer for Paul from The Beatles (The White Album)
The song became notorious after Charles Manson’s mad crew wrote the Helter Skeleter in blood in the Sharon Tate’s house in LA after murdering the people in the home.
McCartney was the Beatle who liked to scream. Helter Skelter is as dirty and loud as he could imagine back then.
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Helter Skelter is the rock screamer for Paul from The Beatles (The White Album)
The song became notorious after Charles Manson’s mad crew wrote the Helter Skelter in blood in the Sharon Tate’s house in LA after murdering the people in the home.
McCartney was the Beatle who liked to scream. Helter Skelter is as dirty and loud as he could imagine back then.
“The sound, which has been described as a prototype for 1970s heavy metal sounds, was an attempt to outdo The Who; in an interview, Pete Townshend had described their single I Can See For Miles as the group’s most extreme sound to date.
“I was in Scotland and I read in Melody Maker that Pete Townshend had said: ‘We’ve just made the raunchiest, loudest, most ridiculous rock ‘n’ roll record you’ve ever heard.’ I never actually found out what track it was that The Who had made, but that got me going; just hearing him talk about it. So I said to the guys, ‘I think we should do a song like that; something really wild.’ And I wrote Helter Skelter.
You can hear the voices cracking, and we played it so long and so often that by the end of it you can hear Ringo saying,’I’ve got blisters on my fingers’. We just tried to get it louder: ‘Can’t we make the drums sound louder?’ That was really all I wanted to do – to make a very loud, raunchy rock ‘n’ roll record with The Beatles. And I think it’s a pretty good one. (The Beatles Bible)
It’s unfortunate that the drug-crazed Manson gave the song a bad reputation. It works as an all-out screamer.
The video for Helter Skelter is from Halifax, NS not NYC.
That’s how awesome the DVD is. Like for 30 bucks you get the 2 CD concert, the DVD and an additional DVD with the David Letterman Show songs plus I’m Down. The Letterman material seems a tad flat compared with the excitement McCartney whips up in the concert.
All the disks have baseball logos with hard to read labels. Whatever. The disks are held in a hard cover book with credits, story and photos. Cool.
This is awesome. Did I say that before? If you love the Beatles this is a got to own. If you went to the concert this summer, you already ordered right? I saw one of the concerts DVDs a few years ago and I wanted to go right then to attend one.
McCartney packs an emotional punch that is hard to compare. It’s excitement and happiness all at once.
Helter Skelter performance is copyright MPL Tours Inc and Paul McCartney. Lyrics are copyright Lennon and McCartney. Excerpt is fair use or fair play use in news story or review.
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