This is what it was like inside Paul McCartney's club show at Pappy & Harriet's
This is the show I'm going to talk about on my deathbed--the day Sir Paul McCartney turned a high desert roadhouse into a modern day Cavern Club. It sounds like a dream, but it really did happen.
In between his Saturday night sets at Desert Trip, McCartney and his band blew in like tumbleweeds that can sing in perfect harmony to Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace on Thursday, Oct. 13, to play for a crowd of only a few hundred super fans who just found out about the show that morning when Macca announced it.
Some had seen McCartney's monster set at Desert Trip last weekend while others were headed to the Empire Polo Club this weekend. And there were high desert locals, like brothers Jaime and Mario Correa, 25 and 26, respectively, of Joshua Tree, who plunked down $50 each, in cash, for the show of a lifetime. Jaime Correa was working on a car engine when he heard about the show Thursday morning. "This is crazy," Jaime Correa said. "I didn't wake up this morning expecting to be here."
None of us did--well, except Macca and his band, and the merch guys, since there were posters ($10) and two different Pappy & Harriet's McCartney T-shirts for sale ($30).
Fans started unofficially lining up around noon, Jaime Correa said, and within a short time after the official line started a little before 3 p.m., the show was at capacity.
The lucky ones started being let in around 5 p.m., a little more than three hours before McCartney would take the stage for a 100-minute, 22-song set that ran the gamut from Beatles' favorites ("Love Me Do," "Cant Buy Me Love") to Wings' hits ("Band on the Run," "Let Me Roll It") to songs from McCartney's 2013 album "New" ("Save Us" and "Queenie Eye").
By: Vanessa Franko
Source: The Press Enterprise
