Paul McCartney Talks Summer Tour, New 'Pure McCartney' Comp
"It's like the Bob Dylan thing, isn't it? The 'Neverending Tour,'" Paul McCartney says with casual good cheer, chatting over the phone between show dates. This is how he likes the road these days, a few months on, a few months off. Last year was his 27-date Out There Tour, and now he's traveling the U.S. for One on One, playing marathon sets of solo songs and Beatles classics.
"You're putting a few new numbers in, changing the presentation a little bit, just so anyone who saw that tour and wants to come to this one isn't bored," he says. "We just switch it up and make some changes. Then you're allowed to call it something else."
McCartney and his band will be on the road through the summer and early fall, closing with two Saturdays in Indio, California, on October 8th and 15th as part of Desert Trip, the classic-rock cousin to Coachella. His current touring pattern was initially forced on him during a custody battle over his youngest daughter, Beatrice Milly, requiring him to be close to home. He could only schedule brief runs of concerts on the road.
"That actually turned out to be great because it meant that you'd get this time off," he says, "which would then leave you kind of hungry to get back onstage – instead of never knowing quite where you were, whether you were in Des Moines or Detroit."
By: Steve Appleford
Source: Rolling Stone
