The Paul McCartney concert in Tulsa last night was one of the best I’ve seen, and the postings I’ve read from other attendees on Twitter, Facebook and other Internet sites concur.
However, there’s this excerpt in a report from The Oklahoman that I need to mention:
After recalling his recent driving tour of Route 66, which took him through Oklahoma, he paused in front of the 20,000-strong crowd “to take a moment to drink it all in.” Then, as he performed “The Long and Winding Road,” photos taken on “the mother road” flashed on the fiber-optic screen behind his band.
The first sentence is correct. However, if there actually were photographs from Route 66 during “Long and Winding Road” montage, they were interspersed with images that definitely were not from the Mother Road.
Why do I know this? Because the montage contained many photos of saguaro cacti. As anyone who’s traveled the Mother Road would know, there was only one saguaro cactus to be found along all its 2,200 miles. And that lone cactus at the remnants of Ed’s Camp between Oatman and Kingman, Ariz., was killed by a lightning strike a couple of years ago.
While there may have been shots from Route 66 during that part of the show, it wasn’t apparent to this road veteran’s eyes (believe me, I was looking).
Not that it detracted from my enjoyment of the show …