Paul McCartney & Wings – Wings Over Europe ’72 – Antwerp, Belgium – The Hague – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – August 20-22, 1972 – Band Soundboard recordings –
McCartney aficionados don’t need to scramble for reference books to find out about this one. It’s been around for a while, in various forms and no doubt you already have it. I’m running it this week because Sir Paul has been knee-deep in touring (rumored and said to be his last before retiring, but . . .) and everyone who’s been in the audience has expressed nothing short of bliss for having attended. So I thought I would bring back a reminder of an earlier tour; fifty-four years ago, to be exact.
Entire volumes have been devoted to McCartney in the studio and on the road – so I don’t need to add anything to the pot, save for the fact this is an early incarnation of Wings, the first actual band (as opposed to a backup ensemble) and comes around the time just after Wild Life was released and before Red Rose Speedway. The recordings come by way of the band soundboard and is a little disjointed in places – not to mention some tracks fade out and suddenly fade in. It’s a little rusty in spots and that’s because it wasn’t meant to be anything other than a transcription of a series of concerts that were all part of the Wings Over Europe Tour in 1972. But this is a historic document and one of the few earlier examples of McCartney jumping into a new phase of career.
It’s also 54 years ago and that gives one pause. It does me, anyway.
Enjoy the show and the history.
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