Paul McCartney - Complain To The Queen

Live in Holland 1972

Birthday Records, BR 005

1. Interview Dutch radio 0:37
2. Rock intro/Eat At Home 4:16
3. Smile Away 3:38
4. 1882 6:26
5. I Would Only Smile 3:19
6. The Mess 5:24
7. Blue Moon Of Kentucky 3:08
8. Best Friend 3:39
9. Seaside Woman 3:46
10. I Am Your Singer 3:04
11. Hi,Hi,Hi 5:16
12. Complain To The Queen 1:10
13. 1882 6:39
14. Henri's Blue 6:51
15. The Mess (mixed) 4:55
16. Hi,Hi,Hi 2:21
17. Wild Life 2:18

Track 1: excerpt from an interview with Paul just before the concert at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. The interviewer is Pim Oets and it was broadcast on a show called 'Popsmuk' by VPRO Dutch radio. (the complete interview is on a tape I have).

Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9: recorded live at the Doelen in Rotterdam, August 17, 1972 (fair to good audience tape). The complete concert minus Long Tall Sally is on a 2 CD-R set, speed-corrected and compiled from my own audience recording + the declicked 'Complain To The Queen' LP.

Tracks 6, 13, 15, 16, 17:  recorded live at the Congresgebouw, Den Haag, August 21, 1972. Track 6: poor audience tape, tracks 13, 15 (b-side of My Love): excellent soundboard, tracks 16 and 17: good audience tape but songs aren't complete.

Tracks 10, 14:  recorded live at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, August 20, 1972 (the venue Paul liked so much that he wrote a song about 'a Rockshow at the Concertgebow'). Track 10: very good audience tape. This track illustrates the fact that the Amsterdam audience was the only Dutch audience that applauded when Linda began to sing. Track 14: excellent soundboard tape.

Track 11:  recorded at the Martini Hal, Groningen, August 19, 1972. More from this soundcheck (20+ min.) can be found on the CD 'Wings Live In Rotterdam 1972 + Soundcheck Groningen 1972'

Track 12: also from 'Popsmuk' VPRO, Dutch radio.

The Wings concert at the Doelen in Rotterdam, August 17, 1972 was the first ever 'rockshow' I attended being 13 years old at the time. I took along a portable cassette recorder I borrowed from a friend and recorded the whole show, well...not the complete show because after Hi, Hi, Hi the friend who I went with (he was 15 or 16 years old so my parents agreed I could go as long as he watched over me) said we'd better get out of the place before we would get stuck in the crowd. The tape is now circulating as a CD-R set, unfortunately of poor sound quality. I've been wondering a long time if there would be a better source-tape somewhere and the 7 tracks on this CD are an indication there is such a tape. (Birthday Records b.t.w. took the previously available LP of the same title as the source for many of the tracks here). Tracks 16 and 17 do also sound way better as the ones on the complete audience registration on CD-R I have of the Den Haag concert. It would be nice to obtain these better audience tapes one day...

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