Amoebas Secret: Live EP

2007年6月27日にロスアンジェルスにあるCD/レコードショップ、Amoeba Recordsで行われたポール・マッカートニーのインストア・ライヴを収めた作品がHEARMUSICから待望のCD化!収録曲のうち、「Only Mama Knows」は、CDシングル及び、デジタル配信「Ever Present Past」に、「That Was Me」は、デジタル配信「Ever Present Past」に収録されていますが、「C Moon」、ビートルズ時代の「I Saw Her Standing There」は、本作でしか聴くことができない貴重なライヴ・テイクとなっています!

As part of the heavy promotion for his 2007 album Memory Almost Full, Paul McCartney played an intimate set at Amoeba Records' Hollywood branch -- well, as intimate as a jam-packed set at a cavernous two-story store could possibly be. Ex-Beatles always tend to cause a commotion and this event was no exception, with fans waiting outside for days to get a spot for the June 27 concert -- a day that just happened to coincide with Paris Hilton's first post-jail interview with Larry King at CNN's L.A. studios, thereby making the corner of Cahuenga and Sunset the epicenter of pop culture for a brief moment in addition to being sheer traffic hell for Los Angelenos thinking they might get a chance to rub elbows with Ringo in the audience. For those who weren't lucky or patient enough to get inside -- or happened to not live in L.A. -- the show was excerpted, not released in full, as the four-song EP Amoeba's Secret in 2009. Sadly, this is just a taste of the full 20-song set, but it's a good one, containing two songs from Memory (the best being "That Was Me," sounding randy and funny in a way it wasn't on LP), a giddy run through "C Moon," and an energetic closer of "I Saw Her Standing There." It's a little of everything from Sir Paul, all of it good, all enough to make you wish you were there, or at least that the whole thing came out. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine|