Sir Paul McCartney Gives Hendrix Homage, Takes Over Backstage

I am from Texas. Playing guitar for 43 years. I am proud of Paul McCartney. Pres. Bush, well, I am embarassed because he will be remembered as the worst. The only consolation is, he really was NOT from Texas, but from Connecticut. Tough Critic, obviously, does not know about politics or music as much as I do. So, Paul, keep rockin, please. Bush, please stay in retirement and the world will be a better place.

i liked the beatles in the sixties,my older half sister andrena loved them,has did most girls, i liked there music, paul macCartney is a great song writter has was john lennon, and there's no taking that away from them, thats why he is a very rich man, fair play to him he's still going at is age,well done paul, keep it up,all the best,dave.

Paul McCartney = Beatle
Beatles = Greatest thing ever happened to music
Bush = Mediocre USA President
Paul's joke = not that good, but be thankful it wasn't John Lennon. He would have been MUCH more blunt about Bush

BILL I AGREE THE POST WAS ABOUT PAUL & HENDRIX. were obama or past came in.i am lost.people hateing on people that it is not about.it hurt me to see so many hateing on this people stop.get a life .mygod.

to toughcritic...i guess you didn't read the news when your 'great president' bush got us into the iraqi war and is responsible for the economic mess that our new great president has to try to clean up....you had better read more, you are truly ignorant...and paul mc cartney , one of the greatest songwriters/artists - a gentleman that his given millions of dollars to worthy causes and is a humanitarian....what have you done lately except taking up space on this earth....shame on you!

It was so long ago, but it doesn't seem so that Hendrix and the Beatles were in the same time frame. We had our own list of meaningful artists, and there was quite a lot of discussion of who was worthy at the time. Throw stones at me if you will, but I've now become to appreciate all the music as it has evolved and not put one in front of the other. Music, as it represents its time is all good.

'Macca' did not close the IoW festival, he was the warm up act to Janes who finished the festival in the circus tent after the old mop top left. I know I was there.
I am still recovering and looking forward to a long hot bath.
The toilets were the same old crappy places, you would think that the organisers would have come up with something better by now, the 'long drop' loos at Sunrise were always clean and with no smell, given the ticket price one would think that a small investment in better loos would give punters a better experience.

The significance of this story gets lost in the meaningless drivel of some bloggers. What an incredibly cool thing that Paul got to see Jimi Hendrix perform his song just 2 days after the Beatles released their Sgt. Pepper album! And like Paul or not, he, John Lennon, and George Harrison were among the most popular and prolific songwriters of the last 50 years. Paul, at Isle of Wight, was just letting fans in on an interesting, personal, and brief walk down memory lane. And for those of you who don't get it, just "Let It Be."

It's like the same 3 Republican wingnuts -- who tell plenty of racist, offensive jokes about Obama and think they're funny -- keep coming on to McCartney threads to get all huffy about some minor remark Paul made two weeks ago that doesn't matter in the slightest. Really, why do you care if some talented musician WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LIBERAL doesn't share your political views about George Bush. What a bunch of fascists you are. And hypocrites. If Paul had made some joke about Obama you'd all think he was a genius. Get a sense of humor and focus on something that matters. Sheesh.

Didn`t Mc Cartney die in an auto accident in the late 60s? Remember the "Paul is Dead" scare? Maybe it never happened, but he sure is brain dead.The more he talks, the more moronic he sounds.