I know, I know, He's an old man trying to be young. I know that this means little to people who are not over fifty either. Still I wish that I could make people see this significance of this performance in the light of death that glows ever more brightly around the youth culture of the sixties and seventies. The real shame to me is that he didn't get Ringo to hammer the skins for this. It has all the feel of a goodbye and it made tears well up in my eyes.
There is a certain poingance when he says "Boy you're gonna carry that weight a long time", I see in it the never spoken guilt he feels over the acrimony of the Beatles breakup. He has a look of regret that transcends the ages when he says that "once there was a way to get back home ward."
The pain of loss and age that finally cannot be denied leaves him wishing for John and George to appear and forgive the silliness of the battles that came between them all. I think he sees that it all meant nothing now and the years that he could have had these good friend, brothers were wasted on things that ended up being the least of matters.
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In certain lights he looked so old and I just did not want to see him like this.
Granted he can still rock but sometimes I think memories are best.
I too was waiting for Ringo to show up.
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