"THE SPACE WITHIN US"(REVIEW)

I've been a major Beatles/Macca fan since 1967, and I've seen one show
from every U.S. tour Paul has done except for the last one, so I was
very pleased when I heard about this DVD.

Unlike some fans, I actually enjoy the audience shots. It's great to
see them enjoying the show as much as I do.

I also like the backstage scenes, fan comments, etc. But, I wish they
were located in the 'special features' section.

It would be great if Paul's concert DVDs covered the entire concerts
from beginning to end. But, we live in an imperfect world, don't we?

Here's the setlist from the DVD,,,,
"Magical Mystery Tour"
"Flaming Pie"
"Let Me Roll It"
"Drive My Car"
"Till There Was You"
"I'll Get You"
"Eleanor Rigby"
"Maybe I'm Amazed"
"Got to Get You Into My Life"
"Fine Line"
"I Will"
"I'll Follow The Sun"
"Good Day Sunshine"
"For No One"
"Fixing A Hole"
"Penny Lane"
"Too Many People"
"She Came in Thru The Bathroom Window"
"English Tea"
"i've Got A Feeling"
"Follow Me"
"Jenny Wren"
"Helter Skelter"
"Yesterday"
"Get Back"
"Please Please Me"

At the conclusion of "Too Many People," the band launches into an
instrumental version of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady." It's a pleasant
surprise and lasts about 45 seconds or so.

I guess the highlights for me would be "Please Please Me" and "Till
There Was You." Rusty's guitar work on the latter really makes the tune.

Horatio...

Hell, I was planning on buying this until you mentioned it includes
"Till There Was You," perhaps the most saccharine, most repulsive
"love song" the Beatles ever recorded. It represented the absolute

abby now...

I consider "Do You Want To Know a Secret" to fit that description.

worst of McCartney's attraction to soppy, romantic ballads.

Will he -- nay CAN he -- ever live down the line "But I never sore
them winging"? It was a bad joke among my schoolmates in 1964, and
still is today, 42 years later.

rforman61...

There were a number of exciting set list surprises and treats for me at
the McCartney show I attended in '05 (and I had studiously avoided
spoilers from preceding gigs this time around to maximize the fun
factor), and 'Til There Was You was definitely way up there among them.
It was largely an emotional/sentimental thing just because of how this
song, and the wonderful Capital album it came from, has been part of my
musical consciousness basically my whole life...."Meet the Beatles" has
to loom very large in the minds of all Beatles fans my age, and in
combination with the fact that it Paul had never performed it on tour
in all these years (only at the Bridge Benefit with Neil Young the
previous year which I had read about)....it made it really wonderful
for me to hear it live, what a great choice and what a nice surprise.
Admittedly the pleasure of it was rooted completely in nostalgia and
sentimentality, not aesthestics (can't deny you're right, the song is
corny!), but what the heck.

The 'special features' include three tunes from the soundchecks. Paul
does a neat cover of "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On" that would make
Jerry Lee proud.
The ten minute opening film from the tour is shown in its entirety and
there are also a couple of other niceties thrown in for good measure.
"Helen Wheels" provides the soundtrack for one of them, and the
re-mastering is first rate.

The DVD comes with a nice little booklet with photos and commentary.

IMO, "The Space Within Us" is a 'must have' for Macca fans.

Antonin DelGreco...

How is it edited? In the very rapid, like one or two seconds, scene after
scene, style, which IMO hinders enjoyment. Or is it more in the style of The
Concert For George -- showing each scene for longer periods of time? If Paul
had control of this I can't believe he'd reject the latter for the former,
so I suspect it's the latter.