| Amoeba Gig | ||||
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| Released | 12 July 2019 | |||
| Recorded | 27 June 2007 | |||
| Venue | Amoeba Music | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 79:00 | |||
| Label | Capitol Records | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
Amoeba Gig is a live album byPaul McCartney taken from the recordings of a secret performance atAmoeba Music inHollywood, California, on 27 June 2007,[2] and released in July 2019.[3] Tracks from the recordings were previously released in 2007 onAmoeba's Secret and asB-sides to the single "Ever Present Past".[4][5] The album features the complete concert recording of that secret performance.[3]
Paul McCartney and his touring band played a secret show at Amoeba Music in Hollywood, California, as part of the promotion forMemory Almost Full on 27 June 2007.[6] The performance was later released in November 2007 asAmoeba's Secret, a limited edition12" vinyl record. The low-resolution album art is intentional, as to make the EP resemble abootleg recording. The back of the sleeve features an incompleteword search whose letters contain hidden details of the recording.
In January 2009 it received wider release onCD anddownload formats.[7]
Three tracks from theAmoeba's Secret release were also released as B-sides for the "Ever Present Past" single in November 2007.[5]
TheLive in Los Angeles album was released only in the United Kingdom and Ireland through a special promotion run in 2010 byThe Mail on Sunday and theIrish Sunday Mail.[8] Four of the album's twelve tracks (2, 4, 5, and 12) were previously released onAmoeba's Secret, while track 3 was previously released as the b-side to the "Ever Present Past" single.
On 16 November 2012, the Paul McCartney website released an extended version of the Amoeba show titledLive in Los Angeles – The Extended Set free to "premium" members of the website, adding the songs "Nod Your Head" and "House of Wax" to the tracklisting, the latter also being a b-side to the "Ever Present Past" single.[9]
The completeAmoeba Gig show, with all 21 songs and remixed by McCartney's engineer Steve Orchard, was finally released on 12 July 2019 on CD, vinyl, and digital download.[10]
ForAmoeba's secret:
ForLive in Los Angeles:
ForLive in Los Angeles – The Extended Set:
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Drive My Car" | Lennon–McCartney | 2:33 |
| 2. | "Only Mama Knows" | Paul McCartney | 3:54 |
| 3. | "Dance Tonight" | P. McCartney | 3:10 |
| 4. | "C Moon" | P. McCartney,Linda McCartney | 3:22 |
| 5. | "That Was Me" | P. McCartney | 3:02 |
| 6. | "Blackbird" | Lennon–McCartney | 2:37 |
| 7. | "Here Today" | P. McCartney | 2:34 |
| 8. | "Back in the U.S.S.R." | Lennon–McCartney | 3:02 |
| 9. | "Nod Your Head" | P. McCartney | 1:20 |
| 10. | "House of Wax" | P. McCartney | 5:08 |
| 11. | "Get Back" | Lennon–McCartney | 3:52 |
| 12. | "Hey Jude" | Lennon–McCartney | 7:09 |
| 13. | "Lady Madonna" | Lennon–McCartney | 3:07 |
| 14. | "I Saw Her Standing There" | Lennon–McCartney | 3:33 |
| Total length: | 48:15 | ||
ForAmoeba Gig:
All tracks are written byLennon-McCartney except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Drive My Car" | 2:41 |
| 2. | "Only Mama Knows" (Paul McCartney) | 3:47 |
| 3. | "Dance Tonight" (McCartney) | 3:25 |
| 4. | "C Moon" (Paul &Linda McCartney) | 3:13 |
| 5. | "The Long and Winding Road" | 3:34 |
| 6. | "I'll Follow the Sun" | 2:56 |
| 7. | "Calico Skies" (McCartney) | 2:57 |
| 8. | "That Was Me" (McCartney) | 3:03 |
| 9. | "Blackbird" | 3:44 |
| 10. | "Here Today" (McCartney) | 3:13 |
| 11. | "Back in the U.S.S.R." | 4:08 |
| 12. | "Nod Your Head" (McCartney) | 2:00 |
| 13. | "House of Wax" (McCartney) | 6:02 |
| 14. | "I've Got a Feeling" | 5:56 |
| 15. | "Matchbox" (Carl Perkins) | 3:31 |
| 16. | "Get Back" | 4:21 |
| 17. | "Baby Face" (Harry Akst, Benny Davis) | 0:54 |
| 18. | "Hey Jude" | 8:01 |
| 19. | "Let It Be" | 3:54 |
| 20. | "Lady Madonna" | 3:34 |
| 21. | "I Saw Her Standing There" | 3:25 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 22. | "Coming Up (Soundcheck)" (McCartney) | 4:25 |
Two tracks fromAmoeba's Secret were nominated forGrammy Awards in 2008 for the51st Grammy Awards on 8 February 2009: "That Was Me" for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and "I Saw Her Standing There" for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance. Neither song won, and both lost toJohn Mayer tracks ("Say" and "Gravity", respectively). McCartney performed "I Saw Her Standing There" withDave Grohl on drums during the ceremony.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | [11] |
Writing forAllMusic,Stephen Thomas Erlewine commented onAmoeba's Secret: "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 on CD."[11]
ForAmoeba's Secret:
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| USBillboard 200[12] | 119 |
ForAmoeba Gig:
| Chart (2019) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[13] | 149 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[14] | 44 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[15] | 83 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[16] | 28 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon)[17] | 24 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC)[18] | 19 |
| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[19] | 51 |
| UK Albums (OCC)[20] | 82 |
| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 13 November 2007 | Hear Music | 12"EP | HMLP-30607 (8 88072 30607 3)[4] |
| 27 January 2009 | CD | HRM-31306-02 (8 88072 31306 4)[7] | ||
| download | HRM-31306-25[7] |
