Paul McCartney: As The Moon Rose Over Yankee Stadium 7/15/11

 Last night as a full orange colored moon came up over Yankee Stadium  on a warm , humid night I saw Paul McCartney step out on stage. It was an all most perfect night for a concert. The older crowd  of which I am a member and the younger crowd not fully aware of the total body of work of this era seemed mellow and  responsive. A good night , everyone got their monies worth. The audience was of course reliving a part of their past. but there was one part of the past that was missing. No , not Lennon or Harrison. Bad sound. A member of the band you did not see was there at the start of the stadium design. The acoustic engineer. We have come so far.....we have forgotten the past. Good sound was not all ways so , in many ways the rarity. The famous first concert of The Beatles at Shea Stadium was essentially done with only the bands amps and speakers.  So all the screams was in a real sense a blessing.....you didn't have to hear them play. Companies like BOSE have taken science and made it functional. Places like the Fillmore in NYC and Aerodrome in Schenectady NY began  to set a standard in decent sound reproduction in the 60's. Slowly this has been brought into this , the larger arena. Thank God.and science because it made for a very good night last night.