http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentID=208455(4/10/02, 4 p.m. ET) -- Four dates into his Driving USA tour of North America, Paul McCartney reports that he's having the time of his life. In a message posted on his official website (paulmccartney.com) from Las Vegas, McCartney writes to fans, "We're having a ball out on the road and it looks like the good people in the audience are, too. The band sounds reeaaaaallllyy cool to me and it's great to play together across the United States Of America."
McCartney and company wrap up a two-night stand at Chicago's United Center Thursday (April 11) before moving on to the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Saturday (April 13).
The setlist for the tour's first few shows has mixed Beatles, Wings, and McCartney solo material, including songs from his latest album, Driving Rain: "Hello, Goodbye," "Jet," "All My Loving," "Getting Better," "Coming Up," "Let Me Roll It," "Lonely Road," "Driving Rain," "Your Loving Flame," "Blackbird," "Every Night," "We Can Work It Out," "Mother Nature's Son," "Vanilla Sky," "Carry That Weight," "Fool On The Hill," "Here Today," "Something," "Eleanor Rigby," "Here, There And Everywhere," "Band On The Run," "Back In The USSR," "Maybe I'm Amazed," "C Moon," "My Love," "Can't Buy Me Love," "Freedom," "Live And Let Die," "Let It Be," "Hey Jude," "The Long And Winding Road," "Lady Madonna," and "I Saw Her Standing There."
-- Gary Graff, Detroit