McCartney Fans Stake out Amoeba for Free In-Store Performance

Starbucks Coffee's own personal Beatle, Paul McCartney, plays a free in-store concert Wednesday night at Amoeba Records in Hollywood. (See Kate Sullivan's review of his new album here.) A few hundred people lined up alongside the store waiting for assurances that they'd make it in. Some started camping out as early as Monday, but as soon as they get their official Amoeba piece of cardboard, a number Sharpied onto their hand, and get their name inscirbed onto Amoeba's official list, there really wasn't much reason to stick around.

Jorge, above, got lucky #69.

From left: Shanna, Beatle Barb, Angela and June. Beatle Barb was on the phone with her friend, "Paul from London," whom she knows from the paulmccartney.com website.

 

Amoeba's David Gomez said about 600 people is the limit they can get in for the performance, a number previously tested by The Shins' in-store. Gomez said immediately following McCartney he's heading to Zanzibar where he's a regular Wednesday night DJ.

Peter Fletcher, none too happy about standing in the sun for hours, had a number in the 200's.

The rumor was that people had come from Japan and even Indiana just for the show. These two women might very well have been from Japan, a fact I could have confirmed if only I spoke Japanese.

Half a dozen Amoeba staff made their way through the line, getting down names and passing out numbers, which will be exchanged for wristbands, which will then grant them entry to Sir Paul's show, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

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