So the crew can’t eat meat in the stadium!? Beh, so what! If they don’t like the free veggie food Paul provides, they can walk outside and wolf down a hamburger in between two cars. 
Besides, check out this set list from the 2004 World Tour!
(Hofner bass)
Hello Goodbye
Jet
All My Loving
(switches to lead guitar)
Getting Better
(switches to Hofner bass)
Coming Up
(switches to electric guitar)
Let Me Roll It
(switches to Hofner bass)
Lonely Road
Driving Rain
(introduces drummer, Abe Laboriel and moves to grand piano)
Your Loving Flame
(begins acoustic guitar solo set)
Blackbird
Every Night
We Can Work It Out
(switches psychedelic upright piano)
You Never Give Me Your Money/Carry That Weight (Paul unaccompanied)
The Fool On the Hill (with Magical Mystery Tour footage on screen)
(switches to acoustic guitar)
Here Today (John Lennon Tribute)
(switches to ukulele)
Something (George Harrison tribute)
(switches to acoustic guitar)
Eleanor Rigby (with band)
Here There and Everywhere (Wix on Accordion - full band)
Calico Skies (Paul on acoustic - with full band)
Michelle (Wix on Accordion - full band)
(switches to Hofner bass)
Band On The Run
Back In The USSR
(introduces Rusty Anderson-switches to grand piano)
Maybe I’m Amazed
Let 'Em In
My Love
(switches to Hofner bass, band at front harmonizing)
She’s Leaving Home
Can’t Buy Me Love
Birthday
(introduces Brian Ray-switches to grand piano)
Live and Let Die
Let It Be
(psychedelic upright piano)
Hey Jude
(Encore)
(psychedelic upright piano)
Long And Winding Road
Lady Madonna
(switches to Hofner bass)
I Saw Her Standing There
(Encore)
(acoustic guitar)
Yesterday
(switches to Les Paul guitar)
Sgt. Pepper’s Reprise/The End
:eek:
Fucking awesome!!
Well, dandy, but McCartney ain’t in California. Furthermore, a job I had in Hooterville a few years back was not obligated to follow any such law, because for a long time they allowed smoking inside the building. (Had separate breaks for smokers and non-smokers.) Our employers changed that policy, based on several reasons, none based on State law. Of course, the smokers complained about having to smoke outside in the winter, but they were forced to suck it up and smoke outside anyway, because the bosses said so.
So, seeing as there are some places where there is no law forcing employers to make smokers go outside, and yet some employers decide that smokers gotta smoke outside, it seems that employers can insist that certain legal behaviors are not allowed inside. Even when there isn’t a law.
Are you seriously thinking that anyone can come to work smelling of anything legal, and that their employers should have no right to tell them that they can’t leave that smell, can’t smell like that, etc., at the workplace? I don’t believe that. Two offensive smells I can think of right now: B.O. and heavy perfume. I don’t seriously believe that an employer would say nothing if their employees came to work smelling of obnoxious B.O. or reeking of perfume. And no other reason other than “I don’t like it” would be required to ban employees from smelling like that.
At the same job that allowed smoking for a long while, we were forced to listen to a certain radio station. Those of us in the art department (we just sat there in our cublicles, painting on photographs) often would listen to walkmans. We needed to listen to them to stay sane. Some of our photo retouching work was extremely tedious. There was no safety concern with us listening to walkmans—we were out of public view and we weren’t operating any machinery.
But, one of our bosses decided that we couldn’t listen to our walkmans. Even though they didn’t affect anyone else, even though it helped us work more efficiently, even though there was no legal or safety concern, and we certainly weren’t disturbing any other employees or customers. Our bosses insisted that we listen to the radio played over the speakers.
It always seemed to us to be terribly intrusive and obnoxious for them to dictate such a thing to us, but hey—they were the bosses and they made the rules.
You know, I had to stop and think about this.
Sir Paul has been a vegetarian since the mid-70s when, according to his folklore, he and Linda were sitting out on a veranda overlooking their acreage, ready to tuck into a lamb chop supper, and said lamb’s parents wandered by. :eek:
So, a little Googling ensued, because I figured that these restrictions cannot be new for this tour, the animal rights position dates back long enough ago that this had to have come up before. And voila, Smoking Gun backs me up.
In 2002, when Sir Paul toured the U.S. his tour rider had the same sorts of provisions. Interesting, in addition to the no-meat in the backstage rule, in the U.S., Paul’s tour only paid for the catering for his staff, not the house staff – the venue had to pay for the house staff catering and that was to be vegetarian too. In addition, there were to be no animal prints on any of the furniture, let alone leather or fur of any kind. Even cotton printed with leopard spots was a no-no. While I don’t see a rule again leather garments worn by the local stagies, there is a demand that Sir Paul’s {url=http://thesmokinggun.com/archive/mccartney11.html]stretch limo have no leather seats. (Have you ever seen a limo with cloth seats? Me neither.)
Now I could be wrong, but I don’t recall ever hearing anything about American backstage crew people bitching about the edicts of Macca. The unions never made a peep that I remember hearing. Nor did the roadies who signed on to travel with the tour – the guys who, ostensibly, were “forced” to eat vegetarian every day for months. Strange that individual freedom loving Americans were willing to live and let die (snerk) over the no-meat rule, but the Norwegians are all up in arms over one day’s work.
Puts a new spin on things, IMO.
Well, this is just silly. Really, really silly.
Well, after looking over the agreement on the Smoking Gun provided by TeaElle, I realize that the area that is to be meat-free is much smaller than first thought, which in all likelihood would be used by PM and his staff and guests, as well as backstage hands. But since it did not include the WHOLE premises, I think the stagehands could tough it out…I suspect that the stagehands’ employer neglected to tell these guys the “no-meat in certain areas of the venue” part in the agreement until they were told (by their employer or PM’s staff) on the day of or when they were just about to eat in an area that was designated as a “no meat” area.
I’ll pull back on my earlier views and chalk this one up to poor communication by the stagehands’ employer (tour contracting company). Back to my salad and a burger.
Paul is just as much an ass as the VP who runs our facility and refuses to provide veggie fare when catering in food for the employees, just because of his personal belief. That’s just wrong that my veggie coworkers have to fend for themselves just because of some twisted ‘ethic’.
I have lots of friends who are veggies and don’t push it on me, but I still get annoyed when I have to hear moronic veggie talk:
-Woody Harrelson on Love Line saying that meat was obviously bad for you because you felt all bloated and lethargic after eating a steak when you didn’t feel so after eating a salad. Hey moron, the salad is most likely 80-90% water with minimal calories versus a huge amount of calories in a steak. I get a food coma from lots of pasta.
-Corey Feldman on The Surreal Life stating he thought it was wrong to kill animals to eat them because they have ‘souls’ but it was fine for him to wear leather shoes because they were a gift. Show me how an animal has more of a soul than a plant. I can’t stand people who observe vegetarianism for this reasoning.
-On-line posters complaining about other poster’s e-mails being childish and then accusing half the posters in that thread of having “too many hormones in their last steak”. Pot, kettle, black.
Sheesh, I don’t prattle on about my diet being any better or think other should follow it. Hell, I wish I could eat fruit, but I can’t stand it. And my doctor told me to eat a good amount of red meat to counteract my mild anemia.
I think that Paul is going way overboard and what he’s doing is wrong. It may be legal, but hey, in that case I’ll start up a business there and ban the employees from having any religious parifinalia at work, including the parking lot.
And this whole no leather thing is beyond idiotic, it’s downright dangerous if he really has such a request. Due to it’s inherent chemical resistance, leather is by far the most common material for making safety shoes and work gloves. Denying a worker’s right to appropriate personal protective equipment should be illegal in any jurisdiction.