Amoeba Gig

Paul McCartney and his touring band played a secret show at Amoeba Music in Hollywood, California, as part of the promotion for Memory Almost Full on 27 June 2007.{{cite web|title=Paul McCartney Rocked Amoeba Hollywood June 27, 2007|publisher=Amoeba Music|url=https://www.amoeba.com/our-stores/store-news/15/paul-mccartney-rocked-amoeba-15/|access-date=15 March 2020}} The performance was later released in November 2007 as Amoeba's Secret, a limited edition 12" vinyl record. The low-resolution album art is intentional, as to make the EP resemble a bootleg recording. The back of the sleeve features an incomplete word search whose letters contain hidden details of the recording.

In January 2009 it received wider release on CD and download formats.{{cite web|title=Amoebas Secret HRM 31306 02 : Paul McCartney|publisher=Concord Music Group|url=http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/albums/Amoebas-Secret-HRM-31306-02/|access-date=16 October 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091124224557/http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/albums/Amoebas-Secret-HRM-31306-02/| archive-date= 24 November 2009 | url-status= live}}

Three tracks from the Amoeba's Secret release were also released as B-sides for the "Ever Present Past" single in November 2007.

The Live in Los Angeles album was released only in the United Kingdom and Ireland through a special promotion run in 2010 by The Mail on Sunday and the Irish Sunday Mail.{{Cite web|url=https://www.efeeme.com/efemerides-de-la-musica-popular-16-de-enero/|title = Efemérides de la música popular, 16 de enero|date = 16 January 2021}} Four of the album's twelve tracks (2, 4, 5, and 12) were previously released on Amoeba's Secret, while track 3 was previously released as b-side to "Ever Present Past" single.

On 16 November 2012, the Paul McCartney website released an extended version of the Amoeba show titled Live 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 "Ever Present Past" single.{{cite web |url=http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/paul-mccartney-live-in-los-angeles-the-extended-set/|title=Paul McCartney / Live In Los Angeles The Extended Set|author=Sinclair, Paul|date=16 November 2012|publisher=Super Deluxe Edition|access-date=15 March 2020}}

The complete Amoeba 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.{{cite web|title=Paul Is Live: McCartney Premieres "Amoeba Gig," Reissues Classic Live Sets on CD and LP|date=24 May 2019 |url=https://theseconddisc.com/2019/05/paul-is-live-mccartney-premieres-amoeba-gig-reissues-classic-live-sets-on-cd-and-lp/|access-date=12 July 2019}}

For Amoeba's secret:

1. "Only Mama Knows" (Paul McCartney) – 3:47
2. "C Moon" (P. McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 3:17
3. "That Was Me" (P. McCartney) – 3:03
4. "I Saw Her Standing There" (Lennon–McCartney) – 3:25

For Live in Los Angeles:

1. "Drive My Car" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:33
2. "Only Mama Knows" (McCartney) – 3:54
3. "Dance Tonight" (McCartney) – 3:09
4. "C Moon" (McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 3:22
5. "That Was Me" (McCartney) – 3:02
6. "Blackbird" (Lennon, McCartney) – 2:37
7. "Here Today" (McCartney) – 2:38
8. "Back in the U.S.S.R." (Lennon, McCartney) – 2:59
9. "Get Back" (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:53
10. "Hey Jude" (Lennon, McCartney) – 7:08
11. "Lady Madonna" (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:12
12. "I Saw Her Standing There" (McCartney, Lennon) – 3:25

For Live in Los Angeles – The Extended Set:

{{track listing

| headline = Live in Los Angeles – The Extended Set

| total_length = 48:15

| title1 = Drive My Car

| writer1 = Lennon–McCartney

| length1 = 2:33

| title2 = Only Mama Knows

| writer2 = Paul McCartney

| length2 = 3:54

| title3 = Dance Tonight

| writer3 = P. McCartney

| length3 = 3:10

| title4 = C Moon

| writer4 = P. McCartney, Linda McCartney

| length4 = 3:22

| title5 = That Was Me

| writer5 = P. McCartney

| length5 = 3:02

| title6 = Blackbird

| writer6 = Lennon–McCartney

| length6 = 2:37

| title7 = Here Today

| writer7 = P. McCartney

| length7 = 2:34

| title8 = Back in the U.S.S.R.

| writer8 = Lennon–McCartney

| length8 = 3:02

| title9 = Nod Your Head

| writer9 = P. McCartney

| length9 = 1:20

| title10 = House of Wax

| writer10 = P. McCartney

| length10 = 5:08

| title11 = Get Back

| writer11 = Lennon–McCartney

| length11 = 3:52

| title12 = Hey Jude

| writer12 = Lennon–McCartney

| length12 = 7:09

| title13 = Lady Madonna

| writer13 = Lennon–McCartney

| length13 = 3:07

| title14 = I Saw Her Standing There

| writer14 = Lennon–McCartney

| length14 = 3:33

}}

For Amoeba Gig:

{{Track listing

| all_writing = Lennon-McCartney except where noted

| title1 = Drive My Car

| length1 = 2:41

| title2 = Only Mama Knows

| length2 = 3:47

| title3 = Dance Tonight

| length3 = 3:25

| title4 = C Moon

| length4 = 3:13

| title5 = The Long and Winding Road

| length5 = 3:34

| title6 = I'll Follow the Sun

| length6 = 2:56

| title7 = Calico Skies

| length7 = 2:57

| title8 = That Was Me

| length8 = 3:03

| title9 = Blackbird

| length9 = 3:44

| title10 = Here Today

| length10 = 3:13

| total_length =

| title11 = Back in the U.S.S.R.

| length11 = 4:08

| title12 = Nod Your Head

| length12 = 2:00

| title13 = House of Wax

| length13 = 6:02

| title14 = I've Got a Feeling

| length14 = 5:56

| title15 = Matchbox

| length15 = 3:31

| title16 = Get Back

| length16 = 4:21

| title17 = Baby Face

| length17 = 0:54

| title18 = Hey Jude

| length18 = 8:01

| title19 = Let It Be

| length19 = 3:54

| title20 = Lady Madonna

| length20 = 3:34

| note2 = Paul McCartney

| note3 = McCartney

| note4 = Paul & Linda McCartney

| note7 = McCartney

| note8 = McCartney

| note10 = McCartney

| note12 = McCartney

| note13 = McCartney

| note15 = Carl Perkins

| note17 = Harry Axt, Benny Davis

| title21 = I Saw Her Standing There

| length21 = 3:25

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus track on the vinyl edition

| title22 = Coming Up (Soundcheck)

| length22 = 4:25

| note22 = McCartney

}}

• Paul McCartney – lead vocals, bass, guitar, mandolin, keyboards
• Rusty Anderson – guitar, vocals
• Abe Laboriel Jr. – drums, vocals
• Brian Ray – guitar, bass, vocals
• David Arch – keyboards
• Steve Orchard – 2019 remix sound engineer

Two tracks from Amoeba's Secret were nominated for Grammy Awards in 2008 for the 51st 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 to John Mayer tracks ("Say" and "Gravity" respectively). McCartney performed "I Saw Her Standing There" with Dave Grohl on drums during the ceremony.

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}

}}

Writing for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine commented on Amoeba'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."{{cite web|title = Amoeba's Secret > Overview |author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=16 October 2009|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1474577|pure_url=yes}}}}

For Amoeba's Secret:

For Amoeba Gig:

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• {{AllMusic|album|mw0003285980|Amoeba Gig}}
• {{Discogs master|1576099|type=album}}
• [http://www.amoeba.com/content/paul_rocked_amoeba.html Paul McCartney Rocked Amoeba] at Amoeba Music official website
• [http://www.jpgr.co.uk/hmlp30607.html Paul McCartney's - Amoeba's Secret] at Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages

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