Carefully cutting open the plastic cover
February 6, 2010 11:29 am
OK. I know this Paul McCartney release has been out a while now….but there’s a story behind why I am so late in showing you some un-boxing pics of my copy of the Deluxe Edition.
I ordered this online via Paul McCartney’s very own website pretty much the day it came out. It was released in the US on November 17 and in the UK on November 23. However, my copy didn’t make it into my mailbox until mid-January. I had a lot of correspondence with the McCartney organisation, plus the company they hired to carry out online distribution of the disc, trying to find out what the delay was and where my order had got to. It really was a lot of hassle over what I thought should have been a quick and easy transaction – especially since I’d ordered it directly from the official site….
I have to say though that it was worth the wait. For US$23.99 it is a fair bit of product for your money. Now that I actually have Good Evening New York City I’m very impressed with the packaging, plus you get 2 CDs and 2 DVDs of content. It comes in a thick hardback book-style that is taller than a standard CD:
Carefully cutting open the plastic cover
I always like to cut around and keep any stickers on the outside packaging:
GENYC Sticker
As you can see in the photo below the Deluxe version is in a hardback format and the spine is quite thick:
The "spine" of the CD/DVD package
Inside the plastic on the rear is a cardboard insert listing all the songs featured in the two concert CDs and DVD. A lot of people would just throw this insert away but I’ll be hanging onto it (for more reasons than that I just like to keep this sort of stuff – see below). I’ll just slip it in amongst the pages inside:
The loose rear card
If you look really closely you’ll see a little surprise I got when opening this one up. Despite this package taking ages to get to me, and after many complaint letters, they’ve actually sent me (I guess accidentally) a PROMO copy of the disc! Go figure. Check out the close-up of the sticker on the rear card:
The sticker saying "Promo Only - Not For Sale"
Inside the hardback Deluxe version is a 40-page book with lots of great photos and an essay by Michael Azerrad:
Book open to pages 12 and 13
There is a re-worked shorter version of this essay in the Standard edition. The Deluxe version also has some amazing fold-out double pages with photo montages and historic shots of the Beatles at the old Shea Stadium, and McCartney playing the brand new Citi Field stadium – which is practically on the same site:
The Deluxe version gets some double fold-out pages in the book
Each CD gets a baseball image and signature in different colours:
Sticking with the Citi Field theme - baseball CD's
The DVD’s also get the baseball look (these all slip into the cardboard pockets you can see inside the front and rear covers):
The two DVDs
One DVD is the entire concert filmed live over two nights. The other is a bonus DVD featuring Paul McCartney and band’s appearance live on the Late Show with David Letterman where they played out in the open before a huge crowd, perched on an awning above the street outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre TV studios. The performance is an echo of the famous Beatles final roof-top concert of 1969…. If you’d like a peak at some of the Letterman material have look here.
Finally, a comparison photo of the Deluxe Edition (2 CDs and 2 DVDs) alongside the Standard Edition (2 CDs and 1 DVD):
Deluxe alongside Standard
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