Paul McCartney Tribute Featuring Nite Music/Rich Meyer/The Skyjectors @ The Gutter, Brooklyn, NY 6/15/25

The Gutter had a low key annual Paul McCartney Sunday night tribute show that Rich Meyer was involved with, so I met up with Kenny, Rich & Darla to grab some food at Bennie's after the BBQ pop up we were looking for near the Gutter was closed. I had no idea who was playing or what the format was but fortunately there was a list of the participants at the soundboard for me to snap a quick photo of.By the time we got to the Gutter a little before 10, The Skyjectors were setting up.

The Skyjectors had an academic approach to the point that the bandleader bragged about doing a master thesis on the music of Wings. They did "Junior's Farm" then the "Goodnight Tonight" B-side "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" and then the Flowers In The Dirt duet with Elvis Costello "My Brave Face." They then went off theme with a cover of "God Only Knows" in tribute to the recent passing of Brian Wilson.

Rich was next up. He announced himself as Ghost of Past Mistakes so I guess that's his moniker whether he has his band behind him or not but since his name was on the soundboard, I'm going to call this a Rich Meyer set. He told me at Bennies that he was going to do a song from Ram, a song from Help! and a song from Band On The Run and that is just what he did. He did "Ram On" then "The Night Before" then "1985" all by his lonesome on electric geetar.

Somehow, I heard Nite Music online recently and had a mental note that I liked them. The leader Jamie Frey was from a band The Brooklyn What. He couldn't hit McCartney's highs, but he could approximate McCartney's live bellow and kicked off 5 songs with "Band On The Run" and I seem to remember "Jet" "Let It Be" "I Saw Her Standing There" and a shot at "Twist and Shout." Maybe he did some other songs, but you get the idea. He did hits not obscurities in revved up drunk slop style without reverence, which I appreciated.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Ghost Of Past Mistakes @ Young Ethyls 10/12/24

Town Cryer @ Cowgirl Seahorse 5/20/25

Town Cryer @ Pangea 5/3/25

Town Cryer @ Cowgirl Seahorse 4/7/25

Town Cryer @ Cowgirl Seahorse 1/20/25

Wings-Wild Life (1971)

Wings-Venus and Mars (1975)

Wings-Back To The Egg (1979)

Paul McCartney-McCartney II (1980)

Paul McCartney-Run Devil Run (1999)

The Beatles Second Album (1964)