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1. Hundreds of fish die in Piedmont Park’s Lake Clara Meer (Turns out it was more like thousands of fish that perished, reportedly from dissolved oxygen. Who knows what Sir Paul thought?)

2. AJC may abandon Marietta Street (Today we learned the paper’s new HQ will be in the action-packed ‘burbs come next June.)

3. Why I want a public option (Andisheh Nouraee clearly states why there needs to be an alternative to private health insurance.)

4. Columnist’s solution to gay sex in parks? Attack dogs. (Marietta Daily Journal resident curmudgeon enlightens us with his wonderful idea of how Marietta City Council should send gays “back to Atlanta where they belong.”)

5. Fulton, Forsyth ban chaining your dog (Beginning Sept. 4, dogs in Fulton County cannot be chained or tethered to a fixed object unless held by an attendant or by the owner.)

(Photo by Thomas Wheatley)

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1) Paul McCartney plays Piedmont Park.

2) Flux finds a new home at the Mark.

3) Steely Dan plays Chastain Park Amphitheatre.

4) Youth Ensemble of Atlanta performs at the Rialto Center for the Arts.

5) Apache Cafe hosts the Black August 30th Anniversary Commemoration Concert.

See more Atlanta events.

(Photo by Kevin Mazur)

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Crab Louie: I played music before I understood the Beatles. Once I got the Beatles, understood the musicianship, it was easily a redefinition of my approach to crafting songs, to instrumentation, to you name it. Even my bass playing. White folks never heard bass being played like that. [It was] nothing short of a complete overhaul of my understanding of how I should approach the instrument and engage the public. I prefer John Lennon as a songwriter, but I can’t help but show love for Paul McCartney. Favorite Beatles song: “Mother Nature’s Son.”

Lauren: He’s pretty much affected any modern musician. His involvement with the Beatles paved the way for all different kinds of experimental music. I actually play metal. He paved the way for people like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and everybody after him. He’s pretty much the predecessor for everything. And I look at him for more than music, too, in terms of him trying to lead an ecological life. He’s a vegetarian. He’s really a great person, musically and ethically, too. Favorite Beatles song: “Eleanor Rigby.”

Kevin: His bass playing was so original. You will hear that bass melody inside the song itself. It’s melody inside another melody. Fantastic. In most songs, the bass is in the background. They’re the rhythm section. With McCartney, the bass makes a lot of those Beatles songs. The refrain with “Lucy in the Sky [with Diamonds],” it’s all the bass. In “Come Together,” it’s the sliding bass that really captures it. He just didn’t play a bass note, he put a whole melody right into the song. I always think how can I make a bass line really carry a song. Favorite Beatles song: “I’m Looking Through You.”

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The Southern Voice raises an interesting question about why a former Wings bassist and ex-husband of model Heather Mills can be allowed to play in Piedmont Park, but the Atlanta Pride Festival had to reschedule the summer event until October.

…due to restrictions on city parks put in place during the drought, the official Pride festival has been postponed until late fall. Instead, a coalition of LGBT organizations are hosting Stonewall Week events through Sunday.

The Paul McCartney show — announced on June 24 and scheduled for Aug. 15 — is widely expected to draw a crowd as large or larger than the 50,000 who turned out to see the Dave Matthews Band in September 2007 for the Piedmont Park Conservancy’s Green Concert series.

But according to city officials, the concert is not a “Class A” festival.

“The Piedmont Park Green Concert Series is a Class B event. It is also a gated and ticketed event so it does not fall under the outdoor event policy,” said Sharon Davis, spokesperson for the city’s Parks, Recreation & Cultural Affairs department.

SoVo goes on to say the city’s dangerously close to contradicting itself should Mills’ former husband draw a crowd larger than 50,000 people. Now, we’ve never heard of this McCartney character, probably because we don’t listen to country music. But whoever he is, SoVo does raise a good point.

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Fomer bass guitarist of the popular 70s rock ensemble Wings, Paul McCartney, will play a concert in Piedmont Park on August 15.

Well-known Wings hits include “Goodnight Tonight,” and “Venus and Mars/Rock Show.”

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Google the name Paul and the top three results are:

1. Paul, the one who wrote a good chunk of The New Testament.

2. Paul, the one who loves us, yeah, yeah, yeah.

3. And Paul Stamatiou, a 22-year-old Georgia Tech student.

Why/how does Paul Stamatiou show up on Google ahead of Pauls Newman, Krugman, Stanley, Revere, Ron and Gibson Les?

Stamatiou is the co-founder of the blog content suggestion site Skribit.com.

Additionally, his tech blog PaulStamatiou.com is one of the most popular blogs in the ‘osphere, according to Technorati.

I’m impressed. I’m only the fourth most popular Andisheh.

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