Being too literal

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So last night I went to see a Paul McCartney concert at ATT Park in San Francisco. It was about 58 degrees, just right for my medium light Tigger jacket, and we left early enough so that we wouldn't get stuck eating arena food. Or so I thought. At 5:00, about 30 miles out, I saw an Outback Steakhouse, should have spoken up, didn't. And then we got closer to town and the bay bridge was a parking lot. So we got there less than an hour before the concert. Had a taco at a place outside the arena and a hotdog inside. So much for not having arena food. At 7:30, a photo collage started playing on the big monitors along with a collage of Beatles/McCartney music. At 20 minutes, I really thought it would start. At 30 minutes, I really thought it would start. At 40 minutes, I was beginning to think that either Paul's plane had been delayed or that he was having to take a really slow cr*p or something. At about 62 minutes late, the show finally started. Fashionably late? Hm.... Anyway, this is a baseball stadium, so you can't expect the acoustics to be what they are in a concert hall. And they weren't. Actually, when Paul was singing by himself with not too many instrumentals going on, I could hear him really clearly. But when it was the whole band, not so much. But I got to hear Paul McCartney, in the flesh, sing "Let it Be" among other things. (big dumb grin) It was hard to hear him speak though. I had to look straight at the monitors, at his lips, to get most of the words. These guys change guitars a lot. And he even did a ukelele rendition of "Something" as a tribute to George. He also did a tribute to John, "Here Today", which I had never heard before. But back to the guitars and the acoustics. One of the things I actually heard clearly was when he said that the reason they changed guitars so often was "to show off". After all, they bought all those guitars, what else were they going to do with them. So I post this comment on Facebook, and my uncle the musician (NOT a guitar player btw, a drummer lol) informs me that Paul's just having fun with the audience, and that different guitars have different sounds. Well DUH. I aren't a musician, but I aren't dumb either. lol Do ya think Uncle Duckie was taking things a wee bit too literally there? Do you take things literally when they're not meant that way? I know I do sometimes...