"We had a blast-and you were the blasters!," Paul McCartney told the crowd at the end of his surprise Tuesday show at New York City. McCartney played a spontaneous gig at the Bowery Ballroom, a beloved rock bar on the Lower East Side that holds only 575 people.

And when that ticket gets you into a 575-capacity venue in New York City to see Sir Paul McCartney? Well, it just might be the deal of a lifetime. Midday Tuesday (Feb. 11), it was revealed that the Beatle would perform a last-minute underplay at Manhattan's peerless Bowery Ballroom that very evening – with tickets only available at the box office.

Perhaps the biggest irony for the audience was that for what would be such a little-seen show, it’d be the perfect set to record every aspect of it – but no luck: as wristbands were given out, everybody’s phones were locked in pouches.