*** Ed solo Baltimore 1 Fanviews Here 6/14/09 ***

SOLAT319

ST280682 wrote:

during arc he stopped abruptly. the lights were off and he wasnt singing it was a recording. i think he felt guilty or something and went to the next song.. couldnt remember the words and got up and said godnight like he was gonna storm off stage but then finished and left quickly. justseemed like something was up i dont know ive seen pj many times and that was very out of character for eddie vedder.

Apparently, you weren't at Hartford last year.

SOLAT319

SOLAT319 wrote:

ST280682 wrote:

during arc he stopped abruptly. the lights were off and he wasnt singing it was a recording. i think he felt guilty or something and went to the next song.. couldnt remember the words and got up and said godnight like he was gonna storm off stage but then finished and left quickly. justseemed like something was up i dont know ive seen pj many times and that was very out of character for eddie vedder.

Apparently, you weren't at Hartford last year.

Or was it Mansfield 1?

JM40513

bigbiggzy wrote:

I normally don't post...in fact I usually just jump on and read everyone else's posts, but after having experienced Bal-1 last night....I just can't help but add to the statements of sheer bliss....

Awesome show last night....and the closest I've ever been to the stage. Was 3rd row, dead center! Never been that close in the 11 years I've been going to Pj shows, lol. I realize how stupid this will sound, but will add it anyway....

So after the 2nd encore, the first 3-5 rows rushed towards the stage.....right? So my wife and I are right there, dead center with the rest....Ed went into Santa Cruz. I was singing my heart out to every word and about the time I looked up at Ed (or so it seemed) he and I locked eyes for what felt like a minute and then he nodded at me. :oops:

I'm sure the 30 other ppl around me in that section are telling the same story tonight, but man it feels nice to think that, lol. Great show. Great group of ppl....and Great setlist. I thought he played and sang beautifully.

My love goes out to 10Club for the seats. Thank you for a beautiful experience!

Love to all....

ps...The End felt and sounded exactly like it's title...perhaps a hint of what's to come. Extremely beautiful...

Also a long time reader and couldn't help posting this time after reading this one. I was also third row center and I think I was sitting right next to you and your wife.

The dude who requested "Gone" was one of the first people to yell something in the middle of the set and I just hung my head and was embarrassed for him, until Ed responded to him and actually played the song. Could. Not. Believe it. The crowd loved it and it seemed like Ed did too. Still, kind of inappropriate to be yelling in the middle of an intimate set in an opera house. But I have to say it...well done.

Lots of people guessing what was wrong with Arc and why he stopped...I could tell from the beginning that something was wrong and my guess is that it was his timing was off. Although that was one of my favorite songs from Jersey last year and I was disappointed that it didn't work out, I was excited when he asked for requests. Since he was inviting requests, I felt totally OK about yelling something out. As soon as he asked it seemed like everyone in the theater yelled out what they wanted to hear (lots of footsteps and other usual requests), but I waited until it quieted down and yelled as long as I could "I Am a Patriot". I don't know how many other people were requesting it, but I'm quite sure that I'm responsible for him playing it. When the dude next to me told me that was his wife's request also I felt pretty good that I had made a request that all the hardcore PJ fans would be excited to hear.

Just an amazing show. Got two really great pictures, PM me if you want them since I don't know how to post them here.

dustinpardue

I wasn't in the 10c but the balcony. Still great from up there. I saw some guy near me recording so there is a recording out there somewhere. Atlantic City was definitely the highlight for me.

dustinpardue

dr0ptheleash wrote:

So jealous you guys got Gone! Sounds like a killer setlist!

Gone was great. Ed had to take a moment to re-learn to the song and needed some help with the lyrics. His sense of humor about it made it entertaining.

Krystof Kieslowski

I think it had been about 12 years since I had last been in the Lyric for a performance of Les Miserables. Upon entering, I made my way to the merch table. My eye went right for a baseball shirt with black half-sleeves. On the front was THE WHO target logo except the circle was black and the dot was orange. Inside the dot were the letters EV. On the back, a small Into the Wild logo, below that the word BALTIMORE and beneath that the letters EV arranged in a way so it looks like the #23. All in orange. Even at 40 bucks, that was coming home with me.

I then proceeded to make my way to my seat. I was second to last row in the balcony and it felt like I was on top of a hill. But I really didn’t mind. I just begin to read the program when a guy walks up to me:

Guy- Are you here alone?
Me- Yeah.
Guy- I just got upgraded to the 4th row. Do want my seat? It’s 1st row center balcony.
Me- Uhhhh…sure.

I don’t know where it ranks, but it was one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me at a concert. I hope I showed enough gratitude to the guy who did it. He snapped my picture on his camera phone and said goodbye. I was now in the presidential seats. Sometimes, it pays to be a hermit. If the guy who gave me the ticket ever reads this…THANK YOU!!

Liam Finn came on. He is a wild man. Nothing like the kid I saw in Betchadupa that performed at his father’s concerts in New Zealand 8(can it really be that long?) years ago. It was loop machines, guitars, drums, and guttural noises. All by Liam. His compatriot named Eliza played a mean electrical harp and some other...device. Some of his songs reminded me of his dad Neil but a majority of his works and his frenetic energy more closely resembled his uncle Tim. Dude’s with beards. They are intense. A great way to begin.

Eddie took the stage half an hour later. Songs 2 through 7 were the highlight of my evening. Sometimes is one of my favorite songs ever and to hear it in that setting, in my "hometown", was really...moving. Follow that up with Don’t be Shy, one of my favorite covers that PJ does. I’m no fan of I Am Mine but the way Ed did it last night; it just had an extra umphh to it. I doubt a full band version could ever hit that kind of note. No Code was well represented as I’m Open then made appearance. In all honesty, the show could have ended there and I would have left happy. Man of the Hour is an under appreciated song by me and that’s ashame. It really capped off that section of the concert perfectly. Someone then shouted out Gone and Ed obliged but told the audience he needed their help. The crowd was feeding him lines and he would take it from there. It was like one big camp fire at that moment.

Somewhere during the next couple of songs it seemed as if Ed was going to say something about Baltimore, but the few people who felt the need to shout out stuff made him lose his train of thought. He said he’d go back to it later but never did. He told the crowd a couple of times before that to refrain from yelling out and I think for the most part that was achieved. The next big moment for me was Atlantic City. I hate to be picky, but he didn’t play harmonica on the song and that would have just taken it to totally different plane in my view. I got over that though and was just grateful to have that kind of surprise. Before Small Town, he told a story about the band deciding to live together in a house in San Francisco to write songs early on. He said, “This was before The Real World so we didn’t know what we were getting into.” He eventually had to hole up in this room by himself where he wrote Small Town. Stone heard him strumming it one morning and really thought he had something. Without that, it may never have been recorded.

Porch closed out the first set. Ed walked off stage and the crowd was kind of quite. I got the sense people didn’t want to be loud because Ed had told them to keep it down so many times during the night. So Ed comes back out and says, “You know, you could see the guys up here adjusting stuff so you knew I was coming back out here. But it was pretty fucking quite. You gotta make some noise to get the guy back out here.” The place then erupts in applause to which Ed says, “Be quite, make noise, do this, do that. Seriously, this has been a great evening.” Society was cool because the guy who wrote the song was in town and played it with him. He was at the 8 X 10 club(which I had never even heard of) tonight. I really was looking forward to hearing Arc but Ed stopped it almost at the beginning. He said he just wasn’t feeling it and that he had never done that before. “I’m not going to fake it.” I guess I can always say I saw that instead. He replaced it with I Am A Patriot and as the curtain closed he almost got hit with it. When the curtain went back up he quipped, “That was closest I’ve ever come to being Bret Michaels.” Line of the night.

I had heard about Santa Cruz but thought it was destined for the new record. Turns out it’s this past year’s Christmas Single. I’ll have to get my hands on that somehow. Ed’s guitar malfunctioned on Hard Sun and he was not too pleased. He ripped the amp chord out of the ax and shoved it to the tech. I thought it added to the power of the song to be 100% honest. When it came back to him, he kind of played it into the first row.

That was that. The baseball shirt is hanging on wall at the moment. I will wear it on occasion. This is a lame excuse but if it only cost 20 bucks, I would have gone again tonight. It’s ok though. Let someone else have that experience. I saw him the first time he ever played B-More(solo or band). No regrets. Maybe someday they’ll release these shows onto a bootlegs.

PJStatTracker

The new song kinda reminded me of dust and bones by the foo fighters, although thats just from memory and i'd have to hear it again...

great great show...

agfy

was at the 6/14/09 baltimore show, eddie you rock!!!!

BugzInMyHead

Certainly one of the great things about seeing this band as well as solo shows is that no two shows are ever alike. This is more evident than ever after this very interesting night in B'more. I was born and raised in Baltimore and it was fantastcic to see Eddie in my home town. Add to that the set list which included such rarities and you have a perfect storm. Which is kinda what the show felt like. I saw him in Chicago last year and thought the crowd was much better tonight although strangely quite at times I think trying to keep Eddie happy and focused. The Lyric is very intimate and the acoustics were excellent. Gone, Man of the Hour, Society were highlightes for me. The most amazing part of th whole night happened before the show. It is rare that you go to see a band and end up meeting and just hanging out with such an amazing group of people. I had a couple of singles to get rid of and in the end I was succesful in large part due to all the folks hanging out front helping me out. I met a guy from Zimbabwe and chated with him for nearly and hour about various things. This was his first time in the states and I was happy to see him moving to the front of the stage as the show was starting. Once again thanks to the Jammers for a great show.

The Juggler

i personally thought the crowd was a bit too uptight for my liking.

TepEvan

This is the second time seeing EV, the first being last year DC 1, and the crowd was by far better than the DC crowd. In DC 1, Eddie had to keep telling the crowd to shut up. This time it was only at the beginning and then later he joked about being a a**hole telling people to shut up, be loud, stand up, sit down.

I got 12th row 10c tickets (Row L), which is the closest I've ever been. It was great, some songs were perfect and some he was just human on. As far as Arc goes, it sounded off, that's why he stopped it. Personally, I'm glad he did, since I like to see the human side of him and not hear the same tunes that he's played for every audience. Liam Finn was also much better this time than in DC 1 and I liked his performance; I actually thought he (and EJ) were terrible in DC.

Prior to the show, I had seen the tour buses and knew I was heading there after the show. After a 2+ hour wait along with some of the PJ family, he came out and shook hands and conversed with a bunch of us. Hannon came out earlier and signed some guy's guitar
I have pics here in this thread http://forums.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=101205 of him meeting us.

Only two things I have to complain about, 1) the prices of the merchandise. A $35 poster? Really?? Long gone are the days of the anti-ticketmaster $16 tickets. and 2) more of an annoyance, but people who think that the audience isn't there to SEE Eddie but only to HEAR him, one person in particular in front of us was annoying by doing things to block our view and then argued with us when we politely asked them to stop.

All in all, it was the BEST concert experience I've had and have been in 7th heaven since I met EV. Also thanks to the people I met while waiting outside that kept that long wait for EV bearable. I only got one person's name, Lance, but there were a few other people around (tall 6'5" guy and the woman he was with, etc).

Lovett-or-Leavett

This was a great show. I feel lucky to have gone and shared the experience with my brother and wife. It was a powerful night and Atlantic City and Patriot were the highlights for me.

I wish you could get boots of these concerts. I gotten copies of everyshow I've been to. It kills me not to have one for this show. He could raise a lot of money of charities if they would release them.

Let's hope for some stops in PA this fall.

SentimentalOrnament

It_Wasnt_My_Surface wrote:

You guys are truly lucky to experience such an amazing setlist. Santa Cruz must have been amazing.

Yeah probably as amazing as the night that he first played it in santa cruz......ah who am i kidding, nothing was better than that night! excuse me i'm just a little jealous.

cutz

dustinpardue wrote:

I wasn't in the 10c but the balcony. Still great from up there. I saw some guy near me recording so there is a recording out there somewhere. Atlantic City was definitely the highlight for me.

If ther is a recording, it hasn't shown up yet. Still holding out hope, it does.

scw156

recording from the balcony?!

i know someone who has a recording from the right up front....

pbsoccer7

Maybe its just me, but during Arc it seemed like he was thrown off by all the shouting from people... even after he asked a few times for them to stop. I particularly refer to the girl directly in front of me who everyone in close proximity could not stand her by the end of the show.

Non the less, hell of a show. Acoustics are perfect in that pace.

PU2VAB

My 17 y.o. son and I have mixed feelings about the show. On one hand, Eddie clearly came prepared to share a genuine connection with his fans. I think his performance was the best I have experienced by any musician, and I could've listened for days. I'm convinced that he will be around a long time, along the lines of Dylan. He's just incredible. I was near tears during Guaranteed... The PROBLEM with the show was that a good number of audience members were simply assholes. The number of times someone yelled unintelligibly and interrupted the flow of the show was outrageous. Eddie tried his best to get the crowd re-focused but some idiots just didn't know when to shut the hell up. Eddie tried to use humor to make the point by saying something like "when you yell like that all I hear is 'I'm drunk and I'm an asshole.' It annoys me and it annoys everyone around you." He even said "Now would be a good time to shut up." And people just acted like Eddie was an Ipod instead of the incredible musician and human being he is. Eddie did not have a "freak out"--- he seemed beyond frustrated because he wasn't allowed to give us the show he wanted to. I can't tell you how important it was for me and especially my son to have a good experience at this show. It has been a really hard year, and PJ and Eddie's music is something that helps pull us through. What a shame that some selfish assholes only care about hearing their own rotting voices instead of sharing an experience with one of the most spiritually powerful human beings of our time.

CHANGEinWAVES

The Jeagler wrote:

i personally thought the crowd was a bit too uptight for my liking.

I knew I saw you there!!! was gonna say hi but didn't wanna look like a stalker :?

elle74

bigbiggzy wrote:

I normally don't post...in fact I usually just jump on and read everyone else's posts, but after having experienced Bal-1 last night....I just can't help but add to the statements of sheer bliss....

Awesome show last night....and the closest I've ever been to the stage. Was 3rd row, dead center! Never been that close in the 11 years I've been going to Pj shows, lol. I realize how stupid this will sound, but will add it anyway....

So after the 2nd encore, the first 3-5 rows rushed towards the stage.....right? So my wife and I are right there, dead center with the rest....Ed went into Santa Cruz. I was singing my heart out to every word and about the time I looked up at Ed (or so it seemed) he and I locked eyes for what felt like a minute and then he nodded at me. :oops:

I'm sure the 30 other ppl around me in that section are telling the same story tonight, but man it feels nice to think that, lol. Great show. Great group of ppl....and Great setlist. I thought he played and sang beautifully.

My love goes out to 10Club for the seats. Thank you for a beautiful experience!

Love to all....

ps...The End felt and sounded exactly like it's title...perhaps a hint of what's to come. Extremely beautiful...

I think my boyfriend and I were sitting on the right of you guys. I asked him what he was drinking. LOL And he said "moderately". I know everyone hates how people yell out, but i HAD to do it...last year at the Newark, NJ show I asked him what he was drinking and he went off on this tangent....He said, "The question was what are you drinking...I wont tell you what I'm drinking, but I'll tell you how much I'm drinking....and I'm not drinking as much as I was last night....And I ended up having a great night drinking last night....I had such a great night and so many thoughts in my head, there was no way I was going to sleep and I'll take you back to where I was and what I was doing at about 5 in the morning....cause I'm going to play till 5 in the morning...it doesnt make complete sense and it's a piece of fruit that I guess I'm pulling off the tree before it's ripe, but we'll see what it tastes like."

(I have the recording from some site....AMAZING AMAZING show!!!) He was much more talkative on last year's leg.

And yes, I felt him lock eyes with me a few times! Maybe it was my "I love Eddie Vedder" trucker hat and tank top I had....LOL He was probably like, wow this girl is a stalker!!

lowlight79

I can't believe someone was dumb enough to put a link up on this board....wow.