ARC live
BettrMan21
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I HOPE, HOPE, HOPE at some point we can purchase some of Ed's solo stuff if for nothing other than a live version of ARC. It has been the most amazing thing Ed has played yet. It's all I can do to keep my eyes dry.
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It's the purest showcase of his amazing vocal talent.
It's has easily been the highlight of every one of his solo shows.
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
when i first saw him do this last year in Boston it brought tears to my eyes(knowing the significance behind it)...just the pure emotion being poured out of Ed without saying a word..nothing short of awesome!!...dam..i need a tissue!
that don't matter..last summer the last show of the tour in Mansfield was on the 30th and i thought they'd do arc or LBC..we didn't get either..not even a word or moment of silence or anything...kinda weird IMO.
OH well
Regardless, it was completely amazing, although I thought the Wolf add-in sort of shifted the hue of the song a little.
Every time I tried to submerge myself in it, idiots started screaming. I don't understand some people.
Also, I'm hungry and would like to go to lunch now.
"Regarding the time period when the lyrics were being written, Vedder said, "There's been a lot of mortality...It's a weird time to be writing. Roskilde changed the shape of us as people, and our filter for seeing the world changed."[26] Several songs on the album were inspired by the June 2000 Roskilde Festival tragedy in which nine people died during Pearl Jam's set. The album's first single, "I Am Mine", was written by Vedder in 2000 in a hotel room before the band's first show after the Roskilde tragedy.[27] "Love Boat Captain" includes brief reference to Roskilde ("Lost 9 friends we'll never know... 2 years ago today"). When it was performed at concerts thereafter, Vedder noted the passing of time by updating the lyrics (by 2008, the lyric was "8 years ago today"). The track entitled "Arc" was recorded as a vocal tribute to the nine people who died at the festival. Vedder only performed this song nine times on Pearl Jam's 2003 tour, and the band left the track off all released bootlegs as an act of respect." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act_(album)
It truly is a truly moving song when heard live and I really enjoy the "wolf" pieces he throws in there. I think it gives it more character.
Hartford 10 Boston 10 Wrigley 13 Worcester I 13 Worcester II 13 Hartford 13
NYC I 16 NYC II 16 Fenway I 16 Fenway II 16 Fenway 1 18 Fenway II 18
E.V. Boston II 08 E.V. Albany II 09 E.V. Providence 11, E.V. Boston 11
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Eddie Vedder solo: 2008 - Boston night 1 & 2 || 2009 - Albany, NY night 1 & 2 || 2011 - Hartford, CT, Boston, MA
+1 here. Amazing how five minutes of that felt like only one minute! It totally sucks you into it.
And it's permanently stuck with me. Feeling it when thinking about those 9 lost lives.
Very emotional and I finally understood why it was left out of my Riot Act book...when I was looking for lyrics. At least I thought there were.
Found out why...and I appreciate it even more now. I totally respect PJ/EV for not releasing this out of respect for those 9 lost lives.
It's like watching something on TV and you'd still be moved...but not as much as you would be if you were really there.
Wow.
EV: It's your band.
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"Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
I am with you IamMine... It was haunting, just to have silence, and the 1st time he sings... was unreal.
I also heard the combination of arc + wolf, was also good.
He did sing the first ten seconds of Arc........listen just as the first encore starts.......he is singing it as he walks up to the mic
Nicely said. I still have to say "Hard Sun" was my favorite moment, with the lights on and getting up to 10 feet away -- and Eddie's tossing his pick toward me. Lost it. Fun story, though.
i'm curious if Wolf is for Chris McCandless.....as sort of a prayer as well....
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For those that haven't heard this version, it's amazing. I'm sure someone with more technical knowledge could describe what he was actually doing better than I, but I'll give it a shot. He would sing it, wait a few seconds, what he already sang would start to replay, then he would join in on signing it again but with like a 1 second delay. Then the song with him singing twice would start to replay, he would pause, and join in on it again. By the end, a very powerful, beautiful, "aaahhh" that absolutely filled my soul. . Then, he stands up and slowly walks off the stage with a hand in the air saying "thank you" to the crowd, the curtain closing, and the song continuing to play. Chills...
Both nights !!
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
I think his true vocals are extrordinaire on ARC, but to me it seems like part of it is recorded (?) I think a previous poster mentioned how it is re-playing what he already sang, which I think is cool, but being there I felt as though he was singing along with a pre-recorded version, just adding in his vocals when he wanted to. I truly hope this isn't the case, but the overall presentation of this song just rubbed me the wrong way, and I'm surprised that I'm the only one feeling this way. It didn't seem like a true live song to me, and it left a bad taste with me for the rest of the shows (even though it was at the end, I still felt ripped off.) Maybe I am completely mistaken with the way this song is performed LIVE, but I just wasn't feeling it.
The rest of his songs were obviously LIVE at the moment, and I could clearly tell. But this one seemed like the only one that wasn't truly the LIVE music yelling out to me.
I'm sure I will get a lot of disagreements for this, which I expect. But I would honestly not hear ARC at all at an EV show. Just my 2 cents.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Dude. It's loops. He records the baseline track LIVE right in front of you. Then he adds another track, with the first track looped in the background. Then he adds a third track, harmonzied with the first and second. Then a fourth, with the first, second, third playing in the background. Etc Etc Etc.
It isn't pre-recorded. It's recorded live right in front of you. That's the whole point.
Did you not watch Liam Finn play? He'd start with, say, a drum track. Record it and loop it behind him, then add a bass part, and add that to the mix. Then play guitar over the top of that.
Ed's doing the EXACT SAME THING. Except the only instrument he uses is his voice.
Sometimes, this place amazes me.
for the least they could possibly do
Thanks, thats the explanation I was looking for. Makes more sense to me now. I'm not that up to par with the technology involved in music now, so I had no idea this was being done. I guess you just educated me.
That being said, I still don't like it as much as everyone else is praising it. This makes me feel better about the song, but I'm not totally sold on it. To each his own I guess.