Am just on the train in my way home from the gig. To say Brisk and I got a little excited the first time Ed walked on may be an understatement :P Ed had his own little platform and was sporting Rock Star shades. Definitely made what was always going to be an amazing night a little bit more special.
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For me personally there is nothing greater in music then my favorite singer(Eddie) playing w/ my favorite guitar player, rock star, writer, etc...(Pete)! I have seen this combination 3 times in my life, but nothing was better then when they played Heart To Hang Onto and Magic Bus at the House of Blues in Chicago back in 97'!
Go to my thread on the GIVEN TO FLY section - I told you about this 2 months ago.
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'07 Madrid
'08 Virginia Beach / Washington DC
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Perth / Sydney / Brisbane
'10 London / Berlin / Lisbon
'11 Rio de Janeiro / Buenos Aires / Lima
'12 Manchester I / Manchester II / Berlin I / Berlin II
'13 Baltimore / Charlottesville / Charlotte
'14 Perth / San Siro / Berlin / "Live at Leeds" / MK
Am just on the train in my way home from the gig. To say Brisk and I got a little excited the first time Ed walked on may be an understatement :P Ed had his own little platform and was sporting Rock Star shades. Definitely made what was always going to be an amazing night a little bit more special.
AWESOME!!!
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Eddie Vedder Joins the Who for Powerhouse “Quadrophenia” Show
3/31/10, 10:02 am EST
There was an elegiac quality to the Who’s performance of Quadrophenia at London’s Royal Albert Hall last night, which marked the 10th anniversary of benefit shows in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust charity. Roger Daltrey, the prime mover behind the benefit, has said that this is the last time the Who will stage their 1973 rock opera (they first toured it in 1996), and Pete Townshend, who is suffering from severe tinnitus, warned that if the show went badly he would have to retire from live performance all together (read more on his condition here). The concert’s wildly enthusiastic reception should at least delay that decision for a while longer.
Looking back to the heady summer of 1964, when warring mods and rockers turned British seaside resorts into battlegrounds, Quadrophenia was steeped in nostalgia from the start, and now the album itself is a period piece from a time when it briefly seemed as if any ambitious band might be expected to turn its hand to a rock opera. These days rock fans get their narrative kicks from hit-packed jukebox musicals rather than dense album-length dramas: not even the Who-loving Green Day are willing to go quite this far.
Last night’s show suggested a few reasons why. For one thing, it is logistically demanding: the six-man band (with Pino Palladino and Zak Starkey replacing the late John Entwistle and Keith Moon) was augmented by a brass section, two string players and two surprise guest vocalists, Eddie Vedder and Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan. For another, it requires nothing less than total conviction. The narrative is so overwrought, even sometimes borderline comical, that any lapse in intensity would have tipped it into Spinal Tap territory.
Daltrey and Townshend may now be bespectacled sexagenarians, but they retain a slashing vigor. The singer still swung his mike cord like a bolas while the guitarist retained his trademark move of raising his arm high above his head before bringing it crashing down on his guitar strings. His playing was virtuosic, moving, on “5:15″ between bluesy licks, shredding solos and savage power chords, but also, more crucially, fueled by an enduring rage. The climactic one-two punch of “The Rock” and “Love Reign O’er Me” was drama worthy of this storied, 19th century venue.
The Who’s star reinforcements held nothing back either. A leonine Vedder conducted a heavweight duet with Daltrey on “The Punk and the Godfather”; Meighan gamely threw himself into the album’s least convincing song, “Bell Boy” by wearing a bellhop’s uniform and ferrying luggage with such am-dram dedication that he seemed to be daring the audience to laugh. The three vocalists, each representing different musical eras, convened in an ad hoc supergroup on “I’ve Had Enough.” Only the poorly acted filmed inserts, broadcast on a screen above the stage, risked making the whole project appear cumbersome. But throughout the night, Quadrophenia’s conceptual excess was anchored by its sheer physical power. Ultimately, none of the album’s ambitious narrative techniques proved quite as eloquent as a single blast from Townshend’s guitar.
Set List
“I Am the Sea”
“The Real Me”
“Quadrophenia”
“Cut My Hair”
“The Punk and the Godfather” (with Eddie Vedder)
“I’m One”
“The Dirty Jobs”
“Helpless Dancer”
“Is It in My Head?”
“I’ve Had Enough” (with Eddie Vedder and Tom Meighan)
“5:15″
“Sea and Sand” (with Eddie Vedder and Tom Meighan)
“Drowned” (Townshend solo)
“Bell Boy” (with Tom Meighan)
“Doctor Jimmy”
“The Rock”
“Love, Reign O’er Me”
Wachovia Center, Philadelphia - 10/3/05
Tweeter Center, Camden - 5/27/06
Verizon Center, Wash. DC - 5/30/06
Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN - 6/14/08
Madison Square Garden, NYC - 6/19/08
Spectrum, Philadelphia - 10/28/09
Spectrum, Philadelphia - 10/30/09
Spectrum, Philadelphia - 10/31/09
Madison Square Garden, NYC - 5/21/10
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia - 10/21/13
1st Mariner Arena, Baltimore - 10/27/13 Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia - 4/28/16 Enterprise Center, Saint Louis - 9/18/22
No I wasn't at the Supper club. Have seen Eddie w/ PT at the House of Blues, w/ the WHO at the same venue and finally w/ PT on Letterman.
Just finished Quadrophenia. Now I remember why I took this w/ me when I traveled through Europe for 4 months back in 97! This is my DESERT ISLAND ALBUM, it just never gets old! The anger and frustration talks to every GENERATION. It certainly spoke to me when I was young and obviously this album changed Eddie's life for the better.
"On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool cool rain
I can't sleep and I lay and I think
The night is hot and black as ink
Oh God, I need a drink of cool cool rain"
Whoever's going see you in Columbus...will be my 20th PJ show...V
ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1992 SUMMERFEST MILWAUKEE 1995 ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1998 UNITED CENTER CHICAGO1998 THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA KNOXVILLE 1998 ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2000 ALLSTATE ARENA ROSEMONT 2000 ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2003 HERSHEYPARK STADIUM 2003 TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA 2004 AIR CANADA CENTRE TORONTO 2005 UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006 UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006 VERIZON CENTER DC 2008 UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2009 NATIONWIDE ARENA COLUMBUS 2010 PJ20 NIGHT 1 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011 PJ20 NIGHT 2 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011 1ST MARINER ARENA BALTIMORE 2013 IWIRELESS CENTER MOLINE 2014 XCEL ENERGY CENTER ST. PAUL 2014 CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2016 CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2016 CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2018 CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2018 BOSTON 2 Fenway Park 2018 ENTERPRISE CENTER SAINT LOUIS 2022 Eddie Vedder Auditorium Theatre CHICAGO 2008
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TALKIN' 'BOUT OUR REGENERATION ... THE WHO ROAR BACK ON STAGE; REVIEW - THE WHO; TEENAGE CANCER TRUST. ROYAL ALBERT HALL
31 March 2010
The Evening Standard
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Roger Daltrey has toiled for a decade to help stage fundraising gigs for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
He's probably never worked harder than during this rare performance of Quadrophenia for the finale of the 2010 concert series.
The sprawling rock opera about adolescent mod Jimmy's mental turmoil proved difficult to play live when released in 1973, and The Who finally toured the whole album successfully in the late Nineties.
Thirteen years on they recruited Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Kasabian's Tom Meighan, alongside a stage full of proficient musicians, for this one-off charity show.
The pressure was really on Daltrey, though, to deliver a physically demanding vocal for 90 minutes.
During The Real Me, it seemed doubtful his voice would last, but the tireless 66-year-old manfully blasted his way through the set.
There were stark moments, such as Pete Townshend's acoustic solo spot on Drowned, however this show was really about the unsurpassed rock '*' roll power of The Who.
While Vedder was well cast as the godfather character, Meighan appeared a bit uncertain ‹ his role required a modicum of acting ability ‹ but he brought some swagger and clearly had fun dressed as a bellboy astride a scooter.
It was the songs that really excited this audience, though, and the band clattered and roared magnificently on I've Had Enough and 5.15, powered by Townshend's monumental riffs.
Perhaps it's too much to ask of pop star pensioners, but this rock opera really should go out on tour one more time.
Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
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I knew it instantly, but i went through 2 seconds of denial and was like oh balls show him on the screen just incase!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz_EbJ3Jzcg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59794835@N00/sets/72157623737913314/
Did I have kick ass 4th row seats? YES
Did I require a new pair of undies when Ed jumped on stage a few songs in? HELL YES
Gig of the Year so far.
ROCK ON!!
THANKS FLEUR!!!
Thank you Sandra indeed!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!! So good!
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2008: Tampa, MSG I & II, Hartford, Mansfield I & II; 2009: Chicago I & II, Philly I, III & IV; 2010: Cleveland, Buffalo, Hartford, Boston & MSG II.
thanks to all who sent the updates/pics/video!!!!
YUM
Thanks so much! I'm friends with Sandra and she told me you were going to post these pictures. We were just waiting anxiously
The whole world will be different soon the whole world will be RELIEVED
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EV Berlin/Zitadelle 2017
(the right way up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9IKSzcc0g
How fucking cool does Eddie look!
Looks like an amazing night for a brilliant cause. Wish I had been there!
were you at The Supper Club in NYC?
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EV - Canberra, Newcastle & Sydney 1&2 2011
I still can't stop
Milan
'07 Madrid
'08 Virginia Beach / Washington DC
'09 Shepherds Bush / Berlin / Manchester / London
Perth / Sydney / Brisbane
'10 London / Berlin / Lisbon
'11 Rio de Janeiro / Buenos Aires / Lima
'12 Manchester I / Manchester II / Berlin I / Berlin II
'13 Baltimore / Charlottesville / Charlotte
'14 Perth / San Siro / Berlin / "Live at Leeds" / MK
'22 Berlin / London I / London Ii
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nice - sorry i was being lazy
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Just found this from last night....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpX_iNaA3vE
EV - 5
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he didnt.
Tweeter Center, Camden - 5/27/06
Verizon Center, Wash. DC - 5/30/06
Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN - 6/14/08
Madison Square Garden, NYC - 6/19/08
Spectrum, Philadelphia - 10/28/09
Spectrum, Philadelphia - 10/30/09
Spectrum, Philadelphia - 10/31/09
Madison Square Garden, NYC - 5/21/10
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia - 10/21/13
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia - 4/28/16
Enterprise Center, Saint Louis - 9/18/22
2008- Boston I+II
2009- Toronto, Philly III+IV
2010- Bristow, Hartford, Boston, Newark
Just finished Quadrophenia. Now I remember why I took this w/ me when I traveled through Europe for 4 months back in 97! This is my DESERT ISLAND ALBUM, it just never gets old! The anger and frustration talks to every GENERATION. It certainly spoke to me when I was young and obviously this album changed Eddie's life for the better.
"On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool cool rain
I can't sleep and I lay and I think
The night is hot and black as ink
Oh God, I need a drink of cool cool rain"
Whoever's going see you in Columbus...will be my 20th PJ show...V
SUMMERFEST MILWAUKEE 1995
ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 1998
UNITED CENTER CHICAGO1998
THOMPSON-BOLING ARENA KNOXVILLE 1998
ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2000
ALLSTATE ARENA ROSEMONT 2000
ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE 2003
HERSHEYPARK STADIUM 2003
TOLEDO SPORTS ARENA 2004
AIR CANADA CENTRE TORONTO 2005
UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2006
VERIZON CENTER DC 2008
UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 2009
NATIONWIDE ARENA COLUMBUS 2010
PJ20 NIGHT 1 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
PJ20 NIGHT 2 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 2011
1ST MARINER ARENA BALTIMORE 2013
IWIRELESS CENTER MOLINE 2014
XCEL ENERGY CENTER ST. PAUL 2014
CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2016
CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2016
CHICAGO 1 Wrigley Field 2018
CHICAGO 2 Wrigley Field 2018
BOSTON 2 Fenway Park 2018
ENTERPRISE CENTER SAINT LOUIS 2022
Eddie Vedder Auditorium Theatre CHICAGO 2008
TALKIN' 'BOUT OUR REGENERATION ... THE WHO ROAR BACK ON STAGE; REVIEW - THE WHO; TEENAGE CANCER TRUST. ROYAL ALBERT HALL
31 March 2010
The Evening Standard
NS
23
Roger Daltrey has toiled for a decade to help stage fundraising gigs for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
He's probably never worked harder than during this rare performance of Quadrophenia for the finale of the 2010 concert series.
The sprawling rock opera about adolescent mod Jimmy's mental turmoil proved difficult to play live when released in 1973, and The Who finally toured the whole album successfully in the late Nineties.
Thirteen years on they recruited Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Kasabian's Tom Meighan, alongside a stage full of proficient musicians, for this one-off charity show.
The pressure was really on Daltrey, though, to deliver a physically demanding vocal for 90 minutes.
During The Real Me, it seemed doubtful his voice would last, but the tireless 66-year-old manfully blasted his way through the set.
There were stark moments, such as Pete Townshend's acoustic solo spot on Drowned, however this show was really about the unsurpassed rock '*' roll power of The Who.
While Vedder was well cast as the godfather character, Meighan appeared a bit uncertain ‹ his role required a modicum of acting ability ‹ but he brought some swagger and clearly had fun dressed as a bellboy astride a scooter.
It was the songs that really excited this audience, though, and the band clattered and roared magnificently on I've Had Enough and 5.15, powered by Townshend's monumental riffs.
Perhaps it's too much to ask of pop star pensioners, but this rock opera really should go out on tour one more time.