Eddie warm up show 14th June ??

PilateOfTheStorm

Found this on tumblr, couldn't find anything else on it. Interested me because I've never read that story about Spin the Black Circle. Anyone know anything about this show? Cool Spin the Black Circle story, just can't imagine it being played on Ukulele.

Eddie Vedder, Somerville MA, June 14, 2011 [pre-tour warm-up gig]

Audience: [shouted song requests]

Eddie Vedder: You want to hear what?

Audience member: “Spin The Black Circle!”

Eddie Vedder: [laughter] “Spin The Black Circle”… on a ukelele? You gotta be kidding me. [ukelele tuning; Vedder tries to play the opening riff of “Spin The Black Circle”]

Audience: [applause]

Eddie Vedder: [stops playing; laughs] That song…uh…you probably know, it’s all about playing records, and how important records were to me when I was growing up. I mean, they’re important to me now, too. I always think about Johnny Ramone [applause] and how we used to sit around at his house and listen to music. He hated CDs. Wouldn’t listen to ‘em. I tried to play him some Fugazi off a CD once. Big mistake. [adopts Johnny Ramone voice] “Eddie, put on another Shangri-La’s 45.” [laughter] But it’s kinda funny…when Stone and I originally wrote this, it was inspired by a comic book that I had when I was a little kid. I used to like the funny comics best. You know, Archie and Veronica, Casper the ghost…[tuning]…Richie Rich…do they still make Richie Rich? [laughter] Maybe he wound up in charge of Enron or something. [laughter] They had to bail him out. [laughter] Anyway, I had this comic about a girl named Little Dot. That’s what it was called: Little Dot. And…it’s hard to believe that somebody even published this, but her whole character was a gimmick. And the gimmick was: she was obsessed with dots. Anything that was round she just called it “a dot.” [laughter] Like, a manhole cover would be…”hey, look at that big dot!” you know? [laughter] And that’s all the comic book was…just this crazy girl talking about dots. Pretty weird. But the cover of this one issue—I mean, you can just imagine how this girl would have felt about records, right? [laughter] Because to her they’re just…big black dots. [laughter] So there was a picture of Little Dot in a room with records everywhere. Records nailed to the wall, records all over the floor. And she’s dancing around on top of the records—and none of them are in sleeves, of course, because sleeves are squares [laughter]. And I just thought: I wish I had that many records. So I was envious of Little Dot, but I also kind of…hated her [laughter] because I knew she didn’t really care about what was on ‘em. She would have been just as happy with a bunch of Frisbees, or some donuts. [more tuning] I felt like, if you weren’t gonna listen to records then you didn’t deserve to have them. So, uh, there’s my message to you: listen to your records! [applause] Anyway, we originally were gonna call this “Spin The Black Dot,” but “Circle” fir the music better. And I’m pretty sure I don’t actually know how to play this on the uke, but…here goes.

[plays “Spin The Black Circle’]

source ( with a nice picture of the Little Dot Comic) : http://discographies.tumblr.com/post/7092876808/eddie-vedder-somerville-ma-june-14-2011

Newch91

How appropriate for some on here.

I felt like, if you weren’t gonna listen to records then you didn’t deserve to have them. So, uh, there’s my message to you: listen to your records!

vedderfan10

I remember Little Dot and that particular cover Ed's talking about!! Funny stuff. I hope it's a true story!

ontheroad

I just saw this...how do we not know more about this show? Wonder if he played Toad? He went there in 2006 after the PJ show at the Garden and sat in for a couple of songs with Bill Janovitz.