*** EV Tour - Los Angeles Fanviews Here 07/8/11 ***

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Eddie Vedder
The Wiltern-Los Angeles, CA
July 08, 2011

Set List
01. Waving Palms
02. Can't Keep
03. Sleeping By Myself
04. Without You
05. Light Today
06. Goodbye
07. Longing To Belong w/Rudy Stein playing cello
08. Soon Forget
09. Trouble-(Yusuf Islam)
10. Sometimes
11. I Am Mine
12. Betterman
13. Long Nights w/Glen Hansard
14. Far Behind
15. Guaranteed
16. Lukin w/string quartet (fast version)
17. Just Breathe w/string quartet
18. The End w/string quartet
19. Unthought Known
20. Immortality
21. Arc

Encore Break 1
22. Long Road w/John Densmore playing djembe & Tibetan bells
23. Wishlist w/John Densmore playing djembe & Tibetan bells
24. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
25. Sleepless Nights w/Glen Hansard (no mics no amplification)
26. Society w/Glen Hansard-(Jerry Hannan)
27. Falling Slowly w/string quartet {Glen singing and playing acoustic, Eddie duet vocal}-(Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová)
28. Open All Night-(Bruce Springsteen)
29. Porch

Encore Break 2
30. Rockin' In The Free World w/Glen Hansard & John Densmore-(Neil Young)
31. Hard Sun w/Glen Hansard-(Peterson)


Suzie Katayama: String contractor & quartet music consultant
String quartet members
Charlie Bisharat-Violin 1
Sara Parkins-Violin 2
Alma Fernandez-Viola
Rudy Stein-Cello


Please share your experiences of the show here...the Fanview threads are preserved on the board.

Please keep the Fanview threads for Fanviews. It's ok to begin another thread on discussions of other topics and/or debates.

Thank you!

p.s.
Glen Hansard Set List
01. Pennies In The Fountain
02. Leave
03. Low Rising
04. You Will Become
05. Don't Leave Me Waiting
06. Maybe I Was Born To Hold You In These Arms
07. Astral Weeks-(Van Morrison) {sings a couple of lines from "Smile"}
08. Song Of Good Hope

thefixer9

Awesome Setlist!!!

SJD3232

Looks like an awesome setlist, Long Road and Rockin' in the Free World.

I can still feel the experience of being center stage with my arms on the stage for the entire last 2 hours of the show at the Tower.

How did Falling Slowly sound? They killed it in Philly.

Hope everybody had a good time!

Shannon

PS- Anyone have an extra poster for me in trade for the Philly poster???

Luckytwn1

An awesome show. Had a totally different feel than Wed night in Long Beach. I thought the first half was perhaps a tiny bit sluggish but from Just Breathe on, it was off the charts. I couldn't believe how loud the Wiltern was during the encores, particularly Rockin' In The Free World and Hard Sun.

Tons of celebrities in the crowd. The trio of Unthought Known, Immortality, and Arc was worth the price of admission alone and then some. Having followed Springsteen around for years, was glad to see Open All Night and he did a great job on it. I thought the 2008 solo tour was good but this BLOWS it away. Tremendous stuff.

AzWicker

Awesome setlist, too bad they didn't do a Doors cover with Densmore sitting in. Wonder what ill happen in SB tomorrow, errr today...

AmishGuy91

Great show...thought the crowd was really good for the most part. What celebrities were there?

Bushleaguer28

John FREAKING Densmore! Highlight of the night for sure.

From Just Breathe on the show was unreal. Not that the part before wasnt great too it just took on a whole new level. Crowd was way into it.

Falling Slowly gave me chills. Just a great fucking song and its awesome that Ed sings it too.

Bushleaguer28

Luckytwn1 wrote:

An awesome show. Had a totally different feel than Wed night in Long Beach. I thought the first half was perhaps a tiny bit sluggish but from Just Breathe on, it was off the charts. I couldn't believe how loud the Wiltern was during the encores, particularly Rockin' In The Free World and Hard Sun.

Tons of celebrities in the crowd. The trio of Unthought Known, Immortality, and Arc was worth the price of admission alone and then some. Having followed Springsteen around for years, was glad to see Open All Night and he did a great job on it. I thought the 2008 solo tour was good but this BLOWS it away. Tremendous stuff.

What celebs were there?

dimitrispearljam

awesome..alot of pj song

PJammer4life

Funny story..fan club tickets were 4th row Lodge for us. Just before Eddie takes the stage an older man with long white hair came and sat down. He was wearing a Sgt. Pepper style long golden robe jacket..I remember thinking..not many people could pull that look off anymore but he can. Later he sat down on stage and Eddie introduced him as John Densmore from the Doors. I had to laugh cause that explained the jacket. Everyone around us was like, "Hey that's the dude who was sitting right THERE!! " So I guess even John Densmore got shitty Ten Club balcony seats Lol. He was awesome though..a real special guest.

dugan99

Amazing setlist - highlights for me included Long Road, Immortality, Open All Night, Rockin in the Free World, and Falling Slowly. Didn't sounds like RITFW was on the setlist, but Ed was impressed with the crowd (they had ditched their seats and pushed up to the front of the stage sometime around Wishlist) and decided 'it needed to be added'. Betterman was the lullaby version which was awesome. Falling Slowly with Glen was also amazing as their voices meld together nicely - I believe Ed was singing the upper register stuff. Great set, great performance. I remember seeing him in 2008 and he was a little more reactive to fans on stage, sometimes bothered by them - he was more vocal about people shouting at him. Now when people shout at him he says 'I can't hear anything up here' and blows it off, and that seems to work better. He started to tell a story about smoking pot and learning how to tie knots which, of course, got a huge rise out of the crowd. Some dude in the back yells 'WE LOVE KNOTS' and Ed sorta stops and laughs and goes 'did he just say fuck knots? I can't hear anything up here'. Not too much random shouting after that, thankfully.

My Tenclub seats were Mezz, Row J, and I know there were other fanclub members seated even further behind us. I don't know how the tickets are allocated for Tenclub, but that was definitely the furthest from the stage I've been at a PJ event. Otherwise, amazing show, amazing performance.

finally

I thought LB was perfect. Last night surpassed it tenfold. I got to hear all the songs I was hoping to hear after reading previous fanviews - Light Today, the much-talked about Betterman and Open All Night. To hear Porch, Wishlist (with John Densmore!) Unthought Known and Long Road with just Ed on guitar was beauiful.

Now let me say - I've got a shitty 10c number (430,XXX) due to my own fault of letting it lapse, so I wasn't expecting miracles. But I just about fainted when the lovely young man manning the table looked at my tickets and said, "You've got awesome seats - second row center!!!" OMFG! In my 20 years of seeing this band, I've never ever been this lucky - ever!

When Ed and Glen sang Sleepless Nights, everyone in my area was literally drawn to their feet. How could you not when Ed and Glen walk to the very end of the stage, Ed motions the crowd to hush and they start to sing without amps. To see their facial expressions as they're singing made the song even more intense for me.

At the second encore, we all rushed to the stage and Ed said, "I'm sure this place won't like us wrecking it" or words to that effect. So there I am, pressed up against the stage, 5 feet from Ed, watching every word leave his mouth and seeing every chord strum as he's pumping out Rockin' In The Free World. He finishes the song and I couldn't believe my eyes - Ed is walking straight towards me. He reaches down, grabs my hand and places his pick in my hand. I can't believe lil ol' me got Ed's pick, especially with the blonde bombshell standing next to me - I mean seriously - it just doesn't happen!!!!

I'm sorry for gushing about getting a pick placed in my hand - I know it may appear a bit psycho-fan. But for this nerdy plain Jane, 45-year-old fan who doesn't really have much of a life outside of following my band when I can scrape up the funds to do so, it was THE MOST incredible night of my otherwise boring life. I'm on a high that I don't want to end :-D

From the bottom of my heart, Ed and 10c, thank you for giving me a truly memorable evening

jervin007

John Densmore

That must have been badass!

electronblue

PJammer4life wrote:

Funny story..fan club tickets were 4th row Lodge for us. Just before Eddie takes the stage an older man with long white hair came and sat down. He was wearing a Sgt. Pepper style long golden robe jacket..I remember thinking..not many people could pull that look off anymore but he can. Later he sat down on stage and Eddie introduced him as John Densmore from the Doors. I had to laugh cause that explained the jacket. Everyone around us was like, "Hey that's the dude who was sitting right THERE!! " So I guess even John Densmore got shitty Ten Club balcony seats Lol. He was awesome though..a real special guest.

WHAT AN AWESOME SETLIST!!! it is really too bad that we can't buy these live recordings..o, i would so buy this!

JasonE

Are you kidding me with this setlist? Unfucking real.

SP96445

Wiltern show picked up where LB left off. His voice is much stronger at the start of the show.

"I know there are many entertainment choices here in LA and I appreciate you coming here tonight"

Audience was very pumped from the first song. Unusually rowdy for an LA crowd.
Maybe because the bars in the lobby where well stocked and served by professionals unlike LB and SD!

Only fly in the ointment is no Doors song with Densmore a la Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in 1994.

Eddie is running on all cylinders now can't wait for tonight!

FortunateAsMe

Great Story. Every PJ fan deserves an experience like this. Thanks for sharing.

HoldThePain wrote:

I thought LB was perfect. Last night surpassed it tenfold. I got to hear all the songs I was hoping to hear after reading previous fanviews - Light Today, the much-talked about Betterman and Open All Night. To hear Porch, Wishlist (with John Densmore!) Unthought Known and Long Road with just Ed on guitar was beauiful.

Now let me say - I've got a shitty 10c number (430,XXX) due to my own fault of letting it lapse, so I wasn't expecting miracles. But I just about fainted when the lovely young man manning the table looked at my tickets and said, "You've got awesome seats - second row center!!!" OMFG! In my 20 years of seeing this band, I've never ever been this lucky - ever!

When Ed and Glen sang Sleepless Nights, everyone in my area was literally drawn to their feet. How could you not when Ed and Glen walk to the very end of the stage, Ed motions the crowd to hush and they start to sing without amps. To see their facial expressions as they're singing made the song even more intense for me.

At the second encore, we all rushed to the stage and Ed said, "I'm sure this place won't like us wrecking it" or words to that effect. So there I am, pressed up against the stage, 5 feet from Ed, watching every word leave his mouth and seeing every chord strum as he's pumping out Rockin' In The Free World. He finishes the song and I couldn't believe my eyes - Ed is walking straight towards me. He reaches down, grabs my hand and places his pick in my hand. I can't believe lil ol' me got Ed's pick, especially with the blonde bombshell standing next to me - I mean seriously - it just doesn't happen!!!!

I'm sorry for gushing about getting a pick placed in my hand - I know it may appear a bit psycho-fan. But for this nerdy plain Jane, 45-year-old fan who doesn't really have much of a life outside of following my band when I can scrape up the funds to do so, it was THE MOST incredible night of my otherwise boring life. I'm on a high that I don't want to end :-D

From the bottom of my heart, Ed and 10c, thank you for giving me a truly memorable evening

ilikeapples

HoldThePain, your story is like a dream I had! So happy for you.

Happy for the rest of you lucky people who got to see this show too. John Densmore?!! How do you even get a guest that cool?

SH10924

This show was off the chain. Blown away by his ability to capture the energy of rockin' songs in an acoustic setting.

Would have been a lot better though if I wasn't at the top of the damn theater. Hosed AGAIN by 10C on tickets. 16 years of service doesn't get you dick in this club.

norm

the curtain rises for the first encore and there is a grey haired man with ed...now from where i was sitting in the way back, my old eyes were having a tough time making out who it was...graham nash?? no, wait that's john densmore! :shock:

john friggin' densmore!!! :shock:

i've been a huge doors fan since forever so this was a special treat...loved long road and wishlist...such a cool moment

immortality....damn...first time i've heard it live and it was amazing...love that song even more now
sleepless nights unplugged was a treat...and the crowd more or less behaved

ed came out for 2nd encore and was gonna do hard sun but he was really digging the crowd which i think shocked him...i know it shocked me...for an la crowd, they were really good...so he decided to do ritfw and damn it rocked! glen & densmore came out and played tambourine & drum respectively...crowd was was having a blast and hard sun left us wanting it to continue...seemed like ed didn't want to leave

early on ed told a story about after Roskilde he was in a bad, dark place...he was by himself out at his place in hawaii trying to process it all...occasionally he'd look in the corner at his uke and it was talking to him saying play me...and ed told it to fuck off (btw, someone help me if this isn't correct...my memory sucks :P )

so one day he's in a store and buys a book on how to tie knots...yep, grunge god eddie vedder is reading a book on how to tie knots ...and he's practicing tying knots....well he gets to page 29 and it's the how to tie a noose page...it gives him pause but hey it's a knot that needs to be learned...in fact, he likes making the noose...in so much that for fun he decides he'll have some fun with friends and take a picture of himself with it around his neck...he mails the pic to a friend and about a week later ed gets a frantic call from same friend saying he's on the next plane...ed's like no i'm ok...that was a week ago...i've moved on

back to back great shows by ed...i hoping tonight he'll top them both!

heartdesire

FortunateAsMe wrote:

Great Story. Every PJ fan deserves an experience like this. Thanks for sharing.

HoldThePain wrote:

I thought LB was perfect. Last night surpassed it tenfold. I got to hear all the songs I was hoping to hear after reading previous fanviews - Light Today, the much-talked about Betterman and Open All Night. To hear Porch, Wishlist (with John Densmore!) Unthought Known and Long Road with just Ed on guitar was beauiful.

Now let me say - I've got a shitty 10c number (430,XXX) due to my own fault of letting it lapse, so I wasn't expecting miracles. But I just about fainted when the lovely young man manning the table looked at my tickets and said, "You've got awesome seats - second row center!!!" OMFG! In my 20 years of seeing this band, I've never ever been this lucky - ever!

When Ed and Glen sang Sleepless Nights, everyone in my area was literally drawn to their feet. How could you not when Ed and Glen walk to the very end of the stage, Ed motions the crowd to hush and they start to sing without amps. To see their facial expressions as they're singing made the song even more intense for me.

At the second encore, we all rushed to the stage and Ed said, "I'm sure this place won't like us wrecking it" or words to that effect. So there I am, pressed up against the stage, 5 feet from Ed, watching every word leave his mouth and seeing every chord strum as he's pumping out Rockin' In The Free World. He finishes the song and I couldn't believe my eyes - Ed is walking straight towards me. He reaches down, grabs my hand and places his pick in my hand. I can't believe lil ol' me got Ed's pick, especially with the blonde bombshell standing next to me - I mean seriously - it just doesn't happen!!!!

I'm sorry for gushing about getting a pick placed in my hand - I know it may appear a bit psycho-fan. But for this nerdy plain Jane, 45-year-old fan who doesn't really have much of a life outside of following my band when I can scrape up the funds to do so, it was THE MOST incredible night of my otherwise boring life. I'm on a high that I don't want to end :-D

From the bottom of my heart, Ed and 10c, thank you for giving me a truly memorable evening

Totally Agree!! Congrats to YOU for an awesome experience!! 45 is awesome - plain jane or whatever ... you are alive and living the moments! I'm 49 - wish I was back at 45! : ) Great set list. So glad you got "Light Today" along with "Without You" - such beautiful songs. Always so wonderful to read these amazing moments. Thanks for sharing!