*** EV Tour - Portland Fanviews Here 07/14/11 ***

Sea

Eddie Vedder
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Portland, OR
July 14, 2011

Set List
01. Walking The Cow-(Daniel Johnston)
02. Can't Keep
03. Sleeping By Myself
04. Without You
05. Goodbye
06. Blue, Red And Grey-(Townshend)
07. I Am Mine
08. Thumbing My Way
09. Just Breathe
10. Far Behind
11. Long Nights w/Glen Hansard
12. Setting Forth
13. Guaranteed
14. Rise (dedicated to Gerry Lopez)
15. Immortality
16. Unthought Known
17. The End
18. Arc

Encore Break 1
19. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out-(Yusuf Islam)
20. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away-(Lennon, McCartney)
21. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
22. The Golden State w/ Corin Tucker-(John Doe)
23. Tonight You Belong To Me w/Janet Weiss-(Rose/David)
24. Sleepless Nights w/Glen Hansard-(Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant){busking style-no mics or amplification}
25. Society w/Glen Hansard-(Jerry Hannan)
26. Falling Slowly-{Glen singing and playing acoustic, Eddie duet vocal}-(Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová)
27. Porch

Encore Break 2
28. Hard Sun w/ Glen Hansard, Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss-(Gordon Peterson)
29. Dream A Little Dream-(Gus Kahn, Wilbur Schwandt, Fabian Andree)

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P.S.
Glen Hansard Set List
01. Pennies In The Fountain
02. Leave
03. Lucia
04. You Will Become
05. Love 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

Pretty awesome set, only one more day for me!!!!

drummerboy_73

Pretty nice setlist - would like to hear "Tonight You Belong to Me" w/Janet.

dimitrispearljam

awesome set..thanks Sea

PJpdxPICSgirl

Amazing show tonight. From the bottom of my heart Eddie, thank you so much! Glen was awesome as well. Can't forget Corin and Janet too!!!! FANTASTIC! There are no words . . . thank you all !!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gecko

What a beautiful main set.

TheGhost

Great show! Crappy seats be damned! Didn't matter a bit. Ed delivered all the way. He told hilarious stories and played beautifully. HELL YES.

rheadorange1

i met a few fanclub members that were super cool, ha i heard one guy say the poster was bland and he wouldn't buy it, he's nuts, the poster is rad. show was awesome, eddie and glen both told some funny stories about portland, strip clubs, and drunk chris cornell trying to play a song on the uke. it was nice to see the sleater kinney girls, and eddies story telling was on the ball. great music, great stories, and great people, everything and more that you would want from a show.

Pap

Amazing setlist! Sleater - Kinney please reunite!

Jerome230

I fucking met him. I had ten seconds of his time and it was worth the 7 hour drive and waiting outside for 1 1/2 hours. A BIG check marked off of my bucket list. I'm still in shock...

Crazy Marcus

It's 3:53am Pacific time. I just got home from driving from Portland to Seattle. Boy am I tired but I want to share some things. First off, the poster is really cool. I really dig the Speed Racer theme and it looks awesome in person.

The Arlene Schnitzer hall is an old Paramount theater that's been renovated and boy is it beautiful inside. What a great place to see Ed and Glen. I was really excited to hear Walking The Cow as the opener and it just got better from there. But I'm skipping ahead.

Glen Hansard is as amazing as everyone who's seen him has been saying he is. His first song was Pennies in The Fountain and in the middle of the song, he clarified that he's saying "Pennies" and not "panties" which was hilarious. This led to some stories about a particular gentleman's club he frequented last night and being amazed that it was "that easy" and then mimed showing off the goods and comparing to an Irish girl pulling back her sleve slightly. Really good set and enjoyed seeing him.

Ed was spot on. I believe there was really only one flub that I can think of. Blue, Red, and Grey was awesome and after that and Walking the Cow, I felt like we were in for a treat. Some other highlights include him describing Chris Cornell trying to make the ukulele "sound evil" ending in Chris "puking off the balcony" . . . "I guess the uke won" This and a story about a guy who got his penis cut off by his wife and then destroyed in a garbage disposal and Ed reading the guy identified as "John Doe" and worrying that it was THE John Doe.
Long Nights, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, ARC, Tonight You Belong to Me (first time this tour I believe) made for a very memorable night. It'll be difficult to top at the 2 Seattle shows. Time for bed.

Oh and our 10Club Seats were front row Mezzinine and afforded a wonderful view of the stage.

evenflow82

Oh no, sleater kinney is back playing with Ed. I still have nightmares of the harvest moon, leavin here, hunger strike, fortunate son, rockin in the free world collaborations from 03 :shock:

bicyclejoe

1. Awesome poster.
2. Golden State with Corin Tucker was brilliant.
3. Thanks Scnitz ushers for being so vigilant about forcing people to keep the phone's off during the show, especially the technology addicts who kept trying to sneak them out to record after being warned repeatedly (I would have thrown them out after two strikes).
4. Except for the frizzy-haired woman standing up and trying unsuccessfully to skake sexily in the front row of Dress Circle D, blocking people's view behind her, the audience members were respectful of each other.
5. Eddie had a fantastic way of shutting up the meatheads shouting out song requests: "Yeah, scream all you want. But you see, my dressing room in the back has this big sign that says 'conductor's suite.' The means I'm in charge. Don't worry yourself, I've got you taken care of." (The Schnitz is home to the Oregon Symphony and Ed was in the conductor's suite back stage.)
6. I'm buying Glen's album
7. I was very happy with my 10 Club seats (dress circle D, fourth row, looking right down on Ed)
8. 2 1/2 solo set
9. Great stories from Ed
10. I want that rug.

dasvidana

bicyclejoe wrote:

6. I'm buying Glen's album

Me too!

10. I want that rug.

Me too! Rumor has it that it belongs to Jeff, no?

TonyClifton

Extra special thanks to Jay for helping my roommate out outta nowhere to get in the show! So very appreciated! Hit me up for drinks before show if ya read this!

-Tony Clifton
805-801-3935

YieldToNothing

you pdx motherfuckers got 2/3's of sleater kinney!!

im jelous!

drummerboy_73

Pap wrote:

Amazing setlist! Sleater - Kinney please reunite!

Check out "Wild Flag" if you haven't yet.

djjazzy276

This was my very first solo show to attend after having seen the band a half dozen times over the past 15 years. I tried to get to the solo shows in LA when I lived there in 08 but got shut out of it and couldn't afford to pay the stubhub prices, so this was a long time coming for me and I got to share it with my wife, which made it all the better.

After following the tour day in and day out and hearing some bad stories about seating, I was very happy with the 10c when we arrived to find we were in Orch, Row K. Hands down the best seats I've ever had. The random awesomemness of the evening started within a minute of sitting down when my wife spotted her supervisor from work three rows in front of us! Neither of them knew the other was going to the show. We chatted for a few minutes about how me (and her husband) are both PJ nerds and long time 10c members. So, two psychologists were brought to the show by their PJ nerd husbands.

Having already been a fan of Glen Hansard prior to the tour, we made it a point of coming out early for his set and MAN is he amazing. So much talent, passion, humor and sincerity. I would pay that much to just go see him to a full set.

In between sets I found myself wondering what special guests might be in the building when right on cue, there's SNL and Portlandia's Fred Armisen talking in the aisle ten feet from us. I've never been that into Sleater-Kinney, so I didn't realize it till later that the girls he was talking to were Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss.

Eddie's set was perfection. As an avid set list follower, I couldn't help but have some songs that I was wishing for and he really delivered. Getting to hear Blue, Red and Grey was awesome. Thumbing My Way has long been one of my favorites so hearing that was a treat. Just Breathe was (like many people I'm sure) the song my wife and I danced to at our wedding 363 days ago, so hearing that live was very special. As well as Rise. My Dad's wife passed away unexpectedly 6 weeks ago and I sang Rise at her memorial. Given the new context for my wife and I, hearing that song was very emotional. Immortality was great and finnalllly I get to hear Arc and it blew me away. Having all of the lights out and just hearing Ed layer his voice like that is incredible.

The encores were pretty much like an epic good time campfire. The mood was extremely joyful and the music just reflected that. Everyone was standing for the majority of them and the connection between audience and performer was strong. Speaking of audience, I was very proud of my home city. After reading about many nightmare concert goers on this tour, from what I could tell, this crowd was near perfect. A few random yellers, but even they only yelled every now and then. And when they did, Ed "The Conductor" knew how to handle it, after someone yelled out Dirty Frank.

Anyways, I've gone on way too long. But in short, it was a magical night that left me grinning from ear to ear when my head hit the pillow.

Thanks again, Ed, Glen and friends.

electronblue

sorry Kat, for posting here. This show and setlist sounds AMAZING!! just wish we could buy ed boots!!!!!

monkeewrench

bicyclejoe wrote:

1. Awesome poster.
2. Golden State with Corin Tucker was brilliant.
3. Thanks Scnitz ushers for being so vigilant about forcing people to keep the phone's off during the show, especially the technology addicts who kept trying to sneak them out to record after being warned repeatedly (I would have thrown them out after two strikes).
4. Except for the frizzy-haired woman standing up and trying unsuccessfully to skake sexily in the front row of Dress Circle D, blocking people's view behind her, the audience members were respectful of each other.
5. Eddie had a fantastic way of shutting up the meatheads shouting out song requests: "Yeah, scream all you want. But you see, my dressing room in the back has this big sign that says 'conductor's suite.' The means I'm in charge. Don't worry yourself, I've got you taken care of." (The Schnitz is home to the Oregon Symphony and Ed was in the conductor's suite back stage.)
6. I'm buying Glen's album
7. I was very happy with my 10 Club seats (dress circle D, fourth row, looking right down on Ed)
8. 2 1/2 solo set
9. Great stories from Ed
10. I want that rug.

+1 (except I didn't have 10C seats for this one, but will Sat night!)

Anyone going to the Seattle shows and haven't yet heard Glen Hansard - YOU'VE GOT TO GET THERE TO SEE HIM! He's amazing.

Also, to the people that sat behind us talking and wondering if Ed was going to "play anything they know", THANK YOU FOR LEAVING EARLY.

drummerboy_73

dasvidana wrote:

bicyclejoe wrote:

6. I'm buying Glen's album

Me too!

10. I want that rug.

Me too! Rumor has it that it belongs to Jeff, no?

Yup - if you look at the list of Ed's Gear in the "Sniper" program, at the bottom, after all of his guitar and amp equipment, it says 8' Persian Rug "Courtesy of Jeff Ament"...and his stool courtesy of the Texas State Longhorns, from their locker room!

dsvelund

My first time seeing Ed solo after half-dozen PJ shows beginning in 1998. First, I was happy generally with my 10 Club seats. Orchestra row R. Not fantastic, but certainly not horrible. My number is 302XXX and if I didn't know seating was random, I would have probably expected a bit better considering past seating from the club. But overall the seats were better than good, especially considering the bitching from this tour in general. Glen's set was very good to start the show.

As for Ed's performance, I was expecting a lot and he did not disappoint. Loved Walking the Cow to start. Only five uke songs to start, including Can't Keep and Blue, Red and Grey. Uke set to (sort-of) start was great and certainly didn't seem too long to focus on the uke. For me, Blue, Red and Grey was the highlight of that portion of the set.

I am Mine was incredible. Really awesome syncopated strumming. A foreshadowing of things to come for sure. Not a huge fan of Thumbing My Way but it was better than expected. Would have hoped for something else instead but it was fine. Ditto with Just Breathe.

Then Ed began the Into the Wild portion with 5 songs in a row. All were fantastic. Each one stellar. Loved them all.

Immortality was incredible. Definitely a highlight of the night for me. Great start to winding down the first set. Wasn't too huge a fan of Unthought Known but Ed really nailed it. Arc was unbelievable. I have no idea what he does with the looping, but I loved it. I was worried he'd skip Arc - I seem to recall him not playing it a couple of times this tour? - but I loved it. Very impressive.

Encore to start with the banjo. He wasn't really sure of playing it and then asked if he should play it and didn't wait for an answer but ran over to grab it and went into If you want to Sing Out. He had the crowd clap the beat and after two or three false starts - all his fault for setting beat too fast or too slow - he played it. Love the song, really love it. But the banjo didn't really add much for me. And I'm not saying I didn't like the version because I did. It's just that the banjo didn't really do it. Maybe the volume was too low or something. Or maybe he was sort of strumming it (sort of) rather than really finger picking like I'd expect with a banjo. Anyway, cool song and glad I heard it.

Then came the only two (minor) gripes of the show. Really had no desire to hear You've Got to Hide Your Love Away or Elderly Woman. Fine versions but I'd much rather hear pretty much anything other than those two (somewhat tired songs in my view).

Golden State w/ Corin was cool except nowhere near as good as 2009 at Clark County Amphitheater. They destroyed the 2009 version and this one was only okay. And Ed cut off/stole Corin's verse, which didn't help. But the song was great - just not as good as I (luckily) experienced before. Tonight You Belong to Me w/ Janet Weiss was AWESOME. Rusty to be sure but really awesome. Then he brought out Glen for a few songs which were great. You could hear a pin drop during Sleepless Nights. Falling Slowly was, somewhat surprisingly, perhaps my favorite song of the night. Really really really great. Porch, as always, was killer. The crowd was standing for the entire first and second encore. Hard Sun was really great with all four of them having a great time. I know some can't stand her, but Corin really nailed it.

Great show. Great set list that I can only take cheap exceptions to. Good crowd for a seated show. Not too much yelling or DB'ery which, like the fears about seating from earlier shows/reviews this tour, had me a bit concerned. I think the show ended just before 11.

Better Dan

Another great set!

Ten_mx

amazing show, can't wait for tomorrow show, don't have tickets for today's concert :(

pdxtrub

To the kind lady who passed me the last Pacific Wonderland t-shirt in my size after we waited in line together for 20min, Thank you so very much! I hope you and your fiance had as great a show as my dad and I did.

After listening to PJ for 20 years, it was the perfect show to finally get to share the music with my father, who grew up on Neil Young and James Taylor. Glad Eddie played Immortality. Got to point it out to my dad and say "See, that's the song my band played at that acoustic show back in high school!"

Pap

drummerboy_73 wrote:

Check out "Wild Flag" if you haven't yet.

I haven't listened to them before. I have already listened to the new Corin Tucker's music project (The Corin Tucker Band) but not this. Maybe, because I'm mainly a Corin's fan. Very good stuff! Thanks a lot!

bosshogg18

Where were the Sniper programs at the Portland show? I did not see them. If they were not available, I hope they have them in Seattle.

ranger800

bosshogg18 wrote:

Where were the Sniper programs at the Portland show? I did not see them. If they were not available, I hope they have them in Seattle.

The ushers were handing them out at the end of the concert as you exited.

jfconnorjr

bosshogg18 wrote:

Where were the Sniper programs at the Portland show? I did not see them. If they were not available, I hope they have them in Seattle.

I didn't see them either but I did see people looking a them.
Must have been in a box somewhere, ushers were too busy looking for cell phone to hand them out.

ranger800

Overall I thought the show was killer. The only disappointment, and I mean this was only a slight disappointment, for me was my tenclub seats. I was on the floor in row AA which I believe is row 27 and that was the farthest I have had to sit for a show since I joined the club back in 1997. I knew they were random going in, so it really didn't detract from the show too much.

Blueflare

YieldToNothing wrote:

you pdx motherfuckers got 2/3's of sleater kinney!!

im jelous!

well actually, carrie was in town, just busy shooting her show "Portlandia". bet he tried to snag her for a quick reunion, but shooting schedule is tight.

don't be jealous....just be envious. it was a really great show, great set list...i'm sooooooo appreciative of it all.