The day Neil took over for Eddie...

bjmjpl

fisttothejaw wrote:

was listening to the PJ station on satellite radio last night, and I heard a clip from a recent show where Eddie referenced this '95 show, saying he was having memories of "a night 15 years ago," and he wanted to take the opportunity to publicly thank Neil Young for stepping "into harm's way" that night for the sake of rock and roll. Very cool.

so wierd - just read this and an hour later i hear this exact thing on PJ Internet radio....

wierd!

fisttothejaw

bjmjpl wrote:

fisttothejaw wrote:

was listening to the PJ station on satellite radio last night, and I heard a clip from a recent show where Eddie referenced this '95 show, saying he was having memories of "a night 15 years ago," and he wanted to take the opportunity to publicly thank Neil Young for stepping "into harm's way" that night for the sake of rock and roll. Very cool.

so wierd - just read this and an hour later i hear this exact thing on PJ Internet radio....

wierd!

I'm a prophet! Seriously, I'm in love with the PJ station. When I bought a used car, it came with a few months of xm - don't know when it's going to run out, but I'm loving it while I got it...

Listening to Boston 5/17/10 right now... killer...

bjmjpl

nice!

WMAmorican

So does anyone know what the rest of the setlist was supposed to be for this show? Has it ever been posted or come out? Couldn't find it anywhere (five horizons, etc...)

(And sorry for posting on a two-year old thread, but I googled to see if I could find the setlist and this is where it took me!)

MANKIND

why was neil there? was he there watching the show?

JMo

MANKIND wrote:

why was neil there? was he there watching the show?

Rumor has it that they called in a favor. He may or may not planned on attending the show, but they did ask him to come on for Ed. But it was Neil that told Ed he needs to at least get his ass out on stage for a few songs.

And I guess I never thought about the setlist. I don't think they constructed a full list, being that he wasn't planning on staying up there for more than what they played.

WMAmorican

JMo wrote:

MANKIND wrote:

why was neil there? was he there watching the show?

Rumor has it that they called in a favor. He may or may not planned on attending the show, but they did ask him to come on for Ed. But it was Neil that told Ed he needs to at least get his ass out on stage for a few songs.

And I guess I never thought about the setlist. I don't think they constructed a full list, being that he wasn't planning on staying up there for more than what they played.

The plan was for Neil to play with them all along...the Mirrorball record had just come out (a Neil album with PJ as the backing band), so they were going to do a couple songs from it. So Neil was there already, and when Eddie crapped out - no pun intended - Neil came out for what they hoped was just a few songs, but Ed just kept getting worse and worse.

Reading other accounts of the day, the other guys in the band (Jeff, Stone) said that, despite Ed's troubles, they were as surprised as anyone when he walked off...so there had to be a full setlist. Damn, I wish I'd been close enough to get one! Someone must have...I'd pay money to know what was on it...

MANKIND

very interesting. thanks for all the info.

nitin

I was pretty close but don't remember seeing a set list. It was still one of the best shows of my life. A cherry on top was getting a check in the mail for the price of the ticket because of Eddie's early exit.

KH656807

I was living in San Francisco at the time. In my early 20's and I lived walking distance to Golden Gate Park. It was an unusually hot day in San Francisco and I was so excited to see them. I had seen them at Lollapalooza at Shoreline a couple years prior but do not recall ANY of it! I came to Golden Gate Park completely sober and psyched to hear Eddy. I was so bummed when Eddy told us he had been in the ER all night "pukin and shittin" ( I do remember him saying that). I had never really listened to Neil Young before . Of course he and Pearl Jam rocked but I was still pretty disappointed about Eddy. However, 16 years later on April 16, 2016 I finally saw them again here in Greenville,SC and got GA 2nd row from the rail. They were absolutely amazing. Played Vs start to finish . A young teenage girl named Emily was there with her dad and she was in front of me on the rail and cried the whole way through the show. Listening to PJ and Jeff Ament had inspired her to become a bass player and she was in heaven!!! Eddy and Mike gave her a guitar pic. She got a tambourine from Eddy and the kick ass set list. Matt Cameron walked over at the end of the show and gave her his sweat band. A night she will never forget and neither will I.
My point being, this made up for me blacking out at Lollapalooza and Eddy getting sick at Golden Gate Park in 95.
"Keep on Rockin in the free world"

deweil

I remember listening to this show on one of the first boots I ever bought - I was/am a big Neil fan, even as a young teen. It was marketed as a Neil Young concert, with the Pearl Jam songs coming at the end of the CD. The booing is pretty clear in parts, as is Eddie's explanations regarding why he has to go. As a Neil Young fan, I can tell you for sure that he played Rockin' twice to piss off/wink at the crowd. Neil has a wicked sense of humor - he loves fucking with his crowd, bucking expectations, etc - and before he plays it the second time during the encore, he says something to the effect of 'well, I know you know this one' as a way to rib them for booing through all the unknown Mirrorball/NY songs. It was his way of saying, it's just a fucking rock concert. Eddie's really sick, hospital-bound, and you're worried about not hearing PJ play. Don't take these things so seriously. You can be disappointed, you can boo and leave in a huff, or you can table that for a day and enjoy what is in front of you. My brother saw the Mirrorball tour in Israel and I was so jealous. This show would've been heavenly for me.
* - sidenote - my first Neil Young show was even more disastrous - I was at summer camp and bought three tickets. 1 for me, 1 for my best friend Steve, and one for a counselor, Joel, who said he'd drive us. 2 weeks before the show, he gets fired but vows to come back and pick us up. He never showed up, claiming that he had car trouble. I still have the unused tickets. And yes, I cried a bit too. but you know what, it's only a rock show.

41darkclouds

I drove with a friend from Sacramento to the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park for the show. We kept passing and falling behind another car that obviously were going to see the show. I had a stickman figure decal on my car and when we got to the toll booth in the Bay they were ahead of us and paid for our toll! Such a cool thing to do! After seven songs Eddie announced that he wasn't feeling good and spent most of the night in the ER and said Neil would come out to play a show some people were angry and disrespectful to Neil. I loved the show and was happy to hear Neil do a full set. Afterwards walking out of the park a girl threw down a hat that was given out by a local radio station that had Pearl Jam printed on it and she cursed angrily about not getting to see Eddie an entire show. I picked the hat up right away and still have it to this day. What a great treasure to have. The Ten Club and band announced through snail mail they would make up for the show in San Jose's Spartan Stadium in November for only $10 a ticket so my 4 year old daughter and I went to that show and WOW!!! The Fastbacks opened, then Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, and PJ. I wrote the set list as the show unfolded on index cards and have them in a memory book with tickets from both shows. They opened with Release which is such a powerful song and reminds me of surfer music from growing up in Hawaii and being on the North Shore of Oahu. They closed the show with Indifference and they played from 4:30-7:15pm. I remember Eddie apologizing for what happened in SF. He's such an awesome human being! I just found the hat safely tucked in a drawer in my closet. The radio station was KSJO and it says "KSJO 92.3 Welcomes Pearl Jam." I recently bought the show on CD from Discogs which was a free giveaway by 98.5 KOME. I feel twice blessed to hear Eddie for seven songs and the rest of the band play with Neil for a full show in June and then to see PJ in November for an unforgettable show.

MD190661

I was looking for the setlist from this show and found this thread. I know it's an old thread, but very cool to see it still alive. I was at this show as well as the show a few days earlier in Sacramento. Sacto was my first non Bridge School show, so I was pumped and is still one of my favorite concerts ever. I was (and am) a huge NY fan, so when Eddie dropped off-and he did sound like crap- and NY came to the rescue, I was loving it. I would have been disappointed if I hadn't just seen PJ a couple days earlier, but I knew seeing a NY/PJ show was history in the making. I lived close enough to walk, so that was cool as well.

mschiemer

I was there.  It was my first PJ show.   I was 22 years old, totally stoked to see PJ for the first time, and honestly I was very disappointed.  It sucked.  I am not a Neil Young fan.  I recall the audience being not too thrilled.  We did get to reuse our tickets for a show later in the year in San Jose and I went and it was awesome.  I've seen them a few times since then, including last week here in Austin, Texas where I live now.   These guys have still got it.