eddie's scott stapp power stance and lyric sheets

esacks23

most(all) of you remember the rockline interview from '93 when we first got to hear "bee girl". here's a little excerpt from that and quote from eddie that he obviously no longer believes in. i wish he did because i couldn't agree with it more, in most cases.


Host: Mr. Vedder, yes? Do we have a mic for Eddie?

Eddie: I remembered a point I wanted to make you know in the magazine Rolling Stone, it's this little magazine some of you might have picked up. There is a picture of me, you can see the front mikes, and the monitors, there is a TV, like a prompter, right there. Umm, a lot of bands use prompters now and I think that's a bunch of crap and if you don't feel the song, if you don't know it by heart, then I think you don't have any right singing it in front of like 20,000, 15,000, 5,000 even 100 people. So, anyway, I just wanted to point out that that was an old TV I found in the back of the alley of the Moore Theater here in Seattle that I put together in order to smash it that night on stage. I just wanna say to all the young budding musicians out there, don't invest in teleprompters like I just wanted that to be clear.

Jeff: Didn't that TV when you found it have the lyrics to 'Paradise City' on it?

Eddie: It did. It did. No, really! (laughter)

so that belief has gone by the wayside. and what's the deal with this fairly newly adopted scott stapp(that's hard to say) power stance and lyric sheets and what's the connection? you know, but i'll tell you anyway. you'd think he'd have "all night" down at this point. i mean, how old is that song and how many times have they played it? old and alot. still he can't get it right, even with the lyrics right in front of him. "ole" is new, but maybe you shouldn't sing it if you have to read it to us. how awkward was it at pj20 when he invites three or four people out to sing backup on "who you are" and no one knows what to sing because eddie's completely screwing up the lyrics from the word go. his cock rock power stance is a not-so-very-discrete way of cheating and looking at his lyric sheet. guess he found a loophole... he never said "no paper prompters". they're still the best and i love em to death, but it's hard to sit here and say nothing.

Cool Face Ryan

they played all night like 15 times

and no other artists have this problem because they dont change their set lists every night

nothingman4

Cool Face Ryan wrote:

they played all night like 15 times

and no other artists have this problem because they dont change their set lists every night

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oona left

You know what's really exciting? Singing the wrong line on accident, while Ed sings the same exact wrong line.

It's a real thrill!! I'm being serious here.

aq102290

Well, if Ed feel the need to use a prompter or lyric sheets sometimes, wouldn't you rather him use than refuse the help and have even MORE trouble with the lyrics? And the fact that he said something in an interview...18 YEARS AGO that he's had to back off of is hardly anything I would lose sleep over. Like a previous reply stated, All Night is hardly a staple of their live performances. If he needed sheets for Corduroy someday, maybe then I would worry.

That being said, I thought it was an odd choice for a song to play, but it seemed like everyone there was enjoying themselves, and I guess that's what matters.

-A

DP13

I wish the band, and Ed in particular would work a little harder at rehearsing. Just as he was butchering the lyrics to Who You Are at PJ20, I looked over and a guy from Spain was waiving his flag... couldn't help but to think if people can get to Wisconsin from all ends of the earth, Ed should be able to get the damn words right.

Remember when they absolutely killed Real Me at the VHI Who Honors thing??? It is nice to hear a real tight, rehearsed, PJ.

Glen

The Riot Act tour of Australia saw Ed fucking up a lot with the lyrics. I think since that tour he has begun referring to notes etc.

With a Catolouge as big as they have now and the staunch refusal to do the same set night after night who can blame him?

For me I much prefer him doing this on occasion than some of the shockers we have seen in the past (Wishlist seems to be one he really struggled getting through).

If you want a set phoned in each and every night go see a Green Day concert, even the majority of the stage banter is the same night after night.

elwayvedder

the best was in State College '03 when they broke out Satan's Bed after it being dormant for some time. The band didn't know the lyrics and Jeff and Ed were looking to the crowd for help

Zidane

I'm still wondering... What the hell Scott Stapp has to do with this? You put his name just to get some attention to this thread? So you're basically saying that anything you said 18 years ago is still what you think? Knowledge, experiences are things we live daily; we learn as life is going its way. And Eddie, last time I checked, is also a human being, like all of us...

And again... WHAT IS THIS PATHETIC LOOSER OF SCOTT STAPP HAS TO DO WITH ALL OF THIS???

C'mon man!

animus

If eddie forgets the lyrics he can just let the crowd sing them, we already sing the majority of the time haha. But I don't have a huge issue with the lyric notes. Like its been said, the band switches up the set and there's some songs that I'm sure any of us would fuck up if we were to sing them.

we gotta keep in mind the nerves and pressure of playing live. Plus I don't think Eddie will ever fuck up lyrics as bad as when I saw motley crue when I was younger and Vince was awful. No real comparison, but i'm just saying, it could be worse.

Lanternjaw

I've been to a bunch of Springsteen shows and due to the enormous number of songs he's written and recorded over the years, and his insistence on changing up setlists with regularity, a teleprompter sometimes comes into play. Some diehards can't handle it but when you're a young artist with only a couple dozen songs in your lexicon -- like a young Bruce or a young Eddie -- then you sneer at the teleprompter. Once your catalog fills up... well -- good luck getting by without one! My point being that the more songs you've written, the more likely you are to make a mistake. Thats why you see so many bands performing static setlists during a tour -- fear of the mistake. Look at early PJ setlists and you won't find nearly the variety you find now... and thats because they're actively trying to stay relevent and keep fans coming/following the tour. If that requires occasional use of a teleprompter then I've got no qualms -- same way I feel about Bruce's use of same.

PJ has quite a catalog now... if you want to hear rarities then try to ignore the teleprompter and the occasional lyrical mishaps. I've forgotten some of the lines from my favorite songs from a lot of bands... songs I've listened to countless times that I sang out loud in the car over the years.

>>> steps off of soapbox <<<

eddievedde

Cut Eddie some slack hes a fuckin STONER!!lol