*** Boston 1 Fanviews Here 8/1/08 ***

Sea

August 1, 2008, Boston, MA, Opera House
Ed solo tour - opening: Liam Finn


*Set List: Walking The Cow, Trouble, I am Mine, Dead Man, I'm Open, Man of the Hour, Wishlist, Setting Forth, Guaranteed (partial), No Ceiling, Rise, Guaranteed, Far Behind, Millworker, Goodbye, It's Just a Broken Heart, Drifting, Hide Your Love Away, I'm One, Porch

1st encore: Untitled, Small Town, Society (w/ Liam Finn), Lukin, No More, Arc

2nd encore: Hard Sun (w/ Liam Finn)

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circles down

untitled, sweet

demetrios

nice!

pjl44

Don't forget Rise! In there with the ITW songs.

U R A Crazy Breed

great show tonight!! You'd never know Ed was under the weather.

cool poster!! (i wonder what tomorrows will look like - wish they would continue the bracelet thing from the PJ tour)

new Zippo - looks like his picks (all white with the strips of stars and the EV in the middle)


Arc was fucking amazing!!

i was so happy he played dead man walking & Millworker, both sounded AWESOME!!

if it wasn't for the screaming idiot fucks and their dumb drunken xxxxx it would of been a perfect night.(sorry about the language but the shoe fits)

oh... and i finally met Boston Lou

South of Seattle

SOLAT319 wrote:

Those screaming idiot fucks and their dumb drunken xxxxx (great expression by the way) seemed to be traveling for these shows. Because they showed up at every damn West coast gig too!! Or maybe there are just way too many of them.

Unfortunately, they're called 10 club members.

LONGRD

South of Seattle wrote:

Unfortunately, they're called 10 club members.

I'm NOT one of them since my number is high! ...and I have some folks who can voucher a statement for me.

South of Seattle

LongRd. wrote:

I'm NOT one of them since my number is high! ...and I have some folks who can voucher a statement for me.

Except we're all equal at the Solo Shows!

icantsurf

There was this one girl near me (on the right side of the balcony) that just about made me want to drag her out of the Opera House by her hair, and I am a practicing Buddhist! It was just the shrill of her "Eddie, Eddie" it was driving me mad!
Other than that, the show was incredible. It was actually better than I thought it would have been (Eddie sans Pearl Jam). All the business with the lab coats on the stage hands and then him reminded me of David Byrne or Devo or something, it was twisted. He really is a weird cat.

123Jaymz82

icantsurf wrote:

There was this one girl near me (on the right side of the balcony) that just about made me want to drag her out of the Opera House by her hair, and I am a practicing Buddhist! It was just the shrill of her "Eddie, Eddie" it was driving me mad!
Other than that, the show was incredible. It was actually better than I thought it would have been (Eddie sans Pearl Jam). All the business with the lab coats on the stage hands and then him reminded me of David Byrne or Devo or something, it was twisted. He really is a weird cat.

I hear ya, exactly the same experience here during the two LA shows in April.
Also being a buddhist, also almost tempted to step over the line to give someone a thorough piece of my mind

pearljamminginboston

I'm still dazed from the show last night, it was the best, even with Ed being "on drugs". Can't wait for tonite.

yellowbird

never heard of "i'm the one" or it's just a broken heart".
are these covers? if so, by who?
thanks, to those who know.

haas

Im the one is a Who/Townsend tune, the other I beleive is an original.... How do we go about getting the messsage out there to, enjoy the show rather than scream every time between song, do they think hes going to change his set list?

BlackCorduroy

circles down wrote:

untitled, sweet

It wasn't THE untitled, it was an improv about the east coast. Still cool though.

bostonteaoff

The entire crowd is seated and enjoying the show. During the first few chords of "Small Town" 4 guys in the front of the mezzanine decide to stand up. Then they never sit down. The crowd behind them start asking them to sit and are greeted with ignorance. Girls come out of their seats, walk down and implore the guys to sit, they are greeted with FU it's a concert. The 60ish year old female usher asks them to sit and is told where she can go-real nice fellas we have here. "Society" comes on, apparently these guys don't know the song and use this opportunity to confront the crowd. One of the neanderthals proceeds to walk up the stairs and starts challenging a couple guys to a fight. He then starts smacking his hands in the seated guys' faces. The slobbering idiots buddies see what's going on and proceed to join him in making bigger asses of themselves (if that was possible.) One of the idiots rips off his shirt and starts to mimic a special needs kid holding a sparkler (WE ARE AT THE OPERA HOUSE!).
Finally 6 male ushers come down and ask the guys to leave. They refuse. A cop is then brought on the scene and asks the same. "After this song" they say and return to their seats. Mind you during all this, hundreds of people are yelling "Throw them out" and cheered wildly when they saw the cop. But NOTHING happened. WTF-no security!!!!
Please Opera House, tonight have a few more police officers in the building to handle these types of meatheads. I know you're not used to this type of crowd so I implore you to be more prepared. A great experience was severely tarnished.
Anyone else see this debacle going down??

dough

It was shameful and distracting. I was shocked that these idiots were not thrown out, especially after that crowd of security guards converged. The entire performance of society was ruined for me since there was so much nonsense going on. It's amazing that adults are just unable to behave themselves in a social setting. There are always a few idiots.

Everyone else is sitting down, just sit down and have some respect for those around you!

votegirl

Ed was trying his damnedest to get into the 'zone' for each particular song.


I enjoyed every second of his performance despite the screaming douchebag next to me.

@ the first false start for "Guaranteed" he yelled,

"That's why you didn't get the Oscar for it!"


pain

pearljammer20

in reference to above post, I can't believe someone had the balls to say that. I still can't believe someone yelled out to play a Pearl Jam song? What is up with that. the true fans would know he really already has the set list done, he may vary from it slightly, but doubtfull...

locked

[here my thoughts:

Ed came on stage about 8:50 pm to rousing accoustic house music.
stgae and backdrop scenes (3 different ones ) identical to the west coast tour.
initally seemed indifferent to the thuderous applause. thought this might be a night where he was in "a mood".
for me the show picked up with "I am Mine".. Ed semed to let his guard down and crack a smile.. voice was in great form.. guitar playing strong.
(note NO White pants, he had jeans and a shirt, believe he was wearing a DEVo concert shirt underneath.)
Wishlist (This song turned the tide..huge cheers to the opening chords,) Eddie teased "Sure but can you sing?" leading to several rade offs of choruses between Ed and crowd..Lots of use of his "foot stomp" platform ,

Eddie then told the audince he had seen a doctor locally for a "medical condition" (?) and that he was "on drugs" tonight.. joked about the side of the medication bottle saying he should avoid doing anything that "required" him to be alert" (!)
Setting Forth, (Great!)
Guaranteed (partial) ed forgets the chords and jokes that the drugs are making him forget the chords..
No Ceiling,
Guaranteed (nails the chords)
Far Behind (strong m*ther f8king performnace, Ed put everything into this song)
Millworker (James Taylor cover, this is the hidden gem of the whole concert, great vocals, furious guitar jam at the end.. don't miss this one!)
Hide Your Love Away (lots of sing alongs with house lights on chorus)
I'm One (goddamn perfect.. The Who!)
Porch (strong but short)
Untitled is really an "East Coast" Jam/ improv (returning for his encore, Ed literally took the beat of the crowds clapping and turned into an improv about loving the east coast and "F*ck the west coast".. Eddie whispers "don't tell them i said that!
Ed then tells the crowd he thinks they have been really great "a little boisterous but hey its Friday night) ans said he decided to add some songs (beyound the ones he was going to play anyways..) after looking in a newly grabbed notebook, we get a perfect rendition of " Small Town"
Before "Society" Ed tells the crowd this song hasn't been done in a while and he may need the people in the front row to help him with the second verse(but remembers it on his own (w/ Liam Finn),
Lukin (Ed's one consent to a crowd "request" done in a white hot spotlight..
before Arc (you have to see this to believe this) ed puts on his labcoat, people start yelling "Dr. Vedder!" and Ed responds slyly.. "You need some drugs?"
Hard Sun (w/ Liam Finn& female singer) curtain rises to dry ice smoke on the floor of the stage and all three performers giving us a perfect rendition of this massive tune!

PS: At one point mid-set Ed took a white towl he was using to wipe his face and wrapped it around his head "Manny Ramirez turbon style".. then he said to us "See if you can guess who I am?"
.. and then says "I'll stay here if you give me another $10 million dollars"...( a reference to Ramirez's recent antics leaving the red sox).. Ed takes the towel off and comments "i guess we know what the price of loyalty is.. $10 million"..

Great stuff..

cdawg12

hey bostonteaoff,

I was sitting right in front of those morons. I absolutely couldn't believe they didn't get thrown out when the cops came over. It was a great night, but those idiots definitely ruined part of the show. If it wasn't just me and my girl I was gonna start giving the business, but I knew that probably wouldn't end up to my advantage.

1STmammal2wearPants

yeah, the screaming idiots were very annoying, especially the douche up top who yelled for ed to "play pearl jam songs," who ed really went off on -- and for good reason. but ed really had a good time as the night went along, especially awesome since he was feelin like crap anyways.

10c seats were amazing -- i brought my friend Abbie who is a die-hard like myself, and we had right stage, six rows back, closest seats to the aisle in between center and right stage. we were blown away by the performance, and the set changes and playbill really made this feel like a play almost, with ed being the story -- it was a really cool, intimate storytelling-like show. hard sun closing off the show was stunning, and throughout the night what really grabbed me was the use of loops -- from ed's stunning "arc" to liam finn making heavy use of them -- he was awesome too. And man, can Liam drum like a motherfucker. 10c never ceases to amaze me with all the good work in gettin me amazing seats, and this was no different for what was an amazing show.

3inputchick

I love that all of you (well not all but alot) have made comments on the pants-
I think it was a great part of the last tour (the entire LLC tour, not just the CEO tour) and it was fun joking about it all with you.

I'll need to know right away if he is wearing the same pants tonight-

the CORD thread is just a few key strokes away!

For a bunch of nutty libs, you all are not bad!

Bangers_n_mash

Sea wrote:

August 1, 2008, Boston, MA, Opera House
Ed solo tour - opening: Liam Finn


*Set List: Walking The Cow, Trouble, I am Mine, Dead Man, I'm Open, Man of the Hour, Wishlist, Setting Forth, Guaranteed (partial), No Ceiling, Guaranteed, Far Behind, Millworker, Goodbye, It's Just a Broken Heart, Drifting, Hide Your Love Away, I'm One, Porch

1st encore: Untitled, Small Town, Society (w/ Liam Finn), Lukin, No More, Arc

2nd encore: Hard Sun (w/ Liam Finn)

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

Can anyone help me find the fanviews from Ed's April Fools tour please? Specifically 04/13/08 at the Wiltern. I've trawled through the 21 pages of threads in Given To Fly but I didn't see any of them.

Taft

bostonteaoff wrote:

The entire crowd is seated and enjoying the show. During the first few chords of "Small Town" 4 guys in the front of the mezzanine decide to stand up. Then they never sit down. The crowd behind them start asking them to sit and are greeted with ignorance. Girls come out of their seats, walk down and implore the guys to sit, they are greeted with FU it's a concert. The 60ish year old female usher asks them to sit and is told where she can go-real nice fellas we have here. "Society" comes on, apparently these guys don't know the song and use this opportunity to confront the crowd. One of the neanderthals proceeds to walk up the stairs and starts challenging a couple guys to a fight. He then starts smacking his hands in the seated guys' faces. The slobbering idiots buddies see what's going on and proceed to join him in making bigger asses of themselves (if that was possible.) One of the idiots rips off his shirt and starts to mimic a special needs kid holding a sparkler (WE ARE AT THE OPERA HOUSE!).
Finally 6 male ushers come down and ask the guys to leave. They refuse. A cop is then brought on the scene and asks the same. "After this song" they say and return to their seats. Mind you during all this, hundreds of people are yelling "Throw them out" and cheered wildly when they saw the cop. But NOTHING happened. WTF-no security!!!!
Please Opera House, tonight have a few more police officers in the building to handle these types of meatheads. I know you're not used to this type of crowd so I implore you to be more prepared. A great experience was severely tarnished.
Anyone else see this debacle going down??

Wow, that sucks.

I am almost positive I know who these guys are. Before the show, 4 complete idiots were YELLING at an usher to try to get in the orchestra saying that they paid $1000 for their tickets and refused to sit in the Mezz. I looked at their tickets and they were good seats and I told them they would probably be happier with those than down on the floor, and they finally left the poor old lady alone.

JSBE

here's the globe's review:

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/08/02/vedders_simplicity_confounds_but_pleases/

great show. i can't even imagine how much better it would have been if not for the lowlights below. i was lucky enough to get tickets for face through the ticketmaster sale and i would have easily paid double what i did. amazingly there were tons of posters available after the show.

trouble, arc and the into the wild songs were the highlights for me. i was hoping for long nights, but to no avail.

the lowlights for me were:

(1) all of the yellers and screamers. when ed says "i didn't think we'd get the screaming assholes until ny." maybe most were too drunk to notice, but that's not a compliment that deserves a round of applause. (a security guard outside said to me when i was waiting to cross the street 'they were here drinking since 5pm')

the one yelled out comment that was hilarious though was when ed put on the white coat before arc and someone screamed out "paging dr. vedder" which resulted in the "do you want some drugs?" repsonse.

(2) all of the people that couldn't stay in their seats for more than a song or two. it was unreal how many people kept getting up and down and then couldn't find their seats. there wasn't that many people moving around me at the two mansfield shows last month - combined.

(3) people who felt the need to keep taking pictures with their flash dialed up to the brightest notch.

i really hope for the sake of everyone going tonight that the yelling and screaming and constant up and down is taken down a notch. it will just make the night all that much better. just my $0.02.

*** edit *** i totally forgot to pick up a program. anyone want to be kind enough to pick up an extra one for me? thanks if you can't, no problem if you can't.

smarchee

bostonteaoff wrote:

The entire crowd is seated and enjoying the show. During the first few chords of "Small Town" 4 guys in the front of the mezzanine decide to stand up. Then they never sit down. The crowd behind them start asking them to sit and are greeted with ignorance. Girls come out of their seats, walk down and implore the guys to sit, they are greeted with FU it's a concert. The 60ish year old female usher asks them to sit and is told where she can go-real nice fellas we have here. "Society" comes on, apparently these guys don't know the song and use this opportunity to confront the crowd. One of the neanderthals proceeds to walk up the stairs and starts challenging a couple guys to a fight. He then starts smacking his hands in the seated guys' faces. The slobbering idiots buddies see what's going on and proceed to join him in making bigger asses of themselves (if that was possible.) One of the idiots rips off his shirt and starts to mimic a special needs kid holding a sparkler (WE ARE AT THE OPERA HOUSE!).
Finally 6 male ushers come down and ask the guys to leave. They refuse. A cop is then brought on the scene and asks the same. "After this song" they say and return to their seats. Mind you during all this, hundreds of people are yelling "Throw them out" and cheered wildly when they saw the cop. But NOTHING happened. WTF-no security!!!!
Please Opera House, tonight have a few more police officers in the building to handle these types of meatheads. I know you're not used to this type of crowd so I implore you to be more prepared. A great experience was severely tarnished.
Anyone else see this debacle going down??

seriously ? wtf ?

jwardell

Wow...just amazing. Blew away my already high expectations. Ever since first seeing Arc live I've begged for it in the back of my mind at every show...years later, it is every bit as stunning..I'll be hopped up on that drug for weeks!

..and I had to pull my jaw off the floor just from hearing Liam...I just loved his ability to change not only from guitar to drums to voice, but from musical styles drastically in each song as well. I ran straight up to buy his CD during intermission, and they were both standing right there, so I quickly greeted them and complimented their excellent performance.

On the floor most of the crowd was well behaved. More annoying were the ushers that would push people aside and block views mid-song and stay there for MINUTES while they tried to get people to put their cell phones away. Much more distracting than the actual cameraphones.
Plus, I never got a program. I only realized during intermission when I saw others with them, then went up and asked all around and they said they were out. :( Can someone scan one in?

Sad to see there apparently are no official bootlegs of this show, despite the fact that they had microphones set on the crowd. I would LOVE a recording of this (Both Ed and Liam's set as well).

not4u10

South of Seattle wrote:

Unfortunately, they're called 10 club members.

That statement couldn't be more false. Whenever I have 10 Club seats, the crowd around us are usually really cool and respectful. When we don't have 10 Club seats, we get the dumb drunkass knuckleheads who shout for 'Jeremy' and 'Evenflow' all night. People who are disrespectful to others and cause a scene because they dring too much and can't hold their liquor should be locked in a cage.

IwasBit10

Bangers'n'mash wrote:

Can anyone help me find the fanviews from Ed's April Fools tour please? Specifically 04/13/08 at the Wiltern. I've trawled through the 21 pages of threads in Given To Fly but I didn't see any of them.

http://www.blackredyellow.com

Click on database, then tour index. Should be able to find it from there.

All these reviews are slowly building my anticipation. Great setlist last night and the whole thing just seems to be a real unique experience. Except for the drunken buffoonery, hope that doesn't continue, but one can only hope.

satansbedbugs

Any stories told by ed?

Lizard

well, it sounds like there are as many asses on the east coast as the west coast!

yeah, I am not surprised!