Just home and last night was amazing. I was blown away by NYC1 and tonight topped this for me.
The story behind Yellow Ledbetter was probably the first time I have ever been in a room of several thousand people and it was dead silent except for Ed's explanation. That was a moment I'll always have from this show forever.
I'm so glad I decided to check the NJPAC website for a ticketdrop most of the day. Wound up from having no tix to buying a 2nd row ticket at 4 oclock today. I still can't believe my luck and what an amazing show that was.
NJPAC upgraded my seats from last row 1st Tier, to 1st row Grand Tier, next to the Sound-Board
Opening crowd's applause to EV was the loudest and longest I've seen ever.
Eddie was freakin' UNBELIEVABLE TONIGHT! The show was truly was something else!
Bumped into Tim Robbins on the first set break, shook hands in the lobby
Will recall more later, after a well deserved sleep.
-inquis.
dude, i was sitting beside you lol. Awsome show and nice to have some good people on both sides to share the concert with. You seemed pretty stoked about tim robbins lol
like i've posted in a couple threads, tonight was special. I want a boot of tonight so bad.
"I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
awesome show so energizing show. the general view that people are saying, about the banter and songs. the main highlight for me is go to the front and watching hard sun so close. also the venue was beautiful and much nice than the ny venue. I hope they release this cd or dvd cause it's a definite best show so far.
Alright...I'm still in awe of what I witnessed tonight, but I'm going to try to put it into words for everyone. Others can hopefully fill in some blanks.
Eddie couldn't start Walking the Cow until a good 5 minutes after he walked out. The crowd was insane and he was taking it all in. He said that we were going to get a long one, like Bruce shows. After Trouble, he said that there were two songs that he was choosing between to play next, so he was just going to play them both: Don't Be Shy and Around the Bend. He tore through I Am Mine (I think I like it better acoustic...although I miss the McCready solo of course), Dead Man (which has been solid all three nights I've seen him), and SOMETIMES, which was incredible. He talked about the time when he was writing Dead Man (living in a basement, having food handed to him under the door) which segued into the Tim Robbins story, which I couldn't hear all of but I'm hoping someone else can fill in....basically it ended with Tim Robbins being the reason they're not in the studio recording right now. I'm Open and Man of the Hour were cool; I love when he jumps the octave in MOTH. Someone (probably a plant) asked him what he was drinking, and he said whatever it is, it's not as much as he drank last night. He was up until 5am and wrote a song, which he premiered for us!!! He said he hoped he wasn't "plucking a fruit before it's ripe." It was cool, definitely an Eddie solo song (not something I can really hear Pearl Jam doing), and the one repeating lyric I remember is "You'll always be someone else's rival." (I thought he should have just gone into Rival at that point ) It didn't sound rough either, he didn't have any fucked up chords or anything.
Driftin he had to stop and restart because he went to blow on the harmonica and missed and started blowing on the microphone. Masters of War....you know, sometimes there are no words to describe what you're seeing and hearing. And sometimes you write a review of the show you just got home from and you're still at a loss for words. Anyway, that was Masters of War for me tonight, and basically every time I hear it. At some point in here, he pointed at a guy in a white hat and asked if he had a question. The guy wanted to know if he could request a song, and Eddie was like "let me think about it....what song?" The guy took forever to think of a song and Eddie said "I chose the wrong person to do Q and A with." I didn't hear what the guy ended up requesting, but Eddie said no. He launched into the ITW stuff...Setting Forth he had to stop and restart, No Ceiling, Guaranteed (best I've heard it), Far Behind, and Rise. All great....Far Behind especially.
He said he was planning on doing another song next (my educated guess is Millworker) but he wanted to change his mind. He dedicated Small Town to the guy in the white hat, and was pretending that it was the song he had requested. He also invited us to stand up and sing along and called it the "Seventh inning stretch." He let us sing most of it, and in typical Jersey fashion, we sounded incredible!!!
Are you still reading this? Good for you!
He went into You're True, and said that he didn't want to do any sad songs because he didn't want anyone to jump from the upper balconies. Soon Forget was funny...he totally fucked the first chorus up and just started singing nonsense syllables. He dedicated Forever Young to anyone who was celebrating their birthday, and did it in very dim lighting...this song stands out to me as the one his voice sounded the best on tonight. Porch was great...I like the full band version better, but it was still cool.
ENCORE! He told us that Society was a last minute "wild card" addition to ITW, and Sean Penn told Eddie about it and flew Jerry Hannum in. The version that made it onto the soundtrack was the second take. He did that one, then Throw Your Arms Around Me, both with Liam Finn...really nice harmonies on TYAAM! Then came the Q and A to end all Q and As...some guy asked what the lyrics to YL were, and Eddie was like "Wait...after all these years, you're telling me there's actually lyrics to that song?" Then, as others have said, he went on to explain that a kid's brother died in the Gulf War, and when he went for a walk he saluted an American flag, but the couple standing on the porch just stared at him and judged him by his appearance (they don't wave). You could hear a pin drop during this story, and Eddie got a little choked up. I had a few tears too, not gonna lie.
He did Growin Up, which was a big crowd sing-along, and said he was ready for another "campfire sing-along" before launching into Lukin. Before LMLOTD, he said "This fits in the category of....I'm just playing more songs." He did the whole guy vs. girl audience participation thing, which was funny. Arc ended up being gorgeous, but I was a little worried at the beginning. He didn't sound like he was sure what key he wanted to be in, and I knew that he just kind of had to go with it, since it was just going to loop around every time. It sounded fine after he layered a few harmonies over it.
EV, Liam, and EJ ended with Hard Sun, which had a long ending section to it, and Eddie leaning back onto the hands of the people in the front row (I thought he was going to crowd surf!). He was very appreciative of our support and loved the theater, saying that Newark would now be on his list of places he loves to play.
I forget exactly when in the show he talked about this, but he talked about his bad review, and spent a lot of time pointing out the difference between "righteous and right." He did a hilarious bit about him being righteous and brooding while strumming his "badass motherfucking ukelele." OK, which means that it happened before or after You're True or Soon Forget, so that answers my own question.
6/3/06 East Rutherford
6/23/06 Pittsburgh
6/19/08 Camden
6/20/08 Camden
6/22/08 DC
6/25/08 MSG
8/4/08 EV NYC
8/5/08 EV NYC
8/7/08 EV Newark
i have a question..i've heard that the mole in the audience yells out "Who are you voting for?" and EV goes into the political spiel..Do you think the Ledbetter guy was a mole to get eddie to talk about war/sad story. Dont get me wrong the story was great but it seemed a little stage to me and question seemed set up..let me know if anyone feels that way
i've read quite a number of some stupid post before but this takes the cake.
so i guess he planned to get choked up as he was telling it huh?
awsome write-up lbc... i just remembered eddie going into something about him being at his 1st concert and that he was in the very last row of the upper section and that those people can only move up. I think that's when he said no more sad songs so people don't jump lol
i could be wrong though
"I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
awsome write-up lbc... i just remembered eddie going into something about him being at his 1st concert and that he was in the very last row of the upper section and that those people can only move up. I think that's when he said no more sad songs so people don't jump lol
i could be wrong though
Right....that's when he said that it was also the first time he smoked........something that he smokes more often now
6/3/06 East Rutherford
6/23/06 Pittsburgh
6/19/08 Camden
6/20/08 Camden
6/22/08 DC
6/25/08 MSG
8/4/08 EV NYC
8/5/08 EV NYC
8/7/08 EV Newark
awsome write-up lbc... i just remembered eddie going into something about him being at his 1st concert and that he was in the very last row of the upper section and that those people can only move up. I think that's when he said no more sad songs so people don't jump lol
i could be wrong though
Yep, Ed said the first show he saw was at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago to see Bruce and that he had the last row in the venue. I wonder if that has anything to do with that being the last stop for his solo tour?
awsome write-up lbc... i just remembered eddie going into something about him being at his 1st concert and that he was in the very last row of the upper section and that those people can only move up. I think that's when he said no more sad songs so people don't jump lol
i could be wrong though
Ya. He was saying he was up in the last rows for his first show ever in Chicago for Bruce. And the place went nuts.
He said he was walking around the place earlier in the day and went up to those seats, couldn't believe how high they were up in the air but over his head, he pointed to the top of his head like, this is your view, lol. Then he said something about no sad songs so nobody jumps from up there.
He's a funny mofo. Even if he wasn't the Ed Ved we know I could be friends with him easy.
i've read quite a number of some stupid post before but this takes the cake.
so i guess he planned to get choked up as he was telling it huh?
anyway
awesome show.
Thanks10c
during the show i felt the intensity and sadness during this speech. then on the way home i thought of the mole that does the who are you voting for speech..i put two and two togehter..im not saying it was true..it prob wasnt....i guess im just a conspriracy nut...it just seemed to surreal to me...sorry...it was still the best concert i've ever seen..please dont hate...im just saying what appeared to me during my drunken beautiful night in newark
2006-06-01-East Rutherford
2008-06-19-Camden
2008-06-25-MSG 2
EV
2008-08-07-Newark
...just got back from Newark, and I'm still speechless and trying to process and embrace this entirely beautiful, incredibly moving evening of love and music.
Thanks, all, for your incredible reviews and for making this evening so memorable...I'll forever remember everyone singing along (mostly in tune, haha) to nearly every single song, including "let my love open the door"...Arc...my goodness, Arc!....the hilarity and laughter during the "righteously broody" review/story - followed (appropriately) by "soon forget"...and the absolute silence during the Ledbetter story
But, before I sleep, I wanted to thank the Ten Club, Eddie Vedder, and Pearl Jam for being so incredibly generous and kind to all of us, throughout the years...
Thank you alll so much from the bottom of my heart....
Em
(an old, old, old, old, old bird)
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make yourself a pact, not to shut doors on the past
just for today,... I am free
Alright...I'm still in awe of what I witnessed tonight, but I'm going to try to put it into words for everyone. Others can hopefully fill in some blanks.
Eddie couldn't start Walking the Cow until a good 5 minutes after he walked out. The crowd was insane and he was taking it all in. He said that we were going to get a long one, like Bruce shows. After Trouble, he said that there were two songs that he was choosing between to play next, so he was just going to play them both: Don't Be Shy and Around the Bend. He tore through I Am Mine (I think I like it better acoustic...although I miss the McCready solo of course), Dead Man (which has been solid all three nights I've seen him), and SOMETIMES, which was incredible. He talked about the time when he was writing Dead Man (living in a basement, having food handed to him under the door) which segued into the Tim Robbins story, which I couldn't hear all of but I'm hoping someone else can fill in....basically it ended with Tim Robbins being the reason they're not in the studio recording right now. I'm Open and Man of the Hour were cool; I love when he jumps the octave in MOTH. Someone (probably a plant) asked him what he was drinking, and he said whatever it is, it's not as much as he drank last night. He was up until 5am and wrote a song, which he premiered for us!!! He said he hoped he wasn't "plucking a fruit before it's ripe." It was cool, definitely an Eddie solo song (not something I can really hear Pearl Jam doing), and the one repeating lyric I remember is "You'll always be someone else's rival." (I thought he should have just gone into Rival at that point ) It didn't sound rough either, he didn't have any fucked up chords or anything.
Driftin he had to stop and restart because he went to blow on the harmonica and missed and started blowing on the microphone. Masters of War....you know, sometimes there are no words to describe what you're seeing and hearing. And sometimes you write a review of the show you just got home from and you're still at a loss for words. Anyway, that was Masters of War for me tonight, and basically every time I hear it. At some point in here, he pointed at a guy in a white hat and asked if he had a question. The guy wanted to know if he could request a song, and Eddie was like "let me think about it....what song?" The guy took forever to think of a song and Eddie said "I chose the wrong person to do Q and A with." I didn't hear what the guy ended up requesting, but Eddie said no. He launched into the ITW stuff...Setting Forth he had to stop and restart, No Ceiling, Guaranteed (best I've heard it), Far Behind, and Rise. All great....Far Behind especially.
He said he was planning on doing another song next (my educated guess is Millworker) but he wanted to change his mind. He dedicated Small Town to the guy in the white hat, and was pretending that it was the song he had requested. He also invited us to stand up and sing along and called it the "Seventh inning stretch." He let us sing most of it, and in typical Jersey fashion, we sounded incredible!!!
Are you still reading this? Good for you!
He went into You're True, and said that he didn't want to do any sad songs because he didn't want anyone to jump from the upper balconies. Soon Forget was funny...he totally fucked the first chorus up and just started singing nonsense syllables. He dedicated Forever Young to anyone who was celebrating their birthday, and did it in very dim lighting...this song stands out to me as the one his voice sounded the best on tonight. Porch was great...I like the full band version better, but it was still cool.
ENCORE! He told us that Society was a last minute "wild card" addition to ITW, and Sean Penn told Eddie about it and flew Jerry Hannum in. The version that made it onto the soundtrack was the second take. He did that one, then Throw Your Arms Around Me, both with Liam Finn...really nice harmonies on TYAAM! Then came the Q and A to end all Q and As...some guy asked what the lyrics to YL were, and Eddie was like "Wait...after all these years, you're telling me there's actually lyrics to that song?" Then, as others have said, he went on to explain that a kid's brother died in the Gulf War, and when he went for a walk he saluted an American flag, but the couple standing on the porch just stared at him and judged him by his appearance (they don't wave). You could hear a pin drop during this story, and Eddie got a little choked up. I had a few tears too, not gonna lie.
He did Growin Up, which was a big crowd sing-along, and said he was ready for another "campfire sing-along" before launching into Lukin. Before LMLOTD, he said "This fits in the category of....I'm just playing more songs." He did the whole guy vs. girl audience participation thing, which was funny. Arc ended up being gorgeous, but I was a little worried at the beginning. He didn't sound like he was sure what key he wanted to be in, and I knew that he just kind of had to go with it, since it was just going to loop around every time. It sounded fine after he layered a few harmonies over it.
EV, Liam, and EJ ended with Hard Sun, which had a long ending section to it, and Eddie leaning back onto the hands of the people in the front row (I thought he was going to crowd surf!). He was very appreciative of our support and loved the theater, saying that Newark would now be on his list of places he loves to play.
I forget exactly when in the show he talked about this, but he talked about his bad review, and spent a lot of time pointing out the difference between "righteous and right." He did a hilarious bit about him being righteous and brooding while strumming his "badass motherfucking ukelele." OK, which means that it happened before or after You're True or Soon Forget, so that answers my own question.
Wow, what a great review, I always wonder how people manage to remember so much stuff after a show - the most you can get from me after a PJ show is "AWESOME"
Sorry I know i'm not s'posed to be posting hear cos I wasn't at the show but I had to chime in..............
Now Ed, please come to Europe
Dublin, Reading 06 London, Copenhagen 07 MSG 08 SBE, Manchester, London 09 Dublin, Belfast, London 10
Sorry, stupid question. Isn't Dead Man Walking actually a Springsteen cover? I was very confused by the story, becuase I was convinced that this song was written originally by the Boss and that Eddie was doing an awesome cover?? Or was the story referring to Long Road?
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that was one of the best concerts i've been to...including pearl jam shows.
not much i can say that hasn't been mentioned. highlights for me were:
-sometimes!!!!! after 33 pj shows and 2 ed shows i FINALLY got my sometimes wish! my night was made at that point.
-that was funny about him hiding in the basement and getting food handed to him under the door after the second album came out.
-obviously the YL story. i thought it was a riot how it came up, too. ed kept randomly doing q&a's and someone asked "can you tell us the words to yellow ledbetter?" took a while for the laughter to die down. then ed said he was having a surreal moment or something like that and then said "wait...you mean there are words to that song?"
-after celebrating his bad/righteous/brooding review when he was talking about how he's so bad@ss with his ukelele...strumming it angrily, saying "my bad.ass.mother.f*cking.ukelele". i wish ed and i were friends. he's funny.
-let my love open the door
-saying they've played all over the world, in all kinds of venues, including carnegie hall...but that was prob the most beautiful place he played. then saying now when anyone asks (relatives at a bbq, for instance) he can say his favorite place to play is "newark, new jersey"...hahaha. seriously, they weren't messing around there - tuxedo'ed ushers showing us to our seats!
-when he said his fingers just kind of played those notes and it sounded like "turning japanese" and him looking up wondering where that came from and why he was channeling that song.
-the new song! i love when he pulls out new songs!
god, i don't know....the whole night! the only thing that could've made this night better is if it was the batman poster instead...haha.
Really awesome recaps, everyone! Sounds like a phenomenal show.
I cannot wait until tomorrow night!
"just be darling, and I will be too"
10/25/13 - H, CT
10/15/13 - W, MA
06/16/11 - B, MA (E.V.)
05/17/10 - B, MA
05/15/10 - H, CT
06/09/09 - A, NY (E.V.)
08/01/08 - B, MA (E.V.)
06/30/08 - M, MA
05/25/08 - B, MA
08/30/00 - M, MA
What an amazing show. I absoluetly loved every second of it. I loved how Ed explained Yellow Ledbetter. Definitely one of the best concerts I have ever been to. It was also great to see my favorite artist in my home town, which usually gets a bad rap. Then for him to say it was his favorite venue was fucking awesome.
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
amazing show, amazing venue. hearing Sometimes in that fashion was worth the price alone. Being there for a new song, WOW!!
Ran into Kenny Mayne in the bathroom at the sink washing hands..we talked out in the lobby for a few minutes about the Hartford show as I saw him there as well. Tim Robbins sat a few rows ahead of us but took off to go backstage during Hard Sun after people started taking pictures of him with their camera phones.
The one thing I have to ask is where the fck was everyone going during the show? For the love of G-D, we are blessed with this EV solo tour, sit in your seats and stay there. I can't tell you how many times I had to get up and down to let people in and out of our row.
Being at the show where Ed clarified YL was a gift. Heck, all 2008 has been a gift. "The best life I ever lived..."
I'm so glad I made it to this show!! I picked up row Q yesterday afternoon after some wonderful people here started posting about NJPAC dropping tickets. Thank you who ever you are!! Went to NYC 1 and there was no comparison to this show. Like everyone has already said...great setlist, great coversation, great venue and great crowd. He seemed to be really digging the crowd, and you could feel this vibe from the beginning to the end of the show. I really needed to get my mind off of probably failing my nursing boards, and this really did it for me. Now I can't think of anything else!! Thanks Eddie!!
Shine on all you crazy diamonds!!!!
Angel
Are we getting something out of this......all encompassing trip?
Paramount, NYC '94; Randall's Island, NYC '96; Brendan Byrne, NJ '98;
EV solo, NYC 1 '08; EV solo, NJPAC '08; Philadelphia, PA 10/30/2009;
Hartford, CT '10; Newark, NJ '10
Alright...I'm still in awe of what I witnessed tonight, but I'm going to try to put it into words for everyone. Others can hopefully fill in some blanks.
Eddie couldn't start Walking the Cow until a good 5 minutes after he walked out. The crowd was insane and he was taking it all in. He said that we were going to get a long one, like Bruce shows. After Trouble, he said that there were two songs that he was choosing between to play next, so he was just going to play them both: Don't Be Shy and Around the Bend. He tore through I Am Mine (I think I like it better acoustic...although I miss the McCready solo of course), Dead Man (which has been solid all three nights I've seen him), and SOMETIMES, which was incredible. He talked about the time when he was writing Dead Man (living in a basement, having food handed to him under the door) which segued into the Tim Robbins story, which I couldn't hear all of but I'm hoping someone else can fill in....basically it ended with Tim Robbins being the reason they're not in the studio recording right now. I'm Open and Man of the Hour were cool; I love when he jumps the octave in MOTH. Someone (probably a plant) asked him what he was drinking, and he said whatever it is, it's not as much as he drank last night. He was up until 5am and wrote a song, which he premiered for us!!! He said he hoped he wasn't "plucking a fruit before it's ripe." It was cool, definitely an Eddie solo song (not something I can really hear Pearl Jam doing), and the one repeating lyric I remember is "You'll always be someone else's rival." (I thought he should have just gone into Rival at that point ) It didn't sound rough either, he didn't have any fucked up chords or anything.
Driftin he had to stop and restart because he went to blow on the harmonica and missed and started blowing on the microphone. Masters of War....you know, sometimes there are no words to describe what you're seeing and hearing. And sometimes you write a review of the show you just got home from and you're still at a loss for words. Anyway, that was Masters of War for me tonight, and basically every time I hear it. At some point in here, he pointed at a guy in a white hat and asked if he had a question. The guy wanted to know if he could request a song, and Eddie was like "let me think about it....what song?" The guy took forever to think of a song and Eddie said "I chose the wrong person to do Q and A with." I didn't hear what the guy ended up requesting, but Eddie said no. He launched into the ITW stuff...Setting Forth he had to stop and restart, No Ceiling, Guaranteed (best I've heard it), Far Behind, and Rise. All great....Far Behind especially.
He said he was planning on doing another song next (my educated guess is Millworker) but he wanted to change his mind. He dedicated Small Town to the guy in the white hat, and was pretending that it was the song he had requested. He also invited us to stand up and sing along and called it the "Seventh inning stretch." He let us sing most of it, and in typical Jersey fashion, we sounded incredible!!!
Are you still reading this? Good for you!
He went into You're True, and said that he didn't want to do any sad songs because he didn't want anyone to jump from the upper balconies. Soon Forget was funny...he totally fucked the first chorus up and just started singing nonsense syllables. He dedicated Forever Young to anyone who was celebrating their birthday, and did it in very dim lighting...this song stands out to me as the one his voice sounded the best on tonight. Porch was great...I like the full band version better, but it was still cool.
ENCORE! He told us that Society was a last minute "wild card" addition to ITW, and Sean Penn told Eddie about it and flew Jerry Hannum in. The version that made it onto the soundtrack was the second take. He did that one, then Throw Your Arms Around Me, both with Liam Finn...really nice harmonies on TYAAM! Then came the Q and A to end all Q and As...some guy asked what the lyrics to YL were, and Eddie was like "Wait...after all these years, you're telling me there's actually lyrics to that song?" Then, as others have said, he went on to explain that a kid's brother died in the Gulf War, and when he went for a walk he saluted an American flag, but the couple standing on the porch just stared at him and judged him by his appearance (they don't wave). You could hear a pin drop during this story, and Eddie got a little choked up. I had a few tears too, not gonna lie.
He did Growin Up, which was a big crowd sing-along, and said he was ready for another "campfire sing-along" before launching into Lukin. Before LMLOTD, he said "This fits in the category of....I'm just playing more songs." He did the whole guy vs. girl audience participation thing, which was funny. Arc ended up being gorgeous, but I was a little worried at the beginning. He didn't sound like he was sure what key he wanted to be in, and I knew that he just kind of had to go with it, since it was just going to loop around every time. It sounded fine after he layered a few harmonies over it.
EV, Liam, and EJ ended with Hard Sun, which had a long ending section to it, and Eddie leaning back onto the hands of the people in the front row (I thought he was going to crowd surf!). He was very appreciative of our support and loved the theater, saying that Newark would now be on his list of places he loves to play.
I forget exactly when in the show he talked about this, but he talked about his bad review, and spent a lot of time pointing out the difference between "righteous and right." He did a hilarious bit about him being righteous and brooding while strumming his "badass motherfucking ukelele." OK, which means that it happened before or after You're True or Soon Forget, so that answers my own question.
Well I guess I have to defend myself. I finally got to go to a show with my wife and we had 3rd tier tickets. My wife and I were sitting having a glass of wine and this gentlemen from the venue came up to us and said that he gets to play Santa Claus. He asked for our tickets and gave us 1st row dead center. I wanted to thank Eddie and the gentlemen for the tickets.
I was the oaf with the white hat on selected for the Q & A. Well, it isn't everyday that you are sitting at a show and out of nowhere the artist says "The gentlemen in the white hat, do you have a question for me". I was a little blind-sides to say the least. All I could come up with was to tell him that my wife and I really enjoy MOTH and to thank him for the music.
If I had the moment again, I would probably ask him how his life and views have changed since becoming a father since my wife and I are relatively new parents as well.
I apologize for the delay of my response........BTW, the request(even though I new there was no chance he would play it) was In My Tree
It was a great night......one my wife and I will not forgot!!!
Well I guess I have to defend myself. I finally got to go to a show with my wife and we had 3rd tier tickets. My wife and I were sitting having a glass of wine and this gentlemen from the venue came up to us and said that he gets to play Santa Claus. He asked for our tickets and gave us 1st row dead center. I wanted to thank Eddie and the gentlemen for the tickets.
I was the oaf with the white hat on selected for the Q & A. Well, it isn't everyday that you are sitting at a show and out of nowhere the artist says "The gentlemen in the white hat, do you have a question for me". I was a little blind-sides to say the least. All I could come up with was to tell him that my wife and I really enjoy MOTH and to thank him for the music.
If I had the moment again, I would probably ask him how his life and views have changed since becoming a father since my wife and I are relatively new parents as well.
I apologize for the delay of my response........BTW, the request(even though I new there was no chance he would play it) was In My Tree
It was a great night......one my wife and I will not forgot!!!
That's great! We were wondering what you requested! I wish you asked him why he skipped Philly!??!?!
Well I guess I have to defend myself. I finally got to go to a show with my wife and we had 3rd tier tickets. My wife and I were sitting having a glass of wine and this gentlemen from the venue came up to us and said that he gets to play Santa Claus. He asked for our tickets and gave us 1st row dead center. I wanted to thank Eddie and the gentlemen for the tickets.
I was the oaf with the white hat on selected for the Q & A. Well, it isn't everyday that you are sitting at a show and out of nowhere the artist says "The gentlemen in the white hat, do you have a question for me". I was a little blind-sides to say the least. All I could come up with was to tell him that my wife and I really enjoy MOTH and to thank him for the music.
If I had the moment again, I would probably ask him how his life and views have changed since becoming a father since my wife and I are relatively new parents as well.
I apologize for the delay of my response........BTW, the request(even though I new there was no chance he would play it) was In My Tree
It was a great night......one my wife and I will not forgot!!!
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Comments
Opening crowd's applause to EV was the loudest and longest I've seen ever.
Eddie was freakin' UNBELIEVABLE TONIGHT! The show was truly was something else!
Bumped into Tim Robbins on the first set break, shook hands in the lobby
Will recall more later, after a well deserved sleep.
-inquis.
The ledbetter setup...maybe. It was shouted instantaneously as soon as Eddie stopped speaking.
Amazing show. I teared up a few times.
Beautiful!!
— Lao Tzu
The story behind Yellow Ledbetter was probably the first time I have ever been in a room of several thousand people and it was dead silent except for Ed's explanation. That was a moment I'll always have from this show forever.
I'm so glad I decided to check the NJPAC website for a ticketdrop most of the day. Wound up from having no tix to buying a 2nd row ticket at 4 oclock today. I still can't believe my luck and what an amazing show that was.
I can't wait for DC.
- 8/28/98
- 9/2/00
- 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
- 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
- 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
- 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
- 8/2/07, 8/5/07
- 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
- 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
dude, i was sitting beside you lol. Awsome show and nice to have some good people on both sides to share the concert with. You seemed pretty stoked about tim robbins lol
like i've posted in a couple threads, tonight was special. I want a boot of tonight so bad.
09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
Eddie couldn't start Walking the Cow until a good 5 minutes after he walked out. The crowd was insane and he was taking it all in. He said that we were going to get a long one, like Bruce shows. After Trouble, he said that there were two songs that he was choosing between to play next, so he was just going to play them both: Don't Be Shy and Around the Bend. He tore through I Am Mine (I think I like it better acoustic...although I miss the McCready solo of course), Dead Man (which has been solid all three nights I've seen him), and SOMETIMES, which was incredible. He talked about the time when he was writing Dead Man (living in a basement, having food handed to him under the door) which segued into the Tim Robbins story, which I couldn't hear all of but I'm hoping someone else can fill in....basically it ended with Tim Robbins being the reason they're not in the studio recording right now. I'm Open and Man of the Hour were cool; I love when he jumps the octave in MOTH. Someone (probably a plant) asked him what he was drinking, and he said whatever it is, it's not as much as he drank last night. He was up until 5am and wrote a song, which he premiered for us!!! He said he hoped he wasn't "plucking a fruit before it's ripe." It was cool, definitely an Eddie solo song (not something I can really hear Pearl Jam doing), and the one repeating lyric I remember is "You'll always be someone else's rival." (I thought he should have just gone into Rival at that point
Driftin he had to stop and restart because he went to blow on the harmonica and missed and started blowing on the microphone. Masters of War....you know, sometimes there are no words to describe what you're seeing and hearing. And sometimes you write a review of the show you just got home from and you're still at a loss for words. Anyway, that was Masters of War for me tonight, and basically every time I hear it. At some point in here, he pointed at a guy in a white hat and asked if he had a question. The guy wanted to know if he could request a song, and Eddie was like "let me think about it....what song?" The guy took forever to think of a song and Eddie said "I chose the wrong person to do Q and A with." I didn't hear what the guy ended up requesting, but Eddie said no. He launched into the ITW stuff...Setting Forth he had to stop and restart, No Ceiling, Guaranteed (best I've heard it), Far Behind, and Rise. All great....Far Behind especially.
He said he was planning on doing another song next (my educated guess is Millworker) but he wanted to change his mind. He dedicated Small Town to the guy in the white hat, and was pretending that it was the song he had requested. He also invited us to stand up and sing along and called it the "Seventh inning stretch." He let us sing most of it, and in typical Jersey fashion, we sounded incredible!!!
Are you still reading this? Good for you!
He went into You're True, and said that he didn't want to do any sad songs because he didn't want anyone to jump from the upper balconies. Soon Forget was funny...he totally fucked the first chorus up and just started singing nonsense syllables. He dedicated Forever Young to anyone who was celebrating their birthday, and did it in very dim lighting...this song stands out to me as the one his voice sounded the best on tonight. Porch was great...I like the full band version better, but it was still cool.
ENCORE! He told us that Society was a last minute "wild card" addition to ITW, and Sean Penn told Eddie about it and flew Jerry Hannum in. The version that made it onto the soundtrack was the second take. He did that one, then Throw Your Arms Around Me, both with Liam Finn...really nice harmonies on TYAAM! Then came the Q and A to end all Q and As...some guy asked what the lyrics to YL were, and Eddie was like "Wait...after all these years, you're telling me there's actually lyrics to that song?" Then, as others have said, he went on to explain that a kid's brother died in the Gulf War, and when he went for a walk he saluted an American flag, but the couple standing on the porch just stared at him and judged him by his appearance (they don't wave). You could hear a pin drop during this story, and Eddie got a little choked up. I had a few tears too, not gonna lie.
He did Growin Up, which was a big crowd sing-along, and said he was ready for another "campfire sing-along" before launching into Lukin. Before LMLOTD, he said "This fits in the category of....I'm just playing more songs." He did the whole guy vs. girl audience participation thing, which was funny. Arc ended up being gorgeous, but I was a little worried at the beginning. He didn't sound like he was sure what key he wanted to be in, and I knew that he just kind of had to go with it, since it was just going to loop around every time. It sounded fine after he layered a few harmonies over it.
EV, Liam, and EJ ended with Hard Sun, which had a long ending section to it, and Eddie leaning back onto the hands of the people in the front row (I thought he was going to crowd surf!). He was very appreciative of our support and loved the theater, saying that Newark would now be on his list of places he loves to play.
I forget exactly when in the show he talked about this, but he talked about his bad review, and spent a lot of time pointing out the difference between "righteous and right." He did a hilarious bit about him being righteous and brooding while strumming his "badass motherfucking ukelele." OK, which means that it happened before or after You're True or Soon Forget, so that answers my own question.
6/23/06 Pittsburgh
6/19/08 Camden
6/20/08 Camden
6/22/08 DC
6/25/08 MSG
8/4/08 EV NYC
8/5/08 EV NYC
8/7/08 EV Newark
i've read quite a number of some stupid post before but this takes the cake.
so i guess he planned to get choked up as he was telling it huh?
anyway
awesome show.
Thanks10c
i could be wrong though
09/19/05, 05/09/06, 05/10/06
Right....that's when he said that it was also the first time he smoked........something that he smokes more often now
6/23/06 Pittsburgh
6/19/08 Camden
6/20/08 Camden
6/22/08 DC
6/25/08 MSG
8/4/08 EV NYC
8/5/08 EV NYC
8/7/08 EV Newark
Yep, Ed said the first show he saw was at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago to see Bruce and that he had the last row in the venue. I wonder if that has anything to do with that being the last stop for his solo tour?
- 8/28/98
- 9/2/00
- 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
- 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
- 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
- 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
- 8/2/07, 8/5/07
- 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
- 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
Ya. He was saying he was up in the last rows for his first show ever in Chicago for Bruce. And the place went nuts.
He said he was walking around the place earlier in the day and went up to those seats, couldn't believe how high they were up in the air but over his head, he pointed to the top of his head like, this is your view, lol. Then he said something about no sad songs so nobody jumps from up there.
He's a funny mofo. Even if he wasn't the Ed Ved we know I could be friends with him easy.
during the show i felt the intensity and sadness during this speech. then on the way home i thought of the mole that does the who are you voting for speech..i put two and two togehter..im not saying it was true..it prob wasnt....i guess im just a conspriracy nut...it just seemed to surreal to me...sorry...it was still the best concert i've ever seen..please dont hate...im just saying what appeared to me during my drunken beautiful night in newark
2008-06-19-Camden
2008-06-25-MSG 2
EV
2008-08-07-Newark
"We're running out of beer too?" EV 6-19-08
Thanks, all, for your incredible reviews and for making this evening so memorable...I'll forever remember everyone singing along (mostly in tune, haha) to nearly every single song, including "let my love open the door"...Arc...my goodness, Arc!....the hilarity and laughter during the "righteously broody" review/story - followed (appropriately) by "soon forget"...and the absolute silence during the Ledbetter story
But, before I sleep, I wanted to thank the Ten Club, Eddie Vedder, and Pearl Jam for being so incredibly generous and kind to all of us, throughout the years...
Thank you alll so much from the bottom of my heart....
Em
(an old, old, old, old, old bird)
just for today,... I am free
I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today
I really wish Vedder would pop to the UK. you know just for a one off.....
Wow, what a great review, I always wonder how people manage to remember so much stuff after a show - the most you can get from me after a PJ show is "AWESOME"
Sorry I know i'm not s'posed to be posting hear cos I wasn't at the show but I had to chime in..............
Now Ed, please come to Europe
London, Copenhagen 07
MSG 08
SBE, Manchester, London 09
Dublin, Belfast, London 10
not much i can say that hasn't been mentioned. highlights for me were:
-sometimes!!!!! after 33 pj shows and 2 ed shows i FINALLY got my sometimes wish! my night was made at that point.
-that was funny about him hiding in the basement and getting food handed to him under the door after the second album came out.
-obviously the YL story. i thought it was a riot how it came up, too. ed kept randomly doing q&a's and someone asked "can you tell us the words to yellow ledbetter?" took a while for the laughter to die down. then ed said he was having a surreal moment or something like that and then said "wait...you mean there are words to that song?"
-after celebrating his bad/righteous/brooding review when he was talking about how he's so bad@ss with his ukelele...strumming it angrily, saying "my bad.ass.mother.f*cking.ukelele". i wish ed and i were friends. he's funny.
-let my love open the door
-saying they've played all over the world, in all kinds of venues, including carnegie hall...but that was prob the most beautiful place he played. then saying now when anyone asks (relatives at a bbq, for instance) he can say his favorite place to play is "newark, new jersey"...hahaha. seriously, they weren't messing around there - tuxedo'ed ushers showing us to our seats!
-when he said his fingers just kind of played those notes and it sounded like "turning japanese" and him looking up wondering where that came from and why he was channeling that song.
-the new song! i love when he pulls out new songs!
god, i don't know....the whole night! the only thing that could've made this night better is if it was the batman poster instead...haha.
I cannot wait until tomorrow night!
10/25/13 - H, CT
10/15/13 - W, MA
06/16/11 - B, MA (E.V.)
05/17/10 - B, MA
05/15/10 - H, CT
06/09/09 - A, NY (E.V.)
08/01/08 - B, MA (E.V.)
06/30/08 - M, MA
05/25/08 - B, MA
08/30/00 - M, MA
Ran into Kenny Mayne in the bathroom at the sink washing hands..we talked out in the lobby for a few minutes about the Hartford show as I saw him there as well. Tim Robbins sat a few rows ahead of us but took off to go backstage during Hard Sun after people started taking pictures of him with their camera phones.
The one thing I have to ask is where the fck was everyone going during the show? For the love of G-D, we are blessed with this EV solo tour, sit in your seats and stay there. I can't tell you how many times I had to get up and down to let people in and out of our row.
Being at the show where Ed clarified YL was a gift. Heck, all 2008 has been a gift. "The best life I ever lived..."
Angel
Are we getting something out of this......all encompassing trip?
Paramount, NYC '94; Randall's Island, NYC '96; Brendan Byrne, NJ '98;
EV solo, NYC 1 '08; EV solo, NJPAC '08; Philadelphia, PA 10/30/2009;
Hartford, CT '10; Newark, NJ '10
Well I guess I have to defend myself. I finally got to go to a show with my wife and we had 3rd tier tickets. My wife and I were sitting having a glass of wine and this gentlemen from the venue came up to us and said that he gets to play Santa Claus. He asked for our tickets and gave us 1st row dead center. I wanted to thank Eddie and the gentlemen for the tickets.
I was the oaf with the white hat on selected for the Q & A. Well, it isn't everyday that you are sitting at a show and out of nowhere the artist says "The gentlemen in the white hat, do you have a question for me". I was a little blind-sides to say the least. All I could come up with was to tell him that my wife and I really enjoy MOTH and to thank him for the music.
If I had the moment again, I would probably ask him how his life and views have changed since becoming a father since my wife and I are relatively new parents as well.
I apologize for the delay of my response........BTW, the request(even though I new there was no chance he would play it) was In My Tree
It was a great night......one my wife and I will not forgot!!!
That's great! We were wondering what you requested! I wish you asked him why he skipped Philly!??!?!
Believe it or not, the music hall in NEWARK is very nice, and does anyone else agree that the Acusitcs in NJPAC was far better then the shows in NYC.
My Love Open the Door, LUKIN, ELDERLY WOMEN, THROW YOUR ARMS, GROWIN UP, and so much more.
The definition of Yellow LedBetter, the crowd interaction....you can tell he was psyched to be playing in such an atmosphere.
Thanks Edddie,,,,as always you never dissapoint only amaze
The girl behind me said that I should have asked for that beer he promised to buy us from the Camden show!!
thats the only song I wanted to hear all tour- no luck