*** Ed solo NJ Fanviews Here 8/7/08 ***

Lukin562

Oh man where to begin. Song requests, standing small town mid show, throw your arms, meaning of led better, 7th row, best setlist for ed to date hands down!

SuzieM

Wow, I haven't even begun to process tonight. It was just sick. So many unforgettable moments.

yoke

SOLAT319 wrote:

You probably should not be talking about that outloud here.

meaning official boot... thats all

TheDecline13

Thank You 10c for the awesome seats! I was Dead line center in ed's eyes

The best part of the night was Ed was choked up telling the story of Ledbetter.

Awesome night "throw your arms", the new song, Lukin, small town, dead man walking. To many awesome moments

FrankieJ

Great show. Setlist, crowd, everything.

The new song was a decent length.

Ed talked alot.

He had a Q/A section when he was tired to kind of catch his breath before Guaranteed.

He said he was happy that he got his first bad review of his solo career.
Ed said the review said ha was righteous and brooding.
He did this with his ukulele in his hand, so he started talking like he was cool saying he has a "bada$$ motherf*ckin ukulele"

He was also asked a question from someone in the audience about the lyrics of YL.
He first responded by saying that it doesn't have any words. But then he told us the story that someone already explained pretty well.

No Springsteen, Harper or Johnson. Just Liam.

Ed also mentioned that this was one of his most favorite show.
And now, when someone asks, "where is ur most favorite place to play", Ed can say, "Newark NJ."

I'm so glad I went. Just a great night.

VIG

i'm too tired to post much now but he also mocked the ny times article (the bad review). it was pretty funny. AMAZING show. ARC was insane.

digster

Is there any more word about the new song...was it one of those venue specific kind of songs he has been doing, or was it an actual new song? What was it played on, etc. Thanks.

simkin7074

Just got home and still have to process the whole event, but THANK YOU 10C for the amazing seats and thank you to Eddie for the amazing show. Put both nights in NYC to shame!

FaFaFlunky

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

tomorrowneverknows

just returned home from the amazing show -

the new song was written about 5am this morning - Eddie said it's like a pair of pants that still needs to be tailored - it was/is a good song for sure.

just want to correct the member who said the harmonica smacked Ed in the face, - he actually put his lips on the microphone by accident - and was taken aback by the effect it had on him - said he's only done it once before -

InquisitiveOne

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.

SourDFanatic

Dont think i could have really asked for more...other than maybe long nights...but meh. Awesome set, awesome venue, great show.

The ledbetter setup...maybe. It was shouted instantaneously as soon as Eddie stopped speaking.

PearlJen401

I can't even put it into words right now.

Amazing show. I teared up a few times.

Beautiful!!

Solat13

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.

I can't wait for DC.

leafs4ever

InquisitiveOne wrote:

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.

mstrjollo

Anyone wanna trade a poster from the first night for a poster from the second night?

Dillsnufus

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.

loveboat captain

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.

MUZIK

FaFaFlunky wrote:

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?

anyway

awesome show.

Thanks10c

leafs4ever

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