***Los Angeles Fanviews Here 4/13/2008 ***
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Eddie Vedder April Fool's Tour
April 13, 2008 Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Support: Liam Finn (with Eliza Jane Barnes)
Main Set: Walking The Cow, Around The Bend, I Am Mine, Dead Man Walking, Thumbing My Way, Man Of The Hour, Setting Forth, Guaranteed, No Ceiling, Far Behind, Rise, Millworker, Goodbye, Soon Forget, Driftin’, You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away, Picture In A Frame, Trouble, Happy Birthday To Grandmother Margaret, Porch
Encore 1: Society (with Liam Finn), Throw Your Arms Around Me (with Liam Finn), Lukin, Arc
Encore 2: Last Kiss (with Jack Irons), No More (with Ben Harper), Hard Sun (with Ben Harper, Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes), All Along The Watchtower (with Jack Irons and Ben Harper)*
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Early set list from “drsluggo.”
*Set List conformation pending. Let me know if something needs to be changed or added.
April 13, 2008 Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Support: Liam Finn (with Eliza Jane Barnes)
Main Set: Walking The Cow, Around The Bend, I Am Mine, Dead Man Walking, Thumbing My Way, Man Of The Hour, Setting Forth, Guaranteed, No Ceiling, Far Behind, Rise, Millworker, Goodbye, Soon Forget, Driftin’, You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away, Picture In A Frame, Trouble, Happy Birthday To Grandmother Margaret, Porch
Encore 1: Society (with Liam Finn), Throw Your Arms Around Me (with Liam Finn), Lukin, Arc
Encore 2: Last Kiss (with Jack Irons), No More (with Ben Harper), Hard Sun (with Ben Harper, Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes), All Along The Watchtower (with Jack Irons and Ben Harper)*
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Early set list from “drsluggo.”
*Set List conformation pending. Let me know if something needs to be changed or added.
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Jack Irons was great as was Ben Harper. Ben's soloing on Watchtower was cool!
Liam Finn was a pleasant surprise.
what a night...aside from the morons yelling dumb things, it was a great show. helllllooooo Jack Irons! and Ben Harper!?!? that was fantastic.
Singing Happy Birthday was great--it was fun to see Eddie like that...very sweet.
I actually have bruises on my arms from hitting them on the stage during the 2nd encore. never been that close before...surreal.
My voice is still there too...
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
Wow. Nice!
and i'm so glad that you guys got to experience such an amazing show from that close!!!!!!
our seats were very good, but unfortunately i could only see the backs of heads no matter how hard i tried to peek around...oh well...it just made me appreciate my sense of hearing that much more. i just closed my eyes and listened most of the show
it was wonderful meeting all of you at the preshow parties and the shows! looking forward to more good times at msg!
brian and brian....or mike and mike....i know you're reading...start posting and say hi!
EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
He sort of looked serious, maybe a little withdrawn. But he played like hell on Liam's kit.
I was there, in San Diego 2003, for the 1st airing of ARC. This one, at LA2 4/13/08 was 1000% better. While SD was special for being the 1st one, it was dwarfed by the crowd. This one in LA2, the soundsystem was great, and on every loop, you could feel your chest rumble more and more as layers were added. Once going like a steamroller, Ed laid the hi pitched screams on top and added 2 more layers. And kept that rolling for a long time. It was mesmorizing. They closed the curtain while that was rolling so they could get Liam's drumkit set up for Jack. I'm telling you, this was just one amazing moment of an amazing show.
we had our night o' fun on Saturday...so glad we sat together, where we could SEEEEE EVerything! MSG is going to be wonderful
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
so true on all counts!!!
EVerything!!!! perfect way to put it!
1992: Phoenix, Desert Sky Pavilion
1998: RFK Stadium -- Tibetan Freedom
1998: Great Western Forum I
2000: Greek Theater
2006: Great Western Forum I
2008: The Wiltern (EV SOLO)
2008: VH1 The Who Tribute
2009: LA I, LA III, SD
sorry to break it to you, i was there both nights and sunday blew saturday away. even ed commented on it, though he could have been sucking up to the fans.
a funny thing nobody has mentioned, someone yelled at one point "who are you voting for?" ed repeated it, said he didn't think he should express an opinion b/c it's a private matter. as he smiled, two roadies in white lab coats walked across the stage carrying a HUGE Vote Obama banner.
Liam was awesome as well -- does not fuck around up on stage. LOVED IT! Although it would be cool to see him in a more relaxed environment as well, with his own back-up band.
The high points of the evening for me was when he sang, "Man of the Hour", "Rise", and the Happy Birthday dedication to his grandmother, Margaret (turning 90) was also pretty freakin' cool. And what about Ben Harper's impromptu visit to the show? Wow. Wow. Wow.
Normally after only sleeping five hours I'm a little on the shaky side, but today I feel fantastic.
On a separate note, if anyone in the South Bay/Westside area has a poster from night one that they'd like to trade for night two, email me at patrickdamon@hotmail.com - would love to trade!
I hope the east coasters will someday experience EV solo!!! In the meantime, enjoy the MSG Tour!
I saw Casey Affleck come out at the end from backstage, it's rumored Tom Brady was in attendance, Patrick Warburton was also there wearing a Pearl Jam shirt. I'm sure there were others I heard about last night, can't think of any.
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
Some jerk off - "Are you high?"
Ed - Smiling , "Not yettttttt"
Classic
MOTH was incredible, which has always had special meaning, as I lost my father around when it was released (and Big Fish), which MOTH helped me get through that and I went to one of the 2 LA PJ shows for Avocado, and he played it at the concert I missed, so that was a highlight.
My favorite line was when he said something along the lines of, "How do I fuck up a 57 second song (No Ceiling), which is my favorite ITW song; however, Hard Sun was ridiculously good live....Watchtower was the icing on the cake.
1992: Phoenix, Desert Sky Pavilion
1998: RFK Stadium -- Tibetan Freedom
1998: Great Western Forum I
2000: Greek Theater
2006: Great Western Forum I
2008: The Wiltern (EV SOLO)
2008: VH1 The Who Tribute
2009: LA I, LA III, SD
I agree- MOTH always gets me. Society is the same--made me cry in SB and LA 1...last night I was just smiling. No Ceiling is my favorite on ITW--I wasn't a big fan until I saw it live...SO much better and really fun!
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
San Diego fans, please put those assholes who yell out the same song title (Footsteps, Society) during the show out of their misery.
I don't think that song is on the 'Into The Wild' soundtrack... is it?
and that guitar part at the end... doesn't it sound like something Pete Townshend would have written? to me... it sounds like something that could easilt fit in on 'Tommy'.
Ed has gotten to be a pretty good guitarist.
Hail, Hail!!!
hahahahahah! thanks for reminding me of that.....the way he said that was so classic!
Of course, all in all the shows are about 80% the same night in and night out. For as unbelievably different as Pearl Jam setlists can be from night to night, Ed hasn't varied much on this solo tour. Almost every night has started with the same 4 consecutive songs, along with Millworker, Trouble, the majority of the ITW songs, etc.
The biggest differences are how the audience acts/how Ed reacts back. He seemed to keep the audience fairly well in check last night, although there was this drunk fuck about 3 rows in front of me who did his best Ed groan and sang "Ohhhh I'm still alive..." SO disrespectful. I literally wanted to punch the guy. And the guy behind me wouldn't shut up either, no matter how many times I glanced back at him.
The REAL treat is to see what Ed does for the San Diego crowd...he has ALWAYS treated SD well (as it's where he grew up), for instance last time PJ played there not only did they debut "Big Wave", but they opened the show with "Oceans". The debut of either "Long Nights" or "End of the Road" would be amazing...we'll have to wait and see...
during the encore, we were right at the stage and this guys behind us kept SCREAMING stuff like "give me your pick, eddie" and random song titles... WHYYYYYY why do people feel the need to yell out while Eddie's speaking--you wouldn't interrupt your friends if they were telling you a story, so why do it to Ed?
Rant over.
San Diego-ers HAVE A BLAST!
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
Amazing. That song alone was the best performance I'll see live in all of 2008.
Millworker is a James Taylor song.
Meg Ryan was sitting in the second or third section of the Floor, off to the side.
Didn't see anybody else famous, although I did overhear one guy saying that he was sitting next to Tom Brady.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
Agreed.
LA1 was absolutely mindblowing.
LA2 was absolutely mindblowing x100. Seriously, LA2 was probably the best show I have ever attended, period. I have never cried during a concert before, but I came close 7 or 8 times on Sunday. Thumbing My Way...Arc...the appearance of Jack Irons...Ben Harper...Hard Sun...Watchtower...Throw Your Arms Around Me...No Ceiling...Far Behind...Guaranteed...everything just blew me away.
God, I hope he does a solo tour again in the future.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
Tallguy-- I met you at the pre-party and we talked for a while. Just wanted to say it was nice meeting you and thanks for this fanview. Have fun to everyone going to San Diego. Tallguy is right -- Ed always pulls out something special for the San Diego shows.
GOOOOOOD WORK WISHLIST FOUNDATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
Tomas! Great to meet you too...good to see that you're sharing the PJ love with your friend that was with you. I'm sure I'll run into you down the road somewhere.
Looks like I missed a great show. Jack Irons? Thumbing My Way? Watchtower?
So, from the bottom of my heart, in the nicest way imagineable, I just want to say: Fuck all you people.
for the least they could possibly do