***Berkeley Fanviews Here 4/8/2008***

meistereder

Holy crap. Awesome. Can't wait to see what he has in store for Santa Barbara and LA.

nimsu8

Other notes:

The torture story was started because he was describing how bad the drum circle outside was. I was a little surprised by that because, even though they were bad, I figured an artist like Eddie would appreciate any type of expression and music.

The programs they were handing out were one per person.

Liam Finn was pretty cool. I had low expectations going in and he and the woman with him did a good job

Red Mosqito

So stoked that I made it to this show!!! All day and night people were talking about a possible special guest sit in, which had everyone thinking along the lines of Neil Young, Tom Waits etc....but nobody could of guessed that it was going to be the man himself...Mr. Mike Fuckin' McCready!!!!!!! Wow!

Highlights of this show were many...MOW was very powerful and a nice surprise to hear. Trouble, Soon Forget, Picture In A Frame were also excellent tunes on this night. But the encores essentially blew the rest of the show away with Yellow Ledbetter and All Along The Watchtower. Those two songs definitely left me wanting more "full band" love...but I'll just have to wait for them to make a swing through the West Coast (hopefully!)

Being a parent myself, I really enjoyed the story about Ed's daughter and her favorite song; "Reason I'll Be" a.k.a "No Ceiling". Ed also had a little rant about mothers milk and babies drinking it while listening to music probably gets them "high". Overall, Ed was in classic forum and in a real chatty mood with the audience last night which just added to intimate vibe.

Wow...what a evening! For an acoustic show, it sure seemed to rock out and I was pleasantly surprised with how long he played last night. I don't think there was a disappointed soul in the house afterwards.

Hopefully the crew that was hanging around afterwards to meet Ed got the opportunity to do so! And if you did, I want details!!! It was a pleasure seeing all the familiar faces again and great hanging out with all of you...Beachdweller, SOLAT319, VedHead27, iwasthere!!!

Peace & enjoy the rest of the shows..

RM

jammingecono

Three Dylan covers in Berkeley makes a lot of sense. Well played, Ed

civ_eng_girl

edwho wrote:

Eddie Vedder April Fool's Tour

April 8, 2008 Zellerbach Theatre, Berkeley, California

Support: Liam Finn (with Eliza Jane Barnes)

Main Set: Walking The Cow, Around The Bend, I am Mine, Masters Of War, Dead Man Walking, I'm Open, Man Of The Hour, Soon Forget, Broken Hearted, Setting Forth, Guaranteed, No Ceiling, Far Behind, Rise, Millworker, Driftin’, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Trouble, Picture In A Frame, Forever Young, Porch

1st Encore: Society (with Jerry Hannan), Pulling Into Santa Cruz, No More, Arc

2nd Encore: Sean Penn Toast And Roast* (with Sean Penn on stage), Hard Sun (with Liam Finn, Eliza Jane Barnes and Jerry Hannan), Yellow Ledbetter (with Mike Fuckin' McCready and Liam Finn), All Along The Watchtower (with Mike McCready and Liam Finn)**


Please share your fanviews of the show here...the fanview threads are preserved on the board.


* New Song Début!!! Title to be confirmed.

** songs and set order unconfirmed.

Hoe. Lee. Crap.

lucky f***ers.

Corduroyboy

And I only went to night 1 why?

TEEJAM11

wow I hope they release this one or some of it.
Master of war and yellow ledbetter with mike.
what a cool show.....
cool set list.

Crazy Larry

Agreed, crowd on monday sucked.

PineappleAna

ok why is no one talking about how fucking hard mike, liam and ed rocked all along the watchtower??!

it was fucking awesome!

IamMine

PineappleAna wrote:

ok why is no one talking about how fucking hard mike, liam and ed rocked all along the watchtower??!

it was fucking awesome!

Then why don't you fucking talk about it!!!!

P.s. I enjoyed your tidbit on meeting ed!

PineappleAna

IamMine wrote:

Then why don't you fucking talk about it!!!!

P.s. I enjoyed your tidbit on meeting ed!

I'm speechless about the whole thing, I even knew he'd be there (chiqimonkey saw him earlier that day) I kept it a secret from my husband and our friends)

fucking awesome. I also was waiting for ed after the show but I guess he was busy with sean pean and only came out for a fraction of a second but the crew gave us pizza.

the show was awesome, mike was awesome, ed was awesome and I'm awesomely tired so I'm going back to bed

IamMine

PineappleAna wrote:

I'm speechless about the whole thing, I even knew he'd be there (chiqimonkey saw him earlier that day) I kept it a secret from my husband and our friends)

fucking awesome. I also was waiting for ed after the show but I guess he was busy with sean pean and only came out for a fraction of a second but the crew gave us pizza.

the show was awesome, mike was awesome, ed was awesome and I'm awesomely tired so I'm going back to bed

Fucking awesome...

Sweet dreams!

ivegotabrokenface

kalikat wrote:

from the other thread too:

what a great night.

ed was definitely a bit on the hammered side - he came out saying he was kind of "depressed - since its not professional to say hungover". Said he was up late talking to Echol's wife the night before, getting angry at the injustice of the system, most likely DRINKING his anger away. He seemed waaay more comfortable tonite, more in his element, maybe due some vino? He went into this long tirade on torture museums in Amsterdam. Why did he go on this rant .....I have no idea. he described one form of torture where people had to sit on a big wooden thing that had a sharp edge and the torturors would put heavy weights on their legs and as the weights dropped the person would slowly be sliced in two. It was pretty gruesome - this was before his pain pills kicked in later in the set




Right before I'm Open he made comments about how some people might think the song has to do with wanting a relationship, maybe a relationship with a woman or maybe with something "just below a woman - god". It was super sweet. He talked about his little girl as well, how she loves to listen to his music and dance around.

He seems to be on great terms with Sean Penn, invited him out on stage and shared some wine and a smoke with him, then sang him a song he wrote for him the day after he met him. It was great - Sean said something like Ed has the soul he aspires to have. Next came McCready and they ROCKED watchtower.

wow

:O

Quote of the night - "Why is it the people who don't believe in evolution always look the least evolved?" (he gave credit to Bill Hicks)

My only beef was with idiotic comments and screaming from the crowd, which he was really patient with, and all the camera flashes during the first song. WTF???

Ed was popping pain meds? Good for him.

edwho

About the drumming circle, on Monday he said he could hear it all day just outside his backstage area and it was the worst drumming ever…“must be freshman.” Was a running joke all during Monday’s show. So Tuesday after "Around The Bend" he announces his hangover… and that the drumming was back today. I’m like “Oh Shit, were in trouble tonight.” Nothing could have been further from the truth.

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Can’t remember before which song but Ed dedicated the song to a “couple present tonight,” and then went on to say it would be ok with him "if any couple in attendance wanted to they could go ahead and claim the dedication.”

Later when Sean Penn came out for the encore Ed poured a couple glasses of wine and they shared a smoke and a drink. Ed stated, "on stage was the only place in the venue someone could smoke.” After toasting each other Sean came to the mike and wished “Robin” a Happy Birthday and said she too was in attendance.”

For “Broken Hearted” Ed wished this on no one.

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Before “Pulling Into Santa Cruz” Ed remarked how this venue was “perhaps the best sounding venue he has ever preformed in.” So it was decided the next song (“Pulling Into Santa Cruz” ) would be recorded and he asked us to help by singing strong on the chorus “Pulling Into Santa Cruz”.

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Mike McCready! Mike Fuckin’ McCready!! What can you say!!! How special was his appearance tonight!!!!

Going into my shows I would have been more then happy with just Ed. After all as far as I was concerned this tour was a long time coming and I wanted my Eddie Vedder campfire songs.

But there he was “the fuckin' master” wheeled out on a dolly, dressed casual sporting a fishing hat. He waved, bowed, grabbed Ed’s white Strat, sat down on a folding chair to Ed’s left, just behind him. With Liam Finn on drums and Ed on acoustic guitar they start into Yellow Ledbetter which sounded completely amazing and absolutely beautiful in this venue. Mike ripped a slow sweet soulful solo at the end and just when we though “that’s it” (and totally would have left satisfied) they immediately start into “All Along The Watchtower”. Yeah, all I’ll say is this song had the shit rocked out of it by Ed, Mike and Liam. All performing to the max and towards the end of the song Ed switched instruments with Liam and rocked the drum kit for a bit. Finishing the song that was it, sadly the party was now over. Time to go home and try to digest and come down from this incredible live music induced high.

Huge thank you to all involved (especially Ed) for rocking my world these last few days. Bay Area friends are the worlds best! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

And to those whom did not think Ed solo would be worth the expense and journey SUCKERS

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btw, at the end of the show Ed said to tell ya “after tonight he's back to 90 minute shows.” Sorry folks Bay Area Rules!!

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My Ed quotes are paraphrased. Best i can recall.

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IamMine, if you so desire, I have your extra next time around.

bdgavin

I was at the Bear's Lair before Ed came on and met some guy who came all the way from Philly to see Ed play. He repeated that Matt Chord mentioned Brendan O'Brien would produce the next album.

It was an awsome show. Eddie really did seem grateful to everyone for singing No More. He said it was the loudest he's heard people sing the chorus in the United States.

I was pretty surprised when Sean Penn came on stage, especially since Eddie was mockingly ripping Penn earlier in the night, good thing Sean isn't here tonight (Penn was there with his son the night before) and NO YOUTUBING. Penn was there last night with his wife, Robin. I think Eddie said happy birthday to her?

While the Penn appearance was comic relief, I was shocked and stoked that Mike showed up. The Yellow Ledbetter performance was awsome, especially when Eddie started drumming towards the end.

You could really feel Ed's love for Pearl Jam, and it showed even more when Mike appeared. I think the love is gonna make for an awsome new record.

So no one has stories about Ed from after the show? His bus was right behind the theater. There was also a sick motorcycle right next to the bus.

acutejam

jimed14 wrote:

Ed actually told a story about his daugther ... how she likes "No Ceiling" ... I'll let someone else fill in the detials, it was cute. ...

http://forums.pearljam.com/showpost.php?p=5351447&postcount=4

"Don't come close or I'll have to go...." Dad! What does that mean? Why are you singing that!

acutejam

PineappleAna wrote:

ok why is no one talking about how fucking hard mike, liam and ed rocked all along the watchtower??!

it was fucking awesome!

Uh, because Ed totally flubbed the lines to it? hehehe.
He interspersed parts of the 2nd verse into the 1st verse and kinda did his own thing with the 2nd verse all together. And a lot of the "two riders were approaching...."

But yes, that was some serious shredding, Mike standing up and going to lean into the amplifier. A chaotic cacophany one might say! Mike was ripping up on the strat, ed was on acoustic just jamming, Liam flailing on the drums, tech had to come out and hand him a wayward drumstick -- and then Ed and Liam swapped! Talk about a jam! Just like in the garage!

Chills -- we talked about Gimmie Some Truth, Dock on they Bay, what they would play in the Bay, what nod they'd give us, and now twice in a row ('06 and now) this is how you end three shows in NorCal! Watchtower!!!

Works for me!!!

acutejam

edwho wrote:

... Millworker, Driftin’....

Whoops -- he played "Soon Forget" after Millworker.
[edit: ah, you've got it in there, just out of order... hmm one missing still...]

Something like "Here's the flipside of Millworker...."
I counted 29 songs I think?

rrivers

Corduroyboy wrote:

And I only went to night 1 why?

I hear ya, Corduroy. What were we thinking?

jimed14

edwho wrote:

Can’t remember before which song but Ed dedicated the song to a “couple present tonight,” and then went on to say it would be ok with him "if any couple in attendance wanted to they could go ahead and claim the dedication.”

That was Picture in a Frame, which, I am stoked I saw live, beautiful little tune ... the only "damn" I had about that, my girl came with me on Monday, not last night, she is an ENORMOUS Tom Waits fan ...

oh well ...


after some coffee, maybe I'll remember some more. Great night!!!