upgraded to front row by Rick (Ticketing Mgr )
shook Eddie's hand after first encore
Up against stage for Hard Sun with fog all around
Eddie leaned over after Hard Sun and gave me his guitar pic...and said, " this is for you, man" ....i'm still in shock 4 days later!
upgraded to front row by Rick (Ticketing Mgr )
shook Eddie's hand after first encore
Up against stage for Hard Sun with fog all around
Eddie leaned over after Hard Sun and gave me his guitar pic...and said, " this is for you, man" ....i'm still in shock 4 days later!
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About the dreams coming true...not quite all of them do. I thought that was where I was going to be, front center. Back of the room was awesome though.
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Glad it made your day even more memorable. I would hate to have had one of the douchebag choir boys end up with your prized seat.
Kevin and Bean were talking about this weekends shows and really praising Eddie's performance. They said that Eddie is covering songs from artists that have inspired him through his life along with Into the Wild. It was truly an amazing and unforgettable evening. I wish we could get the download :( P.S. did any of you see Brandon Boyd? I ran right into him, face-to-face, and didn't say anything-just froze up and kept walking- i didn't want to bother him by saying hi or anything but now all my friends are disappointed in me for not talking to him. I thought he'd get mad if i bothered him on his free time. Anyone here met him?
Kevin and Bean were talking about this weekends shows and really praising Eddie's performance. They said that Eddie is covering songs from artists that have inspired him through his life along with Into the Wild. It was truly an amazing and unforgettable evening. I wish we could get the download :( P.S. did any of you see Brandon Boyd? I ran right into him, face-to-face, and didn't say anything-just froze up and kept walking- i didn't want to bother him by saying hi or anything but now all my friends are disappointed in me for not talking to him. I thought he'd get mad if i bothered him on his free time. Anyone here met him?
No. But he sat right in front of me and acted like a total douche bag the entire show; arms crossed with the "too cool for school" look on his face.
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REVIEW // Mr. Vedder goes to Hollywood
BEN WENER
14 April 2008
The Orange County Register
There are acoustic shows and there are acoustic shows - and then there's the lengthy, inspired and inspiring performance Eddie Vedder gave Saturday night at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, which is a breed apart.
There are precedents for it, sure - Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Ray Davies, to name just a few forebears, have all done something similar in this same venue, Elvis Costello and Ed-friend Pete Townshend at places nearby. Vedder's living-room setup here (giant speakers behind him, a reel-to-reel player to his left, travel cases at his feet), to say nothing of the relaxed but often intense atmosphere of this encounter, certainly suggests he has learned much from studying their examples.
Yet Vedder has placed his own spin on this storyteller routine, as befits the first-ever solo tour from the increasingly iconic Pearl Jam frontman. (The mere 10-date West Coast run wraps with shows Tuesday and Wednesday at San Diego's Spreckels Theater.)
He has made solo appearances before, of course - often in L.A. He turned up at a tribute to the Ramones at the Avalon, a benefit for tsunami victims in 2005 at the Wiltern, and he served up a fairly full-length solo set at Royce Hall when Sonic Youth curated All Tomorrow's Parties at UCLA earlier this decade. But Vedder, 43, seems clearly aware of the aura of prestige that surrounds this particular run, enhancing it via custom-designed playbills spotlighting both Vedder's causes (freeing the West Memphis Three, saving Trestles, bringing an end to the Iraq war) and the various accomplishments of everyone involved in the tour, including opening act Liam Finn.
Which of his own credits Vedder chose to highlight, however, speaks to the sort of two-hour-plus performances he gave Saturday. Pearl Jam might as well be a footnote. Instead, his biography cites his film work, from cameos in "Singles" and "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" to, more important, his contributions to soundtracks, leading to last year's widely regarded work for Sean Penn's adaptation of the free-spirit saga "Into the Wild," the impetus for this outing.
Thus, rather than this evening being a survey of past glories dappled by a few new bits (as a Young or Springsteen gig would be), Vedder's set cautiously avoided easy nostalgia and simple crowd- elating pleasures by focusing on his developing body of work apart from Pearl Jam.
Not that PJ's catalog went unrepresented; Vedder just selected songs wisely. The peacefulness of "Around the Bend," the fierce independence of "I Am Mine," the anti-materialism of "Drifting," the poignancy of "Man of the Hour" and the ukulele ditty "Soon Forget," the frustration of "Porch" - all of them contributed to a thematic whole, perfectly complementing the stretch of similarly inclined "Into the Wild" material, placed as centerpiece. (He also finally received his Golden Globe for it, in a surprise moment that seemed to embarrass him.)
In doing so, Vedder somewhat deterred the usual Pearl Jam crazies from singing along to every utterance, though he did have to quell their enthusiasm at the outset. Noticing that the entire audience leapt to its feet upon his arrival - and showed no signs of settling in for the night - Vedder interrupted the first verse of his opening cover of Daniel Johnston's "Walking the Cow" to ensure the right mood was being set. "The thing that's nice about a theater," he pointed out, "is that you can all sit down and relax. That's why I put on the coat."
And still segments of the crowd insisted on being obnoxious, incessantly hollering out requests between songs, at times interrupting his tales and quips (and dead-on Matt Dillon impersonation) with unintelligible hosannas. I was gratefully in a quieter, more reverent section, but this was Dave Matthews at the Pantages all over again, with fans unable to draw the distinction between an arena experience where overcome excitement is welcome and an intimate gathering where respect for the artist and the atmosphere is a must.
What (mostly) shut 'em up were illuminating moments when Vedder shared songs by his influences, many of them learned from films, or redone for the movies (like his handling of the Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," from "I Am Sam"). He recalled how he came to know Cat Stevens, for instance: "You couldn't get a 'Harold & Maude' soundtrack. You had to get four or five Cat Stevens records and make one yourself." Then he paid homage with back-to-back covers, a soulful "Trouble" and, on banjo, a rousing "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out."
That also left me wondering if his elegiac rendition of Dylan's "Forever Young" wasn't learned from "The Last Waltz." The Bard's "Masters of War," however, here delivered with matter-of-fact coldness, has been in Vedder's playbook for so long now, some fans react as if he wrote it.
Other nods to formative songwriters this night also stayed on point: the rural impressionism of James Taylor's "Millworker," the exuberant release and stoic defiance of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down," the rebelliousness of Springsteen's "Growin' Up," the passionate romance of Neil Finn's "Throw Your Arms Around Me," performed as a duet with Finn. (Townshend's "Love Reign O'er Me" was conspicuously absent, but the Who giant's sense of melody and guitar playing, along with Finn's chord structuring, is evident in virtually all of the "Into the Wild" songs.)
It was, in subtler than suspected ways, a tour de force - an opportunity for Vedder, in that distinctive, deeply resonant baritone of his, to open up about himself and his outlook on life without ever getting too heavy-handed about it. The surfer may sing "Masters of War" with as much venom as anyone who has ever tried, but for all his outspokenness, his journey remains an inward progression. Fix this crazy world, yes, he seems to say - but find yourself first.
Finn, justifiably garnering acclaim for his do-it-yourself debut ("I'll Be Lightning") and his one-man-band performances, was an ideal opener and assistant to Vedder on "Wild" stuff like "Society" and "Hard Sun." But for all his obvious instrumental talent, there was something about his set that left me wanting.
Eddie Vedder
With: Liam Finn
Where: The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles
When: April 12
Next: Vedder plays again Tuesday and Wednesday at Spreckels Theater in San Diego
Tickets: sold out
Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
P.S. did any of you see Brandon Boyd? I ran right into him, face-to-face, and didn't say anything-just froze up and kept walking- i didn't want to bother him by saying hi or anything but now all my friends are disappointed in me for not talking to him. I thought he'd get mad if i bothered him on his free time. Anyone here met him?
I must be hopelessly out of touch....I had to Google Brandon Boyd to find out WTF he was .
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ah yeah...he wasn't very far from me actually, right behind Julien (and apparently singing along too he said!).
But I only know because someone said, I didn't and still would not recognise them (apparently the whole band was there).. that's telling you how much attention I was paying to them in Nijmegen!
I didn't see anyone famous...but then I was so excited of having made it inside! Only people I cared about finding where the jammers I knew
ah yeah...he wasn't very far from me actually, right behind Julien (and apparently singing along too he said!).
But I only know because someone said, I didn't and still would not recognise them (apparently the whole band was there).. that's telling you how much attention I was paying to them in Nijmegen!
I didn't see anyone famous...but then I was so excited of having made it inside! Only people I cared about finding where the jammers I knew
i see famous people on an almost daily basis, so i don't tend to get excited!
Kevin and Bean were talking about this weekends shows and really praising Eddie's performance. They said that Eddie is covering songs from artists that have inspired him through his life along with Into the Wild. It was truly an amazing and unforgettable evening. I wish we could get the download :( P.S. did any of you see Brandon Boyd? I ran right into him, face-to-face, and didn't say anything-just froze up and kept walking- i didn't want to bother him by saying hi or anything but now all my friends are disappointed in me for not talking to him. I thought he'd get mad if i bothered him on his free time. Anyone here met him?
When was this? I'd like to listen to the podcast of Kevin and Bean...Around what time if you could! Thanks...I actually talked to Psycho Mike after the show, called into KROQ....he was cool as hell.
Where did you see Brandon? He's supposed to be a pretty cool guy...
When was this? I'd like to listen to the podcast of Kevin and Bean...Around what time if you could! Thanks...I actually talked to Psycho Mike after the show, called into KROQ....he was cool as hell.
Where did you see Brandon? He's supposed to be a pretty cool guy...
it was tuesday morning around........715 or somn. they gave the shows props and i was shocked!
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What a difference there was in the vibe from show 1 and show 2. Both were great shows, but Eddie was not feeling the crowd from night 1. ("Hope you guys are better than those assholes from last night!"). Also did anyone notice that he changed a line in the song "I Wont Back Down"??? He actually said "well I wont let this room bring me down...no I wont back down." Did anyone else catch that? Am I crazy and imagining things? I am almost 99 percent sure that it happened.
I realize I am in the minority here, but up until the first encore, I actually thought Ed put on a better show Night 1 - Night 2 felt a little like he went through the motions of his main set...that said, the crowd were essentially assholes at LA2 as well. Anyhoo, just my 2 cents.
I realize I am in the minority here, but up until the first encore, I actually thought Ed put on a better show Night 1 - Night 2 felt a little like he went through the motions of his main set...that said, the crowd were essentially assholes at LA2 as well. Anyhoo, just my 2 cents.
Agreed. Thought night 1 was better. Loved Watchtower during night two, but other than that thought it was more canned than night 1.
Still loved both nights, just enjoyed night 1 more.
I hate to get into the Celebrity Star Gazing (really!!) but my wife's US magazine says Tom Brady and Giselle were at the Wiltern. I told my wife "Bullshit, if it wasn't in the Pit it didn't happen " Any truth to the Tom/Giselle rumor?
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I hate to get into the Celebrity Star Gazing (really!!) but my wife's US magazine says Tom Brady and Giselle were at the Wiltern. I told my wife "Bullshit, if it wasn't in the Pit it didn't happen " Any truth to the Tom/Giselle rumor?
Thanks. It's kinda funny that in a six page thread, there was about one answer to the "was he there?" question and the rest was "you/he suck(s)" arguing !
Guess I gotta apologize to the wife. Never shoulda questioned US Magazine!
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Well most of those night 1 "assholes" were at night 2 as well. And knowing how rabid his fans are, he probably knew that and that's why what he said was actually funny (well to me at least).
EDIT: Night 1 was better because I had second row center seat :-)
Who were you around? I was in second row center as well.
I see a lot of celebrities also -- I work in Century City and live in the Hollywood Hills -- but I thought it was cool in this setting to see what celebrities like Eddie Vedder/ Pearl Jam. That's what I thought was cool about seeing Phil Jackson at the show, the day before he and the Lakers crushed San Antonio.
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Once again...Eddie didn't disappoint; once again, neither did you guys: in general, I'm talking about all Pearl Jam fans; specifically, everyone who was at the show; even more specifically, I got to meet and hang out with Lizard, Lizard's husband, Sweet Adeline, and Nfanel. Good people. Funny people.
At the risk of sounding like a neo-pseudo-poseur-retro-hippie, I really got off on the communal nature of these last two shows.
I'm not exactly an extrovert (becoming a teacher is curing me of that), so it surprised me how easily I found it to turn to a complete stranger and let loose with some joyful rant, peppered with profanity.
(By the by, if any of you were offended or uncomfortable listening to the joyful-profanity rants of some random big guy, then I apologize. I couldn't help myself. Oh yeah...and these were rants of normal, considerate volume. I wasn't the "FOOTSTEPS!!!!!!!!" guy.)
It's nights like these that remind me what great joy and passion can be had if we focus on what we have in common rather than what separates us.
One last note, it's been a long time since I've been moved by a performance--of any kind--like I was moved by Eddie's re-creation of Arc.
At first, I couldn't help but consider the powerful ramifications of the song's genesis. Then, slowly, I seemed to slip into a bit of a meditative state--transported by Arc's primal nature. Finally, I found myself simply staring at the ground, hands clasped in almost a state of supplication. Powerfully emotive stuff.
So, fast forward about two hours...
My friend Cutback and I, yes THE Cutback, were in line at the In N' Out Burger when he nudges me and points to the license plate of the car in front of us.
Now, I like to think of myself as being equal parts logical and emotional, cynical and optimistic, Joel Fleischman and Chris in the Morning (I've been watching Northern Exposure re-runs), but seeing this license plate in conjunction with the spiritual nature of Arc at the Wiltern seems to be more than just chaotic coincidence.
Part of my brain is saying, "Shut up you idiot! Weird, coincidental shit happens all the time. You just don't acknowledge it. At best, this is synchronicity."
The other side of my brain is screaming, "What are the odds that a license plate will be issued with those three letters in that particular order, and that car is in Rosemead at 12:30 in the morning at the In N Out we decided to go to, in the lane we chose, following a concert where my mind was blown by an artist singing a song whose title also includes those three letters in that specific order? This is none of that profane bullshit you deal with everyday; this is SACRED!"
Obviously the mystic side of my brain is slightly more convoluted and verbose than the laconic logical side.
And when it came to this particular argument, the mystic side kicked the logical side's ass.
Synchronicity or epiphany? Either way, I had a blast.
Cheers.
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Eddie leaned over after Hard Sun and gave me his guitar pic...and said, " this is for you, man" ....i'm still in shock 4 days later!
thanks Rick
thanks Eddie
see ya in West Palm Beach!
About the dreams coming true...not quite all of them do. I thought that was where I was going to be, front center. Back of the room was awesome though.
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Glad it made your day even more memorable. I would hate to have had one of the douchebag choir boys end up with your prized seat.
No. But he sat right in front of me and acted like a total douche bag the entire show; arms crossed with the "too cool for school" look on his face.
REVIEW // Mr. Vedder goes to Hollywood
BEN WENER
14 April 2008
The Orange County Register
There are acoustic shows and there are acoustic shows - and then there's the lengthy, inspired and inspiring performance Eddie Vedder gave Saturday night at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, which is a breed apart.
There are precedents for it, sure - Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Ray Davies, to name just a few forebears, have all done something similar in this same venue, Elvis Costello and Ed-friend Pete Townshend at places nearby. Vedder's living-room setup here (giant speakers behind him, a reel-to-reel player to his left, travel cases at his feet), to say nothing of the relaxed but often intense atmosphere of this encounter, certainly suggests he has learned much from studying their examples.
Yet Vedder has placed his own spin on this storyteller routine, as befits the first-ever solo tour from the increasingly iconic Pearl Jam frontman. (The mere 10-date West Coast run wraps with shows Tuesday and Wednesday at San Diego's Spreckels Theater.)
He has made solo appearances before, of course - often in L.A. He turned up at a tribute to the Ramones at the Avalon, a benefit for tsunami victims in 2005 at the Wiltern, and he served up a fairly full-length solo set at Royce Hall when Sonic Youth curated All Tomorrow's Parties at UCLA earlier this decade. But Vedder, 43, seems clearly aware of the aura of prestige that surrounds this particular run, enhancing it via custom-designed playbills spotlighting both Vedder's causes (freeing the West Memphis Three, saving Trestles, bringing an end to the Iraq war) and the various accomplishments of everyone involved in the tour, including opening act Liam Finn.
Which of his own credits Vedder chose to highlight, however, speaks to the sort of two-hour-plus performances he gave Saturday. Pearl Jam might as well be a footnote. Instead, his biography cites his film work, from cameos in "Singles" and "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" to, more important, his contributions to soundtracks, leading to last year's widely regarded work for Sean Penn's adaptation of the free-spirit saga "Into the Wild," the impetus for this outing.
Thus, rather than this evening being a survey of past glories dappled by a few new bits (as a Young or Springsteen gig would be), Vedder's set cautiously avoided easy nostalgia and simple crowd- elating pleasures by focusing on his developing body of work apart from Pearl Jam.
Not that PJ's catalog went unrepresented; Vedder just selected songs wisely. The peacefulness of "Around the Bend," the fierce independence of "I Am Mine," the anti-materialism of "Drifting," the poignancy of "Man of the Hour" and the ukulele ditty "Soon Forget," the frustration of "Porch" - all of them contributed to a thematic whole, perfectly complementing the stretch of similarly inclined "Into the Wild" material, placed as centerpiece. (He also finally received his Golden Globe for it, in a surprise moment that seemed to embarrass him.)
In doing so, Vedder somewhat deterred the usual Pearl Jam crazies from singing along to every utterance, though he did have to quell their enthusiasm at the outset. Noticing that the entire audience leapt to its feet upon his arrival - and showed no signs of settling in for the night - Vedder interrupted the first verse of his opening cover of Daniel Johnston's "Walking the Cow" to ensure the right mood was being set. "The thing that's nice about a theater," he pointed out, "is that you can all sit down and relax. That's why I put on the coat."
And still segments of the crowd insisted on being obnoxious, incessantly hollering out requests between songs, at times interrupting his tales and quips (and dead-on Matt Dillon impersonation) with unintelligible hosannas. I was gratefully in a quieter, more reverent section, but this was Dave Matthews at the Pantages all over again, with fans unable to draw the distinction between an arena experience where overcome excitement is welcome and an intimate gathering where respect for the artist and the atmosphere is a must.
What (mostly) shut 'em up were illuminating moments when Vedder shared songs by his influences, many of them learned from films, or redone for the movies (like his handling of the Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away," from "I Am Sam"). He recalled how he came to know Cat Stevens, for instance: "You couldn't get a 'Harold & Maude' soundtrack. You had to get four or five Cat Stevens records and make one yourself." Then he paid homage with back-to-back covers, a soulful "Trouble" and, on banjo, a rousing "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out."
That also left me wondering if his elegiac rendition of Dylan's "Forever Young" wasn't learned from "The Last Waltz." The Bard's "Masters of War," however, here delivered with matter-of-fact coldness, has been in Vedder's playbook for so long now, some fans react as if he wrote it.
Other nods to formative songwriters this night also stayed on point: the rural impressionism of James Taylor's "Millworker," the exuberant release and stoic defiance of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down," the rebelliousness of Springsteen's "Growin' Up," the passionate romance of Neil Finn's "Throw Your Arms Around Me," performed as a duet with Finn. (Townshend's "Love Reign O'er Me" was conspicuously absent, but the Who giant's sense of melody and guitar playing, along with Finn's chord structuring, is evident in virtually all of the "Into the Wild" songs.)
It was, in subtler than suspected ways, a tour de force - an opportunity for Vedder, in that distinctive, deeply resonant baritone of his, to open up about himself and his outlook on life without ever getting too heavy-handed about it. The surfer may sing "Masters of War" with as much venom as anyone who has ever tried, but for all his outspokenness, his journey remains an inward progression. Fix this crazy world, yes, he seems to say - but find yourself first.
Finn, justifiably garnering acclaim for his do-it-yourself debut ("I'll Be Lightning") and his one-man-band performances, was an ideal opener and assistant to Vedder on "Wild" stuff like "Society" and "Hard Sun." But for all his obvious instrumental talent, there was something about his set that left me wanting.
Eddie Vedder
With: Liam Finn
Where: The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles
When: April 12
Next: Vedder plays again Tuesday and Wednesday at Spreckels Theater in San Diego
Tickets: sold out
I must be hopelessly out of touch....I had to Google Brandon Boyd to find out WTF he was
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But I only know because someone said, I didn't and still would not recognise them (apparently the whole band was there).. that's telling you how much attention I was paying to them in Nijmegen!
I didn't see anyone famous...but then I was so excited of having made it inside! Only people I cared about finding where the jammers I knew
ed was amazing that night. masters of war & arc was powerful. got goosebumps thoughout the show hearing ed's voice just tearing through my soul.
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I see famous people often at the theatre in London too... only the tourists are dick enough to bother them.. official one?
the other sort are guaranteed
When was this? I'd like to listen to the podcast of Kevin and Bean...Around what time if you could! Thanks...I actually talked to Psycho Mike after the show, called into KROQ....he was cool as hell.
Where did you see Brandon? He's supposed to be a pretty cool guy...
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Agreed. Thought night 1 was better. Loved Watchtower during night two, but other than that thought it was more canned than night 1.
Still loved both nights, just enjoyed night 1 more.
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Guess I gotta apologize to the wife. Never shoulda questioned US Magazine!
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Who were you around? I was in second row center as well.
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Kissimmee 2004
New York City (x 2) 2008
East Troy (x 2) 2011
Chicago & New Orleans 2013
Hampton, Raleigh, Boston 2016
Baltimore 2020
Louisville 2022
Philadelphia & Baltimore 2024
Almost 2 weeks later, but I had to respond to this............I LOVE YOU!
The best expression of Love is Time.
The best time to Love is Now.
I'm never as good as when you're there.........