Ed's secret show in San Diego, Saturday afternoon

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  • mjb
    mjb Posts: 1,315
    pjtaper wrote:
    how is this better than his solo shows? it is the same setlist as every other night, missing a few songs...
    If I was walking down to the beach and saw this going on, I would keep walking to the ocean...

    I think it is better because tossing in a couple of staples from a typical PJ set (Betterman, Small Town) could have really kept the energy up where the show sagged in the middle of the main set - I also love that he did Indifference with Ben because it just felt like such a wasted opportunity in SB and LA2 - ugh he still played Last Kiss though (I guess there should be a bathroom break in the set).
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    mjb wrote:
    HA - nice to see EV saves his best set for a private "cliff" show - jeez. awesome for anyone who saw it, sucks for those who traveled across the country and saw the same shows night in and out.

    Yeah i could have done without basically the same show from Santa Cruz to Berkeley 1. He could at least have varied the setlist when he was in the same city or an hour or so away since he knows a lot of people see more than one show.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    Wow... I'm kinda glad that no one from the band ever reads some of this stuff. Sometimes... We can sound... well, kinda selfish.
    I mean... it isn't all about US. A minimum of $500,000.00 was raised to fight the appeals of the 'Save Trestles' campaign... that fight ain't over, kiddies. A half a million bucks in one evening.
    ...
    That's what I'm celebrating.
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    Hail, Hail!!!
  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    seems cool, can you imagine if everyone was notified

    it be like old school
    Some people have religion I have Pearl Jam.


    no more shows
  • SDHSClassof82
    SDHSClassof82 Seattle Posts: 306
    rrivers wrote:
    Yeah i could have done without basically the same show from Santa Cruz to Berkeley 1. He could at least have varied the setlist when he was in the same city or an hour or so away since he knows a lot of people see more than one show.


    Aw, c'mon it wasn't totally the same setlist those two shows. These songs were different:

    Santa Cruz: Broken Hearted, You're True, I Used To Work In Chicago, Pulling Into Santa Cruz

    Berkeley 1: Satellite, Here's to the State, If You Want to Sing Out Sing Out, Parting Ways, Growin' Up

    Each of these shows seemed unique to me because of the venue, the sound, and the crowd. Plus we got different stories : )

    If I had the $$, I would have liked to see 'em all, but that's just me.

    (BTW, slight nickpick with the thread title- charity show was in San Clemente, Orange County, not San Diego, not that it matters.)
    “Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere...
    Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead...overhead...”
  • Claudia
    Claudia Posts: 398
    wow amazing setlist!
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    SOLAT319 wrote:
    You're probably right because I don't think any of those "Us Weekly" regulars would know how to operate a recording device let alone without making it obvious.
    ...
    My guess.. half of those people were at the bar or scarfing up the free hors d'oeuvres during most of the set and sauntered over to listen to 'Betterman'.
    This is what I like about those V.I.P. shows in L.A. The giant guest list that only half the people show up... leaving openings for me and my lowly friends to gain entrance. And them, hanging out in the lobby trying to pitch a screenplay to Tom Cruise so me and my lowly friends can stand at the front of the stage.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    SDHSClassof82 wrote:
    Aw, c'mon it wasn't totally the same setlist those two shows. These songs were different:

    Santa Cruz: Broken Hearted, You're True, I Used To Work In Chicago, Pulling Into Santa Cruz

    Berkeley 1: Satellite, Here's to the State, If You Want to Sing Out Sing Out, Parting Ways, Growin' Up

    Each of these shows seemed unique to me because of the venue, the sound, and the crowd. Plus we got different stories : )

    If I had the $$, I would have liked to see 'em all, but that's just me.

    (BTW, slight nickpick with the thread title- charity show was in San Clemente, Orange County, not San Diego, not that it matters.)

    But the whole first half of the show was the same from Walking the Cow through the Into the Wild. Brokenhearted, You True aren't great songs. Chicago is a minute at best. Santa Cruz is not a good song despite what all the people on here will tell you. It sounded like what he said it was, a song that he wrote that day instead of going surfing.

    Next night: Satelitte also not a great song. Here's to the State was good, as was Sing Out, Parting Ways, and Growin Up. So basically it was three different good songs from 2 nights.

    Of the Satelitte, Brokenhearted, Goodbye, and You're True, Goodbye is really the only good song out of the bunch.

    Even if I go along with what you said, that is only 4 different songs played in Berkeley from Santa Cruz. It's sucks that he built a huge fanbase following, in part, by mixing up the setlist and there were only four different songs played at a place an hour or so from the last show, so he would know that a lot of people would be going to both shows.

    I felt this way somewhat in SF 06 when a lot of songs were repeats. Alive, Even Flow, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, and Yellow Ledbetter just off the top of my head were played all three nights. Not cool, from a band with the amount of songs they have. I'm not one of these people who needs to see super rare songs, I would just like to see different songs (Elderly Woman, Wishlist, Daughter, etc.) if I am going to see a band more than once a day after I just saw them.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    How I would have loved to have heard Parting Ways one of the three shows I saw. I can complain about that can't I? :D
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    How I would have loved to have heard Parting Ways one of the three shows I saw. I can complain about that can't I? :D

    No you can't complain about anything because anything Eddie or the band does is perfect. :)
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    rrivers wrote:
    No you can't complain about anything because anything Eddie or the band does is perfect. :)


    Ok fine!!!!! :)
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    SOLAT319 wrote:
    Broken-hearted is the best uke song he's done on that instrument along with Can't Keep. I can't believe that song does not, like, make you want to cry immediately! Maybe the reason why I love that song so much is the following set of lyrics:

    i'm alright, it's just tonight
    i can't play the part
    i'm alright, it's alright
    it's just a broken heart

    There were times when I just did not feel like "playing the part" either. So, I can't believe some stranger who has no idea about my life could be dead on describing that feeling....Yes, I know, it happens to everyone. But still...

    Fair enough. Broken-hearted doesn't do it for me, but your post desribes Goodbye to me.

    I really like the line, "For what feels like the first time I don't know where you are tonight."
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."

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