I would rather see Pearl Jam ONCE than 100 Ed Solo Shows
Anyone else agree? The energy put out at a Pearl Jam show is AMAZING! I think I rarely watch Ed during the shows, my eyes are usually fixed on that crazy bastid Mike!
I love how Pearl Jam always keeps us guessing with what they will play next, I just can't wait to see them again!
I love how Pearl Jam always keeps us guessing with what they will play next, I just can't wait to see them again!
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the intimate atmosphere with ed was great. it's was the first time, well for me, that i have ever experienced something like this before.
pearl jam on stage is a different story. we all got pj blood flowing through our veins. we all want to see all the members on stage jam out.
i can't wait now for june!
But, I do find it funny that you still have your ticket needs for LA2 in your signature when you're posting about this.
And Jack Johnson?! I'd rather see PJ once than Jack Johnson 4.2 billion times. I saw him once and that is 2 hours and $35 I'll never have back again. What a waste of time and money. That guy blows live.
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True, but there are only so many songs he can play solo on a guitar by himself. And the solo shows were more about him and not about PJ.
I'd rather see the full band than just Ed solo too. But the Ed solo shows have been better than a few less than stellar PJ shows I've been to i.e. Hershey 03 and Hartford 06.
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- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
How many times did he play Parting Ways? Would love to have heard that instead of Millworker three nites in a row.
But I'm still happy with what I saw.
Bingo - I would take the EV shows I saw over a few PJ shows.....
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Ed solo like this is huge with awesome long-term implications, I hope and pray PJ is still trying to rock out 15-20 years from now. But I Guarantee Ed will be on a stage for a long, long, long time....
So how bout, right now, PJ just once? Or John Lennon were he alive? Bob Dylan?
I think Ed is one of the most talented all-round musicians of our generation and we're lucky to have him. Not having Ed in the 90s and Os, would be like the 60s without Bob Dylan. IMO.
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I wanted an intimate, moving, cerebral and emotional experience, and that's what I got -- more so than at any other show I have EVER been to, PJ included.
That being said, I would rather see a Pearl Jam show than an Ed solo show, but I would love for Ed to do a little solo acoustic set before the opener OR somewhere in PJ's set, just because it would bring a completely different -- beautiful -- element to the show.
And, I'll be honest, 100 is obviously hyperbole, but I'd rather have been at EVERY Ed show on his mini-tour than at 1 Pearl Jam show. Flame away if you want, but they were that special to me.
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I agree, I would not want to see Ed do a solo PJ show. Maybe he did not mix it up a lot, but I hope he does come east, I will try and go to a couple of the solo shows. And I think almost everyone here would rather see the full band than any one of them solo.
But then again I would rather see the whole east coast tour than see 2 Ed shows.
To not see any of these solo shows would have been a huge dissappointment.
And I, with you.
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On a positive note.....LA 1 was amazing and just the latest chapter in a long story of great shows and great music by Pearl Jam and pretty much all of the bands that they have chosen to open for them.
Agreed. Except not all of us who went to multiple shows are complaining. I have no problem at all with hearing *mostly* the same songs on consecutive nights. I fucking loved hearing Arc, Throw Your Arms Around Me, Porch, Hard Sun, etc. twice. Fucking LOVED it.
And, to give Ed credit, he DID tinker with the setlist a bit EVERY night, at least when he was playing the same city twice. I think we have all gotten spoiled with Pearl Jam's hugely significant setlist changes. Let us not lose sight of the fact that there are MANY bands out there who go out and play the EXACT same setlist every night, regardless of their vast repoitore of material. Hell, one of my former favorite bands -- Live -- has been playing essentially the exact same setlist for the last few YEARS. So Eddie, with his limited catalog and solo experience, should be commended for not submitting to "sameness" every night, I think.
In addition, he went out of his way to make nearly every city special in some way. From the song he wrote for Santa Cruz to the poem he read for Santa Barbara to the birthday song for his Grandma Margaret in L.A. to the ovation for his mother in San Diego -- not to mention the Sean Penn / Mike McCready / Jack Irons / Ben Harper / Emile Hirsch appearances -- nearly every city got their own special "moment" to remember. How many other artists or bands would do that shit?
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Its just me, but I really can't say that about PJ over the last few tours. Some cool new tunes, but nothing as original as what Ed's doing solo lately. No slam on the band...but right now seeing Ed solo would take precidence for me.
Even if certain folks thought Ed got repetitious.....
You obviously did not catch one of Ed's shows.
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Given the choice, I would definitely pick a PJ show over an Eddie show, but I would have killed to have been able to see Eddie and I would have enjoyed because he did exactly what I would have expected him to do
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
1 Pearl Jam Show = $70.00 (give ot take)?
100 Ed Shows = $70.00 x 100 = $7,000.00
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Tough to argue against.
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