Great Show Tonight (08-21 Chicago Night 1)
brian_ch
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Never thought Eddie would cover NIN Hurt. Don't know if he played it during his other solo shows, but caught me off guard. Can't wait to go tomorrow with my 10c seats! Hope to see you there.
Brian_Ch
PJ
06-26-98, WI, 08-18-00 IN, 10-08-00 WI, 10-09-00 IL, 06-18-03 IL, 06-21-03 WI, 10-03-04 MI, 05-16-06 IL, 05-17-06 IL, 08-23-09 IL, 08-24-09 IL, 07-19-13 IL
EV
08-21-08 IL, 08-22-08 IL, 07-15-11 WA, 07-16-11 WA
PJ
06-26-98, WI, 08-18-00 IN, 10-08-00 WI, 10-09-00 IL, 06-18-03 IL, 06-21-03 WI, 10-03-04 MI, 05-16-06 IL, 05-17-06 IL, 08-23-09 IL, 08-24-09 IL, 07-19-13 IL
EV
08-21-08 IL, 08-22-08 IL, 07-15-11 WA, 07-16-11 WA
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Wow, listened to the Johnny Cash version this morning on way to work...A boot of this would be awesome...
Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!
"Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95
It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
PJ
06-26-98, WI, 08-18-00 IN, 10-08-00 WI, 10-09-00 IL, 06-18-03 IL, 06-21-03 WI, 10-03-04 MI, 05-16-06 IL, 05-17-06 IL, 08-23-09 IL, 08-24-09 IL, 07-19-13 IL
EV
08-21-08 IL, 08-22-08 IL, 07-15-11 WA, 07-16-11 WA
I was wondering when Betterman would show up...damn you Chicago!
Not my favorite song (even though it's on my favorite album)...but I know it's such a great crowd participation song...it must have been awesome.
Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!
"Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95
It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
Actuallly, it was a different arrangement. EV didn't do the usual audience participation stuff he's been doing for the song at PJ shows. It appeared to have thrown the crowd off. We were able to participate somewhat at the beginning, but the arrangement was different and EV just sang it. It is analogous to the "new" Jeremy done at Red Rocks and Summerfest in '95.
It was different and I didn't mind it as much because it wasn't audience participation time. Porch, OTOH, was pretty cool.
PS- I hate the cubbies song. GO WHITE SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting. Can't wait to hear it (hopefully). Thanks for the info.
If they guy from Minnesota who has his engagement party tomorrow reads this, Hello! I was the guy sitting next to you. Good luck! It's all down hill from here
PJ
06-26-98, WI, 08-18-00 IN, 10-08-00 WI, 10-09-00 IL, 06-18-03 IL, 06-21-03 WI, 10-03-04 MI, 05-16-06 IL, 05-17-06 IL, 08-23-09 IL, 08-24-09 IL, 07-19-13 IL
EV
08-21-08 IL, 08-22-08 IL, 07-15-11 WA, 07-16-11 WA
Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!
"Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95
It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
Seriously though - Ship Song into Hurt was one of those moments where I was just sold on the show. It was a great one!
just an all out awesomefest tonite - truly
Kinda like the Bridge School Benifit version of Corduroy?
10-8-00 Alpine Valley
10-9-00 All State Arena, Chicago
4-23-03 Assembly Hall, Champaign
5-16-06 United Center, Chicago
6-30-06 Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee
8-05-07 Grant Park, Chicago
8-21-08 EV, Auditorium Theater, Chicago
8-22-08 EV, Auditorium Theater, Chicago
FUCKIN' A RIGHT! A masterpiece indeed!
Oh...thanks for reminding me about Mansfield 1...I have to add that to my "must have" boots list...along with MSG 1 & 2...Hartford and Boston 1 (I think).
Hurt and Arc in the same show? Fuhgedaboutdditt.
Cubs song sucked donkey nuts, although the preamble was interesting.
and fuck those 2%'s in milwaukee. that was funny.
as much as he talked Bruce, i'm suprised he didn't play something that included "my hometown"
lot of empty seats. i was one of those up in bfe, but there 4 empty's in my row of my section, 4 more in the row in front of me, and more below that. amazing how many empty's were there.
seems the scalpers may have taken a bath. haha
all in all, it was a good time, and i look forward to tommorrow's performance
August 21, 2008
The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
8:50pm
Walking the Cow
Trouble (Cat Stevens cover)
-story about Milwaukee crowd vs. Chicago crowd
Ship Song (Nick Cave cover)
I Am Mine
Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover)
Sometimes
Man of the Hour
-Thomas Young comes out on stage
No More
Set It Forth
No Ceiling
Gauranteed
Far Behind
Rise Up
-Thomas Young comes back out on stage
Here’s to the State of Mississippi
Goodbye
Driftin’
Hide Your Love Away (Beatles cover)
Betterman (played on Mandoline, Lullaby version)
Porch
E1
-story about his first concert at this venue for Bruce Springsteen
Elderly Woman...
-story about meeting Ernie Banks and writing the Wrigley Field Song
Someday You‘ll Go All the Way
Helpless (Neil Young cover- sung w/ girl from Liam’s band)
Society (w/ Liam Finn)
Parting Ways (w/ Liam Finn)
Arc
E2
Hard Sun (w/ Liam Finn)
11:10pm
Hurt and The Ship song were awesome. Very unexpected and powerful. He said he was going to borrow a song from someone that he believed was from Chicago prior to playing hurt.
Man of the hour was dedicated to someone that Ed met at the bar last night who told him about his grandma. He said he hoped that the guy didn't mind that he changed the gender and sang man of the hour. Ed said the guy requested long road.
The most emotional part of the night was when Tomas Young was on stage . The crowd gave a really long standing ovation to him and remained standing to sing No More. Ed was crying as were many people in the audience. He knelt down and put his head into Tomas's chest and looked heart broken. Then after he started the into the wild set, he said "I am still a little choked up from that last song" and still seemed very emotional.
The emotion seemed to carry throughout the evening...especially during arc, where he put his finger up (to say "just a second") walked away to take a big drink of water and then proceeded to scream at the top of his lungs...it was beautiful. he introduced it by saying "This is sort of a prayer"
For those of you wondering if Ed drinks at his solo shows he said, "Imagine how much I would mumble if I were drinking up here"
Liam had a shot of whiskey on stage after hurting his finger on the drums (he was bleeding). He requested the whiskey and said he was going to auction off his bloody towel after the show.
I feel very lucky that I was able to see this show. I have been sick this week and was able to forget about it for a few hours tonight. I am spoiled by bootlegs and hate the thought of having to carry this show in my mind..cause I may never hear it again. Ed did say that he wanted us to help him sing the cubs song so that their was a really good copy out there. I doubt a boot will happen though...wishful thinking.
Hope you all have a good time at tomorrows show. I am off to bed to have happy dreams.
If I knew where it was I would take you there. There's much more than this
Seeing Tomas was cool, I saw him at Lollapalooza last year, and he looks a lot thinner and sicker now, so I almost cried when he came out. Hoping he gets better.
Awesome, awesome show. Looking forward to tonight.
(Oh, and for people who were wondering why there were so many empty seats...it's because Ticketmaster refused to release all of the tickets at once, and then nobody bought from their stupid scalper site. Good. Maybe it'll teach those greedy pricks a lesson.)
wow no millworker huh?? that has to be my favorite cover of this solo tour!it has inspired me to buy a guitar in the next month or 2 and get some lessons from my Dad(i need a new hobby):)
Anytime Ed covers someone Else's song it always sounds better with the original (IMO).I look forward to hearing hurt as I'm sure it was amazing.
HOLY SHIT! God I wish I was there! Please make a bootleg of this show!!! What a sweet setlist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I'm not about to give thanks or appologize"
"Caught a bolt of lighting, cursed the day he let it go"
I'm gonna double post this on the Fan Reviews too because I think as a long timer there was some interesting stuff.
To answer pressing questions:
Betterman sounded to me like it was straight off the Into The Wild album. He could have used the rendition from last night on there and it would have flowed perfectly. I don't know how else to describe it. It was so different NO ONE was able to sing along. My wife loved it.
The comments about Milwaukee came after the second song. He said "Already I can tell this is going to be a good show. You're 100% better than the 2% of assholes in Milwaukee" loosely quoted.
Now onto my thoughts of the show:
I haven't seen Eddie on these two last tours but saw him play with C Average at Tibetan Freedom Concert (and some other time but I'm blanking when that was!?! argh too early and I'm hungover). I was majorly impressed by how great it sounded. Auditorium Theater is known for its acoustics, unless you're in the nosebleeds. Eddie many times apologized to the folks up there and went into a long story about how his uncle took him to his first concert there when he was 8 or so and they kept going all the way up. If you've never been in those seats, they're awful. We left a Wilco show once because it was so bad. Do not buy tickets up there tonight even if they're cheap. Also he said it was Springsteen and I briefly wondered who the "Uncle" was if you catch my drift.
Oh the sound...they must have mic-ed the actual floor because his foot stomping was definitely coming out of the amps. And no, not the little kickdrum box. I think he only used that twice. It was great. Setlist was great. I don’t know why he did Hurt, but it was definitely a take on the Johnny Cash version. It was good, but hasn’t everyone covered that song by now? The audience mics were out and EV mentioned recording the show on two different occasions. My guess would be a set of the two nights to be released at some point. It was definitely worthy of its own bootleg as 1 show though.
Anyway, the highlight for me was No More with Thomas Young. It’s pretty hard to be that close to the stage and see how crippled this guy is and not get emotional. The whole place (mostly, I’ll get into this later) was singing the chorus and it was very emotional. Eddie even got choked up during the next song and mentioned it. Probably one of the more “moving” moments I’ve experienced at a concert just because of the crowd and what was going on. And I’m a jaded concert goer.
Now for the crowd: It was a pretty old crowd. I’m 32 and I’m guessing that was the avg age. That said there was only 1 or 2 dudes yelling idiot stuff and they got loud shushes.
The worst people were in a box to my left on the left side of the orchestra. The “rock chicks” looked like they came from a Motley Crue concert and were dancing during songs that weren’t really “pleasant” in their lyrics. And they were shouting etc. Luckily the sound was so good you couldn’t hear them much.
My biggest issue with the crowd came from the four, I assume 10C members, in front of me. One college age couple and two guys who came separately. I overheard them talking before the set and assumed, oh fellow travelers, neat, they mentioned they read this board too. During No More, they did not sing along. They stood there staring. If you haven’t heard the song once in your life, you can figure out the chorus by the second go through. I assume they’d heard it before. To me, that’s almost rude, if not disrespectful. I can almost understand not singing along to Sometimes when ed prompted everyone, but they should know that song too. BTW the singalong to Sometimes was so cool!
During the whole concert these four barely moved. I can totally understand why this would piss EV and Pearl Jam off like at the UC a few years ago. Now that I’m married with a baby Pearl Jam shows are about all I’ll make the trip to see and I cant’ travel as much to see them as I used to. That’s cool, family is most important. But if you’re able and traveling to see shows like these people in front of me said and you’re not INTO IT, why the f-ck are you there? Seriously. Explain this to me?!
Anyway, I also mused on the sheer money that had to be made on this tour. $35 posters! Even if you sold 1000 a night at a cost of $10 that’s $25,000 a night! Times 20 shows. Nearly half a mil on posters alone. WOW! I bought a show specific one, as I always do, but it sure made me think. I’m not begrudging EV on this, just makes you wish you had talent
All in all a fantastic fantastic show. I’m not going tonight as we have a busy weekend ahead and I kind of don’t want to ruin how good a show last night was in case tonight isnt’ as good! Anyway thought everyone would like to hear my thoughts and want to hear what others think too!
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