Should Eddie use a teleprompter?

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  • derbydave
    derbydave Columbus, OH Posts: 11,254
    My initial thought is no...Eddie shouldn't use a TelePrompter.
    I use them quite frequently for video shoots & while they are nice for taped productions...
    they CAN cause BIG problems for live events!!
    That being said, I would be MORE THAN HAPPY to go on tour with Pearl Jam as a TelePrompter operator...I've got TONS of experience operating one!! :D:D
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  • Tom K
    Tom K Posts: 842
    I'm Ron Burgundy?

    I would reference Satan's Bed from State College 03.. Either you love this performance or you hate it, and this probably will be your answer for if he should or should not use a teleprompter on stage...
    I'm gone ..Long gone..This time I'm letting go of it all...So long...Cause this time I'm gone
  • green_girl
    green_girl Posts: 931
    No.
  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,068
    For the solo shows he had lyric sheets for most of the songs. You can see him flip him and his tech bringing them out.
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • WW187806
    WW187806 Long Island, NY Posts: 565
    "They never play Comeback well and Mike always fucks up the solo. I don't get it. Anyway, no, he shouldn't. And neither should Obama."

    Im a no for the prompter... I hope people realize how hard that solo, and the entire song Come Back is to play live. The fact that they even attempt it is awesome. And I have seen it done spectacularly well live.
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    If he ever used one , or if he glances at lyric sheets, I think that's fine.
    It must be very difficult to memorize and organize 100+ songs and lyrics, especially some that have a lot of crazy words. I think Ed does it more than we realize.

    I sing in a band and we only have 20 songs (mostly originals though), and I sometimes scribble the first two lines on a piece of paper and throw them at the base of the mic stand. I dont read the lyrics, but glance once and awhile so I dont screw up.
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  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    I vote yes for the TelePrompTer but I hate to break it to you folks..
    He already uses one from time to time (the TelePrompTer has a video image of the pages from his famous "composition" note book!

    You can see it in some of the PJ20 Alpine concert clips.

    Why the hell not?

    Dave Matthews uses one and as a bootleg collector , PJ song purest, I cringe at botched lyrics...

    As someone else mentioned its not like 1998...

    How many songs in their catalalogue PLUS much like DMB and Bruce, the setlists are different every night.
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  • japhyryder
    japhyryder Posts: 19
    I feel pretty strongly about this and I say NO!

    I am also a really big U2 fan and on their last tour, I saw them in back to back cities (Las Vegas and Rose Bowl). Everything was scripted. It was like we heard the same jokes twice, in two different cities. Everything was off a prompter. And I was disappointed. How could this band I love, almost fear improve or mistakes? I don't want you to be perfect.

    Every Pearl Jam show and Eddie show I have seen have been so different. From the stories, to the lyrics, nothing is off a prompter or scripted and I respect that (and enjoy it). Even if the setlist is similar, each show is different.
  • green_girl
    green_girl Posts: 931
    locked wrote:
    I vote yes for the TelePrompTer but I hate to break it to you folks..
    He already uses one from time to time (the TelePrompTer has a video image of the pages from his famous "composition" note book!

    You can see it in some of the PJ20 Alpine concert clips.


    I thought it might cramp his style. But if you what you wrote is true, I'd like to revise my answer to "I don't care either way."
  • october22
    october22 Posts: 2,533
    I actually read this thread at first as "teleporter" which would be quite different.

    I say yes to teleporter, no to teleprompter.
  • Tom K
    Tom K Posts: 842
    october22 wrote:
    I actually read this thread at first as "teleporter" which would be quite different.

    I say yes to teleporter, no to teleprompter.

    I second this motion...
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  • Tom K
    Tom K Posts: 842
    october22 wrote:
    I actually read this thread at first as "teleporter" which would be quite different.

    I say yes to teleporter, no to teleprompter.

    I second this motion...
    I'm gone ..Long gone..This time I'm letting go of it all...So long...Cause this time I'm gone
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    edited July 2013
    green_girl wrote:
    locked wrote:
    I vote yes for the TelePrompTer but I hate to break it to you folks..
    He already uses one from time to time (the TelePrompTer has a video image of the pages from his famous "composition" note book!

    You can see it in some of the PJ20 Alpine concert clips.


    I thought it might cramp his style. But if you what you wrote is true, I'd like to revise my answer to "I don't care either way."
    Does it really matter whether he reads words off a composition book or a projected image of the book on the TelePrompTer ? Really folks.. Hate to burst your bubble!
    Here is a side stage clip of the famous "Chloe/ Crown" from Toronto
    09/11/11.
    Note that Ed tapes a piece of paper with the lyrics to Chloe over his TelePrompTer
    Then peels it off before "Crown" revealing the the TelePrompTer !
    http://youtu.be/1o8oZc9IXgA
    Pretty sure the Hamilton DVD has Lots of shots of his TelePrompTer too
    Post edited by locked on
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • mookieb10
    mookieb10 Posts: 930
    locked wrote:
    green_girl wrote:
    locked wrote:
    I vote yes for the TelePrompTer but I hate to break it to you folks..
    He already uses one from time to time (the TelePrompTer has a video image of the pages from his famous "composition" note book!

    You can see it in some of the PJ20 Alpine concert clips.


    I thought it might cramp his style. But if you what you wrote is true, I'd like to revise my answer to "I don't care either way."
    Does it really matter whether he reads words off a composition book or a projected image of the book on the TelePrompTer ? Really folks.. Hate to burst your bubble!
    Here is a side stage clip of the famous "Chloe/ Crown" from Toronto
    09/11/11.
    Note that Ed tapes a piece of paper with the lyrics to Chloe over his TelePrompTer
    Then peels it off before "Crown" revealing the small white glow of his Compositon page on the TelePrompTer !

    Curious, why you keep spelling teleprompter like that?
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    Auto correct damn iPhone!
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    mookieb10 wrote:
    I went to see Dave this weekend (I don't care what you think of him...) and noticed how he nails all the lyrics. I racked my brain and realized he's been pretty spot on the last couple years at the shows I've seen. So I got back to the hotel and surfed around the warehouse boards and was fucking shocked that Dave uses a teleprompter. Some people were offended, personally, I don't give a shit. I'm just wondering if you think Ed should use a prompter? and do you think he ever will?

    no - when ed has to make shit up as he goes along makes each show special - because of the extensive set lists
    i'm guessing the foo fighters don't change their set lists as drastically as pj
    i like the ff but seriously everything they do basically sounds the same
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

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  • rearviewross
    rearviewross Posts: 3,055
    Hard to read a teleprompter when you are seeing double.
    Forced to endure, what I cannot forgive.
  • green_girl
    green_girl Posts: 931
    rearviewross wrote:
    Hard to read a teleprompter when you are seeing double.


    HAHAHA!
    :lol:
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    WW187806 wrote:
    I hope people realize how hard that solo, and the entire song Come Back is to play live. The fact that they even attempt it is awesome. And I have seen it done spectacularly well live.

    That has to be one of their easiest songs to play, and I don't think PJ has any song that is that difficult to play.


    It wouldn't bother me one bit if EV used a teleprompter, unless it got to the point that it detracted from the performance.

    Never understand the "mistakes give each show character" mindset. How about looking at the way he sings them, Mike's solos and and all the other more subtle changes that they do night to night to supply the character for each show. I don't really mind the minor lyrical fuckups, but there are times where they've needed to be better rehearsed for the amount of money they're raking in.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,335
    I don't see how a tele is any different than his notebook.
    You often see him singing a song and staring at the floor (aka, reading every word from his notebook).
    Personally I'd rather he read it from a tele...at least it looks as if he remembers! :lol:

    Hell, he had lyrics written on his hand when he sang Comfortably Numb with Roger Waters.

    F it. I say no tele, no notebook....all lyrics must be written on his hands! :lol:

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