How sick is ed?

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  • jgregory89
    jgregory89 Las Vegas Posts: 198
    PJINFLA said:
    Ed was also recently sick at the 2nd Vegas show.
    That was just from being in the desert, not a sickness. 
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,011
    Uncertainty is a motherfucker but also inevitable 


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  • gotthebottle
    gotthebottle San Diego Posts: 3,865
    Rolling Stones still keep themselves in a bubble as does Billy Joel..
    Staying in hotel.. away from most people...I know this as I know high up people in both orgs. If any touring band doesn't do this now as the summer FLirt covid viruses surge (as already doing here in So Cal) then they are asking for trouble. 
    If you see those IG posts of Mick around the cities they play in its staged with no one else close to him. PJ needs to do that if they wanna finish this Euro leg
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    bootlegger10 said:
    I was sick two weeks before the Ireland trip.  Perfect timing.  Felt great over there and not sick when I return.  Usually end up getting sick by the end of a trip.
    You, like me know how to travel. I come home and get sick, too. I always say I catch it on the plane on the way home, but I just play way too hard on vacations.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,203
    We used to call it tour crud.  After several shows, airplanes, mass transit, traveling etc. I would get sick. Not every time, but often.
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    edited June 2024
    Well I sure as fuck hope Vedder figures out when to get sick before the last two legs, especially that US one with all the kids going back to school crud
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    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    I've been worrying for the later US shows after back to school since last November but forgot about summer surge!
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,034
    Ed can’t catch a break. 2022 I thought he was sounding the best in a long time, and then Europe happened. Then I thought after Chicago 2 last year he sounded the best I’ve heard him sing since 2016. Then he got COVID. This year, I thought he was hitting high notes he hasn’t hit in years, and holding other notes longer. Again, best since 2016…and then gets sick again. 

    To the people calling him out for smoking, I don’t think the guy has smoked a stick since 2010 if I’m not mistaken.
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  • ed's telecaster
    ed's telecaster Posts: 30
    HailHailVitalogy said:
    I don’t think the guy has smoked a stick since 2010 if I’m not mistaken.
    Lol
  • RatherStarved
    RatherStarved Posts: 5,831
    I guess he’s not as sick as someone in Neil Young’s entourage.  
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  • 100 Pacer
    100 Pacer Toronto, ON Posts: 9,334
    HailHailVitalogy said:
    Ed can’t catch a break. 2022 I thought he was sounding the best in a long time, and then Europe happened. Then I thought after Chicago 2 last year he sounded the best I’ve heard him sing since 2016. Then he got COVID. This year, I thought he was hitting high notes he hasn’t hit in years, and holding other notes longer. Again, best since 2016…and then gets sick again. 

    To the people calling him out for smoking, I don’t think the guy has smoked a stick since 2010 if I’m not mistaken.
    He’s still smoking.
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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Ed sounded amazing in Vancouver 1, so similar to the original takes quite often, Im impressed. His revenge bod is hotttt. I don't know how he's running marathons as a smoker, thats frickin amazing! 

    I'm kinda sad he missed his opportunity to drink like mad in Ireland! 


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    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    runstaples said:
    Luckily he has a doctor on stage with him....M.D. McCready!
    And the prescription is more cowbell! I mean, guitar.
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    Spunkie said:
    Ed sounded amazing in Vancouver 1, so similar to the original takes quite often, Im impressed. His revenge bod is hotttt. I don't know how he's running marathons as a smoker, thats frickin amazing! 

    I'm kinda sad he missed his opportunity to drink like mad in Ireland! 



    I'm pretty sure the marathon comment in Vancouver was a joke.
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    HailHailVitalogy said:
    Ed can’t catch a break. 2022 I thought he was sounding the best in a long time, and then Europe happened. Then I thought after Chicago 2 last year he sounded the best I’ve heard him sing since 2016. Then he got COVID. This year, I thought he was hitting high notes he hasn’t hit in years, and holding other notes longer. Again, best since 2016…and then gets sick again. 

    To the people calling him out for smoking, I don’t think the guy has smoked a stick since 2010 if I’m not mistaken.
    As others have noted, he still smokes. Regardless, the damage to the immune system and to the lungs from years of smoking doesn't reverse itself if you stop smoking. It just keeps it from getting even worse.
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,034
    I thought he quit. I haven’t seen him smoke on stage in so long. How do you all know?
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  • BF25394
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    gotthebottle said:
    Rolling Stones still keep themselves in a bubble as does Billy Joel..
    Staying in hotel.. away from most people...I know this as I know high up people in both orgs. If any touring band doesn't do this now as the summer FLirt covid viruses surge (as already doing here in So Cal) then they are asking for trouble. 
    If you see those IG posts of Mick around the cities they play in its staged with no one else close to him. PJ needs to do that if they wanna finish this Euro leg
    The bubble is of limited utility, as gothebottle suggests, when you've got hundreds of fans within a few dozen feet singing along at the top of their lungs and aspirating in your direction for more than two hours every night. I have a high degree of confidence that Matt's Covid infection in 2022 came from the audience, because they were keeping the band and the crew in a strict bubble at that time. They're not doing that anymore which, as gotthebottle says, may not be the best decision in terms of ensuring an uninterrupted tour.
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  • BF25394
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    HailHailVitalogy said:
    I thought he quit. I haven’t seen him smoke on stage in so long. How do you all know?
    It came up in the Stern interview in late 2020 and in one of the interviews from this year.
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,034
    edited June 2024
    I just did some google searching. Don’t recall anything about it in the Zane and Bill interviews. Yeah there’s pictures from 2018 of him with a cig. I’m pretty mind-blown, sorry guys. I thought this whole time he kicked it. Don’t recall seeing him smoking on stage or side stage since the long hair Backspacer days.
    I quit cigarettes in 2019 and switched to a vape. I quit the vape about 2 months ago, and it’s been very difficult. 
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  • BF25394
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    I only remembered that it came up with Stern because I just rewatched it last week.
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