The Very First EV Solo Concert?

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  • pleatherman
    pleatherman Posts: 472
    edited January 2010
    01/26/02 – Spin Alley Bowling Center: Shoreline, WA.
    Two sets for this concert. The second, an electric one with C Average. However, the first entire set is performed solo and features the premiere of one of the songs from his unreleased uke album. I might have to make an exception. Besides the only thing cooler than having a community center (Kenyon Hall) as the setting for the very first EV solo concert, is a bowling alley! Do we have a winner?
    Here is more info from fivehorizons.com
    attendance: 150
    set: [solo acoustic] Heaven (Talking Heads), Drifting, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Last Kiss, Satellite (new), Elderly Woman, I Don't Wanna Grow Up (Tom Waits), Better Man, Happy Birthday (to Rob Glaser)
    [electric set] Watch Outside, Running Out of Time, Driven to Tears, Love -> Building on Fire, Corduroy, The Kids Are Alright, Soldier of Love, Against the 70s, I Don't Wanna Grow Up (Tom Waits)
    notes: On the occasion of Rob Glaser's (CEO of Real Networks) 40th birthday, Ed performs a solo acoustic set, including a new song, followed by a set with C-Average. Inside sources report the following: "Ed and Rob Glaser are good friends, going back to their mutual involvement in the West Memphis Three case. Ed sang the entire set alone first, with Jon and Brad of C-Average joining him later ... at which point he invited everyone to commence bowling as he said: 'You guys can keep bowling, but I'm just going to play a few more songs, if you don't mind.' Ed also sang 'happy birthday' to Rob and gave Rob the ukulele. He was wearing jeans, a tan shirt and a fedora, he said when Ed took the fedora off he had like a mohawk or something that resembled it. It was originally only supposed to be one set but it ended up being two."
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  • guypjfreak
    guypjfreak Posts: 2,281
    Thierry Henry wrote:
    pleatherman wrote:
    My geek levels run especially high when it comes to PJ-related trivia. I thought I would turn to my fellow affionados to help come up with the definitive answer to my question. What I'm looking for is the event that marked the very first concert of Ed's that was exclusively his and contained an entire set. That immediately eliminates any pearl jam pre-show performances. All benefit concerts Eddie was a part of, even the full-sets played in '02, are also out of the running. Plus, any shows he performed with a backing band, such as 12/04/96 and my favorite- 6/26/99, are excluded as well. So now that's established, what is the earliest "pure" solo concert? This is what I've managed to come up with:
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    3/24/08 at Kenyon Hall, Seattle. Tickets were sold at Easy Street Records for $5, billed only as a screening for "Into the Wild", actually served as a warm-up gig for Vedder's "April Fools' Tour". Only 150 people in attendance at a community hall. Seems the perfect venue to make his solo debut.
    How about it? What am I missing? Ed's a sneaky one who is adapt at flying under the radar. Perhaps a skate park in the early '90s. Or some coffee shop in the late '80s. Whatever it is, it's gotta be one of the most significant experiences in his musical career and, therefore, should be included in any respectable pearl jam timeline.


    I don't know, but its a great fuckin' poster!!!
    absolutely fu..ing agree old son i want :mrgreen:

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