Is this a commonly known thing?

ScrapeMySky
ScrapeMySky Posts: 426
edited March 2010 in Musicians and Gearheads
http://www.ratsound.com/tours/pj/pearl_jam_2009/pages/wedges_jpg.htm

Is this a monitor in this picture? As in: reading lyrics from a monitor? And if so, is this a commonly known thing? Well, I think we all know Ed's memory isn't the very best when it comes to his lyrics, but somehow...
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    looks like a light is on it... might be where he puts the setlist? just a guess.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • release23420
    release23420 Posts: 1,176
    ithought if ed forgot the words he would just make some new ones lol :mrgreen: we be trying to sing a long an ed would change it on it us but hows we get those lovely live version we so enjoy :mrgreen:
  • ScrapeMySky
    ScrapeMySky Posts: 426
    dunkman wrote:
    looks like a light is on it... might be where he puts the setlist? just a guess.

    Oh, you're right. Now that you say it, it seems a little counterproductive to point lights at a screen.
  • DarthSpacegrass
    DarthSpacegrass Posts: 177
    Thanks for the link - dunno if anyone is interested but here is the site index with tour stuff going back to 04:

    http://www.ratsound.com/tours/pj/
    http://twitter.com/DarthSpacegrass
    Maple Leaf Gardens - Sep 21 - Downing Stadium, Randall's Island - Sep 28,29 1996 Blockbuster Music Entertainment Center - Aug 29 - Continental Arena - Sep 08 - MSG - Sep 10,11 1998 Jones Beach Music Theatre - Aug 24,25 2000 MSG - Jun 25, 2008 United Center - Aug 23,24 - Philly Spectrum - October 28,31 2009 PruCenter - May 18 - MSG - May 20,21 2010
  • DarthSpacegrass
    DarthSpacegrass Posts: 177
    Actually if you go back 1 more directory you get their full list of tours for all bands - some classics here:

    http://www.ratsound.com/tours/
    http://twitter.com/DarthSpacegrass
    Maple Leaf Gardens - Sep 21 - Downing Stadium, Randall's Island - Sep 28,29 1996 Blockbuster Music Entertainment Center - Aug 29 - Continental Arena - Sep 08 - MSG - Sep 10,11 1998 Jones Beach Music Theatre - Aug 24,25 2000 MSG - Jun 25, 2008 United Center - Aug 23,24 - Philly Spectrum - October 28,31 2009 PruCenter - May 18 - MSG - May 20,21 2010
  • mccreadyisgod
    mccreadyisgod Bumfuq, MT Posts: 6,395
    Here's another view from the same source:

    http://www.ratsound.com/tours/pj/pearl_ ... ep_jpg.htm

    It looks like a music stand. Like dunkman said, it's probably mostly there to put the setlist, although I know Ed has a habit of pulling covers out at the last minute, so he might need a lyric sheet for something that isn't particularly well-rehearsed.

    Other artists have gotten very comfortable using teleprompters to display lyrics, so that's not an uncommon thing, but I don't think Ed has gotten there yet. But I guess I wouldn't be surprised, with the size of their catalog, to see it on a future tour. It's hard to remember all of those words, even if you wrote them!
    ...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I'm not a fan of teleprompters onstage at all... I'd rather see a fuckup.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • savman
    savman Posts: 230
    awesome link thanks!!!!
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I'm not a fan of teleprompters onstage at all... I'd rather see a fuckup.

    It depends on the band for me.

    What's everyone's thought about using them for the music?
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    DewieCox wrote:
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I'm not a fan of teleprompters onstage at all... I'd rather see a fuckup.

    It depends on the band for me.

    What's everyone's thought about using them for the music?
    I guess my problem with teleprompters is it makes it seem like you're hiding something. If you're holding a piece of paper in front of you, at least you're honest about.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • ScrapeMySky
    ScrapeMySky Posts: 426
    Well, a teleprompter is easier to handle and does virtually the same as a piece of paper so to me that shouldn't really make much of a difference. But strangely,in some weird way it does. I'm not a fan of the whole idea, though. Somehow I think fuckups belong in the game.

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