Ed's secret show in San Diego, Saturday afternoon

mjb wrote:

HA - nice to see EV saves his best set for a private "cliff" show - jeez. awesome for anyone who saw it, sucks for those who traveled across the country and saw the same shows night in and out.

Yeah i could have done without basically the same show from Santa Cruz to Berkeley 1. He could at least have varied the setlist when he was in the same city or an hour or so away since he knows a lot of people see more than one show.

seems cool, can you imagine if everyone was notified

it be like old school

wow amazing setlist!

SDHSClassof82 wrote:

Aw, c'mon it wasn't totally the same setlist those two shows. These songs were different:

Santa Cruz: Broken Hearted, You're True, I Used To Work In Chicago, Pulling Into Santa Cruz

Berkeley 1: Satellite, Here's to the State, If You Want to Sing Out Sing Out, Parting Ways, Growin' Up

Each of these shows seemed unique to me because of the venue, the sound, and the crowd. Plus we got different stories : )

If I had the $$, I would have liked to see 'em all, but that's just me.

(BTW, slight nickpick with the thread title- charity show was in San Clemente, Orange County, not San Diego, not that it matters.)

But the whole first half of the show was the same from Walking the Cow through the Into the Wild. Brokenhearted, You True aren't great songs. Chicago is a minute at best. Santa Cruz is not a good song despite what all the people on here will tell you. It sounded like what he said it was, a song that he wrote that day instead of going surfing.

Next night: Satelitte also not a great song. Here's to the State was good, as was Sing Out, Parting Ways, and Growin Up. So basically it was three different good songs from 2 nights.

Of the Satelitte, Brokenhearted, Goodbye, and You're True, Goodbye is really the only good song out of the bunch.

Even if I go along with what you said, that is only 4 different songs played in Berkeley from Santa Cruz. It's sucks that he built a huge fanbase following, in part, by mixing up the setlist and there were only four different songs played at a place an hour or so from the last show, so he would know that a lot of people would be going to both shows.

I felt this way somewhat in SF 06 when a lot of songs were repeats. Alive, Even Flow, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, and Yellow Ledbetter just off the top of my head were played all three nights. Not cool, from a band with the amount of songs they have. I'm not one of these people who needs to see super rare songs, I would just like to see different songs (Elderly Woman, Wishlist, Daughter, etc.) if I am going to see a band more than once a day after I just saw them.

patrickredeyes wrote:

How I would have loved to have heard Parting Ways one of the three shows I saw. I can complain about that can't I?

No you can't complain about anything because anything Eddie or the band does is perfect.

SOLAT319 wrote:

Broken-hearted is the best uke song he's done on that instrument along with Can't Keep. I can't believe that song does not, like, make you want to cry immediately! Maybe the reason why I love that song so much is the following set of lyrics:

i'm alright, it's just tonight
i can't play the part
i'm alright, it's alright
it's just a broken heart

There were times when I just did not feel like "playing the part" either. So, I can't believe some stranger who has no idea about my life could be dead on describing that feeling....Yes, I know, it happens to everyone. But still...

Fair enough. Broken-hearted doesn't do it for me, but your post desribes Goodbye to me.

I really like the line, "For what feels like the first time I don't know where you are tonight."