**Saskatoon Fanviews Here**

goonar_sk wrote:

Jumping the barricade? Asks if he can come visit, then climbs it. Being held up by fans, doing crowd interaction singing (aka follow along, he makes a noise, we copy, etc.) I think the crowd threw him back onto the stage... I was way in the back, can't be sure .

Ed's crowd-surfing again??????? Holy crap.

haha, thats so awesome that they played running back to saskatoon,

present_tense wrote:

haha, thats so awesome that they played running back to saskatoon,

It's almost hard to believe that that actually happened.

Rockin'InCanada wrote:

Okay here goes incredible I was 7th row dead center on the floor....fucking fantastic....Release was incredible as always...crowd wass shy for some of the show...excpet the floor...then he said Corduroy was being filmed and everyone in attendance would be on a film for a charity thing with New Orleanns (may of said first couple songs)...highlgihts include a very drunk Ed...who I seen smoking (thought he quit)...said he thought Saskatoon was a sort of a campfire cookout or something...kinda of funny...highlight was I Got Shit/SOLAT/Footsteps (which looked to be discussed before playing)....Green Disease was incredible...but Porch was fucking amazing...Ed after some music for a dew minutes asks the crowd "Is it Safe"...then he jumps off the stage...stands on the first row barricade held up by fans/security and leads this HUGE And LOUD chant with everyone pumping there arms in the air (like Alive sort of)then he just belts out the final chorus from in the crowd and the place is going ballistic....then he does a little free-fall backwards into arms of people behind him...he was 7 ft right in front of me....fantastic show....good job S'Toon....Off He Goes was done pretty much without any flaws....and running Back to Saskatoon was very cool to see..

Also Ed came out in a mask and sang I Believe In Miracles with the Supersuckers....so my four concert tour is done....everything was great and this show was PERFECT to finish it off...fuck I forgeot Present Tense/Glorified G/Whipping one of the best set-lists I have seen in awhile...great show....

Great review....thanks for sharing!

The Property Law wrote:

I agree. I can't believe it actually. I'm going to buy the boot and if it's not on the boot then I'm going to deduce that we are being lied to and I'm going to sue a number of people including yourself. Then we shall see who is the Property of The Law.

Its on the boot.

I knew when Ed came on to sing "I Believe in Miracles" with the Supersuckers that we were gonna get something special. I want to elaborate more on the crowd and the reaction from the band. As one person mentioned the crowd seemed pretty shy with Release. Then before Ed talked about the taping he said "I want to say something that's never been said before...Hello Saskatoon!" And that got the crowd goin. I was in a section right next to the stage that allowed me to look right down onto it. I could see Ed's reaction to everything clearly. As the crowd got more and more into it I could see Ed smiling and from that I knew we were going to get one hell of a show. The crowd almost drowned out Eddie for several songs including Even Flow, Small Town, Do the Evolution, Betterman, Daughter, and Alive. It was great. After Even Flow I think it was Ed said "Saskatoon you guys are getting rowdy...I like it." Ed also led the crowd in two chants one with Porch and one previous to that. He also fell to the stage in response to the overwhelming support from the crowd. The shout of "Hello" during Small Town was LOUD! Ed also let the crowd take over for him during part of Even Flow, Betterman, and I think one other.

Ed sounded fantastic. All the other guys as well. The crowd especially reacted to Mike. Ed walked around with a bottle of wine or somethin and toasted various sections of the crowd. Some very lucky people got two tamborines and a harmonica. Ed standing on the rail during Porch was awesome to see. And to confirm he was supported by the crowd and security and then at the end he fell back into the hands of the security goons and let them toss him back on stage. Arms pumping in the air to several songs. During the encore breaks the crowd started chanting Eddie a couple times. And after one of the songs all you could here was "Booooooom....Booooooom"

I knew Saskatoon would deliver up an awesome crowd for the boys. We are good for that. Thanks to Eddie and the band for an awesome show. Better then the one I was at in Vancouver in '03.

By any chance, did Boom tear into the keyboard during this great cover song?

One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that after Alive, Ed introduced everyone and said goodnight, etc. They left the stage for about a minute and came back. He said they were going to sing "Canada's national anthem. Actually, it should be the world's national anthem." Then they broke into "Rockin' in the Free World." In the mean time, someone turned on the stadium lights. They are the type that take a couple of minutes to warm up, but by half way through the song the lights were completely on. It was cool to see the crowd from the upper level where I was sitting.

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Flew in from Cgy for the show last night...my 3rd in 4 days. The setlist, from front to back, was awesome. The crowd, however, was not. There were at least 1000 seats in the upper bowl unfilled and everyone pretty much sat on their hands the whole show. We bought Ten Club tix for Cgy and Edm (great seats) but had lower bowl, almost opposite the stage because this show was a last minute thing for us...from that view, maybe the first few rows of the floor and a bit on the side near stage showed energy but most people to the section right of us sat thru the entire show. People were leaving in droves at the end of Daughter (wtf?) and then again at the end of the 2nd encore...musta had to beat that heavy Saskatoon traffic I guess. Only saving grace from an energy standpoint was Alive and RITFW. That being said, the band was REALLY trying to get everyone up throughout the whole show. Eddie was jumping around quite a bit, Mike was doing his pogo and Jeff was jumping too but noone ever really seemed to get into it, which absolutely astounded me, because we were losing it.

I think the setlist was super high energy and the guys were really giving it. Eddie made about 3 or 4 references to this being like "playing at a campfire". I think he was dropping a hint. He also made a comment something like "Well...we can just keep playing or..." which got a crowd response because I think PJ really wanted more energy, which doesn't surprise me after the pandemonium of Calgary and the great response in Edmonton as well. I have to give the band, setlist and music a 9/10 and the crowd a 2/10. I have to admit being a bit disappointed by the response.

All you Sask folks, please don't slay me but this is my opinion from a pretty good vantage point (both seatwise and multiple show wise).

I actually heard someone behind me in the upper bowl yell, "Eddie, you suck" at one point. I think the bar was as full as the rink for Release...

Excuse Me!!! What show were you watching wgord??? Because what I saw wasn't what you described.

Arms pumping to several songs, the chanting, the crowd singing loud enough to drown out Ed!!!

/boggle