*** EV Tour Phoenix Fanviews Here 11/04/12 ***

MinersCoach wrote:

I am still floating from last night's show. Ed was fantastic, he is for sure getting better with age. My seats were tremendous, sec 4 row 19 had some great people to sit and share this experience with. Could not have asked for a better set list or performance from a dude in a lot of ways my friends and I grew up with in the Northwest so many years ago. Big thank you to Marc for putting on a great meet and greet and the Crescent. I was blessed to meet some awesome people. OK its obvious I had a great time. Again thanks to all for a great vibe and a time I will soon not forget!

Thanks to you and all the others that made the pre-party so fun! Meeting so many fellow EV/PJ fans was great. I'll try to get my pics from the pre-party up on the AZ PJ Fans Facebook page later today. No word on how much we raised for Camp Sunrise, but I should have that figure soon.

As for the show...I was worried about the quality of Ed's performance when I heard that the XM broadcast wasn't happening. After experiencing the 2003 Phoenix show (following Vegas) where Ed was "sick," I was hoping Vegas didn't cost us again. The show last night was great. We may have lost 20 min of show (compared to the length of the Vegas shows) but we got a very fun performance. I don't know if I've ever heard him do a better version of Masters of War. We will also all be talking about "going to the ammo can" forever. Oh...thanks to all of the people who didn't realize that a second encore is standard. I was in row 12 and was able to get right behind the VIP section for the last two songs. Those people leaving made it that much easier to rush the front.

The ammo can does still have me laughing. What was he drinking? I was about 10 feet from him, looked like guava juice.

Did anyone stick around and get to meet Ed after the show? I saw the buses and a small group when we were leaving.

It was a fun show, but I wish I had brought my binoculars, being 28 rows away with no video screen. I thought the random aspect had to do with seniority.

There seemed to be quite a delay between Arc and the final encore, and a substantial number of fans left. I was worried myself we weren't going to get the traditional Hard Sun closing , but all's well that ends well.

Happy to have witnessed my first EV solo show, now please bring it to Denver!

So...

I just found out the EV Phoenix poster glows in the dark!
Had no idea!!

Fn awesome!

A review from AZCentral...
http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/mus ... songs.html

I have to say the Ten club tix were a HUGE dissappointment!!! I've been a member for 14 years and these were by far the worst tix I've ever had :evil: . Its infuriating when I could have just bought tickets online and gotten better seats and I wouldn't have had to go through all the BS of the raffle. Especially since we flew in for the show too. I get that the seats are random throughout the stadium, but they still should still be based on seniority, and it would have been nice to be around other 10 club members instead of all the lame people that couldn't sit through the show without getting up every 2 seconds to go get more beer! Seriously people this is EDDIE VEDDER!!!! Show some respect and stay in your seats...and don't shout idiotic things all night long! :fp:

Other than that it was a great show and Glen Hansard was amazing!!!

Fun preparty, but couldn't stay long, meet a few of you, thanks NAUjackfan and crew! booths outside was well done, and to see even more stuff inside, insidious. Ed was really talkative I thought, some really funny stuff. And then calling out his Dad's friend and the river guide was really touching.  You're true and just breathe we're two of my favs, but his little aside about the couple during without you made that the highlight for me. Heck, that better man is awesome too, great millworker and masters of war and open all night. 

Man I couldn't tell he was sick, he was bringing it! His comments about the election and politics were simple and sincere, they made him feel ill. If he was dating this election, he would have broken up with it a long time ago.

So I was 13th row via TM, sitting next to an older couple, late 50s I think. He had heard into the wild and the uke songs but really nothing else. They weren't pj fans by a long shot. As he was reading sniper, we started talking about Ed's guitars and ukes. Always fun when folks start talking about their own instruments. He was a guitarist. 

So having seen Ed solo a lot, it was fun to sit next to them and kinda tap into their experience. They loved glen, he commented about how you could see his busking and small club experience, he had no idea who glen was, but was gonna rent once this week after that set. We both noted, "man we gotta change our strings more, listen to that!" he picked up on smile as well, "I gather he just threw in some pj on that one? Smart!"

Was really happy for better man cause I was talking about the size 5 Martin, how I wanted one badly but settled on the uke. After betterman, he agreed, a good addition to the arsenal! He dug millworker, but it was master of war when he said, "yep I'm gonna hafta learn that now...."

The problem we had was the fans. Girl behind us couldn't sit with her man, they had two singles, and I dunno, it was like she had to prove to everyone around us that she was the biggest fan there. Sure sing along to elderly, I'll give ya that, but at EVERY dip or lull, end of verse, end of chorus, right through the songs for the next six or seven songs, yep, a Whoooooo girl. Constant. Right in our ears, "Whooooooo!" right at the poignant places. Heck we all feel it, you don't have to give voice to it. Every time. 

So I moved up a row to get her outta my ear. And there's a couple with beers and popcorn just scarfing. Chomp chomp chomp. They were fans, knew sometimes and porch, but then just started full conversations during sleepless nights and falling f'n slowly!!! "don't waste the batteries before the encore!" I had to laugh, cause the dude has his rolled up poster and is actually beating it on the setback in front of him! Thomp Thomp Thomp... Now I have a few thrashed posters with memories, but never by my own hand!

What the heck though. You're fans, and if you're not digging a song you can just have a full on normal voice conversation?!?! Anywho, in the rows I was in 12-13 stage left, it was the general public being respectful of one another and the fanatics driving us all nuts.

My eighth Ed solo show, I think that was the most talkative I've ever seen him.... Wonderful fun!

I met 7 people who were following Ed's tour this year. I was so jealous.

angiebabyaz wrote:

Having been stuck in Gila Bend on Christmas Eve 1991 on my way to San Diego...I can totally relate Ed. Thank goodness it was one night, one night only

That was a really long story too, I was just sitting here thinking, why did he tell that? Oh right, introduced "Open All Night" -- the Texaco station reference! The long intro of River Guide Brian, the long story of the ammo can ... and a few shorter asides here and there, recording the ocean.... Very talkative!

Had it wrong in my original post, it was You're True like the first post sez, where he wound down the song with a little vignette, spoken word "happily ever after" epilogue... had kids, got married, etc.... that was very cool!

So sitting here thinking, few songs I totally still want to hear, but you get what you need. Having not been in Phoenix since 2003, he did sprinkle in a bit more PJ, no? Porch is a staple of his tours, Elderly, Wishlist, Sometimes and Betterman get in pretty regularly, Just Breathe and Unthought Known from the latest album -- and one of the classic PJ show closers, Rockin in the Free World!

Brain Damage, Millworker, Masters of War, Open all Night -- great covers to round out his PJ and Solo work, plus the the songs with Glen. I mean, Falling Slowly is undoubtedly one of the strongest songs in the set -- but it's been there consistently since touring with Glen. Wonderful harmonies.

Light Today and Long Nights were great additions, songs I haven't heard live ... I don't think. Glen playing bass on Long Nights was when I recognized, "Ya know what, the sound in the this big cavernous theater is actually really nice!" And that was really driven home by the crunch of the guitar on Masters of War -- man that sounded good, even though he fumbled two verses, just makes him crush the guitar part even more!

But I'm glad they played Sleepless Nights amplified! That's just a really big theater!

Mamasan Bren wrote:

Can someone recap the Ammo can story?

Eddie vedder and Sean penn crapped in an ammo can.