stip wrote:
So people who were there both nights preferred this one?
It's a closer call than the Pit will make you think. Ed got lost in the lyrics a bunch times last night, UK just being the most extreme example, and that kinda discombobulated me as I was singing along. Mike and Matt were so great that it hardly matters and if I wasn't in a lame section where everyone was sitting and texting, I probably wouldn't have really noticed. There was just something about Ed during BK1 that you really don't see often anymore. It wasn't anger, more like focused intensity, like that emotion you see on the face of jungle cat before it takes off after a gazelle. Both shows were amazing, but for different reasons, and I can't pick a winner between them. I'd give the edge to the Barclays shows over the Worcester shows though.
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stip wrote:
So people who were there both nights preferred this one?
It's a closer call than the Pit will make you think. Ed got lost in the lyrics a bunch times last night, UK just being the most extreme example, and that kinda discombobulated me as I am singing along. Mike and Matt were so great that it hardly matters and if I wasn't a lame section where everyone was sitting and texting, I probably wouldn't have really noticed. There was just something about Ed during BK1 that you really see often anymore. It wasn't anger, more like focused intensity, like that emotion you see on the face of jungle cat before it takes off after a gazelle. Both shows were amazing, but for different reasons, and I can't pick a winner between them. I'd give the edge to the Barclays shows over the Worcester shows though.
he mentioned some fighting during Night one a few times during night 2 (fist fights). I wonder if that really pissed him off.
Eddie did try to get the SA evolution soccer chant thing going a few times. We weren't biting. the band keeps on playing the music for the 'admire me' part and having to loop it as Eddie keeps pleading 'one more try'
bluestate wrote:Front row. A fuckin ridiculous show. This band still wants to be great and that's why I love them.
Yeah, any speculation that this band doesn't care anymore should be put to bed entirely. These guys fucking LOVE what they do.
What an amazing show. So glad I made it in.
Woah, you went? That's great, man.
Yeah, managed to snag a last minute ticket. I wasn't even gonna try but a friend who works at the Barclays Center box office talked me into giving it a shot. So glad I listened.
stip wrote:1. I went tonight with a friend who likes pearl jam but is not a die hard (doesn't own all the albums, etc). He had never seen them. He actually just saw The National (his favorite band) at Barclay's a few weeks ago. He said tonight's show exceeded his high expectations and was probably the best concert he was ever at. It was also interesting watching with someone who doesn't know all the rituals. He thought they were great. And every time the audience sang a bit his face lit up. He also thought even flow was great, and he had commented to me earlier how he had grown tired of the song.
This makes me so glad that I didn't take you up on your ticket offer. When a first-timer can have an experience like this, an angel gets its wings. So glad your friend went with you and had an amazing experience!
And nice write up. You hit almost all of the points I was going to make this morning.
stip wrote:I didn't really hear Dime's issue's with infallbile. At least in terms of quality. Eddie wasn't hitting those super high notes though. He sang all of the choruses in the same key as the first one. I thought people were into it, although maybe that was just me. It was hardly a song-redefining version, but it was still good.
MYM was the weakest of the new songs. I think the speed/intensity of it will be hard for eddie live unless he's really concentrating. The crowd ate up the MIND YOUR MANNERS part. There wasn't interaction on the outro, and the band was setting it up only singing every other lyric 'go to heaven.....how you like your....'
the guitars had some serious bite to them in that song though. It sounded much closer to mike's vingette than the studio
Yeah Infallible was GREAT, I thought. It sounded amazing. Ed nailed it. And the crowd in my section were into that one more than any other new track. Most of the people around me didn't seem to know much of the new album, but people were rocking out to that one. High energy all around me.
However, when they Ed announced Future Days there were multiple groans. "That was Yesterdays, this is Future Days," "Aaaah" "Yuck" "Maaaaaaan...."
It was a little hilarious. But I thought FD sounded great. Ed delivered. But it did kill some of the energy in my section. It was the only time I felt that dip the entire show.
stip wrote:
So people who were there both nights preferred this one?
It's a closer call than the Pit will make you think. Ed got lost in the lyrics a bunch times last night, UK just being the most extreme example, and that kinda discombobulated me as I was singing along. Mike and Matt were so great that it hardly matters and if I wasn't in a lame section where everyone was sitting and texting, I probably wouldn't have really noticed. There was just something about Ed during BK1 that you really don't see often anymore. It wasn't anger, more like focused intensity, like that emotion you see on the face of jungle cat before it takes off after a gazelle. Both shows were amazing, but for different reasons, and I can't pick a winner between them. I'd give the edge to the Barclays shows over the Worcester shows though.
I was at both nights and I would have a very hard time choosing. They might both be top five for me.
i might have to give the edge to night 2, but really hard to say.
I thought Porch was great both nights but even better night 1. RVM was a big standout night 1 also-- just scorching and they sounded so good. STBC was amazing night one. I'm not even a huge Oceans fan but it blew me away. I liked the set list especially encores better night 1, but then I think how can I even say that when I got ATY, In Hiding, Immortality all last night....
So I think the thing to say really is that while each was amazing, the back to back experience of both was almost more like one show than I've felt it before. Really cohesive and complimentary 2 nights.
stip wrote:Eddie did try to get the SA evolution soccer chant thing going a few times. We weren't biting. the band keeps on playing the music for the 'admire me' part and having to loop it as Eddie keeps pleading 'one more try'
That's true that was a little tough. They seemed to be trying to maximize crowd participation for the video or whatever.
Did anybody else notice how slick the Barclays Center screens were? It was clearly being edited and there were many more cuts from one shot to another, many more back and forths on the screen between band and audience. it was really cool actually.
durdencommatyler wrote:Yeah Infallible was GREAT, I thought. It sounded amazing. Ed nailed it. And the crowd in my section were into that one more than any other new track. Most of the people around me didn't seem to know much of the new album, but people were rocking out to that one. High energy all around me.
"Infallible" kind of strikes me as a latter-day, post-mid-period successor to "You Are," which when I saw the band in 2003 definitely perked up the folks in my section who were equally indifferent to the "Riot Act" material. It was probably the light show.
durdencommatyler wrote:Yeah Infallible was GREAT, I thought. It sounded amazing. Ed nailed it. And the crowd in my section were into that one more than any other new track. Most of the people around me didn't seem to know much of the new album, but people were rocking out to that one. High energy all around me.
"Infallible" kind of strikes me as a latter-day, post-mid-period successor to "You Are," which when I saw the band in 2003 definitely perked up the folks in my section who were equally indifferent to the "Riot Act" material. It was probably the light show.
That comparison isn't too far off. I think you're onto something, Davis.
stip wrote:
So people who were there both nights preferred this one?
It's a closer call than the Pit will make you think. Ed got lost in the lyrics a bunch times last night, UK just being the most extreme example, and that kinda discombobulated me as I was singing along. Mike and Matt were so great that it hardly matters and if I wasn't in a lame section where everyone was sitting and texting, I probably wouldn't have really noticed. There was just something about Ed during BK1 that you really don't see often anymore. It wasn't anger, more like focused intensity, like that emotion you see on the face of jungle cat before it takes off after a gazelle. Both shows were amazing, but for different reasons, and I can't pick a winner between them. I'd give the edge to the Barclays shows over the Worcester shows though.
Obviously, I wasn't at night one, so I have no basis for comparison. But I was going to say the same about Ed last night. There was an intensity and focus that I hadn't seen in him for a very long time. It was like the best of old school Ed with the maturity of all that's good about old age Ed. I was really impressed.
For the moment I will say Black sounded as good as I've ever heard. And that this set was so great it made me forget about the disappointment in missing night 1.
The reviews on the pit just make it sound like ed was having trouble with a bunch of things on night 1, guitars not working, ear monitors not working, wine/bottle fuck up etc.
stip wrote:I didn't really hear Dime's issue's with infallbile. At least in terms of quality. Eddie wasn't hitting those super high notes though. He sang all of the choruses in the same key as the first one. I thought people were into it, although maybe that was just me. It was hardly a song-redefining version, but it was still good.
MYM was the weakest of the new songs. I think the speed/intensity of it will be hard for eddie live unless he's really concentrating. The crowd ate up the MIND YOUR MANNERS part. There wasn't interaction on the outro, and the band was setting it up only singing every other lyric 'go to heaven.....how you like your....'
the guitars had some serious bite to them in that song though. It sounded much closer to mike's vingette than the studio
Yeah Infallible was GREAT, I thought. It sounded amazing. Ed nailed it. And the crowd in my section were into that one more than any other new track. Most of the people around me didn't seem to know much of the new album, but people were rocking out to that one. High energy all around me.
However, when they Ed announced Future Days there were multiple groans. "That was Yesterdays, this is Future Days," "Aaaah" "Yuck" "Maaaaaaan...."
It was a little hilarious. But I thought FD sounded great. Ed delivered. But it did kill some of the energy in my section. It was the only time I felt that dip the entire show.
what was your take on All Those Yesterdays? I thought it fell a little flat with the crowd, based on what I was expecting, Future Days hangover, maybe?
stip wrote:I didn't really hear Dime's issue's with infallbile. At least in terms of quality. Eddie wasn't hitting those super high notes though. He sang all of the choruses in the same key as the first one. I thought people were into it, although maybe that was just me. It was hardly a song-redefining version, but it was still good.
MYM was the weakest of the new songs. I think the speed/intensity of it will be hard for eddie live unless he's really concentrating. The crowd ate up the MIND YOUR MANNERS part. There wasn't interaction on the outro, and the band was setting it up only singing every other lyric 'go to heaven.....how you like your....'
the guitars had some serious bite to them in that song though. It sounded much closer to mike's vingette than the studio
Yeah Infallible was GREAT, I thought. It sounded amazing. Ed nailed it. And the crowd in my section were into that one more than any other new track. Most of the people around me didn't seem to know much of the new album, but people were rocking out to that one. High energy all around me.
However, when they Ed announced Future Days there were multiple groans. "That was Yesterdays, this is Future Days," "Aaaah" "Yuck" "Maaaaaaan...."
It was a little hilarious. But I thought FD sounded great. Ed delivered. But it did kill some of the energy in my section. It was the only time I felt that dip the entire show.
what was your take on All Those Yesterdays? I thought it fell a little flat with the crowd, based on what I was expecting, Future Days hangover, maybe?
I think they fucked it up at some point during the bridge/solo. It was a little sloppy but I was still really excited to hear it. The best part of that song was the middle aged man who thought ATY would be the perfect song to start crowd surfing too.
theplatypus wrote:A solo is when the guitar goes twiddly diddly
