2013-07-16: Budweiser Gardens: London, Ontario

[Hatfield]

So, no Binaural and no Riot Act.

At least they got Sad!

[Strat]

Does Ed always use that Strat? I didn't think he was much of a Strat guy.

Solo shows - all the time. I haven't really seen him use it with PJ though!

[Birds in Hell]

I have, but not very often.

[Strat]

So, no Binaural and no Riot Act.

... and it makes me want to cryyyyy ay ay aya ya yaya!!

[Strat]

Curious as to what the Corduroy bridge was like

01. Present Tense
02. Nothing Man
03. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
04. London Calling-(Jones, Strummer)/Corduroy
(band plays verse music while Ed sings “London Calling” a few times rather than actual lyrics. Corduroy bridge is rearranged slightly)

05. Mind Your Manners (new song from “Lightning Bolt”)
06. Got Some
07. Given To Fly
08. Sad
09. Alone
10. Even Flow (instead of “never vote republican” Ed says something about Chelios)

(Ed reminisces about touring Canada with Mudhoney and how great it was.. When driving into London for this show he remembered everything about the city. He jokes that while looking up facts about the city he saw a wi-fi network called “Dundas Hookers On Crack” which he thought “London is keeping their sense of humor until he went walking around the hotel and thought there might be something to it. He goes on to say that while Stone was out for a run around the city a guy began smashing a phone against a phone booth while he went past. “This next song is for all the Dundas hookers on crack”.)

11. I Got Shit
12. In Hiding
13. Lukin
14. Not For You/Modern Girl-(Sleater Kinney)
15. Black
16. Porch (light globes come down from the lighting truss and Ed swings on one a bit.)

Encore Break: Ed introduces the band. “We don’t have to work tomorrow so I will have to check but I think we can stay as late as we want to tonight here in the lovely ‘Budweiser Gardens’. Shit beer but a good building.”

17. Last Exit
18. Last Kiss-(Cochran) (played to audience behind the stage. Matt plays a cocktail kit facing the back and the rest of the band joins him there.)

(For this part of the show the guys sit down closer together. The band has a new stage set up and lighting rig. During the first encore a giant “chaos bird” that appears to be made of scrap metal with lights strung throughout it descends from the truss to hang just above the band. There are orange lamps all over the stage and larger globes that descend and rise into the lighting truss. )

19. Parachutes
20. Man Of The Hour
21. Just Breathe
22. Daughter
23. Unthought Known
24. Do The Evolution

Encore Break 2
(Ed re-introduces Jeff and Stone who have switched instruments. He thanks the audience for remaining friends in the seven years since the band has played here)

25. Smile

Ed talks about his hockey playing friends here tonight Tie Dome and hall of famer Chris Chelios. He also dedicates the next song to the “guy in the yellow shirt from Denmark for coming all the way out here and requesting a good song”

26. Brain Of J
27. Better Man
28. Alive
29. Rockin’ In The Free World-(Young)
30. Indifference

[Birds in Hell]

Corduroy (inc. new bridge arrangement):



With this and Daughter, I'm really pleased to see them mixing things up with the old standards.

[BurtReynolds]

Live MYM yet?

[broken iris]

Long story review:

Traded my extra with a guy from the pit how was flying in from Sweden. We met up earlier to exchange the ticket and he showed me a cell phone shot of him and Eddie that had been taken by Chris Chelios earlier today. He said Eddie asked what opener he wanted. The gentleman said "Oceans" or "Brain of J" as those are his missing songs from the first 5 records. That's why I assumed we would get Oceans.

Show:

My twitter fucked up so all the vids never mid it up there. Oh well.

Great set. Happiest I have seen Vedder. Alone was a great surprise. Corduroy is changed up in the middle and has a longer outtro. A nice change for a standard, much better than that "uh oh-oh-oh-oh" crowd chant they inserted into DTE last year. The new stage feature a bird that was crafted out of scrap metal that moved and lit up for various songs. That were also glowing orbs the descended for porch:



Just Breathe sucked as usual. almost killed the momentum in the show. Daughter was half acoustic with just Ed and Stone and half full band. Never seen them do it this way before. Ed dubbed it "Twins". Crowd ate up UK. It doesn't deserve the hate that it gets. Smile was great, by this time Chelios was right by us on the floor. Then Ed goes into a story about knowing people in the area and how some he knows have traveled far and calls out to guy I traded my extra too, and plays his request for BoJ, as I boosted the dude who is like 6'8" up on the chairs. Eddie mistaken says he's from denmark, but shit, that just had the concert experience of his life I think he will let it slide. After that it went into standard PJ, with Eddie flubbing Indifference big time.

One thing I gotta mention is that there was a gentleman in a wheel chair up in front us and Mike came by and gave the guy the shirt off his back. Literally. McCready may be one of the nicest dudes in rock.

[broken iris]

[WtOB?]

Live MYM yet?

Here's a vine snippet:
https://t.co/UJup1lSwxC

[Birds in Hell]

Man, that Corduroy outro sounds great. Stone appears to be doing a similar chiming pattern to the one he did way back on the early dates of the 2000 Euro tour under Mike's (inspired) wailing. Good, good stuff.

[Kevin Davis]

That's a dynamite setlist. "Man of the Hour" and "Parachutes" are two songs I can't ever imagine being disappointed to hear.

[Norah]

That's a dynamite setlist. "Man of the Hour" and "Parachutes" are two songs I can't ever imagine being disappointed to hear.

Seriously. And unlike other great sets in recent years, it didn't completely turn to shit in the encore.

[WtOB?]

Man, that Corduroy outro sounds great. Stone appears to be doing a similar chiming pattern to the one he did way back on the early dates of the 2000 Euro tour under Mike's (inspired) wailing. Good, good stuff.

I still wish they'd slow it down to about half that speed though.

[Jorge]

"Corduroy" is one of those few PJ songs that I think works better in a faster tempo, especially with the three guitars. Too slow and it turns to molasses.

[VinylGuy]

i love that new bridge for Corduroy...great arrangement. Nice to see them doing that to a live staple again.

I wanna see daughter now..

[Kevin Davis]

"Sad" is another one that I think sounds really great with a few more bpms.

[broken iris]

Tiny bit of Alive:

[YouTube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N6mNuycdGk[/YouTube]

[WtOB?]

"Corduroy" is one of those few PJ songs that I think works better in a faster tempo, especially with the three guitars. Too slow and it turns to molasses.

"Sad" is another one that I think sounds really great with a few more bpms.

You both make me sick.

[Strat]

That Corduroy bridge is nice and definitely lifted from the acoustic Bridge school arrangement in 96 - But Ed will have to figure something else out vocally to fill that space...or at least additionally to what he did tonight.