Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:Ok I just watched this Watt guy shred on Porch and I’m less concerned about him producing a PJ album.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZqZOu8J2k ... =copy_link

He played the Alive solo back in September. Eyes closed, wouldn’t have known the difference honestly.

McCready is still my favorite guitar player, though.

Lady night’s Newark set:

Society w/Glenn
Room at the Top
Here Comes the Sun
Timeless Melody
I’ll be Waiting
Invincible
The Dark
Fallout Today
Brother the Cloud
Tender Mercies
Wishlist
Long Way
The Haves
Mrs Mills
Try
(drum solo)
Rose of Jericho
Precious
Hard Sun
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Patriot (fast)
Dirty Frank
Isn’t it a Pity
Porch

weird set

warehouse wrote:elton john and stevie wonder are on the new album, it would be wild to hear them cover one of them.

Spoiler: show

Some great quality footage from last night:

that band has some really great energy.

Every time I see Andrew Watt in these videos I think of the lead singer for 311

Im loving these setlists and performances. Dirty Frank!! Ed is a master of surprises...who the fuck would have thought to see Dirty Frank at a solo Eddie Vedder show. Anything can happen.

Porch didn’t sound right, really poor.

I agree about Chad being too loud in the mix, but the band does sound good.

Dave Abbruzzese has partial writing credit on the music for Dirty Frank. How furious is he right now that Ed is playing it?

Is this the first time Ed has covered a Pearl Jam song that he didn't have full writing credits on?

B wrote:Dave Abbruzzese has partial writing credit on the music for Dirty Frank. How furious is he right now that Ed is playing it?

Is this the first time Ed has covered a Pearl Jam song that he didn't have full writing credits on?

Oh im sure he'll post and bitch about it on facebook on one of his daily public therapy sessions

Ed had some kind talk about Watt before Fallout, and even said that the solo in this song is one of the best he heard recently. Then remembered that PJ fans are in the building and added "is right there with Mike McCready".. he is so confused to not turn his excitement with this band a bad thing with jealous PJ fans haha

B wrote:Dave Abbruzzese has partial writing credit on the music for Dirty Frank. How furious is he right now that Ed is playing it?

Is this the first time Ed has covered a Pearl Jam song that he didn't have full writing credits on?

He already has covered Black on his solo concerts.

Think Watt’s playing sounds so thin. No warmth to it.

Anders wrote:Porch didn’t sound right, really poor.

After watching most of these videos, I feel like this band is best viewed through the lens of a bunch of friends that fell into jamming together for whatever reason, ended up having a great time, writing some songs, etc. (not dissimilar to TOTD), and are now taking a vacation with it. These guys clearly enjoy playing together and have a great energy, and when you watch it it's infectious. There's not the same "business as usual" vibe you sometimes get from PJ or true EV solo shows.

But musically, at least in regards to the non-Earthling material, it's pretty bereft -- more bog-standard classic rock covers, karaoke versions of PJ songs where Klinghoffer and Watt are just copying Mike and Stone's solos ("Wishlist," though karaoke is probably the wrong term since EV seems to change most of the second verse to be about New Jersey and Bruce Springsteen), scrappy crowd-pleasers that now feature four guitars when they barely had any functional use for three ("NFY," "Porch"), etc. It's fun hearing Chad add some different flavors to some old warhorses, but the idea that these guys are coaxing something new and fresh out of these songs is completely foreign to me, and that's not meant to be cynical -- I just think it sounds like what it probably is, i.e. EV throwing PJ fans a bone after peppering them with an hour of unfamiliar material.

There is a lot of charm to the whole thing, though; most of the music so far has been pretty unmoving to me but I can't watch these videos and bring myself to begrudge them the good time they're having. Eddie's hand gestures while Watt is soloing during "Porch" from about 2:50-3:10 is a delight -- he starts off doing these tentative air guitar motions, and then moves into this thing that looks like a cross between the Wayne's World "we're not worthy" bow and an attempt to cool off Watt's hands. It's like he knows he's supposed to go over to that side of the stage and act awestruck when his bleached-blonde lead guitarist starts shredding, but he's trying to figure out the gesture that's "just right" for this exact guy. Good stuff.

VinylGuy wrote:Im loving these setlists and performances. Dirty Frank!! Ed is a master of surprises...who the fuck would have thought to see Dirty Frank at a solo Eddie Vedder show. Anything can happen.

Against the 70's, please.

BDB wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Im loving these setlists and performances. Dirty Frank!! Ed is a master of surprises...who the fuck would have thought to see Dirty Frank at a solo Eddie Vedder show. Anything can happen.

Against the 70's, please.

fuuuck yeah

Get Mike Watt to guest and let Ed say something stupid bout : ¨not only we got Andrew tonight but also Mike!¨