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Chicago Theater: Eddie Vedder

Last night I went to the Chicago Theater to see Eddie Vedder on his solo tour. The show was good but not nearly as good as the last time around. I could complain about the beer being split on me, the crazy old lady in my row or the grown men who feel the need to scream in a primal way at a man playing a ukelele but I won’t. Overall it was solid and it’s always nice to be in the Chicago Theater. I wonder if when people from other generations go to see their acts in theaters are there still people screaming? For example Neil Young played at the same venue earlier in the year, were there guys screaming at him during his show? I just wonder at what age this ends? Does the experience ever change?

Side Notes:

* This was my third time in the Chicago Theater, the first time was for a tour and the other was to see Conan O’Brien.

Eddie Vedder at the Auditorium Theatre

Last night I went with Nick, Dom & Kelly to the Eddie Vedder show at Auditorium Theatre. Nick and I had seats in Row B of the second balconly which basically means in the rafters with a bar directly in front of you at eye level. After watching most of the opener we headed back down stairs for a drink and then decided to try and stand at the back of the second balconly instead of going back to our seats in row B. We managed to find a couple of random chairs and hung out there with a much better veiw 20 rows behind where are seats were. Of course everyone kept asking where we got the chairs and we could only respond that we brought them from home.

The show was great. I was aware of the douche bag crowds showed up during this tour but I think we probably had one of the better ones. To kick off the show Eddie started explaining to the crowd how Milwakee was full of assholes and he says something along these lines:

There’s a band called Pearl Jam, I’ve been writing their set lists for about 17 years. Don’t yell any requests because you guys are fucking amateurs.

Then he went on about how he doesn’t even know the shit he’s going to play tonight. Which led to covering Hurt by Nine Inch Nails.

Nick and I ended up heading down to the front of the theater for the final encore, hence the good photographs.

*The rest of my photographs are on Flickr.

Lollapalooza 2007 – Day 1.

Before heading down to Lollapalooza Julie and I caught the Mets – Cubs game at Wrigley Field where Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam sang ‘Take me out to the ballpark’. The Mets won 6-2 which means I’m 2 for 3 in Midwest Mets Games.

On to Lollapalooza:

We made it down to the show in time to see The Black Keys and Ben Harper which is all I really wanted to see the first day. I managed to work my way up to the stage, so we had a great spot for both shows. The Black Keys were awesome but as you will see there were camera guys everywhere.

There are only 2 guys in the Black Keys… yet there were 4 camera guys.

Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals were classic. The only part of the show that was bad was when Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam came out and the douchebag camera man decided to sit directly in front of him and right on the stage so no one could see him play. It was just the worst thing I’ve ever seen.