https://www.cluas.com/indie-music RSS feeds for CLUAS Irish Indie Music 60 https://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Home/ID/557/Eddie-Vedder-live-in-San-Diego#Comments 0 https://www.cluas.com/indie-music/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=36&ModuleID=728&ArticleID=557 https://www.cluas.com:443/indie-music/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=557&PortalID=0&TabID=36 https://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Home/ID/557/Eddie-Vedder-live-in-San-Diego Eddie Veder, Copely Symphony Hall, San Diego (July 5, 2011) Review Snapshot: Eddie Vedder is touring solo across North America with a brave and beautiful show, crossing musical generations and styles, challenging his audience and himself.   The Cluas Verdict: 10 out of 10   Full Review: Eddie Vedder has got soul and guts. He's touring solo again, this time playing stuff from his new 'Ukulele Songs' album, as well as stripped down versions of Pearl Jam gems, songs from his 'Into The Wild' album, and some amazingly great covers. Eddie can make a lot of noise with just a guitar or ukulele and that beautiful booming baritone voice. He jumps across decades to croon a 20s ukulele love song, on to a 60s Beatles heartbreaker, 80s Springsteen & X covers, and the whole breadth of Pearl Jam's time.   As with Pearl Jam shows, he has great faith in his audience, and we have complete faith in him, and that feels good.   Eddie started with a set of beautiful ukulele songs, strumming and picking, then moved on to electric and acoustic guitar versions of Pearl Jam songs, including a radically re-worked Betterman – many in the crowd didn't know what he was playing till the "Can't find a betterman" line- and a communal ode to Lennon/McCartney (and Vedder) ideals, in Love Boat Captain: Love boat captain Take the reins,.. steer us towards the clear. I know it's already been sung,... can't be said enough. Love is all you need,.. all you need is love,.. Love,.. love,... Love. He followed with a set of Into The Wild songs, then closed the 19 song main set with a string quartet backing him up on a couple recent Pearl Jam ballads. Then on to the first (10 song) encore. He just kept going, and the energy and invention never wavered.   A few highlights... On the spur of the moment, Eddie changes the plan and he and Glen Hansard, who opened the show, leave the circle of mics and chairs and instruments, he brings a ukulele, and they step out onto the edge of the stage. They stand like two buskers harmonizing & strumming, with no technology involved, crooning the 1950s country love song Sleepless Nights. The couple of thousand listeners went dead silent, sensing that something real special was happening. That was grand. Eddie turning You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - not exactly a pleasant sentiment -  into a sing-along, much like Betterman (similarly bleak) has become an anthem sing-along. Weird, but he lets the audience make that call. Eddie singing ass-kickin' versions of the L.A. legends X/Dave Alvin's song 4th of July and of Springsteen's Nebraska stomper Open All Night, which was bravely and raucously sung much like Springsteen did on his own solo tour in 2005. Eddie covered moods from vulnerable and tender to angry & near violent, crossing musical generations and styles. It was a sight to behold.   Alas, he does very few of these shows. But you can get a taste by getting hold of the new DVD Water On The Road, a film of Eddie's last (2008) solo tour.  You won't be disappointed.   John Ford   Set List - Eddie Vedder, Copely Symphony Hall, San Diego (July 5, 2011)   01. Can't Keep 02. Sleeping By Myself 03. Without You 04. Broken Heart 05. Hey Fahkah 06. You're True 07. Longing To Belong 08. Deadman 09. I Am Mine 10. Off He Goes 11. Love Boat Captain 12. Betterman 13. Long Nights w/Glen Hansard 14. Far Behind 15. No Ceiling 16. Guaranteed 17. Rise (incomplete) 18. Just Breathe w/string quartet 19. The End w/string quartet   Encore 1 20. Unthought Known 21. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 22. 4th Of July 23. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town 24. Sleepless Nights w/Glen Hansard 25. Society w/Glen Hansard 26. Falling Slowly w/string quartet 27. Wishlist 28. Open All Night 29. Porch   Encore 2 30. Hard Sun w/Glen Hansard   John Ford Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:04:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:557 https://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Home/ID/194/Bruce-Springsteen-live-in-Los-Angeles#Comments 0 https://www.cluas.com/indie-music/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=36&ModuleID=728&ArticleID=194 https://www.cluas.com:443/indie-music/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=194&PortalID=0&TabID=36 https://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Home/ID/194/Bruce-Springsteen-live-in-Los-Angeles Bruce Springsteen (live in Los Angeles) Review Snapshot: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street are on a roll and have gotten more intense and passionate as their tour has progressed. They continue to examine our bleak recent past, but are heralding some light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel hope for the future. Dublin is in for a rock and roll revival beyond compare. The Cluas Verdict? 9.5 out of 10 Full Review: This is a follow up to a review of Springsteen’s show in October 2007. I was lucky enough to see the E Street band again, on their second go-round through the LA area. The show has changed a bit and is worthy of an update, as it is headed your way. Springsteen has (mostly) kept the key sequences in the show, i.e. the "5 pack" that ends the main set (Devil's Arcade/The Rising/Last To Die/Long Walk Home/Badlands), but has hugely mixed up the rest of the set, adding songs of joy and songs of anger with a renewed vigor. It has been suggested that he is "on fire" these days because Ms. Scialfa is at home keeping their teenagers from burning down the house. Springsteen is definitely more loose and provocative on this leg of the tour, but also even more passionate (if that’s possible). At my show, after a scathing performance of Murder Incorporated he screamed into the mic, "We’re out for blood!" He is adding "tour premier" songs just about every night. Part of the change is that we in the U.S. are closer to the November election, and our long national nightmare will be ending soon (though with much devastation to repair). Springsteen speaks of the trauma of the last seven years but also talks more now about hope for the future. He has thrown in his lot with Senator Obama. "He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and complex problems, a country that's interested in its collective destiny and in the potential of its gathered spirit." Springsteen and the E Street Band are on fire, out for blood, and are inspired by the "Great American reclamation project" ahead that will heal wounds at home and abroad. Bruce is our truest ambassador. John Ford More ... John Ford Thu, 22 May 2008 01:28:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:194 https://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Home/ID/206/Bruce-Springsteen-live-in-Los-Angeles#Comments 0 https://www.cluas.com/indie-music/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=36&ModuleID=728&ArticleID=206 https://www.cluas.com:443/indie-music/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=206&PortalID=0&TabID=36 https://www.cluas.com/indie-music/Home/ID/206/Bruce-Springsteen-live-in-Los-Angeles Bruce Springsteen & the E Street band (Sports Arena, Los Angeles) Review Snapshot: Springsteen and the E Street band are full of rage and despair and hope and faith. Their tour is a call to meeting for people who aren't ready to give up yet. The Cluas Verdict? 9 out of 10 (10 being reserved for the 4 hour Springsteen shows of yesteryear) Full Review: The night after Ronald Reagan was elected, in 1980, Bruce Springsteen opened his show with an especially roaring, impassioned performance of Badlands. He saw it coming: the rape and pillage that would be the Reagan years. Springsteen's still at it, though with a new group of pillagers to confront. His defense against the Reactionary tide in America has long been to shout about where we are going wrong, but also to present an alternative view of what "America" means. It's not support of Salvadoran death squads and Nicaraguan contras, nor Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and torture. His "America" is more about hope and decency and girls in their summer clothes (or barefoot, sitting on the hood of a Dodge, drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain). In his current shows Springsteen is still on his mission for the soul of America. This show has a beautiful emotional arc from frustration to longing for a better life to despair and anger to resistance to celebration of what is good in us. The show is built around two sequences that remain, night to night. Early in the show comes Lonesome Day/Gypsy Biker/Magic/Reason To Believe. Springsteen ends this bleak run with an un-cynical ray of hope. Reason To Believe is transformed into a harmonica swamp blues that would make Sonny Boy Williamson proud. The second big statement is the sequence that closes the main set: Devil's Arcade/The Rising/Last To Die/Long Walk Home/Badlands. Springsteen says, "That thing has to come down like the world's falling on you, that first chord [Last to Die]. It's got to screech at the end of 'The Rising', and then it's got to crack, rumble. The whole night is going to turn on that segue. That's what we're up there for right now, that 30 seconds." He ends the main set with the challenge of Badlands, again standing up and taking on what's ahead and asking us to join him. The show is also filled with songs that compliment his themes of commitment to community (Ties That Bind, Promised Land, No Surrender, Two Hearts) and the decency of "real" people (Working On The Highway, Racing In The Streets, Night). The show ends with American Land, the Irish-styled romp about the dream of the promised land. Complete with two accordions, Clarence Clemons on the penny whistle, and sing-along lyrics up on the screens, B.S. & band send us off inspired about what is at stake and, hopefully, motivated to bring back the real "America". I don't know how this show will come across outside the U.S., but it sure reminds us here that we are better than our "leaders" have made us out to be. John Ford Springsteen's set list, Los Angeles Sports Arena Radio Nowhere The Ties That Bind Lonesome Day Gypsy Biker Magic Reason To Believe Night She's The One Livin' In The Future The Promised Land Town Called Heartbreak Tunnel Of Love Working On The Highway Devil's Arcade The Rising Last To Die Long Walk Home Badlands Girls In Their Summer Clothes Kitty's Back Born To Run Dancing In The Dark American Land More ... John Ford Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:15:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:206