Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:40 pm Posts: 1224 Location: Toledo, Ohio Gender: Male
Its the C-Average Guys...it was a planned setup
06/13/99 - Alpine Valley Music Theatre: East Troy, WI (Ed with C Average at Tibetan Freedom Concert)
attendance: 31,000
set: Last Kiss (EV solo), Better Man (no tag), Watch Outside (Mono Men), Driven to Tears (Police), Running Out of Time (Dead Moon), Diamonds In The Rough (Dead Moon), Love -> Building on Fire (Talking Heads), I Am A Patriot
notes: Ed takes the stage solo (with noticeably longer blonde hair), commenting "... this place holds fond memories." He starts clapping, getting the audience to put-on, saying "Well, I don't know if this is going to work..." pointing to the empty drum and bass positions, and pretends to ask random people in the crowd to join him on stage, prompting his bandmates C Average to come up from the audience to join him. They then go into 'Better Man,' which the band had not ever rehearsed! After 'Driven to Tears,' he jokes about how they'd been rehearsing, that they'd been putting us on, and hoped it was okay. The two Dead Moon cover songs are performed from handwritten lyric sheets. (Ed received permission from Dead Moon to play these songs in advance.) 'Patriot' is totally different--a very cool punk version with Ed having a blast and doing a lot of windmills. On the setlist but not performed: Naked Eye, Ship Song (Nick Cave), World Where You Live (Crowded House), Corduroy. However, the setlist was not necessarily a firm document - Ed called out the songs one at a time as the spirit (or whatever) moved him.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:37 pm Posts: 15767 Location: Vail, CO Gender: Male
i was there! hilarious, my buddy just took off! Thinking ed was being serious. he plays thedrums so as oon as he heard he needed a drummer, he just b lined it to the stage. hilarious.
great shows, i loved the shows they opened for the who in 99. Although i lost the boots, so if anyone has them! they were also webcasted...
Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
I wish there were some decent c-average boots out there.
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Joined: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:47 am Posts: 27904 Location: Philadelphia Gender: Male
stip wrote:
I wish there were some decent c-average boots out there.
Do you mean the band itself or with Ed? If you meant the latter, there is a good bootleg of them from both nights of opening for the Who at the House of Blues in '99. I have a copy.
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Those 2 guys are probably still masturbating about this today
