Can...not...wait!

So I stopped by the Schnitzer on my way home from work, hoping to pick up my 10c tix. No dice, not handing them out til 4:30. However, the front door of the theater was standing wide open, so I walked in to the empty lobby. House doors were open, I peek my head in, and what do you know? There sits Ed on stage, mandolin in hand, soundchecking 'Rise'. Amazing to get to hear that in the empty theater. Just me, Ed and the sound guy. Great preview for tonight!

had a similar experiences in Chicago..got to watch him soundcheck from sidestage 2 days in a row..it was magic


One of Glen's best friends, Josh Ritter is in Portland today too, I know some of you are fans..interesting to see if they get him up for a song..

also, I just bumped in to Corin Tucker at Whole Foods. This day is getting weird...

01. Walking The Cow
02. Can't Keep
03. Sleeping By Myself
04. Without You
05. Goodbye
06. Blue, Red And Grey
07. I Am Mine
08. Thumbing My Way
09. Just Breathe
10. Far Behind
11. Long Nights w/Glen on Bass
12. Setting Forth
13. Guaranteed
14. Rise
15. Immortality
16. Unthought Known
17. The End
18. Arc

Encore Break 1
19. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out (Ed on Banjo)
20. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
21. Elderly Woman
22. The Golden State w/ Corin Tucker
23. Tonight You Belong To Me w/Janet Weiss
24. Sleepless Nights w/Glen (No Mics)
25. Society w/Glen
26. Falling Slowly w/ Glen
27. Porch

Encore Break 2
28. Hard Sun w/ Corin Tucker, Janet Weiss & Glen
29. Dream A Little Dream

That's a good looking setlist.

Thoughts:

4 Riot Act tunes!

really nailed The End, erasing memories of him struggling so hard with it in 2009

crowd fairly calm, he only mentioned yellers once

Blue Red Grey and Sing Out were nice surprises, the banjo was great

talked about weed smoking, said he quit for 10 years after heavy adolescent use
"I won't tell you which 10"

story about a birthday party of his with Chris Cornell, and them trying to write something on ukulele that sounded "evil" and failing

Sleepless Nights. Wow. obviously

talked about his looking forward to this show cause he knew he'd get to sing with Corin
while not a huge surprise, Golden State was a major highlight

Tonight You Belong..."never done it cause I didn't have anyone to do it with before tonight"

Hard Sun with Corin, finally
she didn't close enough to the mic (sharing it with janet), but it still sounded great like the studio version

What a great day I just had

also, Rise was dedicated to Gerry Lopez, "one of the greatest surfers in the world", who was in the crowd.

Fantastic show. Loved that he closed the first set with letting Arc just keep playing. B, R, G was a highlight, as were the PJ songs. Immortality! Felt like he really did little "sets": a set of uke tunes, a set of Into the Wild, a set of PJ, and a set of duets. Crowd was the best I've been a part of - very little jerks yelling. Only downer were the no-picture-taking stormtroopers who were constantly up and down the aisle (I was sitting on the aisle, so very distracting). Great to hear ITW again - felt like '08! Ed's playing continues to improve. Very storytelly in the beginning, then got down to business. Felt to me like it took a little while to gain traction, then really took off. Glad everyone stood for the second encore on. Sorry to see it end. Only songs I really wanted to hear that I didn't: Light Today and LBC (still can't believe he's done LBC solo... soooo want to hear that) And Glen was pretty impressive beforehand. What a great evening.

Questions I had:

Watched as a parent drug their 4 year old daughter out after Ed's prolonged story about that guy who got his junk chopped off and diced in the disposal... why bring a 4 year old to a concert?
Watched the 1 year old standing in the aisle with headphones on... who brings a 1 year old to a concert? (Are these parents crazy... or awesome? Can't decide)
Go Speed Racer poster... for Portland?
Why didn't I buy one of those license plate shirts when I had the chance?

So this is the show I skipped. Great setlist, I must say.

Each one of these setlists angers me more.

If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out... grrr...


one of my fav Cat Stevens... ummm Yusuf

anyone dig the Movie Harold and Maude? lol

while I'm not the biggest Unthought Known fan, have to say the
Immortality > UK > The End > Arc run to end the main set was pretty perfect

but then the encore blew that shit away!

I don't even know you, and I wish you had been there.

Has Tuolumne been the entrance music for this whole tour? It was last night.

I think it was Waving Palms when I went.

Heartbreaking. I held out with friends until about 1 am, hanging by the busses to wait to chat with Eddie. I headed home, only to later find out that Ed came out of the building about 5 minutes after I bailed.

Fuck.

Hope some cool cat out there was able to record it. I'll begin biding my time until it surfaces...