someone on the Pit said that Ed showed up at the TPATH show last night at White River Amph., did the Waiting and screwed up American Girl.

can anyone here confirm?

Just found this article.


Petty delivers superstar set at White River Amphitheatre

Ernest A. Jasmin; The News Tribune
Published: July 31st, 2006 09:24 AM

A nearly full house of Tom Petty fans expected to see just one superstar when the rock legend and his backing band, the Heartbreakers, stopped by Auburn’s White River Amphitheatre Sunday night. But instead they got three big shots for their money when Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder dropped in to lend a helping hand.

Nicks wasn’t a total surprise to anyone who had kept up with recent shows via the Internet. “Stevie’s been out on tour with us and we won’t let her go home,” Petty said after Nicks made her debut, 10 songs into the nearly two hour set, with “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” a song from her 1981 album “Bella Donna,” on which Petty appears. She stuck around for one more, characteristically twirling her skirt as she delivered her spunky rendition of “I Need to Know.” In true diva style, she would make a couple of outfit changes and be back for “Insider,” “Learning to Fly,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More” and the spectacular finale. But no sooner had Nicks sauntered offstage than Petty tossed another curveball. “I hear a lot of people sing our songs,” he said. “My favorite version of this is when Eddie Vedder sings it.”

Then out walked Vedder, freshly shaven since his band’s Pearl Jam headlining dates the previous weekend at the Gorge Amphitheatre. His well-received contribution was “The Waiting.” And he, too, would return. It was actually a reunion of sorts, since Petty and Pearl Jam had recently shared the stage when their tours intersected in Denver and St. Paul, Minn.

But it’s not as if Petty needed to bring out that sort of heavy firepower to get fans all riled up. He had the crowd all warmed up and in the mood by his lonesome, from the opening notes of “Listen to Her Heart.” And they only got more enthusiastic – dancing and belting out some of the most familiar lyrics in rock at their seats – as Petty & The Heartbreakers strolled through a set of feel-good classics that included “I Won’t Break Down,” “Free Fallin’,” “Learning Fly” and “Runnin’ Down a Dream.”

Petty even took a few minutes to pay homage to a few influences, playing the bluesy rocker “I’m a Man” (credited to the Yardbirds, but actually an amped up version of the Bo Diddley classic.) The band followed with a couple more covers, Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well” and The Traveling Wilbury’s “Handle with Care,” with guitarist and harmonica player Scott Thurston filling in nicely for the late Roy Orbison on the latter.

Petty played only two numbers from his excellent new album: ‘Highway Companion.' The disc’s bluesy leadoff track “Saving Grace” appeared early on, after “Free Fallin,’” and stood up well next to the classics.

“Square One” was the other new song, which appeared during the semi-acoustic, ballad portion of the program. “This is one of my favorite songs I’ve written in a while,” Petty said, by way of introduction.

The encore -- which began with “You Wreck Me” and Van Morrison’s “Mystic Eyes” -- came to one of the most spectacular finale’s this critic has seen.

“Are you ready, people? Are you ready people?” Petty sang, like a preacher leading a revival. “I just wanna hear the loudest noise you can make, people.” Fans complied, screaming their lungs raw as the band shifted into “American Girl,” with Vedder and Nicks back onstage. Petty let Vedder sing a few early lines before Pearl Jam’s singer backed away, with a grin and a humble “we’re not worthy” wave of his hand, before the man of the hour took over.

Fans weren’t so shy, as they shouted back one of the most familiar and infectious choruses in rock history: “Oh yeah, all right/ Take it easy baby/ Make it last all night/ She was an American girl.” And with the final notes, Vedder punched clear through the tambourine he’d been banging, a huge smile on his face as one of the most satisfying shows of the season eased to a close.

Trey Anastasio opened the whole affair, heading a four-piece band that was also occasionally joined by a pair of backup singers. Songs like “Sweet Dreams Melinda” and “Dragonfly” grew from simple pop numbers into funky jams that kept clusters of their faithful up and dancing.

Eddie is freshly shaven

haha i REALLY want to see this

Sounds like a great show!

You can check out some pix of the young man Vedder here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomfest2002/show/

Tom looks like an old woman.

thanks a lot for posting the pics!

Eddie looks a whole lot younger without his beard

thanks a lot for posting the pics!

Eddie looks a whole lot younger without the beard

sorry about the double post, it didnt post the 1st time so i pressed it again aaaand it ended up posting twice

Thanks for the pics.

Ed looks much better with the beard.

Wrong.

I would love to have seen that.

Agreed!
Ed and Stevie Nicks on the same stage!!! I would have paid good money to see this...

taken by a petty fan:

Thanks for the pics. As for the discussion about the beard or no beard, I say I prefer the beard. Nothing wrong with the clean shaven look either though.

I am glad he shaved his beard off in time for Europe, heheh
Thanks for the news and the pix!

groetjes,
Mirella

Stevie Nicks looked like she could have used Eddie's razor.

Only PJ fans would spend an entire thread about the lead singer of their favorite band singning with Tom Petty talking about a beard.

some of us are spoiled and already saw ed do this in st. paul so the novelty of it all is worn off

i won't comment on the beard/no beard though.