Eddie Vedder - Lyric Opera House - Baltimore, MD

Uncle Eddie is in town again! Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh! I feel like a little kid and he is going to play us our favorite songs on a stool and tell us a few jokes and stories. Always a great time when Uncle Ed comes over. Eating, drinking, and merrying! The wifebot and I met the brobot in Baltimore at the Lyric Opera House. Nice venue, simple, semi-modern exterior, old, great sounding interior.

Liam Finn opened again for the solo tour and if you havent seen him yet, go, he is good. We didnt see him this time since we have seen many times before and wanted to explore Baltimore's sights and sounds (and beer, food, and parking lots).

So we go there right when Eddie was going on and there was a good vibe in the house. Turns out right cux Uncle Eddie kicked ass with amazing energy and emotion. The sound was really good at the venue, in my tiny opinion. Ed mumbled some jokes and quips and rolled out great song after great song along with some surprises like Santa Cruz, Golden State, and Gone.

Similar setlists from last solo tour but with some new surprises. Sucks for you if you dont experience this, setlist is below, salivate :

Set list : Walking the Cow, (Brain Damage intro) Sometimes, Don't Be Shy, I Am Mine, I'm Open, Man of the Hour, Gone, Far Behind, No Ceiling, Guaranteed, Rise, Broken Hearted, Soon Forget, Atlantic City, Driftin', You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Small Town, Porch!!!!!

1st Encore: Society (with Jerry Hannan), Golden State (with Eliza), New Song, Arc (stopped), I am a Patriot!!!!!

2nd Encore: Santa Cruz (with Liam Finn), Hard Sun (with Liam Finn and EJ)

Dave Matthews Band - IZOD Center - April 15th, 2009

Yes Indeed! DMB came to NJ after playing MSG the night before to kick off their Spring 2009 Tour. Didnt get MSG tix so settled for IZOD Center tix(easier to get). Hopped on the train to lovely NJ and then on to the Meadowlands. They are building the new Giants Stadium, which looks plain and boring, but didnt the inside yet, and the even more hideous looking and named, Xanadu Shopping Complex. Not sure the details on that beside its ugly and has an indoor ski slope. Just what we needed. Wah Wah.

Anyhow, DMB and company played to a lively IZOD Center crowd, playing a nice varied setlist and sounded pretty good. My seats werent good for the sound but I crept up semi close towards the end and the sounds was much better. A few new songs before the album came out, which is out now and is pretty good. Concert was good, not mind blowing but good. I look forward to seeing Dave and Co. soon. Setlist below :

Bartender *
Satellite *
Granny Stay Or Leave *
Funny The Way It Is *
Burning Down The House *
You Might Die Trying *
Spaceman *
When The World Ends *
Crush *
Recently *
Corn Bread *
Why I Am *
Dancing Nancies *
Grey Street *
Two Step *
__________________
The Maker *
All Along The Watchtower *

Chris Cornell - Webster Hall - April 8th 2009

Standing here with X's in my eyes drawing flies....Yeah you know what i am talking about. Get your Doc Martins and flannel on, we're headin to a Cornell show. Haha, actually Doc Martins dont fit me since I am a robot......remember.......ConcertRobot......jeez, anyway, I was little freaked out when I heard the new album, all that kinda hip hoppy crappy beats kinda stuff. But when you go to a CC show, you get everything, and always the good, classic stuff.

Although the new songs live were pretty darn good. Nice eclectin setlist ranging from Soundgarden, Audioslave, Solo Stuff, Temple stuff, new stuff, old stuff, uppers, downers, and all-arounders. So the brobot and I hit up another Webster Show and was a good crowd, energetic, and not too many d-bags. Great Setlist, check below for details.

Part Of MeTime

No Such Thing

You Know My Name

Outshined

Spoonman (Good Times, Bad Times)

Show Me How To Live

Exploder

Be Yourself

Hunger Strike

Ground Zero

Never Far Away

What You Are

Rusty Cage

Sunshower

Fell On Black Days (acoustic)

Can't Change Me (acoustic)

Black Hole Sun (acoustic)

Like A Stone (acoustic)

band jam/Cochise

Watch Out

Scream

Blow Up The Outside World

Jesus Christ Pose---

Enemy

Moth

Reach Down (Say Hello To Heaven) - complete with Yogi haircut

Toad The Wet Sprocket - Webster hall - Feb. 26 2009

Ahhh, hello der!

The guys from Toad stopped by NYC in Feb. to jam out some old favorites at Webster Hall. Another great Toad show as always.

Sampling a little from each album and sounding good and cracking jokes etc. Good overall show with a good vibe. Just an easy night out with them, here is the complete setlist from the show. They called up a girl from the audience to sing the talking/background part on Butterflies and she nailed it.

PS

Something's Always
Whatever I Fear

Woodburning
Crowing

Good Intentions

Butterflies*

Windmills

Way Away

Know Me

Nanci

Nightingale Song

Come Back Down

Don't Fade

All I Want

Little Man Big Man

Inside

Fall Down

Come Down

Crazy Life

Walk On The Ocean

Revitalize

So I took a hiatus for a bit, concentrating on my hoola hooping skills so hasnt been any posts or updates lately. But, have no fear, God-fearing friends, the concert robot got its batteries recharged and hit up some shows semi-recently and has some new ones on the horizon. Will post them once I remember what they are. Stay lite!

Evan Dando - South Paw Dec 19, 2008

The Great Big Yes!
Loved to see fellow Drug Buddy Evan Dando in town again, this time by his lonesome. Just him and his acoustic guitar(and whatever else he ingested) at the South Paw in Brooklyn on a cold, snowy December pre-holiday night. Felt like a weird night, just with the weather, the holidays, less people and cars on the street, late, etc etc. So anyway, made way to the place via subway as usual and was nice and simple to get to, Couple of cold blocks to walk from el tren. The wifebot and I arrived at the spot around 11pm and the opener, Leona Naess, was just about finishing her set. She played an awesome Cure cover song and sounded really good and crisp. I would recommend checking her out, although she sounds a bit like a lot of other recent female singers we have heard on radio, commercials etc, but really nice voice nonetheless.

So on to our boy Evan. He came out wearing a hard hat and his acoustic guitar around midnight and started a nice marathon of classics, covers, rarities and nothing from the new album, which is awesome so kinda sucked. Great show though, no talking as usual from him, just whizzin through the set but somehow making it all work, all the while appearing a bit intoxicated on some hard stuff but its hard to tell with him, to each his own, he plays good music and is no frills, what you see is what you get and for 17$, cant beat it. The highlight of the set has to be the cover of Christina Aguilerea's "Beautiful". Yep, that song. Sick, he totally Dandoized it and its perfect. Supposedly he and or the lemonheads are putting out a new cover album and that should be on it. It better be on it, I wish I could get a bootleg of last nights show. ARGGHHHH, this is the effin intergoddamnweb and i cant download a show the night after but I can get the weather in crappy Afwannastan in 2 secs. Here is kinda a setlist below, from what i remember, so much more than this though :

Shaky Ground
Frying Pan
Ride With Me
Skulls
Down about it
Hospital
It's About Time
Beautiful
Being around
Outdoor type
Favorite T
The Turnpike Down
Different Drum
Tenderfoot
Rudderless
Buddy
Big Gay Heart
Homos (Frogs cover)

etc

etc

wish i would write it down...

Smashing Pumpkins United Palace Theatre Nov. 7, 2008

Oh Billy.
Here we go again. You have decided to grace us with your presence once again. This time round it was uptown baby, at the United Palace Theatre. Yep, that same cool theatre where EdVed played a few months earlier. Anyhow, this time it was the mighty SP's turn. This was the 2nd night of a 2 night set. Fortunately, I missed the first night, and I say fortunately because it was pretty much the same setlist as the August warmup tour, Douche Bag is back! But this was the 2nd night and he promised to mix it up and he did. The concert took off with a bangin Ava Adore. He then proceeded to lay down amazing track after amazing track, up until about after Gossamer, where the noise starts. Such a great setlist otherwise and another decent night with Billy. I say decent because the energy gets drained from most of the crowd when he goes on his tirades, with his mouth and guitar. Setlist below :

Matthew Sweet @ Webster Hall - Oct. 28, 2008

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!
Yep. Matthew Sweet. Still around, cranking out good tunes! This time around he played on a cold Tuesday Fall night at Webster Hall. The Bridges, Matthew's project i think(produced?), which consists of siblings and a cousin, opened before Matthew and Co. took the stage sometime after 9. He ripped into stuff from his newest album "Sunshine Lies" and opened with "Time Machine" and ran into others like "Room To Rock", "Byrdgirl","Feel Fear","Flying" and "Sunshine Lies"(w/ The Bridges). He proceeded then to play a great setlist of hits that sounded great and crisp. The guitarist rippin all of Matthews' solos is sick! Definite good show, good price, good venue, all good baby! Other songs he played : Girlfriend, Divine Intervention, The Ugly Truth, Someone to Pull the Trigger, We're the same, and so many other great songs!

Art + Action = Obama 08 - The Showroom NYC - Oct. 17, 2008

Unless you have been living in a cave in Aff-Wan-A-Stan then you probably know about Obamania.(I can think of someone living in a cave who is aware of his popularity, he who shall remain nameless). So, the Obama Art train rolled into my backyard last week in the form of a show which consisted of custom designed Obama action figures by various artist at The Showroom NYC at Toy Tokyo.

The figures were for sale and proceeds went to the Obama campaign. The prices were reasonable and those that didnt sell will be auctioned off. There was quite a few people there and the line to get in was long but moved quickly. They had free beer and wine as well as a DJ, which was a nice touch. The obama figure below is my favorite, the White House was made of paper!

Smashing Pumpkins at The Charlottesville Pavilion - Aug. 16th 2008 - Charlottesville, VA

The Mighty SP! If ya know what i mean! They'rrrrereeee backkkkkkk!

This is another concert from a few months back that I would like to share with you. The WifeBot and I took a road trip to VA to catch Billy, Jimmy, and Co. I see a trend here as last year we took another road trip to see SP in Philadelphia at the Tower Theatre. Awesome. Now, back to the task at hand. The SP announced a summer warm up Tour for their upcoming 20th anniversary tour in November. They didnt plan any tri-state area gigs on the summer tour, so I checked out the closest spot they would be playing and that happened to be Charlottesville, VA. Lucky me as it turns out that Charlotesville, VA is a really nice place to visit and see a show, especially in the Summer. We also visited Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water in PA on the way. WOW! Cool place to visit if you ever get a chance, its more near Pittsburgh than anything else so plan accordingly. Anyhowm after Falling water we stayed in Winchseter, VA for the night before proceeding to C-ville as the locals say.

So we left Winchester and headed south through the Shenandoah National Park and that was another cool trip. Dont drive the whole thing as its long and slow. You are basically driving a road that is built mostly at the top of mountains and ridges. Awesome views, serene, historic etc. Check it out.

So then we finally made it to C-ville and headed to Monticello to check out Mr. Thomas Jefferson's crib. I must say that he was quite a forward thinker and is another must visit when in the C-Ville. Also in C-Ville is the amazing

University of Virginia. Another one of Mr. Jefferson's brilliant ideas. Gotta love that guy. So eventually we got to the show and it I was expecting a somewhat anticlimactic end to the trip with the SP show as they decided to play the same exact setlist every night of the warm up tour. Leave it to Corgy to pull that shit out of his hat! Nothing unexpected I guess. But, the show was very well played and sounded extremely crisp since they have been doing it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. I think you got the point.

In the middle of the pedestrian mall near the venue is a freedom of speech wall where anyone can write anything on a huge piece of double sided slate. I felt I had to leave my 2 cents. Notice my initials at the bottom, DB is my nickname from the members of an SP forum. You see, since I let my feelings be known about not changing the setlist on the warmup tour, I was immediately labeled a douche bag. Lol, love it. Anyhow, here is the setlist and am looking forward to giving you the update from the Nov. 7th 2008 Show at the United Palace Theatre :

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Eddie Vedder at The United Palace Theatre

Eddie Vedder East Coast Solor Tour with Liam Finn. at The United Palace Theatre in NYC, August 5th 2008. Wow. Fresh off of 2 nights at MSG with Pearl Jam a few months earlier, EdVed embarked on an east coast solo tour and played uptown around 179th and Broadway at an old vaudeville theatre which was cool and ornate on the inside. It had a Buddhist-themed Broadway theatre feel, but old and authentic. Really cool. Liam Finn opened, this is where I first discovered his music and have seen him twice since. So Liam ran through his usual set, albeit abbreviated. Then the 'man of the hour' took the stage after a bunch of 'scientists' in lab coats set up the stage for Ed's 'experiment' as he would put it. They setup the stage with various items to make it look like a living room of sorts. Nice twist. Although most of the tour had similar setlists, he tended to change it up every night with a few goodies that werent played the night before.


The treat of the night for me was 'Picture In A Frame', for some others, it was 'Here's To The State...' Lets hope some of these shows get an official bootleg release as they were some of the best acoustic, solo performances ever by EdVed. Hopefully we all get a chance to see Ed and Company next year as well as another solo Tour. Setlist below
Set list: Walking the Cow, Trouble, Sometimes, I Am Mine, Dead Man, Man of the Hour, Setting Forth, Guaranteed, No Ceiling, Far Behind, Rise, Millworker, Picture in a Frame, Goodbye, Broken Hearted, Driftin', Hide Your Love Away, Girl from North Country, Thumbing My Way, Porch
Encore 1: Wishlist, Here's to the State of Mississippi, Society (w/Liam Finn), No More, Arc
Encore 2: Hard Sun (w/Liam Finn)

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Liam Finn at The Bell House - Brooklyn, NY 10/11/08

Liam Finn and The Veils played the newly opened (Sept. 08) The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY on Saturday October 11, 2008. I happened to stumble across this tour date when checking out Liam's site. It appears this wasnt part of the official North America tour, where he played The Bowery Ballroom a few months earlier(another great Liam show, maybe will post about that one) which was part of the tour. So a nice little treat from the KrazyKiwi, AND it was only 10$, and the Bell House was a cool little spot. Not far from the the F and a 2 other lines(look it up yourself, I took the F, So F U). Near a bunch of warehouses in Gowanus, a few blocks off of the main drag(4th Ave.). The Bell House has a nice layout, laid-back vibe, nice bar in front, and then through a few doors in the back is the stage with another bar adjacent to the stage. The place has high ceilings, lots of room, good views of the stage from anywhere. Great beers, only $5 a pop. They also have DUB Pies for sale, I didnt try but heard they are good. Liam came on, cracked a few witty jokes as usual, played around with all his toys, and did work! Of course it wouldnt be complete without the voice of EJ Barnes. Liam's partner in crime, who provides amazing vocals and effects along with the rest of the band who occasionally assist on stage with rhythm guitar and drums(Liamm's brother). I dont have the setlist and once I find it, I will post it here. But he pretty much covered the Album sans a few tracks and did an AMAZING improv with EJ where they whaled and screamed and strummed etc and mixed it all up and sounded so sickkkkkk!!! Get out there and see your boy Liam if/when he comes back next year ya hear!

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