{"id":268,"date":"2019-07-21T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T14:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/?p=268"},"modified":"2024-10-18T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:48:38","slug":"eddie-vedder-in-berlin-experienced-from-a-bad-ten-club-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Vedder in Berlin \u2013 experienced from a bad Ten Club seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Danish fan Sofie went to see her second ever Eddie Vedder concert in Berlin \u2013 which was amazing, of course! Though she travelled to Germany alone, she ended up hanging out with many (new) Pearl Jam friends \u2013 and went on a little treasure hunt around town to try to meet Eddie.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> After a night of meeting and drinking with other Pearl Jam fans, I met my Norwegian friend Cecilie in front of Hotel de Rome in the morning of the day of the concert. We waited for Eddie to come out for 4,5 hours in the burning sun, but nothing happened. A couple of friends showed up and kept us company for a while and we also talked to two German guys who also waited for Eddie. At noon, I got a tip that Eddie was at The Ramones Museum, and Cecilie and I got a cab \u2013 but when we got there, Eddie had already left the building. Cecilie and I hung out and got something to drink in the tiny, but awesome caf\u00e9\/museum and the two German guys showed up too and joined us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Sofie-Cecilie-Tuxen-Berlin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><figcaption>Sofie Thybo Pedersen with PJ Nordic admin Cecilie Bolgen and Lulu &amp; Henrik Tuxen waiting for Eddie Vedder in Berlin. Photo by Cecilie Bolgen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Afterwards they kindly gave us a ride while telling us about that time they met Paul McCartney. We got to Max-Schmeling-Halle, where we were in line for the merch for 1,5 hours while sweating like pigs in the sun. Later one of our new German friends told us that someone told him, that Eddie HAD been at Hotel de Rome a couple of hours after we left and met some fans there. Bummer! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After getting our merch, Cecilie and I hung out in the grass in a nearby park with some other friends from the Pearl Jam Nordic community. We compared our Ten Club tickets, and one of the guys had got first row! As a relatively new fan with little money, I was the only non-Ten Club member, but I was going to have my first Ten Club experience that night and was very excited to find out, where I was seated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But like many others that evening, I was disappointed. My seat was not on the ground floor, but on the left side on the middle tribune. But it would still be the closest I had ever been to Eddie. This time I could at least see and recognize peoples\u2019 faces on stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Support act Glen Hansard suddenly went on stage for what felt like a short warm-up concert, though he played seven songs. People talked a lot during the concert, but paid attention and cheered when he almost destroyed his fingers on his guitar during <em>When Your Mind\u2019s Made Up<\/em>. Later he sang <em>Grace Beneath The Pines<\/em>, which he dedicated to activist Greta Thunberg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glen Hansard - Grace Beneath The Pines - 28.06.2019 - Berlin\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N7ravrhgw6c?start=7&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He stood up on a gearbox, played no instruments, and he barely used his microphone, so it was a quiet performance, but still an impressive and powerful song. The audience started hushing on each other, which could be heard everywhere in the venue during the song. Glen also dedicated a song to immigrant workers, which I remember he did in Berlin two years prior too.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Glen\u2019s concert, white dressed roadies came on stage among an old school tape recorder and a mannequin with bowling pins on her head. Shortly after, the Red Limo String Quartet got on stage and played the first verse of <em>Even Flow<\/em> as an introduction. Eddie came out, showed off his dimples and waved with his notes in his hands. Suddenly I felt really good. The disappointing 4,5 hours outside Eddie\u2019s hotel, my itchy sunburns and the annoying talking around me didn\u2019t bother anymore and I relaxed, loved my life and knew I  would have an awesome night because of that one guy on the stage. Not many people \u2013 even musicians \u2013 can make you feel like that just by walking into a big room that is already pretty full. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EV-Berlin3.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Vedder - Berlin - 28th June 2019\" width=\"358\" height=\"480\"\/><figcaption> <em>Eddie Vedder &#8211; Berlin &#8211;  June 28, 2019<\/em> <br>Photo by Ralf K\u00f6hnen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By tradition, Eddie spoke the local language, which I understood some of, though I am not a good German speaker myself. He told us, that despite being in Berlin last Summer, he still missed the city and the inhabitants. It was his 32nd time in the country, and still he was a bad German speaker. Those statements were rays of Liebe he shot at us, and we shot them right back at him by cheering as loud as we could, though a lot of us were not even from Berlin or Germany. Eddie also said that the world is a bad place these days, and the Earth gets hotter and hotter, but at least for the next couple of hours we were going to have a good time together. Everyone agreed with him and the concert began.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EV-Berlin8.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Vedder - Berlin - 28th June 2019\nPhoto by Ralf K\u00f6hnen\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><figcaption><em>Eddie Vedder &#8211; Berlin &#8211;  June 28, 2019<\/em><br><em>Photo by Ralf K\u00f6hnen<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His 28-song set primarily consisted of Pearl Jam songs. The rest were covers and only two solo songs, if you don\u2019t count <em>Society <\/em>as written by Eddie. The first song he played was his own <em>Far Behind<\/em> and the audience almost stomped the rhythm, like they had been waiting for too long, which is of course always the case with Pearl Jam related experiences.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EV-Berlin1.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Vedder - Berlin - 28th June 2019\nPhoto by Ralf K\u00f6hnen\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\"\/><figcaption><em>Eddie Vedder &#8211; Berlin &#8211;  June 28, 2019<\/em> <br><em>Photo by Ralf K\u00f6hnen<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Red Limo String Quartet and Glen Hansard joined Eddie sometimes during the concert, which created new and mostly interesting versions of the songs. The audience was also a participant, which was especially heard and seen during Pearl Jam smash hits like <em>Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town<\/em>, <em>Black <\/em>and <em>Alive<\/em>, which was played only by Red Limo String Quartet after a break and without Eddie \u2013 but we sang along pretty fine without him.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eddie used the concert to pay tribute to a couple of people. Among them was Camilla from Red Limo String Quartet, who he said was a badass and really shouldn\u2019t be there considering she was eight months pregnant. He played the Tom Petty song <em>Wildflowers <\/em>and showed pictures of Tom and himself on the big screen behind him. Later he told us about R.E.M.\u2019s final record, the impact it made, and he played the dark <em>It Happened Today<\/em>. He told us in an emotional tone, that he had to be away from his family, but we made it worth it. He continued by telling about his oldest daughter Olivia and how difficult it was to find a fitting name for her 15 years ago. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot easier naming an album,\u201d he told us. \u201c\u201dIt\u2019s just a fucking avocado!\u201d\u201d. He told us that Olivia is named after the olive tree and what it symbolizes, but also after Olivia Harrison, who was in attendance that evening. After that he showed us a picture of his daughter and played Beatles\u2019 <em>Here Comes The Sun<\/em> and later again Georges Harrison\u2019s <em>Isn\u2019t It A Pity?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EV-Berlin2.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Vedder - Berlin - 28th June 2019\nPhoto by Ralf K\u00f6hnen\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><figcaption> <em>Eddie Vedder &#8211; Berlin &#8211;  June 28, 2019<\/em> <br><em>Photo by Ralf K\u00f6hnen<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> The acoustic arrangement called for more quiet songs like the super cute and almost lullabyish <em>Sleepless Nights<\/em>, where Eddie came down and greeted most of the audience on first row. But he also did more rocky songs, which in most cases worked surprisingly well like <em>Corduroy<\/em>, <em>Lukin<\/em>, <em>Porch <\/em>and of course <em>Rockin\u2019 In the Free World<\/em> as the final song. As an opposite <em>Society <\/em>was made more loud and punky than normal with help from Glen by his side, and it worked really well. One of the last songs Eddie played was the punk classic <em>Should I Stay Or Should I Go<\/em> by The Clash. I know he loves The Clash, but that song was the limit to how rock you can go when playing an (ukulele) acoustic concert. To me that was the low point of an otherwise wonderful Eddie Vedder concert.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EV-Berlin6.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Vedder - Berlin - 28th June 2019\nPhoto by Ralf K\u00f6hnen\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"\/><figcaption> <em>Eddie Vedder &#8211; Berlin &#8211;  June 28, 2019<\/em> <br><em>Photo by Ralf K\u00f6hnen<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The concert ended with <em>Hard Sun<\/em> and <em>Rockin\u2019 In The Free World<\/em>, where Eddie\u2019s whole team joined him on stage dressed in white coats. Everyone in Max-Schmeling-Halle was on their feet with their arms up and sang  along. We were sent off with a good portion of optimism and happiness, and I couldn\u2019t believe that 2 hours and 23 minutes had already passed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EV-Berlin-setlist.jpg\" alt=\"Eddie Vedder - Berlin - June 28, 2019 Setlist\" class=\"wp-image-293\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EV-Berlin-setlist.jpg 720w, http:\/\/pearljamnordic.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EV-Berlin-setlist-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption>Eddie Vedder setlist &#8211; Berlin &#8211; June 28, 2019. Smile and Last Kiss were not played at the show.<br>Photo source unknown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterwards I hung out near the tour buses behind a fence and waited for Eddie until I had to leave to get my Flixbus home to Denmark. Once again, I missed Eddie, because he later threw kisses and smiles at his fans from a hole in the roof of his car while leaving. Double bummer! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I will have other chances. This wasn\u2019t my last Eddie or Pearl Jam concert. Obviously.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Danish fan Sofie went to see her second ever Eddie Vedder concert in Berlin \u2013 which was amazing, of course! 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