2008 ITW US Tour leg 2 Compilation

As soon as the 2008 Pearl Jam US tour had been accomplished, Eddie Vedder continued with the second part of his own tour. This time he focused on the East Coast, visiting New York, Boston, Chicago, Toronto and other famous cities. Ed was joined by Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes for back vocals. Set-lists for this tour featured more interesting covers, a lot of Neil Young's songs and some re-arranged Pearl Jam items, such as lullaby version of Better Man. This compilation is more of a romantic selection. Check also rare Ed's song All The Way, which he wrote in 2007 for Chicago Cubs, his favorite baseball team.

1. (Small Town intro)
2. I Can't Explain
3. I'm One
4. (Walk Hard)
5. Society  -with Liam Finn
6. Blackbird
7. Better Man  -lullaby acoustic
8. Long May You Run
9. Old Man  -with L.Finn and E.J.Barnes
10. Hurt
11. Ship Song
12. Helpless  -with E.J.Barnes
13. Here's To The State Of... George W.
14. Improv(East Coast)
15. Small Town
16. All The Way
17. All Along The Watchtower

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2008 ITW US Tour Leg 1 Compilation

In the year of 2008 Eddie Vedder embarked on his first ever solo tour supporting his album Into The Wild. The first leg of the tour started in April and was focused around the West coast of the USA. It was called "April Fools Tour" and this compilation is all around funny moments, such as an interactive Let My Love Open The Door performance, Dirty Frank riffs on mandolin, or a joky song for Sean Penn, an author of Into The Wild film and Ed's friend. Also Eddie played lots of new covers never heard at Pearl Jam concerts, and some rarities like a snippet of his old Bad Radio song "Believe You Me".

1. Walking The Cow
2. Her Majesty
3. Growin' Up
4. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out
5. Rise
6. (Dirty Frank)   -on mandolin
7. I Used To Work In Chicago
8. Sean Penn (Bad Acting Hack)
9. Improv (Barry White)   -mellow pop improv
10. Improv (God Is In Control / Limit Yourself)
11. Let My Love Open The Door
12. Don't Be Shy
13. I Am Mine
14. Millworker
15. Santa Cruz
16. (Believe You Me) No More
17. Arc
18. Yellow Ledbetter   -with Mike McCready

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2008 US Tour Compilation

In 2008 Pearl Jam completed small US tour, focusing on the East coast. It included 13 official dates and one secret show (only audience bootlegs available) in New York. After powerful 2006 World tour Eddie was on his way down and opening dates for 2008 were disrupted by his vocal problems. As usual, Ed improved show by show and near the end of the tour, from Madison Square Garden night 2 his was good. Not perfect, but good. Fans elected Hartford to be the best show of the tour. But in my opinion, Hartford was great only in terms of it's set-list and Mike's solos, but Ed's voice was not there. I think the best shows were Madison Square Garden night 2 and both Boston performances. And also audience singing was loudest there.
Highlights for this tour are the debut of the old song All Night (it had two slightly different versions), hugely reworked Who You Are, reworked W.M.A., return of classic version of Garden. Also Love Reign O'er Me and No More were played almost at every show. Another special thing for this tour is the sound quality of official bootlegs. It was really big improvement over last boots - wider dynamic range with powerful bass (most powerful so far - 2009 was not so powerful) and better treble.
Disappointment for this tour was Boom Gaspar's piano "playing". He plays piano on almost every song where he doesn't play organ and for some strange reason it was recorded at very high sound level. I was shocked, when piano on Down was even louder than Mike's brilliant solo guitar. And the worst thing is that Boom is not a piano player at all - he should attend children's music school first. I really think Boom completely destroyed Release, Down, Black and some other great guitar songs. The only good thing is that he was reduced from Madison Square Garden and this is another reason why the last shows are the best.
This compilation is like a full Pearl Jam show with three peaks and two sections to slow down. Look for very touching set of slow songs: Footsteps-Off He Goes-Immortality (with fine Mike's improv. solos), rare tags and very loud audience on Indifference.

1. Sometimes
2. All Night
3. Wishlist (improv tag: Give love to this world)
4. Daughter (War)
5. Even Flow
6. W.M.A.
7. Garden
8. Who You Are (2008 version)
9. Nothingman
10. Porch
11. Guaranteed
12. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
13. Present Tense
14. Footsteps
15. Off He Goes
16. Immortality
17. Better Man (Save It For Later)
18. Rearviewmirror
19. No More
20. Black Diamond
21. Black (We Belong Together)
22. Indifference
23. Rockin' In The Free World

Updated to ver. 1.01 on 2010-09-04: Removed Love Reign O'er Me, because much better version added to 2009 Australasian tour compilation.

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2008 Covers Live

Some good covers from 2008 US Tour. Black Diamond is a song by Kiss and was performed only two times so far (recorded once in official quality). I actually don't know who is the author of It Rains On Me, but this rarity also was performed as a song only one time (and once as a snippet in 2003). Love Reign O'er Me is taken from VH1 Honors The Who show later that year. No Boom Gaspar on keys and it's great, because I don't think he is any kind of good piano player (there was another guy).

1. It Rains On Me
2. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles cover)
3. Black Diamond (Kiss cover)
4. Love, Reign O'er Me (The Who cover)
5. The Real Me (The Who cover)
6. All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover)

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