Eddie Vedder decides to take a break from Pearl Jam to do a solo tour in support of his album soundtrack for the film “Into the Wild” (the album is one of the best Soundtracks of a film I ever heard) by playing his first show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. The audience at the Wiltern venue was jam packed with mostly Pearl Jam fans of course. Eddie Vedder mostly played stuff from the “Into the Wild” soundtrack in it ‘s entirety, he also played several cover songs and of course, you guess it, he played some Pearl Jam songs acoustically as well.

Eddie also had special guest duets on stage, Liam Finn dueted with Eddie in the song “Society” from “Into the Wild” and Ben Harper played slide guitar and sang with Vedder on a few songs too.

Throughout Eddie’s entire acoustic set, the audience screamed and begged him to perform “Yellow Ledbetter” seems like that’s the only song the audience wanted to hear, nothing else. Eddie played at the Wintern for 2 hours and 2 nights in a row.

Entertainment Weekly reports:

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/04/eddie-vedder-so.html

If I was at that concert, I would have been there to appreciate the music, rather than being obsessed of forcing Eddie to play “Yellow Ledbetter”. Sounds like a great show Eddie played, I would have loved to been there. I would have loved to see him play those songs from “Into the Wild” live. That would have been an amazing experience.

If you were a true Pearl Jam fan, you would respect Eddie as a solo artist. Sounds to me the Pearl Jam fans don’t respect Eddie as a solo artist, they just wanted him to play Pearl Jam songs throughout the entire thing.

I would suggest Eddie to not allow Pearl Jam fans at his acoustic shows and just have regular music fans if he wants to be respected as a solo artist.

The audience was just a bunch of wannabe Pearl Jam fans. Sad.

Kev