The remainder of Vedder’s set included a few Pearl Jam hits and deep cuts (“Not for You,” “Better Man,” “Dirty Frank” and “Porch”), as well as some covers of R.E.M. They may soon be given the crowd’s exuberant reaction to them. Mills,” the rocker “Rose of Jericho,” and two previously released singles: the Petty-tinged song “Long Way” and the haunting “Brother the Cloud,” the lyrics of which seep with the grief of losing a figurative and/or literal brother.ĭespite having yet to hear many of the songs from the album, the crowd embraced them as if they were canon. The 23-song set leaned heavily on his latest solo album, Earthling, and included the Beatles-esque “Mrs. Along with his band of all-star Earthlings - drummer Chad Smith, keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Josh Klinghoffer, bassist Chris Chaney, guitarist/vocalist Glen Hansard, and guitarist Andrew Watt - Vedder had the sold-out, standing room-only crowd rollicking and dancing.

For almost two and a half hours on Wednesday night at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, Eddie Vedder “deep-sixxed” the narrative that he is boring.

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