Friend sent this to me from a PJ board he read..."Played a secret show in seatle last night. Here is what I got.. Hi -Just got back from the show and saw your message. No April Fool's trick. This is just a warm up for his solo tour. I am truly blessed to have been at this show. Small community center in West Seattle - just down the street from from Ed's place. I had bought the last of 50 tix sold at Easy Street (WS) and there were about 120+ people there. The other ES has some for sale and there were promo/label tickets also. It was billed as a 'Into The Wild Event' "wink, wink" - - 5 bucks! My friend who tipped me was already there in line with a few people. He secured a front row (folding chair) seats for a small group of us and they were serving beer. We were 5 feet away. After a while Ed came on stage for a one hour plus solo set. Opened with 'Walking The Cow' (love it) played accousic, electric, mandolin, electric uke and even banjo. 'Trouble' from Harold & Maude (Cat Stevens) and the closing song from that movie (the latter on banjo), Millworker (James Taylor), Around The Bend, I am Mine, Dead Man, No More, I Won't Back Down, songs from Into The Wild and closed with Bob Dylan's Forever Young. Killlllller poster for ('both') shows. Matt, the owner of Easy Street, even asked me if it made up for not being able to let me in when PJ played Easy Street (not even he could let me in / tight) and it of course did. No pix allowed and I doubt there will be a boot. I am somewhat friends with John, one of the sound guys (worked at Silver Platters) - he recorded it as they do all their shows. Ed is so cool! - He was wearing a Police T-shirt under his flannel, said he doesn't share his political views on stage (ha!) and said he was sorry for misleading us into thinking this was going to be a viewing of Into The Wild but not as bad as someone should feel about being misleading others into the Iraq war. (They did it to keep the show 'secret')"My buddy expects another kind of "secret" show in Seattle on April Fool's day (seriously). He's usually spot on.As for me, not buying any tickets out east, although MSG and Mass were tempting...hoping for some more stuff on the west side.
Did all of the EV dates go on sale at one time?Let's hope the staggered times cuts some of the traffic. And, hopefully, the number of ####### seeing if they can get tickets even if they aren't planning on going will be low 
Did all of the EV dates go on sale at one time?Let's hope the staggered times cuts some of the traffic. And, hopefully, the number of ####### seeing if they can get tickets even if they aren't planning on going will be low 
Did all of the EV dates go on sale at one time?Let's hope the staggered times cuts some of the traffic. And, hopefully, the number of ####### seeing if they can get tickets even if they aren't planning on going will be low 
Glad I am not planning on attending any of the first dates on sale. I am sure the Pit will give a readout as to how things went.Blocked out my work calendar for the on sale times of interest. No time to be multitasking.
