Pearl Jam returned to the stage on Friday at the I-Days Festival in Milan after Eddie Vedder lost his voice and was instructed by doctor’s to postpone a show.
Vedder bravely powered through Friday’s show, but fans on the Ten Club board noticed that his voice was still in pain, and most commended him for going on with the show.
The Rock posted:
I think he needed more rest time 🙁
Sunshinejar posted:
Me too, voice sounds painful still
Peasant Tents posted:
Same to my ears .. Sounds so painful. Poor Ed. Hope he is ok.
RS65573 posted:
I also think the outdoor huge venue with bad sound is doing them no favors.
Spiritual_Chaos posted:
Might be hard at a festival.
But they “should” really re-think the setlists for the nearest shows coming up and experiment with the others doing some songs – be it covers, there own solo material and/or singing songs they wrote that Eddie sings normally. Doubt fans would care (when it means Eddie don’t need to cancel more shows), and the general concert goer wouldn’t know what a Pearl Jam show should look like anyways.
But who knows. Maybe he’s safe to sing.
View the setlist via Sea and John on the Ten Club boards below the videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpsWNt7cXfc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyh-AmFjOCw
Pearl Jam
I-Days Festival
L’Area Exo
Milan, It
June 22, 2018
Set List
Band Onstage: 09:19
Band Offstage: 11:15
Walk On Music: Metamorphosis #2-Phillip Glass
(Speaking in Italian Ed talks about first playing Milan in 1992 and it was also the first time they had played Italy.)
01. Release (sings the first verse in Italian)
02. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
03. Do the Evolution
04. Given To Fly
05. Wishlist
(Addresses audience in Italian.)
06. Even Flow
07. Corduroy
08. Immortality
09. Eruption-(Van Halen)
10. You Are
11. Daughter / Another Brick In The Wall-Waters (40 second tag)
12. Mankind (Stone lead vocals)
13. I Got Id (Ed stops the song during the break down because he sees an ambulance driving by at the back of the crowd. He asks a couple of times if everything is alright. He gets a response that allows him to continue. After the song he checks with PJ security to confirm.)
(Ed thanks the Stereophonics. He also wants to talk to the audience but warns them that his Italian is not good. Essentially he is talking about the anniversary of meeting his wife Jill here in Milan. Jill is brought on stage and they drink some champagne. Jill is wearing a jacket that has the message “Yes We Care Y Don’t U? A reference to the jacket Melania wore when she left for Texas to check on immigrant children who had been separated from their families. A policy implemented by her husband.)
14. Porch (Ed reflects light off his pick guard into the audience. He also goes to the barricade and pours wine for people.)
15. Black (Ed talks about how they sometimes get letters or talk to people who talk about how much their music has meant to them in their life. Ed says Italy has been very important in their life and he thanks the audience and the country.)
16. Alive (While Mike is soloing behind his head he goes down the stairs to the barricade and runs around. Ed dances with his youngest daughter.)
17. Rockin’ In The Free World-(Young) (Ed climbs a bit of scaffolding, getting about 10 feet off the ground. He climbs down to end the song.)
18. Yellow Ledbetter (with improved intro)
