June 26, 2011 – Detroit, MI – Eddie Vedder, Glen Hansard

Venue: Fox Theatre

This was the first time I saw a show at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. It’s an amazingly beautiful theater.

I was in Detroit with my girlfriend at the time and we made a weekend of it and saw Matt & Kim two days before we saw Eddie.

The Fox Theatre has an incredibly small lobby and Eddie had a hug merch booth in the middle of it that was hard to get around.

I got fan club tickets, but they were about 10 rows from the back of the floor, underneath a good bit of the balcony. The crowd was noisy and there was a lot of whooping and hollering in the back of the crowd that was really annoying during the quiet songs. A drunk dude behind me started yelling for rock songs at one point and was screaming ‘Even Flow’, while Eddie had his ukulele out.

The performance was great. He played a couple of the rare songs that i loved from a recording of his at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in California a few years earlier. My favorite Eddie Vedder solo song is ‘You’re True’ and he played it at this show.

Glen Hansard and Eddie played ‘Falling Slowly’ and ‘Hard Sun’ with Eddie, and ended the show beautifully.