Mike Watt, Eddie Vedder, Foo Fighters - 1995-05-06 - Chicago, IL (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Source:

VHS(m) SBD > ANA > DAT > Cool Edit > CDR(2) > EACb4 > FLAC

Digital Editing: Unknown

Encoding/Retracking: nmc

Mike Watt - bass, vocals

Dave Grohl - drums, guitar on three songs, backup vocals

Eddie Vedder - guitar left, backup vocals, lead vocals on 'Habit'

Pat Smear - guitar right, backup vocals, lead vocals on 'Secret Garden'

William Goldsmith - drums

01 Walking the Cow

02 Big Train

03 Formal Introduction

04 Against the 70's

05 Drove up from Pedro

06 Habit

07 Makin' the Freeway

08 Chinese Firedrill

09 Piss-Bottle Man

10 Forever - One Reporter's Opinion

11 E-Ticket Ride

12 Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing

13 Coincidence is Either Hit or Miss

14 The Red and the Black

Encores:

15 Secret Garden

16 Powerful Hankerin'

TRT: 60:33

Audio Notes:

This recording comes from a pro-shot video master of the show, in which an audio copy was traded to a friend of a camera man on tape, cleaned up with Cool Edit, and put to CD. There is a slight skip before track 8 begins (present on original copy), and a few audio shifts periodically throughout the show that are only noticeable if you have headphones on.

Show Notes:

This was one of the shows on Mike Watt's 'Ringspiel' tour in April-May of 1995, supported by the then newly-formed Foo Fighters (of which Grohl, Smear, and Goldsmith were in) and Hovercraft (which featured Vedder on drums and his then-wife Beth Liebling). By the end of the tour, Eddie had stopped playing with the Watt crew because his presence became a distraction with fans only showing up to see him. It's almost impossible to tell who is playing what instrument, it's just a great rock show.

Notable on these shows is the premier of the song 'Habit,' which was yet to be premiered by Pearl Jam. It was eventually played a handful of times the rest of the 1995 PJ tour, but it is not known if it was written before or during the 'Ringspeil' tour.