Article: Vedder's simplicity confounds, but pleases

Music Review

Eddie Vedder

With Liam Finn

At: Opera House, last night

For what was ultimately a simple, uncluttered performance, there were certainly a fair amount of seemingly frivolous trappings during Eddie Vedder's performance last night at the Opera House. (He plays a second show tonight.) There were venue-appropriate fake Playbills (mostly covering Vedder-adjacent topics like "Into The Wild" and pet political issues), a tech crew incongruously dressed in lab coats and a series of backdrops that placed the Pearl Jam singer in such exotic locales as a tenement alleyway.

In the midst of this elaborate randomness, Vedder sat on a stool surrounded by the tools of his trade and delivered ...

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