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Man, who isn’t playing around here in April? The list already includes two nights of Bruce Springsteen at Honda Center, Bon Jovi with Daughtry, Mary J. Blige and Jay-Z, Kanye West with Rihanna and N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco, plus Bamboozle Left with My Chemical Romance and Paramore and A Taste of Chaos with Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu. And then there’s Coachella.
Now you can add another heavy hitter to that list: Eddie Vedder.
The Pearl Jam frontman, still racking up accolades for his Into the Wild soundtrack (despite an absurd Oscar snubbing), will play April 12-13 at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, with an April 10 stop at Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre also on the itinerary and an April 15 show at San Diego’s Spreckels Theatre set to end the brief solo tour of the West Coast. Tickets are roughly $68 at all stops - 50 cents more at the Wiltern, a quarter less in S.D. Liam Finn will open all dates.
Tickets go on sale in a week - 10 a.m. on Feb. 22. Members of the band’s Ten Club, however, get first crack, starting Feb. 18, albeit with a two-ticket limit. Also, five prime-seat ticket packages per show will be aucitoned off online, along with an autographed limited-edtion tour posted. (The Santa Barbara auction also includes two hotel rooms.) Those auctions begin Feb. 22, with proceeds benefitting the legal defense efforts for the West Memphis Three - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Miskelley, who have been imprisoned for 12 years for murders evidence strongly suggests they did not commit.
Meanwhile, Ringo Starr has announced plans for a 10th outing with his All-Starr Band, which this time won’t be much different than the last few times. On deck: Men at Work’s main man Colin Hay, master of “The Stroke” Billy Squier, ”Frankenstein” rocker Edgar Winter, ”Dream Weaver” Gary Wright, Average White Band-er Hamish Stuart and drummer Gregg Bissonette.
The tour will end Aug. 2 at the Greek Theatre, but really, how lame is that lineup? Ringo has a decent new album out, largely co-produced by Dave Stewart, with whom he’s been making appearances evern since Liverpool 8 came out - including presenting at the Grammys and commandeering a recent episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (pictured). Why not just have the two of them head out with a crack band and leave the has-beens at home? I’ve complained before that Ringo needs to just do his own show already, but now more than ever it makes sense. Shame it won’t be happening.
