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2,500 turn out for celebrity concert seeking justice for the WM3
Saturday night was a big one in Little Rock’s Robinson Auditorium, when Eddie Vedder, Natalie Maines, Johnny Depp, Patti Smith and other artists put on a high-energy, near-perfect show to raise awareness about the injustice being suffered by the West Memphis Three. Here’s a good account of it from AOL.com.
I’m told that Live Nation may eventually make the whole concert available on pay-per-view, and that Sirius radio will broadcast it on some yet-to-be-announced date.
Meantime, thanks to members of the audience who captured good audio of many of the songs with their cell phones, here’s a sense of how the concert unfolded.
Eddie Vedder:
Rise
It Rains On Me (Tom Waits)
Lisa Blount:
Mercedes Benz
Video with Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.
Bill Carter and Will Sexton:
Something Made Of Paper
Video from *Henry Rollins *
Johnny Depp reading from Damien Echols’ journal
Eddie Vedder:
The Times They Are A Changin’
Open All Night (Bruce Springsteen)
Fistful of Mercy:
Fistful Of Mercy,
Restore Me
My Father’s Son
Natalie Maines:
Death’s Got A Warrant
If I Had My Way, Free Life
I Smell A Rat
Eddie Vedder and Natalie Maines:
Golden State
You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor
Eddie Vedder with Johnny Depp on guitar:
Society
Patti Smith:
My Blakean Year
Wings
Dancing Barefoot
Finale (all):
People Have The Power)
