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Berlin Germany 1996: Weirdest Pearl Jam Show Ever?

NashvillePJfanNashvillePJfan Posts: 594
edited May 2013 in The Porch
I was listening to this show on Pearl Jam radio yesterday . . . man this was a weird one . . . Ed improvising with lots of gibberish lines and bizarro vocals . . . somewhat strange commentary from Ed between songs . . . a weird one.
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    Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,346
    That was my first PJ show. I am still delighted whenever I hear it. There was truly something special happening that night :D
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    javis el errantejavis el errante Buenos Aires Posts: 6,136
    I don't know, I have Act of Love boot, a strange mix of PJ and NY song, plus, it was on my 20th birthday anniversary, Nov 3rd, but it indeed have many unusual songs for a show, even at the time, and i find eddie's vocals wasn't with as much gibberish as you say, but he was calm, and his voice had a soothing effect, ... one of the greatest daughters tag ever...
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    Lost In OhioLost In Ohio Posts: 6,766
    I am a doughnut. :lol:
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    pjradiopjradio Posts: 6,704
    idisagree...yes, one word.


    BERLIN, GERMANY aka Checkpoint Charlie show
    Sun 3 November, 1996

    SET 1
    Long Road
    Last Exit
    Animal
    Hail, Hail
    Go
    Red Mosquito
    In My Tree
    Corduroy
    Better Man
    Lukin
    Mankind
    Hunger Strike
    Even Flow
    Noise of Carpet
    Daughter
    It's Ok
    Jeremy
    Sometimes
    Rearviewmirror
    Immortality
    Alive
    Suck You Dry
    Blood
    Fame
    Who You Are
    State Of Love And Trust
    Not For You
    Present Tense
    Leaving Here
    Yellow Ledbetter
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    myownblacksundownmyownblacksundown Posts: 111
    Leezestarr313 wrote:
    That was my first PJ show. I am still delighted whenever I hear it. There was truly something special happening that night :D
    +1 :D
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    mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 27,840
    I really don't find this show weird at all; I think it kicked some major ass!!! I still remember listening to this show. Blood was freaking awesome. And the doughnut line is a reference to president Kennedy.b
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    skyvalleyskyvalley Posts: 184
    myownblacksundown wrote:
    Leezestarr313 wrote:
    That was my first PJ show. I am still delighted whenever I hear it. There was truly something special happening that night :D
    +1 :D

    +1 :mrgreen:
    Berlin 95 with Neil Young, Berlin 1996, Berlin 2000, Berlin 2006, Munich 2007, Rotterdam 2009, Berlin 2009, Dublin 2010, Belfast 2010, Berlin 2010, Amsterdam 1 2012, Amsterdam 2 2012, Berlin 1 2012, Berlin 2 2012
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    darthvedderdarthvedder Posts: 2,470
    NashvillePJfan wrote:
    I was listening to this show on Pearl Jam radio yesterday . . . man this was a weird one . . . Ed improvising with lots of gibberish lines and bizarro vocals . . . somewhat strange commentary from Ed between songs . . . a weird one.

    If you're talking about the gibberish Eddie says before Immortality, it's from the Barnum musical:

    The Museum Song

    Quite a lotta Roman terra cotta
    Livin' lava from the flanks of Etna
    Statuary, Ride a dromedary
    See the temple tumble and the Red Sea part

    Macnamara's band, the fattest lady in the land
    A pickled prehistoric hand
    A strand of Pocahontas' hair
    Crow and Sioux who're goin'
    to be showin' you some rowin'
    Through a model of the rapids on the Delaware

    Armadillas, clever caterpillars
    Reproductions of the cyclop's ret'na
    Crystal blowin', automatic sewin'
    Venus on a shell and other works of art

    Educated fleas, a tribe of Aborigines
    Two ladies joined across the knees
    The Mona Lisa made of ice
    Hottentots we've gotten in forgotten spots
    a cotton gin
    a night with Lot in Sodom
    Better see that twice!

    One iguana, snakes and other fauna
    Got no bearded lady, but we're get'na
    When you duck out, take another buck out
    Run around the block and see a
    Run around the block and see a
    Run around the block and see a new show start!
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    Falling DownFalling Down Posts: 724
    The Indio 93 shoe the shoeless show was quite something as well

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