Your top 3 PJ live ??

[Who I Am]

What were your own personal top 3 shows you've attended and give some highlights:

1. First show in '03 - State College
Release opener, longest show ever at that time, entirely college crowd.

2. L@TG
LBC opener, Harper (two hands, indifference), Crown

3. Borgata Night 1
Present Tense opener, Bee Girl, intimate setting, closest I've been to Ed about 8 heads back in pit.

[dimitrispearljam]

1.Amsterdam 2...no need to explain..The Cocaine show.

2.Alpine 1-2..the mood in the whole weekend was unique...amazing feeling to party the 20 years of the band

3.Athens 06..Eddie speak Greekglish...


ill say Berlin 10 is a category alone...cos the whole day,and the feeling at everybody,was so intense..

[merileyjr]

1. Paris - 9-11-2006, best version of RVM ever
2. Toronto - (oddly enough for me again) 9-11-2011, granted it was a greatest hits night it was still cool seeing Neil Young come out to play Rockin' in the Free World
3. Philly - 10-27-09, first night of "closing the Spectrum" shows - Down with Mike Ness, Push me Pull me, 1/2full..... Plus incredible energy as Phillys beat Yankees 1-0 and Eddie keep bringing out a ring girl with score announcements

hard to choose as any show could be a top three show

[red mos]

well I've only seen them 3x so I guess all of my shows. Wish I had 20- 50 shows on my resume' like some of you. Jealous.

I think Ed does a great Job of making the (majority) of the setlists fit the mood of the atmosphere and crowd.

Houston 2000 Night 1 (Couldn't go to night 2) still pissed off at that actually.
Anyhow, Night 1 had Long Road as the opener, and it was perfect.

Dallas 2003: Alive as the opener, "arc" being performed

Austin ACL 2009: Red mosquito (with Ben Harper), Mountain song (with Perry Ferrell), Present Tense, and then Ed Diving into the sewage mud bath we all had to encounter, and messing up his Devo t shirt.

[Blind3]

1. 1st show ever ...Trocadero Theater, Philly , 4/10/92 . Ed drops in less than TEN (how apropos for the time) feet from me.

2. HOLY TOLEDO (Ohio) ! Vote for Change tour , 10/02/04 . Guest Appearances by Uncle Neil and Aunt Pegi Young and Peter Frampton during encore which included Harvest Moon , Act of Love, Cortez the Killer , All Along the Watch Tower , and Rockin' in the Free World . SPORTS ARENA

From the Tour page : Toledo, Ohio Sat 2 October, 2004

SET 1 :
Long Road
Corduroy
Hail, Hail
Save You
American In Me
Cropduster
I Am Mine
Wishlist
Better Man
I Believe In Miracles
Even Flow
Bleed For Me
Alive

ENCORE 1 ACOUSTIC
Thumbing My Way
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Black
Harvest Moon

ENCORE 2
All Along The Watchtower
Act Of Love
Cortez The Killer
Rockin' in the Free World

3. The Last Show at Philadelphia Spectrum on Halloween , 2009 . It had everything . What a set list . 41 songs plus two tags. I was Out of My Mind (fittingly) listening to Out of My Mind , Bugs, Sweet Lew , Rats, I'm Open, Whip It, Crown of Thorns, and 34 of their friends (and two tags) .

SET 1
Why Go
Last Exit
Corduroy
Severed Hand
The Fixer
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
You Are
Amongst The Waves
Even Flow
Pilate
Unthought Known
Daughter
Another Brick In The Wall
Johnny Guitar
Rats
I'm Open
I Got Id
Glorified G
Out of My Mind
Black
Insignificance
Life Wasted

ENCORE 1
Just Breathe
The End
Low Light
Speed of Sound
Jeremy
Inside Job
Bugs
Spin The Black Circle
Porch

ENCORE 2
Whip It
Got Some
Crown Of Thorns
Satan's Bed
Sweet Lew
Do The Evolution
Better Man
Save it for Later
Smile
Alive
Rockin' In The Free World
Yellow Ledbetter

[veddertown]

Only six to choose and I feel like I'm not doing justice to the three I've left out but....

1. Berlin 10 - The venue, the occasion, the fact that I travelled with no ticket in hand! Long Road, Push Me Pull,Pull Me, Immortality, Light Years, Low Light, Black, Comeback, Alive, YL. Amazing show?!

2. Manchester 2, 12 - Great setlist, Go, I Am Mine, Wishlist, Daughter(WMA), Deep, Present Tense, Inside Job, Off He Goes, RVM, Hitchhiker, Sonic Reducer. Very fun night with a night 1 hangover!

3. Belfast 10 - Another great setlist following a pretty safe one the night before in Dublin. Sometimes, Tremor Christ, No Way, Present Tense, Insignificance, RVM, SOLAT, Crazy Mary, Jeremy, Black, Leash. Brilliant view side stage up above Mike.

[Eraserhead]

Toronto 1, 2011
Opening with Long Road, Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns and UNCLE NEIL!!!

Shepherds Bush, 2009
Such a great show. About 6 rows back. Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy, All Along the Watchtower. Epic.

Adelaide, 2009
Start of 4 shows I did in Oz. First time I heard Release live. Ben and Eddie doing Under Presure before PJ played. Brain Of J, No Way, In My Tree, Smile, Red Mosquito. Under-rated show!


Close, but no cigar:
MSG2 (2010), Berlin 2 (2012) and Oslo (2012).

[hailhail8]

1st show - Va Beach, VA 1998. Played Rats for first time with Matt, the Black from this show is on Live on Two Legs, played No Way, and ended with Alive, Sonic Reducer, Porch with Ed shining the mirror across the crowd.

2nd - PJ20 - the entire weekend. Had Tenclub tickets and was up close on night two. Proposed to my now wife while we were on this trip. The museum and everything was great.

3rd - night 4 of The Spectrum shows. Don't need to say much that isn't already known. It was nice being the only person in my section who knew all the words to Out of My Mind. I still can't believe they played that.

I'm sure Wrigley will surpass one of these shows. But it's gonna be hard to do.