*** V-Fest Calgary, AB Fanviews Here 8/8/09 ***

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  • BeerBaron
    BeerBaron Toronto-ish Posts: 4,100
    wash_ wrote:
    Did they do a soundcheck? Wondering what songs they soundchecked...
    It is VERY RARE to have a soundcheck at a festival. There are other acts performing at the time that they would normally do the soundcheck, which is usually between 3 and 4 pm.
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  • Given to...
    Given to... Wyoming Posts: 5,007
    No Jeremy. Does that make it a rarity too?

    Nice crowd surfer-ette pose.
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  • Mrs.Vedder78
    Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    edwouldgocalgary wrote:
    Scott the relayer here... What an amazing night! Was on Mike's side against the rail with Breath_Gal and a few others. Once in a lifetime, that's for sure. Got a bit sketched out just before they came on as the crowd was surging HARD towards the stage. They did it for about half the setlist and then calmed down. 7 hours of drinking later:) Show was unbelievable. Boys were loose but pretty tight musically. Like they had never left, really! New songs are killer live. Got Some is the stronger of the two in my opinion, but The Fixer is pretty awesome live also. Couple of notes to add to Breath_Gal's comments:

    1. Venue was a the bottom of a small-ish ski hill, parking was at the top. You can do the math:)
    2. About 3 songs in Ed says (might be missing a few words), "So usually we keep these things a surprise, but we're feeling pretty good tonight so we'll just tell you. We're gonna play a song we've never played live before, and a couple of songs that are old enough to drive. This is a newborn." Cue The Fixer.
    2. WMA tag in Daughter: Ed sings "White Male CANADIAN"
    3. Ed quote: "We picked a flight to Europe with a stop over in Calgary because we were told there would be a festival of Virgins. Virgin Fest and not a Jonas Brother in sight."
    4. First encore Ed comes out and says, "We're at Olympic Park, and I have to say that we'd give you a gold medal for this evening. No, actually, we'd give you an Olympic Platinum" - causing me and anyone who has ever heard that song to link his first comments about a song they've never played live before.
    5. Instead they played Brother and everything was right in the world:)
    6. Ed comes on after the second encore and tells the crowd that they've been told they can break curfew and play the songs the way they want to play 'em.
    7. PJ rips out The Real Me and totally kicks its ass.

    Brother sounded great, Rats was a nice surprise, and the new tunes are awesome.

    All in all a great night! Thanks to BeerBaron for uploading the pics and texts.

    Enjoy the tour!!


    Scott thank you very much for relaying last night! You rock :D
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,873
    Sea wrote:
    August 8th, 2009 Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Canada Olympic Park - V-Fest

    Set List: Why Go, All Night, Dissident, The Fixer, Got Some, Severed Hand, Sad, Unemployable, Even Flow, Rats, Save You, Given To Fly, Daughter/(W.M.A), Down, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Do The Evolution, Alive

    1st encore: Better Man, Brother, Black, Spin The Black Circle

    2nd encore: Crazy Mary (Victoria Williams), The Real Me (Pete Townshend), Yellow Ledbetter

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  • BubbaDog
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  • Wolf At Bay
    Wolf At Bay Posts: 236
    breath_gal wrote:
    Posted this in the setlist thread:

    What an amazing show! Front row Mike's side. Got to hang with our friend Scott the relayer who btw missed a family wedding reception to be there.

    Lot's of great highlights...

    The Fixer and Got Some especially Got Some = really good

    During Rats and Ben the two of us... Ed did a shoulder to shoulder cross over his heart

    Spin the Black Circle was nuts!!!

    The Real Me = unexpected... Ed mentioned when he was a teen that song was played as a closer at his first show

    Lot's of crowd surfing moshing Douche bags
    My spine will never be the same but worth it!

    We'll post some more pics on http://twitter.com/RedLightning
    Got some shots of Ed climbing the truss

    Being front row tonight was a once in a lifetime experience for me...fingers crossed for a lottery to experience it again.

    Thanks for coming back to calgary PJ!

    Oh and I got a Mike Pic! Yay!!!

    Good Night!
    Are those official stickers you posted a picture of?
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  • demetrios
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    Fifthelement wrote:
    All I can say is . . . wow :shock: :? :D That's a new way to crowd surf ;)

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    It sure is! Mama mia!!! blink.gif
  • edwouldgocalgary
    edwouldgocalgary Posts: 5
    Just to clarify some things in that article... I wouldn't have called Ed "spacey" by any means. If I were characterizing the boys in any way at this point I'd say that they're less on a mission, and more out to enjoy being a band that can still play to 30,000 people (no disrespect to some other great bands there, but...). The crowd was super intense to start things off which understandably made Ed nervous. A few comments to the crowd early on about being ok.

    <Ed looking at pushing, surging crowd> "We're going to be here a while so I'd like to establish some ground rules. Everything looks good here. You in the back look good, you in the middle, you're good to. But it's this little pocket right here (points to middle front) that I'm worried about. We need to establish some communication, okay? <Nothing from crowd, Ed looks at them again with a bit of a smile> OKAY? <Crowd yells back okay>. Perfect. Now watch out for each other."

    A few songs later some people were moving barricades and he pointed to the area and asked, "Everything okay there? You're moving some big barricades there - that's a lot of metal on a lot of flesh (or something). Can I get a thumbs up?"

    After that things chilled out. I wouldn't say that the forgetting lyrics thing was really something to note. I have more than a few mid-tour boots where there were fewer words remembered:)

    To those who were asking about Mike's microphone - he sang back-up on numerous tunes.
  • 100 Pacer
    100 Pacer Toronto, ON Posts: 9,332
    looks like Jeff managed to squeeze in some skate time in Strathmore before the show:

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  • breath_girl
    breath_girl Posts: 189
    Are those official stickers you posted a picture of?
    "I saw Pearl Jam" that's awesome.

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  • KASE330
    KASE330 Posts: 15
    What time did they hit the stage?? Sounds like an awesome show..
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    I'm glad there weren't many 'crowd' pleasers at this festival. After Summerfest '06, I promised myself not to see Pearl Jam in festival but after reading this setlist, I my reconsider.
  • usamamasan1
    usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    you boycot them at festivals because they played songs that the crowd was pleased to hear?
    :lol:
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    inmytree3684 wrote:
    I'm glad there weren't many 'crowd' pleasers at this festival. After Summerfest '06, I promised myself not to see Pearl Jam in festival but after reading this setlist, I my reconsider.

    do you expect them to play Lost Dogs in it's entirety or something? festival or not, PJ is going to play some of their "hits". i think they've earned that right, don't you?
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  • dimitrispearljam
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    Niko80 wrote:
    SpinTheBlackCircle74 wrote:
    I hope they play 3-6 more songs when they dont play festivals.

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  • Gardenparty
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    edwouldgocalgary wrote:
    To those who were asking about Mike's microphone - he sang back-up on numerous tunes.


    :shock: maybe someones practicing for their solo record

    was Boom there? I don't see a mention
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • breath_girl
    breath_girl Posts: 189
    Yes Boom was there
  • einatshaul
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  • RockinInCanada
    RockinInCanada Posts: 2,016
    Great weather for a great festival show. I was orginally planning on getting close to the front and was for Wintersleep but when I seen the amount of drunken fools (who honestly did not know much about the band) filing in I decided to drop back about 10 feet and ended up with a better view and more enjoyable time.

    Notes:

    - The Pit was very rough I seen numerous older women leaving crying and some guys with their shirts ripped and lips bloodied. I guess that is what happens when people drink for 8 straight hours, but I am not complaining because I think the band enjoyed this energy from the crowd.
    - Why Go was great to hear open the show and really got the place jumping.
    - All Night was awesome to hear and they nailed it, my second favorite song performed last night....was unreal. Took me off guard.
    - From The Fixer and Got Some I can tell that Backspacer will be 10x better than their last effort, these songs transferred over well live....plus for new songs they had the crowd really rocking....good thing.
    - Severed Hand I had no idea how kick ass that song is live...
    - Sad awesome enough said....
    - Rats should be played live more....fucking amazing
    - Ed commented how being so high up was really tough on getting some vocals out. However the band was in amazing spirts, Stone rocking the long hair (looked so young...lol) and I again re-iterate they seemed to enjoy the intense mosh pit.
    - Best song of the night played was Brother....they fucking nailed it....I have video of the entire song....amazing....
    - The Real Me was a surprise that is for sure....but great....
    - Overall a great show....only mildly injured my shoulder as it broke the fall of a stray mosher as his head cracked it before he cracked his head into the ground.....our group never seen him coming and he looked pretty beat up.....
  • RockinInCanada
    RockinInCanada Posts: 2,016
    Also I noticed most the merchandise minus the stickers (which had a pack with "I saw Pearl Jam" and four coloured "Pearl Jam Built to Last" included) that the shirts were tailored for the Calgary show...most of the shirts had Calgary on it...the shirt I had was the stick man with Calgary above his head and they had a Pearl Jam logo tailored after the Calgary Flames logo as well with Calgary written on the back....poster looked cool cannot wait till I get it in the mail (seemed like there were lots of extra in booth after the show as well).

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