*** Berlin Fanviews Here 8/15/09 ***

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PeArLgOoNeR wrote:

Brisk. wrote:

just would do anything to see a full yellow ledbetter of watchable quality, especially eddie towards the end

Get ready to do ANYTHING! :twisted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vmxwfwX7yg&feature=channel

I've downloaded all 7 of her videos.. they are in great quality!

Oh and btw I'm still buzzing from that amazing night!

thank you for posting!
that was perfect for my work free evening

and helpful! I am glad this forum is still working so well amongst the fans....
thanks for the evening pleasure ... and the good news is for now that I assume that I will get informed about arte - 3sat program too, here, could it be around the Berlin fans?
:P

and p.s. I always think at concerts: how can they film all the time... or make pictures or hang on the phone... they miss the best over all those pictures: the music!
well, but now I am really glad some do...
for those who just rock in the arena at concerts and who are from the country side not only in technical things, they just present such a after show pleasure!
so thanks to all these film makers around...
to experience the concert again and feel it again over all these visions and new impressions..

p.s.2 wishing you evening pleasures as well.

Jennytree

The venue in Berlin is just perfect! Couldn't have asked for a better day either. Got a great spot a few steps up on Stones side. T'was just perfect

RideRick

alesek wrote:

Paradise! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GuFftPUZNU

PeArLgOoNeR

RideRick wrote:

alesek wrote:

Paradise! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GuFftPUZNU

Holy crap!!!! Jeff is wearing my sweatband

I threw it up on stage fairly early in the main set, not aiming for anything other than the stage, and jeff had to duck.. I actually felt kinda bad that i almost hit him, but seeing him wearing it here makes me feel sooo good!

WhyNotSweden

alesek wrote:

Does anyone remember when exactly was that super massive crowd singing ("ooooooooo ooooooo ooooooo") that made Eddie happy smiling and joining us with the "singing"? Was it before the first encore, right? When they came from backstage to play Bee-Girl?

It was in the 2nd encore and right before Angie, its not only a oooooooooo, when ED conducted us it become "ARC". Yeaaa ARC.

cropdustress

This was the best one of all 4 shows! Blown away by the band, crowd, setlist...everything

dimitrispearljam

amazing show,,so energy so great to be in this one..the venue the place......super..and the fanniest thing was the lost thing after with namsook,a brithish couple and a danish woman....hahahhahahaa,,around berlin with tram-subway-train to find the hotel..u freaks!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bairbre

It was in the 2nd encore and right before Angie, its not only a oooooooooo, when ED conducted us it become "ARC". Yeaaa ARC.

That part when Ed conducted the whole crowd was so amazing - because you knew that he had been backstage listening to us all and then came out and joined in and led the crowd. Awesome stuff, the atmosphere was so amazing, and it was so obvious the band were loving the evening and the venue. When Ed conducted us, he reminded of me Bugs Bunny, the famous conductor scene

To the USA: Enjoy the gigs, you lucky people!!

PeArLgOoNeR

Here are my pictures from the show..

One of the official photos are in here as well, since I really needed the one of Jeff wearing the sweatband I threw him.. (I still can't believe he put it on and wore it from around God's Dice or Even Flow and the rest of the show.. fucking awesome! )


http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=2029836&id=1069939039

Enjoy and feel free to comment!

its_ok

Wow what a show!! One of the best I've seen with them, which means one of the best I've ever seen with any band. The setlist was amazing!! Highlights for me were def Brother, Untitled and Sonic Reducer! Just check how many times they've played Brother live and you'll understand how lucky we were

The venue was beautiful too! Great place for a concert! First time since Roskilde Ive seen them outdoors, its really much nicer, creates a better atmosphere. And compared to the two NY shows i saw last years that also had incredible set lists this was still way better! I think PJ shows really need general admission to reach their full potential! Never understood why you cant stand and watch a show in the states? :?

Still wonder though why they don't play No Code songs? In this one we "only" got Hail Hail. Why not In My Tree, Smile, Present Tense, Lukin, Off He Goes, Who You Are, Around The Bend....some of their absolute best songs are on there. This was my seventh show, and I've never gotten Off He Goes In NY last year the played beautiful versions of Who You Are, fantastic song live! I want more No Code!

Hope for better organization regarding the 10C tickets next time though...this was my fourth 10C ticket show, and by far the worst when it came to getting the tickets and queing for the early entry. There were no signs on where to get the tickets, it took 30 min of queing just to get the tickets. Seems they underestimated the amount of people with 10C tics. But with that said, Im still very grateful for all that 10C does for its members with the tickets and all!!

Dont know if someones posted this link before, but ill do it anyway. Its the complete show in flac, rather good quality, audience a little loud though (still hope for a bootleg though):

http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Pearl-Jam-2 ... 1c34421e02



And guys, for gods sake, COME TO SWEDEN...this travelling is not good for my personal economy!

Hinn

They have to mix up their setlists. Smile, Sometimes, PT, Lukin were also played elsewhere.

10c did email out a map of where the 10c collection area is, but yeah, would've been helpful to have some signs. Easy enough for me to follow the stream of familiar faces wearing Rotterdam wristbands around to the 10 area, would've been tricky for the early arrivals.

CharlieP

this was a great show!!
Perfect weather, great crowd, nice singalongs!
Was a bit dissapointed with the opener but was really happy with the songs I hadn´t heard before such as Gods' dice, NAIS, Glorified G and so on.
Crazy renditions of Faithfull and Light years! Never heard em better. PJ played very well and seemed to enjoy themselves.
Only crap was when I went to pick up my TC tix.
They told me the envelope was not there!
We had to wait for nearly 30 minutes before a woman from TC came to help us out.
My name was on the list but still no tix. Then they just gave us the tix without further explanation.
My guess is they handed a wrong person my tix.
Regardless, it was a great day but I have never experienced problems with the TC tix before.

WhyNotSweden

its_ok wrote:

And guys, for gods sake, COME TO SWEDEN...this travelling is not good for my personal economy!

Havent been here since year 2000, that sucks, but Berlin was AMAZING

TheSkyEtc

Well I can say a few good words and a few bad..
Let's begin with the bad. No signs to get to the 10C entrance and it was quite confusing The 10C entry "line" really was awful. Too many crowded peopleand almost got hurt in there while trying to get in. That took mankind a thousand years back.The number on the hands thing really sucks. It's gotta stop. I could really get there really early,got a number 9 signed on my wrist and then go hit the city for tourism and return 5 minutes
before entrance...while a lot of people waiting there in vain. The merchandise was at the exact
opposite position of the 10C entrance so we had to buy sth AFTER the show and guess what,
everybody bought t-shirts while entering BEFORE the show and they were not 10C members.
So is this really fair? We're f***ing 10C members, we could at least have a chance to buy a tour t-shirt!! Then there were the drunk german guys. Really what's wrong with them? Can't they enjoy sth without tons of alcohol running in their veins and ruining it for everybody else? I mean those guys played with my safety down there,pushing for no reason hitting and provoking.. I lost almost the first 5-6 songs trying to stay alive and there went all my excitement. Ok it's a gig we should pogo and stuff but that was stupid brutality.
Anyway, the Wuhlheide was uber-cool and besides the drunk ones german people are a really good crowd. The band seemed to me quite out of shape, I didn't like the opener and definitely I could use some more No Code and Vitalogy songs. I was thrilled to witness NAIS, Light years, HTI, Sonic Reducer, Brother, Bee girl and -finally- Faithful!! They nailed Got some, this song is instant classic and mos-def a future live standard. Rocking in the free world was incredible. I just hope they'd done a better Daughter tag, a better opener and another ending. Ed needs to lose some weight too, lol..


Cheers

strummers

TheSkyEtc wrote:

Well I can say a few good words and a few bad..
Let's begin with the bad. No signs to get to the 10C entrance and it was quite confusing The 10C entry "line" really was awful. Too many crowded peopleand almost got hurt in there while trying to get in. That took mankind a thousand years back.The number on the hands thing really sucks. It's gotta stop. I could really get there really early,got a number 9 signed on my wrist and then go hit the city for tourism and return 5 minutes
before entrance...while a lot of people waiting there in vain.

The number thing - in principal it's a great idea - ensures those who have been queueing the longest get the best chance at the best spots. When it works well it's a great system, but that relies on 3 main things;

a) security - either venue or 10c having some queueing 'system' set up early enough - see Rotterdam and London - great organisation with the barriers in place from first thing in the morning to actually have some kind of physical queue and boundary.
b) people not taking the piss and turning up early only to disappear for hours at a time (or the whole day) only to expect to then slot in place when they haven't been sitting on a hard concrete floor for 12+ hours! :x
c) people respecting the fact that some people have actaully been sitting quite uncomfortably and patiently for hours to get a good spot - don't expect to turn up hours after them and push/run your way to the front - Berlin had the potential to be a really bad disaster due to the lack of organisation/respect/safety.

Any system will have it's flaws, but I would be so peed off if there was no system and having been one of the first people to queue didn't get up front because I'm: not pushy, willing to listen to security and not run and not that 'known' by the regulars- see Berlin if it hadn't been for a couple of people keeping a space for us we would have been well out to the sides after being the one of the first 5 to show up in the morning. Thanks for that guys - I'm sure you know who you are

Just my thoughts

TheSkyEtc wrote:

The band seemed to me quite out of shape, I didn't like the opener and definitely I could use some more No Code and Vitalogy songs. I was thrilled to witness NAIS, HTI, Sonic Reducer, Brother, Bee girl and -finally- Faithful!! I saw the band quite professionals and with lack of passion. Maybe I'm wrong and I hope I am but I can't see a spark in their eyes anymore. Maturity yes. But not spark. I had fun though and was really bruised. Happily bruised.


Cheers

Really?? I'm shocked I thought they were SO on form and had one hell of a sparkle in the eyes!

TheSkyEtc

strummers wrote:

Really?? I'm shocked I thought they were SO on form and had one hell of a sparkle in the eyes!

I edited my message because I'm not 100% sure, maybe it was the crowd pressure that busted my balls and then everything seemed bad. Who knows.

Hinn

strummers wrote:

b) people not taking the piss and turning up early only to disappear for hours at a time (or the whole day) only to expect to then slot in place when they haven't been sitting on a hard concrete floor for 12+ hours! :x

:P

I really don't care if I get the number or not. I'm definitely not one to sit still- gotta fix people up with tix as always. O2 was a special case where I was going to sit still for once but for the fact that people in the queue were depending on me to run over to Heathrow and come back so they have a place to sleep for the night

strummers

TheSkyEtc wrote:

Strummers wrote:

Really?? I'm shocked I thought they were SO on form and had one hell of a sparkle in the eyes!

I edited my message because I'm not 100% sure, maybe it was the crowd pressure that busted my balls and then everything seemed bad. Who knows.

Yeah the crowd pressure was terrible see:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=107302

I honestly think this is the best I've seen them - happy, full of energy, really tight - I think they could have gone on all night!!

strummers

Hinn wrote:

strummers wrote:

b) people not taking the piss and turning up early only to disappear for hours at a time (or the whole day) only to expect to then slot in place when they haven't been sitting on a hard concrete floor for 12+ hours! :x

:P

I really don't care if I get the number or not. I'm definitely not one to sit still- gotta fix people up with tix as always. O2 was a special case where I was going to sit still for once but for the fact that people in the queue were depending on me to run over to Heathrow and come back so they have a place to sleep for the night

I'm amazed you weren't flat out due to alcohol consumption by London! I'm not going to name names - some people were way worse than others, when we were in line we always made sure one of us was there if the other went to the bathroom or went to get food to bring back - if anyone's feeling a little sheepish then maybe they'll be a little more fair next time! Also it makes it worse when so many people leave so there isn't a physical queue anymore - people will then just slot in wherever there's a space. Anyway that's all I'm going to say on the matter - in general I support the number thing, it can work very well - especially if you're a runt (in the height department) and really need to be up front to see anything at all!

AndiM

More than a week by now and I still haven't posted here? :oops:

Setting aside the slightly weaker setlist in Berlin (in comparison with Manchester and London II) Berlin somehow still turns out to be my favorite gig on this year's Euro tour. The venue, Eddie's trying to speak German once again, finally hearing RitFW live and of course meeting all those people either at the hotel (cheers to anyone who stayed in the Touristenhaus Grünau ) and in the queue.

And special greetings to Paul from Norway and his girlfriend: I'm not quite sure whether you'll read this or whether you're even registered here. But I hope you were able to enjoy your concert as much as I did after you got the second ticket for the show :-).