Short Setlists ??
Gizmo Gazz
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Is it just me or do some of the recent setlists look remarkably short, particularly in the encore stages. I have to admit, I haven't been overly impressed?
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They played 27 and 28 songs a night the past few shows. Thats about as high as they've played on any tour. The 30+ song shows are rare and on special ocasions.. there's plenty of shows from 2000, 2003, 2006 where they barely played 25 songs.
Eddie: Dublin & London
I went to three gigs last week and saw 57 different songs from about 85 they played. What songs is it exactly that the band are not playing and you would like to hear?
They do an excellent job mixing it up every night.
If you want boring take a look at a Chili Peppers set list.
90% the same songs every night and the first 10 are ALWAYS in the same order.
09/28/06 (Thu) Bell Centre - Montreal, Quebec
Set 1: Jam, Can't Stop, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Charlie, Fortune Faded, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Warlocks, Flea Bass Solo, Throw Away Your Television > Don't You Ever Leave, John Solo, Snow (Hey Oh), Nobody Weird Like Me, C'mon Girl, London Calling > Right On Time, Don't Forget Me, Tell Me Baby, Jam *, Californication, What Is Soul?, By The Way, E: Under The Bridge, Your Gonna Get Yours > Give It Away, Jam
09/29/06 (Fri) Corel Centre - Ottawa, Ontario
Set 1: Jam, Can't Stop, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Charlie *, Fortune Faded, Readymade, Parallel Universe, Hump de Bump, How Deep is Your Love, Snow, Me and My Friends, Wet Sand, London Calling > Right on Time, Chad solo > Flea solo, Don't Forget Me, Tell Me Baby, Californication, By the Way, E: Chad solo, Under the Bridge, Give it Away
10/17/06 (Tue) Continental Airlines Arena - East Rutherford, NJ
Set 1: Jam Can't Stop Dani California Scar Tissue Charlie Fortune Faded Readymade Blood Sugar Sex Magik Throw away your television Love me Tomorrow? Hey Oh Me & My Friends Stadium Arcadium Right on Time Don't Forget Me Tell Me Baby Jam Californication By the Way, E: I could have lied Give it Away Jam
10/18/06 (Wed) Continental Airlines Arena - East Rutherford, NJ
Set 1: Can't Stop, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Charlie, Fortune Faded, 21st Century, Parallel Universe, Jam, Hump de Bump, Hey-Oh, Wet Sand, Right on Time, Don't Forget Me, Tell Me Baby, Jam, Californication, By the Way, E: Under the Bridge, Give it Away, Jam
Could you imagine going to both NJ shows. BORING. I hope the opening band mixed it up.
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
The best 2 hours and 15 minutes of my 2009.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the PJ setlist on this tour.
Wait until you see the show and then see if you feel the same way
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
If they played Keep on rockin, porch, alive, crazy mary, fuckin' up etc then its going to be 'short' but those songs are long!!
Agreed. The band cant possibly please everyone. They have to cater to the masses as well as us Ten Clubbers. Casual fans and those who go to see Pearl Jam out of curiosity and people who aren't fans at all but come along with friends, brothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands etc just for company. If they didnt play certain songs, eg Even Flow, Corduroy, Better Man etc (that those of us who've been to multiple shows have heard so many times) people would be whingeing right left and centre that they didn't play the hits they wanted to hear! And maybe that the band were good but they didnt know enough of their songs! I think the band are doing a fine job of mixing up their setlists and as the tour progresses, more and more songs that they haven't yet played will emerge. I have to wait until the Australian leg of the tour and it'll be interesting to see what they break out by the time I get to see them.
Jesus. What songs would you like them to play?
Last night they played Black, Wishlist, Off He Goes and Small Town, all in the same show.
If I were allowed to pick five songs and only five songs for PJ to play at any given show, those would be four of them, without question.
for the least they could possibly do
That's pathetic. Maybe that's why they consistently appear on people's "worst show I've ever been to" lists. :shock:
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
I have adopted a policy of 'No Expectations'... because no expectations results in no regrets which means no disappointments. I just go fo the enjoyment... and a night out of my pad so I'm not sitting around, watching T.V. while my cats destroy my furniture.
Hail, Hail!!!
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
I just saw them in the O2 Arena. They played 28 songs and some of the pretty long. eg. Porch, Crazy Mary, Alive, Even Flow, Love reign o´er me.....
They played 2.35 hours - if ths is short...........
shortest shows were two festivals (Hurricane & Werchter). And even those were both over 2 hours. (just about, but still).
a long show is all well and good on paper, but usually if u listen to the boots of the REALLY long shows, the energy of the crowd and the band wanes towards the end.
Sheperds Bush was 24 or 25 songs and i was wrecked after rocking my little heart out. same for Dublin 06.
3 hours is fine at an american show, you wimps have seats. Us GenAdmission purits in Europe have to stand the entire show....3 hours would be tough!!
Agreed, I was caned after SBE and it was the shortest show of the European ones I saw. I didn't come out feeling like I had much more left in me and I'm sure the band were feeling similar.