Best Pearl Jam Show Ever?

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  • maverick
    maverick Posts: 1,253
    I've been to 60 plus shows, a bunch that were just better than the rest, but Randall's Island night 2 is, in my mind, the absolute best show ever.
  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    YourDirtisMyfood wrote:
    did any of you see PJ when they toured w/Tom Petty in the mid-west? I would've killed to see those shows---in Minnesota area I think.
    good shows, too short 17 songs, felt empty despite seeing Tom and the Heartbreakers who were awesome.

    I'd take a full show of PJ over that spit bill anytime
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,994
    mach271 wrote:

    Atlanta 94 I'm sure is there for the people who went.

    I wasn't even there and I think it's the best. It's the quintessential "THIS IS PEARL JAM" live recording.

    Of the shows I've been to.....Philly '05
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2, 2025: Pittsburgh 1

    Pearl Jam bootlegs:
    http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
  • AtlantaJammer
    AtlantaJammer Posts: 2,611
    Bonnaroo...
  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    The three that usually gets the most mentions are Atlanta 94, Soldier Field 95 and Randall Island 96. I was at none of them but if judging from the boots then Atlanta wins this one for me. Randall island may have been the first 30+ song show, but to me Atlanta clearly sounds like the better performance.
    I will swallow poison
  • Backspacer 76
    Backspacer 76 Posts: 963
    I have always thought PINKPOP 1992 was their best concert that I have ever seen.
    I wasn't there of course :lol: , but enjoy watching it on YouTube every now and then.
    PORCH is amazing at this concert! When Eddie jumps into the crowd it looks like they
    are gonna kill him :o !
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qoTdUbw54k
  • clashman
    clashman Posts: 320
    mmh, i attended both 1998 shows in new york, msg, and the band mentioned too, secound night 98 msg was their best show so far.
    beautiful release and a killer set.
    then i liked my first show zürich 96 very much, and berlin 2006.
    also great msg 1 new york last year, thats my list of favorite shows i attended.

    boots i like best: cardiff 2000, bristow 2003, minneapolis 98, atlanta 94.
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    Niko80 wrote:
    The three that usually gets the most mentions are Atlanta 94, Soldier Field 95 and Randall Island 96. I was at none of them but if judging from the boots then Atlanta wins this one for me. Randall island may have been the first 30+ song show, but to me Atlanta clearly sounds like the better performance.


    +1
  • HeyWayne
    HeyWayne Posts: 316
    Having only ever been to one I have to say seeing them at the O2 in London (sorry for being late to the party on this one).

    Only managed to get tickets by the skin of my teeth, and when Eddie said it's probably the last time they'll come to Europe for quite some time, made it more special.

    Eddie stopping to ask the crowd to move back three paces when things were getting a little "tight" down front was spine tingling.

    I was up high so effectively looking down on the stage from the right, and when he asked the crowd on the floor to move back three paces on the count of three, and the whole place moved backward - it was like watching a collective of 10,000 people take a big breath. Awesome.

    Can't wait for the next time - even if I'm 60 at the time!
    Just a dude growing veg

    haywayne.blogspot.com
  • Niko80
    Niko80 Posts: 1,613
    HeyWayne wrote:
    Can't wait for the next time - even if I'm 60 at the time!

    I'd put my money on next year ;)
    I will swallow poison
  • Steve Dunne
    Steve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    7/11/03 Mansfield and 10/2/96 Hartford

    all shows from last year were special in their own way...all made possible by the generosity of the people I was lucky enough to have met.
    I love to turn you on
  • mach271
    mach271 Posts: 562
    maverick wrote:
    I've been to 60 plus shows, a bunch that were just better than the rest, but Randall's Island night 2 is, in my mind, the absolute best show ever.


    +1
  • HeyWayne
    HeyWayne Posts: 316
    Niko80 wrote:
    HeyWayne wrote:
    Can't wait for the next time - even if I'm 60 at the time!

    I'd put my money on next year ;)

    Them coming back, or me turning 60? ;)
    Just a dude growing veg

    haywayne.blogspot.com
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    mach271 wrote:
    Guarenteed you will see Randalls Island nite 2 1996....

    GREATEST SHOW EVER!

    And i was about 3rd row (unassigned seating, and some heavy moshing going on, but i bulldozed my way thru)

    my first show ever.

    i was 14 and me and my friends forced our way to the front and were just outside of the raging pit that made ed stop the concert 2 or 3 times.

    insane! hell of a way to lose your pearl jam concert virginity.
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    HeyWayne wrote:
    Having only ever been to one I have to say seeing them at the O2 in London (sorry for being late to the party on this one).

    Only managed to get tickets by the skin of my teeth, and when Eddie said it's probably the last time they'll come to Europe for quite some time, made it more special.

    Eddie stopping to ask the crowd to move back three paces when things were getting a little "tight" down front was spine tingling.

    I was up high so effectively looking down on the stage from the right, and when he asked the crowd on the floor to move back three paces on the count of three, and the whole place moved backward - it was like watching a collective of 10,000 people take a big breath. Awesome.

    Can't wait for the next time - even if I'm 60 at the time!



    He's very sensitive to that ever since Roskilde. I saw him last year do the single solo tour and his performance of Arc was very compelling and we all know why.
  • HeyWayne
    HeyWayne Posts: 316
    YourDirtisMyfood wrote:
    He's very sensitive to that ever since Roskilde. I saw him last year do the single solo tour and his performance of Arc was very compelling and we all know why.

    I think that's what made it more spine tingling to be honest.
    Just a dude growing veg

    haywayne.blogspot.com
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    HeyWayne wrote:
    YourDirtisMyfood wrote:
    He's very sensitive to that ever since Roskilde. I saw him last year do the single solo tour and his performance of Arc was very compelling and we all know why.

    I think that's what made it more spine tingling to be honest.


    I respect that they probably won't, but it would be cool to see Arc finish a PJ set in the encore one night.
  • primitiveshirts.com
    primitiveshirts.com Posts: 176
    STATE COLLEGE in 2003 and the spectrum when they open with "wash"

    PA shows rule!
    primitiveshirts.com
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    bradhos wrote:
    STATE COLLEGE in 2003 and the spectrum when they open with "wash"

    PA shows rule!


    maybe they'll cover "Streets of Philadelphia?"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkB-DsMKprc :mrgreen:
  • Brain Of Jeremy
    Brain Of Jeremy Posts: 135
    Wachovia Center
    Oct 03, 2005

    Not sure why this show doesn't the love it deserves. Couple theories....

    -It was make up to all those to got shut out of the Borgata.
    -Not in the old Spectrum
    -Sleater Kinney involvement
    -the 03 old spectrum show gets more love
    -wasn't apart of an official US tour
    -no bootleg (pretty sure)

    This show was unreal look at the freaking setlist for gods sake :shock: .....


    Set 1

    * Wash
    * Hail Hail
    * Brain Of J.
    * Spin The Black Circle
    * Given To Fly
    * Sad
    * Alone
    * Even Flow
    * Green Disease
    * Faithful
    * Whipping
    * Not For You(Modern Girl)
    * Leatherman(Save it for Later)
    * Better Man
    * Nothingman
    * Once
    * Bleed For Me
    * Blood

    Encore 1

    * Around The Bend
    * Harvest Moon
    * Hard To Imagine
    * Crown Of Thorns
    * Crazy Mary
    * Alive

    Encore 2

    * Last Kiss
    * In My Tree
    * Do The Evolution
    * Sonic Reducer
    * Little Sister
    * Leaving Here
    * Rockin\' In The Free World
    * Yellow Ledbetter

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