Amazing show, the guys had so much energy, and even though the place wasn't full, it rocked like it was. Thanks to the guys for making it to UT to give this state a chance to see a legendary band rock the way it should be done. By far the best Pearl Jam concert I have seen, great setlist, great performance, and the new songs from the CD were just fantastic. I fell in love with the new cd last night, and can't get "hail, hail" out of my head. Pearl Jam has been my favorite band for years, and this show put another log in the fire. WOW! I haven't been this pumped after a show for a long time, and I mean a real long time. Ben Harper was the opener! seriously.... WOW! Perfect night...
Has anyone mentioned - besides ed's tight jeans... the girls who were trying to sell Creed and Staind tickets outside the E-Centre? Yeah, I got approached twice! "Excuse me - are you a fan of CREED?" At first I didn't know what she was saying..."not your thing?" she asked. And then I laughed - you're talking about creed at a Pearl Jam concert?! Be careful!!
I know, I laughed when they asked me and just said "Not a chance."
The show though was unbelievable. What an awesome setlist. Hearing Of The Girl, Breakerfall, Low Light, and Immortality were the highlights for me. The new songs sound GREAT live.
My second Bee Girl, which really surprised me. Yeah, just an awesome PJ show, best one I've been to so far and could possibly be the best setlist of the tour yet...
7/2/06 - Denver, CO
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
i was 9th row mikes side 2 seats from the inner aisle-really great seats!
my highlights: mike melting my face off during severed hand and then again during immortality; ben harper joining for red mosquito; all the new songs sounded great live (wish we could have heard more of them); satan's bed and blood were absolutely awesome
the poster for this show rocks...i only get posters from the shows i go to, and i have so many unframed that i said to myself, "self" (sorry i know that is lame) i am going to skip the poster unless it is really great, which it was...the other thing is DON"T BUY ONE OFF OF EBAY--they had 1000's of them--not even close to selling out--they will be for sale here, no doubt
the other thing that is really cool is the key chain...you might think $15 for a key chain is ridiculous, but it is that cool...
also, the people working the merch. booths held my poster for me and let me pick it up after the show, very nice
can't wait for the massive US tour next year (fingers crossed)
EDIT: Have to add that Ben Harper's set was amazing! and Bee Girl was quite a gem
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"...what a different life had i not found this love with you..."
what sections were not full there? Behind them, or furthest away from them?
furthest away, there were no sections behind them in the seating arrangement
If you picture a football layout, there was no one past the goal line, upstairs or down.
If I had known then what I know now...
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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
It's already been said, but it can't be said enough..this show was EPIC...such energy. I'm so happy I made the trip from Chicago to be a part of it! "Unthought Known," was so powerful and beautiful it brought tears to my eyes. Low Light, Immortality, Satan's Bed, Blood, Bee Girl, Red Mosquito, I Believe in Miracles... Truly a dream show.
I must say, I totally predicted, OTG, as the opener
Love my latest poster and can't wait for the boot!!
Love Pearl Jam. Thank you.
oh, the ritual....when I lay down your crooked arm........
Just wanted to say thanks to the boys for finally making it back to Utah. Gotta be one of the best ive been to so far. Eddie was quite the gentleman and it was nice to see all the guys so energetic. Thanks for the memories well see you next week in San Diego.
Pearl Jam reaches the hearts of its fans
David Burger
By David Burger The Salt Lake Tribune
29 September 2009
The Salt Lake Tribune
Pearl Jam's first concert in Utah in 11 years was marked by 27 songs, 10 songs during the two encores, six songs from their just- released new album "Backspacer," and one marriage proposal.
Add them all up, and you hope the Seattle quintet doesn't wait until 2020 to play Utah again.
In one of the most exhilarating and exhausting concerts of the year Monday, the band of singer Eddie Vedder, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Jeff Ament demonstrated that you don't need bells and whistles to generate excitement and a definite connection to the hearts and minds of fans and non-fans alike. They brought the rhythm, but not the blues, in a joyful E Center show that illustrated a band happy to have outlasted the Bush administration.
Pearl Jam released its ninth studio album, "Backspacer," only eight days previous to the show, but most of the packed arena already knew the musical intros and lyrics to the rejuvenated band's new optimistic songs -- songs that were few and far between in the activist band's last two albums, which were filled with vitriol towards Republican leadership.
Monday, the band made sure the focus was on the music, paying little attention to lights and strobes and keeping the stage simple with understated backdrops bathed in warm reds and blues. Few bands have massed a catalog as deep and rich as Pearl Jam, with its classic
rock-influenced songs telling poignant, angry, and meaningful stories about war, love and pain.
From hits off its multi-platinum 1990 album "Ten" ("Alive," "Even Flow") to covers (The Ramones' "I Believe in Miracles" and Victoria
Williams' "Crazy Mary"), from classic songs ("Yellow Ledbetter," "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town") to obscure chestnuts ("Bee Girl," "Satan's Bed"), the band kept its energy level high by shaking up its set list and reinterpreting old songs. For example, "Daughter" turned into "Sympathy For the Devil" and then again into "W.M.A.," and at another point Gossard led the band through "Do the Evolution" with a radically different rhythm.
With Gossard and Ament keeping the rhythm huddled around Cameron's rum kit, it was hard to take your eyes off the mercurial, charming
Vedder, who was seen in one of two ways: either with both hands clenched on top of the microphone on a mic stand, or slowly swaying with slowly flailing arms. With an unshaven face and black clothes that matched the rest of the band's outfits, Vedder displayed his deep baritone yet playful growls that myriad others have imitated.
The sound wasn't perfect -- sometimes McCready's stinging solos were obscured by two other guitars, especially during "Even Flow" -- but the adoring crowd didn't seem to mind, with thousands of audience members playing air guitar and air drummer throughout the 135-minute show.
As for the proposal, a local couple went onstage and the man proposed to his girlfriend right after "Bee Girl" was played. "By the power vested in me, I'll play you a song," Vedder then said, and performed the prettiest love song he has ever written, "Just Breathe," as the couple sat next to him.
That song, as well as 26 others, seemed to be played expressly for each audience member, in a way that was paradoxically intimate yet communal.
2020 can't come soon enough.
Set list:
Of the Girl
Breakerfall
Hail Hail
Severed Hand
The Fixer
Low Light
Marker in the Sand
Even Flow
Unthought Known
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Got Some
Given To Fly
Immortality
Satan's Bed
Among the Waves
Do the Evolution
Blood
(Encore Break)
Bee Girl
Just Breathe
Red Mosquito
Daughter
Supersonic
Spin the Black Circle
--Encore Break--
I Believe in Miracles
Crazy Mary
Alive
Yellow Ledbetter
Pearl Jam
When - Monday, Sept. 28
Where - E Center, West Valley City
Bottom Line - Rock band plays generous set that marks a sea change for the band as it becomes more joyful and hopeful
Caption: Eddie Vedder sings as Pearl Jam plays the E-Center in West Valley City, Monday, September 28, 2009; Eddie Vedder sings as Pearl Jam plays the E-Center, Monday, September 28, 2009 Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune
Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
I'm jealous...
In my humble opinion, the best setlist so far in 2009....(inclusion of Blood did it for me, along with Red Mosquito, Hail Hail, Bee Girl, Satans Bed)
Is that the first time they've played Blood in 2009?
I'm going to the show on Thursday night in LA and on the 9th in San Diego.
Can't wait to catch them at the Gibson (a smaller venue)
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
listen, i wanted to get excited about pearl jam again.
here it is 2009 . . . ten years plus since i first saw them, since my life changed, since the wonder that is the album yield. and the format they have been using recently to buzz new material and release tour dates is exhausting and challenging. it's not very personal but it is interesting how it leaves it up to the commuity to breath life into it. but here i sat jumping through hoops and being dissapointed with the inability to simply say "no" to pearl jam. i was booked to california after i had waited for the rumors of closer shows to reveal themselves as at least half-truths. but then the SLC thing came to fruition and i cancelled all of my west coast dreams. (note, i actually had life intervene and couldn't travel to the cali shows, but still . . .)
i wanted to get excited about pearl jam again.
the new songs helped. here was the closest thing to yield since yield without being yield when i fucking needed to yield. the music was perfect . . . inspiring . . . and life injecting. and i was fucking ecstatic. then i realized, uh oh, i only booked one show. but that one show was amazing. that's right. the band is on. and one show can really be amazing. it's pearl jam. it's pearl jam making sure that pearl jam means something. the theme of the night was punctuated song after song . . . build after release . . . time and time again. 2 hours plus seemed like 22 mintues. i was happy as ever to be at my one pearl jam concert. did they waste the first encore on the local crowd, sure. fuck you ed, that's fine. did i get a rehased crazy mary cover instead of one of the new epic choices floating around on tour, sure. did mike fail to make ledbetter change my life, maybe. but the parts that clicked, the things that worked, were so in the moment that the things that were "planned" seemed so charming and adorable that it was clear pj could open for themselves someday and everything would be fine.
and for the record, the best part of the show wasn't the fucking wedding perposal . . . it was SATAN'S BED!!!! and then OFF THE GIRL!!! and then bee girl? just a great time. i felt like i did back in 1998, in minneapolis, in my own skin . . . happy that i had found something that epidtimizes everything that i love about music. i couldn't sit still, couldn't talk after the show from screaming, couldn't wait to open my pack of stickers . . .
love really is an amazing thing . . . an exchange of energy that makes you realize that nothing is perfect, but that when so much more is done right than is done wrong, you can really grow and dignify taking up space on the stage that life has given you. give it away . . . after you find out exactly what it is, right.
thanks for listening. i am excited about pearl jam again. and the new songs didn't all work the best live, and it's exciting just to type that.
give J Roddy Waslton & the Business a listen, that is all.
Wow, back home in Tennessee after a long journey to Utah. First off, Excellent Pre-party at The Puck.. Thanks to Brian for organizing this.. It was so great meeting so many of my PJ family (refuse to use Jamily) Seeing Krista and Lisa there was surreal.. Big thank you to SouthofSeattle Ricky for hooking me up with his 10c seat.. Now on to the show.. Ben was really good, and all though I had read he wasn't playing any early stuff, had my hopes for something old.. He didn't disappoint when he busted out Walk Away.. Incredible.. Then the waiting began.. What are they gonna open with? There is a stool on the stage.. They soundchecked Oceans.. maybe? Then the stool disappeared off the stage.. Finally the band comes out.. Then the bass and drums start.. OMG it's Of The Girl!! 2nd time live and enjoyed it way more this time.. last time was Memphis 2000 and I had a shitty seat.. definitly not the case this time..Then they set out to blow our faces off with Breakerfall Hail Hail and Severed Hand.. I thought they had a new record out.. Oh yeah. they haven't been to SLC in 11 years.. Guess they gotta make up for lost time.. They were ON FIRE!! Then finally something new.. Fixer was sugary sweet pop rock at its finest.. background vocals (never there live strong point) were spot on.. Then my FAVORITE song off of Yield.. Low Light was beautiful.. again the backing vocals were great.. We all have some boots from the past where they've been horrible (no offense, Jeff) Ed fucked up lyrics on Unthought Known and you could tell he was a little embarrassed.. It was classic Eddie actually.. Immortality was chillingly beautiful.. I found it odd that Ed never uttered the word "Immortality" during the entire song.. Like he refused to glorify the loss of life of so many of his contemporaries,, Satan's Bed caught me entirely off guard and I swear I nearly lost my shit when he did his best Mick Jagger impression on the line "Skinny little bitch" It was too funny.. Watch the You Tube video for that alone!! I swear it was 1993 all over again when they closed the set with Blood.. It was ferocious!! Exit stage and we are waiting.. They set up 2 stools.. What they gonna play? My new buddy Ricky suggests either Smile or Bee girl... NEVER thought I'd hear Bee Girl!! Then some douche comes out and does the whole proposal thing.. Very lame.. and a waste of valuable concert time IMO. Red Mosquito was EPIC Ben tore that shit up!! Then another Stones reference with Sympathy for the Devil tag on Daughter... Then Mike and Jeff chaing each other like a dog chasing his tail during Spin the black Circle.. It's like Jeff sent Mike off into orbit as he bagan circling around behind the stage.. It was hilarious!! 2nd encore was kinda lame but I was too tired to give them anymore enegry anyway.. All in all an incredible show... Now I guess I'm off to post in the Play The South thread again LOL
Dream come true!!! Second row seat 8, right in front of Eddie!!! Got a little crazy and threw my red sox hat on stage, thanks for wearing it eddie, sorry know your a cubs fan. Great show cant wait to see them again. If they come back we gotta fill up the seats..
Can someone that was there answer a question for me?
Did you happen to notice if there were posters remaining at the end of the night?
thanks.
There were still posters there as I was leaving. They also had the Pearl Jam Utah Jazz shirts still for sale. I am sure we will see these in the goods section. I didn't really care for the sports shirt. I am not a big fan of white t shirts.
Comments
My iPhone vid of Yellow Ledbetter.
I know, I laughed when they asked me and just said "Not a chance."
The show though was unbelievable. What an awesome setlist. Hearing Of The Girl, Breakerfall, Low Light, and Immortality were the highlights for me. The new songs sound GREAT live.
My second Bee Girl, which really surprised me. Yeah, just an awesome PJ show, best one I've been to so far and could possibly be the best setlist of the tour yet...
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
my highlights: mike melting my face off during severed hand and then again during immortality; ben harper joining for red mosquito; all the new songs sounded great live (wish we could have heard more of them); satan's bed and blood were absolutely awesome
the poster for this show rocks...i only get posters from the shows i go to, and i have so many unframed that i said to myself, "self" (sorry i know that is lame) i am going to skip the poster unless it is really great, which it was...the other thing is DON"T BUY ONE OFF OF EBAY--they had 1000's of them--not even close to selling out--they will be for sale here, no doubt
the other thing that is really cool is the key chain...you might think $15 for a key chain is ridiculous, but it is that cool...
also, the people working the merch. booths held my poster for me and let me pick it up after the show, very nice
can't wait for the massive US tour next year (fingers crossed)
EDIT: Have to add that Ben Harper's set was amazing! and Bee Girl was quite a gem
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 must say, I totally predicted, OTG, as the opener
Love my latest poster and can't wait for the boot!!
Love Pearl Jam. Thank you.
oh, the ritual....when I lay down your crooked arm........
So why be satisfied?
Alex
Hard for me not to react to the petty violence, but I have two little kids who need a Dad.........
David Burger
By David Burger The Salt Lake Tribune
29 September 2009
The Salt Lake Tribune
Pearl Jam's first concert in Utah in 11 years was marked by 27 songs, 10 songs during the two encores, six songs from their just- released new album "Backspacer," and one marriage proposal.
Add them all up, and you hope the Seattle quintet doesn't wait until 2020 to play Utah again.
In one of the most exhilarating and exhausting concerts of the year Monday, the band of singer Eddie Vedder, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Jeff Ament demonstrated that you don't need bells and whistles to generate excitement and a definite connection to the hearts and minds of fans and non-fans alike. They brought the rhythm, but not the blues, in a joyful E Center show that illustrated a band happy to have outlasted the Bush administration.
Pearl Jam released its ninth studio album, "Backspacer," only eight days previous to the show, but most of the packed arena already knew the musical intros and lyrics to the rejuvenated band's new optimistic songs -- songs that were few and far between in the activist band's last two albums, which were filled with vitriol towards Republican leadership.
Monday, the band made sure the focus was on the music, paying little attention to lights and strobes and keeping the stage simple with understated backdrops bathed in warm reds and blues. Few bands have massed a catalog as deep and rich as Pearl Jam, with its classic
rock-influenced songs telling poignant, angry, and meaningful stories about war, love and pain.
From hits off its multi-platinum 1990 album "Ten" ("Alive," "Even Flow") to covers (The Ramones' "I Believe in Miracles" and Victoria
Williams' "Crazy Mary"), from classic songs ("Yellow Ledbetter," "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town") to obscure chestnuts ("Bee Girl," "Satan's Bed"), the band kept its energy level high by shaking up its set list and reinterpreting old songs. For example, "Daughter" turned into "Sympathy For the Devil" and then again into "W.M.A.," and at another point Gossard led the band through "Do the Evolution" with a radically different rhythm.
With Gossard and Ament keeping the rhythm huddled around Cameron's rum kit, it was hard to take your eyes off the mercurial, charming
Vedder, who was seen in one of two ways: either with both hands clenched on top of the microphone on a mic stand, or slowly swaying with slowly flailing arms. With an unshaven face and black clothes that matched the rest of the band's outfits, Vedder displayed his deep baritone yet playful growls that myriad others have imitated.
The sound wasn't perfect -- sometimes McCready's stinging solos were obscured by two other guitars, especially during "Even Flow" -- but the adoring crowd didn't seem to mind, with thousands of audience members playing air guitar and air drummer throughout the 135-minute show.
As for the proposal, a local couple went onstage and the man proposed to his girlfriend right after "Bee Girl" was played. "By the power vested in me, I'll play you a song," Vedder then said, and performed the prettiest love song he has ever written, "Just Breathe," as the couple sat next to him.
That song, as well as 26 others, seemed to be played expressly for each audience member, in a way that was paradoxically intimate yet communal.
2020 can't come soon enough.
Set list:
Of the Girl
Breakerfall
Hail Hail
Severed Hand
The Fixer
Low Light
Marker in the Sand
Even Flow
Unthought Known
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Got Some
Given To Fly
Immortality
Satan's Bed
Among the Waves
Do the Evolution
Blood
(Encore Break)
Bee Girl
Just Breathe
Red Mosquito
Daughter
Supersonic
Spin the Black Circle
--Encore Break--
I Believe in Miracles
Crazy Mary
Alive
Yellow Ledbetter
Pearl Jam
When - Monday, Sept. 28
Where - E Center, West Valley City
Bottom Line - Rock band plays generous set that marks a sea change for the band as it becomes more joyful and hopeful
Caption: Eddie Vedder sings as Pearl Jam plays the E-Center in West Valley City, Monday, September 28, 2009; Eddie Vedder sings as Pearl Jam plays the E-Center, Monday, September 28, 2009 Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune
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i love this band more and more.
EV: Vancouver, 4/2/08 + 4/3/08 - Seattle, 7/16/11, Amsterdam, 6/10/2019
In my humble opinion, the best setlist so far in 2009....(inclusion of Blood did it for me, along with Red Mosquito, Hail Hail, Bee Girl, Satans Bed)
Is that the first time they've played Blood in 2009?
I'm going to the show on Thursday night in LA and on the 9th in San Diego.
Can't wait to catch them at the Gibson (a smaller venue)
I may have just found a new wallpaper!!
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1gIE3i_1zc
here it is 2009 . . . ten years plus since i first saw them, since my life changed, since the wonder that is the album yield. and the format they have been using recently to buzz new material and release tour dates is exhausting and challenging. it's not very personal but it is interesting how it leaves it up to the commuity to breath life into it. but here i sat jumping through hoops and being dissapointed with the inability to simply say "no" to pearl jam. i was booked to california after i had waited for the rumors of closer shows to reveal themselves as at least half-truths. but then the SLC thing came to fruition and i cancelled all of my west coast dreams. (note, i actually had life intervene and couldn't travel to the cali shows, but still . . .)
i wanted to get excited about pearl jam again.
the new songs helped. here was the closest thing to yield since yield without being yield when i fucking needed to yield. the music was perfect . . . inspiring . . . and life injecting. and i was fucking ecstatic. then i realized, uh oh, i only booked one show. but that one show was amazing. that's right. the band is on. and one show can really be amazing. it's pearl jam. it's pearl jam making sure that pearl jam means something. the theme of the night was punctuated song after song . . . build after release . . . time and time again. 2 hours plus seemed like 22 mintues. i was happy as ever to be at my one pearl jam concert. did they waste the first encore on the local crowd, sure. fuck you ed, that's fine. did i get a rehased crazy mary cover instead of one of the new epic choices floating around on tour, sure. did mike fail to make ledbetter change my life, maybe. but the parts that clicked, the things that worked, were so in the moment that the things that were "planned" seemed so charming and adorable that it was clear pj could open for themselves someday and everything would be fine.
and for the record, the best part of the show wasn't the fucking wedding perposal . . . it was SATAN'S BED!!!! and then OFF THE GIRL!!! and then bee girl? just a great time. i felt like i did back in 1998, in minneapolis, in my own skin . . . happy that i had found something that epidtimizes everything that i love about music. i couldn't sit still, couldn't talk after the show from screaming, couldn't wait to open my pack of stickers . . .
love really is an amazing thing . . . an exchange of energy that makes you realize that nothing is perfect, but that when so much more is done right than is done wrong, you can really grow and dignify taking up space on the stage that life has given you. give it away . . . after you find out exactly what it is, right.
thanks for listening. i am excited about pearl jam again. and the new songs didn't all work the best live, and it's exciting just to type that.
Nice, although, I think they need to play this more to work out the kinks and so that Ed doesn't have to keep looking down for the lyircs ...
all in favor?
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Did you happen to notice if there were posters remaining at the end of the night?
thanks.
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Yes a bunch.
thanks.
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Hell yes!!!
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PJ!!!!!!
There were still posters there as I was leaving. They also had the Pearl Jam Utah Jazz shirts still for sale. I am sure we will see these in the goods section. I didn't really care for the sports shirt. I am not a big fan of white t shirts.