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October 6, 2009 Universal City, California, Gibson Amphitheater
Opening Band: Ben Harper and Relentless7
Set List: Sometimes, Breakerfall, (Interstellar Overdrive)/Corduroy, Save You, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Got Some, Unthought Known, Faithfull, Even Flow, Unemployable, Daughter, Johnny Guitar, Given To Fly, Off He Goes, Comatose, The Fixer, Do The Evolution
1st encore: Just Breathe w/string quartet, The End w/string quartet, Lukin w/string quartet, Red Mosquito w/Ben Harper, Jazz Odyssey, Rearviewmirror
2nd encore: Once, Footsteps, Hunger Strike w/Chris Cornell, Alive w/Jerry Cantrell
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Opening Band: Ben Harper and Relentless7
Set List: Sometimes, Breakerfall, (Interstellar Overdrive)/Corduroy, Save You, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Got Some, Unthought Known, Faithfull, Even Flow, Unemployable, Daughter, Johnny Guitar, Given To Fly, Off He Goes, Comatose, The Fixer, Do The Evolution
1st encore: Just Breathe w/string quartet, The End w/string quartet, Lukin w/string quartet, Red Mosquito w/Ben Harper, Jazz Odyssey, Rearviewmirror
2nd encore: Once, Footsteps, Hunger Strike w/Chris Cornell, Alive w/Jerry Cantrell
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...and our minds were even more blown than yours...
Paraphrasing from Eddie: Sometimes it takes just one person to make something great...Ladies and Gentlemen, Chris Cornell...
And you will buy this boot!
Blew away (I think) the Santa Barbara Bowl performance of Hunger Strike where Chris was not in good voice. He sounded amazing, the band was amazing. Great show made incredible by this...
,,,and at the start of the Alive solo, Mike hands his guitar over to Jerry Cantrell who makes our ears bleed...
Just breathtaking!
They can do anything and now is not the time to miss a show. I Will get crazy with you...buy you beers...sing every word of every song (but my voice is shot from the first three LA shows so you won't be able to hear my awful voice
Before Chris Cornell made us lose our collective breath, Faithful was such a highlight as was Unemployable. They're playing enough hits for my wife to enjoy her second LA show (Corduroy, EWBTIAST, Daughter, Once, Alive--the walk to the car explained the mamason trilogy that we got)...and enough for the diehards to enjoy. FOOT FREAKIN' STEPS!
While I could do without the same 1st encore, Just Breathe, The End and Red Mosquito (with Senor Ben) are so special at the Universal Amphitheater, that it would be a shame to waste the opportunity to hear it again and again--because we won't get to hear it like this on the 2012 tour (fingers crossed!)
The setlist read:
HUNGER W/ ?
The only way it could have been better would have been for Chris Cornell to come out during "Footsteps" and have it morph into "Times Of Trouble" and then go into "Hunger Strike." Next time.
Highlights of the main set included a pitch-perfect "Breakerfall" and "Yield" stalwarts "Given To Fly" and "Do The Evolution." "Rearviewmirror" was even better than usual, a little different on the stretched-out part and shorter and tighter on the freakout finish. "Comatose" was phenomenal-- two minutes of primal rock.
I didn't notice this the other night, but "Jazz Odyssey" actually sounds a fair bit like the tuning-up intro to "Last Exit" on the "Vitalogy" record.
Even though the second encore was special, this show was not quite on the level of the first two L.A. shows, in my opinion, which admittedly may not be skewed because I was in the 11th and 13th rows for the first two shows and way up in about the 50th row in the middle of a dead zone of contemplative fans tonight. I don't usually pay that much attention to what the rest of the crowd is doing, but it was hard not to notice tonight. A lot of raised hands in the front, not so much in the back. I have never seen as many people head for the exits for bathroom and beverage breaks as when they went into "Unemployable." I was sitting on the aisle and it was a mass exodus. It was funny to see many of these same folks scrambling back when the next song was "Daughter."
The main set was solid, and the second encore was, as already mentioned, special. But, as good as "Just Breathe" and "The End" sound with the strings (and "The End" just sounds better and better), the first encore has become very predictable. Even "Lukin" with strings has become part of the routine.
I will be interested to hear what others who weren't in the dead zone have to say about this show.
Show started at 8:43 p.m., and ended at 10:47 p.m. Home at 11:06 p.m.-- gotta love Gibson!
Holy. Crap.
This is my kind of love...
♥♥♥
AMAZING, and we get to do it tomorrow night one more time. PJ should play two shows every week in L.A. until it falls off into the ocean.
98 - 7/14 Los Angeles Forum (missed Tenacious D)
00 - 8/24 Jones Beach, 10/24 Los Angeles Greek (can't find a Better Van!), 25 San Diego & 28 San Bernadino (Glen Helen)
03 - 6/2 & 3 Irvine, 5 San Diego, 6 Las Vegas MGM (10th Annivesary), 7 Phoenix
05 - 9/2 Vancouver
06 - 7/9 & 10 Los Angeles, 12 Hollywood (Fonda Theatre, it's a Worldwide Suicide), 15 & 16 San Francisco
08 - 7/12 The Who Tribute at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion! (Love, Reign o'er me! with orchestra)
09 - 8/23 & 24 Chicago United Center, 9/26 Portland, 9/30, 10/1, 6 & 7 Universal City Amphiteatre, 9 San Diego (2nd row)
10 - 5/20 & 21 MSG, 10/23 Bridge School
12 - 6/20 & 21 Manchester, UK
13 - 11/19 Phoenix, 21 San Diego, 23 & 24 Los Angeles, 12/6 Seattle (finally)!
14 - 10/16 Detroit, 20 Milwaukee (YIELDED), 22 Denver
16 - 8/20 Wrigley #1
18 - 8/18 Wrigley #1 (40th show!), 8/20 Wrigley #2
I don't know how they are going to top that tomorrow night but I'll be there to see them try!
I was 10C - Orc 5 Row EE Seat 5 and from where I was the whole crowd were going off.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Pearl FUCKING Jam!!!
And thanks to the guy in front of me in Section 11 who sat for the entire show, giving me a clear line of sight to the stage.
small gripe.......of all the great s/t songs, unemployable is not one of them and is making too many set appearances.
Amazing. A part of history.
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Agree with this review 100%. Very solid show with a tremendous second encore. Footsteps followed by Hunger Strike was amazing. Second time for me seeing Cornell since I was at SB in '03. I was much closer to the stage than the writer of the above review, about 10 rows back on Mike's side after being 2nd and 4th row the first two nights. Very energetic performance.
Crowd was definitely into it close to the stage but there was a very un-Pearl Jam like number of repeats from the second show. I thought it was quite odd that Evolution, Daughter, GTF, Once, etc were all played again. Just Breathe and The End are fabulous beyond words so I understand them being played every night, after all they are on the new album but I def think they also should have Ben play a different song than Red Mosquito on some of these nights. Indifference would be real nice. Hopefully tomorrow's show will be totally different.
So far IMO I think the second night was best by far.
Great show. Energy was between night 1 and night 2 until Chris Cornell came out, then the roof exploded off.
It was permagrin, weak in the knees, laughing like a lunatic time. (Pretty much the same thing that happened to me at Santa Barbara 03).
Sometimes was an awesome opener. Something different and really set up for a great night with a bunch of interesting and great choices.
Breakerfall, Faithfull, Johnny Guitar, Unemployable, Comotose and Off he goes were other highlights from the main set. The Fixer sounded better than ever, and Got Some was also off the hook. I've been slowly moving up from Lodge N, to Orch 5 JJ, to tonight with fucking ridiculous seats, Orch 3 BB. 11 rows from the stage and 2 back in the center Orch.
Thanks to Kat(Edit, not that Kat) for the hookup. Our seats will only be better tomorrow if we hit the lottery. Although I felt like I already hit with all the good things that have happened at LA 1, 2, and 3.
annoying part...crazy rave dancing chick in the aisle next to me.
I don't know about that-- I fucking LOVE Unemployable. By far my favorite song from the last album.
Anyways, opinions are opinions.
By the way, sick show. I was there. Unbelievable.
2009: Los Angeles (1,2,3,4)
2008: Los Angeles (1&2)
2003: Los Angeles (1&2)
2000: Maryland
1998: Washington, DC
Cmon people you can make our days !!
Cheers mate !
I just watch it Cornell voice sounds amazing !!! Thanks again for sharing now I can go to work with a smile on my face
I am such a fan of the Yield album and all the tracks rocked tonight! And I've never heard Rearview rock so hard!!
I was in Lodge, but had LAME people around me...oh well at least I rocked it and can't wait for tomorrow!
Peace!
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San Bernadino - 2000
RAC - 2002
ATP - 2002 "speed thrash ukulele"
Astoria!!!, London - 2006
Perth, Australia - 2009
03: 7-11 Mansfield 3
04: 9-28 Boston 1
08: 6-28 Mansfield 1
09: 10-30 Philly 3, 10-31 Philly 4
10: 5-15 Hartford, 5-17 Boston
11: 9-3 Alpine Valley, 9-4 Alpine Valley
13: 10-15 Worcester 1, 10-16 Worcester 2, 10-25 Hartford
16: 4-29 Philly 2, 5-1 MSG 1, 8-5 Fenway 1, 8-7 Fenway 2
18: 9-2 Fenway 1, 9-4 Fenway 2
21: 9-26 Ohana
22: 5-6 LA, 5-7 LA, 5-16 Fresno
EV SOLO: 8-2-08 Boston 2, 6-8-09 Albany 1, 6-15-11 Providence, 6-16-11 Boston, 6-18-11 Hartford, 11-1-12 Las Vegas
Tres Mts: 3-27-11 Boston
who sold you a ticket in such a lame section? ; )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D86Vh-QF5_Q
I was at LA2, in my 10c seats, and that show blew my mind. This time, in the Loge section, I thought I might feel a bit of a letdown, but the opening set of songs took care of that! Sometimes, Breakerfall... SO pumped to hear Faithful, and then got a tear in my eye during Off He Goes. I know, I'm a softy.
I thought the encores were going to be a little less exciting, since they seemed to be following the same script as LA 2 had been, but then Eddie busted out the harmonica, and since they had just played Once, I figured it was going to be Footsteps, and I was STOKED. Of course, I would have been pumped if it was Smile, too, as that's one of my favorites, but you can't beat the trilogy...
And then when Ed said something about it being a special night because of someone in attendance, I figured he was going to point out a family member, or an old friend, or something - and then he said Chris Cornell... !!! The place went apesh*t, I got chills all over the place, and then Hunger Strike just absolutely slayed the room.
I had not been sure about buying a poster at first, but after that... wow... AND after freaking Jerry Cantrell showed up to shred on Alive, I knew it was a once-in-a-blue-moon kinda show, so I bought the damn poster!
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You're welcome my friend. See you tomorrow!
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2008 LA 2, San Diego 1 (EV)
2009 LA 1, 2, 3 & 4, San Diego
2011 St. Louis (EV)
2012 Tulsa 1 & 2 (EV)
2013 Chicago, Dallas & OKC