LA's 4 nights...which was best?

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  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    3 and 4... wow... it's SOOOO hard to pick.

    Night 3 was a solid show, not great, but very solid until Hunger Strike. Then it went from good to Incredible!

    Night 4 had the setlist i'd been hungry to see for many, many years.

    I'm going to go with night 3, b/c i will NEVER forget the crowd, and how i felt when i heard Chris Cornell's name. Eddie didn't even have to hype it up, just flatly stated 'please welcome to the stage, Mr. Chris Cornell'

    It felt like an earthquake.

    So, saying that, and to echo quite a few rankings here,

    3, 4, 1, 2.
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  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,074
    LeatherMosquitoMan wrote:
    3 and 4... wow... it's SOOOO hard to pick.

    Night 3 was a solid show, not great, but very solid until Hunger Strike. Then it went from good to Incredible!

    Night 4 had the setlist i'd been hungry to see for many, many years.

    I'm going to go with night 3, b/c i will NEVER forget the crowd, and how i felt when i heard Chris Cornell's name. Eddie didn't even have to hype it up, just flatly stated 'please welcome to the stage, Mr. Chris Cornell'

    It felt like an earthquake.

    So, saying that, and to echo quite a few rankings here,

    3, 4, 1, 2.

    at ACL he talked up Perry Farell so much that i thought neil or bruce were coming out!
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  • finally
    finally Posts: 82
    Wow, it's kinda like asking a parent who's their favorite child.

    3 is #1 because I got to share it w/a very dear friend who ADORES Chris and Jerry
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  • Wrongly Accused
    Wrongly Accused Posts: 334
    i was at all 4

    night 4 clearly had the best setlist and I agree that 3 was a fairly standard show until the encore.... BUT, that being said,if all that were at all 4 were asked to pick just one... there's no way they pick ANYTHING other than night 3(if they could've only gone to one show).... what happened when Cornell was announced was something I can only compare to feeling when i was at game 6 of the 96 world series when the final out was made and mayhem ensued for all Yankee fans... people highfiving strangers.... screams and yelps.... people crying.... just pure utter nirvana basically.... it was insane..... i have a torn ACL right now and even I felt like I lifted up off the floor.... you just can't explain what happened that night....
  • AtlantaJammer
    AtlantaJammer Posts: 2,611
    BeerBaron wrote:
    LukinFan wrote:
    Brisk. wrote:
    It just has to be 3rd...
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    I was only @ 3 & 4... everyone is so quick to give the nod to night 3 because or Cornell ... but night 4 was better. ATY, Alone, Crown and Untitled ... that takes the award. night 3 was great too, but it was an average set aide from Hunger Strike. I bet that anyone who went to all 4 shows would have raked it fourth if Cornell didn't jump on stage for HS.


    I was only at 3 and 4 as well but It wasnt even close IMO... 4,3,1,2.
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    I saw three and four.

    its tough to even rank just these two.
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  • Yield151
    Yield151 Posts: 267
    I must say I am so glald I decided to go to all 4. Each night I went home thinking how it could get better, but each night had its own special thing going on for me.

    Night 1 I had tix in the 7th row center stage, so being that close really made that night ROCK!

    Night 2 I took my sister to her first Pearl Jam show (she is 20) I had taken my brother in 02 and she has been begging ever since, so seing her get so into PJ was just amazing to me, really made that night memerable.

    Night 3, well as we all know Chris Cornell showed up, so that was beyond anything I would have ever imagined happening.

    Night 4 setlist was one treat after another..... bonus highlight was when Ben came out for Indifference, my girlfriend was hoping for that all 4 nights and finally we got it on the last show - AWESOME.

    So if I had to rank them, I would say 4,3,1,2

    I also went to San Fran and San Diego, both of which were pretty amazing, but the Gibson is the best place I have ever seen PJ play and I really hope they play there every time from here on out.
  • WO83886
    WO83886 Boston Posts: 61
    All four shows were great, the crowds were a bit different each time, 2 and 3 being the best for that

    you really do have to put an * next to night three because of Hungerstrike. It was special and made the night different. shows that one song and one guest can dramatically change a show. as far as the nights overall

    4,1,3,2

    they were all great and each had its own positives. Night 1s opening set was fukin awesome. It was loud and it had old school jams (tremor, rats) and it flowed incredibly well. I was looking forward for this bootleg the most out of the 4 LA shows because of how good this opening set rocked and went together (with night 3 with cornell coming in a close second). The encore was the first time I got to see just breathe, the end, w/ strings and it really was beautiful to see/hear.
    Night 2 was solid but you had the same basic encores and had many of the sing a longs, which I do like but also i've seen a lot now. The crowd was much improved from the night before and the energy all night was very good, but the show least likely to download.
    Night 3 had a ton of energy. It really was the show the crowd rocked to the most. My seats the last two nights gave me a great view from the side (stones) of the whole place and I could just see more people rocking night three than 4. Hungerstrike was as awesome as you would imagine. Incredible moment and made the night a special one. The whole show overall, without hungerstrike, was again awesome but not as good as night 1.
    Night 4, they basically opened with 4 openers, like they werent sure how to do this. It was great. Got some great old school jams, vedder was pumped, blood sounded awesome as did reign o'er me. The whole night kicked ass from start to finish, the crowd was pumped, and it was the longest show, making it the best show

    I think people are passing up on LA 1 because of the encores, but the opening set was worth it.
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  • MónicaHdez
    MónicaHdez Posts: 27
    LA 3 8-)
  • thunderDAN
    thunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    I think 3 and 4 were both up there, 2 has potential for being the worst show on the tour so far. Driven to Tears and Dissident will do that. Night 2's setlist was below average. Night 1 was alright, but nothing spectacular
  • pray for mojo
    pray for mojo Posts: 117
    I didn't do night 2. But for me it was 4, 3, 1...and I had Loge seats for night 4. But the set list just floored me. So many songs I'd always wanted to hear live and hadn't. Opening with Long Road....then hearing all the others like "Alone", "Crown Of Thorns", "Love Reign O'er Me", and of course "Kick Out The Jams". Blew me away.

    All 3 nights were amazing though. Night 1 I got a pic from Eddie and Mike. That's pretty tough to beat that!
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  • CantKeepmedown
    CantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 3,124
    I agree with Beer Baron. IMO, night 4 is by far the best of the bunch. Hunger Strike isn't enough to put that set over night 4. If I were there, it may have made a difference, but juding by setlists alone, night 4 gets the nod from me.

    GIve it up for Puddy.......that's a hell of a setlist he requested.
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    CantKeepmedown wrote:
    I agree with Beer Baron. IMO, night 4 is by far the best of the bunch. Hunger Strike isn't enough to put that set over night 4. If I were there, it may have made a difference, but juding by setlists alone, night 4 gets the nod from me.

    GIve it up for Puddy.......that's a hell of a setlist he requested.
    I think this put him over the top and made him sponge worthy.
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