Which bootlegs are you listening to right now?

Pap

BHealy wrote:

Is this boot available from PJ? I couldn't find it on the website with the other 2010 boots.

Yes! Under this tag: Oeiras


Today, Perth 2009 for me.

Newch91

Brooklyn 2 again.

mcgruff10

Newch91 wrote:

Brooklyn 2 again.

I m loving this boot! Going Berlin 2 in my truck. This improv is very phish like.

boyo79

YLed2 wrote:

Manchester 2 2012

The energy and vibe of the show kicks off in high gear right off the bat opening with the killer combination of Go > Animal. It's like peanut butter and jelly and just a sick way to start off any show. Even though Ed mistakenly (or maybe on purpose) gets mixed up between the first and second chorus by extending the first chorus as if it's the second chorus, they start out on fire. This opening combination really sets the table for the rest of the show nicely, and a part of me thinks it's on purpose because I thought there were some dead spots during the first night in Manchester in my opinion.

Ed had Of The Girl to start the show but they dropped it. As much as I would have loved to have heard that again starting with Go & Animal really worked. Plus starting with Go meant I called both openers right for Manchester

shetellsherself

FINALLY!!! Brooklyn 2. It took forever to arrive and then it came on Friday. Just in time for the weekend when I knew I wouldn't have time to listen and even if I did have time I wouldn't be able to give it the necessary volume bc kids and hubby are around. Now I'm blasting it in my car as happy as can be. The first official boot from a show I attended! So exciting! The count after mikes solo in even flow back into the chorus 1, 2, 3, 4....EVENFLOW.... I've heard hundreds of times on boots but today was so exciting bc I knew I was there screaming that out myself! :crazy:

restlesssoul

KATOWICE 2000
night 1

boyo79

Brooklyn I

Pendulum opens and Ed's vocal performance is abit mixed - misses a couple of notes but also shows a great range. No such problems on Release, which just sounds fantastic and haunting. I just dig hearing Lightning Bolt everytime, this track really has grown on me. I think this may be my favourite version on the tour so far. Corduroy is just as energetic and Mind Your Manners sounds pretty good here - I've struggled so far with MYM on the boots but here I can't fault it and the crowd thoroughly enjoy it. Ed then greets the crowd for the first time. Dissident & Why Go follow, Jeff's bass sounding immense at the start of Why Go though the guitar at the start of the solo sounds very off. Swallowed Whole again sounds good live. Ed dedicates Infallible to his daughters. The start of Sirens is messed up and they have to start it over, though it isn't the best version with missed vocals and guitar parts missing. Ed gets Mike to play Eruption while he "has to find out what happened to his fucking guitar" and the gig resumes with Spin The Black Circle. Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns is next, Chloe Dancer absolute perfection. Some lyrics are forgotten on Save You, other than that it's a good performance. It's a fairly low-key performance of Let The Records Play, I don't know why but the volume level sounds turned down here! Evolution sounds alot louder and Ed tries to get the "oh oh oh" part going with the crowd but they don't really give it back. It's a solid enough performance of Evolution and Rearviewmirror brings to an end a 21 song main set.

Oceans starts the first encore and really loses its way early on. It's an ok performance but receives a good reception from the crowd. After another solid showing for Yellow Moon, we're treated to the first performance of the tour for Sleight Of Hand - Ed tries to describe the song but has great difficulty!. Ed is off cue for the first notes but the rest of the song is great. One of my favourite PJ songs. Just Breathe is pretty flawless. Got Some takes away the mellow mood of the first encore and Porch ends the encore, with some excellent face-melting riffs from the boys.

Unfortunately I haven't got time to finish the 2nd encore tonight so I'll have to give that a listen tomorrow.

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Finished the 2nd encore this morning, Indifference closing being the highlight for me.

Overall an alright boot, some good moments and early on it had the potential to be a standout boot but dropped in the middle of the main set for me.

BHealy

Pap wrote:

BHealy wrote:

Is this boot available from PJ? I couldn't find it on the website with the other 2010 boots.

Yes! Under this tag: Oeiras


Today, Perth 2009 for me.

Awesome! Thanks!

YLed2

Newport 2012

The first festival show of the 2012 opens up with Unthought Known. It's the last time to date that this opens a show and while it's not my favorite opener, it does work well and builds to a nice climax to open the show. Last Exit makes an always welcomed appearance in the #2 slot to get things kicking, which is followed by Hail, Hail and The Fixer. While Ed's voice sounded fine for the most part for most of the show, I noticed he did struggle somewhat during The Fixer with some obvious cracks and shrieks. The tempo is then brought back down with a very cool, and quite beautiful Rain jam - which is only the 3rd time ever they play/improve this and is probably the most structured and put together version of it. It really is quite melancholy. It goes together nicely with Elderly Woman played next. The tempos brought back up with Supersonic and then a very nice Yield segment in the middle of the set with Given To Fly - Untitled - MFC. Ed changes up the lyrics quite a bit in Untitled, singing "let's go camping in the rain and mud" due to the weather of the show being filled with rain. Even Flow makes it's staple appearance next before the Setting Forth - Corduroy combination. It always works well when Ed chooses to go with this tandem, but I've always preferred Corduroy being played earlier on in the set as opposed to later on. A quite good sequence of Arms Aloft - Jeremy - Why Go closes out the main set.

The first encore is rather "vanilla" and starts off with Got Some and Daughter. Before playing Just Breathe next, Ed references Willie Nelson for covering the song which was recent during that time, and gives an impersonation of Willie singing it. This introduction and impersonation of Willie Nelson has sort of become a staple in Ed's solo shows and playing Just Breathe live it seems these days. The always crowd pleasers and jam songs Better Man and Porch close out the first encore.

Blood makes an always welcomed appearance opening up the second encore and Ed's vocals sound strong this far into the show on a song that takes its toll on the vocal chords. Alive and Yellow Ledbetter with another Little Wing tag close the show.

In summary, I don't think there is anything on this boot/show or a specific performance that emphatically stands out more than anything else. Overall, it's yet another solid and tight show for the most part, and the festival receives a rather standard "festival set list" with nothing that really jumps out and grabs your attention. Overall good flow to the set list. A rather decently high energy show, especially from Ed, who I feel was trying to put more into it. I didn't necessarily think the mix was the greatest on this boot, although still good as all of the 2012 boots are - but felt that the guitar work felt rather muddled and lost within each other at times, and Matt's drums were also sort of lost and didn't sound as piercing or punchy in this boot. It didn't feel like there was any "distinguished" sound from each band member in the mix and the sound from each member feels jumbled together and slightly messy - just doesn't have that precise crispness to it in my opinion. Kind of reminded me of the 2009 boot mixes.

TamaDrummer91

While Isle of Wight is not a top 5 bootleg for me from 2012, I find I go back to it often. Love the flow and it's tightness. I actually enjoy the mix on that one and thought the guitars have good body and crunch. But I can see why it wouldn't normally stick out as a memorable show for a majority of listeners, but it's one that I found rewarding. I think it's because I actually enjoy many of the songs on there, be it greatest hits of course. Unthought to open, last exit, hail hail, blood, why go, got some in an encore, and supersonic all filled the void for me. But not epic by any means of course. A good little sleeper festival boot.

mcgruff10

San Jose 95 thanks to huge freaking Dillon! I never noticed but I think Ed is playing Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam before elderly. Such an amazing show. I can't believe I finally own this boot. It s been top three grails for years.

jumbojet

papa_pearls_jam.pj20 wrote:

Philly II 2013

I just got digital download and I am on first CD yet and cannot believe how fucking good it sounds. Ed is killing it and the band is so tight.

boyo79

Brooklyn II

Pendulum opens again. Really loving the guitars here - sound much more effective than previous airings. There are a few nice touches which make this different from previous plays, it's good. Taking 2nd spot here is the first play of Wash on the tour. It's good but no jaw-dropping performance, especially vocally. Nothingman is bliss, Ed and crowd in perfect voice here and the musically beautiful. Lightning Bolt and Mind Your Manners are back to back again, and I must say for the second boot in a row I really enjoyed MYM. Last Exit is next, Ed misses the first note and like Leash at Worcester I it sounds slowed down and not played as quickly as recent years. Sounds good for it. As does Hail Hail. It really does sound like they have brought the tempo of the songs down abit on this tour. Or maybe my ears are playing tricks! In Hiding is great and it's the first appearance on the tour. Down just always brings a smile, such a great track and there is some great drumming here by Matt. After Down, Ed talks to the crowd and says the previous night tied for most fights at a PJ show and then says how the crowd is already much better than the previous night. How much of this is truth I don't know, Ed says this kind of thing alot! Sirens sounds excellent - no problems like the night before - and probably my favourite performance so far. Even Flow takes the show up a few notches, Matt and Mike really unleashing here. Like Sirens, Infallible sounds so much better on this boot than night 1. Present Tense and Rats continue the good run. Ed makes an absolute mess of Unthought Known, forgetting quite alot of the lyrics. Immortality is on another level. Betterman closes a great main set.

Footsteps opens the first encore - a song for all ages, as Ed describes it - and as ever it is sublime. Yellow Moon is again perfect. Ed changes the lyrics at the beginning of All Those Yesterdays to "Don't you think you oughtta rest? Don't you wanna put your sign down?" Evolution, Go and Porch bring the encore to an end with high intensity.

The band start the second encore with the same high intensity that they finished the first encore with - Whipping & Blood. A first play of Leaving Here since Curitiba '11 is next. Black and Alive give us two Ten songs back-to-back. You know it's party time when Rockin' In The Free World and Yellow Ledbetter (with Star Spangled Banner for the first time on the tour) is left to close an excellent show.

Unthought Known aside, I really can't find fault with this show. Just shades Worcester II as my favourite of the tour so far.

TamaDrummer91

boyo79 wrote:

Brooklyn I

Pendulum opens and Ed's vocal performance is abit mixed - misses a couple of notes but also shows a great range. No such problems on Release, which just sounds fantastic and haunting. I just dig hearing Lightning Bolt everytime, this track really has grown on me. I think this may be my favourite version on the tour so far. Corduroy is just as energetic and Mind Your Manners sounds pretty good here - I've struggled so far with MYM on the boots but here I can't fault it and the crowd thoroughly enjoy it. Ed then greets the crowd for the first time. Dissident & Why Go follow, Jeff's bass sounding immense at the start of Why Go though the guitar at the start of the solo sounds very off. Swallowed Whole again sounds good live. Ed dedicates Infallible to his daughters. The start of Sirens is messed up and they have to start it over, though it isn't the best version with missed vocals and guitar parts missing. Ed gets Mike to play Eruption while he "has to find out what happened to his fucking guitar" and the gig resumes with Spin The Black Circle. Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns is next, Chloe Dancer absolute perfection. Some lyrics are forgotten on Save You, other than that it's a good performance. It's a fairly low-key performance of Let The Records Play, I don't know why but the volume level sounds turned down here! Evolution sounds alot louder and Ed tries to get the "oh oh oh" part going with the crowd but they don't really give it back. It's a solid enough performance of Evolution and Rearviewmirror brings to an end a 21 song main set.

Oceans starts the first encore and really loses its way early on. It's an ok performance but receives a good reception from the crowd. After another solid showing for Yellow Moon, we're treated to the first performance of the tour for Sleight Of Hand - Ed tries to describe the song but has great difficulty!. Ed is off cue for the first notes but the rest of the song is great. One of my favourite PJ songs. Just Breathe is pretty flawless. Got Some takes away the mellow mood of the first encore and Porch ends the encore, with some excellent face-melting riffs from the boys.

Unfortunately I haven't got time to finish the 2nd encore tonight so I'll have to give that a listen tomorrow.

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Finished the 2nd encore this morning, Indifference closing being the highlight for me.

Overall an alright boot, some good moments and early on it had the potential to be a standout boot but dropped in the middle of the main set for me.

I agree for the most part. The setlist is killer and the set up was for a memorable show. I tend to believe the reports that Ed getting upset with technical difficulties and some issues with the crowd were the causes to bring this one down. Brooklyn 2 was much better.

Newch91

boyo79 wrote:

Brooklyn II

Pendulum opens again. Really loving the guitars here - sound much more effective than previous airings. There are a few nice touches which make this different from previous plays, it's good. Taking 2nd spot here is the first play of Wash on the tour. It's good but no jaw-dropping performance, especially vocally. Nothingman is bliss, Ed and crowd in perfect voice here and the musically beautiful. Lightning Bolt and Mind Your Manners are back to back again, and I must say for the second boot in a row I really enjoyed MYM. Last Exit is next, Ed misses the first note and like Leash at Worcester I it sounds slowed down and not played as quickly as recent years. Sounds good for it. As does Hail Hail. It really does sound like they have brought the tempo of the songs down abit on this tour. Or maybe my ears are playing tricks! In Hiding is great and it's the first appearance on the tour. Down just always brings a smile, such a great track and there is some great drumming here by Matt. After Down, Ed talks to the crowd and says the previous night tied for most fights at a PJ show and then says how the crowd is already much better than the previous night. How much of this is truth I don't know, Ed says this kind of thing alot! Sirens sounds excellent - no problems like the night before - and probably my favourite performance so far. Even Flow takes the show up a few notches, Matt and Mike really unleashing here. Like Sirens, Infallible sounds so much better on this boot than night 1. Present Tense and Rats continue the good run. Ed makes an absolute mess of Unthought Known, forgetting quite alot of the lyrics. Immortality is on another level. Betterman closes a great main set.

Footsteps opens the first encore - a song for all ages, as Ed describes it - and as ever it is sublime. Yellow Moon is again perfect. Ed changes the lyrics at the beginning of All Those Yesterdays to "Don't you think you oughtta rest? Don't you wanna put your sign down?" Evolution, Go and Porch bring the encore to an end with high intensity.

The band start the second encore with the same high intensity that they finished the first encore with - Whipping & Blood. A first play of Leaving Here since Curitiba '11 is next. Black and Alive give us two Ten songs back-to-back. You know it's party time when Rockin' In The Free World and Yellow Ledbetter (with Star Spangled Banner for the first time on the tour) is left to close an excellent show.

Unthought Known aside, I really can't find fault with this show. Just shades Worcester II as my favourite of the tour so far.

Trivia: Ed called an audible for In Hiding, as it was not on the written set list. I was so excited to get In Hiding and Down back to back. Two of my favorite PJ songs and first time for Down. I was a happy man in that arena that night.

boyo79

Newch91 wrote:

boyo79 wrote:

Brooklyn II

Trivia: Ed called an audible for In Hiding, as it was not on the written set list. I was so excited to get In Hiding and Down back to back. Two of my favorite PJ songs and first time for Down. I was a happy man in that arena that night.

Thanks for the info, both songs were really good and back-to-back perfect together. Two great songs!

dimitrispearljam

chicago 1 2009

eeriepadave

Missoula 2012

Newch91

boyo79 wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

boyo79 wrote:

Brooklyn II

Trivia: Ed called an audible for In Hiding, as it was not on the written set list. I was so excited to get In Hiding and Down back to back. Two of my favorite PJ songs and first time for Down. I was a happy man in that arena that night.

Thanks for the info, both songs were really good and back-to-back perfect together. Two great songs!

Agreed! I wouldn't mind hearing those two at every show I go to.

papa_pearls_jam.pj20

dimitrispearljam wrote:

chicago 1 2009

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