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I can never decide what I think the ultimate PJ opener is.....
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I was thinking about it today. I always think Release is always the best opener to get a show going. It sorta connects the crowd, allowing everybody's energy to flow through each other for the rest of the night.
But then I started thinking that Sometimes would make a hell of a good opener. The mellow guitar, Ed's voice, and just the brilliant ambient feel to the song. It always makes a great build up to the following song (Hail Hail is probably the best choice to follow this one).
And then there's Wash. Oh, Wash. What an amazing song. I can only dream of seeing PJ open a show with this one. It seems like when the crowd hear the first note, they just know it is going to be a perfect night.
There's a lot of others too, but I'm tired atm. What are other peoples opinions?
But then I started thinking that Sometimes would make a hell of a good opener. The mellow guitar, Ed's voice, and just the brilliant ambient feel to the song. It always makes a great build up to the following song (Hail Hail is probably the best choice to follow this one).
And then there's Wash. Oh, Wash. What an amazing song. I can only dream of seeing PJ open a show with this one. It seems like when the crowd hear the first note, they just know it is going to be a perfect night.
There's a lot of others too, but I'm tired atm. What are other peoples opinions?
What the fuck is this world?
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and get ready for an awesome show..
and always remember ''it's no crime to escape!!!"
but man, severed hand in hartford '06 was sweet!
2008: Camden 2, Hartford
2010: Hartford
2013: Wrigley, Worcester x2, Hartford
2015: NYC
2016: Philly 2, MSG x2, Boston 2, (TOTD Philly 2, MSG)
2018: Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Boston x2
2022: San Diego, Sacramento, Las Vegas
It's a slow build to a huge rush...
"RELEEEEEASE ME!!!!"
Would quite like to see Inside Job open!
However DTE was a great surprise in Champaign '03. High energy start to a wild experience. I can guess what the opener will be this June 30......
2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
2017: RRHoF 4/7 2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4 2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18
2022: MSG 9/11 2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
Ditto for me.... IJ was made to open.
Its a mellow starter, but the way Eds voice builds was pretty impressive
Release
Oceans
Long Road
and.....
LAST EXIT!!!
2010 - Newark 5/18 MSG 5/21
2011 - PJ20 9/3-9/4
2012 - MIA Festival 9/2
2013 - Wrigley Field 7/19 Brooklyn 10/18-10/19 Philly 10/22
2015 - Colbert show - 9/23 Global Citizens Festival 9/26
2016 - Philly 4/28-4/29 MSG 5/1-5/2
I saw PJ open with wash at my 1st show, Pudue Univ-3/17/94~I've never looked back since! I even have it on my lic plate.
however, i saw them do present tense in st. louis once and that was pretty cool.
hoping for a long road or oceans for this tour in mansfield or hartford.
also saw betterman in san diego...not a first choice for an opener. seemed out of place.
Boston1 2004
Ottowa 2005
Boston 1&2 2006
Mansfield 1&2 2008
Vedder Leg2-Boston 1&2 2008
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I had tickets to Chicago Stadium, and won the Lottery for tix at Purdue, so I gave my tix to my roomie and best friend so they could see them at PU...what a fucking idiot I was! Sometimes generosity can bite your ass. man fucking Wash and I missed the bomb threat...
Release in Chicago in unlike any other, Long road is good, Oceans ok, Sometimes ok, Severed was better than I thought. All Or None was fucking great
Gotta go with Release
6/23/06 Pittsburgh
6/19/08 Camden
6/20/08 Camden
6/22/08 DC
6/25/08 MSG
8/4/08 EV NYC
8/5/08 EV NYC
8/7/08 EV Newark
Never thought of that song as an opener... I bet that would be a killer opener actually.
8/7/08, 6/9/09
I saw Can't Keep as an opener in 2003. They could have done better. The show before that was Long Road, and the shows after the one I saw were Animal, followed by Last Exit.
The guy behind me screaming for Animal was at the wrong show. No way in hell the band could have heard him -- I was about halfway towards the back of the seated pavilion. (Grassy area behind the seats.)
then right into.....corduroy
Columbus, Ohio in 2000. The entire setlist only included two songs off Ten (plus YL at the end), but it was a very deep setlist. Not one for a Pearl Jam newbie. No Alive, no Jeremy, no Even Flow.\
Sonic Youth opened.
Information from (http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/fanscene/set2000b.html)
Set List: Breakerfall, Whipping, Spin The Black Circle, Hail Hail, Corduroy, In My Tree, Dissident, Given To Fly, Nothing As It Seems, Grievance, Light Years, Daughter/(Androgynous Mind), Lukin, Wishlist, Off He Goes, (Romance, classical song Eddie learned in Barcelona)/Better Man, State of Love and Trust, Insignificance, Rearviewmirror;
1st enc: Present Tense, Last Exit, Once, Small Town, Leatherman, Nothingman, Porch;
2nd enc: Last Kiss, Yellow Ledbetter
I didn't go, but i've listened to the bootleg probably a few hundred times by now...
I had heard a rumor that the show started late. Matt Cameron makes up for that by drumming at triple speed (ok, really, really fast.) During the intro to In My Tree, it almost sounds like some sort of jungle beat.
The Daughter tag was a sing-a-long with the crowd responding to Ed. After that song, Ed commented "Great job singing. Here's another singalong" and went straight into Lukin.
Wishlist had the line "Detroit-made Camero's hood"
Off He Goes had the "quarter to ten" line at 9:45 PM and the crowd responded favorably. (I was hoping for this to occur in 2003, but it didn't. :()
"Romance" was a fun way to start off Betterman.
Before Present Tense, Ed addressed the crowd by saying "there's enough people here to start a revolution" and then commenting on a (McCready for President) shirt that someone threw up to him by saying he'd have to vote for Ralph (Nader). He did say that if McCready became President, then "recording would have to take a back seat to the country's needs, but...what the fuck"... if you listen carefully, you can probably hear someone booing.
The Last Kiss straight into YL was a good way to end the show.
August 18, 2000, Deer Creek Music Center; Indianapolis, IN
Even better, their 10th Anniversary show in Las Vegas, NV.
Alternative Go. It's a mercyless opener. No slow build-up. Just an instant release of energy. They opened with it in Berlin 06 and I still get the chills, when I listen to the boot and hear the roar from the crowd in that 1/2 second brake after the first chords.
Berlin 23-09-06
Copenhagen 26-06-07
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"This is not wine that I'm drinking tonight. This is Gatorade!" EV-Copenhagen 26-06-07
i saw them open with sometimes in germany in 2000 amazing but would love release or brain of jfk!
Yeah!! Go at that show was surprisingly great opener!
also thought Inside Job was a great opener..Why Go just below those....