**** Toronto 1 Fanviews Here 9/11/11 ****

BLACK35

dimitrispearljam wrote:

BLACK35 wrote:

hinsey21 wrote:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/149160-pearl-jam-11-september-2011-toronto-on/

this showed up on my Facebook through paul mercs concerts...you could imagine the surprise when i saw my wife and I in the first photo haha

what a night, i'll never forget it

this band is the best

Its always cool when you can find yourself in other people's photos when attendng events, IMO anyways

true..
Toronto 1 during Nais..

Is that a tear I see

hinsey21

dimitrispearljam wrote:

BLACK35 wrote:

hinsey21 wrote:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/149160-pearl-jam-11-september-2011-toronto-on/

this showed up on my Facebook through paul mercs concerts...you could imagine the surprise when i saw my wife and I in the first photo haha

what a night, i'll never forget it

this band is the best

Its always cool when you can find yourself in other people's photos when attendng events, IMO anyways

true..
Toronto 1 during Nais..

haaahaha that is awesome!

morello

dimitrispearljam wrote:

BLACK35 wrote:

hinsey21 wrote:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/149160-pearl-jam-11-september-2011-toronto-on/

this showed up on my Facebook through paul mercs concerts...you could imagine the surprise when i saw my wife and I in the first photo haha

what a night, i'll never forget it

this band is the best

Its always cool when you can find yourself in other people's photos when attendng events, IMO anyways

true..
Toronto 1 during Nais..

That is a very cool, perfect pic D!!!

dimitrispearljam

Black Diamond

dimitrispearljam wrote:

dimitrispearljam

Black Diamond wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

demetrios

Royals17 wrote:

Can't wait for the Bootleg.

Hawk123

demetrios wrote:

Royals17 wrote:

Can't wait for the Bootleg.

hinsey21

Hawk123 wrote:

demetrios wrote:

Royals17 wrote:

Can't wait for the Bootleg.

DURP

I'm hoping the boot comes out soon i wanted to get for my brother for his B-day.

dimitrispearljam

DURP wrote:

I'm hoping the boot comes out soon i wanted to get for my brother for his B-day.

when is that?

IgotshitID

is there still no word on these boots?

demetrios

IgotshitID wrote:

is there still no word on these boots?

Nothing yet. :(

demetrios

This Tuesday maybe? Official bootlegs?

BLACK35

demetrios wrote:

This Tuesday maybe? Official bootlegs?

I can only wish

Rani

Ok, when was the other time when PJ did the Chloe Dancer?

And where is the boot already?

Seriously. Where is it?

I haven't been around here in a long time...so I don't know how soon PJ typically release their boots after the shows. Is it usually soon after the show? Or the normal wait is a month after the show?

What a show this was...I wish I could turn back time...

eldarion75

This is the Toronto review from Classic Rock. It's a good read.

Pearl Jam, Toronto Air Canada centre, Canada


September 11 2011. Exactly ten years since the twin towers collapsed, and almost 20 years to the day since the near simultaneous release of Pearl jam's Ten and Nirvana's Smells like teen spirit detonated the generational youth-quake of grunge. There are almost 20,000 people here in the huge Air Canada centre, Toronto's answer to London's O2 or New york City's Madison Square Garden. Even before fellow Seattle survivors Mudhoney finish their support set, a light fog of marijuana smoke wafts over the crowd. Deep in the heart of Pearl Jam country, the Woodstock festival never really ended.

Tonight is the first of two mega-shows for Pearl Jam, who are in Canada to launch a full coast to coast tour alongside their new, career-spanning documentary and live album Pearl Jam:Twenty. Every seat in the Ar Canada centre carries the same egalitarian flat price of around 90 Canadian dollars. That's something of a bargain for a modern arena show, which may help explain the no-frills production:no pyrotechnics, no video screens, no razzle dazzle stage props.

Modelling a dainty beard and flannel shirt from Topman's off the shelf Grunge range, Eddie Vedder hurls himself into the music with admirable gusto. Although no longer given to the risky stage climbing and roof dangling exploits of early Pearl Jam shows( as documented in Cameron Crowe's new film), the gravel voiced singer still pinballs around the stage with air-punching abandon, tossing out Joe Cocker-esque arm gestures and windmill-riffing homages to his guitar hero Pete Townshend.

Once notoriously glum and tetchy, the 46 year old Vedder is clearly a calmer chameleon these days. Between his exertions
the snger shares some of the warm jokey banter that has become an increasing hallmark in recent years. " Our cities each have large concrete erections" he tells the delighted Canadians, noting the similarity between Seattle's Space Needle and Toronto's CN Tower. "Yours is bigger." Vedder quips. He also pays tribute to the band's assembled WAGS(wives and girlfriends), parents and children in the audience. "Time flies when you're having fun and having kids" he smiles wistfully. Strangely he makes no mention of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Too serious, perhaps. Or too obvious.

It takes a brave group to attempt such a bare bones production in a cavernous sports arena, but Pearl Jam pull it off by making this two-hours plus show feel spontaneous and intimate. It also has an old-school, scratchy-vinyl, analogue warmth that chimes with the band's unabashed love of classic 60s and 70s rock. Vedder and co. always stood more for continuity and tradition than for the punky non-conformism of grunge. Once leveled as a criticism, this wider perspective has increasingly proved to be an asset as fickle pop fashions fade. Over 20 years together, Pearl Jam have evolved into the new Grateful Dead, the world's biggest campfire-strumming stoner-jam band.

At their worst, all this fannish ancestor worship can become stifling and self limiting. Sporadically during their set, Pearl Jam's sepia tinted brand of rootsy authenticity feels too much like musically conservative busker-rock. But in muscular, country-flavoured numbers such as Off He Goes, Nothing as it seems, or Small town they ta into a vital tradition of storytelling Americana that reaches back through REM and Dylan to Kerouac and Steinbeck.

Across a 27 song set spanning their entire career, it soon becomes clear just how few killer anthems Pearl Jam have written in 20 years together. Fortunately they have enough blustery passion and blunt melodic hooks to carry them through o goodwillalone, from the heart-swelling crescendos of Daughter and Given to fly to arena punk belters like Got some and Grievance. The band's tendency towards bloated sprawl only begins to drag during the final half hour, when Mike McCready and Stone Gossard cut lose with too amny extended, bles meta guitar wanks, most damningly during Porch and RVM.

But of course Pearl jam are smart enough to hold back some heavy artillery for their half hour, eight sog onslaught of encores. Handing vocal duties to the fans on several numbers, Vedder conducts a mass crowd singalong during the Springsteen-esque roar of Betterman, throwing in his usual vocal homage to the Beat's Save it for later.
Then in a pleasing nod to Pearl Jam's Seattle pre-history, he bounces along to the glam punk riffs of Mother Love Bone's Crown of Thorns. But the entire arena already knows that the climax will be their mighty signature hit Alive, as obvios as an approaching avalanche, and almost as loud in its cascading riffs and roaring gradients.

And yet, Alive is not quite the end, because Pearl Jam have another ace up their plaid sleeves. Rumours have been swirlng all day of guest appearances by Chris Cornell or Bono. But Vedder dropped some early hints by paying tribute to his personal icon and sometime collaborator Neil Young, noting that the veteran rocker still seems younger than him.Toronto is Young's hometown of course, the hospital where he was born lies around 10 blocks north of the Air Canada centre.

All the same, it still feels like a grand coup de theatre when pearl Jam crank up Young's epochal anthm of RITFW for their final encore, and after a teasing few minutes, Young bounds onstage. Lookng lean and lanky in a dapper hat and leather jacket, he corrals the band it a whirling circle of guitarists, grining as he cugs away at his Les Paul. Vedder hovers on the edge of the storm, clapping and shouting as massive power chords boom and clang at deafening volume. It's a fantastic display of pan-generational rock solidarity and possibly a veiled comment on the unspoken echoes of 9/11.

Some bands(mostly British) define themselves in terms of punky cynicism and urban-outsider cool. Others, (mostly American) make a virtue of their connection to comunity, history and landscape. Pearl Jam may have roots in the former camp, but they are now plainly in the latter.

Twenty years and 60 million album sales down the line, Pearl Jam continues to thrive and survive. On a day charged with tragic memories, witnessing these evergreen heartland rockers transform a giant sports arena into an indoor Woodstock festival feels like a genuinely positive event, and an anniversary worth celebrating. Stephen Dalton




I liked that review. thoughts anyone?

polaris_x

eldarion75 wrote:

Every seat in the Ar Canada centre carries the same egalitarian flat price of around 90 Canadian dollars. That's something of a bargain for a modern arena show, which may help explain the no-frills production:no pyrotechnics, no video screens, no razzle dazzle stage props.

as for the overall review - it's hit and miss with me ... the author clearly hasn't followed the band nor done much research ... his point of how few killer anthems is a testament to the fact he doesn't realize that pearl jam can play upwards of 100 different songs over a 10 city tour ... anyways ... pearl jam are now a band for the appreciative masses ... a little something for everyone ...

Rani

tremors wrote:

Back in the day, when I was just getting to know my girl, she did me a tape of all the music she was listening to, that meant something to her. A lot of stuff I didn't know, a lot of Pearl Jam, a lot of grunge. I listened to it loads, and I learnt a lot about her through this tape. I still have it. Chloe Dancer / Crown of thorns was the opening track. Sorry, I think I'm about to cry

Hey that's a really nice story, tremors...about your girl.

eldarion75

polaris_x wrote:

eldarion75 wrote:

Every seat in the Ar Canada centre carries the same egalitarian flat price of around 90 Canadian dollars. That's something of a bargain for a modern arena show, which may help explain the no-frills production:no pyrotechnics, no video screens, no razzle dazzle stage props.

as for the overall review - it's hit and miss with me ... the author clearly hasn't followed the band nor done much research ... his point of how few killer anthems is a testament to the fact he doesn't realize that pearl jam can play upwards of 100 different songs over a 10 city tour ... anyways ... pearl jam are now a band for the appreciative masses ... a little something for everyone ...

Think youve missed the point. Not every review has to be written by a super fan. This was a rock journalist from the outside looking in. And with a lot more objectivity than any of us would be able to muster. Or be comfortable with it seems.