No more Ledbetter encore

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  • triangleman12
    triangleman12 Posts: 193
    stoneg wrote:
    YLB ROCKS!! Shit they could close a show with the Happy Birthday Song and I would be stoked.

    And if the stars allign they will . . . MSG 2, my birthday :)
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    MrSmith wrote:
    How about they play Yellow Ledbetter every night but stop fucking up the lyrics and sing it right!

    are you serious? YL is mostly improved anyway....
  • NeverbeenLedbetter
    NeverbeenLedbetter Posts: 213
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    I'm telling ya, just once, they should open the show with Yellow Ledbetter and follow it up with Baba O' Riley.


    I think that would be great. It is a great closing song but this is a nice tour length to really mix it up and add some freshness. It would certainly shake up the die hards in front!!!
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  • Army & Navy
    Army & Navy Posts: 120
    YL is a classic, and it feels great in concert but yes, perhaps they need other closers...Just not sure they have the right song to close apart from YL. Indifference is great, but its not a closer IMO. RITFW & Baba are nearly as overplayed as YL....

    Perhaps Alive or Black....
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    it def. does not fit anywhere in a set list other than a closer.

    but i agree... i wish they would start to play it less and less. i would love to see them close out a show with an intense version of RVM or blood.
  • edvedderrocks
    edvedderrocks Posts: 1,001
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    I'm telling ya, just once, they should open the show with Yellow Ledbetter and follow it up with Baba O' Riley.
    my husband said the same thing the other day. it would be kinda funny.
    "I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me. Guaranteed."

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  • No Fear Of Falling
    No Fear Of Falling Posts: 419
    As someone once said, Ledbetter is like the cigarette after a 3 hour fuck-fest.

    Always needs to be closing.

    R.I.T.F.W just needs to retire..
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    RedMosquito15 wrote:
    I love when they play YL. It gives me a 10 minute head start on the crowd as I leave as soon as I hear the first 2 notes. It's so old and the lyrics are so butchered every night.

    And seriously if I do leave and they play something else after YL it would be RITFW, another song I can't take anymore.

    Sign No. 4,204 that it's time to stop going to shows.

    Seriously.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • mattcozea
    mattcozea Posts: 377
    MrSmith wrote:
    How about they play Yellow Ledbetter every night but stop fucking up the lyrics and sing it right!
    Yeah, because there's a "right" way to sing it. :rolleyes:

    I would love to see them open with it, that would be crazy.
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    By the way, I can remember a time ... it doesn't seem like too long ago ... where Yellow Ledbetter was the holy grail.

    The first five or six shows I ever went to, that's all my friends and I talked about: "Is this the show where we FINALLY get to see Ledbetter?" It wasn't played that often, usually only on nights where the band was feeling especially generous. We never got to see it.

    Finally got it at the last show I saw on the 2000 tour.

    Best version was in San Antonio on the '03 tour ... one of the first times Ed "changed" all the lyrics to be obviously about the impending war in Iraq. And it was beautiful. I just stood there with goosebumps.

    Then, they closed with Baba, which is a great second encore song. You've got the lights up, the entire stadium singing that middle bridge part a capella --- it's one of the best moments of my life.

    I hope I never get to the point in my Pearl Jam touring career where that feeling becomes boring. If I do, it's time to hang up my touring shoes.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    it is a good song to make your way out of the first few rows

    u can listen as u get out
  • Rjonesrm20
    Rjonesrm20 Posts: 380
    They should play YL and tag it with BUGS.....talk about crazy!
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    I'm telling ya, just once, they should open the show with Yellow Ledbetter and follow it up with Baba O' Riley.

    haha---BIZZARO PEARL JAM!

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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,003
    The Jeagler wrote:
    haha---BIZZARO PEARL JAM!

    up was down, left was right, good was bad, wrong was right.....


    well good for the tuna......
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  • mattcozea
    mattcozea Posts: 377
    slightofjeff wrote:
    By the way, I can remember a time ... it doesn't seem like too long ago ... where Yellow Ledbetter was the holy grail.

    The first five or six shows I ever went to, that's all my friends and I talked about: "Is this the show where we FINALLY get to see Ledbetter?" It wasn't played that often, usually only on nights where the band was feeling especially generous. We never got to see it.

    Finally got it at the last show I saw on the 2000 tour.
    Same with me, took me until my 5th show to see it, and I've still only seen it once. I remember them playing Baba O'Riley at that 5th show, and I was a little upset that I would miss it again, but then they played it anyway!
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    10-8-00 Alpine Valley
    10-9-00 All State Arena, Chicago
    4-23-03 Assembly Hall, Champaign
    5-16-06 United Center, Chicago
    6-30-06 Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee
    8-05-07 Grant Park, Chicago
    8-21-08 EV, Auditorium Theater, Chicago
    8-22-08 EV, Auditorium Theater, Chicago
  • Ledbetterdays
    Ledbetterdays Round Rock, Texas Posts: 556
    I was just thinking the other day how amazing a cover of How I Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd would be by PJ. A totally different vibe but imagine Mike on that intro and Ed on those vocals.
    Touring Fan since 1996
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,826
    I do love hearing Ledbetter, still after each show I've gone to, but a change would be nice.

    Rockin in the Free World, however, is terribly played out. I mean, I still like hearing it, but I'd love to hear them close with something else, any of the following would be AWESOME:

    Release
    Alive
    Black
    Porch
    Indifference
    RVM
    Immortality - bring the outro to absolute CHAOS after the drum solo
    Smile
    All Those Yesterdays
    No Way

    Covers
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    I've Got a Feelin'
    All Along the Watchtower
    Something by the Doors or Pink Floyd!
  • edvedderrocks
    edvedderrocks Posts: 1,001
    rocking in the free world does need to be replaced. time for a new cover...
    "I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me. Guaranteed."

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  • JP2026766
    JP2026766 Posts: 1,125
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Sign No. 4,204 that it's time to stop going to shows.

    Seriously.

    Yeah, seriously. YL is the perfect closer. It's PJ's "thing", it lets you know the show is coming to an end. When they closed with Indifference, it was fuckin sick, but I felt like I still wanted something. But when YL is played, the show always ends on a happy note. And I agree that RITFW is played too much, and Fuckin' Up should be played more often...or just save Alive for that slot, that would be very sweet.

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  • yellowled24
    yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    RedMosquito15 wrote:
    I love when they play YL. It gives me a 10 minute head start on the crowd as I leave as soon as I hear the first 2 notes. It's so old and the lyrics are so butchered every night.

    And seriously if I do leave and they play something else after YL it would be RITFW, another song I can't take anymore.
    You sound like a true fan :rolleyes:
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