*** Mexico City Fanviews Here 11/24/11 ***

Pearl Jam
Foro Sol
Mexico City, Mexico
Nov 24, 2011
Set List
01. Release
02. Last Exit
03. Severed Hand
04. Corduroy
05. Given To Fly
06. Brain Of J
07. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
08. Faithfull
09. Evenflow
10. Setting Forth
11. Unthought Known
12. Red Mosquito
13. Daughter {during the song Ed asks Kille, the lighting designer, to darken the stage so he can see the audience flicking lighters in time to the music. When the stage darkens and he can see the lighters he says "Now we know we are in Mexico City"}
14. Of The Earth
15. Nothingman
16. Betterman/Save It For Later-(Charley, Cox, Morton, Steele, Wakeling) {Ed asks the audience to "take this one, help me out". They oblige by singing the opening verse and chorus}
17. Porch
Encore Break 1
{Ed talks about how great Mexico City has been to them. He also talks about a few couples he knows including some of the touring crew. He dedicates "Just Breathe" to them and everyone who is in love}
18. Just Breathe
{Ed thanks X and talks about how great it has been touring with them in South America and thanks the audience for giving them the love and attention they deserve. He dedicates "Off He Goes" to John Doe}
19. Off He Goes
20. Do The Evolution
21. Black {good crowd sing along}
22. Spin The Black Circle
23. The Fixer
24. Jeremy
25. Why Go
Encore Break 2
{Ed introduces the band and thanks the crowd for singing along so much and helping him out in the thin air of Mexico City}
26. Olé {Ed sings a bit of the "Olé, Olé song" to introduce their song.
27. Last Kiss-(Cochran)
28. Leash
29. Alive
30. Rockin' In The Free World {Pearl Jam is joined by onstage by X (DJ Bonebreak, Exene Cervenka, John Doe and Billy Zoom)}-(Young)
31. Indifference
32. Yellow Ledbetter/Little Wing-(Hendrix)
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X set list:
01. Your Phone's Off The Hook But You're Not
02. Johny Hit And Run Paulene
03. Some Other Time
04. White Girl
05. True Love
06. Los Angeles
07. Hungry Wolf
08. New World
09. Soul Kitchen
10. Sugarlight
11. Nausea
12. Who You Know
13. Because I Do
14. Motel Room
15. Devil Doll with Eddie Vedder
Foro Sol
Mexico City, Mexico
Nov 24, 2011
Set List
01. Release
02. Last Exit
03. Severed Hand
04. Corduroy
05. Given To Fly
06. Brain Of J
07. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
08. Faithfull
09. Evenflow
10. Setting Forth
11. Unthought Known
12. Red Mosquito
13. Daughter {during the song Ed asks Kille, the lighting designer, to darken the stage so he can see the audience flicking lighters in time to the music. When the stage darkens and he can see the lighters he says "Now we know we are in Mexico City"}
14. Of The Earth
15. Nothingman
16. Betterman/Save It For Later-(Charley, Cox, Morton, Steele, Wakeling) {Ed asks the audience to "take this one, help me out". They oblige by singing the opening verse and chorus}
17. Porch
Encore Break 1
{Ed talks about how great Mexico City has been to them. He also talks about a few couples he knows including some of the touring crew. He dedicates "Just Breathe" to them and everyone who is in love}
18. Just Breathe
{Ed thanks X and talks about how great it has been touring with them in South America and thanks the audience for giving them the love and attention they deserve. He dedicates "Off He Goes" to John Doe}
19. Off He Goes
20. Do The Evolution
21. Black {good crowd sing along}
22. Spin The Black Circle
23. The Fixer
24. Jeremy
25. Why Go
Encore Break 2
{Ed introduces the band and thanks the crowd for singing along so much and helping him out in the thin air of Mexico City}
26. Olé {Ed sings a bit of the "Olé, Olé song" to introduce their song.
27. Last Kiss-(Cochran)
28. Leash
29. Alive
30. Rockin' In The Free World {Pearl Jam is joined by onstage by X (DJ Bonebreak, Exene Cervenka, John Doe and Billy Zoom)}-(Young)
31. Indifference
32. Yellow Ledbetter/Little Wing-(Hendrix)
Please share your experiences of the show here...the Fanview threads are preserved on the board.
Please keep the Fanview threads for Fanviews. It's ok to begin another thread on discussions of other topics and/or debates.
Thank you!

X set list:
01. Your Phone's Off The Hook But You're Not
02. Johny Hit And Run Paulene
03. Some Other Time
04. White Girl
05. True Love
06. Los Angeles
07. Hungry Wolf
08. New World
09. Soul Kitchen
10. Sugarlight
11. Nausea
12. Who You Know
13. Because I Do
14. Motel Room
15. Devil Doll with Eddie Vedder
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That's an awesome setlist.
2006: Dublin; Leeds; Arnhem
2007: London
2009: Manchester
2012: Manchester I & II : EV Manchester : Soundgarden Shepherds Bush
2013: Brad Manchester : Soundgarden Manchester
2014: Amsterdam I & II; Berlin; Leeds; Milton Keynes
2018: Berlin; London II; Boston II
Bootleg Reviews: http://pjbootlegreviews.blogspot.com/
Yep!
But again no Hard to Imagine and In Hiding...
2006: Vienna 2009: Berlin 2010: London ~ Berlin 2012: Amsterdam 1+2 ~ Werchter ~ Arras ~ Berlin 1+2
2014: Milano ~ Trieste ~ Vienna ~ Berlin 2018: Padova ~ Rome 2022: Budapest ~ Vienna
EV London/Hammersmith 2012
EV Berlin/Zitadelle 2017
One of the NICEST looking setlists of the entire SA tour!
Roskilde 2000, Berlin 2006, Athens 2006, Dusseldorf 2007, Copenhagen 2007, New York NY 1 + 2 2008, Berlin 2009, London 2009, London 2010, Berlin 2010, Manchester 2 2012, Berlin 1 2012, Stockholm 2012, Oslo 2012, Copenhagen 2012, Amsterdam 1 + 2 (EV solo) 2012, Amsterdam 1 + 2 2014, Stockholm 2014, Oslo 2014, Leeds 2014, Milton Keynes 2014, Heartland Festival DK (EV solo) 2017, Berlin 2018, Barcelona 2018, Copenhagen 2022, Prague 2022 (Cancelled)
Millstreet Arena - Oct 24, 1996
The Point - Oct 26, 1996
The Point - Jun 01, 2000
The Point - Aug 23, 2006
Wembley Arena - Jun 18, 2007
Manchester Evening News Arena - Aug 17, 2009
The O2 - Jun 22, 2010
Odyssey Arena - Jun 23, 2010
Manchester Evening News Arena - Jun 20 2012
Amsterdam Ziggo Dome - Jun 26 2012
Amsterdam Ziggo Dome - Jun 16 2014
that is one really, really awesome setlist. release must be such a powerful opener.
2005: 07/12, 09/12, 10/12 MTY, MEX.
2008: 11/06, 12/06, WEST PALM BEACH, TAMPA.
2011: 20/11. 24/11, SAN JÓSE CR, MEX.
2013: 29/11, 30/11, 06/12, PORTLAND, SPOKANE, SEATTLE
2009 - Toronto
2010 - Buffalo
2011 - Toronto 1&2
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1
2018 - Fenway 1&2
2022 - Hamilton, Toronto
2023 - Chicago 1&2
2024 - Las Vegas 1&2
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I thought it was broadcast live?
To end...I was luckily enough to be able to travel to the CR and MEX shows... and it was well worth it! Thanks again for an unbelievable night! Thank you PJ and thank you Mexico City .... incredible performance!
P.S.-> Never seen this before, but outside the venue, there was probably 100+ vendors selling Pearl Jam goods...t-shirts, scarves, cd/dvds/flags/stickers/pictures/mugs...and much much more ..... couldn't believe all the counterfeit goods ....and that is something you would never see in the States!
I'm from Mexico and this is the first time I see this. Amazing
In 2003 Eddie himself got out of the venue and bought that ilegal merch on such merch stands :shock: . During the concert, Sleater Kinney girls were wearing some of those t-shirts
This time, it was Eddie body guard the one doing the shopping in those merch stands
SO I LEAVE BACK FOR TX TODAY AFTER MY FIRST SHOW OUTSIDE THE US
SORRY GUYS BUT WE AINT GOT SHIT ON THIS CROWD
OF THE EARTH WAS GREAT
LEASH
INDEFFERENCE WERE TWO SONGS THAT STOOD OUT FOR ME
FAITHFUL AND BRAIN OF J ROCKED
THE MERCH OUTSIDE WAS INSANE AND THE CUP THROWING WELL YOU JUST HAD TO BE THERE
well said
Empezar con "Release" fue tan emocional, tan personal y significativo para quienes tenemos compañía en el cielo.
Nos regalaron muchas canciones que antes no habíamos escuchado en Ciudad de México: "Faithful", "Brain of J.", "Off he goes", canciones de Eddie como "Setting forth"... Y la aventura de escuchar versiones siempre intensas de las que no nos cansaremos de escuchar: "Even flow", "Black", "Do the evolution"...
Mike estuvo genial en los solos, y agradezco mucho las canciones nuevas: "Olé" y sobre todo "Of the earth", ¡qué gran canción! musicalmente brillante, y me emociona saber que a todos en la banda les sigue entusiasmando tanto seguir creando más y más música.
En lo personal califico este show como uno muy divertido, una fiesta. "Leash", "Red mosquito", "Severed hand" fueron aire fresco en una hermosa noche estrellada en el Foro Sol. Y la lluvia de vasos en "Rockin' in the free world", y los encendedores en "Elderly woman..." son dos de esas manifestaciones amorosas y lúdicas con las que los mexicanos (sí Eddie, tú lo dijiste) nos distinguimos en el mundo y nos une con aquello que valoramos. Ese es nuestro amor por Pearl Jam, y ha tomado 20 años cultivarlo.
Y al final, al escuchar "Indifference" no pude más que rendirme y llorar. Ayer fue el Thanksgiving day, y Pearl Jam decidió que México fuera por esta noche su hogar. Fue un regalo. Y solo puedo decirles, con todo mi corazón: ¡Gracias!
I am truly envious not to see this show.
Who is wrong and who’s right
look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4774aF0o ... e=youtu.be
+ a bump for the missing camera:
PJ - Auckland 2009; Alpine Valley1&2 2011; Man1, Am'dam1&2, Berlin1&2, Stockholm, Oslo & Copenhagen 2012; LA, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle 2013; Auckland 2014, Auckland1&2 2024
EV - Canberra, Newcastle & Sydney 1&2 2011
Thanks!
Who is wrong and who’s right
please, please, please come back soon!!
thanks you for doing what you do how you do it
2008: Mansfield 1 and 2
2011: Mexico City
2013: Los Angeles 1 and 2
2015: Mexico City
2018: Wrigley Field the Away shows 1 and 2
2022: Los Angeles 1 and 2
The show for me was sweet & sour and just wanted to share it with someone that could understand the feeling. Sweet because it was Pearl Jam in my hometown, a kick-ass set list, and some amazing crowd moments. Sour because specially at the beginning, the crowd was incredibly mellow, as I've never seen a Mexican crowd in any show I've attended before; sour because at times I felt there was no connection between the band and the crowd. Overall, it was a great show, but not amazing as I had anticipated.
For those who like numbers, this venue usually mentions its capacity as for 55,000 but in most articles I've seen today, they are reporting the crowd was 60k strong. The show lasted, in my watch, 2h50, although it was maybe closer to 2h45. Definitely over 2h40 though. The show was sold-out right away when tickets went on sale; about a hundred tickets were released the day before the show and got sold out quickly
The "stadium"
I was in "Verde 02" row 3, which is the very first section of the stands. One reason I hate this venue is that the stands are too far away from the stage and because it's not an enclosed one, thus sound flies away and reduces the crowd impact. Also, access to every section is completely separate (left wing, right wing, GA A, GA
Technical "issues"
The screens were B&W and the image was backwards. For people far away, it would have seemed everyone in the band was a leftie
Merchandise
I got to the venue around the middle of X's set. I saw the merchandise stand at the entrance but decided to enjoy X and then buy stuff in my section; posters were sold out already so it didn't really matter. To my surprise, once I accessed my section I was told there was no Merchandise stand at all! They said people would be selling stuff around but that of course never happened. By the time the show ended, they only had L and XL sizes, which seemed to fit as XL and XXL. I was only able to see two stands with few merchandise... come one, 60k! Merchandise was lacking. Fortunately enough, there's bootleg merchandise around the venue (one of the "jewels" of shows in Mexico) with really cool designs, from t-shirts to cups, mugs, caps... you name it, you will find it there. (As an example, Stone's mug in the PJ20 documentary)
X
I got to the venue about 3 songs into their set. They were fun to watch and sounded great. It was fun to see Eddie coming out with a "luchador" (wrestler) mask; if I'm not mistaken, it was a Santo one, perhaps the most famous Mexican wrestler of all time. People cheered out but were not as excited with them; I'm almost certain many didn't realize it was Eddie on stage during the last song though, LOL! Overall, tight set.
The crowd before PJ
This is when I started worrying. When Metallica recorded "Orgullo, Pasion y Gloria" Live DVD in this same venue, many wondered why would Metallica chose Mexico rather than the US, or Canada, or somewhere else. I will always remember an American who went to the show writing in Metclub's forum that the "Mexican crowd was louder and crazier with the first opening act than any American crowd [he had] experienced in the USA while Metallica was playing". This pretty much sums up a Mexican crowd as I've seen it with Metallica, Megadeth, Pearl Jam during their previous visits... you name it. Yesterday night, the crowd was completely quiet between bands... no Mexican waves, no fooling around, no chanting, nothing. A few whistling here and there, and a couple of unsuccessful tries to start an ole, ole. I don't know if it was because of heavy traffic, people coming tired from work, the fact we were just coming back from a long weekend... I'm still wondering, but I was hoping that attitude didn't translate to the show and unfortunately did during several occasions :(
The show, the crowd, the band
The roar of the crowd was awesome as soon as the lights went out. Even though I could listen to people singing most songs, most wouldn't jump, move, or follow the songs either clapping or with the fists up in the air. Perhaps until the first chords of Corduroy the roar reminded me of the fact I was in Mexico City, but energy levels came back right away. It was weird for me that between songs, rather than the usual chanting, people would roar and then would keep really quiet. We Mexicans are not known for heavy jumping, but for keeping the energy all the way up until the end, chanting between songs and heavy pushing on the floor. Up to this point, 'Given to Fly' came. Again, people was singing but I felt something missing between the band and crowd; it's been said that Eddie was sick so I don't know if his energy turned the crowd down, or if it was the other way around.
After Elderly Woman, the "Ole, Ole" finally came; it was strong and awesome but Eddie cut it a bit short, thanking the crowd for it. Evenflow raised the levels right away but soon came back to that mellow flow around.
The crowd starts responding
In my opinion, it was until Daughter when the energy levels finally were there where I expected them to be. Lighters came out, joining the band by lightning them with the rhythm of music; this is one of our trademarks and the band really appreciated the show we put for them. You could feel this was changing... Of the Earth was a treat to listen, but Nothigman had much more involvement from the crowd... FINALLY Betterman came and the crowd went insane! Weird, as I would have thought Given to Fly or Evenflow would be the trigger, but it was actually Betterman the one finally making this crowd went crazy, and it did big time! Eddie asked us to help him with the singing and we did it. Unfortunately, Porch closed the first part of the set right away. The intermission before the encore also had some chanting, but not to the levels I was expecting.
From here on, the show was much much better; Just Breathe had a good response, while DTE blew people's minds. Along came Black, and the beautiful loud chanting of the crowd; lighters appeared once again (along with clapping from those non-smokers
For Spin The Black Circle, Eddie took a flag given by fans almost when the show started, and started spinning it around; crowd appreciated it and cheered along... by now, one could definitely feel it was a Mexican crowd. The Fixer got a good reception but of course Jeremy got the prize for crowd interaction... Why Go was good as well and Encore 2 ended.
Crowd was also kinda quiet during the break; it would have been great if the Ole Ole Ole was sung, but it didn't. Eddie introduced Ole with his very own version of the chanting, LOL. Last Kiss got an awesome reception afterwards; it seems they were supposed to play Smile instead... but I guess once they got the crowd going, they wanted to keep the flow. Leash was a great surprise and I really enjoyed it. Alive had fist-up chanting from every corner of the venue, while Mike visited the far right side of the stage, with Eddie doing the same on the left.
Likes came up and it was time for RITFW; with X on stage, the band had a blast, and so did the crowd. Everyone was throwing their beer cups all over the place, which turned out to be lots of fun for us and the band. I'm sure they played the song for longer than usual, having fun with the "cup fighting".
Indifference was a beautiful and expected treat, to finally end with YLB/Little Wing. The crowd was really pumped up by now, but unfortunately the show was about to end. The "otra, otra" (another song, another song) choir could be heard from everywhere, but the show was over.
Final thoughts
Don't get me wrong here; it was an great show with a strong performance from Pearl Jam, a dream of a set list (minus Animal, my favorite song), and a great crowd that would overpower almost any other audience in the world. I highly recommend to get this boot, as well as the ones from Chile, Argentina and Brazil (Haven't had the time to check out Lima and San Jose in YouTube, but I will probably get them too)
I read some reports stating that at some point the band was confused about what song was to follow, switching instruments several times between songs and a pissed-off Eddie right before Jeremy. Did they feel the same thing I felt and try to modify the set list on the fly? Did they try to raise the energy, or was I completely out of base? I don't really know, but I still feel as if something was missing.
I have mixed feelings is because this is Mexico... a crowd that should have inspired the band to play for hours, and for the first time in my concert-going experience in my country, I didn't feel that power until perhaps the last hour of the performance. From what I listened from Argentina and Chile videos, the crowd energy was far superior (Of course, being there is different than seen it from afar... I will do a fair comparison once I start listening to our boots or videos), while we should be at least about that same level, as with other acts.
I might be wrong, but I definitely feel we (as an audience) owe Pearl Jam to show them we are one of the top crowds in the world, the same one that inspire them to tour Latin America back in the crazy shows of 2003. And on the other hand, I had one of the best set lists I've had for one of my favorite bands!