*** Madrid Fanviews Here 9/6/07 ***

edwho

Opening Set: Porch, Animal, World Wide Suicide, Hail Hail, Corduroy, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Severed Hand, Given To Fly, Green Disease, Even Flow, Daughter/(W.M.A.)(Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2), Alive

1st Encore: Last Exit, Not For You/(Modern Girl), Comatose, Go

2nd Encore: Black, I Believe In Miracles, Baba O' Riley, Yellow Ledbetter


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Please post here only if you were in attendance.

SpokenJeremy

Fuckin amazing!!!!!! Ed was on fire tonight. The guys had more energy then I've seen in quite some time. Songs off of the latest record we even better, more refined. I hope the bootleg comes out for this one!

not4u

edwho wrote:

1st Encore: Last Exit, Not For You/(Modern Girl), Comatose, Go

arg! it looks so juicy, ALL of it

yielder

wow that's a nice set !

alidale

Not a good one for me. Sound was appaling at ground (pitch) level and finishing the set with Alive was, well, SHITE!!!!! Caught us all by surprise and the crowd fell pretty quiet, peole around me at least wondering what was going on! It felt like the band had chosen an easy finish, which fell flat on its face. They necer recovered from it, I´m afraid.

They did not seem fired up to me, Ed looked knackered, even sitting a couple of times.

Not all negative though, liked the opening (once sound imorived a little) and also nice touch of Javier Bardem (one of my favourite actors and all round sound bloke) introducing Black (which was great) And Mike gave a couple of treats.

Roll on London!!

redrock

ali_p wrote:

finishing the set with Alive was, well, SHITE!!!!! Caught us all by surprise

Why? quite a normal finish to main set.

Stereotype

Cute setlist!! I like Porch as an opener.

V V

oh my god that is a BEAUTIFUL set list

parel jam

Stereotype wrote:

Cute setlist!! I like Porch as an opener.

Porch was fabulous!!

GyöngyLekvár

it was a really nice one, too short though... :(

milan

Great set. They nailed it .......despite: useless sound for the opening few songs (mix was swirling around all over the place) and frighteningly short opening set (I thought they would be off and away by 12.15 a.m. but they were still there after 12.45 a.m.).

I reckon they can do it night after night without a hitch - the bootlegs are testament to this. They still sound like they are having a party - no Stones going thru the motions for PJ.

Stormin' - wish I was going again.

As english is my only language I've no idea what he said between the numbers but I do think he said sorry for the Madrid quip in Lisbon the night before

Sounds okay on the radio that my wife streamed for me too.

Milan 2006
Madrid 2007

Ricsard

opening with Porch was awesome and the band seemed to be on fire IMHO!
The crowd was as enthusiastic as possible (in the mosh pit fans were singing so very loud many times I could barely hear Ed's voice:( Spanish fans proved they are still in love with Pearl Jam!!!
I was so happy to hear I Believe In Miracles, Green Disease, Last Exit, Not For You, Baba and Small Town and Daugter finally with those brilliant tags!!!

The only disappointing facts for me:

-relatively short set
-2 local drunken persons (a couple) who were trying really hard to spoil as many people's show as possible by behaving aggressive and violent towards foreigners and especially girls!!! Thank God security guards got rid of these retarded fuckers in the end right before PJ came out to play!!!:D:D:D)

RiffJam

twolegsyield wrote:

20 songs? awesome set but I hope PJ doesn't start playing less of a show moving forward...

well I guess they normally average around 27 songs per show but that's still a lot of good music to be played, 7 more songs...

Only shorter because it was a festival. Supposed to stop at 12.30 but they carried on until 12.45, which was great (but not for getting the last metro back....)

Class tight set, awesome opener in Porch and the band on fire - Stone looked happier than at any of the shows I saw in Europe last year!

alidale

redrock wrote:

Why? quite a normal finish to main set.[/quote

Not so normal, more normal as 1st encore closer I think, at least I haven´t found a set list on my collection of bootlegs, but............ so what? What matters is that it left the crowd veeeeeeeeeeeeeery quiet, like we were all expecting the grand finale, when it had just happened! Just did not work!!!

I´m all in favour of variation, surprises etc and there were loads of them in Madrid in September, which worked much better for me. Personally I don´t mind if they drop Alive, in favor of (say) Half Full; (is that blasphemy?)

joyodongo

Well, I was in Lisbon on friday and yesterday in Madrid (my hometown). I must admit that I liked more the Lisbon concert. The setlist was OK; no surprises but I always like to listen to the hits. In Madrid the show was shorter and I missed: Rearviewmirror, Evolution and specially... Better Man. Last year in Madrid they started with it and it was crazy, and this year...no Better Man... pity.
I was a bit surprised about the enthusiastic reaction of the portuguese people after the famous 'f*ck Madrid'. Anyway, I believe you when you say: 'No problem, no offense'. Well, I told you what happened yesterday in Madrid. When Eddie began to talk and say: 'We're very happy to be in Madrid, blablabla..., but the best thing is... TO BE OUT OF PORTUGAL!!! and the reaction of the public was... complete silence... like thinking: What is this guy saying??!! It seems like someone has tried to convince Eddie to exploit the supposed spanish-portuguese rivalry and, as far as we are concerned (the spaniards), this rivalry doesn't exist. In fact, IMHO, it is affection the actual feeling (at least from the spanish side). So, I think that the joke of being glad for being out of Portugal wasn't specially... brilliant.
I think that the connection with the public was better in Lisbon. In fact, I think that the ammount of wine drank by Eddie had somehing to do with it. He was very funny... The concert was less serious that other times...
The sound, in both concerts, was not spectacular, but OK.

Saludos.

joyodongo

ali_p wrote:

They did not seem fired up to me, Ed looked knackered, even sitting a couple of times.

I quite agree, and I can' be sure but, after seing him the day before in Lisbon, it could be... the hang-over...

Saludos.

HailHailVitalogy

I think its funny how everybody is pissed about a short set. It was a festival man!!! Reading was the only festival they actually played a legit show.

I cant wait to see how people react when PJ plays the same type of set at Lollapalooza.

joyodongo

HailHailVitalogy wrote:

I think its funny how everybody is pissed about a short set. It was a festival man!!! Reading was the only festival they actually played a legit show.

I cant wait to see how people react when PJ plays the same type of set at Lollapalooza.

Every show last year in Europe (AZKENA ROCK festival included): 2 hours, the day before in Lisbon (OEIRAS ALIVE festival): 2 hours...
FESTIMAD: 1h 40/45 min. It hurts...

SPEEDY MCCREADY

HailHailVitalogy wrote:

I think its funny how everybody is pissed about a short set. It was a festival man!!! Reading was the only festival they actually played a legit show.

I cant wait to see how people react when PJ plays the same type of set at Lollapalooza.

man i hope both you and i are wrong.......

cuz after reading those setlists my enthusiam for lolla dropped......BIGTIME!!!!

Lone Wolf

RiffJam wrote:

Only shorter because it was a festival. Supposed to stop at 12.30 but they carried on until 12.45, which was great (but not for getting the last metro back....)

Class tight set, awesome opener in Porch and the band on fire - Stone looked happier than at any of the shows I saw in Europe last year!

Yeah it was an awesome gig with a great crowd.
Too bad the sound for the first few songs was useless indeed, and getting back after the show was a disaster (the rain didn´t help either)

But still.....
All in all it was a memorable night.

AmherstJammer

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

man i hope both you and i are wrong.......

cuz after reading those setlists my enthusiam for lolla dropped......BIGTIME!!!!

At least you are going to see them... just seeing PJ play anything would be the highlight of my summer!

MKTerp

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

man i hope both you and i are wrong.......

cuz after reading those setlists my enthusiam for lolla dropped......BIGTIME!!!!

Aren't they getting a 2.5 hour set at Lolla?

Gardenparty

ali_p wrote:

redrock wrote:

Why? quite a normal finish to main set.[/quote

Not so normal, more normal as 1st encore closer I think, at least I haven´t found a set list on my collection of bootlegs, but............ so what? What matters is that it left the crowd veeeeeeeeeeeeeery quiet, like we were all expecting the grand finale, when it had just happened! Just did not work!!!

I´m all in favour of variation, surprises etc and there were loads of them in Madrid in September, which worked much better for me. Personally I don´t mind if they drop Alive, in favor of (say) Half Full; (is that blasphemy?)

Dude, they played 8 songs after Alive! I think that was the grand finale you might have missed.

I saw them (in person) close about 3 main sets in the US with Alive on the last tour. Also, while i love Half Full, I think that would have the left the crowd hanging a little more than Alive, no? maybe i'm crazy to think that?

I believe all you're saying about the crowd and the sound and all, but you got a pretty nice setlist there.

Garden Dogg

a lot of people just ignore this part of the fanview threads:

This thread is reserved for the lucky fans that were there.

Please post here only if you were in attendance.

oh, shit...i did it, too. ;-)

alidale

Gardenparty wrote:

ali_p wrote:

Dude, they played 8 songs after Alive! I think that was the grand finale you might have missed.

Or maybe YOU missed it? Were you there? Cant see the date on your list there. I repeat, it left the crowd bewildered and wondering what was going on, and they never got them back. It was NOT just me.

I know it may seem hard for some to admit that at times even Pearl Jam get it wrong!!!! (Dios mio, son humanossssssss!!!) Check out the Spanish fan club site (http://www.estupidafregona.net) and get someone to translate if you dont speak Spanish; you will see that overall people are well dissapointed. It was not a great gig.

And as far as length of set goes...that is neither here nor there; who cares how long it is if it WORKS!!!

Pegasus

didn't enjoy that one so much..the spanish crowds are not to my liking, after Barcelona last year, I'll avoid spain in the future.

set was good, but very short and I didn't feel the crowd was as much into it as in Lisbon.
probably because most of them had spend the day getting drunk outside the stadium :rolleyes:

so mixed experience...looking forward to the first proper show tomorrow, and hopefully some less usual songs...got to run get my plane actually

Scratchin a Letter

Great atmosphere. Brutal crowd. Was right in the thick of it. Covered in bruises again. But I care not because I saw the greatest band in the world again!

Opening with Porch was immense. The songs that followed were equally blazing. Mike was on fire. Didn't care for Matt's Evenflow drum solo, but the guitars made up for it. Finally heard Daughter after six shows.. lived up to the expectations. Miracles was good to hear too. They still have the energy, the magnetism and the flair. If these two Iberian festivals were the prelude to the tour, they were as good as they could be. Hard to put into words what you feel when you walk out of a Pearl Jam gig. I was touched. Can't wait for Monday. Not going to be able to sleep or anything

trammeus

Great concert.
I'm not agree with the ones who say quite crowd....very loud indeed.

Just a question, during one of the encores (maybe YL) , Vedder called a security man pointing him some guys in the crowd...anyone knows what was about?

jamie uk

Yes I agree it was a great concert. I travelled a long way to see Pearl Jam and they did not dissapoint me (they never have!), but also I met some really wonderful people on Saturday(hi Sandra/Mellisa/Claudio/Fabio/Chris and the gang)-sure the usual assholes came crashing through the crowd during PJ, but then that will always happen. There should have been a front section blocked off to late comers, it's the only way to stop aggressive drunken bastards forcing their way past decent people who want a good view of the show. That aside, I loved the gig-and boy, spending the night in the doorway of the metro station at Leganes with a real league of nations of PJ fans, was almost a small price to pay. Suddenly the POW style hotel bed I was paying for back in Madrid seemed like the Ritz! Any of you guys there? I didn't feel like such a dick for being stranded, as there were even Spanish people amongst us! The whole town of Leganes just fucking closed man. Taxis were almost non existent, the metro was overcrowded, they turned us away and pulled down the shutters....and just then it started to rain, how sweet!4 hours later we got on the early Sunday metro, to raptuous applause from dishevelled Pearl Jammers. A problem I will not encounter in London, it will be 4* petrol or 4* hotel getting me away from there, i'm not decided yet.

p.s. We found the greatest bar in the world near Peurto del Sol-it was kind of a butchers shop with bartenders. Cheap as hell too! Beer and meat,I loved it.

trammeus

Pegasus wrote:

didn't enjoy that one so much..the spanish crowds are not to my liking, after Barcelona last year, I'll avoid spain in the future.

set was good, but very short and I didn't feel the crowd was as much into it as in Lisbon.

really?
I enjoyed so much the spanish people, as always...in Lisbon too many kids in the crowd (blame on Linkin Park, my god they're unearable)

joyodongo

Yeah, you know, this festival is damned since 3 years ago. They should call it festiMAL. The concert was in the 'end of the world', and you just run to catch the metro to see it closed or to advance to the next stop. I had to leave it at Puerta del Sur, in Mostoles, and then, the same as 300 people, wander in the rain until, miracously, 30 minutes later, we found a taxi. First thing: the Metro should be open in Madrid all night, at least during the weekends. Second: If it's not, they should set an special service for the event until at least 3am or so.
And the event was 'cutre' as we say in Spain. Impossible to get a beer, impssible to piss, far-away location... Never again festiMAL!!!

Saludos