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Ed Pre-Set: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Pearl Jam Set List: Oceans, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Low Light, Waiting On A Friend, Hard To Imagine, Daughter, Last Kiss, Come Back, Black, Crazy Mary
1st Encore: (Interstellar Overdrive) / Corduroy, Severed Hand, World Wide Suicide, Given To Fly, Marker In The Sand, Even Flow, Whipping, I Got Id, U, Do The Evolution, Porch
2nd Encore: Big Wave, Better Man, Comatose, Wasted Reprise, Life Wasted, Rocking In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter / (Star Spangled Banner)
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Ed Pre-Set: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Pearl Jam Set List: Oceans, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Low Light, Waiting On A Friend, Hard To Imagine, Daughter, Last Kiss, Come Back, Black, Crazy Mary
1st Encore: (Interstellar Overdrive) / Corduroy, Severed Hand, World Wide Suicide, Given To Fly, Marker In The Sand, Even Flow, Whipping, I Got Id, U, Do The Evolution, Porch
2nd Encore: Big Wave, Better Man, Comatose, Wasted Reprise, Life Wasted, Rocking In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter / (Star Spangled Banner)
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June 1999 Chicago
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6-3-03 Irvine7-7-06 San Diego7-9/10-06 LA7-13-06 Santa Barbara7-16-06 San Francisco7-22/23-06 Gorge12-2-06 Honolulu4-10-08 Santa Barbara (Ed)4-13-08 LA (Ed)
I also got to meet Mike right as Sonic Youth was ending. He was hanging out signing stuff right by the foodstand. Pretty cool!
ed said that the bowl reminded him of a 'mini gorge' and that the show might as well be a 'mini gorge' as well.
'hard to imagine' was beautiful
i can never get enough of 'crazy mary'. boom and mike jammed like mad men at the end of the song.
got to meet a couple of the people from the touring van
an excellent show!!
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
1) Hide Your Love Away preset -- great stuff. I had to call my fiancee and let her hear it over the phone. Yes, I was That Guy for a song, but just that song. (For those keeping score and who followed the SB relay thread -- LogicbeforeBeauty is it.
2) Sonic Youth is finally breaking up the setlist, and their opening act was so much better for it. It's still very heavy on the new album, but there was a little more variety this time around.
3) Acoustic/Electric format. Great. Eddie said that they loved playing the Gorge & that SB reminded the band of a mini-gorge. The acoustic set really threw me for a loop, not so much in format but in setlist. Low Light was great, Hard To Imagine was great. The energy for the show was still on a slow burn at this time. As mentioned elsewhere, Eddie's daughter waved to the crowd and we (at least the floor) waved back. There's not much I have to say about the acoustic set... it was good, but nothing was totally unexpected. The jam between Stone & Boom on the solo section of Crazy Mary was solid, some great playing there. Boom got some big cheers for this one.
4) Intermission. We start scouting out the VIP area; Jack Irons was in attendance and several people said they saw Neil Young. This gave us hopes for an epic RITFW, but, alas, it was not to be...
5) Main set. The energy took off here. Saying the next one was "for Syd", they launched off into Interstellar Overdrive. Felt marginally more jammed out than some of the versions I remember from the '00 tour but nothing extremely long. Segue to Corduroy, and the crowd gets jumping.
Severed Hand was where the energy really started to build, plenty of people were up and jumping and singing along at this point. This was a welcome sight to my eyes; I had been unhappy with LA crowds; I think this was a result of a killer SD crowd and poor seats the first night (I only have myself to blame for that one).
By Given To Fly, everyone on the floor from my vantage point was dancing along and singing, the energy was really high. Also thrilling for me was U. I know it's not an all-time greatest hit, but I'd been wanting to hear it. Crowd didn't seem to get too into this one... heck, a lot of the people didn't even seem to know it. DTE was absolutely the high point, everyone went nuts and was totally into it.
A close second was Comatose -- I wasn't a fan of this on record, but have completely converted after hearing the live version. It's so balls-out rock that I can't deny it. A lot of people in my immediate vicinity screaming along at full volume. Hell of a lot of fun.
RITFW was good; not very long. Yellow Ledbetter also seemed truncated -- guess they were very conscious of the curfew. All very fun. During RITFW, Mike bolted off to the right towards the VIP area... my area collectively seemed to expect Neil Young to walk out at any second. Nope. I'm not sure it was him in retrospect -- could be wrong. Ed did call out Jack Irons before the show and we all gave a round of applause. (Would have been great to have heard him on the drums as well!)
All in all, a fun show. Not as epic as the SD, but a great crowd and the band seemed to be in a good mood again.
At this point I have to stop for a second and address the tour as a whole that I've seen (from LV forward).
Band has been solid from San Diego on -- SD was a fireball performance, and the band has been on for everything since. This is really shaping up to be a killer run and I'm hoping it continues on into San Francisco, which is where my run ends this time around.
This is the first time I really have followed any band for any number of shows and I've met some really cool people along the way -- most notably Dave from NY (nice tattoo! Glad you finally got it and glad I got to see it) and Mike(?) from Boston, along with your wife (sorry, bad with the names today). Enjoyed talking with you guys, really fun getting a different perspective on everything. Also chatted with the guy from NZ via Canada, doing a run from LV to the Gorge for a while today. I mention these people specifically because they've all mentioned the message boards, signifying some sort of low-level Pearl Jam geek bond. Then again, you guys are thousands of miles from home to see a concert, and I cut work for a couple weeks, so I question "low-level". And after hearing so many sentences in line the last few days start with the phrase, "I saw on the messageboards..." I think geek cannot be omitted.
I'd always heard the word "Jamily" tossed around and kind of thought it to be just kind of a toss-off fun word that didn't really hold any meaning, but I see that I was wrong. It's been fun running into people, trading stories, following up with people at the next show about the last show, etc. It really has been a lot of fun and I hope to see a lot of the same faces at shows in the future.
And, I think I've managed to notch up my fiancee's PJ fan level a bit. So that's always good.
So, tomorrow I head up north. Looking forward to seeing more shows, hope the energy from SoCal can make the trip north, and hope to see some of you in SF! (or Kettleman City at In & Out for lunch... )
glad ya had a good time.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Irvine 1992, Las Vegas 1993, Mountain View 1994, San Diego 1995, Los Angeles 1996, Los Angeles 1998, Moutain View 1999, San Bernadino 2000, Los Angeles 2000, Irvine 2003, Irvine 2003, Moutain View 2003, Santa Barbara 2003, San Diego 2006, Los Angeles 2006, Santa Barbara 2006
We did, and thank you.
Irvine 1992, Las Vegas 1993, Mountain View 1994, San Diego 1995, Los Angeles 1996, Los Angeles 1998, Moutain View 1999, San Bernadino 2000, Los Angeles 2000, Irvine 2003, Irvine 2003, Moutain View 2003, Santa Barbara 2003, San Diego 2006, Los Angeles 2006, Santa Barbara 2006
Just got back from the SB show and I'm a little speechless. The tickets were amazing, thank you 10c, the crowd was totally into it and they definitely delivered.
I kept teling my friend that this was gonna be *the* show, and I was right. Oceans and Lowlight were gorgeous - and Waiting on a friend was worth the price of admission alone (yes, I mean $80).
A big shout out to everyone we saw tonight from the Fonda. Marcy you rock - I hope that wine was sweet! Mike I'm glad you made it and Keith that ticket was just waiting for you. Shaun and VinceInHiding you guys are totally VIPS and its no wonder you got back there. Stone is right, you do have beautiful eyes.
The BEST wine ever!!!! Such a great show! I enjoyed rockin' out next to you. Kathy needs to share her Ed vibes so we can get picks and tambourines!!! Just don't tell her I shook Jeff's hand after the show...
I can't sleep, I can't stop humming "Waiting for a Friend," and I keep thinking about tonight's (well now last night) show.
* I really hope someone out there got a picture of Stone kneeling in front of Jeff. :eek: Totally hilarious
little hereandthere
what the hell.
looks awesome.
thanks for the great seats 10c. 8th row was the closest i've ever been at a show, so that made the night that much better.
got to meet lizard and her husband, both very cool people!
thank you pearl jam.
i wish i could have this night over and over again...
That's what I thought, but there was a guy in the group I was standing in who said the tour wasn't for a few days -- not following NY's tour schedule, I thought he may have known what he was talking about. Clearly, not.
neil has a show in mpls tomorrow night
the show was 2 1/2 hours.....sometimes you need to appreciate quality over quantity......and the ticket prices were high because they play a much smaller venue then usual.
overthinking the price/duration will ruin the show if you dwell on it to much, my friend!
I think it felt a little short because after the first 10 songs, Eddie said they were gonna change out the set. Ed said they would play a mini gorge set and I guess most people thought there would be another set and 2 encores. It was still a great show. I can't believe i've heard Oceans 2 times this tour already. The Gorge in about a week!!
But You Might Die Trying
And that's my two cents.
I was a bit worried in the first songs of the mainly acoustic style opening set. I did enjoy Waiting For Friend (from the Rolling Stones) just because I got a chance to hear some guitar licks that don't come up in Pearl Jam's own songs. With Eddy seated, his voice seemed restrained. I thought maybe it was strained from the tour, then I ditched that idea when he stood to sing Crazy Mary. Then, I heard the voice, deep and resonating. Whew.
1st Encore Set - Corduroy was really the first song. They blasted into that with a sledgehammer. They definitely switched gears from the previous set. All of the band members were putting out. From then on, Mike was animated and all over the stage. Eddy wasn't holding back and definitely not going through the motions. I hope him and Matt get some waves today, granted they probably are a bit spent to be out at the crack of dawn.
I'd say look for Life Wasted and World Wide Suicide to be future great concert songs. They came across really well.
I was officially spent after Betterman but I got a second wind. I thought the show may have ended with RITFW because the house lights were on, but the band had one more left in them.
Verdict: Good, solid show, but not great. The stars didn't quite align for that.
Other: Eddy had the spotlight on him during DTE. He put the guitar on his shoulders and reflected the beam and panned through the crowd. I hadn't seen anyone do that.