*** Toronto Fanviews 5/10 Here ***
edwho
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Set 1: Release, World Wide Suicide, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Hail Hail, Unemployable, Dissident, Even Flow, Corduroy, I am Mine, Low Light, Improv*, Whipping, You Are, I Got Id/( Cinnamon Girl) , Betterman/ (Save It For Later), Jeremy, Marker In The Sand, Black, Rearviewmirror
1st encore: Wasted Reprise/ Man Of The Hour, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, State Of Love And Trust, Do The Evolution, Alive
2nd encore: Improv*, GO, Crazy Mary, Fuckin’ Up, Indifference, Yellow Ledbetter / (Beast Of Burden)*
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*included by popular demand (but not included on the 10c site)
1st encore: Wasted Reprise/ Man Of The Hour, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, State Of Love And Trust, Do The Evolution, Alive
2nd encore: Improv*, GO, Crazy Mary, Fuckin’ Up, Indifference, Yellow Ledbetter / (Beast Of Burden)*
Please post your fanview if you were in attendance.
*included by popular demand (but not included on the 10c site)
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
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this band has always been about give and take - and what they taketh, they gaveth away in spades ... i don't really care about set lists anymore - as long as the performance is genuine, i'm gonna take it all in ... and fortunately for me, my 10C lets me take in everything right down to the passion in the eyes of mr. ev ... the urgency in WWS; the appreciation for the betterman singalong; the despair in Marker; the sorrow in Release and the beauty in Low Light ...
every song seemed like it hadn't been sung hundreds of times before and then just listening to the instrumentals for RVM and Crazy Mary - i could have that on repeat all night ...
i have no doubt that each and every show will be unique and wonderful but on nights when they feel that extra love - expect the magical ...
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So, where were your seats?
Glad you had a great time.
Plus I got a poster without having to spend $100 and a limited edition hoodie without having to spend $400, the going prices on ebay right now.
J
Kitchener (09/11/05), Toronto (9/19/05), St. John's (09/24/05), St. John's (09/25/05), Toronto (05/09/06), Toronto (05/10/06), Pittsburgh (06/23/06)
I really don't think it gets better than this show. This was PJ at their finest.
Loved it that they opened with Release. The new songs (specifically WWS, Unemployable, and Severed Hand) all sound great live. Gotta hand it to Mike for his awesome Even Flow solo. Loved the Wasted Reprise/Man of The Hour combo to kick off the first encore. I was amazed at how long they played for. Right when you thought it was over they kept playing song after song. I really thought that the band and the crowd fed off of each other the whole night. I really don't know what else I can say that hasn't already been said. The show was a gem.
05/10/2006 - Toronto, ON
Had 7th row floor mikes side. Show started out with release which is a great opener, and in fact in works for toronto as its been the opener 3 of the last 4 shows in T.O. then blazed through the new songs, all of the same ones they played yesterday, Severed hand is something special live. Hail Hail was awesome and mike topped himself on evenflow from the night before. The man is truely amazing, playing the solo behind his head is simply insane...nuff said. Lowlight, whipping and i got shit are some of my favorites so that was cool. After i got shit ed sang the chorus from cinnamon girl and let us know thats where the chorus from i got shit came from...pretty cool moment. At this point its fair to note that the crowd was fucking insane...about 20X better then last night, and you could tell the band was feeling it and appreciating it.
First encore was wasted reprise which was really cool, i didnt think they were going to play that live ever. During MOTH some idiot infront of us kept yelling out 'WISHLIST' during the quiet moments of the song. Someone really doesnt get the meaning of that song, and i thought that was totally disrespectful. Evolution was simply insane again and then they closed of the set with alive.
Second encore a ripping version of go and then they recorded a happy birthday message for the drummer of alice in chains. Ed then said cause it worked so well in toronto last time(2003) they were going to relive the memory and play crazy mary again. During the mike/boom solo ed passed his 1/4 full wine bottle into the crowd and had them take a sip and pass it around and finish off the bottle. He was really into it at this point. Also during the solo he went to lie down ontop of a speaker but fell, and then just laid against it with a beer to enjoy the mike and boom magic. Next was fuckin up which he said was bush's favorite song. Followed by indiff and YL. At the end of YL mike started playing beast of burden on the guitar and then ed came back to the mike and starting singing, a really cool and special moment, worth picking up the boot just for that.
Show was just short of 3 hours, and much more passion by both the crowd and the band from the night before. The only drawback (and this is ultra minor and it was still an incredible show and one of the best ive been to) is that they played the same new songs as the night before. Would have been cool to hear comatose or gone instead of marker in the sand.
To close probably the third best pj concert ive been to (yesterday was number 10)
Overall I give it a 9.5/10.
Hope you enjoy!!
Drove home from TO to Rochester in a fog! Last night is one of my favorite performances by any band ever!
I have a lot of pics that I will try to post ASAP.
Here is one from 5/9 though....
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7250/img01183jx.jpg
It's funny how I'm reading how "on" the band was on Night 1 - which they were, but how much better was Night 2?! That was one of the better shows I have seen. If you know someone who was in that crowd, give em a pat on the back. You were a great crowd last night.
They just seemed to be getting better with every passing minute last night. The rockers like Whipping, RVM, Evolution, Go and Fucking Up were as driving as I've ever seen or heard.
Ed was in timelss form in F'Up, flopping over a side amp, sitting there drinking an snapping his fingers, then doing a tomahawk dance back to the mic to cap the song off with some great screams.
And perfectly placed in the set were some of the better performances of the more quiet songs like Low Light (great vocal work by Ed, awesome live), Life Wasted/Man of the Hour (great combination although I still think the hand claps don't work for MOTH - people were clapping the first or second verse leading to the chorus. Think it works better to be quiet and hear Mike's breezy-cool guitar), Small Town, and Indifference (a very soul-ful Stone steering the car on this amazing performance, which ended with a hug between Ed and Stoney).
There were times where you could just watch one of the guys, and get this incredible moment: Jeff bounding around in circles during Whipping. Ed leaning into the mic at the end of Go, and swinging himself up, and while he didn't quite land it, it was still pretty smooth. Stone taunting Matt with his drumsticks.
And of course, Mike. There was a moment, and fuck if I can't remember the song now...but, anyways, Mike facing directly in front of him, froze for a moment, turned quarter-way around, turned back to the crowd and again froze. Then he swings halfway around -back to the crowd- then sharply rolled out aimed directly towards the crowd like a bowler named "Silky", launching his pick out down the lane.
Or in Fuckin' Up, he held his arms to the crowd starting front moving to his stage-side to his right and ended in front of his amp, arms extended shoulder-high, his legs in mid-split...and just holding there in the shadows wihile Matt pounded the drums.
Or Mike and Boom tag-teaming to put the sizzle in Crazy Mary that ended with a big high-five.
Fuck, he's fun to watch.
I'm looking at how long this post is getting...and I could go on and on I suppose about the acapella Toronto improv Ed did at start of the second encore. Or how Mike sucked Ed into singing some Beast of Burden at the end of Ledbetter (did anyone else catch Mike look over to someone to wink and nod as soon as Ed began to sing it? It was priceless).
But I feel that's the kind of thing you need to listen to. I probably wouldn't be able to find the right words to describe how incredible it was to be in last night's crowd.
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These last 2 nights have been awesome, and luckily I still have some to look forward to. The weather in Toronto for the 2 days was amazing. If you had the day off to just walk around the downtown area, or sit and meet people outside the ACC, you couldn't ask for better weather than that.
The pre-parties were packed both nights, although I think more people showed on Tuesday. Great way to prep for a show.
Wes and PJ Pook, my brother and sister, always have fun with you kids at the shows. Suz, Kelly, Dave...you always know you're at a concert to see if these kids are there. The people I met last year at the different shows; and some new ones - Christine*, great to finally meet. Hope your seats were good and you had an amazing time! Sounds like you did.
Hope everyboby went home with something - any one of a number of picks, drumstick or tambourine, merchandise tossed out by the band, or Ed's wine bottle.
I was lucky to have great seats - 5th row between Ed and Stone for night 1, and 5th row directly in front of Mike for Night 2 - getting to see all angles of the shows. And I think I got some keepers photo-wise, but then you don't want to waste too much time worrying about getting a good pic, forgeting the groove.
My Morning Jacket was a great opening act. I hope people get there in time to see them. They're almost something of a cross between Radiohead and Wilco with a southern twist.
Hope to see some familiar and new faces in Detroit and Cleveland,...where I assume the Cavs will soon have the time off (GO PISTONS!).
Ah, but what a way to start the tour!
it's always hard to capture the moment in words, after the fact...i mean, how does one properly describe perfection? no matter what words are chosen it will never come even close to defining the event perfectly...besides we are talking about personal opinions here...
first i gotta start by saying that the poster from this show was the coolest poster i've seen in awhile. i had a chance to buy night #1's poster but didn't cause i didn't like it(art is personal)...BUT night #2's poster is absolutely incredible...it's a take off on severed hand...it's got dragons, pete townshend and j ramone and some dude sitting in a chair smoking and drinking wine...
excellent !!!
it was nice to get release as an opener. then it becomes ALL about the new songs for me....i am so glad they played unemployable again last night cause that song surprised me night one...i liked the song going in but left both shows in awe over this nugget. ed repeated the last verse twice last night which is a killer way to end the song...even better than night one...as those last words were only sang once...
"near to death
here to die
scared alive"
goosebump city people....
"gets up, lights a cigarette he's grown to hate
thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?"
corduroy made another appearance and i was so happy about that! best song EVER
i was pleased to see a couple of tracks from riot act as none were played the previous night. also great, as always, are indifference, man of the hour, SOLAT, low light and i got SHIT.
for some reason i really digged "do the evolution" last night...it's not always one of my faves but tonights version seemed more inspired for some reason(but maybe that was just me)
of course the security at the acc was still VERY UPTIGHT but that's nothing new with that building...there seemed to be some commotion up front center that appeared to have been worked out in the end...ed was watching it all go down and maybe that's why things went ok in the end...i was on the aisle last night and of course tried to not go that 1/2" OVER the taped line on the floor...no F'N comment
finally it was nice to be with friends. kudos to 2 people, specifically, for rawking out with me for MMJ for both nights. i loved that band. they rawk
new tradition...
hmmmm....
kind of fuels the last tour ever rumor
Great Picture!!! Ed looks SO HAPPY!! cannot WAIT to see them in July!!
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
They were filming both nights with a hand held camera. A girl was filming and Mike was flicking guitar picks at her. It was hysterical.
hopefully it will be a 'touring' style vid release again!!!
Cheers to the band and the 10 Club, Great night.
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Thanks for sharing, edwho
Three Fish
July 1996 San Francisco
June 1999 Chicago
That's a good point, I always feel the same way, you want to give them all your energy so that they know how much you're enjoying it, and they enjoy it just as much. I think that's the reason last night was so great, because you could tell the band was having a good time.
The 2 girls were the same girls who gave him the buckle in Hamilton last tour.
haha i had to drive home to rochester too, didnt get home till almost 4, but the show was unfucking believable.
"Johnny we miss, Pete your still the greatest"
me and my friend were in 109 row 3.. did anyone see her sign that said 'I love matt' ? she wrote that about halfway thru.. he saw it and so did mike and jeff, i think. They were all smiling, then some guy came over and gave her drum sticks! matt also mouthed i love you too back at her and waved at the end! she was freaking all nite!!!
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On to the tunes. I would have liked to have heard Big Wave in place of one of the new faster songs at the beginning of the show. Maybe even have mixed up the newer songs throughout the night. I know they have to pander a little for the Jeremy, Evolution, Better Man, Coururoy fans. Which is where I wish they would throw a curve to the batter sitting on the fastball. It is not like most of the fans won't sing along to an obscure song they pull out of a hat. Nothing Man.
Matt is a fucking, chugging, locomotive engine with an energizer battery for back-up. All the reason not to complain when given seats in the wings. You can watch the two blurs that I think are his arms do their job. Anybody say, Whipping from last night. Hell, he even rivals Mikey during the Even Flow solo.
I had a super two nights and I can only hope that they feel the need to relax in Canada again at the end of this tour. Within traveling distance for me.
You had the feeling on night two. That they as the crowd could have played and sang and listened until the cows came home.
THANK YOU PEARL JAM FOR ALL THE GOOD TIMES YOU HAVE PRODUCED WITH ME IN THE AUDIENCE. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT TIME.
Don't forget that we also got our own "Toronto, I don't wanna go..." from Eddie. That a great treat as was Cinnamon Girl.
But the thing I remember the most, was looking around from Row 13 aisle (thanks Ten Club ) and seeing everyone singing and jumping and waving and... it was a big living room where everyone knew each other and Pearl Jam showed up in our living room to play for us. It was the most intimate feeling I have ever felt in the Air Canada Centre. It was a big Massey Hall
The whole band just seemed to be having as much fun as we were too and you can tell that they gave us something special with that setlist.
The only bad thing is exactly what a previous poster said: What is up with ACC security? SERIOUSLY, we are in a FAN CLUB and are there to watch the band and have fun and by me stepping 1 inch over a taped line, they ran over to me like I was a terrorist! So many times I wanted to jump right into the aisle and jump up and down with my middle finger saluting them.
How a 50 year old man can have fun doing a job like that is beyond me. Just tune out all the great music and ignore that someone is just having fun, only focused on that 1 inch of foot over the line.
Sometimes I think this world is going to SH&T and then I just have to close my eyes and listen to the music like last night and I don't worry about it all too much anymore.
So nice to meet so many friendly people in a sometimes unfriendly world. I wish Pearl Jam played every night so I can get that sense of community I wish the rest of the world had.