*** Toronto Fanviews 5/10 Here ***

tremorsinmytree

Great night, don't know if it was the best show ever but it's up there. This was one of the shows where the setlist didn't really matter, it was the way they were played. low light/MOTH were the best versions I've ever heard(this include all bootlegs I own), all the imprompu little moments, the two toronto improvs, beast of burden tag where ed actually sang a verse, ed was singing something in rvm bridge which sounded way better than ottawa last year, I sat side stage on Mikes side - he seemed like he was just let of mental home for a day to play his last show, I can't ramble anymore. Can't wait for the boot, hopefull goes up soon.

Cheers to the band and the 10 Club, Great night.

edwho

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Thanks for sharing, edwho

scratched vinyl

callen wrote:

The pic earlier in the post showed a happy Eddie....and my biggest want is for the Band to enjoy the show as much as I do when I see them.

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.

sharptoe

The "happy" pic that I posted is actually from 5/9. It is during Alive when Ed came over to the right side of the stage and was talking to the girls right in front row (right in front of me). They were trying to give him another VEDDER belt buckle and Eddie says to them..."I already have one!" and walked away. He came back a little later and took the belt anyways.

The 2 girls were the same girls who gave him the buckle in Hamilton last tour.

Light_years

sharptoe wrote:

Drove home from TO to Rochester in a fog! Last night is one of my favorite performances by any band ever!


http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7250/img01183jx.jpg

haha i had to drive home to rochester too, didnt get home till almost 4, but the show was unfucking believable.

depplover

last nite was amazing!! i had lots of fun! everyone was nuts! it was great!!

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!!!

soulshine

I was hoping these type sticky's would reappear!

Love to read the fanviews....

merlin2600

Wasted Reprise!??! Effing awsome!

even flow?

There is a reason why people follow this band from town to town and on the two nights in Toronto you can see why. I don't know if it is the job they do. But to have that kind of enthusiasm playing the same tune for the umpteenth time and making seem like it a fresh tune off of the new album is incredible. I have an okay number which puts me in different spots in the stadiums. And no matter where I sit somebody from the band seems to find you for a split second. You feel like they want you there. Not just for your money. They don't just mail in the show.

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.

Torontonian

Tuesday night, I thought was pretty special... that is until I went the next night...

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.

Lynyard

yes, the show last night was absolutely amazing. The energy in the ACC was absolutly amazing. Everyone was extemely into the show.
even though i have been listening to pearl Jam for more than ten years, this was the first show i have ever been to and it won't be my last.
Eddie is one of the only people that can take what i am feeling and put it into words exactly how i would if i was able to think of how to say it.
What more could a singer/songwriter want?

Jammin2Pearl

edwho wrote:

Set 1: Release, World Wide Suicide, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Hail Hail, Unemployable, Dissident, Even Flow, Corduroy, I am Mine, Low Light, 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: GO, Crazy Mary, Fuckin’ Up, Indifference, Yellow Ledbetter



Please post your fanview if you were in attendance.

What a Fucking Show!! what a crazy two nights!!

First the setlist should be changed. After Low Light and Before Whipping there was an Improv, and before Go there was another Improv and During Ledbetter beast of burden has to be added as a tag.

Even Flow was RETARDED!! HOLY FUCK MIKE!!! better then night 1 and night 1's Even Flow was AMAZING!!
Mike was on fire the whole show, right from the get-go.
Its hard to add comments that people havnt already said. The crowd was amazing and the band really played off that energy and pulled out all the stops.
The Crazy MAry Solo was the best ive seen or heard. Boom fucking wailed on it, actually karate chopping the keys as he was rocking shit out. Then mike joined in jumped right up beside Boom at the Organ and they just jammed off eachother that felt like forever, which ended with a huge jumping [from mike] High Five. The start of fucking up was amazing Stone really groved the beginning of that song, much better Neil cover the RITFW [Ive heard/seen RITFW too much] Indifference was nice as always which ended with Ed and Stone giving each other a hug, which was nice. \

Also an extended RVM jam, great verson. EFLow extended mike solo as well, so it seemed anyway, all I know was I was experiencing something special all night, song after song...

Huge surprises for me were: MOTH, SOLAT, I GOT SHIT, LOW LIGHT and the first PJ moment where I actually jumped was for Whipping WOW I cant belive they played it I was so excited Matt sounded awsome during it too.
The whole show HOLY FUCK!!
The lights were down at 8:50 and the boys were off the stage at 11:40 [just under 3 hours] Its still all sinking in.

Going into it I didnt know how they were going to top night 1 with Garden and Why Go and Porch [Why go and Porch are two of my top 5] and the EFlow solo but wow tonight was a treat, a real special night.

One Song Glory

Best show I've seen yet! Gonna be hard to top.

pineapplesandwaves

nuzpaper wrote:

T.O 2 should be a DVD. I've never seen them have more fun

I would love for them to release a Toronto 2 DVD. There were just so many wonderful moments during the show. I think it'd be lovely if those of us in the crowd could re-live them, and other fans could have the opportunity to see them.

It was an incredible night. I just can't get over how awesome of a show it reallly was. Pearl Jam is a great live band, but last night was just something else. There was just a feeling in the air from the get go. I don't think I've ever seen a band so happy on stage and so into it. It was truly amazing, and I am so happy that I was a part of it. I can't wait to hear the bootleg ... and I hope maybe we can have some video at some point as well. Please!!!!!

WWS

My head is clearing and my voice is slowly returning.

Last night we All shared and experienced a band at the top of their game.

It was special...I feel different today...lucky...proud of our city and proud of our fans.
I remeber when the tour was announced people were upset and questioned why PJ would play TO again so close to last fall.

I believe it's because we make it feel like home...hard to leave.

Don't go Toronto!

Thanks for two great nights...now where's the Boot?

Bettsss

My first Pearl Jam show

Section 110. And WOW. Best four hours of my life. I had a great view of Mike and he is officially my GOD =P

I really can't describe how much I loved it. Other than...

HFDIGHDIGHIHDJOHMYGODAWESOME.

Now I just wanna see another show.

VOLITION

PJ Sparks wrote:

Well, that was fun.

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.

*******

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!

Well said Sparks, the two Toronoto shows were easily two of the best i have ever seen. I sat in the same seats two nights in a row third row seat 10. I had the honour of watching my hero Mike McCready kick my ass with his amazing guitar licks, behind the head solo's , jumping off his amp and catching a couple of his pics. There has always been a special connection between the band and it's Toronto fans that could never be reproduced through a bootleg, the last two nights were absoultey incredible.

I'm just really sad right now that it's all over for me.

shell bell

sharptoe wrote:

I ended up 2nd row in front of Mike. The show was UNFRIGGIN BELIEVABLE. I was lucky enought to take a slug off of Eddie's wine. The wine was hot and shaken up and foamy. It was the most delicious thing I have ever tasted in my entire life. Got guitar picks from Stone and Mike over the course of the 2 night run. The guy in front of me got the setlist.
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

Kick ass pic.did you use a digital camera?

sharptoe

shell bell wrote:

Kick ass pic.did you use a digital camera?

Yep, Canon S500

More pics of both nights here.

http://www.s109718014.onlinehome.us/sharptoe/PJToronto2006/pages/IMG_0038.htm

There are more, I am just lazy....

Enjoy!

depplover

holy shit!! those are AWESOME pics!! thanks!!