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booradley

blugirl wrote:

Ryan!!!

WOW! Thanks so much again. Have fun on your "vacation" up our gorgeous northwest coast. AND YES share the wealth of all your photos. I saw them all over my head the entire night.

One of the best nights of my life.....

And Boo...everyone calls me V. LOL!

It's me, silly.

Kasie.

TruantOranje

zulfishah wrote:

So this might get a bit sappy... please bear with me!
Sunday night was my FIRST ever pearl jam show... it was the fulfillment of a 12-year old dream / quest. It must've been around 1993-94 when I first started listening to the band and I instantly fell in love. I grew up in Karachi, your typical troubled / angsty / lost / lonely soul, didn't connect with family, all my friends were superficial gits, didn't know what my purpose was. PJ was what I clung on to during the worst times; it gave me hope, it gave me company, it gave me joy, it spoke to me. I was obsessed, and have been ever since. When I listened to them perform live on many bootlegs, I just knew that I HAD to see it myself one day... I couldn't die happy without ever having been to their concert. Far-fetched as it was (being in another country where they were just NEVER going to come), i somehow felt it was my destiny. When I moved to the US 2 years ago, the excitement was mostly due to the fact that i'll finally get to see them, but they've been off-tour till now. So it's been a LONG wait, but sunday night was worth it!

The show.... so many highlights: eddie forgetting 'sometimes' and later apologizing profusely, ed using the guitar to deflect the spotlight onto the crowd, IMT was heaven, leash, dissident, all the new songs, all the old songs, the middle-finger salutes to the bush administration at the start of 'why do i keep fucking up'; watching mike play close-up is just pure entertainment, but listening to his leads is mind-blowing; the crowd, most of whom rocked on each and every song, most of whom were (shockingly for me) even more devoted than me. i saw the stone fan-club on the balcony...you were amazing. i was 3 feet away from the 2 guys who were fighting over matt's drumstick... idiots didn't even have the decency to wait till the band left the stage. but the 2nd and 3rd encores were incredible, the energy was great. it sucked being solo, but i have no right to complain really. i feel blessed that everything that's happened in the last few years led me to sunday night. i've been floating around with the most content and satisfied smile, and i can't wait to go again tonight!

i think i speak for everyone here when i say we're happy you got to see the greatest rock band in the world.

Corduroyboy

booradley wrote:

It's me, silly.

Kasie.

Wait, you are the girl who was with Veronica!! I found my front row girls!! Look for an email from me! This is nuts, I've been able to get in contact with about 4 of the people who were around us Sunday night!

seaofstatic

I'll post my 2 cents about SFII.

I really thought Santa Barbara would be the better of the 2 shows I would hit up this tour, but SFII killed it 10 times over!! Fanstatic setlist, great crowd and the band really seemed to feed off the general admission crowd down front and the balconies near the stage.

I finally got Leash after 10+ shows, plus Blood, American In Me, Insignificance, Army Reserve, Inside Job and In My Tree (+ partial of Sometimes and all of LUKIN - ode to No Code!!)

The band shows no signs of slowing down. I don't know how long they can keep it together at such a high pace, but all indications show we will be enjoying this band for many more years to come!

Cheers-David
SF, CA

booradley

Corduroyboy wrote:

Wait, you are the girl who was with Veronica!! I found my front row girls!! Look for an email from me! This is nuts, I've been able to get in contact with about 4 of the people who were around us Sunday night!

That'd be me.

Smithy

booradley wrote:

It's me, silly.

Kasie.

silly girls.

Anon

picture_a_cup wrote:

Hey, I think that was me. I'm not kidding. Sorry about that. The woman in front of me said she really wanted to know. But seriously, that's your pet peeve? I couldn't even hear myself over the din. Also, during the concert (and this is no joke) someone passed out on me, three fights broke out within five to ten feet of where I was standing, and a teenager lit a blunt and smoked it in my face for half the show. But guess what? I rolled with. I was at a rock concert.

You sound like you have issues. No offense.

LOL. Some dude yelled it about eight times. I don't think I've got issues -- I was more ticked off by the fights and pushing around us....

You sound like you had a worse experience... and still enjoyed it too.
Awesome. I did too, but still had to throw a few things to rant about....

tonights show was amazing, and I moved my old butt up to the balcony for a more calm scene.

Hope you can make Portland or the Gorge... I'll be there in spirit.

Anon

solazo125 wrote:

you rolled with that contact high you got bro!!

seriously, cbh doesnt have issues. he was my show buddy and hes a mellow guy. maybe the guy he was referring to was *not* you cause you couldnt even hear yourself, but the loud guy could be heard by all.

glad you enjoyed the show

Solazo-- you are the coolest.
Here's to Solazo!

Hope you made it to the show tonight!

dana_b

Lydia, a great review!! I'm so glad that you had your Stone moments... a fantastic way to remember this amazing show!

snowrider04, thanks for posting the link to the "Last Kiss" video. If anyone has any photos of this one from a closer angle, I'd really appreciate seeing them. I've looked around but haven't seen too many yet. My 16 year old daughter and I were directly in front of Eddie when he came out and stood there. He held my daughter's hand for the first 2/3 of the song. Then he shook hands with a lot of people and finally gave me a special something too. Thanks in advance!

MeddleDeal

I am SO in shocked over that moment, when our group, Stoney G. Fan Club got individual waves from Eddie :eek: and getting those picks from Stone personally(well, he gave it to his assistant to give to us)! WHOA!! :eek:

i'll write a longer review soon. i am just at work and well, i think my boss checks that go on here

and our section, 208 and the next section over, ROCKED!! NO ONE was sitting down! we actually made the balcony bounce with our energy!! Much can't be said about that same section on night 1 and 3.

Eliot Rosewater

Doesn't anyone have more pics from either of the first two San Francisco shows??

dana_b

Here's a link to the first show (wrong thread though!). Cool shots but you should be a Vedhead to enjoy most of them!

http://www.livedaily.com/photos/238-31.html

MockY

There is a Swedish review of the show with a couple of pictures.
Remember that he review is in Swedish so unless you can actually read Swedish, the review is most likely pretty boring and not worth checking out. But hopefully there was atleast one native Scandinavian here that might find it interesting.
The review can be found on the link below.

http://www.kompazz.se/pearljamsanfran.php

I have as well additional pictures from the show that I can post if there is any interest. The post is fairly late so maybe there is no one else than don't gimme no who wants to see them.

Meijin

SF2 was the wild card going in. Was this going to be a hits night, a la LA 1, or a little bit of everything? Well, more the latter than the former.

SF2 was also the first time I'd done relay. As LogicbeforeBeauty said, I had no idea how fast stuff comes at you. I felt like I was texting song titles every couple seconds, hoping to remember a song as soon as I heard the first chord. (Usually, I did.)

Sometimes opened the show up, a great slow vibe. And then, what felt like the course for the evening, was set when Ed announces after the first verse, "I forgot the song." And that was that. Sometimes was over.

Some great stuff came up in the course of the next few songs -- Whipping, Animal, Dissident. And finally, Army Reserve, which had eluded me since Las Vegas. I was beginning to think we'd gotten Big Wave instead of AR -- which, while Big Wave is cool, doesn't stack up to AR for me.

The setlist was just great up to this point. Even though stuff seemed a little rough (we'd learn later because there was no soundcheck), the show was pretty good.

First Encore continued a solid setlist, but the energy of the place went up tenfold when American In Me was played. THIS was when the show really felt like it found its pace to me. But it was also late in the first encore.

Last Kiss begins without Ed on the stage... and then all of the sudden, a MASSIVE crush in the crowd happens as everyone realizes he's about 10 rows back in the crowd (inside a weird security gate seemingly built for this purpose). It was like the Beatles suddenly showed up or something.

And then, for me, the major surprise was Blood. Great energy. Powerful. And a great segue into Leash.

But Fuckin' Up felt like the not-so-obscure comment on the evening. Ed misses both tambourines thrown, feels kind of disinterested at this point, flings tambourines back at the backdrop, etc.

I have to say, while SF2 had a solid setlist and some great moments, this was low on my list for the 8 shows I saw (Vegas->SF3, sans Fonda). I never felt like things got going at full tilt, and from my vantage point, the crowd seemed lackluster. (not awful, just not energetic. It seems like the great smokeout of SF1 was celebrated early before SF2 and the energy was lower.)

So, as always: Better than staying home and doing nothing. But not a show I'm going to fondly recall. Fun but not up to the energy of the other shows so far -- although I see I'm in the minority on this one.

mad.river.studio

snowrider04 wrote:

clip of Last Kiss from last night....sick!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X02usDxinzc

Thanks for posting this clip of Last Kiss. I was right there and was holding onto Ed's hand/arm. At one point he looked me in the eye, touched the top of my head, shook hands with my husband.
My memory card was full by that point in the evening, so I "took (his) hand, not (his) picture"....
But of course I'd love to have a photo of those moments. If anyone in that area got a shot of the crowd directly below Ed, I'd love to see it!

Thanks
mad river studio

rollingstone423

out of 8 shows this one was the BEST!!!!! wow- the energy was off the fucking hook- sound was on point- crowd was on point and the band was just flat out on FIRE!!!! Thank You Pearl Jam for a great summer!!!!!

timlewis384

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49665562@N00/sets/72157594205267366/


After her first experience in "the pit", I think my wife is now addicted to PJ. A great night and a really fun show, screw-ups and all. I was a little perturbed by the "Sometimes" flub, as it was sounding really good. After listening to the boot, I found he also bungled the beginning of RVM (no surprise there) and a part of Garden. The roof-raising version of "Alive" made up for it. The energy on the floor was unbelievable.

MockY

Well, here is some of my pictures I took.

http://mocky.mine.nu/index.php?list=20

Toshala

decent pix Mocky....thanks.......I LOVED when Ed shone the light off his guitar into the crowd..........what fucking magic..........

ratsgrrl

OK - got all three nights as sets in Flickr. My night 2 pics are the best (down front on Mike's side) - great fans around us. Big THANKS to "Tall guy" for Mike's pick (and protection on night's 2+3).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33391538@N00/sets/72157594202381796/