***Windy City tonight!!***

Smellyman2

tough crowd.

That is a pretty kick ass set.

sebaarg88

High Fidelity 2000 wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Jeremy been played every single night of the tour thus far? 4 nights in a row of Jeremy? Are we back in 1992 again? Who remembers when Jeff called this a "once every 5 nights" song a few years ago. WTF?

I hope they start adding more variety soon...or at least by early July.

jeremy was not played in hartford

pjfan9110

Smellyman wrote:

tough crowd.

That is a pretty kick ass set.

i would agree....nothing stellar but still a very very solid setlist...because the last couple of shows have had rarities in them people are beginning to expect em...but i would take given to fly, low light, i got shit and present tense any day of the week

evenflow82

complete set anyone?

blarrg

Smellyman wrote:

tough crowd.

That is a pretty kick ass set.

Yup. Great set! I'd give my left nut to see I'm open. Well maybe not, but it sounds good.

VEDHEAD27

Wait,...so this real?

GO>>into>> BLOOOOOOOOD

:eek: :eek:

K.O.

PJChicago

Just got back and i share the same feelings as many. The show started with some great promise and then came Betterman and Daughter. Where is the Why Go or Garden? How about Marker in the sand. This is a great new song for this tour and should be a staple every night. Always great to see PJ but, a little disappointed too. Tomorrow will probably knock it out.

Cocacolakid

I just got home from the show, the setlist on page 1 looks correct, but Yellow Ledbetter wasn't on the third encore, it was the end of the second encore, they never left the stage after Baba O'Reilly.

We sat center stage, 4th row. Great seats, thank you to the ten club.

Eddie was very nice to a lot of people tonight, Rob was in the first row, center stage, and Eddie talked during a break about how Rob was at their first concert in Chicago(I'm guessing in Chicago), back when the band was still called Mookie Blaylock (according to Ed, I'm not big on their history of exactly when they changed their name). Ed said that this guy Rob was wearing a Mother Love Bone shirt that first concert, and has been at every Chicago concert since then. Ed said that Rob was in the first row, center stage, the way it should be. Then everyone gave Rob a nice ovation. Later Eddie threw him a tamborine.

Eddie also threw a tamborine to a young girl in the third row who instantly had the biggest smile in the place as she clung to that tamborine and then sang along to Yellow Ledbetter. I think earlier Eddie was trying to point her out to get her on stage, but the security guys picked out two drunk blonde's next to her and brought them to the front row. Eddie was singing, looked over and said, "oh well." The blondes never got on stage. Neither did the girl.

Finally, they played Lowlight, which was very special for a couple in the audience in the second row. Before the show they said that they had gotten married on Saturday and the bride walked down the aisle to Lowlight. I think it's very possible someone close to band heard this story somewhere and that's why it was played. Eddie said, "we don't play this song very often, but it's special," or something like that. It was really cool watching the guy and his new bride react to the song. They were hugging and waving their arms and kissing, very nice.

Several really nice moments, just watching the reactions of the crowd. Another great concert by the guys.

Cool poster tonight, too.

OKmarty

just got back from the show tonight in chicago. i'm going to run down a personal highlight reel of stage-banter, etc. from tonight as the setlist is already up. fyi my fan club number is 325XXX and I was seated in section 103, off the floor, to the side of the stage, six rows up and about 250 feet away from the stage.

first off: release. GREAT to see this song live, it hearkened back to the glory days of the summer of '95 when the boys opened with this same song on July 11th in chicago.

before one of the songs ed taunts the crowd by suggesting that the large banners displaying the names of several well-known chicago professional basketball hanging above them ought to be removed as they are absorbing the sound. he goes so far as to suggest that jordan's banner in particular be removed, later quipping that he should fold it up and put in his suitcase. before another one of the songs he professes his chicagoan uprbringing and loyalty and states that he'll always be "a kid from chicago."

ed prefaced daughter by saying "this song is called 'thank heaven for little girls.'" of course refering to his two-year old daughter, who i spotted being carried by paramour/mother jill mccormick, who was walking around the floor to the sidestage before PJ went on. mccormick is tall and lanky and eddie's daughter is really cute with shoulder-length blond curly hair. she was with another older woman that i thought might have been ed's mom.

before the first encore ed goes into an extended bit about how everyone has their favorite Beatle. as he was holding his acoustic guitar and saddled with a harmonica, i immediately thought that he would proclaim lennon as his number one Beatle but instead he said that yoko was his favorite. i joined some of the crowd in booing this statement but after a few seconds he waved his finger at us and said, "you'll see, you need time" adding that people that are into "experimentation" usually find her as their favorite.

during the solemn Indifference mike's guitar tech bumbles up on stage to address some issue with mike's guitar, but somewhere along the way things screw up and mike's guitar goes "RAARRR" in the middle of the song, providing an obvious though short-lived interruption into the otherwise well-performed dirge. also (i need to listen to the bootlegs to confirm this) earlier in the show during evenflow mike's solo was questionably off-tempo for a prolonged period of time. he appeared to be in his own world and maybe wasn't very focused on the beat. but again, i need to hear the bootlegs to confirm this.

all in all, it was a great show. it reminded me a lot of united center june 98, where they also closed with baba and ledbetter. sound quality wise i thought that band could have been louder, but all in all it was a great mix. the laser lighting effects also added a great touch to the burning rockers "go" and "blood." head-smashed tambourines on baba.

can't wait for tomorrow night.

Cocacolakid

One more thing to ad, during the Daughter tag, when they went into WMA, Eddie changed the words, instead of singing
"Dirty his hands it comes right off,
Policeman
Policeman
Policeman"

he sang:

"Dirty his hands it comes right off,
President
President
President"

I'm very interested in how this bootleg will sound, since you get such a different perspective in the audience with everyone singing along, you almost do not hear Eddie's voice that much.

One last thing,
My Morning Jacket ROCKS!!

Great band, best opening band I've ever seen on a Pearl Jam tour. Can't wait to see both bands again tomorrow.

Smellyman2

PJChicago wrote:

Just got back and i share the same feelings as many. The show started with some great promise and then came Betterman and Daughter. Where is the Why Go or Garden? How about Marker in the sand. This is a great new song for this tour and should be a staple every night. Always great to see PJ but, a little disappointed too. Tomorrow will probably knock it out.

Sorry you didn't get to hear Why Go or Garden or Marker. there was probably a few thousand other people who didn't hear all the songs they wanted too.

Next time they should just play 150 songs.

blueredgray

I thought the show tonight was pretty good. Ed was drinking tea throughout but his voice was strong. I'm Open into I got Shit was my favorite part of the main set. Save You and Comatose also kicked ass. The rest of the main set was pretty normal. The first encore was not great - they just didn't seem to have enough energy IMO. However, the second encore was awesome. Go then Blood then Indifference was great (repeated Bow Wow Wow ... on Blood). Baba was also pretty sweet.

All in all, a great show, but near the bottom of the ten shows I've seen. I could be biased because I hate the UC as a venue - it is just too antiseptic. Looking forward to tomorrow, hopefully they'll play Marker which is my favorite from the new album.

pearl jam rules

this was my first show so obviously i was pleased with the experience. i kind of was hoping for some sweet rarity or b-side and we didn't get it, but that's fine. the crowd was fantastic and the band was rock solid. everyone i heard walking away from the show said it was "unbelievable" or "amazing" and that seemed to be the general atmosphere in the stadium. there were some really good sing-alongs. so overall, they'll probably bring the weirder setlist for tomorrow but i can't complain with this setlist as i've never seen them perform before and they played most of their "hits"

clk019

OKmarty wrote:

earlier in the show during evenflow mike's solo was questionably off-tempo for a prolonged period of time. he appeared to be in his own world and maybe wasn't very focused on the beat. but again, i need to hear the bootlegs to confirm this.

I found this to be true as well. The guitar was way over the top of the mix and he wasn't in time, which made it way interesting...lazz improv

pearl jam rules

clk019 wrote:

I found this to be true as well. The guitar was way over the top of the mix and he wasn't in time, which made it way interesting...lazz improv

i was on the right side of the stage and i couldn't hear mike at all for like the first half of the concert. all his leads in WWS and life wasted. i hardly heard that. parts of the even flow solo came through, but there were parts where i couldn't hear him at all. i don't know....maybe i'm just used to the great mixing on the official boots, but that was sort of disappointing at times

heartdesire

Just got back from Chicago night #1 ... Absolutely loved it! Seats were way up in the third balcony stage right and still loved the show! Lookin' forward to tomorrow night Ten Club seats, missed out on those this evening ...

This was my 13th pj show and one of the best I have seen in Chicago. Release, as always was a passionate opener. Low light was amazing, had never heard this live and hearing Porch once again, one of my favorites, was in a state of bliss! Indifference too! I remember they closed with this in 94' in the old Chicago Stadium.

Yeah there were some technical errors here and there, but that's part and parcel of a live show. The sheer energy of the band and interplay with the audience, the moments where everything is "one" puts all that kinda stuff in perspective.

I thought Eddie sounded fantastic!!!

There are always so many songs ya wanna hear ... wish they would have played Gone, Inside Job or Marker In The Sand, but all in all I was more than pleased with the set list. After finally hearing "breath" last tour, a dream come true, I guess I have relaxed into a state of permanent bliss in regard to set lists.

The only thing I am bummin' about is I am only going to one more show ... maybe two if I can make it to Detroit!

Lookin' forward to another awesome show tomorrow night, ten club seats, the energy of the crowd ... wonder what they will open with?!?!