Is All Those Yesterdays the best opener that has never been?

TroubledSoul
TroubledSoul Posts: 1,374
edited September 2012 in The Porch
I've been thinking about this every tour for 10 years, and was heartbroken when it was scratched off the set at PJ20 with PT for a couple more TOTD tracks.

But anyway, the talk lately of openers had me thinking that I'd put it out there to see if anyone agrees.

An unplayed track either way.
Yeh I've seen Pearl Jam, too. But I can't remember the dates.
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  • YLed2
    YLed2 Posts: 5,534
    I agree, but even though All Or None has opened once before, it definitely needs to find its way back to opening a show soon - or at least played again.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 32,130
    I'm going with WMA.
    One of my favorites and i dont see it on pjstattracker's list.
    ATYs is a great tune too!
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  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    Once

    I admit it...what's to say...yeah...
    I'll relive it...without pain...mmm...
    Backstreet lover on the side of the road
    I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode
    I got a sixteen gauge buried under my clothes, I play...
    Once upon a time I could control myself
    Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah...
    Oh, try and mimic what's insane...ooh, yeah...
    I am in it...where do I stand?
    Oh, Indian summer and I hate the heat
    I got a backstreet lover on the passenger seat
    I got my hand in my pocket, so determined, discreet...I pray...
    Once upon a time I could control myself
    Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah, yeah...
    You think I got my eyes closed
    But I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time...
    Ooh, once upon a time I could control myself, yeah...
    Once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah, yeah, yeah...
    Once, upon a time I could love myself, yeah...
    Once upon a time I could love you, yeah, yeah, yeah...
    Once [4x]
    Yeah...once, once...yeah, yeah...
    Yeah...yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah...oww...
  • why now u dont bitching
    why now u dont bitching Posts: 248
    I was just thinking yesterday how surprising it is to me that it was never an opener.
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  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    oh you want songs that they have never been used as openers, then Garden all the way sorry my bad, sometimes don't read so good, I thought I saw ever instead of never
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,021
    Strangest Tribe is my vote. Not only has it not been an opener, it's never been played at all :shock:
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  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    whoa! wait a second Insignificance has never been an opener, I would of thought for sure it had, then that has to be it

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMN4WaE7nOY&feature=autoplay&list=PL9A00F7314885A11C&playnext=14&shuffle=915776
  • UmphreysJam34
    UmphreysJam34 Posts: 823
    I love this song. I've been wanting to hear it live forever. I think it'd be a great opener.

    This was scratched off at PJ20? Anyone have a pic of the setlists? Or any more info on this?
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    i prefer other songs for opener
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  • KingJeremyD
    KingJeremyD Posts: 2,313
    I don't why pearl jam doesn't play this song more often?...We all know it is beautiful track....I have been to 42 pearl jam concerts....This is one track I am dying to hear....I think it would be a great opener....

    Maybe the band doesn't think it is that great live?


    Jeremy
  • smanchac1
    smanchac1 Posts: 2,256
    It was played in Stockholm, here's a clip of the crowd at the end..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_H3b7DV-9M&feature=plcp
  • TroubledSoul
    TroubledSoul Posts: 1,374
    UmphreysJam34 wrote:
    I love this song. I've been wanting to hear it live forever. I think it'd be a great opener.

    This was scratched off at PJ20? Anyone have a pic of the setlists? Or any more info on this?

    http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9owasbmc01rtzs4w.jpg

    image too big to paste.
    Yeh I've seen Pearl Jam, too. But I can't remember the dates.
  • mtolan514
    mtolan514 Posts: 84
    I really get this feeling that it's Stone who's in the way of this. He really hates some of his songs and just refuses to let them played. From what I've seen from interviews, he seems like a guy who has really, really high musical standards for himself and the band, which is good of course--lead to a lot of good songs. But I think in retrospect he looks at a song he wrote a couple years ago and is like "bah, stupid, we're never going to play that." I just think back to his super-high reluctance to play "No Way" during PJ20 even though Eddie really wanted them to play it...and it's also probably why we don't see "No Way" and Yesterdays a lot...
  • TroubledSoul
    TroubledSoul Posts: 1,374
    mtolan514 wrote:
    I really get this feeling that it's Stone who's in the way of this. He really hates some of his songs and just refuses to let them played. From what I've seen from interviews, he seems like a guy who has really, really high musical standards for himself and the band, which is good of course--lead to a lot of good songs. But I think in retrospect he looks at a song he wrote a couple years ago and is like "bah, stupid, we're never going to play that." I just think back to his super-high reluctance to play "No Way" during PJ20 even though Eddie really wanted them to play it...and it's also probably why we don't see "No Way" and Yesterdays a lot...

    yeh i get that feeling to a degree as well. so what does he think of the songs he has had a hand in in recent years... like supersonic and johnny guitar? those songs are absolute pus compared to the likes of no way and ATY.
    Yeh I've seen Pearl Jam, too. But I can't remember the dates.

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