*** Open'er Festival Fanviews Here 7/3/14 ***

Sea

Pearl Jam
Open’er Festival
Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport
Poland
July 03, 2014
Set List

01. Go
02. Corduroy
(The band pauses for a bit to make sure that everyone is okay.  Ed asks the audience to look out for each other)
03. Mind Your Manners
04. Lightning Bolt
05. Animal
06. Given To Fly
(Ed says “this next song is dedicated to the promoter Nicholas (sp) and the president of this area.  One of us forgot our passport and they trusted us enough to get into the country.” ) 
07. Pilate
08. Do The Evolution
09. Getaway
10. Got Some
11. Nothingman
(Ed again asks the crowd to be careful and watch out for others.  “you know that last song was a pretty slow song to have a hundred people surfing around and landing on top of people in the front...If we see you up there more than twice security is gonna pull you out.”)
12. Even Flow
13. Sirens
14. Jeremy
15. Unthought Known
16. Public Image-(Leven, Lydon, Walker, Wobble)
17. Lukin (with Ed quiet guitar intro)
18. Rearviewmirror

Encore Break 1

19. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
20. Better Man/Save It For Later-(Charley, Cox, Morton, Steele, Wakeling)
21. Porch
22. Alive
23. Baba O’Riley w/ Andrew VanWyngarden of the band MGMT-(Townshend)

Please share your experiences of the show here...the Fanview threads are preserved on the board.

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Thank you!

BrainofBGA

Just out of curiosity...how do you pronounce Gdynia!?

emjot

ˈgdɪnjə

Eraserhead

Pretty decent festival setlist. How much were day tickets BTW?

dimitrispearljam

BrainofBGA said:

Just out of curiosity...how do you pronounce Gdynia!?

u dont even wanna know how i pronounce it..haha

thamks Sea

BrainofBGA

Did anyone attend the show!?

Anyone!?

PeArLgOoNeR

has this happened before? not a single fanview

BrainofBGA

I might just make one up! Or can someone give us one in Polish at least!?

dimitrispearljam

BrainofBGA said:

Did anyone attend the show!?

Anyone!?

u ever see the map where Gnydia is??heheh...well people from poland barely post here..and in general they post at their own pages..

wolfamongwolves

Amazing. Not a single one.

dreamtonic

Similar to the Australian "G'day" ...."G'DIN-ya"
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Pulled two brief articles from Polish newspapers:

This one includes photos. It says the crowd was huge, and people were crazy excited for PJ. Also says that Ed spoke in Polish saying "hey, how are you feeling?" ("cześć. Jak się czujecie?") and later "It's a beautiful night. Cheers!" ("To jest piękna noc. Na zdrowie!") and also "I'm not drinking" ("Nie piję") right before taking a swig from his wine bottle.

http://cjg.gazeta.pl/otworzmiasto/1,138332,16268618,To_byla_piekna_noc__Relacja_z_koncertu_Pearl_Jam.html


and this one says it was Jeff that had the passport problem
http://www.pomorska.pl/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140704/ROZRYWKA01/140709627

mfc2006

wolfamongwolves said:

Amazing. Not a single one.

patience

T-Bone 82

Wow, a show for the masses with very little hardcore presence! That's kind of cool, actually.

SpinTheLastExit

Hi, my name is Kieran from Edinburgh, Scotland. I'm new around here so good to meet you all.

I was at Open'er last weekend. Queued from 6pm and waited all the way through MGMT to get pretty close. Some fans weren't exactly behaving brilliantly. For example, pushing through the crowd after MGMT finished to get to the front. During that time, six people chose to sit down causing me to balance myself for the next hour while some Polish guy was moaning at me in what is an alien language for me. I personally thought sitting down was pretty selfish. Nevertheless, as soon as PJ came on it was riotous. Very cramped with some careless people squashing. I tried to help some thoughtful others push back but that didn't help. Then Vedder warned the crowd after Corduroy which helped a tad. A very good festival set indeed and the crowd were with it all the way. Sore afterwards and sweating bad - merited a few quick pints! Almost got a tambourine off Eddie who actually signalled me for it but I got swamped by other taller people. Ah well, always tonight in Leeds which I'm currently on my way to. Enjoy to everyone is going!

PeArLgOoNeR

SpinTheLastExit said:

Hi, my name is Kieran from Edinburgh, Scotland. I'm new around here so good to meet you all.

I was at Open'er last weekend. Queued from 6pm and waited all the way through MGMT to get pretty close. Some fans weren't exactly behaving brilliantly. For example, pushing through the crowd after MGMT finished to get to the front. During that time, six people chose to sit down causing me to balance myself for the next hour while some Polish guy was moaning at me in what is an alien language for me. I personally thought sitting down was pretty selfish. Nevertheless, as soon as PJ came on it was riotous. Very cramped with some careless people squashing. I tried to help some thoughtful others push back but that didn't help. Then Vedder warned the crowd after Corduroy which helped a tad. A very good festival set indeed and the crowd were with it all the way. Sore afterwards and sweating bad - merited a few quick pints! Almost got a tambourine off Eddie who actually signalled me for it but I got swamped by other taller people. Ah well, always tonight in Leeds which I'm currently on my way to. Enjoy to everyone is going!

finally!

Welcome aboard!

Given2Fly2012

SpinTheLastExit said:

Hi, my name is Kieran from Edinburgh, Scotland. I'm new around here so good to meet you all.

I was at Open'er last weekend. Queued from 6pm and waited all the way through MGMT to get pretty close. Some fans weren't exactly behaving brilliantly. For example, pushing through the crowd after MGMT finished to get to the front. During that time, six people chose to sit down causing me to balance myself for the next hour while some Polish guy was moaning at me in what is an alien language for me. I personally thought sitting down was pretty selfish. Nevertheless, as soon as PJ came on it was riotous. Very cramped with some careless people squashing. I tried to help some thoughtful others push back but that didn't help. Then Vedder warned the crowd after Corduroy which helped a tad. A very good festival set indeed and the crowd were with it all the way. Sore afterwards and sweating bad - merited a few quick pints! Almost got a tambourine off Eddie who actually signalled me for it but I got swamped by other taller people. Ah well, always tonight in Leeds which I'm currently on my way to. Enjoy to everyone is going!

Thanks for your post!
I had a similar experience in Milan, people pushing (hard) from behind as soon as Go started... The very positive thing was that I suddenly was in the 3d row just in front of Stone :-D and fortunately I had 3 Scotsmen behind taking care of me standing like a shield! ;-) CHEERS!!

kamilaaa

OK, so hi from somebody Polish!:) So as a represantation of Polish part of audience I wanted to say that it was my 4th Pearl Jam gig and first one in Poland. I came to the festival at 10 m and there was hardly 7 people queuing- it was kind of surprising after seeing all of you sleeping outside the venues for 3 days I got the first row on my left there was a rail and on my right a handful of crazy Polish fanclubbers;)
I agree with Kieran, there was a lot of things going on and people were pushing to the front, but I guess that this years Berlin was worse in this case, I was in second row at Stone side and I could hardly breathe and many many many drunk people were on the nearest part of the pit.
Coming back to Gdynia it was great that people started singing wit Eddie's technician, after 3 time she seemed a bit annoyed, but it was fun seeing her smiling for the first time:)

I was fooling around and decided to put on a worm hat and Mike noticed that at pointed at me, so I answered in worm-style waving my 'anthennas'. We also had a painted portrait of Andy and it seemed that Jeff appreciated it. Eddie threw the tambourine towards my side and I had it in my hand but due to my broken finger girl next to me was stronger and she caught it in both hands and took it. Lucky one!;)
Eddie was speaking a lot in Polish and I have to admit it was easy to understand him. He recognized some shirtless guy and said that he must have a 'huge ego, but probably a small...TOWN' and then they started playing Elderly woman. What was nice he introduced members of the band in Polish. He noticed that many people were going on a 'wave' and said that if they'll recognize someone who is doing it for more than second time they'll zip them in their tent and cut their penis off.
As far as I remember at Open'er 2010 when PJ was performing there were 60 000 people so I guess this time was more or less the same. it was fun having them in Poland a lot to remember. Have a couple of pictures when Eddie came down the rail and shook hands with mostly everyone.
Funny story, but the next day after the gig I met my friend who lives in Tricity (Gdynia Sopot Gdańsk) and we went for a walk. Whom did we came across- Eddie, Jeff and Boom. We approached them, but Ed only stayed with us, the others went to the van and I thanked him for taking my etching from Vienna and he did recognized me and he remember my work so I got a pick from him and we shook hands and then he left. What can I say seeing hangovered Eddie is superpriceless;)




Cheers!:)

radar

dreamtonic said:

and this one says it was Jeff that had the passport problem
http://www.pomorska.pl/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140704/ROZRYWKA01/140709627

So Jeff forgot his passport. The president of Gdynia was involved to solve the problem and Pilate was dedicated to him

Justyna

Hello there, so I am a Pole and that the second time I attended Opener, 2010 being the first one. The worst show to the date audiencewise. That was the most violent and careless crowd. Was in the second row as the security girl decided to check me for nearly 3 minutes. PJ was great, the set list was much longer than I expected it to be.

SpinTheLastExit

'Go' from this bootleg sounds dreadful, both guitars sound out of tune during the verses and chorus. Sounds like someone didn't tune the guitars to Drop D properly. But I don't even know if this is a production fault or anything.

The audience sound just as good as they did when I was there, which is positive. Shame everybody can't see how malicious some people in the audience were.