*** San Francisco III Fanviews 7/18 Here ***

jammingecono

cbh1011 wrote:

Soo often these guys are crucified and given the hate speech.
These were far and away the coolest, most professional security guys I've ever seen.

Agreed. The big guy with the ponytail and the Misfits hat: awesome.

gmcabral

giventoflyjbs wrote:

can't wait for people to start bashing you for showing up at 7, getting non-10c tix, and then getting up front.

my opinion? i wish i had your balls.

that's why IMO - GA shows suck. i've said it in previous posts. i'm 35yr old now, have a family and work. i can't go to shows at 10am to sit in line for 8hrs so i can be first in and first up front. i'd much rather take my 10C seats which are usually about 10th-20th row depending on the venue and location. sometimes front row for midwest or southeast shows. it totally beats standing like canned meat in a sweaty sea of people trying to enjoy the show. i'll take rocking out and working up a sweat in my seat any day over GA! with that said, all 3 SF shows rocked hard and i was very pleased overall. just rather have seen those shows from my 10C seat instead of upper level balcony.

Red Mosqito

gmcabral wrote:

that's why IMO - GA shows suck. i've said it in previous posts. i'm 35yr old now, have a family and work. i can't go to shows at 10am to sit in line for 8hrs so i can be first in and first up front. i'd much rather take my 10C seats which are usually about 10th-20th row depending on the venue and location. sometimes front row for midwest or southeast shows. it totally beats standing like canned meat in a sweaty sea of people trying to enjoy the show. i'll take rocking out and working up a sweat in my seat any day over GA! with that said, all 3 SF shows rocked hard and i was very pleased overall. just rather have seen those shows from my 10C seat instead of upper level balcony.

Well you didn't have to do any of that in order to get up front. On night two I was floor bound after spending night one up in the balcony section. I got in fanclub line around 6/6:15pm...waaaaaaaaaaay in the back of the line I might ad...and I was able to secure a spot on the floor on Stoney's side no problem. By the time the 3rd or 4th song was played, i was pretty much front row (and that was without pushing or shoving people I might ad). So all those who camped out for endless hours just to get a front row floor seat...could of easily spent the day enjoying what the wonderful city of SF had to offer instead of guarding the Civic Center sidewalks, lol.

...and I'm an old grasshoppa like yourself! ;-)

Peace,

RM

Peace,

RM

ucdtim17

Yeah sunday I was in the back of the regular line, went up to the balcony first, then looked at how uncrowded the floor was and went right up towards the front. I drifted around throughout the show as I wanted a few beer and bathroom breaks but you could easily get up front without waiting in line all day

_Crazy_Mary_

This was my first Pearl Jam show and it ROCKED!! They played so many fast songs! I was on the floor in the middle and couldn't see shit (damn tall men!), so halfway through the show I went up to the balcony. I could see everything perfectly and had a great time. I had to leave my honey down on the floor, he wasn't leaving his spot. I loved when Ed skated on the guitar and fell on his ass. Only he could pull that off! OH! and I wore my _Crazy_Mary_ shirt, so if you saw me...well that was me!

utamu

http://www.mp3.com/news/stories/5421.html

BrainOfJD

LIGHT YEARS

MFC

RED MOSQUITO

ALL

ALONG

THE MOTHER

FREAKING

WATCHTOWER (with the guy from Sonic Youth!!!!!)

Do yourself a favor, download the bootleg. This was simply one of the all-time greats. I was at the 2nd MSG show in 2003 and I thought that experience would never be topped, but I think it may have happened. Holy cripes.

Toshala

well, having witnessed it myself, I must say the journo on this article did a great job.....

all hail the avacado indeed!

thanks to utamu for the link...

Meijin

SF3, the bittersweet end to my run of this summer.

But oh my god, what an ending. (So more "sweet" than "bitter").

Release opens and I know we're in for a hell of a ride. I'm also shocked that by this point, in only a handful of shows I've gotten two Releases and two Oceans...es. Crowd is in full voice, and "I'll ride the wave where it takes me" is nearly deafening.

We get Life Wasted (which was my predicted opener) and Severed Hand, and I'm thinking we've got an Avocado night ahead of us. How very wrong I am -- Hail Hail then tips the scales in a new direction. Awesome energy.

The real surprises start coming with Untitled, which I was shocked to hear. And it seemed like I was the only one in my area who knew what it was at first. Unsurprisingly, Untitled segues into MFC, which is great.

Ed then says "Red Mosquito", and everyone around me goes apeshit. Seriously, it was like the 15-20 people around me (myself included) were dying for Red Mosquito. And how worth it it was. Stellar performance, absolutely nailed it. Set one continues with some great songs -- Light Years, In Hiding (which Ed says he thought would be the singalong, after everyone lost their voices beliting out DTE).

Encore 1 was great, MotH and Crazy Mary were solid. Alive starts and I'm starting to wonder if we were going to get a normal Mamasan. Hey, weirder things have happened. Nope, just an encore that felt kind of short.

Encore 2 starts with Last Exit, which I was dying to hear, especially after God's Dice on night 1. Lighting for Last Exit was awesome -- the backdrop and the band/stage are lit in different colors that alternate with the backbeat. Red band/green backdrop; green band/red backdrop. Seriously awesome effect, this was probably the coolest lighting trick I saw at this point.

But I'm selling the crowd short here. It's going nuts and only gets louder with SOLAT and Leash. And then Ed intros Watchtower and Lee Ranaldo.

And Watchtower was just amazing. It couldn't have been that long but it was one of those moments that feels like it lasted a lifetime. Everyone is just shredding and rocking out and the crowd is loving every second of it. Mike starts tossing his guitar in the air and it plummets into the stage and we go bananas. Ed surfs across the stage on the guitar, guitar breaks, and that's it.

I'm thinking that's it, and then I see Mike get his guitar that he uses for Ledbetter. Ed says something about smashing it, and Mike cradles the guitar protectively.

It's hard to say anything about Yellow Ledbetter -- crowd was into it and it was the expected play-out... but after the amazing energy of Watchtower it just fell flat.

A great show, this seriously came close to San Diego. If you buy any of the SF boots (you should), this is the one.

boroff89

You know, over the last three years, I have flown all over (Vancouver 2003, Toledo 2004, Camden 1+2 and D.C. 2006) trying to catch one of those truly legendary shows because I thought it would never happen in the Bay Area. Then they go and give me three of them in a row right here in my hometown. I cannot describe accurately how incredible these shows were, and trying to rank them is impossible. The energy from the crowd and band was so intense. The setlists were outstanding, and the band was in absolute top form. As for night 3, hearing In Hiding, Red Mosquito, and Light Years for the first time was definitely a highlight. Untitled was a complete shock, and I loved every second of it. Anytime they open a show with Release, I am happy. My first time hearing Down electric. Crazy Mary. . .just wow. Boom's finest moment as a member of Pearl Jam. He went absolutely nuts. And then All Along the Watchtower. Holy shit. I couldn't believe it when Stone started those first few notes. I thought I was hallucinating. I heard them do it in Toledo, but Neil playing lead just doesn't do it for me. Mike absolutely tore the song up. Seeing him go absolutely nuts and trash his guitar. . .it may be my favorite live Pearl Jam moment ever. And Ed teasing him about breaking his old sunburst Fender. . .that was awesome.

I'll never forget these three shows. They were my girlfriend's first three Pearl Jam shows, and she is now so hooked that she is experiencing post-Pearl Jam concert depression. Hopefully we will see them back here for the Bridge School Benefit in October.

Natedog

gmcabral wrote:

64 different songs with 17 repeated in 3 nights in SF!


Alive x3
All Along the Watchtower
American In Me
Animal
Army Reserve
Betterman
Big Wave x2
Blood
Bu$hleaguer
Comatose x2
Come Back
Corduroy x2
Crazy Mary
Dead Man Walking
Dissident
Do The Evolution x2
Down
Drifting
Even Flow x3
Footsteps
Fuckin' Up
Garden
Given To Fly
Go
God's Dice
Gone
Hail Hail
I Am Mine
I Got Shit
In Hidding
In My Tree
Indifference
Inside Job
Insignificance
Last Exit
Last Kiss
Leash x2
Life Wasted x3
Light Years
Lukin
Man Of The Hour
Marker In The Sand
Not For You
Of The Girl
Once
Parachutes
Present Tense x2
Rearviewmirror
Red Mosquito
Release
Rockin' In The Free World
Sad x2
Save You
Severed Hand x3
Sometimes
Spin The Black Circle
State of Love and Trust x2
Unemployable x2
Untitled/MFC
Wasted Reprise x3
Whipping
Why Go x2
World Wide Suicide x3
Yellow Ledbetter x3

Wow-that puts it all into perspective. I guess you can't please everyone though

dana_b

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jammingecono

I put a few clips on youtube. Sorry about the quality, and especially sorry that I didn't get Ed's surf guitar performance

Alive

All Along The Watchtower

Yellow Ledbetter

More Yellow Ledbetter

xdedd

Went to both Sunday and Tuesday's shows, it's already been said but they were truly unbelievable.

A few different observations...

I been to many PJ shows and I have to say that the stage lighting was the best yet. They've always gone for more of the minimalist approach, and I've always especially loved the red and orange backgrounds that accompany the band, but these shows were exceptionally done.

The new album sounds absolutely fantastic live. Every. Song.

Mike looks great and is playing better than the last tour. I was about 8 people deep in front of him on Sun. and you could see he was really feeding off of us. I have countless bootlegs, multiple live versions of every song and I can honestly say that his soloing on both nights was unmatched. He simply ripped it apart on Alive and Evenflow each night. In general, his solos I think, were better on Tuesday.

I was in awe of Stone when he started playing the main riff of Alive. After all these years you can see that he still loves playing that song. I wish I could play it as fluidly the whole way through.

Jeff jumping around the stage reminded me of when I first saw them at Lollapalooza.

It was my g/f's first PJ shows. She caught one of Mike's picks and gave it to me. I just had to play my guitar with it after the show each night. (My neighbors love me)

Tuesday night = Boom. Simply siiiiick.

The only disappointment was that I didn't get to hear Black again. Like I said I've been to countless shows but have only heard Black played twice, both acoustic. I would've loved to hear Eddie screaming "we belong together" and Mike wailing on his wah pedal to a fully electric version, maybe next time. But nevertheless a breathtaking experience.

I'm off to download the shows now...

StrangestTribe

the energy for this show was amazing.

Life Wasted is a better live song then Even Flow, Severed Hand, and Do the Evolution (which is saying a lot)

Down was great. Made me very happy that they brought it out.

Present Tense and In Hiding were great. You can never get to much of present tense. A very worthy repeat.


I will say though, that I really really wanted to hear Jeremy.
We got Even Flow and Alive 3 times.
Couldn't one of those times be substitued for Black and Jeremy?


And of coarse I didn't get to hear All or None yet. But that just gives me more reason to continue seeing Pearl Jam shows!

all and all... this was a great experience.
Night 2 was very good
Night 1 was very very good
Night 3 was unbelievable and simply amazing

outontheporch

Oh yeah also, forgot, it was way funny when after the guitar destruction-fest, eddie grabbed all his crap and started to walk off the stage, but was intercepted by Mike who had his trademark worn fender, and motioned him to get back on the stage for one more! Eddie said something like "You break the guitar and the shows over, I thought that was how it worked..." Then as previously mentioned, Eddie was like "Can we break your guitar?" And Mike looked FREAKED OUT and shook his head no, and cradled his strat, LOL. Then Ed goes "OK well Mike wants to play you one more." Cue YLB. AWESOME

Thorns2010

outontheporch wrote:

Oh yeah also, forgot, it was way funny when after the guitar destruction-fest, eddie grabbed all his crap and started to walk off the stage, but was intercepted by Mike who had his trademark worn fender, and motioned him to get back on the stage for one more! Eddie said something like "You break the guitar and the shows over, I thought that was how it worked..." Then as previously mentioned, Eddie was like "Can we break your guitar?" And Mike looked FREAKED OUT and shook his head no, and cradled his strat, LOL. Then Ed goes "OK well Mike wants to play you one more." Cue YLB. AWESOME

Well yeah, I'm pretty sure its a 50's strat, and those babies go for easily $20,000-$30,000 so yeah, he ain't going to smash that. Although I have seen him throw it in the air to his guitar tech, so I don't know for sure.

Smithy

kalikat wrote:

Props to the guy who have me earplugs during the SY set - the feedback was out of control.

i gave some to a tall guy w/ (i guess) redish hair was that you?

spintheblack37

three songs- Crazy Mary Red Mosquito All Along the Watchtower.

My two buddies and I were sitting on the floor arguing about what they would play that and I made the bold prediction of Red Mosquito after some research during my lunch break at work. Needless to say I got a few jeers pointed my way. We will of course come back to this.

I am Mine- WOW, Eddie is amazing.

Release- Some guy said he always wanted to see Release played and not yet. I hope he enjoyed, I had the same feelings a few songs later.

I had also said they would play a lot of Yield and No Code, and Pearl Jam man you came through. Hail Hail, Holy Shit! Untitled, MFC, In Hiding, Do the Evolution, Present Tense, Low Light and of course Red Mosquito!

Red Mosquito- killed, wow. I almost fainted when they started playing this. My friends just looked at me with complete shock. I did not think they could top this moment, HA!

EVEN FLOW, was even better then the nights before.

I was so happy they played Do The Evolution again, it is one of my favorite songs and always remind of this girl so its a perfect jam.

Man of the Hour was a treat for me, it was one of the songs you want them to play but in the jamming set they had I didn't think it was going to happen. But BOOM, thank you Tim Burton, you combined one of my favorite movies with one of my favorite bands.

Crazy Mary, I had a feeling it was going to special. Boom was used the other two days but not to the extent we all knew Boom can be used. I was going to be so dissapointed if they had not played this, instead of playing it they killed it. KUDOS

Last Exit WOW, State of Love and Trust and Leash again WOW WOW

Then the show stopper! Quoting Eddie- We are going to play a song and I believe we are to play the shit of out it. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, that is all I can say. I knew they were going to play a cover but All Along the Watchtower, man oh man. Then the McCready/Eddie antics was even better then the Jim Morrisoon antics of Eddie on Sunday.

Fades to the end of three Pearl Jam concerts in four days and I am really glad they played Yellow Ledbetter one more time. Great way to leave SF.

Thank You Pearl Jam, I am truly blessed for the rest of my life. I am right now listening to SF 1 with a bottle of red wine to honor Eddie so sorry if some shit doesn't make sense.

kalikat

Smithy wrote:

i gave some to a tall guy w/ (i guess) redish hair was that you?

um no

i am a girl with dark hair.