THATS RIGHT IM IN BOSTON BABY!!!! CAMDEN? DUDE, AFTER TONITES SHOW, I AM REEEEEEEALLY QUESTIONING ANYMORE SHOWS BECUZ.......I DONT KNOW HOW ANY OTHER SHOW WILL COMPARE TO TONITE. GORGE WAS KING BUT UHM.....ITS BEEN "DE-THRONED"!!!!!
~~~~~~ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD TIME~~~~~~
Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!
"Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95
Funniest moment of the night: them playing Smile for the little girl, and Ed dropping the f-bomb in it, then immediately looked embarassed and apologizing to the girl. Very cute
THATS RIGHT IM IN BOSTON BABY!!!! CAMDEN? DUDE, AFTER TONITES SHOW, I AM REEEEEEEALLY QUESTIONING ANYMORE SHOWS BECUZ.......I DONT KNOW HOW ANY OTHER SHOW WILL COMPARE TO TONITE. GORGE WAS KING BUT UHM.....ITS BEEN "DE-THRONED"!!!!!
yea i know it sucks....those fuckers screwed us with Leash But oh well, I still think they will play it in Philly, but it wont be the same since it has already been played. Ed better have a good explanation...
awesome! how did they introduce leash? did ed say anything? or did they just go into it?
this show will surely go down in history
THEY DIDNT INTRODUCE IT. I THINK IF THEY WOULD HAVE, IT WOULDNT HAVE GOT THE CRAZY REACTION IT DID. THEY JUST WENT FULL FLOWIN FORCE INTO IT AND THEY JUST KNEW THE CROWD WAS GREATFUL. THE LOOKS ON THE BOYS FACES WERE PRICELESS. EDS FIST IN THE AIR SIGNALLING TO DO THE SAME DURING "TROUBLED SOULS UNITE"........OH MY FREAKIN GOD!!!! OUTRAGEOUSLY CRAZY!!!!!
KADDI, YOU RULE! LOVVVVE THE REVIEW!!!!
~~~~~~ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD TIME~~~~~~
Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!
"Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95
They Dropped The Leash! I Don't Know How Anyone Can Sleep After That!
Low Fucking Light!!
I Got Id ---> Solat ---> Comatose = I Got Shit (in My Pants)
Parachutes Is Great Live!!!
Smile After Little Girl Gives Ed Flowers. Ed Gives Her Harmonica. Lights Gave Me Seizure During Rearviewmirror.
Theo Epstein Comes Out To Rock In The Free World, If You Will. Sang A Part With Ed. Throws His Pj Hat Into The Crowd. Takes Off Wig. Stone Puts On Wig.
Theo Also Had Limited Edition Hoodie On. He Kept The Shit Out Of That.
What A Boost For The Soul!
Smoke 'em If You Got Them!
I Don't Know How One Can Be Asleep After This!!!!!! I Will Never Ever Forget This Night, Until Alzheimer's Kicks In!!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **WARNING LONG DRUNKEN RAMBLE*
ok ok you guys I have to start this thread by saying CRYBABIES GO HOME ~ Ludacris
Fucking Boston(e) was fucking girls weekend out!! The dudes were left home and fucking we were ready to ROCK out. tons of girl hugs and nudges (guys ya'll may not get this shit. we are touchy feely peeps!) OH TO THE FUCKING HOT ASS GUY NEXT TO US? DAYUM FUCKING HOT!!!!!!!! :eek: *FANS SELF* FUCKING CHESTY* (lyd thats for you! HELLA HOTT) MEOW MEOW!!! SENROCK!! YOU FUCKING SAID!! THIS IS FOR THOSE THAT THINK THEY KNOW IT ALL!! FUCKAS!!!! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
ok ok So the day started with a wake up from Tim (NITRO! WHATS UP BABY!) at 1130am. Dude was fucking ROLLIN that we were still crashed out.. Tim fucking ROCKS and holy crap dude im so glad i was able to get you a poster! FUCKING thank you for hookin us up Ok so When we finally woke up, I told Lyd OMG I JUST heard my dad saying "hello? hello?" then it was like "2 birds is what they'll see!" OMG!! I WAS LIKE OMG!! LOWLIGHT TONITE! I WILL CRY!! OMG!!! then we were talking about how wild it is that both of us had dads died unexpectedly and how fucked up losing a parent really is. :( :(
Ok so we get to the show, find our seats, fucking ROCK out with MMJ (BIG HAIR LOVE!!) and meeting/saying hi to everyone. Give Tim his poster. Fucking run back down. fucking CHAT with SENROCK!! PJTAPER comes over and states the NEWS. FUCKING LEASH ON THE SETLIST. HOLY FUCK. WE ARE TWO SQUEALING MOFOS READY TO FUCKING GET THE FUCK OUTA HERE!!
SHOWTIME!!!!!!!!! OMG! SEVERED HAND!! NORA! I SAID YEAHHHHHHH Ok we are going totally crazy and then MARKER IN THE SAND! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! *two crazy chicks* then O M F G FUCKING LOWLIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhh I THINK I FUCKING CRIED and hugged lyd! HAHHHHH!! *TEARS*!!! As we are still in shock FUCKING ARMY RESERVE! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! *screams again!* then HOLY FUCKING ORGASM! OMG!! SOLAT!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! THE CROWD GOES WILD!! (FINALLY) there was some dudes SITTING DOWN IN FRONT OF US! WHAT THE FAWK? :eek: recovery time was SHORT CUZ FUCKING COMATOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIG HAIR FLYIN FUCKING ROCKING OUT! OMG! PJ IS ON FI-YAH!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! then Inside Job. Op - ya know..timing the last 45 seconds is a lil hard at a pj show.. *what-eva* Then RVM!! HOW APPROPRIATE! FUCK YEAH!! I GATHER SPEED FROM YOU FUCKING WITH ME!! HELL YEAH!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH PJ KICKED MY ASS!!
1st encore! OMG WHERE ARE THE CLOWNS AND THE MINI COOPER? FUCKING WASTED REPRISE? BWHAHAHHA! that song reminds me of a circus for some reason. whahah!! THEN FUCKING *TEARS* MAN OF THE HOUR!! FUCKING DADDY TRIBUTE ON DISPLAY! AHHHH!!! I KNOW our dads were like YUP! Those are the girls fucking rocking out not worried about ANYTHING *tears tears tears!* Elderly woman! AHHHH!! I JUST WANNA SAY FUCKING LOUD ASS BOSTONE FUCKING ROCKED THIS SING A LONG CLASSIC!!!! WHOOOOO!!! THEN PJ COMES IN FOR THE KILL! FUCKING PARACHUTES!!!!Lyd fucking went CRAZZ-EEE and dude you guys- shock REALLy set in.. ive NEVER EVA seen her sit down at a show.. SHE FUCKING SAT DOWN DURING BLACK. You KNOW that was a serious SHOCK eh? lolololol!! Ok break time.
second ENCORE HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHY GO!! I LOVE THIS SONG! THANK YOU PJ!! YES YES YES!! THE SONG THAT MADE ME A FUCKING KOOKY FAN! AHHH! LIFE WASTED!! AHHHH! FREAK OUT. Then we are like omg omg what the ? WHY IS JEFF going over and WHY IS STONE GOING OVER THERE? OMG OMG OMG!! IS THAT OMG IS THAT FUCKING SMILE? IS ThAT FUCKING OMG ITS SMILE!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!! *HOLDS UP THE INTERNATIONAL *SMILE* SIGN CREATED BY NORA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! *TEARS TEARS TEARS ARE RUNNING DOWN MY FACE!! I MISS YOU ALREADY! I MISS YOU ALWAYS!! MY FUCKING DADDY! MY GRANDMA! MY GRANDPA! 3 CROOKED HEARTS!!* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! More hugs!! (OP YOU GOTTA GIMME CREDIT FOR CALLING YOU CUZ I TURNED MY PHONE OFF! NO MAS!!) INDIFFERENCE!! FUCKING WHAT THE HELL? DAYUM! PJ ON A ROLL TO SHOOT DOWN ALL THE CRITICS!!!
THEN IT HAPPENS.. FUCKING LEASH. FUCKING LEASH! O M F G *FREAK OUT CITY* O M F G. YOU guys. The "PLAY LEASH YOU PUSSIES" SIGN GUY. I FUCKING HOPE YOU WERE THERE> SOUNDED SOOOO GOOOODD! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD! AHHHH!! SO good so good to see EVERYONE JUMPING UP AND DOWN & ROCKIN OUT! ITS SO GOOD TO BE A PJ FAN!!! FUCKING YELLOW LEDBETTER! *Holds up sign* YEAH I SAW THA RED SOX JEFF!! YEAH YEAH YOU ROCK MY SOCKS BABY! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw the Mike and STONE pick shirts. WHERE THERE FUCK IS THE JEFF SHIRT?**WAITS** *Calls RICK - dude you PROMISED when you make the jeff shirt one is MINE! YEAH!* OK STONE AND THE WIG? WHAT THE HELL? Nora! YOU CANT TAKE THAT GUY ANYWHERE! FIRST THE PLAID PANTS NOW THE WIG! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH ok SUCH good time had by all in BOSTONE! IM IN FUCKING SHOCK! HOLY SHIT! COW SUIT DUDE? LUVED IT! TONS OF RANDOM FUCKING DANCES BY THE BAND! AWW The girl for SMILE! THANK YOU!! The donation for the homeless? AWESOME!! YES!!
To the guy on my left? DUDE THIS WAS YOUR FIRST PJ show!! HOLY FUCKING CRAP! WHAT AN AWESOME FUCKING FIRST SHOW!!! I KNOW you enjoyed it!!!
Ok its a break tomorrow and on to CAMDEN!! PHILLY PJ ARE YOU READy?
Oh and to those THAT WERE OR WERE NOT CALLED? Too bad, so sad. :rolleyes: :mad: *STICKS WITH PITCHFORK* GET OUTA MY FUCKING FACE! :mad: NEXTTTT...
Sooo... I don't get it - was it a good show or not?
Just kiddin' That's so cool you had a such a wicked time
crazy, crazy show. pearl jam fucking rules. when jeff put the 12 string on i looked at my friend and was like "here it is" and then they played leash. leash and rats in two shows. didn't see that coming. mmj is also really really cool. i think they won a lot of people over. i'm definately going to check them out now. see everyone at the meadowlands.
OMG!! I WAS LIKE OMG!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! *two crazy chicks* then O M F G FUCKING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhh I HOLY FUCKING SHIT! *screams again!* then HOLY FUCKING ORGASM! OMG!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! THE CROWD GOES WILD!! BIG HAIR FLYIN FUCKING ROCKING OUT! OMG! PJ IS ON FI-YAH!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! HELL YEAH!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH PJ KICKED MY ASS!!
OMG WHERE ARE THE CLOWNS AND THE MINI COOPER? \ WHOOOOO!!! lolololol!! Ok break time.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT \YES YES YES!! AHHHH! FREAK OUT. Then we are like omg omg what the ? WHY IS JEFF going over and WHY IS STONE GOING OVER THERE? OMG OMG OMG!! IS THAT OMG IS THAT FUCKING SMILE? IS ThAT FUCKING OMG ITS SMILE!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! *TEARS TEARS TEARS ARE RUNNING DOWN MY FACE!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! More hugs!! DAYUM! \FUCKING LEASH. FUCKING LEASH! O M F G *FREAK OUT CITY* O M F G. YOU guys. \YEAH YEAH YOU ROCK MY SOCKS BABY! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CANT TAKE THAT GUY ANYWHERE! FIRST THE PLAID PANTS NOW THE WIG! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH *STICKS WITH PITCHFORK* GET OUTA MY FUCKING FACE!
"I forgot the F***ing song."
- Eddie Vedder, San Francisco 7-16-06, after botching Sometimes, the night's opener
Very excited about Leash and Parachutes but a little bit dissapointed that so many songs were repeated within a two night Boston stand.
I actually agree with this. We otherwise have nothing to complain about, but there were some points during the show where I asked myself "They DO remember that they played here last night, right?" I feel stupid lodging a complaint about a show with Leash, Indifference, SOLAT, Parachutes, and Smile, but I definitely noticed all the repeats. Overall it was still a tremendous show.
It is time to admit that we used to rock like hurricanes. It is time to run for the hills and go round and round. It is time for us to shout at the devil. We've got the right to choose it, there ain't no way we'll lose it, and we're not gonna take it anymore.
- C. Klosterman
The first Boston show was good, but last night was fucking epic! Both nights the crowd was huge and really into it (maybe a little more the first night) but the setlist last night (not even including Leash, although that was the nail in the coffin), and the band, were so motherfucking on! This was easily the best show I've ever been too. So long, and so good. I still can't believe it. Its clear the band really loves Boston, and really loved playing there last night. You could tell that Leash was coming cause the band and especially Eddie and Mike were so into it both nights. I'm so glad last night was the show I took my sister to. Thanks Boston and PJ for two incredible concerts!
you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
I had been waiting for this since 1992. When I lost my hope that they would ever play Greece I decided to come and study here so that I would finally watch them play live.
This night was a HUGE REWARD to everybody that had the chance to experience it. And I had the chance to realize that there is no other band that means so much to its fans.
PS These fuckers finally decided to play Greece. Guess what! I am flying back for the show on September 30th!
This isn't exactly a fanview, as I wasn't there, but it's one of the best newspaper reviews that's made it's way to my inbox. Just thought I'd share it here ...
Pearl Jam at the Garden
Less is still more
By: MATT ASHARE
5/25/2006 2:28:30 PM
THE PEOPLE'S BAND: Pearl Jam is for you, if you'll have them
After a dozen or more years of taking crap from friends for insisting that Pearl Jam are always great live, I was ready to call bullshit on Wednesday, at the first of two shows at the Whoever’s-Sponsoring-It-Now Garden. With hordes of big guys in baseball hats bustling past me on the way in, hooting and hollering for no particular purpose, I was off to a good start. “Woo-hoo.” That’s right, you’re at the Garden. Shut the hell up and find your seats.
And then, with little fanfare — no explosions or giant video screens — five guys sauntered on a stage and, well, just started playing. You could argue that Pearl Jam take the theater out of the arena. But there’s so much drama down there in the songs — in the performances, too, in the obvious pleasure guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament take in laying down a solid, supple foundation with drummer Matt Cameron, and in Vedder’s tight-fisted, full-throated delivery. Anything more than some sparingly used green lasers would be too much. Pearl Jam have become the people’s band for those who are willing to have them. It’s an enviable position: no image is the image, no change the expectation. Their overly intense attention to squeezing every last drop of emotion out of every last song — an ailment that once seemed destined to bring Pearl Jam crashing down — has been replaced by a more easygoing atmosphere. The arrival of keyboardist Kenneth "Boom" Gaspar, the long-haired giant from Hawaii who’s insinuated himself into the band as Vedder’s mellowing agent over the past several years, has helped. Vedder didn’t make any over political statements (unless you count dedicating the new “Unemployable” to graduating college students), not even when playing the war-torn rockers “Severed Hand” and “World Wide Suicide” (which came early enough in the set for 11-year-old Jimmy, sitting next to me with his dad, to hear them — and “Evenflow”! — before his first nap.)
Vedder, wine bottle in hand, did make a suspect comment about Boston being special to Pearl Jam. It’s the kind of thing you’d write off as showbizzing, except that there’s some actual history: their first show after Kurt Cobain’s suicide was here, local academic icon Howard Zinn joined them on stage a couple years later, and during one infamous three-night stand they played the entire Pearl Jam songbook. And once again, Pearl Jam struck paydirt in Boston: it happened to be Bob Dylan’s 65th birthday. Vedder saluted him in the first encore with a shaky “Forever Young” and slightly stronger “Masters of War.” An inspired “Crazy Mary” that climaxed with an epic Hammond organ solo (replete with cries of “BOOM” from the crowd) finally got the band rolling again. Jimmy was back on his feet. And, as usual, Pearl Jam had been great. Damn them.
"Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is the best."
~ FZ ~
Last night was my 11 year old sons first PJ concert. We had great seats, 8th row on Mike's side. He knew how lucky he was to be part of last night. He lost his voice singing along with the crowd. Sometimes I would look over at him and see an expression of absolute amazement on his face. Thanks to the guy and girl behind us for rocking out with him! He LOVED it!
To put LEASH in perspective..the song had not been sung live since before my son was BORN.
The people around me went NUTS when we realized we were hearing leash. It was like the crowd EXPLODED! I like that it wasn't "introduced" beforehand. It made it all that more surprising.
Boston 1 was just as amazing. For me, last night was a continuation of one long show that I will never forget!
Holy. Fucking. Shit. This was my 2nd show, my first being Hartford, and this was 2000x better than Hartford. The energy in the Garden was out of this world. Every song was amazing, they gave it their all out there.
Highlights: Oh, fuck there were so many...
Acoustic Porch - I just knew it would be a great show after this
It Makes No Difference
LEASH - I'm not a huge fan of the song....its still very good though....but it was amazing they chose this show to play it
Smile
Indifference
Low Light
State of Love and Trust
A beautiful Black
Alive
Sox GM Theo Epstein playing guitar on RITFW
If I kept going I would probably list every song they played. But thats just how it was. The band was fuckin' intense last night.
Before the show started, a girl with a group a couple rows in front of me stepped on one of those black strips that cover the seperations in the loge seats, and her leg went straight through. In reaction to that, her friend saw the blood and passed out, I imagine hitting her head on something, cause one of the other friends was holding ice there. I know its terrible to laugh at, but watching the whole situation unfold was hilarious. And hey, her friends were laughing....
Then as we were trying to find our way out of Boston after the concert we were stopped at a light and across the street sitting at that light was a nice SUV. Two guys were walking down the sidewalk (looked homeless and drunk) and all of a sudden each went to the driver and passenger windows and starting banging the hell out of them to break the glass, but it didn't break, and I'd be surprised if he didn't break his hand. There was a pedestrian that saw the whole thing unfolding and ran in and popped him in the nose and it looked like he started gushing blood. A cop was sitting right next to us at the light and for some reason he didn't see this all right away, but then he got involved and it was fuckin' crazy. My hats off to the pedestrian who stopped those fuckers from doing anything further....and I hope everyone is alright and those 2 are in jail.....
Very excited about Leash and Parachutes but a little bit dissapointed that so many songs were repeated within a two night Boston stand.
I agree with you but the show still kicked ass. I didn't mind so much that they repeated the New Album but I felt some of the older stuff didn't need to be repeated. Except alive that was awesome.
What a night. i held up a sign at the begining if the last set the said
"DON'T PLAY LEASH HERE YOU DOGS". They never mentioned it but Eddie read it, walk around the stage saying something to every band member. He changed the set completly. Then they went into Leash.
i saw your sign... didn't like it
BUT i missed the sarcasm... somehow i thought you wanted it in philly or something .. i took it as anti boston
Comments
Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!
"Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95
It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
all4
Man of the Hour
Parachutes
Low Light
Indifference
State of Love and Trust
and of course Leash
crazy...now it's time to sleep
awesome! how did they introduce leash? did ed say anything? or did they just go into it?
this show will surely go down in history
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JEFF ROX MY SOX!
"Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~
"Chill out Kaddikat"
KADDI, YOU RULE! LOVVVVE THE REVIEW!!!!
Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!
"Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95
It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
Low Fucking Light!!
I Got Id ---> Solat ---> Comatose = I Got Shit (in My Pants)
Parachutes Is Great Live!!!
Smile After Little Girl Gives Ed Flowers. Ed Gives Her Harmonica. Lights Gave Me Seizure During Rearviewmirror.
Theo Epstein Comes Out To Rock In The Free World, If You Will. Sang A Part With Ed. Throws His Pj Hat Into The Crowd. Takes Off Wig. Stone Puts On Wig.
Theo Also Had Limited Edition Hoodie On. He Kept The Shit Out Of That.
What A Boost For The Soul!
Smoke 'em If You Got Them!
I Don't Know How One Can Be Asleep After This!!!!!! I Will Never Ever Forget This Night, Until Alzheimer's Kicks In!!
I Love This Band!!!
No Sleep 'til...camden!
Sooo... I don't get it - was it a good show or not?
Just kiddin'
-brent
- Eddie Vedder, San Francisco 7-16-06, after botching Sometimes, the night's opener
http://people.ucsc.edu/~mquery/pics/pujolsFTW.JPG
I actually agree with this. We otherwise have nothing to complain about, but there were some points during the show where I asked myself "They DO remember that they played here last night, right?" I feel stupid lodging a complaint about a show with Leash, Indifference, SOLAT, Parachutes, and Smile, but I definitely noticed all the repeats. Overall it was still a tremendous show.
- C. Klosterman
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friends don't let friends listen to good charlotte
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH LMAO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAA
This night was a HUGE REWARD to everybody that had the chance to experience it. And I had the chance to realize that there is no other band that means so much to its fans.
PS These fuckers finally decided to play Greece. Guess what! I am flying back for the show on September 30th!
PEACE
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http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid13365.aspx
Pearl Jam at the Garden
Less is still more
By: MATT ASHARE
5/25/2006 2:28:30 PM
THE PEOPLE'S BAND: Pearl Jam is for you, if you'll have them
After a dozen or more years of taking crap from friends for insisting that Pearl Jam are always great live, I was ready to call bullshit on Wednesday, at the first of two shows at the Whoever’s-Sponsoring-It-Now Garden. With hordes of big guys in baseball hats bustling past me on the way in, hooting and hollering for no particular purpose, I was off to a good start. “Woo-hoo.” That’s right, you’re at the Garden. Shut the hell up and find your seats.
And then, with little fanfare — no explosions or giant video screens — five guys sauntered on a stage and, well, just started playing. You could argue that Pearl Jam take the theater out of the arena. But there’s so much drama down there in the songs — in the performances, too, in the obvious pleasure guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament take in laying down a solid, supple foundation with drummer Matt Cameron, and in Vedder’s tight-fisted, full-throated delivery. Anything more than some sparingly used green lasers would be too much. Pearl Jam have become the people’s band for those who are willing to have them. It’s an enviable position: no image is the image, no change the expectation. Their overly intense attention to squeezing every last drop of emotion out of every last song — an ailment that once seemed destined to bring Pearl Jam crashing down — has been replaced by a more easygoing atmosphere. The arrival of keyboardist Kenneth "Boom" Gaspar, the long-haired giant from Hawaii who’s insinuated himself into the band as Vedder’s mellowing agent over the past several years, has helped. Vedder didn’t make any over political statements (unless you count dedicating the new “Unemployable” to graduating college students), not even when playing the war-torn rockers “Severed Hand” and “World Wide Suicide” (which came early enough in the set for 11-year-old Jimmy, sitting next to me with his dad, to hear them — and “Evenflow”! — before his first nap.)
Vedder, wine bottle in hand, did make a suspect comment about Boston being special to Pearl Jam. It’s the kind of thing you’d write off as showbizzing, except that there’s some actual history: their first show after Kurt Cobain’s suicide was here, local academic icon Howard Zinn joined them on stage a couple years later, and during one infamous three-night stand they played the entire Pearl Jam songbook. And once again, Pearl Jam struck paydirt in Boston: it happened to be Bob Dylan’s 65th birthday. Vedder saluted him in the first encore with a shaky “Forever Young” and slightly stronger “Masters of War.” An inspired “Crazy Mary” that climaxed with an epic Hammond organ solo (replete with cries of “BOOM” from the crowd) finally got the band rolling again. Jimmy was back on his feet. And, as usual, Pearl Jam had been great. Damn them.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is the best."
~ FZ ~
On a side note, I wonder if Luke the Uke made the trip?
To put LEASH in perspective..the song had not been sung live since before my son was BORN.
The people around me went NUTS when we realized we were hearing leash. It was like the crowd EXPLODED! I like that it wasn't "introduced" beforehand. It made it all that more surprising.
Boston 1 was just as amazing. For me, last night was a continuation of one long show that I will never forget!
Highlights: Oh, fuck there were so many...
Acoustic Porch - I just knew it would be a great show after this
It Makes No Difference
LEASH - I'm not a huge fan of the song....its still very good though....but it was amazing they chose this show to play it
Smile
Indifference
Low Light
State of Love and Trust
A beautiful Black
Alive
Sox GM Theo Epstein playing guitar on RITFW
If I kept going I would probably list every song they played. But thats just how it was. The band was fuckin' intense last night.
Before the show started, a girl with a group a couple rows in front of me stepped on one of those black strips that cover the seperations in the loge seats, and her leg went straight through. In reaction to that, her friend saw the blood and passed out, I imagine hitting her head on something, cause one of the other friends was holding ice there. I know its terrible to laugh at, but watching the whole situation unfold was hilarious. And hey, her friends were laughing....
Then as we were trying to find our way out of Boston after the concert we were stopped at a light and across the street sitting at that light was a nice SUV. Two guys were walking down the sidewalk (looked homeless and drunk) and all of a sudden each went to the driver and passenger windows and starting banging the hell out of them to break the glass, but it didn't break, and I'd be surprised if he didn't break his hand. There was a pedestrian that saw the whole thing unfolding and ran in and popped him in the nose and it looked like he started gushing blood. A cop was sitting right next to us at the light and for some reason he didn't see this all right away, but then he got involved and it was fuckin' crazy. My hats off to the pedestrian who stopped those fuckers from doing anything further....and I hope everyone is alright and those 2 are in jail.....
I agree with you but the show still kicked ass. I didn't mind so much that they repeated the New Album but I felt some of the older stuff didn't need to be repeated. Except alive that was awesome.
hahahahaha!!!
theo epstein GM of the Red Sox is now "The dude with the wig"
lol
i saw your sign... didn't like it
BUT i missed the sarcasm... somehow i thought you wanted it in philly or something .. i took it as anti boston
guess PJ kicking my ass made me stupid