*** Zagreb Fanviews Here 26/09 ***

yielder

mali mujo wrote:

i was there!!!
RITFW was best ever,i mean best live version ever,three or even more not boring at all solos
but,still i have some complaints about the setlist. 27 songs on evening with pearl jam,i think it could last longer. After hearing rumors of immortality being soundchecked,disappointed of not hearing it.
Other than that. Eddie climbed almost to the roof on Porch.
Better man: Eddie started playing,we started singing, but we were in different timing so he had to stop and continue playing when he got the timing.
Blood-Alive absolutely brilliant
Even flow and Evolution rocked my ass of.
Eddie spoke in pretty ok croatian.

Security didn't exist,they didn't touch,i could have easily had bomb or anything,but when i put my friend on my shoulders,they were flashing lamps on us,telling to come down, how stupid.


Rating out of 10: 8

how stupid is it to say you could have a bomb but thinking it is ok to have somebody on your shoulders ?? Your friend could fell on the floor and be other people would fell over your friend and create a chaos. Think about roskilde. Its pearl jam that give the security guys instructions. In antwerp the security was really hard on everything, in verona they didnt touch me to see whats in my pockets... i could bring a camcorder in... in Milan just the same thing.

But its great you liked the show!!! thats the most important !

Kontejnerus

Hey people, I am that Slovene guy that was also on the bus for Vienna on monday :)n And I must say - it was great in Vienna, but Zagreb was m,uch better. Mccready was better, Ed had more energy and setlist was mindblownig - acoustic encore, OMG! But the highlighst are definetly Porch/Thin Air/Blood/Black. Black was really good, with We Belong Together tag. All in all, it was fantastic. Best concert ever.

PaulJam

mali mujo wrote:

i was there!!!
RITFW was best ever,i mean best live version ever,three or even more not boring at all solos
but,still i have some complaints about the setlist. 27 songs on evening with pearl jam,i think it could last longer. Rating out of 10: 8

Holy SH!t! 27 songs isn't enough for you? My God, what is enough? At Dublin we got about 23, which is about the average.

That looks like one of the best shows ever. So many rarities and 27 songs, sounds brilliant. Count yourself lucky.

Stereotype

Ow I'm so blown away!!!!Yeeeeeeeeeeeah!
The setlist was perfect, the sound was great, they had so much energy...Eddie looked like he was in his twenties..climbing and everthing...I really though at some point he is going to jump down, when he was up..he also spilled the crowd with wine..etc..
Ah it was so nice. They're really nice. Comunicating was perfect also...Eddie spoke really nice...and my high point (I wonder why nobody has mentioned this before??!!) at Keep on rocking in the free world..Eddie came of stage...(there was a T space between the crowd -I was standing on the left side on a vertical line of T by the fence and he came down the T..)..and he shook hands with the crowd...AND HE SHOOK MINE TOO!!!!I was really blown away by that point. Especially because I saw him doing it really quickly before...maybe he was afraid that someone will pull him or something..but when I reached out a hand..he looked at me..and gave me his..we shook hands (i got a full hand...a real shake..)and he made a sign with his eyebrows like he's a little surprised but pleased..like>Ow...Hello!Unbelievable!!!!!Thanks Eddie. It was such an honour. And not to mention it was my first show!!!!!!!The only bad thing that I can think of ..is that they took my belt at entrance..which was really valuable to me...they took it because it has some metal nad chains..(but it was really slim..)..but I don't really care anymore...AAAAAAAAAAAA!

Calvin

My name is Ivan i'm 28, live in Zagreb and have been a PJ fan since first I saw ALIVE video in '91 i think. Ever since I've been waitin' to hear that song and PJ live.
It's been 15 fu..ing years. I ve already given up on ever seeing them live since I'm not to keen on going elsewhere to concerts (that may soon change, as a result of last night)
Well...what can I say? I' ve their concerts (I have unplugged on video + Benaroyal hall and San Sebastian Anoeta Velodrome May 26th 2000. on CDs) I pretty much know how they play their songs live, what songs they play, etc...


And having said all that - THEY STILL PUT ON A SHOW, WAY ABOVE MY EXPECTATION!!!
They ----kicked

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asssssssss!!!!!

I myself was impresed with the fact they played 28!!!!! songs. Didn' know that thin air was so rarely played (I had a friend of mine on my shoulders for that one, even tough I was gasping for air) and THE BEST even flow I have EVER heard.

oh yeah, and Eddie spoke Croatian LOL
ripped my ass of laughin

Cutki

thank You Elcielo for organising the pens.. hugs & kisses
cheers all..
well.. what to say? last night we recieved some info. that the venue was gonna be half full and well that kinda threw some of the fans off, but the response turned out to be great.. you'll hear it i'm sure!
the band was amazing (really wasn't hard playing with such crowd-support )
Ed speaking almost fluent Croatian a few more show and you got it man!
Can't honestly say i wasn't expecting a longer setlist.. 2h15 was kinda short but sweet for a Night with Pearl Jam..
i'm still overwhelmed...was dreaming all night about each and every song over and over again
my advice to all who missed the show (well, besides - crying) would be to get the official bootleg and enjoy it.. i know we will
my favs def - last 3 minutes of Black(crowd-outro, i'm pretty sure eddie was crying), Porch(the climb), Small Town(screamin' HELLO), RITFW, and well the other 25 songs.. haha can't single out anything... damn :(


'till next year! (YL playing in the background ofc)
cheers

Imoen

It was just like a dream, I just hope the memory wouldn't vanish too soon... Dear Lord I really hope he wasn't kidding when he said "see you next year".
The wine had it's share...

C2V3N

PaulJam wrote:

Holy SH!t! 27 songs isn't enough for you? My God, what is enough? At Dublin we got about 23, which is about the average.

That looks like one of the best shows ever. So many rarities and 27 songs, sounds brilliant. Count yourself lucky.

28 songs


he missed last exit...








educaaaaaaaaaattttioooooooooooooooonnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!

Hitch-Hiker

Great show. Only my second one ever and it was brilliant. Porch was Intense and Ed climbed the rafters. I saw Education....again
Gimme Some Truth was a definite highlight for me, and All or None aswell. The acoustic set was awesome.
At Dublin we didn't hear anything from No Code, Binaural,Riot Act, but last night every album (including Lost Dogs) was represented. Very happy with that.
I have a new found appreciation for Whipping. Never one of my favourite songs, but last night I fell in love with it. In Hiding was real cool too.
RITFW was deadly and Yellow Ledbetter....Great finishing combo.
Eddie threw some wine over the crowd and it got in my eye and the guy in front of me got Matt's sweat band.
Mike's guitar was a little too low for mylikeing. I couldn't hear someof the solos, although maybe that was just where I was standing. Met some guy from Arizona in the middle of it which was cool, coz at times I did feel a little lost in the crowd.
Altogether fucking great night.

- Thanks to Kilroy for picking up the tickets. Cheers dude

Cutki

hitch you are the guy that asked for Mocvara? cheers

killroy

Hitch-Hiker wrote:

Great show. Only my second one ever and it was brilliant. Porch was Intense and Ed climbed the rafters. I saw Education....again
Gimme Some Truth was a definite highlight for me, and All or None aswell. The acoustic set was awesome.
At Dublin we didn't hear anything from No Code, Binaural,Riot Act, but last night every album (including Lost Dogs) was represented. Very happy with that.
I have a new found appreciation for Whipping. Never one of my favourite songs, but last night I fell in love with it. In Hiding was real cool too.
RITFW was deadly and Yellow Ledbetter....Great finishing combo.
Eddie threw some wine over the crowd and it got in my eye and the guy in front of me got Matt's sweat band.
Mike's guitar was a little too low for mylikeing. I couldn't hear someof the solos, although maybe that was just where I was standing. Met some guy from Arizona in the middle of it which was cool, coz at times I did feel a little lost in the crowd.
Altogether fucking great night.

- Thanks to Kilroy for picking up the tickets. Cheers dude

Hey, you're very welcome!
Hopefully, I can pick up the tickets again next year
Nice meeting you.

The show was the best one for me to date. The crowd, although rough at the moments, was great and there was so much energy flowing between the band and the crowd. Maybe I imagine, but it seems to me that Jeff was especially glad to be here, playing in Zagreb. He was often smiling and rockin' out. He was crazy on Blood!!!!

An amazing combo Thin Air - Thumbing - All or None. Just beautifull and for me, the best part of the show, although Porch was also pretty crazy, with Eddie climbing like he's 20.
And Education, In Hiding, Habit, wow!!!!!

Big HELLO to all the people I've met. All PJ fans are the nicest people on earth.
Keep on rockin'!

Hitch-Hiker

Cutki wrote:

hitch you are the guy that asked for Mocvara? cheers

Mocvara? what's that? There may have been some other Irish there. Might be mixin me up with something.

potato girl

There's not much I can say that hasn't already been said...

The concert was amazing!!!

I'm glad I got a chance to meet other PJ fans from Zagreb, Sarajevo, UK, Serbia... You guys are awesome, I hope I'll see you again sometime soon. Hopefully we won't have to wait forever for the next concert, as I'm sure most of us are hanging on Ed's words 'see you next year'.

Personal favs: crowd intro to Betterman and crowd 'tururututururu' outro to Black, acoustic Thumbing My Way and All Or None (love that song) and of course Ed's Tarzan impersonation during Porch

Downside: three huge apes who were moshing in front of me

Got me a copy of that beautiful poster after the show...

mnarob3

A_M_A_Z_I_N_G SHOW!!!!!!!!! i still can't believe ed walked up to me during RITFW and gave me his tambourine!
And what a band a!!!!!!!! so MUCH energy...positive energy!!! unexpected highlights for me were Hail, hail, Unemployable(really wanted to hear this one!),In hiding,Education, Gimme some truth, Thin air, TMW, .....and such an intimate singing in all or none....and i think ed got some teary eyes while singing at the end of the black....
and WASTED REPRISE, Betterman ...CRAZZZZYYYY BEAUTIFUL...;)

I wanna thank Bor h, dreadis and his brother, dunat, his brother and friends and everyone PJ fan for being soooo nice...the best band in the world and the best fans in the world!!!!

ooouu...and jeff laughed at me after i just went crazy catching his wristband!!!!

LET ME SAY JUST ONCE THAT..........T_H_A_N_K Y_O_U PEARL JAM FOR FOR BEING MY CONSOLATION NAD ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS OF MY LIFE! thank you

Miha

Kontejnerus

About "See you next year"... when Ed said that, I saw Jeff talking to him in somewhat disbelief, like "Why did you say that?", but Ed was just smiling and I couldn`t really see if he ment it or it was just said in affect... hope he keeps his promise

Imoen

Kontejnerus wrote:

About "See you next year"... when Ed said that, I saw Jeff talking to him in somewhat disbelief, like "Why did you say that?", but Ed was just smiling and I couldn`t really see if he ment it or it was just said in affect... hope he keeps his promise

yeah, I thought it was said in affect with the wine effect ... too bad...

porcher

when will we get the bootleg for zagreb? i cant wait
it was amazing. my throat hurts so much i cant talk, my neck and my legs are sore, all worth it however,... i cant believe i heard all those songs.. hail, hail, last exit, education, thin air, elderly woman... and the crowd on better man, black, porch, alive... i was screaming my lungs out!
i think we made the band pretty happy, you could see it on their faces. amazing, amazing.
all or none was a total surprise, ed seemed really torn to sing it, they were all sitting down, and he was holding his head down for awhile, just wanted to get up there and give him a hug...
evenflow was amazing too, a coupla solos, matt also, great great. think they got out the vienna cro flag at that point? or was that during alive?

its all been said i guess, this is a must have. love this band so much!

oh yeah, ed lay down on the stage toward the end of YL (looked like he took his shoes off too haha) and rested on his amp, looked pleased and tired and drunk haha. stone, standing by matt's drumkit was just smiling, and then when ed got up they gave each other a hug / pats on the back as they do, was nice to see.

ah, what to say, what to say....

vedran

Cutki wrote:

last night we recieved some info. that the venue was gonna be half full and well that kinda threw some of the fans off, but the response turned out to be great.. you'll hear it i'm sure!

Venue was 90% full. Which is, considering the ticket price, great. I'd rather have almost full venue with ecstatic atmosphere, than full packed but regular vibe...

BTV those photos are proffesional... I didn't take them... But, yes, they're great...

Cutki

C2V3N wrote:

28 songs


he missed last exit...








educaaaaaaaaaattttioooooooooooooooonnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!

29 muahahahah

C2V3N

I cant wait zagreb boot... I'm crazy all day