*** New York, NY Fanviews Here 5/2/16 ***

CROJAM95

Loved both nights, sect 117 night one thru a fellow 10c members generosity!! Sect 118 tonight....I liked night one a lil better but that's splitting hairs.

They got on a little later tonight & ended 15 minutes earlier that was a bummer, prob out of their control on the later.

Was hoping for Marker & inside job when all the possible whole Avocado being played talk started ...... A few of the repeats I'd sprinkle in some Avocado, riot act, binaural instead , hey but that's just me.

Night one was such a high that this was FUCKED from the get go. Cheap Trick & Sting were Stellar. Garden, Deep, SOLAT,& All or none were highlights for me.

Pendulum was pretty powerful too.

Power problems are embarrassing.

i wish it went on a lil longer my only real beef

They are killing it the last 3 nights I've seen them

Thank you for the great memories

Glad tomorrow's a day of work

mrk2

Looks like a fun show.

Throw in crap like Sweet Lew and Dirty Frank along with a couple of filler track's from the 00's albums = instantly greatest show ever according to setlist critics.

Gary Carter

Tonight was first my seeing them in GA and it was fucking amazing. I don't really have the words to describe what this night was. So with that being said I'm just gonna say this, THANK YOU to everyone involved with this band and THANK YOU to this band for being in my life, I will forever be grateful to have found this band back when I was 7 years old. Oh and before I forget, to the dude who said I had a nice ass, idk if you were being serious or kidding, but either way, wtf dude wtf

rgambs

northerndragon said:

Tonight the crowd was better than night 1 but everything else was not. The night suffered from multiple sound problems and a repeat setlist that was a little meh.
It was ok, not amazing. A little disappointed for NYC, they deserved better.

No offense, but...
This sums it up pretty well...classic NYC "center of the universe" attitude where if MSG doesn't get the absolute craziest show then people feel like they were duped and ripped off. Chicago has the same mentality. It's a shame people can't just appreciate an amazing show without expecting it to be the balls out best of the tour set list.

Kabutar

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MajLreap said:

Sound was terrible tonight. Had almost the exact same seats as last night but the sound was different. I've said this for years but get new sound people. I've seen a lot of big bands in big venues and Pearl Jam always seems to have all the levels wrong. So much feedback from the mic at the beginning which should just never happen. Also, Porch cutting out twice is so unnecessary. Come on..you're one of the greatest bands to walk the earth and it was amateur hour tonight as far as behind the scenes stuff goes. I've never left a show disappointed but tonight was the closest and it had little to do with the band. Granted the set looks better on paper. I thought Ed sounded horse and was pulling away from the mic a lot tonight but my biggest gripe was with the sound. Oh well.. I'm still glad I came to NYC because last night was great. I just really hope they fix their sound.

Agree, the sound being poor for a large portion of the show along with Vedder pulling back on the mic and letting the crowd sing, and drown him out when he was singing, was really disappointing. He is one of the best singers of all time and it is very important for me to hear him or I can't feel the show. Most don't seem to care and that is fine, but straining to hear for hours was a bit torturous. I came home and listened to PJ Cds.

CB116161

I love Surrender! This needs to go in the rotation with RITFW and Baba to end shows!

opsopcopolis

Best thing I heard leaving last night: "I had no idea who any of the people that played with them were. They were kinda boring"

Sarah

NICE!!

And a special hello/congrats to a dear friend of mine who was in attendance!

hsohi

"(I mean do you have any idea how much they make off merchandise on a nightly basis? Not even Springsteen fans will wait on line two hours for a poster)"

That probably says more about us than about Springsteen fans...and not in a positive way.

KP_McMinn

Dayumnm !!! Show looked like a ton of fun! Periscoped it from bed lol. Wow it looked intense at the garden last night. Sting And Rick n. ?? Seems "rare enough" for me. Take that all day.

SVRDhand13

My 5th show of the tour, my fourth in five days. I once again leave feeling completely fulfilled and grateful to have the opportunity to see my favorite band of all time. I will admit- I expected more rarities these two nights. But it didn't matter what I expected after the experience of two hard hitting and expertly chosen setlists.

My highlights tonight were obviously the guests spots, but also the Man trilogy, the run from Present Tense to Porch to end the first encore and a super loud Baba.

My 23rd show, see you at 24-25 in Fenway!

BrainofBGA

Looks like a couple of big nights at MSG! Now bring these shows down under PJ. Australia is waiting! Looking forward to following the sets from the Canadian shows!

nycrats

i finally felt the floor really bounce at the garden.. it's always talked about, but i never really felt it because i think i was one of the bouncees- i was jumping up and down so i missed it at any crazy point in the past. last night a few times like DTE i stood flat for a few moments and got to feel it.. really cool

another weird phenomenon - 3 shows in a row these last 3, someone random next to me asked if i wanted to see the setlist- im glad they asked and respected my "NOOOOOO" but where are all these people getting these leaked setlists? why do they want to even know.. i dont get it

JP218404

two great nights once again. band continues to bring it every night and show why they are still around playing arenas. the Driven to Tears last night was amazing. Both nights had there moments so can't say which is better. 30 and 31 in the books , now to Fenway!

mcgruff10

It was nice to see present tense back in the line up! Hide your love away was a gem. Absolutely loved that they covered another album last night from front to back: singles! Breath and state sounded absolutely fantastic. Sting was cool to see and baba was stellar.

This was a weird show for me because it had a lots of peaks and valleys. You had the peak of a tremendous corduroy and baba but a really huge energy killer with back to back "all or none" and "Pendulum". It was just an odd set overall; it didn't appear to flow too well. The crowd seemed to be a thousand times better at msg 1 as compared to last night. Ed was constantly trying throughout the night to get the crowd going. To me and a lot of people in my section Ed's voice sounded pretty shot and the band itself seemed a tad lethargic probably from the energetic first set from msg 1.

After present tense it was as if the band found their energy from the previous night and woke up; it was seriously like two concerts in one.

After the show I was rather perplexed as to why so many songs are being ignored over the past few days. Songs like severed hand, moth, marker, red mosquito (which mike would kill!), faithful, dissident, wws, nais and grievance need to be played more.
This band has such a deep catalogue I just wish they would add some of those songs.

Tech issues unfortunately plagued the band throughout the night. You could tell Ed was freaking pissed during porch since the sound went out a few times.

Overall it was a fun little run over the past week. In order I'd go: msg 1, philly 1 and then msg 2.

See everyone at Fenway 2!

willnyc

deep AND garden? that first encore was incredible. 2 guests? leash was killer. the band was clearly (as was the case in Philly and MSG1) having a blast, as I did. great 5 days. glad I have Fenway/2 more shows to look forward to this calendar year.

sarnocm

What a difference bad neighbors makes. Guy on 1 side was a ticket flipper who couldn't sell the tickets in 114 that he had listed for $1000, so he decided to go to the show himself. Woman on the other side was asleep in her chair in the middle of the main set! How is that possible? Then she left at 1st encore break. At least that freed up a chair for my friend sitting in 400s to come down and join us.

nicknyr15

sarnocm said:

What a difference bad neighbors makes. Guy on 1 side was a ticket flipper who couldn't sell the tickets in 114 that he had listed for $1000, so he decided to go to the show himself. Woman on the other side was asleep in her chair in the middle of the main set! How is that possible? Then she left at 1st encore break. At least that freed up a chair for my friend sitting in 400s to come down and join us.

Lady next to me in GA was obviously super important and busy. Looking down at her phone and emailing and texting for 2.5 hours. It was hilarious. Besides her the pit was rocking. Usually when someone has their phone in their hands during a shows its to film or take pics. This was the first time I saw someone texting and emailing for that long. Waste of a Ga ticket

mcgruff10

oh and even flow into sirens?! wtf?! that's like having really hot sex and then stopping in the middle of it to go look at your stamp collection.

abulr

30th show and by far the worst sound issues i have ever seen. At one point it sounded like the band members instruments were off and they weren't even aware of it. I have never seen them sound so off before. In this day and age, to have technical / wireless / feedback issues... I dunno, i'm no sound guy, but seems like someone maybe getting fired over this.

I have never seen Eddie so angry. (Ok maybe back in 1995, but definitely not due to technical problems).

The lady at the soundboard kept shaking her head.

Having said that, i think the right column on the set list is one of my dream sets. Driven to Tears with Sting is something i never thought i'd see.

I won't lie, MSG has better energy, but Barclays is newer, and acoustically much better. I wish the sound issues could be blamed on MSG, and maybe they'd do Barc on their next NYC trip, but sadly, i think it's related to the equipment?

Surrender was cool, but Driven to Tears with Sting was something I'll be talking about for years to come.

Lastly, Baba... for some reason, sounds better at MSG than anywhere else.

p.s. right before the tambourine issues with the kid, there was another guy closer to mike-side who grabbed the tambourine even though Ed was pointing and clearly trying to say to give it to another guy, he said something like "was meant for him... him [pointing]" and then cursed [away from the mike] and shook his head... i mean come on people, it's not that hard, i was about to grab one yesterday and he shakes his head and points to the tiny girl to my left, and i just smiled and put my arms to the side... he (as usual) did the right thing