*** Berlin, Germany Fanviews Here 7/5/18 ***

23scidoo

cutz said:

The Berlin show was VERY GOOD and the crowd was CRAZY GREAT!!>I've NEVER experienced a crowd like that and i've been going to Concerts for a long time. THANK YOU Berlin and THANK YOU to my European friends for helping me out while i was ther. That 3-run show(Prague, Krakow, & Berlin) is right up ther with the 4-run shows i saw at The Spectrum in Philly.

It was a pleasure to have you in Europe Jim!!!..

uninnocent-

The crowd in Berlin was like nothing I've ever seen before. I still cannot get over the pure intensity and elation of the audience. I know the band felt it too, because they played their asses off that night. I can't say enough good things about this show; from the setlist through the vibe everything was turned up to 11. Thank you Pearl Jam for a great 3-show bender from this Canadian.

Bella

Perfect setting.

TGarden

One of the best pits I've experienced. It was wiiild

https://youtu.be/1QfJH3JzkYA

deftones

uninnocent- said:

The crowd in Berlin was like nothing I've ever seen before. I still cannot get over the pure intensity and elation of the audience. I know the band felt it too, because they played their asses off that night. I can't say enough good things about this show; from the setlist through the vibe everything was turned up to 11. Thank you Pearl Jam for a great 3-show bender from this Canadian.

That's me holding my head at the left of your photo! Unfortunately the panorama messed up a little with it!
I totally agree about the show, that was from another planet!

Reiko

What to say, what to say...back in summer 2003 I met my girl in Germany and felt in love!

We spent our first week. Then she went for research to Latnjajaure Field Station. Before I hiked through Jämtland and she traveled to the north, I made a soundtrack for my girl. One of two PJ songs was "Thumbing my way".

Full of love I could not go home from Jämtland and I had to take the train to Abisko. From there I hiked to the Latnjajaure Field Station with this song.

"Thumbing my way" became our song. 15 years later, we are a family with an teenager and the experienced of 15 PJ shows and 4 EV shows. Last Thursday we got it live first time. What to say: an amazing evening. 

The Second song was "Smile". Next chance maybe at Wrigley. Thank you Pearl Jam.

deftones

Reiko said:

What to say, what to say...back in summer 2003 I met my girl in Germany and felt in love!

We spent our first week. Then she went for research to Latnjajaure Field Station. Before I hiked through Jämtland and she traveled to the north, I made a soundtrack for my girl. One of two PJ songs was "Thumbing my way".

Full of love I could not go home from Jämtland and I had to take the train to Abisko. From there I hiked to the Latnjajaure Field Station with this song.

"Thumbing my way" became our song. 15 years later, we are a family with an teenager and the experienced of 15 PJ shows and 4 EV shows. Last Thursday we got it live first time. What to say: an amazing evening. 

The Second song was "Smile". Next chance maybe at Wrigley. Thank you Pearl Jam.

Nice story!

binaural2002

Reiko said:

What to say, what to say...back in summer 2003 I met my girl in Germany and felt in love!

We spent our first week. Then she went for research to Latnjajaure Field Station. Before I hiked through Jämtland and she traveled to the north, I made a soundtrack for my girl. One of two PJ songs was "Thumbing my way".

Full of love I could not go home from Jämtland and I had to take the train to Abisko. From there I hiked to the Latnjajaure Field Station with this song.

"Thumbing my way" became our song. 15 years later, we are a family with an teenager and the experienced of 15 PJ shows and 4 EV shows. Last Thursday we got it live first time. What to say: an amazing evening. 

The Second song was "Smile". Next chance maybe at Wrigley. Thank you Pearl Jam.

Nice story.
So, I recorded this song for You!
Thumbing my way recorded in Berlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaTJLYy5QmU

w8scma

dustinpardue said:

The next day, at Waldbühne we meet these great people at the venue, two totally wonderful crazy guys from L.A. celebrating their 25th and 51st show with friends. A guy who has never heard Pearl Jam live before but starts to like them more and more during the show! A father with his little son who is wearing an „I’m Eddie“ shirt. He is really named after Eddie and rocks out happily during the concert with his big headphones on. And then this incredible crowd! Everybody going crazy and I think, this is a bit, how the 90s must have felt. I was scared at first because of the mosh pit and the crowdsurfing, but it never got out of control (Eddie gave it „5 connoisseur stars“). It was so beautiful when everybody started throwing the cardboard! And I really lost it when they went into this long „It’s ok“-tag. I was weeping, cause suddenly it all seemed to make sense. Oh man, me crying to a Disney song but what the f…

During the whole show, it really felt like 20.000 friends celebrating their favorite band, the music, life, I dunno! Group hugs at the end. Nobody wants to go home. And then later, in the U-Bahn, my husband recognizes one of our guests from the pre-concert sitting right in front of us. And he tells me that since the morning he had a song in his mind. And I go: „Which Pearl Jam song is it?“ And he says: „No, it’s one of your songs from the pre-concert: 200 horses!“ And I’m just crushed! How cool is that!!! 

And all of these things would have never happened to me without this band! These five graceful people who make music for us! Who stay serious and true and caring without effects or posing. Just making music!  

I am so grateful! Life is good! Life is good!

It was nice to meet you!!! Hello from the 51st show guy..........

Hey Dustin! So nice to meet you, too! Didn't know you are a writer! I just ordered your new book! Say hello to Darius if you're still in touch 

uninnocent-

deftones said:

uninnocent- said:

The crowd in Berlin was like nothing I've ever seen before. I still cannot get over the pure intensity and elation of the audience. I know the band felt it too, because they played their asses off that night. I can't say enough good things about this show; from the setlist through the vibe everything was turned up to 11. Thank you Pearl Jam for a great 3-show bender from this Canadian.

That's me holding my head at the left of your photo! Unfortunately the panorama messed up a little with it!
I totally agree about the show, that was from another planet!

Ah cool, I guess you were moving a little too fast. We were definitely watching this show together. It was great meeting you.

Spags

So it was a hot day right? I mean it wasn’t just me was it? We some how managed to completely fuck up the directions to the venue and arrived via the U-Barn...walked through a residential area (getting some very funny looks from the locals watering their gardens, probably didn’t help I was wearing a Wu-Tang Method Man t-shirt, not really the done thing in that area I expect) and finally found the edge of the woods. After a while we hit a fence and realised we were at the crew entrance, a security guy waved us away into what a healthy person would describe as a fun nature trail, but I’d describe as some sort of torturous alpine assault course. We went up, we went down, we went up some more all the while desperately following the fence line. We came across another lost soul along the way also struggling in the heat (if you are on here I hope you made it out of the woods and found your friends!!!). After a step climb we finally burst back out into the sunshine, dripping with sweat and ready for an afternoon of queuing to get into the venue we’d become very familiar with during our little hike.

Thankfully the people in the queue found our exploits amusing and we soon became fast friends for the rest of the day, much beer was drunk (maybe too much) and then Pearl Jam in Berlin happened. It was my third time seeing them in at outdoor venue In Berlin and its always unlike anything else, completely magical and absolutely never to be missed! 

w8scma

Spags said:

Thankfully the people in the queue found our exploits amusing and we soon became fast friends for the rest of the day, much beer was drunk (maybe too much) and then Pearl Jam in Berlin happened. It was my third time seeing them in at outdoor venue In Berlin and its always unlike anything else, completely magical and absolutely never to be missed! 

  

23scidoo

look the security guys..hahaha..

https://youtu.be/rMCFKl36mAk

PJNB

23scidoo said:

look the security guys..hahaha..

https://youtu.be/rMCFKl36mAk

I was watching the main security guy and Eddie during this onslaught of cardboard and it was pretty comical. 

binaural2002

Any rumors about a 10c Berlin poster sale?

TinaE

Sea said:

Pearl Jam
Waldebüne
Berlin, DE
July 05, 2018
Set List

Band Onstage: 7:57
Band Offstage: 10:31
Walk On Music: Metamorphosis #2-Phillip Glass

01. Wash
02. Sometimes
03. Corduroy
04. Why Go
05. Save You
06. Given To Fly
(Ed says it is very nice to be able to see the audience since they are playing in daylight.  He addresses them in German and asks the band when they have been here before.  Mike, Jeff and Stone had been here with Neil Young.  Ed introduces the band and special guest Danny Clinch. He says the next song is called “Blue Eyed Frog”.)
07. Red Mosquito w/ Danny Clinch on harmonica
08. In My Tree (Up here in my tree / Newspapers matter not to me Fuck Trump!)
(“I hear J. Mascis from the great Dinosaur Jr. is here tonight.  J. I am looking for you while it is still light out.  This is dedicated to J. Mascis”)
09. Even Flow
10. Wishlist (I wish I was as fortunate as Mike McCready)
11. Habit (“Speaking as a man who despises racism in any form” instead of the normal spoken part).  
12. Angie-(Jagger / Richards) Partial cover about 1:20 seconds
13. Daughter / It's OK-(Cole) - (cover lasts 4 min (I need all of you on this. I need all the girls, I need all the women.  I need all the people that love their girls and women.  Help me sing it)
14. Deep (During the “doesn’t like the view” section lays on his back with his head hanging upside down over the monitors.)
15. Mind Your Manners
16. Unthought Known
(Ed gives the audience in the pit 5 stars.  He says they are gonna play a slow song they can get romantic and he says they won’t play a Ramones song tonight but he wants people to check out the Ramones museum.  He continues talking about the Ramones and the audience starts to chant “Hey Ho-Let’s Go”.  Okay, I’m gonna play a quiet one.)
17. Lukin
18. Porch-(During instrumental part the audience are throwing around what I think are pieces of flat cardboard that look to hold six beers.  A few make it onto the stage.  Ed watches.  Jeff gets one and uses it to play his bass.  Ed climbs down to the barricade for the end of the song)

Encore Break 1
(Referring to all the beer caddy’s the audience was throwing around he says he knew the crowd was drinking but he didn’t realize how much they had been drinking.  He compares them to Seattle or Seattle to them.
He relates a story from a guy in Prague who was adamant that Ed reads his note.  The note says I went to the show with a neighbor I left with a wife.  This song is for you and neighbor. )
19. Thin Air
20. Thumbing My Way
(Dedicated to someone who is here tonight and they lived in Seattle for awhile.  His band never took off.  They had a hit in Belgium.  So if you are out there tonight Cliff Poncier, this one is for you.-Reference to a character in the Singles film that fronted a band portrayed by members of Pearl Jam.)
21. Breath
22. Do The Evolution
23. Black / Time Heals-(Rundgren) 20 second tag
24. Rearviewmirror

Encore Break 2
(Because of the curfew I want to introduce the next song quickly…my daughters went to the Berlin Wall and we want to dedicate this to Roger Waters and to thank him for educating us)
25. Comfortably Numb-(Gilmour, Waters)
26. Alive
27. Rockin' In The Free World-(Young) w/ J. Mascis

(Ed thanks the audience and the crew.  He thanks the promoter who has worked with them for years.)

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Thank you!


Thank you, John for the set list & notes.

I saw many shows from different bands in the past but this was the BEST SHOW EVER!!!!
 

Spiritual_Chaos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FxPMvYO9HI

Spiritual_Chaos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxlJEgw7GwI

23scidoo

3 months from today, on my top-3 shows..

https://youtu.be/JXupS7UxS08

The Rock

I need that 'Better Than Nothing Videos' guy on YouTube to create a full DVD of this one with the bootleg audio.  I need a good quality video of In My Tree!

opsopcopolis

I guess they're just dropping random proshots these days.... 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAoh-B8Q3F4

opsopcopolis

double post....

opsopcopolis

Listening to this show today and noticed how good Ed sounds on the second half of Deep. He has a pretty bad voice crack about halfway through, seems to get pissed and then really push his voice for the second half. Sounds really forceful