*** Pearl Jam Fresno, CA Fanviews 5/16/22 ***

Luckytwn1

Rocketnino said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I don't think you understand the amount of rehearsal time that goes into a band that's been together 30 years for a tour. Now, add to that two or three guys that have NEVER PLAYED THOSE SONGS TO 15,000 PEOPLE LIVE, and you get what you have the last few nights; "safe songs" with a lot of epic moments thrown in. 

Most bands would have cancelled these shows. Pearl Jam showed the fuck up and made it extra special for the fans. You can't ask for a better band than that. 

This.  All damn day.

I have other bands that I love as much as Pearl Jam, but I got to thinking as I was driving over to Fresno last night - and not a single one of them would have pressed forward without their drummer.  They would have just cancelled/postponed and would have blown the whole tour up.  It takes a level of professionalism but also the spirit of a real rock band to just go for it as they did.  It takes guts and willingness to not look like the band did in LA on Night 1, which is, a world class rock band. You can show a few warts and still be a R&RHOF tier band.  Have always respected PJ, but these past four shows I've seen have taken that to a new depth.

As for Fresno - so cool to see Dave get his moment in the sun.  Can you imagine the regret that dude has to live with some days?  Sure, he's held onto a career in music and has had some other awesome collaborations - but knowing that you drummed on songs that will be on rock radio FOREVER and had to get off the boat that those songs were written on?  He seemed genuinely happy up there and sounded great.  "Why Go" and "Deep" - two of my lower tier songs on Ten (insert thrown stones here) both sounded GREAT.  Brought some good energy to "Porch" as well.

Agree except for point about cancelling. Bands are doing everything possible not to cancel. Of course, it becomes unavoidable in certain cases but The War on Drugs played a show with the bass tech playing because the Dave Hartley was out and numerous other instances like that. Because there is limited to no COVID coverage for these tours, cancelling is a HUGE financial hit.

CP218430

This show is a prime example of looking at a set and saying "eh" didn't miss anything. Then reading about Dave coming in, the banter, the crowd and it sounds awesome! I was thinking "Only one Gigaton song," and then all the other stuff. Just shows this band does their best to bring it every single fuckin night! And that happens even when they play "Johnny Guitar."

MG182478

cincybearcat said:

Red Lukin said:

Looks fun but does given to fly, corduroy and small town have to be played every single night?

These are easily the most boring PJ songs. IMO

Corduroy should be played every night and sometimes twice.

I love this idea. In another 30 years when they run out of things to do.. We can campaign for this as the opener and the closer. 

DarthMaeglin

PJNB said:

Some quick thoughts

Amazing getting to see Dave Krusen play the drums to so many songs that I grew up listening to him on the studio version of.

No clue how this boot is going to sound but people really need to see the video as well to see how Eddie fought the whole night. Crazy he could sing as well as he did going through food poisoning. 

The highlights for me was the drumming at the end of Deep, Purple Rain with Eddie singing the start and Mikes solo, Eruption played out of nowhere to introduce Richard, Stone having a lot of fun with Dont Gimme No Lip, Quick Escape ending spot, the stories were all great and of course Dave drumming

Here are a handful of pics I took

Is it just me or do the picks seem to be Tolkien-inspired (especially the lower left one)?

Loving reading the fanviews for this run of shows, glad so many are enjoying them!

CP218430

Totally, Tolkein. That's cool. Nice call.

Spartanacus

CP218430 said:

This show is a prime example of looking at a set and saying "eh" didn't miss anything. Then reading about Dave coming in, the banter, the crowd and it sounds awesome! I was thinking "Only one Gigaton song," and then all the other stuff. Just shows this band does their best to bring it every single fuckin night! And that happens even when they play "Johnny Guitar."

Well, they picked the best Gigaton song for sure.  EVERYONE should experience that one live and I think it will be the mainstay song off this album for the long haul.  And I'd love to hear Johnny Guitar btw...at least once! 

NEweather

TuTe said:

Red Lukin said:

To each their own. So many missed songs

Animal
Save you

Grievance
STBC

Get Right

Last Exit

Red Mosquito
Green Disease

Insignificance

Johnny Guitar

That's just a few that rarely get played. I can go on...

Keep enjoying the boring songs and they'll keep playing them!

They played animal

          ^^^^^^^^^^^- i can hear it in my head Now, even tho it hurts- they played Animal. Thankyou for posting that they did. 

Radioactive_Toy

Back home and rested up from the show... Few thoughts, too bad Eddie was sick (get better soon!).. I can only imagine the energy that could have been for last night if he was 100% healthy, he seemed at points to really be struggling to keep going, but did so for those that showed up. It could have been easy to toss in the towel, but just shows how much of he cares, even if a show isn't sold out to give the fans all every night..
Dave showing up and playing the Ten songs was really a gift, I kinda hope they continue doing something like that, but different for Sac Town and Vegas, just to give each show their own little sense of different and special. 
From what Eddie said, unless I heard wrong, MFC got hit hard with Covid, so I wouldn't expect him to be back for Sac or LV coming up, IMO.. I wouldn't mind them doing a Jack show and a Dave A show for the last 2 shows of this leg, even if im not going, I think it would certainly be cool and unique for each night. 

adamg5

2000 I watched the PJ pit from lower level in Fresno and GA was zombieland.  

2022 I gave it everything I had in the pit!

iOnlyownMymind

^^haha that's awesome!

PJammin'

adamg5 said:

2000 I watched the PJ pit from lower level in Fresno and GA was zombieland.  

2022 I gave it everything I had in the pit!

Keep it going today, Adam. 😆 

Eddieredder

bbiggs said:

Red Lukin said:

Looks fun but does given to fly, corduroy and small town have to be played every single night?

These are easily the most boring PJ songs. IMO

Nikki Sixx, is that you?

Way to snobby to be Nikki

.jen

Coolest sticker for the best show!  So happy we were there. Decided on a whim to head up after we didn’t get enough PJ after night two in LA. What a treat. 

helplessdancer

i prefer posts in these fanviews to be from people who actually saw the show ... butttt i got suckered in cause someone doesn't like corduroy.. so i felt i had to say ....that's really messed up....it should absolutely be played twice at every show!

JM12271

TuTe said:

Red Lukin said:

To each their own. So many missed songs

Animal
Save you

Grievance
STBC

Get Right

Last Exit

Red Mosquito
Green Disease

Insignificance

Johnny Guitar

That's just a few that rarely get played. I can go on...

Keep enjoying the boring songs and they'll keep playing them!

They played animal

Why yes, yes they did.

Why not ask for Puzzles and Games, I'm Open and Olympic Platinum while you are at it.

craigraether

helplessdancer said:

i prefer posts in these fanviews to be from people who actually saw the show ... butttt i got suckered in cause someone doesn't like corduroy.. so i felt i had to say ....that's really messed up....it should absolutely be played twice at every show!

maybe first time start with the into riff and dive into something else ... get the crowd all lathered up... This show I was having flashback to SF in 1995, I was at that Eddie 7 song set where Neal Young came out.. They did RITFW twice... so there you go.. LOL 

blenderman69

Red Lukin said:

Looks fun but does given to fly, corduroy and small town have to be played every single night?

These are easily the most boring PJ songs. 

BF25394

Red Lukin said:

Freedom of speech dude

Freedom of speech means that other people can exercise their freedom of speech to criticize you.

BF25394

pearljammr78 said:

After Ed’s depressing ass story everyone was like wtf. And then they kick into deep and it all made sense. We got deep and the deep origin story. And it was extra heavy after that story. What a fucking night!!!

Depressing?!  It's not like the guy fell out of the window...

BF25394

JM12271 said:

TuTe said:

Red Lukin said:

To each their own. So many missed songs

Animal
Save you

Grievance
STBC

Get Right

Last Exit

Red Mosquito
Green Disease

Insignificance

Johnny Guitar

That's just a few that rarely get played. I can go on...

Keep enjoying the boring songs and they'll keep playing them!

They played animal

Why yes, yes they did.

Why not ask for Puzzles and Games, I'm Open and Olympic Platinum while you are at it.

"Olympic Platinum" can only be played in years divisible by four, unless it's Winter Olympic Platinum, or unless it's 2020.