*** Pearl Jam Denver, CO Fanviews 9/22/22 ***

bootlegger10

I could see them hating the touring lifestyle right now with all the COVID bubbles and not wanting to do that until those protocols are lifted.  But you can't take anything this band says publicly seriously in regards to touring and albums.  

withflyingcolors

Excellent crowd and probably the best seated section I've been in as far as behavior and enthusiasm goes. Saw soo many smiles on all the guys! Chloe/Crown is beautiful. So much energy! I really never get tired of Corduroy at a show. Lukin into RVM is the highlight for me.

Loved Ed's messages all night. I remember him dedicating Come Back in Hartford to Avielle, and mentioning how moved he was meeting with some of the Sandy Hook parents that night. So heavy but I love that he never shies away from talking about these issues. Until next time < 3 

mcgruff10

From the horse’s mouth.  

opsopcopolis

I’m gonna be that guy and say I just had an ok time last night. Band sounded great, crowd was solid, but found the setlist kinda lacking both in song selection and flow for my tastes. Think I just got one of those shows where the rarer songs just happen to be stuff I’ve seen a bunch. Loved hearing present tense and faithful, but otherwise felt like more of a hits show than the most of this leg of the tour. Walking out my brother and I were chuckling about how we got pretty much every song we said “I’d rather not hear that one” to earlier in the day

reortega

I guess I’m going to be “that guy” also. Great start to the show.  The first 5 songs were an awesome way to begin.  Loved how Present Tense transitioned between the slow songs and the higher energy ones.  I had high expectations for the last night on tour and was underwhelmed by the number of songs.  25 this night compared to 38 (!) for the last Denver show in 2014, also a tour ender.  Also no Black, which was a disappointment.  Good show overall but the normal-length playlist made me wonder if they were tired.

2-feign-reluctance

reortega said:

I guess I’m going to be “that guy” also. Great start to the show.  The first 5 songs were an awesome way to begin.  Loved how Present Tense transitioned between the slow songs and the higher energy ones.  I had high expectations for the last night on tour and was underwhelmed by the number of songs.  25 this night compared to 38 (!) for the last Denver show in 2014, also a tour ender.  Also no Black, which was a disappointment.  Good show overall but the normal-length playlist made me wonder if they were tired.

Serious ‘I love Stone, but..’ vibes here. 

sterlingmaps

Amazing night!! What a wonderful experience!! Thank you Pearl Jam!! It is always a pleasure to have you back in Colorado and showing us LOVE!! We brought you rainbows! Was nice to hear Ed mention Telluride as the last time they were here. I’m pretty sure that one was truly memorable for them with Kelly’s birthday party and all, LOL… Hard to believe its 1 month shy of 8 years since they last closed down the arena in Denver on their anniversary night. Man do they know how TO BRING IT!!! Another grand performance! THANK YOU

Loved watching Mike run around the stage all night! Look at him way over there LOL!! Glad he is feeling and looking healthy. We all understand how stressful this Gigaton tour has been on the PJ family. It was such a rocky start with the west leg cancellations and substitute band member attempts and then such a scare in Europe with Ed’s voice that all year I’ve been nervous this show wouldn’t even happen and the let down of March 2020 was just going to be a never-ending river cross! Of course delays are inevitable. I still fondly recall the delay of my first show in Austin ‘95 and how a PJ concert could dominate a high schoolers mind for so long!

So what a wait it has been my friends! Made last night all the more special!! Brought my 15 year old son for his first show; wife and I always enjoy catching you. Pretty much dragged him away for the night so that one day he could say in his future he witnessed this band perform. It makes me happy he joined and afterwards he said he had a good time.

So pumped with Long Road opener! I’ve been waiting many years for that one to open up. In many ways it is one of my favorite songs of all time… They locked in a bootleg sale right out of the gate with one!!

Such a great rocking flow throughout the show. Interstellar > Corduroy is PJ Insanity and they were just starting to crank up!!

Love that STBC is getting brought out. Seems they appreciated that request up at the Apollo and have been carrying it forward.

Getting positive vibes out there with the Mirror Ball jammer Throw Your Hatred Down was kick ass! Love the messaging it brings. 

Knew Who Ever Said was going to be rolled out since they have been bringing it every set list and it didn’t disappoint! Such an awesome driving beat on it and Ed kills it! Always wondered why they didn’t call that one Satisfaction since it is probably their only chance at having a song with that epic title… But I digress…

Ed did mention it would be awhile before they think about playing as a group again when he introduced Mike for Even Flow. We get it and understand this was probably an exhausting closing stretch from last week on… Ohana will be here shortly so get some good down time in and hope the couple of Earthling shows are enjoyable. Such a cool side project… Speaking of Earthlings… Good and Evil >> ‘So Fucking Sick!!’ Can’t we all agree that Alex Jones is So Fucking Sick…! Props for Ed calling him out! We know kids from Parkland, FL and this shit is no joke. Tragedy and suffering are not up for sale you asshole.

Was especially moved we got River Cross as I was secretly hoping this would come out! I’ve loved it ever since hearing it from the COVID benefit concert. It seems to be the least played of all the Gigaton songs. All the phone lights in the room is such a great effect and I love the Ed plays the organ on it. A definite highlight…

Save You is top 5 PJ for me and always has been. Such a rocking and powerful song. Ed has never shied away from the darkness he’s experienced with his friends and this one contains some great emotion in it. Another big one for me, so thank you, thank you, thank you…

Rock on with Better Man and then so humbly turn around to play to the rear audience and my dancing ass! So great to see your faces again my friends!! We are the Faithful!!

Rearviewmirror in all its glory!! Such amazing energy brought with that one. Mike can barely contain himself LOL!! Man he rocks hard!! Caught Jeff kick jumping at the end of that one. Looks like that shit is catching on!!

A quick encore breather and the room is hyped! I Won’t Back Down played for Tom. What a treat! Their time together was too short… And then to bring up Chole Dancer/Crown of Thorns! We are in full on tribute of loved ones here! So a great combo – again, thank you!

Loved hearing the Mark story and seeing him onstage. PJ can help anybody get through shit!!

What energy the room had for the three part tour closer – Alive > Baba > YL !!!! You could see it on the stage and all through the arena.. High kicks from the Thunderpussy ladies was kick ass! Everyone was absolutely loving it!! Knew we would end with Yellow Ledbetter as these boys have always been proper and legit in their shows and know a good thing when they've got one. It holds such an epic place in the history of PJ concerts and is always such a sweet send off. We all cheered our asses off after that because you guys f-n deserve it!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Pearl Jam! A Hui Hou my life friends of 30 years! Keep on rockin and we’ll keep spinning it you bad ass mother lovers!! Peace!

RedMosquitoSmile28

This was my third show this leg, fourth on the tour, and it was my home show. As a result of the local aspect of the show, I really didn't plan a lot into how I was going to make it happen with everything else going on. No who was going to watch the kids, when I was going to get there, how I was going to play merch (yes, I do that), what I was going to do for food, and how everything else worked out, who I was even going to go with. Seriously didn't decide until I wrapped a couple of work things in the morning and said, screw it, I'm heading to the arena.

I was down there for about 12 hours, which is honestly about the longest I have ever done that. My wife and I were in downtown Nashville just as long, if not longer, but we mostly used that time to experience that craziness and not just related to the show. This Denver experience was different and the time just escaped me.

It also led to about the weirdest merch experience I have had, but I still enjoyed it. I got into line around 1. Thought it was shorter than a similar time in OKC, but it moved slow. I think think that's because they had fewer people working here. There were awesome people around me as always. We all really hit it off. When I got to the front, I think after about four hours, which is a record and I wouldn't usually do, but again, it was fun, they were out of all buy small Denver shirts, the first poster I got was damaged and they exchanged it, I got stickers and a button, then I damage the new poster rolling it up. Later when my wife met me down there, we went in around 6:20 because she had to go to the bathroom, I went to the third level booth, waited no time and got another poster, it was also damaged, worse than the first I got, they gave me a new one and I got that wrapped up fine. They also only had large shirts, and I really need XLs, but I took one because it was close enough. Then I asked another booth to exchange because they had XLs and they did and the dude sold the large like out of his hands. So lots of little effort to get what I wanted, but it was kind of fun.

Before my wife got there I ate dinner by myself at Brooklyn's, both bartenders were going to the show and had been to the European leg, talked to more cool fans, and it just added another element to the day.

I liked the show a lot as always, but it wasn't as good as OKC. I know many like Long Road as an opener, and I do too, but it is my most frequent opener and with all the different things with that, I was hoping for something unique, especially after Garden. The unique songs were all very good and I got Just Breathe and full Chole/Crown for the first time and both were amazing. I was stoked to see RVM close the main set and I always love Lukin. I get the sentiment behind playing I Won't Back Down, but I would have rather had a meaningful PJ song there.  Ed also had a couple of weird transitions. Really thought we might get Glorified G once there, and something from Into the Wild another time and neither. So some criticisms, but overall I just love seeing this band and this time was no different.

I am glad I got to experience this last week, and it created tons of memories. 

opsopcopolis

reortega said:

I guess I’m going to be “that guy” also. Great start to the show.  The first 5 songs were an awesome way to begin.  Loved how Present Tense transitioned between the slow songs and the higher energy ones.  I had high expectations for the last night on tour and was underwhelmed by the number of songs.  25 this night compared to 38 (!) for the last Denver show in 2014, also a tour ender.  Also no Black, which was a disappointment.  Good show overall but the normal-length playlist made me wonder if they were tired.

This whole tour has been shorter an entire encore break. Not unique to last night 

PJALK

Best freaking band.   👍

Let My Spirit Pass

THEBIBLEISTEN

river cross was fucking great! 

RatherStarved

I was unable to make Denver due to work.  Looks like I missed a beauty.  At least I don’t have regrets as I didn’t have the choice to go.  I’m happy for all who were there and hope we don’t have to wait too long for the next one.  

PJ N3rd

Amazing show last night!  The energy, the crowd, Faithfull & Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns = OMG!  Thank you and see you next tour!

ruggs1996

Flew out from NYC for this show and still here in Denver for the first time enjoying this amazing place. Was at MSG and to me this show was just a little bit better. Band was on fire and the setlist was just incredible. Chloe/crown, long road, just breathe, faithful, lukin… Thanks PJ!

riley540

This was my 8th show. My 2nd show was Denver back in 2014! 

I really liked this one. They sounded great and the band seems tighter than ever. Ed’s voice seems to hold up the entire show. I remember in 2014 by the end of the first encore he could barely sing. 

It was also my friends first time seeing Pearl Jam! He has a fresh perspective on their live show and he was blown away. The best live concert he’s ever seen. 

Long Road is a great opening song. Hearing some deep cuts from Riot Act and Binaural was super cool. Present Tense was killer. Chloe - Crown was killer. 

I’m in the minority, but I love a good song along cover towards the end. Baba O Riley in this case. It just feels like a celebration. 

The more shows I see, the harder it is to “rank” them. I’d still put Seattle night 2, 2018 and Spokane 2013 at the top of my list. 

Love this band. Love the community. Love the good times. 

Until next time! 

jray1350

opsopcopolis said:

I’m gonna be that guy and say I just had an ok time last night. Band sounded great, crowd was solid, but found the setlist kinda lacking both in song selection and flow for my tastes. Think I just got one of those shows where the rarer songs just happen to be stuff I’ve seen a bunch. Loved hearing present tense and faithful, but otherwise felt like more of a hits show than the most of this leg of the tour. Walking out my brother and I were chuckling about how we got pretty much every song we said “I’d rather not hear that one” to earlier in the day

You’re definitely not “that guy”. Denver was the 6th PJ concert my girlfriend and I have seen together. We both agreed it was easily the last of the 6. We were expecting a kick ass final night of the tour. But, the guys were just lackluster.  They seemed (rightfully?) just ready to throw in the towel. Great as always, but disappointing at the same time. 

RedMosquitoSmile28

jray1350 said:

opsopcopolis said:

I’m gonna be that guy and say I just had an ok time last night. Band sounded great, crowd was solid, but found the setlist kinda lacking both in song selection and flow for my tastes. Think I just got one of those shows where the rarer songs just happen to be stuff I’ve seen a bunch. Loved hearing present tense and faithful, but otherwise felt like more of a hits show than the most of this leg of the tour. Walking out my brother and I were chuckling about how we got pretty much every song we said “I’d rather not hear that one” to earlier in the day

You’re definitely not “that guy”. Denver was the 6th PJ concert my girlfriend and I have seen together. We both agreed it was easily the last of the 6. We were expecting a kick ass final night of the tour. But, the guys were just lackluster.  They seemed (rightfully?) just ready to throw in the towel. Great as always, but disappointing at the same time. 

That seems a little much. I know to each their own. I thought the band was great. They didn't seem to be done at all in my mind. I posted my long experience and I have criticisms, but for the most part a pretty decent set. I have seen better response from the casual fan to this show than I did after OKC (more complaining than I maybe have ever seen on social media after that one that they didn't play the hits). I know a few who went, who flat told me they wanted radio hits, and they all were pretty excited afterwards. 

I saw three shows in a week, and Denver was second best. OKC was far and away the winner, with Nashville third (in my mind!). I wouldn't give up any of the experiences, though. Crap, I think getting Chloe and end of main set RVM alone make this one better than average!

jray1350

RedMosquitoSmile28 said:

jray1350 said:

opsopcopolis said:

I’m gonna be that guy and say I just had an ok time last night. Band sounded great, crowd was solid, but found the setlist kinda lacking both in song selection and flow for my tastes. Think I just got one of those shows where the rarer songs just happen to be stuff I’ve seen a bunch. Loved hearing present tense and faithful, but otherwise felt like more of a hits show than the most of this leg of the tour. Walking out my brother and I were chuckling about how we got pretty much every song we said “I’d rather not hear that one” to earlier in the day

You’re definitely not “that guy”. Denver was the 6th PJ concert my girlfriend and I have seen together. We both agreed it was easily the last of the 6. We were expecting a kick ass final night of the tour. But, the guys were just lackluster.  They seemed (rightfully?) just ready to throw in the towel. Great as always, but disappointing at the same time. 

That seems a little much. I know to each their own. I thought the band was great. They didn't seem to be done at all in my mind. I posted my long experience and I have criticisms, but for the most part a pretty decent set. I have seen better response from the casual fan to this show than I did after OKC (more complaining than I maybe have ever seen on social media after that one that they didn't play the hits). I know a few who went, who flat told me they wanted radio hits, and they all were pretty excited 

I saw three shows in a week, and Denver was second best. OKC was far and away the winner, with Nashville third (in my mind!). I wouldn't give up any of the experiences, though. Crap, I think getting Chloe and end of main set RVM alone make this one better than average!

As I said, great as always. But, the energy just wasn’t there. Look…I was stoked getting Chloe. Then I was ready for Love Boat Captain or Hard to Imagine…or Gone…or Sad…or Inside Job..or Nothing as it Seems. This concert just didn’t set itself apart. Maybe 3 or 4 more songs would have done it.  Black, Go, State of Love and Trust, Do the Evolution, Porch, Animal, Garden and/or Why Go. 

Robbert

jray1350 said:

RedMosquitoSmile28 said:

jray1350 said:

opsopcopolis said:

I’m gonna be that guy and say I just had an ok time last night. Band sounded great, crowd was solid, but found the setlist kinda lacking both in song selection and flow for my tastes. Think I just got one of those shows where the rarer songs just happen to be stuff I’ve seen a bunch. Loved hearing present tense and faithful, but otherwise felt like more of a hits show than the most of this leg of the tour. Walking out my brother and I were chuckling about how we got pretty much every song we said “I’d rather not hear that one” to earlier in the day

You’re definitely not “that guy”. Denver was the 6th PJ concert my girlfriend and I have seen together. We both agreed it was easily the last of the 6. We were expecting a kick ass final night of the tour. But, the guys were just lackluster.  They seemed (rightfully?) just ready to throw in the towel. Great as always, but disappointing at the same time. 

That seems a little much. I know to each their own. I thought the band was great. They didn't seem to be done at all in my mind. I posted my long experience and I have criticisms, but for the most part a pretty decent set. I have seen better response from the casual fan to this show than I did after OKC (more complaining than I maybe have ever seen on social media after that one that they didn't play the hits). I know a few who went, who flat told me they wanted radio hits, and they all were pretty excited 

I saw three shows in a week, and Denver was second best. OKC was far and away the winner, with Nashville third (in my mind!). I wouldn't give up any of the experiences, though. Crap, I think getting Chloe and end of main set RVM alone make this one better than average!

As I said, great as always. But, the energy just wasn’t there. Look…I was stoked getting Chloe. Then I was ready for Love Boat Captain or Hard to Imagine…or Gone…or Sad…or Inside Job..or Nothing as it Seems. This concert just didn’t set itself apart. Maybe 3 or 4 more songs would have done it.  Black, Go, State of Love and Trust, Do the Evolution, Porch, Animal, Garden and/or Why Go. 

And so everybody will miss some song(s). For me ( did not attend a US show, did 5 Europe shows ) on paper Oklahoma en Denver are the 2 best shows this year. Of course i can call 5 songs i would love to see in the set, but if you keep looking at it like this youll keep busy