I´ll be the first to ask...

Spiritual_Chaos

Foriginal Sin said:

BF25394 said:

Foriginal Sin said:

Weston1283 said:

The more important question to ask is

Will Binaural through Backspacer be completely forgotten about again on this tour?

Would any other bands play any songs from Binaural through Backspacer to a crowd wanting to hear hits? You know the answer. 

I guess it depends on your definition of "hit." There were a bunch of rock radio hits on that span of albums. "World Wide Suicide" was number 1 for three weeks on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and hit No. 2 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "Nothing As It Seems," "I Am Mine," "The Fixer" and "Just Breathe" were all top tens on one or both charts.

Anyway, my ideal set would be something like one-third "hits" (with the hits changing show to show, albeit with some overlap), one-third new album and one-third album tracks from across the band's career, and a bare minimum of covers. Give me 27 original Pearl Jam songs over 25 original PJ songs and 6 covers any day.

And whatever you're going to play, rehearse it. Nothing dulls the excitement of them pulling out a deep cut more than Eddie butchering the lyrics.

I totally understand that there are a lot of Pearl Jam fans who have little interest in anything the band has done since 1998. What I don't understand is why someone who feels that way would pay to be in a Pearl Jam fan club for 25 years beyond 1998. I also think that some of these people would find out there's a lot to like on the post-1998 albums if they ever gave them the same kind of attention they gave the albums through Yield. It gets harder to do that as you get older and life gets in the way, but the rewards are there if you take the time. I mean, there have been posters here who have said they gave Gigaton one listen and decided they weren't into it. That makes no sense to me.

I’ve said this about a million times on these threads: the fan club does not fill arenas, I would argue 80-90% of the attendees are locals that just want to see Pearl Jam play the hits. WWS isn’t a hit, it was a single the played on the radio for a few weeks. Alive is a hit, Black is a hit, GTF is a hit. The band is older, we’re older. Play the hits. I’ve seen everything else over the past 30 years. 20 song 2 hour set of rocking is perfect 

Why is GTF a hit?

Also, why play the hits? No one will mutter ”man they didnt play X” on the way out if they do their job. And those that do, why would anyone care?

You get the crowd you cultivate. 

You sound like Paul Stanley. 

But if they wanna play Evenflow, ofc they should. But they should play WWS too. Because it’s greeeat. 

evenflow82

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Anyone think PJ will rehearse for this tour or will they rehearse at the shows and they go along? 

thomascbullock

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evenflow82 said:

Anyone think PJ will rehearse for this tour or will they rehearse at the shows and they go along? 

I think they'll probably do a week's worth before the first gig.

demetrios

evenflow82 said:

Anyone think PJ will rehearse for this tour or will they rehearse at the shows and they go along? 

PJ will rehearse for this tour.

BSully

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I'll take whatever they want to give... 

Zod

I mean, it feels like they're back to where they were before the Lightning Bolt tour.  2 hours on the short end, and maybe 2h30 on the long end.

Back in the day too, it felt like shows got longer the deeper into the tour you got. Like the band got more polished, and in shape, and were able to add a few more songs by the end.    I think these tours are too short to get there if they're getting deeper into touring shape as the tour goes on.

It's still taking some adjusting after the 2013 - 2018 3 hour+ barn burners.  They could play the hits, deep cuts, favourite covers when they're playing 35 songs a night.

Looking forward to the next time they play Vancouver or Seattle.  It's been a bit.  Fingers crossed for 2024

JojoRice

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Hopefully their rehearsals include a lot of Riot Act!