Pearl Jam @ Jazzfest 2025
SandyRavage
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Alright, Christmas is over. No one else has started a thread, and I can only assume it's because people think this will be the underdog show of the tour 
The Rumor is PJ is playing the second Saturday of the Festival, May 3rd. The lineup isn't usually announced until around the second or so week of January, so we still have time to speculate.
Anyone planning on coming down? I'm a local who can help you with whatever it is you might need! I've spent almost 30 years of life in this city and have only seen PJ ONCE down here, which is crazy because the band has a very storied history with the city.
Hope to see some of you down here!
The Rumor is PJ is playing the second Saturday of the Festival, May 3rd. The lineup isn't usually announced until around the second or so week of January, so we still have time to speculate.
Anyone planning on coming down? I'm a local who can help you with whatever it is you might need! I've spent almost 30 years of life in this city and have only seen PJ ONCE down here, which is crazy because the band has a very storied history with the city.
Hope to see some of you down here!
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2023-09-05 Chicago 1
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2024-09-15 Fenway 1
2024-09-27 Ohana 1
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Song Wishlist: Oceans, Brother, Alone, Let Me Sleep, full W.M.A., Hold On, Bugs/all of Vitalogy, Gremmie Out Of Control (BAM!), Mankind, Around The Bend (full band), Whale Song (DOUBLE BAM!), The Long Road, Don't Gimme No Lip, Pilate, Push Me Pull Me, All Those Yesterdays, Rival, Parting Ways, Ghost, Bu$hleaguer, WWS, Parachutes, Army Reserve, low octave Driftin', Strangest Tribe, Other Side, Undone, Fatal, Hitchhiker, Education, Black Red Yellow, Of the Earth, Love Reign O'er Me, Gonna See My Friend, Amongst the Waves, Santa Cruz, Infallible, Yellow Moon, Alright, Comes Then Goes, Got to Give, and the Mamasan Trilogy.
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2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
2018-06-18 London 1
2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
2022-09-16 Nashville
2023-08-31 St. Paul
2023-09-02 St. Paul
2023-09-05 Chicago 1
2024-08-31 Wrigley 2
2024-09-15 Fenway 1
2024-09-27 Ohana 1
2024-09-29 Ohana 2
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There is a bit of setlist controversy with this particular show, as LiveFootsteps and PJ Stat Tracker claim this show was held on the other side of the French Quarter on Canal Street at the State Palace Theater. RHCP's live Archive claims the show was help at the bigger Municipal Auditorium that currently sits abandoned thanks to Hurricane Katrina. There source is a photo of a ticket stub:
The only thing "known" about this show is the next morning on December 7th in Houston, TX, Eddie and Stone do an interview with radio station KLOL. During that interview, Eddie mentions that Jerry Cantrell was at this show. He also mentions his nickname should be "the swimmer" after "last night in New Orleans." He recalls 5,000 people on the floor and 1000-2000 people in the rafters. Ed was probably spot on as capacity at the Municipal Auditorium was around 7,800. He definitively states that during the song "Porch," he took his shoes and socks off and took a "running jump into the undertow." Stone regards it had to be "60 or 70 yards and back."
Because of this comment, both Stat Tracker and Live Footsteps only concede that Porch was played that night, BUT *legendary* New Orleans Native and Setlist.Fm moderator CoffinJose was at the show that night and taped it. Based on his knowledge of the music that was played and what he has on tape from that night, his remembrance of the setlist of that night is:
1. Wash
2. Once
3. Even Flow
4. Alive
5. ??? (probably Garden or Deep if i had to guess... Tape change!)
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit tease, which was common for this era
7. Porch
I've begged him to get the tape digitized as 91 shows are few and far between in the PJ community. He says maybe one day! Another user claims Eddie sang some of Roxanne by the Police at a random point during the show.
The venue, Municipal Auditorium, would continue to operate for the next 14 years. Katrina would close the venue in 2005, and the venue continues to sit in Armstrong Park and rot to this very day. In 2024, $38 million was granted by the City of New Orleans to renovate the space for future use, but as to what it will be, nobody is certain. A common theme in New Orleans, as the aforementioned State Palace theater where this show *could* have been held, also sits abandoned till this day on Canal Street.
Song Wishlist: Oceans, Brother, Alone, Let Me Sleep, full W.M.A., Hold On, Bugs/all of Vitalogy, Gremmie Out Of Control (BAM!), Mankind, Around The Bend (full band), Whale Song (DOUBLE BAM!), The Long Road, Don't Gimme No Lip, Pilate, Push Me Pull Me, All Those Yesterdays, Rival, Parting Ways, Ghost, Bu$hleaguer, WWS, Parachutes, Army Reserve, low octave Driftin', Strangest Tribe, Other Side, Undone, Fatal, Hitchhiker, Education, Black Red Yellow, Of the Earth, Love Reign O'er Me, Gonna See My Friend, Amongst the Waves, Santa Cruz, Infallible, Yellow Moon, Alright, Comes Then Goes, Got to Give, and the Mamasan Trilogy.
Song Wishlist: Oceans, Brother, Alone, Let Me Sleep, full W.M.A., Hold On, Bugs/all of Vitalogy, Gremmie Out Of Control (BAM!), Mankind, Around The Bend (full band), Whale Song (DOUBLE BAM!), The Long Road, Don't Gimme No Lip, Pilate, Push Me Pull Me, All Those Yesterdays, Rival, Parting Ways, Ghost, Bu$hleaguer, WWS, Parachutes, Army Reserve, low octave Driftin', Strangest Tribe, Other Side, Undone, Fatal, Hitchhiker, Education, Black Red Yellow, Of the Earth, Love Reign O'er Me, Gonna See My Friend, Amongst the Waves, Santa Cruz, Infallible, Yellow Moon, Alright, Comes Then Goes, Got to Give, and the Mamasan Trilogy.