*** Pittsburgh, PA 1 Fanviews Here 5.16.25 ***

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Pearl Jam
PPG Paints Arena
Pittsburgh, PA
05/16/25
Show 1
Set List

Opening Band
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
onstage 7:30

Walk on music: Dark Entry
Band Onstage 8:53
Band Offstage 11:17

Set List

01. Footsteps
02. Low Light
03. Given To Fly
04. Mind Your Manners
05. React, Respond
(The band purchased Ed a Joe Strummer Fender Telecaster for his birthday)
06. Corduroy
07. Dark Matter
08. Wreckage
(Ed commemorates Franko Harris and how he brought different groups together.)
09. Even Flow
10. Sleight Of Hand
11. Severed Hand
12. Upper Hand
(Ed decides to take a request from the audience.  He selects one woman for the request.  She wants Grievance which the band hasn’t played for years. (August 5 2016)  Ed tells the band not to panic, they have this.)
13. Grievance
14.  Daughter/It’s Okay-(Cole)
15. Jeremy (just as song starts Ed stops the show because he sees someone struggling in audience.)
16. Got To Give
17. Porch (Ed wears a Pittsburgh Pirates batting helmet from a young person in the audience)

Encore Break
(Ed thanks the kid for letting him wear the helmet)
18. My City Of Ruins-(Springsteen)
(Ed discusses the emotional power of music)
19. Man Of The Hour
20. Comatose
21. Do The Evolution
22. Black
23. State Of Love And Trust
24. Alive
25. Baba O’Riley-(Townshend)
26. Indifference


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Thank you, John for the set list & notes.

lastexitlondon

Wow

JimmyV

Just incredible. 

mickeyrat

Franco Harris

mcgruff10

Whoa 

SVRDhand13

Sound and crowd were great tonight. Love the Hand trilogy (of course). Got to Give was great too. 

CROJAM95

What a Fuckin show!!!! Thank you Ray again, I’ll do my best for Sunday evening. Needed another banger, heart hurts 😞

curmudgeoness

How long is the line for the elevators in the Marriott right now?? We took the stairs to the 20th floor. 😳

Great show. Severed Hand is great live. I was psyched to hear Got to Give and the It’s Okay tag. Ed did a great Bruce cover. Mike was on fire, as always.

pearldavidson

My highlights: 

Footsteps as an opener
Severed Hand
Grievance
My City of Ruins 
and Mike McCready in general 🤘🏻

BrainofBGA

How did Grievance go?! 

mcgruff10

BrainofBGA said:

How did Grievance go?! 

It was awesome!!!

BSully

Despite most of the people around me in sec. 209 who somehow sat through the whole thing... I enjoyed the hell out of this show.

So many surprises and I'm still stunned to hear some stuff that hasn't been played in years.

rearviewmirror33

Wow!  What a show,  the band and Eddie sounded awesome.  Thank you to the greatest band in the world. Can't wait for the next one

Ledbetterman10

Closest I’ve ever been at a show. Amazing time. 

cbbjr

Every review I write begins with this, but it was an absolutely amazing show.

Two important considerations for how I thought about it. First, I took my 11 year old son. It was his first real concert, and my 26th time seeing PJ. Taking him meant I had a very different mindset going in - instead of wanting to hear my personal favorites or songs I have been chasing, I just wanted to make sure he saw his two favorites, Alive and Even Flow. I was obviously pretty confident he would hear both, although I have somehow been to three shows when Even Flow wasn’t played.

Second, I had planned on only seeing Raleigh 1 this tour, but after Sunday night, I couldn’t stop thinking about the band. My wife is out of town for a girls weekend and my son’s normal Saturday morning soccer game was moved to Sunday, which I took as signs that I was meant to find tickets at the last minute (after refreshing the Ticketmaster site hundreds of times, I found a pair in Sec 107 at face value around 11:30am this morning). After getting tickets I went and picked up the little guy from school an hour early (I am probably not winning father of the year) so we could hit the road from DC. 

Opening with Footsteps was quite unexpected. Low Light and Given to Fly are two of my favorites on Yield, which is my favorite album, so I thought it was a great start. Mind Your Manners is one of my least favorite songs, but my son thinks it is hilarious that I don’t like a song that has “manners” in the title, so it was at least humorous. 

Our seats were on the aisle, and I let my son sit on the aisle because it had a better sightline (we were third row in 107, and the sound board and light stand blocked the view toward the center of the section). I don’t remember exactly when, but fairly early on in the set a well dressed man walked down the steps toward the floor, stopped and handed my son something small, and then walked onto the floor toward the front and disappeared. He handed my son a pick with a Cub on one side and #34 on the other. My son didn’t know what it was, and when I told him it was a pick from Eddie, he was pretty excited.

Three mid-set highlights were Sleight of Hand, Greivance (which was a fan request - amazing job to the lady who chose it), and the It’s ok tag on Daughter. One of the best days of my life was a few years ago when my son and I drove through Rocky Mountain National Park, and after a hike we got in the car, turned on the PJ station on satellite radio, and heard an amazing version of It’s Ok. Ever since then I have wanted to hear it live because of how positive memory I have of that day. While I have seen them play Daughter a few times since then, I never got that tag. Once they started into it tonight, I had the biggest smile on my face. I am so thrilled that I got to hear it during the little guy’s first show.

The encore was great, and Alive ended up being my son’s favorite part of the night. His other highlights were Daughter (he didn’t get why I was nearly crying during the tag, he just liked the song), Even Flow, and Given to Fly. In fact, he liked the show enough that after it ended he asked if we could go to a merch stand to buy a shirt. He never wants clothes unless it is a soccer jersey, so this was a clear indication that he liked the show. Fortunately they had the kids shirt in his size at the stand we went to.

It is impossible to think of this show in a normal way since I got to experience it with my amazing son, but it was stellar. We have to drive back to DC tomorrow, but I hope Sunday’s show is just as wonderful for everyone who gets to go to it.

mvw

Congrats Pittsburgh!!!!!  What a show 😮 

BSully

mcgruff10 said:

BrainofBGA said:

How did Grievance go?! 

It was awesome!!!

Yeah, it sounded great.
Last time I heard it live was 25 years ago!!!

Daner90

This setlist is absolutely unreal. Very jealous of those in attendance tonight

tylermoore

BrainofBGA said:

How did Grievance go?! 

Better than some of the songs that they had planned 😂
no it sounded great and Mike was absolutely on fire tonight, like always 

helium121

It goes without saying but Mike is amazing on guitar. I would also recommend not missing Teen Jesus as the openers. Those girls can rock!!

cblock4life

helium121 said:

It goes without saying but Mike is amazing on guitar. I would also recommend not missing Teen Jesus as the openers. Those girls can rock!!

Agree about Teen Jesus!