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fluff4ufluff4u Posts: 202
edited June 2008 in The Porch
Yellow Ledbetter should be incorporated into the rest of the set list, not just the encore. I understand why they do this but I think they have made there point by now. It's just...Keep the entire show some what of a surprise..
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  • Bathgate66Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    why ?
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  • prince119prince119 Posts: 104
    Ive said this for years...........it was awesome when the played it in 2000 in the Key only to let just about the whole arena empty

    ONLY TO COME OUT AND FINISH WITH "DON"T BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS"

    I can't imagine that they don't recognize the mass exodus when the chords of that song kick in.
  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=286394&page=5



    It would something different. Nothing wrong with a little change.
  • MySmallSelf17MySmallSelf17 Posts: 67
    I would definitely like things changed up a bit for this tour... I'm fine with YL as the last song, but I wouldn't mind a little less RITFW at the end of the show
  • CrazyMollyCrazyMolly Posts: 24
    MySmallSelf17 wrote:
    I would definitely like things changed up a bit for this tour... I'm fine with YL as the last song, but I wouldn't mind a little less RITFW at the end of the show


    ditto.
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  • AcesUpAcesUp Posts: 79
    prince119 wrote:
    I can't imagine that they don't recognize the mass exodus when the chords of that song kick in.

    WTF?! Where does that happen? Not to any shows that I have been to...
  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    prince119 wrote:
    Ive said this for years...........it was awesome when the played it in 2000 in the Key only to let just about the whole arena empty

    ONLY TO COME OUT AND FINISH WITH "DON"T BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS"

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  • bovy_jbovy_j Posts: 1,008
    MySmallSelf17 wrote:
    I would definitely like things changed up a bit for this tour... I'm fine with YL as the last song, but I wouldn't mind a little less RITFW at the end of the show

    I hear you there! I'd prefer some other cover...not sure what exactly. But I think something can definitely be found. Something like Man on the Moon, The Waiting, or some other well known rock song would be sweet!
    I still want Ledbetter to close the show...it's just the perfect closer IMO.
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,990
    I'm telling ya, just once, they should open the show with Yellow Ledbetter and follow it up with Baba O' Riley.
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  • BEnglish017BEnglish017 Posts: 455
    even a little more fuckin' up would be nice.
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  • bigbadbillbigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    I'm telling ya, just once, they should open the show with Yellow Ledbetter and follow it up with Baba O' Riley.
    Yeah, and then end the show with Corduroy or WWS, or perhaps Go.
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  • JP2026766JP2026766 Posts: 1,125
    BEnglish017 wrote:
    even a little more fuckin' up would be nice.

    Agreed...but I'd like to see Fuckin' Up, followed by YL. It's just the perfect closing song.

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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i just want to hear the damn thing once! i've missed it at the shows i went to.

    its not fucking fair!
  • InHiding19InHiding19 Posts: 2,385
    Yellow Ledbetter is the shit and is almost the most perfect closer......leave it, just not every night. Oh yeah and stop playing RITFW so damn much..
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    How about they play Yellow Ledbetter every night but stop fucking up the lyrics and sing it right!
  • BEnglish017BEnglish017 Posts: 455
    ThrowUrArmsAroundMe wrote:
    Agreed...but I'd like to see Fuckin' Up, followed by YL. It's just the perfect closing song.

    yeah i wasn't saying kill YL, just switch out fuckin' up for RITFW. i love YL as the closer. I work at lowes and one night when we were closing me and a coworker grabbed a cd player/battery charger off the shelf and played it overhead. also my fiance agreed that we should play YL as the last song at our wedding reception.
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  • triangleman12triangleman12 Posts: 193
    Can you imagine if they started a show with Ledbetter! Holy F! What's going on? Where am I? hahahahaha :)
  • stonegstoneg Posts: 1,941
    YLB ROCKS!! Shit they could close a show with the Happy Birthday Song and I would be stoked.
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  • RedMosquito22RedMosquito22 Posts: 8,158
    I love when they play YL. It gives me a 10 minute head start on the crowd as I leave as soon as I hear the first 2 notes. It's so old and the lyrics are so butchered every night.

    And seriously if I do leave and they play something else after YL it would be RITFW, another song I can't take anymore.
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  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    triangleman12 wrote:
    Can you imagine if they started a show with Ledbetter! Holy F! What's going on? Where am I? hahahahaha :)


    I've brought that up before too. So many of their closers would make great openers and vice-versa. Open with RITFW, close with Wash or Oceans. Play YL to end the first set and then close with Release. I mean, imagine!
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  • triangleman12triangleman12 Posts: 193
    stoneg wrote:
    YLB ROCKS!! Shit they could close a show with the Happy Birthday Song and I would be stoked.

    And if the stars allign they will . . . MSG 2, my birthday :)
  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    MrSmith wrote:
    How about they play Yellow Ledbetter every night but stop fucking up the lyrics and sing it right!

    are you serious? YL is mostly improved anyway....
  • NeverbeenLedbetterNeverbeenLedbetter Posts: 213
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    I'm telling ya, just once, they should open the show with Yellow Ledbetter and follow it up with Baba O' Riley.


    I think that would be great. It is a great closing song but this is a nice tour length to really mix it up and add some freshness. It would certainly shake up the die hards in front!!!
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  • Army & NavyArmy & Navy Posts: 120
    YL is a classic, and it feels great in concert but yes, perhaps they need other closers...Just not sure they have the right song to close apart from YL. Indifference is great, but its not a closer IMO. RITFW & Baba are nearly as overplayed as YL....

    Perhaps Alive or Black....
  • rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    it def. does not fit anywhere in a set list other than a closer.

    but i agree... i wish they would start to play it less and less. i would love to see them close out a show with an intense version of RVM or blood.
  • edvedderrocksedvedderrocks Posts: 1,001
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    I'm telling ya, just once, they should open the show with Yellow Ledbetter and follow it up with Baba O' Riley.
    my husband said the same thing the other day. it would be kinda funny.
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  • No Fear Of FallingNo Fear Of Falling Posts: 419
    As someone once said, Ledbetter is like the cigarette after a 3 hour fuck-fest.

    Always needs to be closing.

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  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    RedMosquito15 wrote:
    I love when they play YL. It gives me a 10 minute head start on the crowd as I leave as soon as I hear the first 2 notes. It's so old and the lyrics are so butchered every night.

    And seriously if I do leave and they play something else after YL it would be RITFW, another song I can't take anymore.

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  • mattcozeamattcozea Posts: 377
    MrSmith wrote:
    How about they play Yellow Ledbetter every night but stop fucking up the lyrics and sing it right!
    Yeah, because there's a "right" way to sing it. :rolleyes:

    I would love to see them open with it, that would be crazy.
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  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    By the way, I can remember a time ... it doesn't seem like too long ago ... where Yellow Ledbetter was the holy grail.

    The first five or six shows I ever went to, that's all my friends and I talked about: "Is this the show where we FINALLY get to see Ledbetter?" It wasn't played that often, usually only on nights where the band was feeling especially generous. We never got to see it.

    Finally got it at the last show I saw on the 2000 tour.

    Best version was in San Antonio on the '03 tour ... one of the first times Ed "changed" all the lyrics to be obviously about the impending war in Iraq. And it was beautiful. I just stood there with goosebumps.

    Then, they closed with Baba, which is a great second encore song. You've got the lights up, the entire stadium singing that middle bridge part a capella --- it's one of the best moments of my life.

    I hope I never get to the point in my Pearl Jam touring career where that feeling becomes boring. If I do, it's time to hang up my touring shoes.
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