Biggest live "screw ups"

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  • iamrockmusic
    iamrockmusic Orlando, FL Posts: 443
    smile05 wrote:
    cant believe no one has mentioned GIVEN TO FLY,nearly every time they play it they screw up going going into the second verse.

    how so? you mean compared to the studio version? i'm trying to think of what they screw up... details please... not that i don't believe you, just curious what you're referring to.
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  • pc_loadletter
    pc_loadletter Posts: 164
    azdrummerboy wrote:
    how so? you mean compared to the studio version? i'm trying to think of what they screw up... details please... not that i don't believe you, just curious what you're referring to.


    i think he means mike and matt sometimes lose each others beat. ive heard it a few times.
  • rambo
    rambo Posts: 170
    haha ya that was cool
    he fucked up last kiss so bad in st.john's cause he was climbing the ladder when he was singing it (also was hammered haha)
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  • DontGotID
    DontGotID Posts: 137
    Ive heard a lot.. but Betterman in Gorge 05 he screws up the guitar part. And then hes like "Tom Petty would never do that! hes a professional" or something like that. Im sure youve all heard it
  • walkunafraid
    walkunafraid Posts: 2,655
    Parachutes, Boston 06. Ed completely forgot the lyrics at one point.

    I guess I'm not in the same boat as most of you -- I hate when songs get fucked up, especially when Ed forgets the lyrics. It totally ruins the song for me (although I do see the humor of it on some occasions).
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  • knitted
    knitted Posts: 244
    Father Hubbard wrote:

    and then theres the unfortunate halt to ship song at red rocks 1995. i would love to hear a full pearl jam version.

    this is the song that made me start collecting tapes, way back. i'd heard they'd played it, and it was my best friends favourite song so i tried to get a copy of it for her, you can imagine how gutted i was when i finally heard it and it was only half the song! it stops and ed says something like 'it sounded great in the back' - maybe they should have practiced it more than once. :)

    my favourite fuck-up is the alive one that started this thread - something about too much hash the night before? - and the permanent fuck-up is 'throw your arms...' , i've heard ed sing this wrong so many times i've forgotten what the real lyrics are.
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  • Firecloud
    Firecloud Posts: 516
    2.21.98 Maui, at the end of Dissident when Ed sings the "couldn't hold on" part, he took it to another level entirely, singing "couldn't hold on" five times before going into "escape is never..." and so on.

    I don't know if this is a fuckup or just Ed deciding to do something different, but either way it's unbelievably awesome. Totally kills me every time.

    And on a side note, this show is incredible, for those that haven't heard it.
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Mankind, at State College - they start it up, everyone's playing, and somehow Stone misses when he's supposed to start singing, and it just kind of grinds to a halt, and they kind of blink, and then re-start.
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  • CitizenRick
    CitizenRick Posts: 1,079
    tama_drummer91 wrote:
    Sometimes from SF 2006 night 2 is a great fuck up. Gotta love it.

    I think this one is a close 2nd to Penn State because they just stop playing the song and move on to the next one.
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  • saichiro15
    saichiro15 Posts: 28
    In the 8/29/00 Boston boot, Stone screws up Sleight of Hand or as Eddie calls it, "like a third foul". Then later in the show right before Mankind, Stone says that the audience is punished for his screw up!! Love it!!!
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  • iamrockmusic
    iamrockmusic Orlando, FL Posts: 443
    no idea which show it was, but i definitely remember one time when they played hail, hail and stone was in a completely different key, so they stopped and started over again. but like i said, i have no idea which show it was... for some reason, i'm thinking europe in 2000... ahhh, whatever.

    so i made a playlist of all the screw-ups in my itunes and i've been letting it play all night... probably one of the funniest things i've heard in a while. if this was all one show, they'd be completely inept, which is how it sounds when you play them all together.
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  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    Wishlist from Brisbane 1, 2003.

    He messes up all through the song, swears at himself a few times, forgets the words completely and lets the crowd sing him back into it. It was pretty funny to see.
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  • gvn2fly12
    gvn2fly12 Posts: 795
    I was listening to Saskatoon Canada 05 and they tried to play the Guess Who's Running back to Saskatoon during the encore was a great attempt. Ed say smoething like, whe were taking our time cos were were trying to lern a song, after you hear it you may wish we took a few seconds more. Then after it fell apart he told the crowd that if there are any bands that want to go to Seattle and get on strage and just fuck around, they could as they owed them for that attempt. I tough that was classic.
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  • wilfmiss
    wilfmiss Posts: 196
    The biggest screwup was when Eddie was on the same stage as Sammy Hagar.
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  • JP2026766
    JP2026766 Posts: 1,125
    I'm not sure if it's posted yet, but Kitchener where Eddie tries to play Soon Forget. ABSOLUTELY fucks it up. Someone else also mentioned Off He Goes from the Gorge 05, that was pretty awful. Nothing beats Satan's Bed '03 or Sometimes '06 though.

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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    Urujam wrote:
    Milan 2006 - BLACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    & RATS - Dusseldorf 2007!!!!!
    :confused: there was no screw ups on those.. thought they might screw up Rats seeing as they had not planned it and Ed seemed confused there was only 1 sheet of lyrics, but they nailed it :D
  • pj10alive42
    pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    biggest live screwup?????

    CINCY 2006.............

    Oh hallowed art thou...

    Cincy '06 was fuckin great...they made up for the cancelled Cincy concert in Columbus when they played the improv OHIO tune and Footsteps...get over it...tired of hearing Cincy sucks from you.
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  • fortyshades
    fortyshades Posts: 1,835
    London '07.

    Ed congratulates himself for writing the lyrics on Indifference (he smiles, stands there proudly, even pats himself on the back and says: "I wrote some shitty lyrics in the past, but that doesn't include this one") and then forgets them.

    Classic.
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    fortyshades wrote:
    London '07.

    Ed congratulates himself for writing the lyrics on Indifference (he smiles, stands there proudly, even pats himself on the back and says: "I wrote some shitty lyrics in the past, but that doesn't include this one") and then forgets them.

    Classic.
    good one! and next time they played it he does it AGAIN! :D
  • PrlJam27
    PrlJam27 Colonia, NJ Posts: 346
    einatshaul wrote:
    Vic people, who was it that messed it up first? Was it Stone or Mike?


    If I remember correctly it was Mike.


    Also, I cant believe no one has yet mentioned All Those Yesterdays from MSG in '98. Stone fucked up the solo at the end so horribly, that Ed even commented on it. He said something like "we come to madison square garden, and fuck up a song like that.....John Lennon would have been proud!"

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