*** Salt Lake City Fanviews Here 9/28/09 ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huMDCnK_3Kw

My iPhone vid of Yellow Ledbetter.

Vedderfan10 wrote:

Has anyone mentioned - besides ed's tight jeans... the girls who were trying to sell Creed and Staind tickets outside the E-Centre? Yeah, I got approached twice! "Excuse me - are you a fan of CREED?" At first I didn't know what she was saying..."not your thing?" she asked. And then I laughed - you're talking about creed at a Pearl Jam concert?! Be careful!!

I know, I laughed when they asked me and just said "Not a chance."

The show though was unbelievable. What an awesome setlist. Hearing Of The Girl, Breakerfall, Low Light, and Immortality were the highlights for me. The new songs sound GREAT live.

My second Bee Girl, which really surprised me. Yeah, just an awesome PJ show, best one I've been to so far and could possibly be the best setlist of the tour yet...

what sections were not full there? Behind them, or furthest away from them?

Aaron 23 wrote:

Haijay wrote:

what sections were not full there? Behind them, or furthest away from them?

furthest away, there were no sections behind them in the seating arrangement

If you picture a football layout, there was no one past the goal line, upstairs or down.

norm wrote:

Hubmann2513 wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I-b8w6d8Ow

don't have to wait any longer! Just found it on youtube. Very cool!

that is just fucking cool!!!

Fucking way cool!

Just wanted to say thanks to the boys for finally making it back to Utah. Gotta be one of the best ive been to so far. Eddie was quite the gentleman and it was nice to see all the guys so energetic. Thanks for the memories well see you next week in San Diego.

Alex

Pearl Jam reaches the hearts of its fans
David Burger
By David Burger The Salt Lake Tribune

29 September 2009
The Salt Lake Tribune

Pearl Jam's first concert in Utah in 11 years was marked by 27 songs, 10 songs during the two encores, six songs from their just- released new album "Backspacer," and one marriage proposal.

Add them all up, and you hope the Seattle quintet doesn't wait until 2020 to play Utah again.

In one of the most exhilarating and exhausting concerts of the year Monday, the band of singer Eddie Vedder, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Jeff Ament demonstrated that you don't need bells and whistles to generate excitement and a definite connection to the hearts and minds of fans and non-fans alike. They brought the rhythm, but not the blues, in a joyful E Center show that illustrated a band happy to have outlasted the Bush administration.

Pearl Jam released its ninth studio album, "Backspacer," only eight days previous to the show, but most of the packed arena already knew the musical intros and lyrics to the rejuvenated band's new optimistic songs -- songs that were few and far between in the activist band's last two albums, which were filled with vitriol towards Republican leadership.

Monday, the band made sure the focus was on the music, paying little attention to lights and strobes and keeping the stage simple with understated backdrops bathed in warm reds and blues. Few bands have massed a catalog as deep and rich as Pearl Jam, with its classic

rock-influenced songs telling poignant, angry, and meaningful stories about war, love and pain.

From hits off its multi-platinum 1990 album "Ten" ("Alive," "Even Flow") to covers (The Ramones' "I Believe in Miracles" and Victoria

Williams' "Crazy Mary"), from classic songs ("Yellow Ledbetter," "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town") to obscure chestnuts ("Bee Girl," "Satan's Bed"), the band kept its energy level high by shaking up its set list and reinterpreting old songs. For example, "Daughter" turned into "Sympathy For the Devil" and then again into "W.M.A.," and at another point Gossard led the band through "Do the Evolution" with a radically different rhythm.

With Gossard and Ament keeping the rhythm huddled around Cameron's rum kit, it was hard to take your eyes off the mercurial, charming

Vedder, who was seen in one of two ways: either with both hands clenched on top of the microphone on a mic stand, or slowly swaying with slowly flailing arms. With an unshaven face and black clothes that matched the rest of the band's outfits, Vedder displayed his deep baritone yet playful growls that myriad others have imitated.

The sound wasn't perfect -- sometimes McCready's stinging solos were obscured by two other guitars, especially during "Even Flow" -- but the adoring crowd didn't seem to mind, with thousands of audience members playing air guitar and air drummer throughout the 135-minute show.

As for the proposal, a local couple went onstage and the man proposed to his girlfriend right after "Bee Girl" was played. "By the power vested in me, I'll play you a song," Vedder then said, and performed the prettiest love song he has ever written, "Just Breathe," as the couple sat next to him.

That song, as well as 26 others, seemed to be played expressly for each audience member, in a way that was paradoxically intimate yet communal.

2020 can't come soon enough.

Set list:

Of the Girl

Breakerfall

Hail Hail

Severed Hand

The Fixer

Low Light

Marker in the Sand

Even Flow

Unthought Known

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

Got Some

Given To Fly

Immortality

Satan's Bed

Among the Waves

Do the Evolution

Blood

(Encore Break)

Bee Girl

Just Breathe

Red Mosquito

Daughter

Supersonic

Spin the Black Circle

--Encore Break--

I Believe in Miracles

Crazy Mary

Alive

Yellow Ledbetter

Pearl Jam

When - Monday, Sept. 28

Where - E Center, West Valley City

Bottom Line - Rock band plays generous set that marks a sea change for the band as it becomes more joyful and hopeful

Caption: Eddie Vedder sings as Pearl Jam plays the E-Center in West Valley City, Monday, September 28, 2009; Eddie Vedder sings as Pearl Jam plays the E-Center, Monday, September 28, 2009 Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune

Nice pics.

I'm jealous...
In my humble opinion, the best setlist so far in 2009....(inclusion of Blood did it for me, along with Red Mosquito, Hail Hail, Bee Girl, Satans Bed)
Is that the first time they've played Blood in 2009?

I'm going to the show on Thursday night in LA and on the 9th in San Diego.

Can't wait to catch them at the Gibson (a smaller venue)

Satan's Bed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1gIE3i_1zc