I can never decide what I think the ultimate PJ opener is.....

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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,005
    PJAMEDVED wrote:
    interstellar

    then right into.....corduroy

    I've never agreed more with anything in my life
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  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,559
    Seen many great songs open. My first concert experience saw Long Road open! Wow. Lots of great choices. I love Wash from Gorge boot. Oceans Sometimes and Release all worthy. I love the slow build ups before ripping into hard and fast tracks like animal, go, last exit, severed hand etc.

    Inside Job is the new Release i feel. Just my opinion. With this tour being so short they should open each show with a different opener. They plenty to choose from.

    Show openers ive been to include
    Long Road...Do the Evolution...Animal (Melb #1 98)
    Small Town...Interstellar...Corduroy...Save You (Melb #2 03)
    Cant Keep...Breakerfall...Save You...Ghost (Melb #3 03)
    Waster Reprise..Life Wasted...Animal...Spin (Melb #1 06)
    Long Road...Corduroy...Hail Hail...Do the Evolution (Melb #3 06)

    I love it too when Ed walks on and just says "Good evening" before the first note.
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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    got to be Release or Wash

    I love Go for the fast openers..
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  • ScottandPearlJam
    ScottandPearlJam Posts: 1,126
    It has to be RELEASE haven't heard it live in a long time.
    Please MSG 1 RELEASE.

    Scott
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  • FrankieJ
    FrankieJ Posts: 602
    Brendan Adcock wrote:

    Show openers ive been to include
    Long Road...Do the Evolution...Animal (Melb #1 98)
    Small Town...Interstellar...Corduroy...Save You (Melb #2 03)
    Cant Keep...Breakerfall...Save You...Ghost (Melb #3 03)
    Waster Reprise..Life Wasted...Animal...Spin (Melb #1 06)
    Long Road...Corduroy...Hail Hail...Do the Evolution (Melb #3 06)

    How is there 3 or 4 show openers per show???
    I thought you can only open(start) a show once.
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  • edvedderrocks
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    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    Columbus, Ohio in 2000. The entire setlist only included two songs off Ten (plus YL at the end), but it was a very deep setlist. Not one for a Pearl Jam newbie. No Alive, no Jeremy, no Even Flow.\

    Philly 05 was similar.

    set list: Wash, Hail Hail, Brain of J, spin the black circle, given, alone, evenflow (probably the best version I've ever heard) , green disease, faithful, not for you/modern girl, leatherman, betterman/save it for later, nothingman, once, bleed for me, blood

    1st encore: around the bend, harvest moon, hard to imagine, crown of thorns (never thought I would see this live!!!), crazy mary (wild - the amp blew up in the middle of the song & ed didn't want to finish it cause it "freaked him out" - but he did) alive

    2nd encore: last kiss, in my tree, do the evolution, sonic reducer, little sister, leaving here, RITFW, YL

    Not for a PJ newbie either. My husband didn't know 75% of the songs that night, but he still to this day (he's going to his 11th show this summer - & now loves PJ as much as me) says that that was the best show he has ever seen or heard....... I agree.
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  • piaget77
    piaget77 Posts: 156
    RELEASE or WASH.

    Would love to hear Oceans or Sometimes as an opener. One day.
  • NotoriousIMP
    NotoriousIMP Posts: 141
    Love Release as an opener. Very special song to me. Hope they play it on the 25th it will be 26th year anniversary since I lost my dad.
    But I got to say, since hearing "Why Go" at lollapalooza 07' boot, thats a great opening song. Really got the crowd going. Great boot as well.
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  • Chazz
    Chazz Posts: 1,156
    scott & pearl jam wrote:
    It has to be RELEASE haven't heard it live in a long time.
    Please MSG 1 RELEASE.

    Scott

    I have never heard this live and am desparate to - so MSG 1 or 2 would be great, pretty please :o
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  • Murderers.
    Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    BeerBaron wrote:
    I don't like hearing Go anywhere in the show :) Soooo sick of that song live...
    It sucks when that happens. :(

    I just love the song.

    Go straight into Animal would be awesome. And while they're at it they might aswell just open the show with all of Vs! :D
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  • ramblinpony
    ramblinpony Posts: 115
    I loved me some Release, then they opened with Why Go at Lolla.

    Fantastic, just fantastic!
  • Big Ed
    Big Ed Posts: 331
    I'd say LBC is my favorite opener.
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  • G-force
    G-force Posts: 218
    Big Ed wrote:
    I'd say LBC is my favorite opener.

    I'd say LBC will be the opener for Mansfield II just by virtue of the date
  • Big Ed
    Big Ed Posts: 331
    What's signifigant about the date? (I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed)
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  • annenomies
    annenomies Posts: 165
    Murderers wrote:
    I was thinking about it today. I always think Release is always the best opener to get a show going. It sorta connects the crowd, allowing everybody's energy to flow through each other for the rest of the night.

    But then I started thinking that Sometimes would make a hell of a good opener. The mellow guitar, Ed's voice, and just the brilliant ambient feel to the song. It always makes a great build up to the following song (Hail Hail is probably the best choice to follow this one).

    And then there's Wash. Oh, Wash. What an amazing song. I can only dream of seeing PJ open a show with this one. It seems like when the crowd hear the first note, they just know it is going to be a perfect night.

    There's a lot of others too, but I'm tired atm. What are other peoples opinions?


    They opened with Wash at the Philly show in '05 - it was great
  • Red_Dot
    Red_Dot Posts: 1,454
    In my Tree.....
    Take me for a ride before we leave...
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,839
    hard to imagine

    i hope they open with this at MSG ...
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  • cd21miller
    cd21miller Columbia, MO Posts: 302
    release is the best way to go for the ultimate in PJ openers, BUT i got to thinking...

    as much as a lot may have thought lolla last year was a pretty generic setlist/show, opening with why go kicked ass.
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Brendan Adcock wrote:
    I love the slow build ups before ripping into hard and fast tracks like animal, go, last exit, severed hand etc.

    Inside Job is the new Release i feel. Just my opinion. With this tour being so short they should open each show with a different opener. They plenty to choose from.

    they played similar short tour in europe last year -Long Road, Release, Sometimes, Why Go, RVM, Porch, Go, Better Man, and Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy all opened...so 12 shows, 9 different openers

    And regarding the slow building concert , Katowice II 2000 always wins for me: What a brilliant boot
    Release, Of The Girl, Sleight Of Hand, Thin Air, Insignificance, Grievance, Corduroy, Animal, Hail Hail, State Of Love And Trust...etc
  • Murderers.
    Murderers. Posts: 1,382
    annenomies wrote:
    They opened with Wash at the Philly show in '05 - it was great
    And at the Gorge in 06.
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