Biggest live "screw ups"

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  • Speakers
    Speakers Posts: 252
    Whenever boom plays on any song besides crazy mary or wasted reprise.

    Matt Cameron's drumming on recent versions of In my tree.
  • Father Hubbard
    Father Hubbard Chicago Posts: 1,672
    last exit, alpine valley 6/26/98. they just stopped the song in the middle and didnt start it back up. "fuck that song."

    theres also a rvm, i wanna say from one of the the seattle fan club shows in 1995, where they start playing the beginning but it is way too fast so they start over.

    and then theres the unfortunate halt to ship song at red rocks 1995. i would love to hear a full pearl jam version.
  • Led
    Led Posts: 11
    damen wrote:
    Mine was All Those Yesterdays, 98 Minneapolis. Stone's guitar cut out and as the techs were attending to the problem, Ed took a sip of tea and said something like "take your time" and then the crowd started cheering and it got louder and louder and it came to a point that EVERYONE was screaming and Ed laughed and said, "We should fuck up more often!" - then we all went wild! One of my favorite songs and I saw it live and this made it even more memorable (when they finally got their shit together and played it)

    You have to remember "Betterman" from the same show then. Remember Ed starting it on the second verse? He stopped while the crowd kept on singing then he said "That's great but that's the second verse. Gotcha! I got myself." Then they started it again and got it right.
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  • gvn2fly12
    gvn2fly12 Posts: 795
    Ones that I have seen live,

    Vancouver 03, Hail Hail Started they played about 15 seconds then had to start again.

    Gorge 05, Off he goes and I wont back down,

    Vancouver 05 Love Boat Captian.

    San Fran 2 Sometimes, was a little bummed as I really wanted to hear this again.

    I am sure there are many more but those really stick out for me. I think that it adds someting a little speical when you listen to the biit and remember them.
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  • spintheblack37
    spintheblack37 Posts: 173
    Lukin at Lolla 07 was totally butchered but one could blame that one the wine.
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  • Ledbetterus
    Ledbetterus Posts: 592
    Oh, another "fuck up" I remember.. I'm 95% sure it was Camden 2000, night two.. Anyway, during 'Soon Forget' Ed just stops playing, claiming he can't concentrate because someone is flashing him. I guess he composed himself, he started the song over and finished (he probably fucked up again, he always fucks up 'Soon Forget').
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  • einatshaul
    einatshaul Posts: 2,219
    candleofthought wrote:
    Black Diamond from the Vic boot. They get like half way through the song when the relized the messed up! Awesome!

    Vic people, who was it that messed it up first? Was it Stone or Mike?
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  • pjfan31
    pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    last yr at sydney1, he fuckd grievence up. He left out the
    "Progress,... taste it,... invest-it-all
    Champagne breakfast for everyone" Then ed sung " I shared my grievence with the crowd"

    During wasted reprie he then was syaing how he has never made a mistake in his life, and we saw his first ever mistake. something like that
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  • tama_drummer91
    tama_drummer91 Posts: 205
    StuffnJunk wrote:
    nothing as it seems - detroit 10-7-00

    the fuck up as they go to the bridge, but this is one of my favorite versions - mike's guitar effects sound awesome, and eddie sings the last chorus in a higher register i've never heard in any other version


    I like that version as well.
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  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    I LOVE the fuck-ups :D
    that's why I love hearing Soon Forget live, Ed ALWAYS fucks it up (think he didn't once and I was disappointed :p)

    going to have to trace all those (well, the actual FUs..changing lyrics, esp Even Flow, Lukin, DTE..that's normal.)

    someone should make a compilation :D

    oh, and I'm not sure which show it was last year, maybe Bern or Vienna (one I wasn't at anyway), there was a FU with Stone starting to play a different song (well, the same song again)
  • jesse
    jesse Posts: 170
    state college 03 - satans bed was really bad
  • whichwaysign
    whichwaysign Posts: 229
    StuffnJunk wrote:
    nothing as it seems - detroit 10-7-00

    the fuck up as they go to the bridge, but this is one of my favorite versions - mike's guitar effects sound awesome, and eddie sings the last chorus in a higher register i've never heard in any other version


    I remember this version specifically. They opened the encore with it, which was an odd placement for the song at that given time (Usually NAIS was in the first 8 songs or so on that tour). It was like Ed was trying to sing with more emphasis to make up for the fuck up. The way this version is sung at the end makes it my favorite version of this tune
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  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    tama_drummer91 wrote:
    This one is the worst fuck up by far. Sometimes from SF 2006 night 2 is a great fuck up. Gotta love it.


    i still believe they messed this up because i couldnt help myself and looked at the beginning of the set list 2 hours b4 the show ,,what a dope iam
  • nuzpaper
    nuzpaper Posts: 211
    goldrush wrote:
    Thin Air at Benaroya, mainly because there was no way they could hide it and Eddie was laughing at it at the end of the song

    what was the screw up?
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  • whoYOUare
    whoYOUare Posts: 274
    once when they played Soon Forget, i think it was boston (mansfield) 00, ed is playing and has to stop and says something ot the effect of "OK we're ever, you're all clapping out of time, and I am playing out of tune" and he starts over. good times...
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  • Redmosquito26000
    Redmosquito26000 Posts: 91
    JaneNY wrote:
    heh - I was there for that one. It was great.

    Kitchener 05 - Soon Forget. I forget what he sung instead, or did he fuck something else up and sing Soon Forget. I was at the show, and probably have the boot, but can't remember offhand. It was pretty spectacular though - he gave up on one song and did another on ukelele.

    Screwed up Soon Forget...and played Can't Keep
    "No need to be void,...or save up on life...You got to spend it all....."
  • Redmosquito26000
    Redmosquito26000 Posts: 91
    LBC from Vancouver 05 is pretty bad...I think Ed forgot the entire 2nd verse.
    "No need to be void,...or save up on life...You got to spend it all....."
  • A Patton Fan
    A Patton Fan Posts: 176
    saichiro15 wrote:
    I can't recall how many countless times Ed changes the lyrics to Do the Evol. Can't blame the guy when you're drinking bottles of wine every night!!!

    Yeah I noticed that too. Like on their last show for VFC in FL. btw-Death Cab for Cutie on ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD sucked or maybe it was someone from the crew.
  • Steve Dunne
    Steve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    Wishlist - Mansfield 03

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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,957
    biggest live screwup?????

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