**** Berlin Fanviews Here 6/30/10 *****

Some ghetto photos, hope they bring back some memories...

Great to see Ed's finger clicks again Cool vid!!

AMAZING show :shock:

I cried so much for Light Years, Come Back and The End as I lost my Dad last year, but damn, it was just what I needed.

Thank you to the band for putting on such a great tribute to those lost at Roskilde and for putting on what was generally, an incredible show. It'll never be forgotten

melbourneflower wrote:

Photos and video as promised.

Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59794835@N00/sets/72157624276497235/

Video (Under Pressure): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SdRBr6V-ok

I have another brief video of part of Kick Out the James that I will upload later.

Its a small world we´re living in... I checked out your photos and I´m right there in the sea of people


Thank to everyone who shared that magnificent night yesterday - it truly was magical and inspiring, a venue full of joy, togetherness, raw emotions and shared love for music. I feel privileged just for having been there...

The Berlin concert last year was my first PJ live concert, which was just plain fantastic, and thus I had high expectations going yesterday, not quite believing I was seeing my all time favorite band for the second time.

I didn't expect though to be so blown away, drawn into the music, getting lost in the emotionality of Eddies voice (its simply hypnotizing...) and the tightness of the bands performance. The whole second encore was my favorite of the night- the whole venue chanting after/during Alive and lights turned on all over the crowd as we all paid tribute to lost friends who left this world doing what they and we all love ...

After last years concert I was so happy and thrilled having finally seen PJ live after all these years, now on the other hand I felt an additional emptiness- not believing it was over so soon, and lusting for another chance to see them again! I guess I'm hooked for life...

wow, this concert sounds like an event more than a concert

Love the Adelaide tshirt too.....!!!

Just remembered Ed introducing Mike with "you all know him, but I know him better..." Made me laugh. Watching Mike sky pointing and running in circles with Jeff was fantastic. Was the closest I'd been to the band after having nose bleeds the last 2 indoor gigs (96 and last year at o2) and then Hyde Park last month, was stood a couple of seats up on Mike's side surrounded by wonderful Ten Club people from all over who had the perfect energy flowing amongst them. Watching all the interplay, seeing all the little details on stage, Mike throwing out a shower of plectrums (just how quickly they switch gear between songs was exciting) felt like it was the first real PJ gig I'd been too. Man, I'm still tripping off it. Sound check waiting at the gate was perfect too. My girlfriend totally gets it now too!

This was a special show. It got very emotional at the end as others have mentioned. It's also the first show I can remember where there didn't seem to be any sound problems at all. Wuhlheide is a fantastic place for a concert.

Highlights for me were the crowd participation at the end of Black, EV so emotional that he totally messed up nearly all of the lyrics to Come Back, In Hiding, and the best version of Unthought Known I've ever heard (might end up as a video, similar to the latest Amongst The Waves video). EV's vocals on Kick Out The Jams were great too. Here's a video I took of it from the front row:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx1zlXBNQYg

It was nice to see so many familiar faces again this tour.

There is a massive amount of love on this thread for comeback

I dont know if its just becuase of the occasion, people genuinely love the song, or its become quite rare.

I fucking love it to bits and would dearly love to see it become more of a regular.....im god knows how many shows in now and have still managed to miss it every time

My first ever Pearl Jam concert was at Roskilde in the mosh pit infront of the main stage. 10 years and 11 PJ concerts later and wiser I had found my way to Berlin and Wuhlheide. And what a night! - First of all, a Berlin that bathed in sun and 30 degrees and happy people everywhere. Very glad it was not in-door, but rather the most beautiful venue I have been to (ties with Arena in Verona) in the green outskirts of Berlin.

After numerous ice-cold beers in the heat and just happily seeing the venue fill up from the side (fabolous view) I almost missed the start of the gig standing 30 minutes in a line for some more "water"... But luckily I just reached my seat before they slowly started with Long Road. Guess many waited for LBC.

Long Road gave a great start to the concert. Just as for the Copenhagen show in 2007 they decided to open with this song. A great choice imo. The next songs blew everybody away - Got Some, Why Go and Given To Fly. Sing-alongs where literally everyone inside Wuhlheide screamed their lungs of. So did I. GTF - It must have been the most beautiful version I have ever heard and instead of "smoke" Eddie sang "have a joint in a tree" pointing up to the woods which surrounds this beautiful venue. Guess it's been sung before

A standard Small Town which I have heard at probably all the 12 shows I've been to was decent enough and then a fanfuckingtastic triology: Push me, Pull me into Immortality into In Hiding. Ever since I was 17 and joined the old PJ-forum as FuckOffMTV I have wished for Push Me, Pull Me in concert and always when people would ask “your favourite setlist”-threads I had always PMPM in there. So a GREAT highlight for me. It has a slightly different mood live which I love, cause it's first of all really hard to copy the studio-version live where Eddie is kind of talk-singing, if you know what I mean. Great songs, the Immortality-solo was so good I almost cried and In Hiding being the favourite song of my brother didn't make these early songs any bad for us...

Even Flow sat the whole crowd even more on fire. If not everyone were singing, now also the security guards were moving their feet. Together with Why Go and Given To Fly it was a singalong which probably woke up all the West-Berliners as well (Wuhlheide is East). Johnny Guitar coming next is Top3 for me from the Backspacer album, so PJ thanks, GREAT choice. Other than that, I got to hear Gonna See My Friend which for some reason I never really dug, but LIVE it was AMAZING. Hate to use the word AMAZING, but it was. A true song for the mosh-pitters, and when they played it live it sounded so Who-ish. Can't really put words to it. It was Backspacer-night where the band pulled up 7 Backspacers from the hat. Being a huge No Code and Binaural fan I was slightly disappointed to not hear any from these two, but what the fuck, they can’t play 50 songs. If I do a spreadsheet I am sure Binaural and No Code has been well-represented the past ten years I have seen them.

Being together with my two brothers ten years after the same bros saw PJ at Roskilde was very special and emotional – we all had a small tear during some of the songs. Even the harder ones. The energy was just so special in Wuhlheide. All the people there from the whole world, the venue, the weather, the date. Everything. My best Pearl Jam show so far.

Ever since I was crushed and injured at Roskilde I have never liked hearing Corduroy since it was their opening song at Roskilde and what has been glued to my mind was the combination of the cold Danish weather that evening combined with being squeezed and just hearing the sounds of Corduroy without enjoying it… or actually seeing the stage, it has stick, however when they played it in Berlin last nite, being safe on the side of the venue it was sort of relieving and very OK. I think I needed to hear it 10 years later. After Corduroy came Light Years which can only be described as a song of the universe. Beautiful, big and just light years from what other bands can write and perform. After WWS and the solid Gonna See My Friend they played a very fitting song as the sun was setting: Low Light – one of my favourite Ament tunes, and man can they play it live. Beautiful!

It was time for Eddie to scream a little and Comatose was a great choice for that. His vocals were on FIRE in Berlin, and DTE proved it further. Top energy, god-given voice, extremely positive crowd throughout, and a long-haired and rocking Gossard playing those soloes with passion and numerous crowd-cheers. What an end to their main set.

Eddie Vedder walked out alone with Boom to perform The End, which vocally was the best performance during the whole concert. What a song, and yes as Eddie said it is the most depressing song ever written. Just Breathe followed up with the whole band playing, and unlike the US gigs there were no strings, but Boom managed to layer the organs nicely to that song.

An then Eddie said: “This next song is our love and admire for…. Uhm”. I screamed out to Wuhlheide as I felt confident they would play it: “SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE”, and people looked strangely at me, who the fuck is that guy, and Eddie continued: “Uhm our love for the XX’inches making a circle with his hands (Can’t remember the exact words). This is Spin The Black Circle”. Now people smiled at me. Public Image was GREAT. I actually mistook it for being a new PJ song. It sounded very PJ’ish. Cool cover and cool to be among the first one to hear it. The Fixer and Kick Out the Jams were great closers to the little short second set. The sky was still light blue, and it felt wrong to start their last set so early as the atmosphere would’ve been a little more special if it was dead-black and the only lights in East-Berlin were the ones that came from the stage and the crowd.

The last set was heart-wrecking, sad and beautiful at the same time. The Eddie speech and the whole last set is something you gotta hear/see yourself, and I guess his speech kind of continues in Come Back, a very emotional version that is where he has a hard time singing it.

Thanks Pearl Jam for being the best live band ever to exist in the Universe, and I hope I will see you in the next couple of Light Years.

im reading all your comments...fuck!!!so great so many people have the same feelings!!!!!fuckin amazing!!!
was the best moment of our community./family...