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

It was such a great show...I got a few from my Wishlist: Gonna see my friend, Johnny Guitar, Spin the black circle, Push me pull me...wow...yeah

In 2006/2007 I've been in a "Black"-mood almost all the time so the versions from that very days touched me so deeply...nower days I recovered from that pain and it's also hard to find a another Black version that would "kill" me again like the first really extended ones with Eddie's heart-breaking tags (one of my fav's - if not THE fav - is the one from Berlin 2006)...that has also something to do with the amount of boots I've listened too I guess

The version from Wednesday worked itself into my TOP 5 of all "Black"-versions ... sooo touching...Ed's tag...when they started I thought "Wow, THAT SLOW...it will evolve to something not imagineable"...and it did!

The lighter pic is really touching for me because I was a little disappointed because of the daylight and from where I stood I could not really see how many people put out their lighters, so THANK YOU to everyone

So much more to say...but so much to say just in my heart speaking for itself...I am very grateful and I am really looking forward seeing you all next summer

Ten years ago I attended the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. It was the first really big thing I did in my life and I was both exited and a little scared. The main reason my friend and I went to the festival was Pearl Jam.

I'm not gonna go deep into details but there was a lot of people and when PJ started to play the preassure in the audience started to rise. It felt like it didn't matter cause the ecstasy from finally seeing the band but after awhile I got a slight feeling of panic cause I couldn't move anywhere. Finally there were a wave of people pushing their way out, my friend grabbed me, followed the wave, and got us out from the worst preassure.

We continued watching the show further back and it was so great. It felt like the best moment of my life at that single moment. About 20 minutes later it was over. PJ had played for 45 minutes when the security stopped the show. I think it took about another 45 minutes before the crowd got the announcement that the band couldn't be allowed to continue. At that moment no one knew what had happened except that a couple of people got hurted.

So we went back to our tent, obviously disappointed, and went to sleep. It wasn't until the morning after we learned of what had happened. Alot of people went home, we stayed, and watched more artists that we wanted to see. But there was this numb feeling inside and all over the festival.

The terrible accident at that concert has really made an impact on me and my view on what behaviour you should have when attending a concert. I'm always concerned when attending concerts and try to be as helping as possible. Of course you should be able to let go and lose yourself in the music but not at the cost of others.

According to my veiw I think the Wuhlheide crowd behaved really really good. There are always a bunch of people that are too drunk or high, but so many that they were disturbing.

With that said...

I waited ten years to see Pearl Jam again and I thought that the show was great. As musician you always here missed notes but that didn't bother as much as it can do cause there wern't many of them. I didn't feel the same ecstasy as the first time but I'm ten years older and calmer.

The venue was perfect, the stage had the perfect size and you could see band. Even my girlfriend at 162 cm had no problems seeing the band and we were only 3-4 meters from the front. The sound was great. The setlist was good although I missed a couple of songs. The weather was great. The 10C-area was nice and cool.

But the best thing was the last encore. The emotions, both the happy ones and the sad ones, the crowds singing at the end of "Black". "Come Back", "Alive", and a very emotionfilled "Yellow Ledbetter".


But the most important thing for me is that I feel like I've gotten some kind of closure. It didn't realize that it was exactly ten years on the day until we were at the venue. It kinda feels like some weight has been lifted. Not that the Roskilde-incident has destroyed my life or anything but I sure think about it fairly often.

So thank you everyone who where there and made it into what it was, pure magic.

/Niklas Andersson

P.S. I'm not looking for sympathy or anything I just thought that someone could get something out of this. And one last thing, the person who threw that bottle in the head of Ed deserves a bitch-slap. But I must say that Eddie's reaction and that they played "Do The Evolution" right after suited the situation perfectly...

I didn't want to post my thoughts last night when I get home. I was tired and couldn't process it all properly.

Berlin was special, to say the least. I was pretty sure that they'd open with Release but Long Road was still gorgeous. Fourth time hearing it but it was still stellar. Ed showed us straight away that he was in fine voice.

I absolutely LOVE Given To Fly early on in the sets. It was 4th this time and it just whipped everybody into a frenzy. I swear this song gets better every year.

Stand-outs during the main set for me were Push Me Pull Me, a breathtaking Immortality, In Hiding, Johnny Guitar, Light Years, Evolution. Push Me Pull Me is just wild in a live setting. It's all over the place but in a really good way and just makes me dance and shimmy.

What is there to say about the 2nd encore that hasn't already been said? Seeing Ed break down was really sad, but Stone coming over to console him was very sweet. A tragedy like Roskilde, although an extremely terrible thing to have to deal with, clearly made the band closer. It really showed in Berlin. Seeing all the lighters come out while Ed was talking was just magical, and the moment of silence was almost perfect save for a couple of idiots who wouldn't shut up.


The venue - tied with Verona as the most beautiful concert venue I've ever been to. The walk from the train station through the forest was lovely, and then after buying t-shirts and drinks just looking down from the top of the venue took my breath away. We found a great spot on the right hand side, kinda near the top but could say the stage perfectly. We scared a few people away who were behind us because we were singing and dancing so much to every song. Having such a great view of the crowd really made some moments extra special, such as the ending of Black, the Roskilde speech, Alive, Given TO Fly, DTE.

I don't know where this ranks compared to the other shows I've seen, but its right up there near tehe top.

The Berlin boots from 2000, 2006 & 2009 are among my favourites so my expectations were pretty high for this gig anyway. The UK/Irish shows were going to be my only ones a few months back then the opportunity to go to this show got harder to ignore given the significance of the date. I really wanted to be a part of this historic PJ moment and I'm so glad I was there screaming my lungs out to every word with so many fine people. After a bad start when I couldn't find the 10c member who had the spare I needed (hello SuperStickman ) I trudged away from the venue with (Paul) Pke who had already picked up his tickets dejected in search of a ticket with all hope fading fast. When we found a guy with a couple of tickets I handed over the $100 I intended to pay for my original with but it was a printed e-ticket he handed over and relunctantly I accepted it and went to the gate. I'd said goodbye to Paul when he left for the 10c queue and didn't expect to see him again that night. How fortunes change! I went in after meeting Paul's kids in the queue and we found him sitting in his seat on Mike's side and he wasn't expecting to see me either. Great to see Ed and Ben doing Under Pressure again and Ben was great again but tonight was always only going to be about the date and PJ. Long Road was my first ever PJ song only 8 days before but the emotions were much higher this time. The opening period was great but the band were just settling in at this point. Once we got to Push Me Pull Me it all started to feel really special and Immortality and In Hiding just cemented that. I loved Light Years and the only down side from my 4 shows is the lack of more Binaural/Riot Act songs but that's not a real complaint. The main set was really great all the way through and I can't not give a mention to Low Light and Mike dominating all the way through Even Flow and Corduroy. Went down near the front for an hour maybe but the view from the side was better to me. The encores were individually very different and the first was very joyous with Spin The Black Circle and the bonus of the REM guys coming out. The night was always going to get emotional and it truly did during The End, Just Breathe, Black, Ed's speech, Comeback and the climax of Alive and Yellow Ledbetter. Emotionally this is the greatest show I've ever seen and it was so good that I can't decide on this or Belfast for the best setlist but as a show I might never see better than this. Went over for a chat with Dimitris since it would be the last time I'd see him until the 2011 Euro tour and a little while later the Freebird shirt left my possession to almost reach the stage (nice attempt by young Gary who crowd surfed his way forward with it) but tonight wasn't about Freebird, it was about remembering the 9 and what a way to celebrate their sadly very short lives. RIP guys..

Finally congratulations again to Sian & Dave and shame on the a**hole who tarnished the setlist thread with a very sick and distasteful comment, no you didn't have to press submit and you should just switch your computer off if that's your idea of humour.. :(

ROLL ON THE NEXT WUHLHEIDE GIG, PJ YOU BELONG THERE AND SO DO WE..........

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melbourneflower wrote:

The crowd were amazing - they were extremely vocal throughout and every person there was participating - it was the 'definition' of an energy exchange. At one stage during Black I looked around to see every single person at the venue (top to bottom) clapping in time. The band were very visably moved by the crowd response and as others have noted after Black Eddie started to say something about the Roskilde anniversary and promptly broke down in tears and couldn't continue.

I have been seeing PJ play since 1995 and have been to many. many concerts by different artists and no-one comes as close to connecting with an audience as they do but hey I'm preaching to the choir here aren't I?

Great post!

First of all, let me say this (again). I fucking love this band. Everytime I see the guys live, I feel that instant connection with the band, with the people in the crowd and between the crowd as a whole and the band. And I've picked out a few passages of your post that I feel says it all. The connection between the guys on stage and the people in the crowd I feel is unique. I have never seen that kind of emotion at any other rock show. I've never seen the kind of humble and genuine appreciation Eddie always not only expresses, but pretty much oozes, for the love we throw the bands way. It makes for a complete sense of unity, a kind of symbiosis between the band and their fans which means that everytime is a deeply personal experience. It's amazing.

Yesterday I travelled with my wife from Berlin to Prague to see Aerosmith perform. My wife is a massive Aerosmith fan and since she goes with me to PJ shows I thought it only fair that I go with her to Aerosmith. Those old guys throw on a good show - with emphasis on show - they have a lot of energy and are good at what they do. But they are miles away from having that personal connection with the fans. The energy exchange was no where near what it's been in all the PJ shows I've been to. My wife had a megaton of a time though and that was the most important thing

But Pearl Jam is just something in a class of its own. Time and again they exceed my expectations and my love for their music and the integrity with which they handle their status is something that continues to impress the hell out of me!

Oh, did any of you Irish girls out there reading this wear a Mrs Eddie Vedder shirt? You missed the first handful of songs from being to late and mistook me for a German on the train ride back to the hotel? You asked to see the poster I was lugging around with me since apparently they sold out of the thing at the show. Just wanted to say thanks for the chat

supernova wrote:

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.

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.

You wouldn't happen to be from Sweden, would you? If so you talked a bit with my wife a few hours before the show. I was off taking a leak but she told me about three swedish brothers who'd been at Roskilde (as I was with the wife). If so, glad to hear you had a good show .

Can't agree enough with you on that last section. Black is my favorite song and this version was the most beautiful I've ever seen it. That ending with the whole crowd clapping and do-do'ing even after the band stopped, complete with Ed breaking down, knowing what he was about to talk about it. Makes me choke up a bit still.

Ok, after a few days at home, back from Berlin, i'm trying to find the right words for the best night in my whole life! Not easy to get on with normal life but you don't have the choice!

Berlin 2009 was absolutely fantastic and i thought that it will be almost impossible to top that...well, we all know that it happened!! Thanks to PJ who brought me to tears, gave me goosebumps all over my body, made me smile/laugh and thought-provoking!! Thanks to the crowd...i will never forget Unthought Known (I'm sure that we will all have a Video "Unthought Known - Live in Berlin" very soon!!!!), 18.000 people clapping from the first note to the end of the song!!!

Nothing more to say/write! Hope to see all my friends soon (hopefully in 2011!!)!

Just got back from Berlin this morning. I read through the whole thread and I don't think I have much to add except THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING NIGHT!!!

Watching the Come Back vid made me cry all over again. So emotional!


PS: thanks to the fan at the merch stand who rolled my posters for me !

Beautiful gig, as always at Wuhlheide. I was expecting it to be special and it certainly was.
Met some wonderful people lika always! Thank you Pearl Jam, thank all of you who attended and organised..

So emotional, and respectful way to remember our lost friends.

Amazing gig, amazing arena, ...amazed...
Hope to see you soon,

Joachim