how was it? your 1st Pearl Jam concert...

failedpersephone · January 2008

mookie9999 wrote:

1995-06-22 Sacramento California Cal Expo

Set 1 Release, Last Exit, Spin The Black Circle, Animal, Tremor Christ, Jeremy, Corduroy, Lukin, Not For You, Dissident, Go, Even Flow, Daughter/(Another Brick In The Wall), Rearviewmirror, Habit, Immortality, Whipping, Black, Alive, Blood, Better Man, Sonic Reducer, Porch/(Steppin' Stone), Yellow Ledbetter

Opening Act: Bad Religion

Everything about this show was pure perfection. From the immense difficulty of obtaining tickets to the 110 degree weather everything seemed to fall into place and matter so much when I needed it most. My eyes welled up during Release, I lost my voice during Rearviewmirror, and was never the same by the final chord of Ledbetter. It is still my favorite of all the shows I've seen, will always be my favorite, and is the bootleg I have watched the most by far.

NO WAY.

NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY!

I was at that show too!

it wasn't my first show of PJ - but I was at the Sac show in 95! You have the bootleg???

wait. WHY were you in Sacramento??? (I was going to school...what was your excuse???) This is so freaking WEIRD!

stupidcorporatewhore · January 2008

chiquimonkey wrote:

i sorta see my 1st PJ show as two parts, since the SF show was cut short. i just copied & pasted below, courtsey of 5 horizons (best PJ site that ever existed!)

06/24/95 - Golden Gate Park: Polo Fields: San Francisco, CA [140m]
attendance: 53,440
support act: Crash and Brittany and Bad Religion
set: Last Exit, Spin the Black Circle, Go, Animal, Tremor Christ, Corduroy, Not for You
"NeilJam" set: Big Green Country, Act of Love, Throw Your Hatred Down, Powderfinger, Truth Be Known, Rockin' in the Free World, The Needle and the Damage Done, Hey Hey My My, I'm the Ocean, Down By the River, Downtown, Cortez the Killer
enc: Peace and Love, Rockin' in the Free World
notes: Ed leaves the stage ill after seven songs. Neil takes the stage and the audience gets an impressive Mirrorball premier. The crowd behaves poorly.

and then months later....

11/04/95 - Spartan Stadium: San Jose, CA [155m]
attendance: 35,000
support act: The Fastbacks and Ben Harper
soundcheck: Act of Love, I Got Shit, Red Mosquito
Ed's pre-set: Dead Man
set: Release, Even Flow, Last Exit, Animal, Dissident, Not for You, Rearviewmirror (w/ Who teaser), Elderly Woman, Go, Glorified G, Daughter/(Young Man Blues)/(W.M.A.), Deep, Jeremy, Corduroy, Lukin, I Got Shit, Spin the Black Circle, Red Mosquito, (So You Want to be a Rock 'n Roll Star), Brain of J, Why Go, Black, Alive/(Voodoo Chile teaser), Blood
enc: Leaving Here, Better Man, Immortality, Porch, So You Want to be a Rock 'n Roll Star, Indifference
notes: Ed opens the show early with the (then) unreleased 'Dead Man.' Later he quips, "So these are the faces I would have seen if I could have lifted my head up in San Francisco." After a long departure from these sort of antics, Ed climbs the speaker stacks and scaffolding during 'Porch.' He includes a bit of the 'Three Little Birds' tag in Porch, repeating the "every little thing's gonna be alright" line a few times. Ben Harper and Kim Warnick (from the Fastbacks) join PJ in 'Rock 'n Roll Star.'

I was at the GGP show my 1st "plugged in" show. Major Letdown!

Bad Religion kicked ass. I should've realized there was a problem when they played for an hour and a half.

yes the crowd was dissapointed. I never witnessed any bad behavior but it was (at the time) the hottest day in SF ever and that was during the days where seeing PJ live was very very rare.

I missed the san jose half (bought em, then just couldn't go)

I have a boot of it though and it was awsome

they've more than made up for it since then!!

LukinFan · January 2008

1996-10-07 Ft. Lauderdale Florida F.L. Baseball Stadium

Set 1 Sometimes, Last Exit, Animal, Go, Hail Hail, Dissident, In My Tree, Corduroy, Better Man, Lukin, Not For You, Jeremy, Black, State Of Love And Trust, Satan's Bed, Habit, Rearviewmirror, Immortality, Alive, Porch
Encore 1 Present Tense, Even Flow, Blood, Daughter/(Noise of Carpet)/(Away from Work)/(The Real Me)/(Another Brick In The Wall), I Got Id, Leaving Here
Encore 2 Rockin' In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter

To be honest with you, I wasn't that big of a fan of PJ's until I saw them live. Now all my friends make fun of me because how big of a fan I am. This concert changed my lift.

mookie9999 · January 2008

failedpersephone wrote:

wait. WHY were you in Sacramento??? (I was going to school...what was your excuse???) This is so freaking WEIRD!

It's time to come clean on this board. My name is Mookie9999 and I'm a native Californian. Sure I live in NYC now and have adapted a NY swaggart along with a poor attempt at a Soprano's accent. But deep down I am and always will be a Californian.

failedpersephone · January 2008

mookie9999 wrote:

It's time to come clean on this board. My name is Mookie9999 and I'm a native Californian. Sure I live in NYC now and have adapted a NY swaggart along with a poor attempt at a Soprano's accent. But deep down I am and always will be a Californian.

of course you are

you're the exiled King of California...you need to get your feet back on your native soil, tho' son...that accent you have adopted is a killer, man.

stevehomeair · January 2008

8-18-93 toronto...

I was eighteen and took my twelve year old brother. we were way in the back and jumped down over the dugout to get on the main floor. I Remember animal, glorified g. Vs. had not come out yet so the new songs were really different for us.. I think it was blues traveler, pj, soundgarden and young neil.not a bad lineup for that time in music.

mookie9999 · January 2008

failedpersephone wrote:

..you need to get your feet back on your native soil,

Mom, is that you?!? I'll probably be in California in March, but just for a visit. No plans to return for good.

xavier mcdaniel · January 2008

my first show was 9-11-1998 at MSG

Set 1 Release, Hail Hail, Animal, Even Flow, Given To Fly, Corduroy, MFC, Habit, Faithfull, Daughter/(Beginning to See The Light)/(W.M.A.), Wishlist, Nothingman, Immortality, Rearviewmirror, Brain Of J., Black, Do The Evolution

Encore 1 Breath, State Of Love And Trust, Off He Goes, Leatherman, Better Man/(Save it for Later), Mankind, Baba O'Riley

Encore 2 Indifference, Alive

rhinomagic · January 2008

LukinFan wrote:

1996-10-07 Ft. Lauderdale Florida F.L. Baseball Stadium

...

This concert changed my lift.

Ft. Laud was my 3rd PJ show.

And you're right. My lift is much higher when I'm watching PJ than at other times.

.

Fatal · January 2008

1998-08-20 Montreal Quebec Molson Centre

Set 1 Sometimes, Corduroy, Animal, Hail Hail, Brain Of J., Red Mosquito, Given To Fly, Even Flow, Not For You, Wishlist, Lukin, Jeremy, Daughter/(Another Brick In The Wall), Present Tense, State Of Love And Trust, Do The Evolution
Encore 1 Hard To Imagine, Better Man/(Save it for Later), Alive, Black, Leaving Here, Baba O'Riley
Encore 2 Yellow Ledbetter

Amazing show...the energy when Pearl Jam hit the stage was amazing! Hard to Imagine was a rare treat, and Black was just shattering.

Spunkie · January 2008

It seemed like pure luck to find a show in my town, shortly after becoming interested in the band. Again, I was lucky not to buy scalper tickets for the "Sold Out" show, as I was given excellent last minute seats sidestage.

There were some people having a love fest a rows in front of me. Probably some guy's fantasy of having oral during a PJ show. There was the possibility for other women to join in, as a couple woman servicing the man in the hat. It was hard to tell, really, as I couldn't unglue my eyes from the stage. It sent my blind date mad, though, and I had to stop listening to check up on him. Before the show, he had the bad manners to discuss his childhood molestation. I cut him off.

It was great seeing the band with the SuperSuckers. Ed sang with them, and I love the Supersuckers "gotta work, and gotta get paid" song. I enjoyed the "giving the bird" song, surprisingly.

Somewhere, a Waldo guy came up to the aisle and started mimicking my dance/sways. Security got rid of him.

I didn't recognize alot of the songs, so I am glad the set-list had some "Ten" hits. Singing along to "LBC" was alright. I was way offbeat, having had only heard the song once before. I loved that "Bee Girl" was presented by Jeff and Ed. Amazing gift.

I didn't know that PJ shows end with the lights up and "Ledbetter", so I left after second encore. (Crappy, I missed Teenage Wasteland.)

All in all, I'd have to say the boys gave me a pretty good ride. I was impressed and glad to see them in all their glory.

I'm getting pissed trying to type this at work, with all the interuptions. So to hell with it. Posting.

DiRtYyELLoWoCeAn · January 2008

9/28/04 = mindblowing!

pearljgirl2010 · January 2008

September 24, 1996
Merriweather Post Pavillion

what a wonderful beginning to my Pearl Jam Concert Career...

dontgimmenolip · January 2008

08/21/00 - Polaris Amphitheater: Columbus, OH
attendance: 20,000
support act: Sonic Youth

set: Breakerfall, Whipping, Spin The Black Circle, Hail Hail, Corduroy, In My Tree, Dissident, Given To Fly, Nothing As It Seems, Grievance, Light Years, Daughter/(Hold On)/(Androgynous Mind), Lukin, Wishlist, Off He Goes, (Romanza)/Better Man, State of Love and Trust, Insignificance, Rearviewmirror

enc 1: Present Tense, Last Exit, Once, Elderly Woman, Leatherman, Nothingman, Porch

enc 2: Last Kiss, Yellow Ledbetter

6th row from stage, center. Swear to the Zombie Jesus that Matt Cameron looked at me all bewildered when I started my power-pogo during Porch. This show was also bestowed with the Ape/Man logo on the official boot.

AndiM · January 2008

Berlin '06. What a beautiful night and what a venue. The show opening with Go, Save You, Animal and DTE drove the crowd crazy, a really good Black and so many other highlights I'm only able to appreciate in the aftermath as at the show actually I just freaked out

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The best thing (although they of course came back in 07): I would have almost missed the show as there was some misunderstanding with the local newspaper I worked for over the free time before first year of university. Had to sell my Vienna tickets on E-Bay and was really, really lucky to find a guy on the German facebook version who had got two cheap tickets and gave one of them away.

shell bell · January 2008

first concert 12/09/93. Mercer Street Arena
I wasn't even going to get tickets to this show (the lines were massive).But I got my ticket and it ROCKED!
Rearviewmirror
Improv
Whipping
Why Go
Deep
Dissident
Go
Animal
Jeremy
Garden
Blood
State of Love and Trust
Daughter(Golden Years)
Alive
Once
Last Exit
Glorified G
Porch
Indifference

Add this: This is the show that Ed pounded the hole in the stage at..

Wobbie · January 2008

11/30/93 - Aladdin Theater: Las Vegas, NV [90m]
attendance: 7,000
support act: Mudhoney
set: Even Flow, Once, Deep, Jeremy, Dissident, Daughter/(Instant Karma)/(Across the Universe), Go, Animal, State of Love and Trust, Tremor Christ, Black, Blood, Alive
enc 1: Rearviewmirror, Whipping, Leash, Porch/(Tearing)
enc 2: (Green River reunion): Swallow My Pride, Ain't Nothing to Do, My Way
notes: The show was originally scheduled for the Sands Hotel. 'Tremor Christ' premieres. An apparent Beatles tribute is the 'Daughter' outro, with a series of tunes ended with Ed whispering "Get Back" at the very end. In a near Green River reunion, Mudhoney's Mark McLaughlin and Steve Turner join PJ (with Urge Overkill's drummer, Chuck Treece) for 'Swallow My Pride' and 'Ain't Nothing to Do.' 'Swallow My Pride' and 'My Way' (written by Paul Anka, featuring Terry Presley, an Elvis impersonator assisting on vocals) are recorded to be released as one of the '95 fan club singles.

Oddly, it wasn't all that great. But, the girl I went with was not much of a fan. She is now my wife and has "seen the light!" So, it turned out OK.

pateljam · January 2008

2000-10-28 San Bernardino California Glen Helen Blockbuster

Set 1 Rearviewmirror, Go, Animal, State Of Love And Trust, Given To Fly, Grievance, Corduroy, Wishlist, Nothing As it Seems, Evacuation, Even Flow, Light Years, Daughter, Jeremy, Leatherman, Better Man, Nothingman, Spin The Black Circle, Porch
Encore 1 Breakerfall, Insignificance, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Crazy Mary, U, Do The Evolution
Encore 2 Yellow Ledbetter

prince119 · January 2008

Seattle
12/7/1993

Set 1 Go, Animal, Why Go, Deep, Jeremy, Glorified G, Daughter/(Golden Years)/(Across The Universe), Even Flow, State Of Love And Trust, Black, Alive, Blood, Improv (Don't Touch Me There), Porch, Rearviewmirror, Whipping, Garden, Leash, Indifference

I have only a couple words..........it was magical, phenomenal, aggressive, perfect.

I remember that they were very very aggressive and at one point stopped the show at the start of RVM while Jeff jumped in the crowd for something. They also drug some kid up on stage and put all of Eddies clothes on him and sent him stage diving off to get every article of clothing ripped off of him.

This was the first show that I tried crowd surfing. During Black even so I was the total cliche. I would never do that again from that day on. Seemed stupid on the ground and was even stupider in the air.

Since then its been a hell of a ride.

PJPixie · January 2008

EMPIRE POLO GROUNDS
Indio, CA
NOVEMBER, 1993

Shoe the Shoeless show...........

how was it? your 1st Pearl Jam concert...

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