*** Zagreb Fanviews Here 26/09 ***

Thank God that we finally had a chance to see such a great band in our city.
In fact Pearl Jam is one of the best live bands ever and I have seen many bands live in many different countries/cities (for me only U2 can mach with Pearl Jam).

We had a big expectations and the band did not disappointed us at all. They played many greatest hits as well some rarities. The audience was an amazing, loud and full of emotions. It was one of the best and loudest crowds I ever heard. I am glad that rock music is still alive in my city and it definitely has a many supporters/followers. There were many people from other cities in Croatia and from the neighbouring countries.

I could say that a whole concert was a highlight for me, but people just liked some songs more. One of the strongest performances was Black, full of emotions and a massive singalong. It is definitely of one of the best songs ever. I felt goosebumps and chills during that song and my friends had a similar reactions (as well as with songs like Better Man, Alive, Given To Fly, Jeremy, Severed Hands or many other songs).

Opening with a Severed Hands was really good and audience was jumping and moshing all the time. Corduroy and Hail Hail were so powerful as the next songs.

I need to say that the audience in the stands was singing and jumping all the time and nobody was sitting at all, like I have seen in many other countries in different concerts (even in Italy). It is a rock concert after all and not a play or a movie.

I do not want to describe every song, it would take a many space and time.
People really liked all songs from Ten: Black one of the highlights of the concert, during Even Flow jumping and moshing all around, Jeremy-emotions and singalong, Porch-energy and jumping, Alive massive singalong and as always one of the highlights of any Pearl Jam concert, it is like a anthem of our generations, many people can identified themselves with that song. Alive is probably the best known Pearl Jam song with a great intro and excellent solo and outro. I just can get enough of that song.

There is one song that I particularly wanted to hear live-Given To fly and I did. That is such a great song. Intro is amazing and crescendo as well.

World Wide Suicide was excellent and the audience had a great response.
Thin Air was the best part of an acoustic set/jamming for me and it is strange that the band played that song so rarely.

Rockin¨ In The Free World was a phenomenal cover (Neil Young rules) as always and closing with YellowLed better meant that this extraordinary concert was over.

It was a long set and we were totally satisfied, but I thought that they will play Inside Job, State of Love And Trust, Rearviewmirror or Immortality, but I heard that songs before (except Inside Job), so it was O.K.

Eddie was in a great mood as well as other band members. He spoke really good Croatian.

This is the my 3rd Pearl Jam concert and it was definitely the best! The audience rocked!

I will definitely download this concert.

Thanks for reading my long review.

ed said it was the best show on the tour

the best fucking band in the world!!!

vedran wrote:

OK, i'll just copy/paste this from the other Zagreb thread i posted in. hope u don't mind:

What a night, what a night, what a night.
What a show, what a show, what a show.

That's all I can say.

I haven't seen much Pearl Jam shows, this was my third, but I've seen everything, form BB King through ZZ TOP to Franz Ferdinand.This was best show ever. And I'm not even a die hard Peral Jam fan.

Thank you boys. Thank you very much. Please do come back sometime....

P.S
I was SO glad, as a citizen of Croatia, and as a Croat - if you will, to see so many people form all around the world. Scandinavia, New Zealand, Ireland, Britain... USA...
And especially I was happy to see so many ex Yugoslavs at the show. I was in the company of some Bosnians, but I've noticed Serbians to... And I've noticed a Macedonian flag...
Hope you all had a great time! Peace!!!

PhotoGallery:
http://www.vecernji-list.hr/newsroom/scena/640793/showPhotoSerie.do

AMAZING pictures! among the best i've seen. great camera work, thanks so much for sharing.

muiz wrote:

I am arriving in Zagreb tomorrow to start off my vacation. When I saw Pearl jam was plying there on the 26th, I almost decided to go 2 days sooner...Seeing the playlist now I'm really sorry I didn't.
Luckely I saw them in Arnhem a few weeks ago....

And to all you Zagreb people...Are there some good bars to visit in Zagreb?
I'll be staying there for 2 days...so advise is welcome!

You should go to topic Pearl Jam in Belgrade (Porch). There are quite a few Croats there that are great guys&girls and they could give you some good advice. Enjoy zagreb, it is a great city!

All or none...

I hate you all.

No other Pearl Jam song moves me so
(ok maybe quite a few come close)

OMG!!!
There are NO words to describe guys.
Pearl Jam in MY country playing for the first time. Look at the stlist. OMG. i stil cannot believe last night.

A few highlights, A FEW for now. Unemployable and In Hiding in a row...OMG, Sid crying so hard, i was soooo overwhelmed. Happy to see them and 2 of my fav songs played in a row... :eek:

Then, Porch, Army Reserve, OMG...what to say, what to say. Eddie speaking Croatian. hes awesome btw, like hes been here for ages No, seriously.
Betterman: all of us singing the first verse and more..couldnt believe my eyes, ears.. Seriously

And then...Croatian flag. Guys, it was MY flag, the one I had with me 3 times in the US, at camp, above my bed...all of my friends, croatian fans signed it, had it for the rest of italian shows and then i bought another one so I could have it for Prague and so on...
So the flag he put on the monitors was MINE...OMG!!! I just had my eyes and mouth open trying to say sth..couldnt! haha
the flag ended up on stage in Vienna btw, my friends threw it, and i wasnt sure if hes gonna bring it for Zagreb, soI threw my other flag to Mike after the man himself said its OK to thow it. hehe, and then::::Eddie puts my flag on the stage in the second (i think) encore...
Ok. Thats prolly when I thought I was dreaming. I just hope the stupid sec guy gave it back after it fell off the stage.., he took it with him on the side of the stage somewhere, but at least they got the one Mike has (it says Croatia and you make me SMILE) hehe.

Plus the rest of the setlist...Acoustic set... Come on. All or None. I had a THANK YOU sign and held it up and Mike just said: No, Thank YOU! Oh wow.
Thumbing my way...oh wow. cant even say the words...when they played the acoustic set...THANK YOU PEARL JAM! WE LOVE YOU!!!

Oh yeah, one more thing, till I break (but I WILL post again about this, hehe), Hail HAIL. OMG!!! So happy I got to hear some No Code in ZG and some previous shows!

Talk to you all later, Ill post pics, got some great ones (hey, Mike/Ed front row ).
Now Gitta and I gotta go eat some pancakes

Black-Red-Yellow wrote:

Stian won´t go to athens.he´s on his way back home.The uke from that South African fellow is still on the bus.Rob´s taking it to London.Didn´t work out to pass it on to ed.:(

Hey Gitta,

Already being tired of the bus ? I bet you guys had a wonderful time...man, the last concert in Athens. Have fun!

PS Can I get some of the Arnhem pix? You had 1 beautiful picture of Mike!

Theo.

Black-Red-Yellow wrote:

I´m the only one not being tired yet.I will probbably not being able to sleep without having the engine running all the time.
Don´t worry about the pix. I uploaded them all onto Pin´s notebook.We will post them somewhere. Not sure where tho. Maybe on the blog.We´ll see.

We missed ya

Ooohhhh, I can't wait to see them...yeah, great time at the ETB. Maybe a reunion next time?

Nice pictures. I especially like the one with the written speech..kind of funny..and interesting looks like he remembered how to pronounce Ž but not Š Where did you get that?
Mine (from my friend actually) are in the topic I shook hands with eddie (desire a picture)...

WOW, great photos, thanks for sharing elcielo!
Yesterday was just a perfect night, I won't get into details 'cause everything's been said already, no point in repeating...
But: DO THE EVOLUTION!
Oh man, I just can't help it, love that song to death, and the performance was simply incredible. I think I was actually flying at one point during that song (got the bruises to prove it, heh). The Vienna show was great, but if I have to choose a boot from these two THE answer is easy: This is a MUST HAVE!!