*** Pittsburgh Fanviews 6/23 Here ***

Vedderman23 wrote:

Did anyone else see the infant in the 3rd or 4th row on Mike's side. She was with her Mom and Dad and she had hearing protection on, but damn, that seems a little too young to be taken into a show. Maybe they thought it was cute though. :rolleyes:

Vedderman23 wrote:

Wasn't it the "we Belong Together" tag. I noticed him wiping his face afterwards too, kind of an emotional ending to the song.

wewerebutstones wrote:

I buy all the boots, but this one not up yet, what did Ed mean by that? Pitts not one of their fav cities? More Seattleites STILL WHINING About SB XL??
Lifelong Steelers fan here in Mass...

Christopher

hippiemom wrote:

During the tag, he sang "It's ok, I love you anyway" a couple of times ... not to the tune of "It's OK" or anything, but it was there.

Vedderman23 wrote:

Did anyone else see the infant in the 3rd or 4th row on Mike's side. She was with her Mom and Dad and she had hearing protection on, but damn, that seems a little too young to be taken into a show. Maybe they thought it was cute though. :rolleyes:

Qball wrote:

How was waiting on a friend? Anyone? Sounds like the Pittsburgh crowd was awesome unlike Ben Rothlesberger performance in the superbowl.(sorry I just had to get a shot in). Pittsburgh is a great city though I wouldnt put them in the Boston/Philly/NYC category just yet but they seem like they might be on my "the next, must go place to see a pearl jam show" list. Nice going Pitt.

hippiemom wrote:

Yeah, I got it in Cleveland this year Almost fainted, that was one I never even bothered to wish for! High point of the show for me, that's my favorite Daughter tag.

Peeps wrote:

before the concert

well, to start the day off, i told my boss not to expect much work outta me after 3pm. i finally left my office around 430ish. i was in wexford and a hop skip and a jump from 79 to 279 and i was at mellon arena around 5ish.

i was meeting my brother who works in the US Steel building, the tallest building between NY and Chitown. as an aside note, the elevator made me really dizzy, as it was flying and i got really lightheaded for a minute.

we had plenty of time to kill, so we went to a little pizza joint through the alley and ordered a small with 1/2 cheese and 1/2 pepperoni. only cost about 15 with drinks and tip. went back to his office where i had to sign in as a guest and they had to record my drivers license info.

i had talked to shits and sara on the phone, and i was informed that shits really had to pee, so sara had to talk to me. i asked her what she was wearing, and there was an awkward silence for a second until she proceeded to tell me what she was wearing.

we then went to eides entertainment which is basically an indie record store/comic book store. i saw so many toys and comics that i had when i was little, and they were selling for 100 a piece, i almost puked.

so by this time its almost 7pm and thats the time im supposed to meet up with the freaks from erie, so i call to see where they are and if they are indeed here, but i get no answer. i am a little worried that theres no answer because shits is selling a gal i used to work with tickets, and id hate to get bitched at for something i have little to no control over.

we walk over to mellon from the chatam center, where i sell my extra ticket for $30. as we stand there, i realise every single woman in the sw pa area who should not be wearing a belly shirt or showing whale tail, is doing just that. i almost swore off women when i look to my left and see to rays of sunshine coming from chatam center.

the first has a goofy smile on her face and i can see her mouthing the words " i want to fuck you" or " is that him?" im not sure, im a little confused on this. an lo-n-behold it is kelly and sara. it was semi awkward at this point but hugs were exchanged and we all did manual stimulation to each other.

i introduced them to my brother and then we went up to the ticket doors. me and my brother already had our tickets and the two dames had to go to a different entrance for theirs. the security guy frisks me but fails to notice the digi cam in my front pocket. the funny thing is, where he did pat me down is where i thought about putting my camera.

im too lazy to go back and edit, but on my way to my brothers office i did call NothingFan (Josh) and was like, hey josh, its jerry. hes like who, and i say, Peeps. oh hey is his reply. i ask where they are at and he tells me and i tell him ill try to make it over there, but not sure. i didnt really feel like meeting up with a bunch of people, and if frick and frack didnt show up when they did, we were heading in and going to our seats.

i get in line to buy a shirt/poster, when the hoodie i inquired about was only a small left. i ended up buying the blue avacodo, which i might add, is misprinted with the last city being spelled George. i go to another setup and they have the navy blue hoodie in my size and i buy a poster, so far thats a whopping $100 spent. a little more than i wanted to after the week i had financially, but oh well.

we get to our seats and luckily we are the last row in c10, row l i believe, seats 3 and 4 ( i sold ticket # 5). the numbers start with 3, so we are pretty well set as in not having too many weirdo/strangers near us.

on with the concert

the opening act was Meh. i dont know the guys name, but he seemed like to me an oldie, like frankie vallie oldie. he kept the songs short, and some of em were ok, but i swear every song i heard him announce was a cover of someone he helped write a song for in 1963. he also seemed to force his movements, like he watched daltry/roth/tyler/plant and said, ok, at this point i have to do this, and now that, leading into this.

at one point he did mention he needed a cigarette, and eddie came running from the back to hand him one. thankfully he wasnt on all night and it was break time.

Release opens the show and im blown away, it just sounds so great live and the emotion is just dripping like water from a sponge. normally i dont like newer songs off of the albums until i hear them live then i get an appreciation for them, and Life Wasted/severed hand is no different. i didnt really know the lyrics to most of the avacado songs, but they did sound really good live. Corduroy was next and i love that they played this. such a great song from a great album and it just kicks alot of ass live. Do The Evolution wasnt one of my faves off of yield, but live produces so much more energy and emotion than the album can dare hope to achieve.Dissident is possibly one of my least favorite songs, but live it is tolerable to me. and even though everyone bitches it gets played too much Even Flow is still mikes baby to play, and i hope they play it ever stop so that someone knew can see just how great mike is and they emotion he puts into his guitar.

Marker In The Sand, like the others, is better live than on the album (which i think i have listened to 3 times total) so i may still be a bit bias. In Hiding was my second time hearing it live, the last time being 2003 at the same venue, and this time around it sounded so much tighter, amazing what a little practice will do huh? Better Man my second case of major goosebumps. i cant even imagine what it is like to be the band and here how every single member of the audience sings the begining, like even flow i hope they play this every stop. Daughter (With My Own Two Hands tag), like betterman, gets sung in the begining by the audience, but its almost like we mail it in, after being spent singing betterman. i almost thought they were going to do It's OK, which if they would have, i woulda pulled my cock out and beat off right there.

Garden, for some reason didnt hit me right away, about half way through i realised what song it was. I Got Shit is always a crowd pleaser, especially when everyone sings fuck. State Of Love & Trust, to me, almost rivaled the unplug version. mike was on fire along with matt and stone and jeff and even boom. Inside Job was so so to me, the only couple of songs that i do like on Avacado are wws, gone and parachutes which leads to World Wide Suicide while alot of energy is burned playing this song, i like the album version slighty better. Porch sounded really good and was a good pick to end the main set.

Wasted Reprise had just ed and boom, in blue light, and of the short intro/outros they play from time to time, sounded the best that i have heard. Man Of The Hour was the third goosebumper of the night, and how anyone can not almost be brought to tears by this song if you have a strained relationship with your father, well, you have no heart. at this point i figured they were going to do an all accoustic/slow encore, and a cover of the stones Waiting On A Friend didnt dissappoint. as the song played live, i could see the video in my head (yes im THAT old). Small Town was decent enough followed by crowd favorites Black and Alive. for as much as it seems people hate TEN on this board it sure does gets its love on tour, with very solid renditions.

Go, Why Go, Comatose, Smile, the first three songs went kinda fast to me. while i enjoyed hearing them live, they arent on my gee i hope i hear it live list. then i hear the harmoica and start to dream a bit that its smile. i want to say that jeff and stone switched instruments on this one and i must say, jeff more than held his own, as did stone.

next the lights come on and ed tells stone to take it away. as they are playing it, ed bust i dont know, 6 or 8 tambourines and is tossing them into the crowd and near the end my brother says, so you think its time to leave. i look at my phone and its only like 1125. i say no, mike is going to bust a nut on YLB, and sure enough, ed says mike wants to say thank you. as much as i love this song, its tough on me, cause i have no fucking clue what the lyrics will be this time, but to hear mike just go nuts on it makes up for it. he also tagged the star spangled banner on the end and that was it.

some highlights from the concert not really musicall related.

- our usher did some wicked magic on my brother with a 1 and 5 dollar bill. still scratching my head on that one

- the steps leading down from d10 had something on them, cause i kid you not, probably 6 or more people wiped out at the bottom, with one kid sounding like bobkat goldthwait in police acadamey. as he falls, he hollars out, that didnt hurt that didnt hurt. buddy, you just fell backwards on cement stairs, it hurt

- ed states how they have been allover the world and pittsburgh is not their favorite place to be, at which point a chant of here we go steelers trys to take off from section d10 and c10. pretty sure that failed. he then goes on to say how it is their top 3 places to play at since the crowd is always so energetic. he said it was ok to throw stuff at him befoe he announced it was one of their favorite places to play, and all i could think of was shit, we have another quarter rant shortly people were throwing shit on the stage at him when he said cigarettes and joints at him. he says how he needs a lighter now, and three or twenty were launched around him. he says, who in the fuck smokes marborlo menthol, you fucking pussies

- ed says how he wants to talk about voting but doesnt want to be too preachy about it with politics. so he tells everyone to vote for jason bay since the MLB all star game is in pittsburgh this year and that bay is currently in 3rd place

- shits and sara with no h. i saw sara and was like, i cant believe i type some of the things i do to her. she looks so fucking innocent thats its not even funny. and shitz, well, shes shitz, i never saw her without alcohol in her hand, and she did let me know she had to go take a piss.

- ed wiped out trying to throw his tamborine to the girl in green to the left of the stage

thats it kids, take or leave it

wewerebutstones wrote:

I buy all the boots, but this one not up yet, what did Ed mean by that? Pitts not one of their fav cities? More Seattleites STILL WHINING About SB XL??
Lifelong Steelers fan here in Mass...

Christopher