Set Lists

pearlhawk · July 2012

So in the fan review posts, and in various other posts etc., I have seen pictures of hand written set-lists by EV. Where are fans getting these pictures?

jsernyk · July 2012

Maybe you're seeing the ones from the PJ Twitter feed. They've been posting set lists and posters for each show, and you don't have to have a Twitter account to view them (I don't)

https://twitter.com/pearljam

Mamasan80 · July 2012

jsernyk wrote:

Maybe you're seeing the ones from the PJ Twitter feed. They've been posting set lists and posters for each show, and you don't have to have a Twitter account to view them (I don't)

https://twitter.com/pearljam

Those are not handwritten by EV. For the better part of the last 15 years, the setlists that go out to the crew and get taped to the stage are written by a member of the tour management (I'm 99.9 percent sure it's Dick Adams). Occassionally you'll get a setlist in Jeff's handwriting that makes it out, but the way it works is the band huddles around to figure out the set (usually with EV given final say), one of them writes it down (also usually EV), and then it's given to the management to transcribe and circulate.

At the average show, I would say there's about 20 photocopies floating around (5 for the band, a handful for the light and sound board crews, and 5-10 for the guitar techs and management crew.) Back in the 90's, I used to get Keith Wismar (former light board operator, now with Ben Harper) to give me his setlist all the time

Indifference71 · July 2012

Mamasan80 wrote:

Those are not handwritten by EV. For the better part of the last 15 years, the setlists that go out to the crew and get taped to the stage are written by a member of the tour management (I'm 99.9 percent sure it's Dick Adams). Occassionally you'll get a setlist in Jeff's handwriting that makes it out, but the way it works is the band huddles around to figure out the set (usually with EV given final say), one of them writes it down (also usually EV), and then it's given to the management to transcribe and circulate.

At the average show, I would say there's about 20 photocopies floating around (5 for the band, a handful for the light and sound board crews, and 5-10 for the guitar techs and management crew.) Back in the 90's, I used to get Keith Wismar (former light board operator, now with Ben Harper) to give me his setlist all the time

You really seem to be in the know on this. Surprising...I always assumed the set lists were EV's writing.

Mamasan80 · July 2012

Here is an old EV setlist from '95... http://fivehorizons.com/tour/95/setlist_redrocks1.gif

and one from '91 http://www.twofeetthick.com/style/image ... yricon.jpg

http://www.theuncool.com/wp-content/upl ... ilter1.jpg - the setlist on the left is a more current handwritten EV one.

One last one - this is what a Jeff setlist in '92 looked like http://www.twofeetthick.com/style/image ... -07-19.jpg

At some point in '95 it began to switch, and fully moved over by mid-'98. The setlists have been in the same handwriting ever since (which I assume to be tour manager Dick Adams.) I mean I guess it's entirely possible that Ed's handwriting got a lot clearer, but they certainly don't look like the same person could have written them to me!!!

jsernyk · July 2012

Mamasan80 wrote:

[Those are not handwritten by EV. For the better part of the last 15 years, the setlists that go out to the crew and get taped to the stage are written by a member of the tour management (I'm 99.9 percent sure it's Dick Adams).

This is true. Last summer I bought an EV solo setlist from pdalowsky and in one of his threads he had info explaining where the setlists come from etc. In this thread it was mentioned that while Ed usually writes his solo setlists he never does the PJ ones. They are given to a crew member (mentioned in the quote above) who writes them out for the roadies and techies.

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