**Saskatoon Fanviews Here**

I have been to Saskatoon/Edmonton/Calagry/Vancouver...heres I deduce everything..the Saskatoon show was a quiet one but the setlist was incredible....overall a great show IMHO...my seats 7th row on floor were so good that this was my favorite show on the tour but followed by a half an inch by Calgary (which had the BEST crowd of the shows I seen)...

L0VeB0ATCApTA1N wrote:

I must have been right beside you dude, 7th row dead center also! Were u the guy in the green tee?

Anyway the show was absolulutely awesome! The crowd needed some encouragement but Pearl Jam were in great form for this show! Footsteps was very well done! Porch started out great, I don't know if they have done this before or not, but it started out with a western feel and then ramped up from there. I would definately suggest ppl buy this boot, the set was incredible!

The show was incredible, and any hardcore jammers would have loved to be at this show...but unfortunatly there were crickets in the background...

Thats the thing...I did have a green tee....I was in seat 18....yourself?...anyhow yeah the crowd was lack lustre..but I expected that from the show...anyhow I really enjoyed it for a pure musical experience...I think so far the best set of the Canadian tour....

twolegsyield wrote:

what does that mean?

Pretty sure it means the crowd was quite. You know....so quite you could hear the crickets?


Anyway, the set looks awesome. I've yet to hear from my buddy that was at the show to get his view on it but I'm sure he had a blast.

I've been to about 18 differnent concerts in my 26 years but there has always been one band left to see.
In all honesty, PJ was increadible last night. Words can not express what I was feeling during the whole show. Best concert ever!!
I said that people were going to be surprised with the crowd in SK and I know that the boys were.
The boot of this show is IMO the best one yet, but I may be a bit biased..

THANK YOU PEARL JAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s the day after and I honestly woke up feeling like I had some great epiphany or clarity of mind. Like when it feels as though you’re waiting in limbo for some great occurrence to change your whole concept of things (in this case live music) and when it happens you know that this is the moment that you will judge all things against. Everything leading up to that moment and every moment after. This is the closest I have been to putting last night into words. I’ve been to a lot of concerts in my life and what I saw last night was inspiring. PJ were on stage for almost three hours, 27 songs, with no big screens or over the top theatrics. It was rock in it’s greatest and purest form. After 3 encores, the place was still packed and no-one wanted to leave. To end the second encore they played Alive, my fav, and after already playing for over 2 hours Matt McCready entered into probably the greatest solo I have ever heard live. I don’t think that Eddie Vedder could even believe it. There was a point where I felt so overwhelmed and overjoyed, you know, when you realize you’re in a “perfect moment”, that I thought the tears were gonna come. 12 years was a long time to wait. When it comes your turn I hope you have find that same kinda moment.

Oh and Footsteps, once again, kicked some serious ass...

ok, I was at the Vancouver show and it was amazing...but you lucky Saskatooners got Off He goes AND Glorified G??? my two favorite Pearl Jam songs...

johnnycarwash2 wrote:

.....um, don`t you mean " Mike" McCready entered into probably the greatest solo.....?.....But that`s understandable.....it sounds like it was an unbelievable night.....

was it ever, i seriously never wanted it to end there is so much energy from that band it is awesomeness, and the light show was amazing to!
And a sing along on even flow? That was fuckin amazing!

Great concert last night, from the floor 8th row. I've only seen them once before in Fargo, ND, this blew that concert out of the water.

The crowd was very quiet to start with, probably 3/4 of the people weren't in there seats for the Supersuckers which is too bad, because they put on a good show. They are just one of those bands that are so comfortable in their own skin - don't care what anyone thinks, that they get up there and rock out. Eddie was great at getting the crowd into it (what crowd there was).

There was a pretty long break in between and i think that caught a lot of people by surprise. Because there are so few big concerts that come through Saskatoon, most people probably didn't realize there's no warning. When PJ hit the stage the crowd was pretty quiet, again most probably getting to their seats. I'm not sure at what point it changed, but like one of the reviews i heard today, it was almost when the cameras went off after Given to Fly that PJ seemed to loosen up. It was almost as if they were uptight when being videotaped. After they started joking around a bit on stage and enjoying themselves. I think that kind of brought the crowd into it and got the noise level up.

At one point Eddie had to stifle a laugh in the middle of a song (don't recall which one) when someone in about the 3rd row unfurled a huge Sask Riders flag. Mike had a little something going with someone too, i couldn't quite see what was going on, but a "t-shirt trade" took place with, I'm assuming a woman. He was chuckling about it and i guess she kept bugging him and at one point i saw him look over and shake his head no. Then he flashed his wedding ring with a big smile so I can imagine what was asked of him. Pretty funny. Mike really looked like he was having a great time, cracking a huge smile a number of times. Eddie coming into the crowd a couple rows was a bit of a surprise i think and falling back to crowd surf back on stage (if only for a couple of rows) was pretty cool. He went kind of nuts with the tambourines, pretty funny when he rammed the one over his head and then chucked it out in the crowd.

I must say way more energy than the Fargo show, the band seemed so relaxed and to be enjoying themselves so much. I would believe they were a little dissapointed about the crowd reaction to start with, but i think when they started rolling the crowd got into it and PJ probably left pretty surprised. Amazing concert, and Corduroy and I Got Shit on the set list, this is a great bootleg to pick up.


If anyone else at the show wants to trade pics, i've got a few decent ones taken with a pretty good qual. dig camera. Big screw up though and we forgot to charge the batteries before so only about 1/2 dozen pics turned out from the first 3/4 of the show.





Edit - oh & at the risk of looking like i'm sticking up for 'toon, that is a big venue to play (must be 15,000 seats) and a pretty small draw area. Still no excuse, but....probably lots realizing they should have been there after reading/hearing about it today! Suckers!

Well, as everyone previously has said .. Pearl Jam absolutely destroyed Credit Union Centre.

Since I'm not disagreeing with much from above, I'll just add stuff that I don't think has been mentioned:

- Supersuckers having every single member of their band play the bass guitar, too cool. Even the drummer getting into the act, drumming and strumming while the Eddie Spaghetti held the chords.

- Eddie saying that Saskatoon "has a magical name .. Saskatoon" and then going about saying how "when I heard it I thought we'd be playing a campfire" .. which I thought completely set the tone for many songs to come. I didn't notice it in the setlist, but "Elderly Woman behind the counter in a small town" was played and definitely a highlight as well.

- I could be mistaken, but I think they played a Temple of the Dog track "Times of Trouble". When it started off with it's characteristic riff, me and a friend were so stoked we couldn't believe it, and started singing "When the needle's hot" and then we realized the lyrics were different! Anyone that could provide a heads-up, thanks in advance.

- "Glorified G" & "Off he goes" were definitely highlights.

- "Runnin' back to Saskatoon"/"New Mother Nature" with the revised lyrics about the President was too amazing, even though they only went about halfway through.

- I'm not sure if being on the floor had anything to do with it, but I was in Section U and about 8th row, and looking around I noticed a shitload of people getting into it. I was belting out the lyrics myself to most songs, and I could hear a ton of people doing the same. I think Saskatoon showed up in fine form and it should make for a great boot. It sure looked like Eddie and the bunch were truly feeding off the crowd, and were there to play their asses off for us! That's what I liked to see!
I'd love to see the video footage!