***Sydney Fanviews Here 7/11/06***

weatherface wrote:

Hi,

Minor disappointment was that I felt the setlist was a little conservative -

I dunno, you got 2 hours in which to fit what are we now... 8 studio albums not counting the two cds of B-Sides on lost dogs as well as several other unreleased tracks, covers etc.

To keep everyone happy they'd have to be playing for over eight and a half hours of music.

In 2003 I got tickets to 2 shows because I knew I wasnt going to hear every song I wanted to, and those 2 shows covered most of what I wanted to hear.

This year I am going to 3... 6 hours of live Pearl Jam should cover it!

Telomere wrote:

This band is incredible. Every show seems to be better than the last. The set list apeared to be a good warm up for the tour (lots of classics, up tempo material). I guess I expected it for the first night in Oz.

Yeah wasn't quite sure what to expect. Sydney has usually been a few shows into the tour. Not to mention they have had a month off (apart from the couple of Bridge School benefit gigs).

They were very tight.

I was a little dissappointed with RVM.. was expecting the usual Jam session.

Even Flow More than Made up for it

wow wow wow.

got to hombush about 5.30pm and went straight to the 10 club ticket window. was almost shaking opening up the envelope and was stocked to see 3rd row tickets infront of mike staring back at me (10club number 188xxx)! picked up a poster - great poster by the way - king kong atop of the centre point tower with sydney in the back ground. i love it when they do something city centric. also just a note on that the poster said 1 of 12 and had 7th Nov 06 on it..... could we be getting a different poster for each night......? i guess i'll find out tonight!

KOL were great. arena wasnt that full for them - ridiculously you cant take a beer to your seat in that place even if it is in a plastic cup so there were plenty of people outside drinking their beers! we were sitting next to a canadian couple (i asked where in america they were from.... sorry..... like calling an aussie a kiwi!) who had got engaged at the hamilton canada show and were on their honeymoon - Pearl Jam making love happen all over the world!

Saw the set list go past up to the sound board so knew release was opening - chills - it was amazing.
the rest of the main set flew by so fast - highlights included i got shit, marker in the sand, daughter, tag of WMA and a really good call and response that ed seemed very impressed with, and of course DTE which i can just not get enough of live!

Encores were great. loved that they came out and sat down. gone is amazing and nothingman.... well i can die happy!

i was at the 3 sydney shows in 03 and this surpassed them all. not sure if it is the fact that it's the end of the tour and not the start or whether the band is just in a better place now than back then, but they seemed to be genuinly having fun last night. i even saw stone smile and rocking out!

observations - ed was drinking tea at the beginning and spitting/blowing his nose in a towel a bit. he discarded the tea for wine by about the 4th song though. hope that throat of his is alright!
mike is just such an entertainer. as someone who grew up idolising mr vedder i found myself watching mike most of the night. perhaps because i was right in front of him... but how about how he points people out all night and really interacts with the crowd - makes you feel special - i know it sounds silly but thats the truth!
ed seemed pretty chatty tonight. loved the mistake in greivance and the little "im sorry that is the first mistake i have ever made. i think we should all just move on" speach! too funny.

now onto tonight and the 2nd of 7. i must admit i left last night wondering how they will top that tonight.... but that fear quickly left when i remembered what band this was.... it's pearl jam people and every night you get to see them live is an absolute treat regardless of set list/time on stage!

wasn't evenflow on the setlist? i checked the list and its not on there.
highlights were go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! small town, gone, nothingman, release, black, man of the hour.

crowd was great i thought. better than the sydney 03 shows - could have something to do with 6000 more people!
lots of singing/clapping. good call response in daughter, singing on nothingman, elderly woman and betterman.
i was down the front and that was obviously going off but when i looked around most people seemed to be on their feet in the stand and rocking out.
in RITFW with the house lights on there was some great hands in the air clapping that looked awesome from the floor! ed seemed impressed too!

innane wrote:

one....no YEAHS during alive solo
two...no DO DO DO DO DO during black outro

I dont know where you were sitting but up the front both these things were happening.

12 hours later....

Firstly, thanks to the 10C and the 10C members for making this one memorable. Row 10 made it feel really intimate for such a large venue.

Easily the best Australian show I've been to, great setlist and great Crowd participation. I left thinking it might have just been the 10C section is what made it feel that way, but as I've been reading the other reviews it seems like the energy was ALL through the room.

For those doubting the crowd involvment, i'd point them to the instrumental break in Daughter before the WMA tag. From the floor, it sound like every set of hands in the Arena were clapping in unison with Matt's snare hit. Enough to drown out Matt's snare hit!! Fantastic!

One of the stand out memories I've got is of Jeff in the low solid stance playing the 8-string Hamer in Why Go. It was almost identical to the ad for SWR amps back in the early 90's.

There's loads more I could go on about, but most of it has already been said.

See you all tonight.

What an incredible night. My first pearl jam show which I've been awaiting for a few years now.

I was a bit worried about the crowd participation, as I had read that in the Riot Act tour it had been quite bad. But straight away I stopped worrying as the crowd was going insane.

Kings of Leon were suprisingly good, I went in with low expectaitons, and was quite suprised at how rad they were.

Release is a tied first for opening with Long Road, so I was stoked to hear those opening notes. Other highlights include Given to Fly, Black, Man of the Hour, Nothingman, Daughter and basically every other song.

Kinda sad that I'm not going tonight, but I guess I'll just have to be satasfied with going on the 18th.

Hoorah!

3rd time I've seen them last night (still yet to hear Yellow ledbetter, bring it on tonight or Nov 18!!) Fantastic show, the best I've been to yet (admittedly the firt time i had 10 Club tickets - 3rd row!! Thank you Pearl Jam!!!).

Only gripe was the guitar lead breaks were very soft from where I was sitting, had great difficulty hearing either Mike or Stone cut loose at different points in the show.

Apart from that. everything was fan-fucking-tastic. Is Mike's behavior a standard at PJ shows? I've never seen him so animated on any DVD's or recall that much goofiness (in a good way) in '98 or '03. Maybe some 'herbal assistance' has been partaken?

Anyway, back tonight, up the back this time, no fan club tickets :(

Bring on yellow Ledbetter and Comatose!

please i hope they bash out life wasted tonight, every thing evry one is saying is so true, that song can be taken on so many levels-just like all pj's stuff- but for personally, as these songs are gifts from them to us to ponder reflect and inspire, it is about the five sense reality prison we are indoctrinated into, i have woken up, to a life wasted chasing the shit 'they' make us believe is important, but the truth is the only truth is infinate love, every thing else- and i mean everything,- is illusion, see you all tonight.