Which bootlegs are you listening to right now?

boyo79 · February 2014

Venice '10

Given To Fly opens with Ed changing the lyrics to "Made it to Italia, had a smoke in a tree". Instellar Overdrive provides an interlude before going into Corduroy, the crowd making themselves heard on the intro. The feedback intro leading into World Wide Suicide seems extended and is pretty cool, I always like hearing this. Breath makes it's only appearance on the Euro tour and is very cool. Ed then speaks Italian introducing MFC but then plays the wrong intro! Breath, MFC, Even Flow and Present Tense is a pretty good run. Porch closes the main set.

The first encore begins with Red Mosquito. Ben Harper again joins the band for this, it's the last time the song is played on the Euro tour and probably the best of three times from this tour. Couple of errors by Ed in both Just Breathe and Arms Aloft and one of the guitars sounds off during the latter part of State Of Love And Trust. Jeremy closes the first encore.

Got Some opens the second encore and is followed by Once. Black is fantastic, absolutely mesmerizing and the best version of the tour after Berlin. Public Image is next and a complete contrast to Black; however I'm slowly warming to the song. Alive and Rockin' In The Free World close the show.

Some good moments, that run of Breath, MFC, Even Flow and Present Tense in particular for me. Remember listening to this boot a couple of years back and not really enjoying it. Enjoyed it alot more this time.

ThePedro · February 2014

Listening to Saskatoon 05, perth 03, philly 2 13

PJ_Soul · February 2014

Charlotte 2013. Lots of good shit, but Getaway and Sirens were a fucking nightmarish disaster, lol. I've never heard anything that terrible on a PJ boot before. :P

retropony · February 2014

PJ_Soul said:
Charlotte 2013. Lots of good shit, but Getaway and Sirens were a fucking nightmarish disaster, lol. I've never heard anything that terrible on a PJ boot before. :P

yeah, Sirens was butchered. I'll cut them some slack for Getaway though, since it was the first time live. I thought lightning bolt was pretty freakin fantastic.

Natashapearljamfan · February 2014

Sydney 11th March 1998

cutz · February 2014

The Rolling Stones-1972-Vancouver

Pap · February 2014

Hartford 2013

boyo79 · February 2014

Bilbao '13

Evolution opening the penultimate show of the Euro tour. Crowd are on form straightaway, can hear them singing away especially on "It's Evolution Baby!". Corduroy, Hail Hail and Why Go complete a high tempo start; Hail Hail making it's only appearance on the tour. Dissident makes a fairly rare appearance and Small Town completes a Vs back-to-back, both sounding good and Ed counting the Small Town intro in Spanish. Following Unthought Known and Even Flow, there is some banter between Ed and Mike over what guitar was playing during Even Flow. Ed goes on to talk about Paul Weller and then Joe Strummer before going into Arms Aloft. Ed's voice sounds completely shot during the early stages of Comatose and a particularly blistering Porch closes the main set.

Got Some and Amongst The Waves start the first encore and I quite enjoyed ATW at this point in a set. Rearviewmirror closes the encore. The second encore begins with a heartwarming version of Just Breathe. Ed then gets a guy from the crowd up onstage to sing on the next song. The guy, Daniel, does a sterling job singing the first verse of Daughter before Ed takes over. There is no tag on Daughter. Alive is the final song of the night and like the majority of the festival shows this tour is a short gig again but it's a pretty good one.

boyo79 · February 2014

Oeiras '10

Final stop on the Euro '10 tour and it's Release to open (first appearance on the tour too). Unusually, Small Town follows and then Why Go gets the tempo rising. The intro of Given To Fly is ruined by the guitar not being quite in tune, eventually Mike gets it right. Another Yield number follows; In Hiding. The only blot is Ed missing some lyrics midway through but its still great to hear this song live. During Nothingman and Daughter, Jeff's standup bass sounds fantastic. The songs themselves are good moments but the bass is a highlight. After Even Flow, the tempo is more chilled out with Just Breathe, Wishlist and Black. The crowd singing on Just Breathe is incredible, at times Ed's voice is nearly drowned out. Following Black, Glorified G makes it's only appearance on the tour. If Stone provides the groove for Glorified G, Jeff's bass provides the funk for Why Go. Both songs provide a good ending to a decent main set.

At the beginning of the first encore, Ed tells the crowd over the last 10 years the band either start or end their European tours in Portugal and he thinks they are the 'best singing crowd maybe even on the Planet'. The End starts the encore off and afterwards tells the crowd the band doesn't know the next song and he barely does but the crowd should and it was started 11 or so years ago. He then goes into an improv called 'Portugal Portugal'. It's a mixed encore with Public Image and The Fixer next and Betterman ends the encore; after the crowd sing the first part, Ed says "can't find a better crowd".

The second encore begins with Smile making it's only appearance on the tour. It's a good version, though I do wish they extend the outro live like on the album version. Once and Alive provide two parts of The Mamasan Trilogy. Yellow Ledbetter brings to an end a good show.