7 years ago today, GRAND RAPIDS!!

pureoc
pureoc Posts: 2,384
edited May 2013 in The Porch
VAN ANDEL ARENA
Grand Rapids, MI
Fri 19 May, 2006


SET 1
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Given To Fly
World Wide Suicide
Life Wasted
Severed Hand
Sad
Marker In The Sand
Red Mosquito
Even Flow
Love Boat Captain
Corduroy
Daughter
Blitzkrieg Bop
I Believe In Miracles
Army Reserve
Green Disease
Why Go
Inside Job
Rearviewmirror
ENCORE 1
Sleight Of Hand
Off He Goes
Around The Bend
Parting Ways
Hard To Imagine
Crazy Mary
Alive


ENCORE 2
Do The Evolution
Comatose
Satan's Bed
Leatherman
Blood
Baba O'Riley
Yellow Ledbetter


PRE-OPENER
Dead Man Walking
Can't Explain


Went to the two awesome Chicago shows 2 and 3 nights earlier, wasn't sure I wanted to make the long trip. SOOOO glad I did, 10th row seats!! Great great out of the blue show (ed pre set, red mosquito, the ENTIRE 1st encore was unreal and satans bed).
Alpine Valley 6/26/98, Alpine Valley 10/8/00, Champaign 4/23/03, Chicago 6/18/03, Alpine Valley 6/21/03, Grand Rapids 10/3/04
Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, Grand Rapids 5/19/06
Milwaukee 6/29/06, Milwaukee 6/30/06, Lollapalooza 8/5/07
Eddie Solo Milwaukee 8/19/08, Toronto 8/21/09, Chicago 8/23/09
Chicago 8/24/09, Indianapolis 5/7/10, Ed Chicago 6/29/11, Alpine Valley 9/3/11 and 9/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Moline 10/18/14, Milwaukee 10/20/14
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  • shetellsherself
    shetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    It's a great bootleg. Awesome that you were there! Grand Rapids, who knew? :D
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  • BIGDaddyWil
    BIGDaddyWil Michigan Posts: 3,100
    Wow! I can't believe it's been seven years. Fantastic show, and it was on Pete Townsend's birthday. The crowd was awesome! I'm really hoping that Pearl Jam returns to Michigan soon!
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  • adusick
    adusick Posts: 1,389
    My thoughts exactly...wasn't so sure on this show, coming off 2 nights in Chicago, but it was the best of the ENTIRE tour, period. The crowd energy was so damn awesome! I remember this was the first PJ show my buddy and I decided to drink at beforehand haha, and My Morning Jacket got everyone pumped up. I heard rumors of a Ten Club seating mixup, so there was a lot of fresh blood up front - just seemed like a looser, more fun-loving vibe. "The Experiment", with Ed clarifying "There's a difference between experimenting with you, and fucking with you."

    Another fun fact, and one of my favorite PJ moments - my buddy and I both held up signs for Satan's Bed, and sure enough, Ed saw us, runs over to Stone and switches up the setlist on the spot for us. Thus the "I think we may be fucking with you again, sorry!" I'll never forget that.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9FDFQd4pQ

    This show tops any I've been to, including Alpine '03, Amsterdam and Berlin '12, PJ20 - just a special show and a feeling that was unreal.
  • Bryant
    Bryant Posts: 139
    Well said. I was very lucky...I had 2nd row seats ( Mikes side) for this show. The energy was crazy. One of the best shows I have seen. I like how they fucked up the opener....then they just went nuts the rest of the night.

    So good....the bootleg does not do this show justice. This was a show that you had to be there. One they played Blood!!! Damn so fucking good
  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    Like a marathon. I was exhausted afterwards.
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,343
    3rd row center. Probably the best PJ show I have ever attended or heard on bootleg.
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  • primussucks
    primussucks Posts: 2,365
    Was definately a great show! Wasn't this like the first time they had played Satans Bed in several years? I loved how they pretty much threw out the setlist and just winged it! The band definately fed off the crowd that show.
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    Champaign 4/23/03
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    Missoula 8/29/05
    Chicago 5/16 & 17/06
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  • ereeper1
    ereeper1 Posts: 233
    The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald :corn:
  • nippleholic
    nippleholic Toronto Posts: 1,085
    bump - 8 years ago now!

    I think I got around 10th row due to the 10C ticket mix-up and ended up getting one of Matt's drumsticks that he threw into the crowd at the end (rolled under my seat and I had fend off like ten people lol).

    Still ranks up there with the best shows I've seen!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fLoibcMGUM
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  • EJE201
    EJE201 Mason, MI Posts: 321
    edited May 2014
    I too got a drumstick up in the wing seats. My buddy stuffed it under his shirt because he thought for sure someone would try to steal it. 8-} One hell of a show. Lets hope they remember how much fun Michigan was and come back this fall.
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  • coco butter
    coco butter Posts: 1,512
    One of my favorites! If you would have told me that the Grand Rapids show would kill both of the Chicago shows a few days earlier I would have said you're crazy. Still have the poster framed in my basement!
    Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. Sorry, Ted, that's a dumb question... skip that.
  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    Who knew? Cheers to Grand Rapids 2014!!!!
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,458
    I love this show. Haven't been there, but when my hubs told me he was there and we played the show, I noticed that lots of my fave versions that I had put in playlists came from it. Please PJ, come back to Michigan!
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  • gettingright
    gettingright Posts: 550
    The energy that night was unbelievable. So glad I was there.
    "...what a different life had i not found this love with you..."

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