**Winnipeg Fanviews Here**

cellophane_star wrote:

I am so jealous that Winnipeg got In My Tree!

Does anyone have a picture of the show poster, perhaps? I'm obsessed with them now.

Yeah, it's rad too.

Winnipeg got spoiled


xox Alternagirl

mypresenttense wrote:

They saw the sign in Saskatoon and played "in my tree" in winnipeg. They did the same thing with our "I got shit" sign. Saw it in Edmonton and played it in Toon town. Man, great show, great crowd. What was up with the small bathrooms though. LOL. Sorry for the guys that got pissy behind me about the sign. Ciao.
Evan
P.S. I can't believe I made it from Winnipeg to Saskatoon after the show. What a drive. My tour is done for the year, damn. Anyway, enjoy you guys.

hey, i was the girl across from(green tank) you also very excited about in my tree, glad you held up the sign! my brother got a hug from eddie!
Tye

tyemarie wrote:

I was at the MTS Centre, for the best PJ show, I've ever seen lastnite. It was absolutley amazing, and watching it from the 6th row was even better!
The best part of the show was something I didn't even witness.....My brother who is probably the biggest PJ fan out there got to sit beside the stage. He is in a wheelchair and lastnite the wouldn't allow him in 10c seats, so they put him beside the stage. Which was great for him, he has followed PJ all over on tours and usually ends up in Handicap seats. Sometime during R.I.T.F.W. , Eddie wondered off stage, he wrote some encouraging words in my bro's copy of place/date, gave him his tambourine which he wrote PEACE on, hugged my brother and thanked him for listening to the music! I have never seen my brother so happy, I just cried. We know some people snapped pictures of it....we are trying to find a copy....if anyone got a pic of that, please let me know! We want a copy!
Anyways awesome show, I hope evryone enjoyed it as much as I did!

Try this link to a picture we took; I hope it works! My wife and I talked with your brother for a while before the show. He seemed really nice and we were so happy for him when EV came over to him!

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a194/Orangeillini/2005-09-08EVhug.jpg

The reviews are telling it like it was...a great show!

I knew it was going to be great because the first question the border patrol guy asked my wife & I was if we were headed to see Pearl Jam? I asked him how he knew and he said there were like 10,000 others before us

The Supersuckers rocked the house, with Eddie joining them for the last song...how cute was the little girl who came out at the end of their set?

I know everyone has said it, but the crowd was LOUD...DAMN LOUD! This was my 11th show, and I don't think I remember being in a louder crowd, way to go Winnipeg!!!

I'll try not to cover the same ground as some of the other reviews, but bear with me if there's some redundency. Plus I've never wrote one of these before, so it'll probably be wordy:

Eddie flubbed a lot of lyrics, but oh well right? Something that was cool was when Ed took someone's cell phone on stage and sang to it (thats what the "Hello" improve during Daughter is about). A classic Eddie moment was him saying "Yeah...just...uh...we're in Winnipeg. You're in Los Angeles, Ugh...Goodbye." He then threw the phone back and launched into the "Another Brick in the Wall" tag.

Don't you just love "Daughter", you never know how it's going to go.

I should mention that 10C hooked me & my wife up with 1st row seats(an extreamly-unfucking-believable surprise) We were at the very end up Mike's side, well that is until a couple of girls talked thier way in to the front row(YES Virginia it can happen at a PJ SHow) then they were at the very end.

Anyway, I say this because we were right next to Kim "the Smile Girl" and her companion. How great for her! I can't wait to read her review. She got to live every fan's dream! On the bootleg you can hear me yell "Get Up there!" when Ed asked her if she could sing! (At the end of Indifference).

**Sidenote--For those of you playing along at home, you can also hear me yell "Baby Alice!" right before MFC gets going. Alice is the 9 month old reason that I'm only seeing one show this tour(and probably every tour from now on)...Thanks to Grandma for babysitting...end side-note**

It's been mentioned that this show had a killer song selection, but it was almost even more lethal. According to the setlist(Another perk of the front row is that you're in a great spot when they're throwing out setlists at the end of the show:)) they were going to follow "In Hiding" & "In My Tree" with "Light Years". I noticed a tech crossing something out when he taped them down during the encore break, I guess that was it, becuase it's crossed off.

Another song that made the list but wasn't played was "You". It was set to start up the 2nd encore...Bummer!

In the "you-learn-something-new-everyday" dept, this fan had no idea that Uncle Neil was from Winnipeg. Good thing, because we were then treated to as Ed put it, "George Bush's new favorite song," - "Fuckin Up"

Feeding off the crowd's reaction, Ed couldn't stop with only one N Young song, so he started playing "R.I.T.F.W." and it seemed to surprise his fellow band mates. At least Jeff looked surprised, he was about to switch guitars when he did a doubletake and got back on stage(Sure enough, that setlist I keep bringing up has "Y Led" listed as the last song).

It ended up being a great way to end the show; the lights were up and the crowd was rocking, or in Eddie's words, "absolutely fucking amazing." My wife got a treat when Ed stood right in front of us for a long time (who am I kidding, so did I) before finally giving a tamborine to the girls next to us who talked thier way to the front row. they may have gotten a Tamborine, but we got a wink!!!

Great show!!!


P.S. One last thing about the setlist that maybe you experts out there can help with. After the 2nd encore there is another group of songs at the bottom of the page: "Deep", "Alone", "Bee Girl", & "Don't Go". Are these songs that they were thinking about playing? How cool would Bee Girl have been?

Well....I don't even know where to begin. I have been a long time Pearl Jam fan and I saw them back in the day at Sunfest in Gimli, they were amazing then, and they're still AMAZING!!!

Their performace was full of energy that I think everyone at the show felt. I left there on a natural high! Yes, Kim the "Smile" girl is the luckiest girl. I was so happy for her, she was living my dream.

PEARL JAM ROCKED WINNIPEG!!!! If you didn't attend the Winnipeg show and you are a fan, make sure you check out one of their shows because words can not describe how incredible it was! Thank you Pearl Jam...I LOVE YOU!

C'mon Kim... we NEED DETAILS! I love Smile! I've been waiting for that song and they finally play it and I'm not there and THEN a fan gets to go on stage?? How often does Ed do that? NEVER!!!!!!!! You are ONE lucky FAN! Props to you and I can tell you that I would never ever ever ever ever be the same after that night. Maybe it's best that I never get to meet the band. lol. That's awesome and can't wait to hear your story.

gremmiegal wrote:

I'm Kim from the show and that was definitely one of the highlights of my life. When I get home I'll write up a review. What a night.

Kim, the picture that comes with the boot is truly beautiful. You have the biggest shit eating grin on your face. What an amazing night.

This is the best fucking show this tour, so far. Flat out, best show. overall performance, energy, crowd, setlist, everything combined make this the best show. Fucking amazing performance. As far as judging only on setlist, the gorge wins, but iit didnt sound this good. I think also, the mizing for this show is better than the previous shows, its just off the hook. All around better show. And shit, its 3hrs long!

zeppelinfan wrote:

Just registered here today to add my thoughts about the Winnipeg show.

I have been going to concerts for almost 30 years. The Winnipeg PJ concert had the most amazing audience reaction I have ever seen. It was an incredible experience to feel the audience become part of the music. Part of it was the singing of the audience (vocals by Eddie plus about 15,000), part of it was the clapping and cheering, and part of it was the intense emotion coming from the people lucky enough to be there. You could feel how much this music meant to all of us.

It was a beautiful thing baby!!!!

I totally agree with you there, that was a special show, i think it may have joined the likes of Boston 3 and Spodek Poland 2, benoroya hall etc

alternagirl wrote:

For sure. During the whole thing I was like "hmmm. I think this'll be something special"


xox Alternagirl

i agree, i knew lots of people at the wpg show and everyone was in of it.....2 days later we are still like " can you believe that show?!" it was absolutley amazing!