* Greenville, SC Fanviews Here 4/16/16 *

athenssmile · April 2016

I have to say, I believe Pearl Jam has ruined me with last night's show and it may have to be the last one I attend.
First, I could not believe how incredible my seats were. I was section 113, 4th row from the floor on Mike's side. Absolutely fantastic 10C seats! Thank you, Ten Club. I was around great people who thoroughly enjoyed the show.
Then they start with Corduroy. Sure, I was hoping for a Release opener, but this is my first show since 2013, so whatever. By Daughter, I began to suspect what may be going on here. I see that some people say knowing what was coming next took away the surprise. It had the opposite affect on me. I held my breath after each song, hoping they would move on to the next one on vs and they weren't teasing us. I also knew this meant I might get a full W.M.A, Rats, Leash, and Indifference. I found it to be extremely exciting.
I have been to 20-something shows and have heard Even Flow at every one. Don't get me wrong, I love Even Flow, especially when I am on Mike's side of the stage. But this is the first show I have not heard it played. Instead, Mike got to do his thing during Comfortably Numb and that was amazing and a new twist. They still surprise me!
I never tire of Given to Fly and they did not disappoint. Then to throw in a Present Tense and top it off with a Breath, which I have only seen one other time! I thought it was a fantastic set list.
My first show was at the Tad Gormley Stadium in New Orleans in 1995. That show got me hooked and I look at it as a religious experience. I believe last night's show topped that one. And it is for this reason I say Pearl Jam has ruined me. I don't know if I want to go to anymore shows. This one was so fantastic, how can they ever top it? Will I be disappointed with future shows? Should I let it end on this high note?
Thankfully I have a few days to process all of this and rally before I am supposed to be in Raleigh.

DM282158 · April 2016

Reason number 6272517 I have respect for the band:

When they do insane shit (like play No Code, Yield, and Vs. in entirety) they do it in obscure places. (Not NY, Boston (this coming from a Boston guy), or even Seattle.) It's absolutely awesome.

They know that there are serious collectors all around.

Cheers to the rest of the tour!

mcrok · April 2016

All the positives mentioned above. My 23rd show. It is in top 3 for sure. I was in Jax and it was an amazing show but Gville was what I call a next level PJ show. Vs is when I fell in love with Pearl Jam...it started it all for me. This year is the 20th anniversary of my first show in Ft Lauderdale 96. I've been a resident in Gville for 8 years. So this was just a super special nite being in GA about 8 heads back between Ed and Stone.

It was just another gorgeous day in Gville. So cool that everyone from out of town got to see what a awesome place this is. Not what people think of when you say South Carolina, lol. As in Jax, the sound was muddy for the first couple few songs but once it was adjusted it sounded great. Not sure why this is but it sounds like it happened at the FL shows too.

Maybe it was just bc I was in the pit but the crowd sounded amazing. The band was feeding off it all night. Ed did look like he was reincarnated from the 90's with all the moves and expressions. Man, it was freaking awesome! Stone was so happy. Mike just shredding it and changing outfits. Ed's banter was just so great. I always love it but he was so on point last nite. Talking about the development of certain songs, loss of loved ones, big picture stuff....just great! Last nite had the candid moments like the confusion of adding Nothingman and Mike starting GTF....I eat that stuff up. I could go on and on.

So much intensity, power, and happiness coming from the whole band. It just doesn't getting any better. I was jumping around like a maniac and am paying the price today...well worth it.

Huge thanks to PJ and the fellow fans! I agree with a poster above who is concerned about going to another show after that...I still have Columbia on the queue, lol...I should know better by now bc these guys always seem to raise the bar.

tempo_n_groove · April 2016

shetellsherself said:
Unbelievable night. When daughter started I turned to my brother and said oh shit VS!!!! The energy from every band member was through the roof. I was on the rail right in front of Stone. He was clearly in his zone playing Vs front to back. He interacted with the crowd a ton. Dancing, smiles eye contact. He's usually less like that than the others but he was clearly having a blast last night. Ed's energy was electric all night. He was so intense! Mike ran the entire perimeter of the stage (front back sides...) 3 full laps during stbc. The lightning bolt songs all sounded great! I seriously am not a fan of the arrangement of FD on the album but this completely reworked version was really amazing. This is how it should have been. So many hard rockers and so much intensity I'm just shot today. And.....

Eddie handed me his empty wine bottle. I dont drink and haven't for many years. To be handed the empty bottle personally by Ed is something I won't ever forget.

Thank you Pearl Jam. Please don't ever stop doing what you do. We will keep coming.

You're a good person and that's why you got the bottle!

Congrats!!!!

So glad you got to hang with your brother too!

cjminor · April 2016

I'm going to give this one a not-so-favorable review. I was at Moline and Milwaukee in 2014, and loved both for different reasons. This one was my first show of this year, and I just wasn't blown away. I was in the upper level, though, and the folks around me were staring at their phones most of the night. But I don't usually let that bother me, and I was upper level in Moline too. So I don't know. The sound wasn't great. Kind of muddled. Is it just me or were they louder than usual? I've stopped bringing earplugs to PJ concerts cause I've never needed them, but I was wishing I had some last night. And I wasn't paying real close attention and didn't realize they were playing Vs. until W.M.A., more than halfway through. Vs. is a great album (my second favorite, after Yield), but I haven't listened to it all the way through in a really long time, so it just sounded like a normal concert until W.M.A. And now that I've been lucky enough to have been to all three where they've done this, I'm not sure I want to hear another album all the way through. It's a novelty, and the rest of the show has to be killer or it's a letdown. I'm a big fan of the LB album, but doing those four LB songs in a row right after Vs. didn't do much to help the flow of the show.

The positives - W.M.A. Is one of my least favorite PJ songs, but the version from last night kicked ass. Leash is my white whale song, so I was really happy to hear that. Indifference was great, too. It was a bit of a momentum killer right in the middle of the first set, but I've only heard it as a show closer. It has a different feel with the lights down, and you could tell Ed was really feeling it. They didn't play Even Flow or Jeremy. Any concert without those two goes up in my estimation. But overall, I wouldn't put this one at the top of my list. Which is fine. We've nowhere to go but up. On to Hampton, Raleigh and Columbia.

mcrok · April 2016

I have to add, that Ed's voice is really top notch right now.

SVRDhand13 · April 2016

shetellsherself said:
Unbelievable night. When daughter started I turned to my brother and said oh shit VS!!!! The energy from every band member was through the roof. I was on the rail right in front of Stone. He was clearly in his zone playing Vs front to back. He interacted with the crowd a ton. Dancing, smiles eye contact. He's usually less like that than the others but he was clearly having a blast last night. Ed's energy was electric all night. He was so intense! Mike ran the entire perimeter of the stage (front back sides...) 3 full laps during stbc. The lightning bolt songs all sounded great! I seriously am not a fan of the arrangement of FD on the album but this completely reworked version was really amazing. This is how it should have been. So many hard rockers and so much intensity I'm just shot today. And.....

Eddie handed me his empty wine bottle. I dont drink and haven't for many years. To be handed the empty bottle personally by Ed is something I won't ever forget.

Thank you Pearl Jam. Please don't ever stop doing what you do. We will keep coming.

Wow congrats!!!!!!!

shetellsherself · April 2016

tempo_n_groove said:

shetellsherself said:
Unbelievable night. When daughter started I turned to my brother and said oh shit VS!!!! The energy from every band member was through the roof. I was on the rail right in front of Stone. He was clearly in his zone playing Vs front to back. He interacted with the crowd a ton. Dancing, smiles eye contact. He's usually less like that than the others but he was clearly having a blast last night. Ed's energy was electric all night. He was so intense! Mike ran the entire perimeter of the stage (front back sides...) 3 full laps during stbc. The lightning bolt songs all sounded great! I seriously am not a fan of the arrangement of FD on the album but this completely reworked version was really amazing. This is how it should have been. So many hard rockers and so much intensity I'm just shot today. And.....

Eddie handed me his empty wine bottle. I dont drink and haven't for many years. To be handed the empty bottle personally by Ed is something I won't ever forget.

Thank you Pearl Jam. Please don't ever stop doing what you do. We will keep coming.
You're a good person and that's why you got the bottle!

Congrats!!!!

So glad you got to hang with your brother too!

SVRDhand13 said:

shetellsherself said:
Unbelievable night. When daughter started I turned to my brother and said oh shit VS!!!! The energy from every band member was through the roof. I was on the rail right in front of Stone. He was clearly in his zone playing Vs front to back. He interacted with the crowd a ton. Dancing, smiles eye contact. He's usually less like that than the others but he was clearly having a blast last night. Ed's energy was electric all night. He was so intense! Mike ran the entire perimeter of the stage (front back sides...) 3 full laps during stbc. The lightning bolt songs all sounded great! I seriously am not a fan of the arrangement of FD on the album but this completely reworked version was really amazing. This is how it should have been. So many hard rockers and so much intensity I'm just shot today. And.....

Eddie handed me his empty wine bottle. I dont drink and haven't for many years. To be handed the empty bottle personally by Ed is something I won't ever forget.

Thank you Pearl Jam. Please don't ever stop doing what you do. We will keep coming.
Wow congrats!!!!!!!

Thanks! Such a great time! The concert itself was over the top but to have been there with my brother, who I've seen PJ with so many times is the best part! We just kept shaking our heads and laughing all night!

Molly McDonald · April 2016

I have to say last night was amazing. Not just an incredible show, but I met so many awesome 10c people! I swear Pearl Jam fans are the best! If anyone has video of EV speaking before Future Days please let me know. It would mean a lot.

mrussel1 · April 2016

Molly McDonald said:
I have to say last night was amazing. Not just an incredible show, but I met so many awesome 10c people! I swear Pearl Jam fans are the best! If anyone has video of EV speaking before Future Days please let me know. It would mean a lot.

I recorded the entire show. I will have it. It may be a little difficult to hear. I don't usually tinker with them until the official boots are released, because of the difference in clarity. Looking for something soon?

zj229377 · April 2016

SC is a beautiful state, with vistas upstate and glassy swells in the Lowcountry. The past 12 months have been a tough stretch for the state of SC. The massacre of 9 beautiful souls in the Mother Emmanuel AME Church was a cold chill of horror during the humid summer here in my home area of Charleston. Neighbors held strangers who cried on their shoulder. Thousands marched a bridge, in unison, in remembrance and in defiance. The 150 yr flooding last fall smothered and ruined lives all over the state, destroyed parts of Columbia in the process. Neighbors helped neighbors. Strangers helped newfound friends.

Intended or not, what happened last night in Greenville was a 3 hour gift to the state of SC by the best band in the world and the best humanitarians in entertainment. Boiling intensity to the rafters, where no flood water can reach. A unified energy shared amongst 18k friends that drove low into the soul, where no bullet can penetrate. It was a gift. It was history. I found myself mumbling aloud, "Thank you" to the guys, knowing they couldn't possibly hear me.

Yet something tells me they felt that message from everyone.

retropony · April 2016

zj229377 said:
SC is a beautiful state, with vistas upstate and glassy swells in the Lowcountry. The past 12 months have been a tough stretch for the state of SC. The massacre of 9 beautiful souls in the Mother Emmanuel AME Church was a cold chill of horror during the humid summer here in my home area of Charleston. Neighbors held strangers who cried on their shoulder. Thousands marched a bridge, in unimmson, in remembrance and in defiance. The 150 yr flooding last fall smothered and ruined lives all over the state, destroyed parts of Columbia in the process. Neighbors helped neighbors. Strangers helped newfound friends.

Intended or not, what happened last night in Greenville was a 3 hour gift to the state of SC by the best band in the world and the best humanitarians in entertainment. Boiling intensity to the rafters, where no flood water can reach. A unified energy shared amongst 18k friends that drove low into the soul, where no bullet can penetrate. It was a gift. It was history. I found myself mumbling aloud, "Thank you" to the guys, knowing they couldn't possibly hear me.

Yet something tells me they felt that message from everyone.

Well said right there, we'll said indeed....

fgdanzi · April 2016

Amazing show! My wife and I were lucky enough to have been at both Moline and now Greenville. Once Glorified G got started it was a done deal, VS!!! Looking forward to Lexington with my son, then Wrigley 1&2.

moses562 · April 2016

This weekend has been amazing! So much has happened in a short amount of time! All the friendly people, the beautiful scenery! The amazing show with so much energy...and I met Mike at the Great Falls park today!! My wife and I were down by the main waterfall. What a beatiful view! Well we were planning our next move and as we were walking I noticed this person. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked him over and said outloud, "That's Mike McCready!" He was talking to two other gentlemen. I waited and then he saw me and turned towards my wife and I. He then asked me the hardest question of my life. He said, "What's your name?" He could tell I was just speechless. The first thought in my head was to say my whole name but I got out just my first name and introduced my wife. I said I aporeciated all of the energy feom the bamd and himself and that we watched him run around the stage and jump into the GA pit. He said, "I'm a nut." He then saw my wife's shirt and commented on it. It was a shirt from the Horizon record store he visited yesterday and that we visited today. He said he almost got the shirt that she had on. My wife then said we almost got the one you had on yesterday. He mentioned not remembering where it was at. My wife then said that there's still plenty of shirts. He laughed. We said where we had come from for the show, Texas. He asked which part. I shook his hand, he quickly extended his hand. I said thank you for a great show and tild him thanks for allowing us to chat and I left saying I better let him get back to his day. Mike was so down to earth. He knew how to handle the situation because I froze like a little girl meeting Cinderella at Disney World. He didn't just say hi, he let me have a moment.
It was so realistic and the fact we just ran into him was amazing. I am on cloud nine! I am so over joyed that I am borderline emotional. ....and in an odd way I kind of feel bad because here is a person checking out the sites and I am taking up part of his day. He has no clue, or maybe he does, how amazing it was to meet someone from my favorite band. It's a memory that will never fade. It's something I thought of but never believed would happen. I am truely fortunate!!
Pictures to come...

badu2fan · April 2016

Moses that is so cool. The band stayed at out hotel last night and as we left today there were 3 SUV outside. I was told they are staying there for several days. Might be good spot to fly in out of for their southern leg. Funny part is we got upgraded to a suite on Friday night and then told we had to move as Saturday night Suite booked. It was on Executive level. Told wife maybe Eddie slept in her bed!!!!!! Folks meet band on Elevator after show.

Longueuil · April 2016

moses562 said:

Cool story man. What a beard!

moses562 · April 2016

badu2fan said:
Moses that is so cool. The band stayed at out hotel last night and as we left today there were 3 SUV outside. I was told they are staying there for several days. Might be good spot to fly in out of for their southern leg. Funny part is we got upgraded to a suite on Friday night and then told we had to move as Saturday night Suite booked. It was on Executive level. Told wife maybe Eddie slept in her bed!!!!!! Folks meet band on Elevator after show.

That's way cool!!

moses562 · April 2016

Longueuil said:

moses562 said:

Cool story man. What a beard!

Haha...thanks n the beard! I have been pushing it to new limits this year. My wife and I are now at the Atlanta airport killing time for a flight. Great memories to grow old with!
I am sure I could have asked for a proper picture but with being star struck by the all mighty McCready and really not wanting to bother the man I just had my moment and moved on.

KCjam · April 2016

I actually called Vs. in full for this show about one month ago. I posted it on one of the other Greenville threads last week. Just had a gut feeling about this one. And it was awesome!

athenssmile · April 2016

moses562 said:
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I am afraid to ask, but what time were you at the park with Mike today? I was there today. I am hoping I wasn't there at the same time and missed him!

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