Berlin Fanviews Here 23/09/06

vangse · September 2006

My first PJ show and the guys did not let me down. I would have liked to heard Betterman, as the crowd would have gone completly crazy on that one. Corduroy was missing aswell. But I guess we all have our favorite songs and they can not please us all.

Went their with a bus full of PJ fans from Denmark. Almost all of us were lucky enough to get green wristbands and were upfront. One off the girls on the tour got fucking lucky as Ed threw one of his Tambourines from Baba O to her. You can not get a better souvenir than that.

All in all a awesome show for me. The weather was perfect and the crowd were amazing. Can not wait to download the show and listen to Black again.

redlady · September 2006

ladygooddiva wrote:

well thisd gonna be a long post:

first at all after we happilly get there it was 7p.m.(don´t ask me why please we where both pissed off ) we missed the black keys but we heard them ...they are ok ....than we drunk sparkling wine in front and went in ...my babe was a bit finished bec. of the driving so we didn´t went totally in front but we saw them so all allright ...wuhlwsheide is great and the sound but not easy to find ....

when pearl jam started i cried first happilly and than i just song danced along ...even jumped with a girl on the bench i even didn´t knew her ...talked with so many people ...and off course danced with my babe ...i was only sad that they din´t play you are ,crown of thorns but hell i saw them
ah and they played foothsteps:):) and alive and .......

we didn´t get the digi camp (many people had cameras) so it seems it wasn´t a problem but i show you some pics later ...bec. after you see me just smiling :):):)

and everthing wasn´t expensive drinks food etc...

Just got back from Berlin...
Hey we arrived at the same time at the Whulheide...shit and we didin''t saw eatchother....we were late because of my brother he..he...i was a bit pissed that we were so late but the only thing that matters is i saw PJ again...LOL...
i forgot the cam in my brothers apparment...stupid me...it's a great place for a outside gig i must say but they have to make the entrence mutch bigger so crowded we lost several min just standing there...he..he...Where were you standing sitting ????

CharlieP · September 2006

This was a great show! My first PJ show (saw them in Roskilde as well), but this time it was so good to see an entire show! I thought it rocked. Maybe the setlist lacked the more not-so-often played songs, but it was really good, and since it was my first full length show I will not complain.
I was there with 5 friends from Denmark and we had a blast. The beautiful amphitheatre makes a good spot for a rock concert. In the middle of a wood!
It took some time to get in, but you could see the stage clearly from wherever you were. The first 4 songs got kinda spoiled because of a rough crowd, so we had to pull out and found some seats to relax a bit. Mike wasn´t that loud, I wish he would have been louder at times. But they played so many songs I wanted to hear. Save you, WWS, Marker in the sand, Small town, Present Tense, Given to fly, Black, Lukin to name a few. It was all good for me! Even though one of my favourites is Vitalogy, and they didn´t play a single song from that one. It was stil all good and I can´t wait for Athens next week which I will attend with my brother.
There I will hope for some more rarities.

Cheers

ladygooddiva · September 2006

redlady wrote:

Just got back from Berlin...
Hey we arrived at the same time at the Whulheide...shit and we didin''t saw eatchother....we were late because of my brother he..he...i was a bit pissed that we were so late but the only thing that matters is i saw PJ again...LOL...
i forgot the cam in my brothers apparment...stupid me...it's a great place for a outside gig i must say but they have to make the entrence mutch bigger so crowded we lost several min just standing there...he..he...Where were you standing sitting ????

well first we sit outside in front of the Fizz (whatever that was ) on a bench

and than we went in we where sitting standing ...well very near to the place withouth benches ...so not really up but i can´t remember the nummbers or something...

oh yes it is a great venue...

wulffeld · September 2006

playa3 wrote:

What did people think of the Black Keys?

Never heard them before yesterday but thought they were quite boring.

wulffeld · September 2006

wimbeldino wrote:

We have probably the longest version of Black...Must be 5 minutes the we belong together tag with the crowd singing the tutu tutu...

footsteps was unbelievable!!! so was come back as it was dedicated to mr. ramone ("I'll send this one to heaven" in german) very emotional...

I'll still miss the slow openers...

I think Milan's Black will be longer. I also thought Milan's was slightly better - both awesome!

I can't wait for Ed to speak Danish when they Come Back to Denmark.

Dercheef · September 2006

playa3 wrote:

What did people think of the Black Keys?

I think they were great even though they haven't played their new single "Your Touch", "10 am automatic" or my fave "hard row".Between the opening acts I've seen this tour I would rank them even with wolfmother and way above my morning jacket.

dane · September 2006

Just got back from Berlin. It has been one hell of a week-end!
First up: Thank you so much Pearl Jam! You lived up to my expectations and then some. And that says alot!!
Then; thank you 10C. Everything went smooth right from the very start with buying tickets. At the arena, the seperate entrance worked fine and even though we didn't get a seperate area in front of the stage it was so cool being able to get great spots. Thanks!!

IMO it was a really good setlist. Missed Dead Man and a few other, but with all the songs to choose from, the guys did their best.
Loved that Eddie spoke german in between songs. That was real funny. He just needs to learn that V is pronounced like F......

Aside from the german talk there wasn't a lot of ranting and goofing off. It was just pure-full-speed-ahead-rock-n-roll. GREAT!
A few of the songs that stood out imo was Black (the crowd singing and chanting was great), Baba O'Riley and GTF.

It was also real fucking funny to see the small heards of ppl in blue avocado shirts moving around the arena! Avocado is in deed the fruit of the year -lol-

I finaly got see an entire PJ gig. It was fuckin' awesome and I'll remember it for the rest of my life.

BTW: I remember Ed changing the lyrics in some song to "now our president's a big fuckup", but I can't remember in which one. Anybody remember?

Dercheef · September 2006

dane wrote:

BTW: I remember Ed changing the lyrics in some song to "now our president's a big fuckup", but I can't remember in which one. Anybody remember?

I'm not sure myself but I think it was DTE.

playa3 · September 2006

Dercheef wrote:

I think they were great even though they haven't played their new single "Your Touch", "10 am automatic" or my fave "hard row".Between the opening acts I've seen this tour I would rank them even with wolfmother and way above my morning jacket.

It seems strange that they wouldn't play those songs, they are some of my favourites too, good that you enjoyed them though, i'm going to see them tomorrow

Renster · September 2006

http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/renehuibers/Pearl%20Jam%20European%20tour%202006/?start=all

Arnhem, Antwerp, Paris and now Berlin added

Dercheef · September 2006

Renster wrote:

http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j142/renehuibers/Pearl%20Jam%20European%20tour%202006/?start=all

Arnhem, Antwerp, Paris and now Berlin added

Thanks for those pics.Your face looks familiar. I definetly saw you yesterday and in Arnhem.

ScotInAmsterdam · September 2006

Wonderful venue... wonderful people to be at a concert with... Really good all round setlist....Interesting support.... that was my last of the tour... so it's back to real life(which includes such things as sundays in bed)

I'll get the blog finished as soon as I get a chance, until then, here's some photos:

http://flickr.com/photos/furbyx4/sets/72157594298034050/

Tengil · September 2006

it was my first pearl jam concert.. fucking mega! i'd never thought that the germans knew the songs that well. and everybody was dancing around like crazy, crowd surfers etc. it was so wild, that i never really saw the band more than a few minutes over all. later on the plane back home i felt some sort of pain all over by body, and i thought i was sick or dying -- but then i noticed that i had these bruises all over myself

my shoes are totally trashed aswell, but it was worth it.

thank you pearl jam! come back next year to europe, we know you want to. thank you berlin, what a lovely city and lovely people!
tchüss

deep_schismic · September 2006

i'll quote myself from the original Berlin thread...

deep_schismic wrote:

Alrighty then...so it's 6 fuckin AM the next morning...I just got back to my hotel 20 min ago (yes, it took exactly 2 freakin hours, involving 30min of walking back to the Schönweide s-bahn stop...i'm lucky i wasn't robbed! haha)

will write more later, but all i can say is...overall excellent show, but the only thing that kept it from being perfect...1) nazi motherfucking security guards to who felt the need to basically bitch about me and my SLR...EVEN THOUGH IT WAS INSPECTED AND OK'D BY THE DUDES AT THE ENTRY. fucking cunts. I had 5 different people come up to me warning me about taking pictures, with the last guy actually trying to tug the camera from my fucking hands, even though I WAS NOT ACTUALLY USING IT AT THE TIME!!! However, i believe it was one of the PJ crew who was largely responsible for that shit as he was the 1st dude who came up to me and 'insisted i give him my camera'...and I insisted that I would no do such thing as it had been ok'd by security at the entry and that it was NOT a pro camera (if anyone knows anything about photography, a D100 with a 50mm is NOT a pro setup..)...but anyway...to that long grey-haired gentleman with rings on his fingers...I convey a huge 'FUCK YOU, suck my dick, why don't you attempt to stop the other 10,000 people in the audience taking pictures!'. Seriously, I actually feel like somehow making a profit on the photos I did get just to spite this rat bastard. FUCK.

ok, venting over. That's all i can say...so I didn't get to take as many shots as my great vantage point with 10c tix in the 3rd row offered me...and the other thing was...the crowd was largely pushy and elbowy...and I had the wonderful luck of ending up behind a scottish dude with a stupid hat who blocked half my view and another dude who was as tall as he was who ruined another 1/3 of my view...basically i have never gone through so much effort to take a few decent photos at a concert...and I attended huge ass festivals with gigantic moshpits for bands that are quite heavier than PJ. It was an experience indeed....

I shall talk about the actual show and Ed's entertaining drunkenness and hilarious German later (although the dedication to Johnny Damone was awesome)...

peace out!

p.s. just a howdy-do to White Riot and Renster from the forums who I had the pleasure to meet at the show, and also to OutofBreath and his crew...hope you guys had a good show!

Will add more later...

Edit: here's a picture of the lovely people I slandered above:

Pegasus · September 2006

deep_schismic wrote:

i'll quote myself from the original Berlin thread...

Will add more later...

dude, at all the concerts it's been said: no detachable lens. simple. the security was wrong letting you in with it in the first place, not the ones trying to stop you using it.

if you raise your camera to take photo YOU are obstructing the view of people who want to watch the show so don't complain about someone in front of you being too tall for you to take pictures...I get people too tall for me to breath so frankly you make me laugh.
If you want to take great picture with no-one in your way, go on the side on the steps, not in the pit...the pit is for movers, not lurkers

deep_schismic · September 2006

Actually, the info I had (from the venue's management/tour promoter) was 'no professional cameras'. and this is what i clearly showed to the guard at the entry who physically inspected my camera.

as for my view being obstructed, i know it's under no one's control, etc...i was just venting a bit thats all the 'ok venting over' sentence was meant to follow the 2nd paragraph. and as for people obstructing other people by taking pictures...aha, are you referring to the 12,999 other people in the venue with digicams?

Pegasus · September 2006

deep_schismic wrote:

Actually, the info I had (from the venue's management/tour promoter) was 'no professional cameras'. and this is what i clearly showed to the guard at the entry who physically inspected my camera.

but before every show we were told no detachable lens (in the 10c line anyway)

deep_schismic wrote:

as for my view being obstructed, i know it's under no one's control, etc...i was just venting a bit thats all the 'ok venting over' sentence was meant to follow the 2nd paragraph. and as for people obstructing other people by taking pictures...aha, are you referring to the 12,999 other people in the venue with digicams?

yep

deep_schismic · September 2006

oh well, it wasn't all bad...it was painful but I think i've got a few good shots which i'll be uploading as soon as i can

Eneh · September 2006

I dont really want to disturb, but a Canon Ixus 400 has no detachable lens.

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