Best Live Version Of Release

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  • SmallestOceans
    SmallestOceans Posts: 13,542
    edited January 2017
    mcgruff10 said:

    SmallestOceans said:

    The 2/21/95 version from Osaka, Japan has a nice extended intro that creates some extra suspense and tension. Crowd erupts when Eddie finally comes in.

    yeah that is definitely a sweet performance. I think they have an extended intro of corduroy too.
    I think it's more like a Jack Irons unsure of when to start building up into the verse kind of intro haha. I also think Corduroy was better back then was it wasn't too rushed.
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  • fl4tdriven
    fl4tdriven Moscow, PA Posts: 332
    For me, MSG 1 '16. I did not expect to hear it that night, and it totally hit me hard. Part of it had to do with what the song meant to me through my high school and college relationships/breakups and then hearing it for the first time live with my then fiance/now wife. Kind of like a full circle feeling.
    Philly 10/21/13 - MSG 5/1/16 - Fenway 8/5/16 - TOTD 11/4/16
  • embrace
    embrace Posts: 849
    iamloco724 said:

    Definitely Philly Ten performance, it was just such a moment pure emotion. Being there was great, one of the many highlights for me.

    This exactly! Culmination of so much for me personally (and so many others in the room), Ed's words ... to be present in that moment and experience the humanity of those around while understanding everyone has shit..it was something.
    got a car...got some gas...oh let's get out of here-get out of here fast...
    I hope you get this message but your not home...I will be there in just a minute or so...
    I want to go but I want to go with you.

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    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough. I'm fine, still in it.
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,944
    mcgruff10 said:

    I just went to pjstattrakcer and found out i've only seen release 7 out of 57 times. I didn't realize how rare it is.

    If you do the math, its about my time..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • pearljam1809
    pearljam1809 Posts: 863
    The first time I heard it live was really special, chills.
    I got it in 4 out of 9 shows, twice as an opener. Lucky I guess. :)
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    14 times out of 49 shows.
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    got it my first show in 1996 and still love it
  • tino_11
    tino_11 Posts: 2,182
    Manchester 1 2012 was my first time seeing it live and what a great version it is! Best concert moment of my life!
    'F*** the pessimists. F*** 'em.' Eddie Vedder
  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    tino_11 said:

    Manchester 1 2012 was my first time seeing it live and what a great version it is! Best concert moment of my life!

    That is indeed a good version. I forgot to add it to my own list I made earlier. I listen to it quite often as I am a huge fan of the European 2012 tour.
  • errebne
    errebne Posts: 46
    St. Paul 2014. My dad had died 2 weeks prior to the show. He took his own life. I went to the show with my wife and my brother. I had really hoped that they would play Release, as I listened to the song many times in the two weeks after his death. Was not active on the forum at the time, so I did not put out a request thread or anything like that. When they played Release as the second song, I couldn't help but cry a little. What's more, it sounded like Eddie said Ron on the last verse, which was the name my dad went by, and I started crying like a baby. After getting the bootleg and listening over and over again, my wife, my brother and I were convinced, but some of our friends were skeptical. However, there is a YouTube video, taken from in front of Eddie, and we all agree that it does not look like he says mom or John...it looks like Ron! Anyway, even if he did not say Ron as a tribute to someone, that performance was so helpful for me at the time. When I heard it again at wrigley 1, I couldn't help but get a bit emotional all over again. Always loved the song, but it means more to me now.
  • CharlieP
    CharlieP Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 1,035
    Bonner Springs 2003
    Verona 2006
    Philly 2 2016

    But there are so many great ones....

    Roskilde 2000, Berlin 2006, Athens 2006, Dusseldorf 2007, Copenhagen 2007, New York NY 1 + 2 2008, Berlin 2009, London 2009, London 2010, Berlin 2010, Manchester 2 2012, Berlin 1 2012, Stockholm 2012, Oslo 2012, Copenhagen 2012, Amsterdam 1 + 2 (EV solo) 2012, Amsterdam 1 + 2 2014, Stockholm 2014, Oslo 2014, Leeds 2014, Milton Keynes 2014, Heartland Festival DK (EV solo) 2017, Berlin 2018, Barcelona 2018, Copenhagen 2022, Prague 2022 (Cancelled)



  • mdgsolo
    mdgsolo Posts: 796
    Tokyo '03 is something else..
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,656
    edited January 2017
    Wrigley 2013. I think this may have been the most Eddie ever felt the song. That's what it looked and felt like to me, anyway. It felt like a really special personal moment for him, and you can hear that when you listen to it.
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  • GM17961
    GM17961 Posts: 159
    Wrigley 2013. I think this may have been the most Eddie ever felt the song. That's what it looked and felt like to me, anyway. It felt like a really special personal moment for him, and you can hear that when you listen to it.


    Agreed. Hopefully we get to hear a non-audience version someday.
    1st - Randalls Island 1 '96
    27 shows in-between
    Most recent - Ohana '24
  • Tremorman
    Tremorman Posts: 390

    Favorite one in person was Boston 2010, great performance and really lit the crowd up.

    But my favorite Release clip has got to be the Off Ramp version from the 1st show. The first verse is altered a bit, but the song is there . But what gets me is the Hadean guttural vocal heat Ed generates out of the third verse (3:16, I wait up in the dark...) that I don't think has been matched (or at least surpassed) since.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmlttA4QtI
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    Tremorman said:


    Favorite one in person was Boston 2010, great performance and really lit the crowd up.

    But my favorite Release clip has got to be the Off Ramp version from the 1st show. The first verse is altered a bit, but the song is there . But what gets me is the Hadean guttural vocal heat Ed generates out of the third verse (3:16, I wait up in the dark...) that I don't think has been matched (or at least surpassed) since.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmlttA4QtI

    Only Pearl Jam can make you listen to a song that you have heard a thousand times just one more time.
    Awesome video.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    mcgruff10 said:

    I just went to pjstattrakcer and found out i've only seen release 7 out of 57 times. I didn't realize how rare it is.

    It's crazy how random this stuff is....I've heard it 7 times out of 21 shows. I sure like that ratio! One PJ song that I will never get sick of.
  • jmf5631
    jmf5631 Baltimore Posts: 26
    jbrownie said:

    'I dig one from the 90s to... but can't remember the show... maybe Boston 94 or something...'

    Was this 4/11/92? (Someone's gonna call me out on this...). This was just after Kurt had passed. It was the opener. This was a Reserved seating show; we calmly put an end to that.
    I feel bad for the folks saying this is elusive as Boston seems to get it all the time. The Garden, Mansfield, Fenway. Not that I dislike it PJ!!


    4/8/94 - Fairfax, VA. 1,000+ candles on the stage to provide the lighting. Rough start to the show. It was my first PJ show, and I was almost disappointed. The crowd got behind them, they could feel the energy, and it ended up being a great show.

    4/8/94 - Fairfax, VA, 9/24/96 - Columbia, MD, 10/27/13 - Baltimore, 4/29/16 - Philly II, 11/4/16 - TOTD Philly I, 4/7/17 - RRHOF, 8/18,20/18 - Chicago, 9/2/18 - Boston; EV Solo - 9/23/17 - Louisville, 9/24/17 - Franklin, TN, 9/28/19 - OHANA
  • shadowcast
    shadowcast Posts: 2,336
    My favorite is Tokyo, Japan 3/3/03..opener of course. There is also a great version of Don't be shy on the CD as well.
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,450
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYh3uvwQd8
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