What is the most unique opening song that you've seen?

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  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,683
    Nothing beats the band coming out, Eddie saying, "Cold enough for you? Let's warm it up!" and the band tearing straight into Whipping.
    Sacramento 2000.
  • Dr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh
    Dr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh Posts: 1,180
    edited January 2018
    I Am Mine 
    Breakerfall
    Love Boat Captain
    Crazy Mary
    Wasted Reprise
    Last Kiss
    Hard to Imagine
    Wash
    Present Tense
    Oceans


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    looking to hear of the earth
  • jdopj
    jdopj Posts: 772
    Act of Love 95 Milwaukee 
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,852
    JimmyV said:
    EDIT: I didn't see this show myself but I wish I had.

    LIvefootsteps claims it has happened six times but hearing Alive open things up would be a mindblower:

    Newcastle, Australia
    November 19, 2006

    Not a bad little set list, either.

    http://www.livefootsteps.org/setlist/?show_id=774




    I was at the Newcastle show and Alive as an opener blew a lot of minds that night. Mark Richards wrote that set list - they didn't really slow down until Elderly Woman.

    Some other cool ones that I've also been lucky enough to see:

    Nothing As It Seems in Cardiff in 2000
    All Or None at The Vic in 2007
    Hard To Imagine at MSG in 2008
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    animal split my head wide open
  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,672
    Walking the Cow Bridge Benefit 1994. Was pumped to finally see Pearl Jam Live acoustic or not. All my friends and I were like WTF is this?
    Bridge Benefit 1994, San Francisco 1995, San Diego 1995 1 & 2, Missoula 1998, Los Angeles 2000, San Diego 2000, Eddie Vedder/Beck 2/26/2002, Santa Barbara 2003, Irvine 2003, San Diego 2003, Vancouver 2005, Gorge 2005, San Diego 2006, Los Angeles 2006 1 & 2, Santa Barbara 2006, Eddie Vedder 4/10/08, Eddie Vedder 4/12/08, Eddie Vedder 4/15/08, 7/12/2008, SF 8/28/09, LA 9/30/09, LA 10/1/09, LA 10/06/09, LA 10/07/09, San Diego 10/09/09, Eddie Vedder 7/6/2011, Eddie Vedder 7/8/2011, PJ20 9/3/2011, PJ20 9/4/2011, Vancouver 9/25/2011, San Diego 11/21/13, LA 11/24/13, Ohana 9/25/21, Ohana 9/26/21, Ohana 10/1/21, EV 2/17/22, LA Forum 5/6/22, LA Forum 5/7/22, EV 10/1/22, EV 9/30/23
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    Cropduster - Lexington 2003
  • Foriginal Sin
    Foriginal Sin Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,877
    I got two: 
    Unique:
    Hard to Imagine, Chicago 09

    Best:
    Oceans, Chicago 16. Totally wasn’t expecting it in Chicago and never heard it live over 27 shows. Awesome!!
    Chicago 6/29/98, Alpine Valley(EV) 6/13/99, Alpine Valley 10/08/00, Chicago 10/09/00, Phoenix 10/20/00, Orlando 4/12/03, Tampa 4/13/03, San Diego 6/05/03, Vegas 6/06/03, Phoenix 6/07/03, Chicago 6/18/03, Alpine Valley 6/21/03, Orlando 10/08/04, D.C. 10/11/04, Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, LA 7/12/08, Chicago 8/23/09, Chicago 8/24/09, LA 10/07/09, San Diego 10/09/09 (Front Row Center, Finally), Phoenix(EV) 11/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Phoenix 11/19/13, Denver 10/22/14, Wrigley 8/20/16, Wrigley 8/22/16
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,814
    EB218946 said:
    Can’t Keep - 2008 Manchester CT
    Of the Girl - 2010 Newark, NJ
    I'd love to get Of The Girl at any point of the show!!!

    Mind Your Manners GCF 2015.  Wasn't expecting that at all.
  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,671
    Present Tense - London '13
    Porch and GTF popped into my head as well. Those were Hamilton '05 and '11 if I recall.
    1998: Barrie  2000: Toronto  2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Toronto  2006: Toronto 1&2, Paris, Milan, Torino, Pistoia  2009: Calgary, Vancouver  2011: Canada  2013: London, Wrigley, Philly 1&2  2014: St. Louis, ACL 1, Detroit  2016: Lexington, Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto 1&2, Fenway 1&2, Wrigley 1&2  2017: EV - Louisville  2018: London 1&2, Milan, Padova, Rome, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Wrigley 1&2, Fenway 1&2  2020: Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton  2021: London 1&2  2022: Hamilton, Toronto  2023: Chicago 1&2, Noblesville  2024: Seattle 1&2, Noblesville, Wrigley 1&2

  • ryph raph
    ryph raph Posts: 887

    Summertime Rolls

    July 29th, 1992 Blossom Music Center

    Lollapalooza II

    10-26-91 Cleveland
    4-2-92
    7-29-92
    5-4-95 Hovercraft / Cleveland
    8-26-98
    4-25-03
    5-20-06
    8-21-08 E.V. Chicago
    10-31-09 Philadelphia
    5-09-10 Cleveland
    5-10-10 Buffalo
    6-26-11 E.V. Detroit
    10-11-13 Pittsburgh
    10-12-13 Buffalo
    10-29-13 Charlottesville
    4-18-16 Hampton
    8-22-16 Chicago

  • danny
    danny Posts: 2,283
    worldwide suicide 

    danny d
  • cblock4life
    cblock4life Posts: 1,855
    The good the bad and the ugly then right into Go - Made in America 
  • cblock4life
    cblock4life Posts: 1,855
    Or Oceans on the beach in Pensacola 
  • coery
    coery Oklahoma Posts: 59
    Most unique was MFC in Las Vegas, 1998.
  • vedpunk
    vedpunk Posts: 965
    Alive - Dallas 2003  (Love the song but it was really strange opening with it.  Kind of fell flat because the crowd wasn't warmed up yet.)
  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,414
    Foriginal Sin said:
    I got two: 
    Unique:
    Hard to Imagine, Chicago 09

    Best:
    Oceans, Chicago 16. Totally wasn’t expecting it in Chicago and never heard it live over 27 shows. Awesome!!
    Same here! Except 17 shows...
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
    -my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,127
    Here's my top five:

    1. Love Boat Captain - Atlanta, GA 4/19/03
    2. Oceans - West Palm Beach, FL 6/11/08
    3. State of Love and Trust - NOLA JazzFest 4/23/16
    4. Last Exit - Kissimmee, FL 10/8/04 
    5. Hard to Imagine - Bonnaroo 6/14/08

    HM. Can't Keep - Columbia, SC 6/16/08
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  • ponytd
    ponytd Nashville Posts: 671
    My openers
    RVM (Murfressboro 94)
    Long Road (Charlotte 96)
    Sometimes (Nashville 00,STL 10)
    Oceans(Nashville 03,Wrigley 2 16)
    Release(PJ20 1,Wrigley 13,Fenway 1 16)
    Wash(PJ20 2)
    Pendulum(Philly 1&2 13,Charlotte 13,STL 14,Memphis 14,Fenway 2 16)
    Lightning Bolt(Lexington 16)
    Once (Philly 1&2 16)
    Go (MSG 16, Bonaroo 16)
    Courdoroy (MSG 16)
    Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy (ThirdMan Records 16)
    Low Light (wrigley 1 16)
  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,087
    Act of Love opened my first show.  other than that probably Unthought Known in Hartford.
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.

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