*** Lisbon Fanviews Here 8/6/07 ***

F**********************CK YEAH

this was amazing!! the crowd was not at it's best but the band was!! brilliant!! one of the best RVM I've heard!

there was a first encore btw. the show "ended" with Alive and then they came up for Given To Fly, etc etc.. and the second encore was Black, Keep On Rockin' and Ledbetter.

Eddie's well known love for the portuguese people was shown once again with long portuguese spoken talks with the crowd! Great funny moment when he said f*ck Madrid!! :P ahah nuestros hermanos are not amused :P ahah but obviously he meant no harm. he said that it was his portuguese friends who told him to say it. and it was more like: "who cares that we have a show tomorrow?!! we're gonna rock the sh*t out of you!!"

the show ended too soon though.. I spent almost two hours looking at the clock while Chester whatsisname was yelling like the spoiled brat that he is and then PJ jump in and time just fleeeewwwwww away!
I'm not sure but I think it was about.. 2:15 hours or something.

edwho wrote:

Opening Set: (Interstellar Overdrive) / Corduroy,

YES!!

Did Daughter have a tag? If so, what? We need to know!!

There wasn't a real tag for Duaghter, but the whole crowd was chanting the "Eh Eohe Ehohe..." and Eddie was just going along with it and saying Don't let the sun go down on me... Or something along those lines, don't hold me to it, it's all mixed up like a dream in the morning...

I think I remember him yelling "Your all fanatics!" After that, but I could be mistaking

jradesquire wrote:

Anyone who was lucky enough to be at the opening Euro show,was there any new merch from last year? did they have any tour hoodies or jackets like last year?

Thanks

JR

Try to ask the same over here. This thread is more popular I think.

some pics from last night:

http://blitz.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=bz.stories/8836

einatshaul wrote:

There wasn't a real tag for Duaghter, but the whole crowd was chanting the "Eh Eohe Ehohe..." and Eddie was just going along with it and saying Don't let the sun go down on me... Or something along those lines, don't hold me to it, it's all mixed up like a dream in the morning...

I think I remember him yelling "Your all fanatics!" After that, but I could be mistaking)

Yes... it was pretty cool the crowd chanting thing. It goes like that everytime they play "daughter" live around here... and it's not even one of my favourite songs. But the crowd last night was really good, the place was packed. 30 or 40.000 people at least, all singing. Fantastic empathy. Even with such an obvious setlist, practicaly the same we heard last september. Best of, big hits, after all it was a summer festival. Still, lots of adrenaline.
Eddie talked all the time, in portuguese and english, connected with the people, told some stories... he was in a great mood, I must say.
I was reading some minutes ago that he came two days earlier to surf with friends. Did the same last year. Cool.

If only they had played "Oceans" and "Sad"...

Honestly I was a bit disapointed. After the 2 amazing Pearl Jam concerts in Portugal last year I expected more.

Of course that, by being a festival, it had to be different. The setlist only had the most popular songs, and that's normal, because the majority of the crowd wasn't a pearl jam fan (at least not an hardcore one...). Didn't see many people jump, and I also didn't see many people singing the lyrics (only the chorus...and I remind that they only played really popular songs...).

It was a good concert. It's always good to see Pearl Jam. Not just quite as good as I expected. Band performance at stage was great though. The band really loves Portugal.

Did Matt Cameron do a drum solo for Even Flow?

seems a bit too 06y for my liking....

maybe only because it was a gig and the first show.. i hope they really mix it up !

SoapMakesUTaller wrote:

How was the whole Linkin Park thing?

To be completely honest, I hate Linking Park... But I'll try to be objective: it was not a good show.