*** Pearl Jam New York, NY Fanviews 9/11/22 ***

Great show, crowd was amazing.  But I have to say for a half a second when Ed put on the sparkle jacket I thought they were about to bust our Bushleaguer again.

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Karts said:

My 7th Garden show. Good times but the weakest. Too many hits, seen it all before. Not enough of Gigaton; long gone are the days of challenging the crowd. 

The band is also not as tight as they were a decade ago. I just felt Stone and/or Matt not as into it, and there were plenty of mistakes and miscues. The amazing crowd were ahead of them and helping out. 

Has Stone been masked all tour? Haven't been following. Not sure I saw him on a microphone as a result. 

Where I was (223), Mike seemed low in the mix the first hour, but it may have just been everything a half step down. Sludgy stuff. 

Finally, following up the first responders speech with RVM was just a dumb choice. It used to be talking to the crowd would set the tone for the music. I guess as a primarily greatest hits band now this is to be expected. 

This show BLEW AWAY 2008 and was better than night 2 2016. Nothing will ever match or beat 98 and 2010 

Agree it surpassed N2 2016. Wasn’t at the others unfortunately.

shavy1 said:

Great show last night! My 24th and 1st ever at MSG. One question - was that John Frusciante during RITFW with Chad Smith? Our seats were on the floor so it was hard to tell but I got this photo.

That’s Josh without his hat 😄

Totally surprised i had 2 empty seats to my right. Sec. 106 row 12, gave me more room to dance but still unbelievable especially at the prices being asked and an apparent sell out. 

I have been fortunate to have attended every single MSG show from 98 on. This had all the energy to be expected, honestly i really can't compare the energy of all of them, so were notable stronger for different reasons, this one was special due to the 911 anniversary and the long wait to see them again. It was great to see the band back at it, they sounded tight. Still trying to get used to 23 song sets and wondering how they can keep it fresh when a lot of material needs replication to keep casual fans happy. NOT hearing Corduroy was a welcome surprise. I kind of felt for a few years they can rest that song a bit. 

All in all a great show, probably not my top Garden show but they're really hard to rate.

Looking forward to Camden.

WOW...
Had seats in the back, bar stools.  Brought the MIL for her first PJ show.  Different vantage point.  We got Small town played for us, TY!

When they went on after 9PM I knew we were going past 11PM curfew.  

Opening w Release, the hair on my arms raised.  It's gonna be a good night.  When you get Porch the first few songs in you know it will be a good night.

It wasn't good, it was great.

Floor was moving, crowd was amped.  Sound was excellent.  The Williams sisters were in attendance!  Chad Smith came in to play. Ed did  Wet Leg's Chaise lounge.  Josh brought something else to Purple Rain.

Being in the back you get to see all the stuff that Josh does back there.  Not sure what you can see up front as it looks like the stacks are in the way but he is very, very involved.  Great backing vocals and he enjoys doing it.

I forget what song it was but Mike came over to Stones side and showered the faithful with picks and it was funny to see about 30 people or so all go down at the same time to grab them and not miss Mike playing in front of them, lol.

Nothing really deep for song selection but it was very steady and kept the crowd engaged.  Present Tense killed.

Buy the bootleg.  You won't be disappointed.

Jeremys Spoken said:

The floor…was….MOVING.

We showed up as a crowd tonight.

Best crowd energy in a loooongggg time..

Indeed, it was. The whole building was bouncing, which freaked me out at first. Great crowd energy, almost up there with Hartford 2013.

We were in section 110, 6 rows off the side of the stage and  could see a lot of the off stage stuff going on. Chad was there for the whole show.  He was sitting on Stone’s side of the stage with  Jill and Ed’s older daughter. There was a woman with him that appeared to be his wife or girlfriend. And a couple other dudes who I didn’t recognize. I assumed Chad was sitting on a chair but was surprised to see he had been sitting on a cooler the whole time because when a tech came over he had to stand up so the guy could grab drinks out of it for the band.  Mike came down off the stage to grab him for RITFW.  Jill bounced back and forth between her spot on the side of the stage and the seats where Venus and Serena were.  There was a whole crew of people there she appeared to know very well and they all seemed to be really having a good time. 

You know it’s an amazing show when you’re in the bathroom and the floor is bouncing even though you haven’t been drinking! 😂

Amazing. 2nd Garden show, 29 overall, and while it’s impossible to rank shows, this is way up. Energy, sound, everything.