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

SVRDhand13 said:

Imcoffeegirl said:

oftenreading said:

NK10452 said:

Feel like most of you have said what I would have said.  The start was straight fire -- love it when they open with Release, I thought Garden sounded great, I always love Present Tense live, and Porch right off the jump was crazy.  Yes, I guess the shows are "shorter" now, but c'mon -- they're still playing 25 songs and going all out for 2+ hours.  Crowd energy was insane and you can tell the band feeds off it.  As always, it was a great time and looking forward to Philly in a couple of days.  I don't get Stone in the mask -- does he have Covid?  What gives?  Also, ditch Purple Rain -- silly.

He’s been wearing the mask for the last three shows at least. Seems a reasonable precaution if that’s what he wants to do. 

Agreed. Even if you're distanced you're still indoors and I think it's worth the precaution. I still mask up indoors and wish people would just let me be without asking me why. 

I wore my KN95 throughout the entire show last night.  No one said anything but I got a few looks lol.  I was getting a little fatigued by the time the encore started.  

nicknyr15 said:

JH6056 said:

nicknyr15 said:

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 

I'm curious, I only got to one of the shows between '98 and '10 - does one of those MSG shows even outshine the other, even if they're unquestionably the top 2 for you?

5/21/10 is tops for me. And msg 2016 night 1 is sorely underrated. 

SVRDhand13 said:

nicknyr15 said:

JH6056 said:

nicknyr15 said:

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 

I'm curious, I only got to one of the shows between '98 and '10 - does one of those MSG shows even outshine the other, even if they're unquestionably the top 2 for you?

5/21/10 is tops for me. And msg 2016 night 1 is sorely underrated. 

5/21/10 is first place out of 30 shows for me 

merlin401 said:

SVRDhand13 said:

nicknyr15 said:

JH6056 said:

nicknyr15 said:

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 

I'm curious, I only got to one of the shows between '98 and '10 - does one of those MSG shows even outshine the other, even if they're unquestionably the top 2 for you?

5/21/10 is tops for me. And msg 2016 night 1 is sorely underrated. 

5/21/10 is first place out of 30 shows for me 

Curious how you rate some of the Philly highlights (which I’m assuming you drive down to) like the Ten show, Halloween closing down the spectrum, and spectrum #3 right before it.  Those are all contenders but yeah 5/21/10 is right near the top of the list for me too

BF25394 said:

SVRDhand13 said:

Imcoffeegirl said:

oftenreading said:

NK10452 said:

Feel like most of you have said what I would have said.  The start was straight fire -- love it when they open with Release, I thought Garden sounded great, I always love Present Tense live, and Porch right off the jump was crazy.  Yes, I guess the shows are "shorter" now, but c'mon -- they're still playing 25 songs and going all out for 2+ hours.  Crowd energy was insane and you can tell the band feeds off it.  As always, it was a great time and looking forward to Philly in a couple of days.  I don't get Stone in the mask -- does he have Covid?  What gives?  Also, ditch Purple Rain -- silly.

He’s been wearing the mask for the last three shows at least. Seems a reasonable precaution if that’s what he wants to do. 

Agreed. Even if you're distanced you're still indoors and I think it's worth the precaution. I still mask up indoors and wish people would just let me be without asking me why. 

I wore my KN95 throughout the entire show last night.  No one said anything but I got a few looks lol.  I was getting a little fatigued by the time the encore started.  

Wearing a mask in an indoor setting with that many people in close proximity is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  It's especially prudent if you're onstage with hundreds of people singing along at the top of their lungs and aspirating in your general direction for more than two hours, as in Stone's case.  We can never know for sure but, given the bubble the band was maintaining, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Matt and Jeff's COVID cases in the spring were picked up from the audience.  The prudence is not just about the risk of the illness to him, which would likely be mild; it's about the fact that a positive test would put the upcoming shows in jeopardy, and that would hurt everyone.

nicknyr15 said:

JH6056 said:

nicknyr15 said:

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 

I'm curious, I only got to one of the shows between '98 and '10 - does one of those MSG shows even outshine the other, even if they're unquestionably the top 2 for you?

5/21/10 is tops for me. And msg 2016 night 1 is sorely underrated. 

SVRDhand13 said:

merlin401 said:

SVRDhand13 said:

nicknyr15 said:

JH6056 said:

nicknyr15 said:

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 

I'm curious, I only got to one of the shows between '98 and '10 - does one of those MSG shows even outshine the other, even if they're unquestionably the top 2 for you?

5/21/10 is tops for me. And msg 2016 night 1 is sorely underrated. 

5/21/10 is first place out of 30 shows for me 

Curious how you rate some of the Philly highlights (which I’m assuming you drive down to) like the Ten show, Halloween closing down the spectrum, and spectrum #3 right before it.  Those are all contenders but yeah 5/21/10 is right near the top of the list for me too

Spectrum 3 second place 
ten show close to the top
spectrum 4 probably 10-12

all amazing!

mclynick said:

Anyone know what the pink dots mean beside the first few songs on the set list published on Instagram? E.g. dots are next to Release, Garden, Dissident, whoever said and even flow