Best opener

USE IT UP
USE IT UP Posts: 4
edited April 15 in The Porch
best Pearl jam opener

Release
Long Road
Sometimes
Corduroy
"All in all it no ones fault" Ed Ved
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  • Vinylicious
    Vinylicious Posts: 535
    Go
  • Robbert
    Robbert Rotterdam, the Netherlands Posts: 1,096
    Of the girl
  • marumaruko
    marumaruko Posts: 421
    I think Love Boat Captain and Inside Job need to be on the list. 
    Love Boat Captain was used only during the 2003 tour as an opener, but if you listen to Buffalo and Vancouver especially you will see why. A singalong in the first song, what more to heat up the crowd? 

    As for Inside Job - Think it was only used as an opener in Frankfurt 2022 and it created this feeling you get when someone is starting a bonfire, the warmth perpetually increasing and as the song builds up Mike's solos absolutely exploded. Should be used more as an opener. 
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  • GVN2FLY ND
    GVN2FLY ND Posts: 87
    I enjoyed Kings of Leon myself. 
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,358
    Once
    Animal
    Can't Keep
    Corduroy
    SOLAT
    LBC
    GTF
    Small Town
    Getaway
    Low Light
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  • Reissy
    Reissy St. Louis Posts: 496
    I think Pendulum into Low Light is peak
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  • My Lucky Hand
    My Lucky Hand Staten Island, New York Posts: 14
    Depends on what you prefer.

    If you a prefer a hard hitting, rocking opener, than you can't better than Go. It just hits you in the face.

    For a slow burn, Small Town, Release, Long Road and Low Light are all perfect in that regard.

    I personally have always thought Leash would make a great opener.

    "Troubled souls unite
    We got ourselves tonight."

    That's a great statement to open a concert with.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,320
    Hard To Imagine 
  • DM282158
    DM282158 Beverly, MA Posts: 668
    demetrios said:
    Hard To Imagine 
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  • Lovett-or-Leavett
    Lovett-or-Leavett Posts: 180
    wash
    Hey brother.
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,796
    edited April 16
    I love a fast & strong opener like Go or Given to Fly, but I think my two favorites are Long Road and Sometimes. 
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,238
    Lovett-or-Leavett said:
    wash

    Wash means you might be in for a special night. I love Can't Keep and Of the Girl. Into Breakerfall or Brain of J.
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,110
    edited April 16
    Any of these five are killer.  That would be the order of my preference.  These days I like the slow opener.  Great way to ease into it.  Good with second song going hard though. 

    Release
    Long Road
    Hard to Imagine
    Wash
    Of the Girl

  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,796
    pjhawks said:
    Any of these five are killer.  That would be the order of my preference.  These days I like the slow opener.  Great way to ease into it.  Good with second song going hard though. 

    Release
    Long Road
    Hard to Imagine
    Wash
    Of the Girl

    Of The Girl… another great one. 
  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    pjhawks said:
    Any of these five are killer.  That would be the order of my preference.  These days I like the slow opener.  Great way to ease into it.  Good with second song going hard though. 

    Release
    Long Road
    Hard to Imagine
    Wash
    Of the Girl

    Probably my top 5 as well with Release in the lead for sure. 
  • ST66483
    ST66483 Posts: 925
    I love release, but am partial to corduroy which opened my first show.
  • Hurls15
    Hurls15 Posts: 228
    Lovett-or-Leavett said:
    wash
    The correct answer. While Release and Long Road are the titans, Wash is amazing as an opener. 


  • Hankj25
    Hankj25 Posts: 386
    Outdoors:
    Low Light
    Wash
    GTF

    Indoors:
    Release
    Can’t Keep
    Long Road 
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  • ekwipt
    ekwipt Vancouver Posts: 1,127
    edited April 16
    Hurls15 said:
    Lovett-or-Leavett said:
    wash
    The correct answer. While Release and Long Road are the titans, Wash is amazing as an opener. 


    Got my first Wash opener in Vancouver last year & it blew me away. 
    Love Oceans as an opener too. 
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  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,608
    pjhawks said:
    Any of these five are killer.  That would be the order of my preference.  These days I like the slow opener.  Great way to ease into it.  Good with second song going hard though. 

    Release
    Long Road
    Hard to Imagine
    Wash
    Of the Girl

    These are fantastic! Haven’t gotten HTI or Wash as openers, but did hear them in the first five songs. All so good.

    To add one, I loved hearing Elderly Woman with the lights on to open the show in Jacksonville, 2016. Crowd was into it!

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