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General Discussions => Tribal Funk Affliction => Topic started by: davepeck on July 07, 2003, 11:05:19 am
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for those who care, i\'m in the midst of doing an 8-show Pearl Jam run right now..
07/02/03 - Tweeter Center; Mansfield, MA
07/03/03 - Tweeter Center; Mansfield, MA
07/05/03 - Tweeter Center; Camden, NJ
07/06/03 - Tweeter Center; Camden, NJ
07/08/03 - Madison Square Garden; New York, NY
07/09/03 - Madison Square Garden; New York, NY
07/11/03 - Tweeter Center; Mansfield, MA
07/14/03 - PNC Bank Arts Canter; Holmdel, NJ
so far so good... they are absolutely on fire! not a whole lot of repeats in songs, which is always a good thing. eddie\'s been playing a song solo each night before the first band (Buzzcocks) plays.. tried sitting through one Buzzcocks set.. didn\'t dig it at all....
setlists and comments to follow, again, for those who may care..
(freddie, any posts you make in this thread will be immediately deleted!) :lol:
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ed solo: Dead Man
setlist: Oceans, Go, Hail Hail, Save You, Deep, Get Right, Dissident, I Am Mine, Even Flow, Help Help, Immortality, In My Tree, Light Years, Evacuation, Whipping, Grievance, Present Tense, Porch
encore: Thumbing My Way, Elderly Woman, Smile, State Of Love And Trust, Leaving Here
encore 2: Soon Forget, Bushleaguer, Fuckin\' Up
by far, the BEST PJ show i\'ve seen to date! SO much energy, it was absurd.. personal highlights: Oceans opener, Deep, Immortality, and Leaving Here!! eddie confirms that over the 3 nights in Mass, they won\'t be repeating a single song! (originally wanted to get through their entire catalog of songs for this tour, but its not gonna happen with 105 songs!) interesting thing about this is that Even Flow had been played at every show for the longest time... pretty cool...
rating: :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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ed solo: You\'ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
setlist: Release, Animal, God\'s Dice, Do The Evolution, Insignificance, Love Boat Captain, I Got Id, Low Light, Rival, Lukin > Not For You, Daughter/(WMA)/(I\'ve Been Tired by The Pixies), You Are, In Hiding, I Am A Patriot, Once, Rearviewmirror
encore: Driven To Tears, Corduroy, Soldier Of Love, Crazy Mary, Alive
encore 2: Baba O\'Riley, Yellow Ledbetter
another sweet show, made even sweeter by the fact that there were no repeats.. after a nice Release opener, they really came out rockin\'... nice early Evolution! only the second Low Light since 2001. :thumbsup: Lukin > Not For You was rockin\'... really good encores!
rating: :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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ed solo: Throw Your Arms Around Me
setlist: Can\'t Keep, Brain Of J, Save You, Do The Evolution, Spin The Black Circle, Green Disease, Cropduster, Given To Fly, Even Flow, Faithfull, Wishlist, Rockin\' In The Free World, 1/2 Full, Love Boat Captain, Breath, I Believe In Miracles, Corduroy, Rearviewmirror
encore: Last Exit, Better Man, Down, Black, Blood
encore 2: You\'ve Got To Hide Your Love Away, Last Kiss, Baba O\'Riley, Yellow Ledbetter
finally able to catch Ed solo for the first time this tour - picked a great night to do it too, as i love TYAAM! surprisingly not a lot of repeats from either of the last 2 nights. great to hear Brain Of J and Faithfull!! mid-set RITFW was off the hook and took everyone by surprise (usually closes the show)! fireworks going off across the water in philly made for a nice atmosphere... Breath and Down were also great to hear.. again, good song selection for the encores!
rating: :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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ed solo: The Kids Are Alright
buzzcocks set: Why Can\'t I Touch It? (w/ Ed)
setlist: Of The Girl, Breakerfall, Hail Hail, Save You, Grievance, Dissident, Immortality, I Am Mine, Get Right, Even Flow, In My Tree, Lukin, Not For You, Nothingman, You Are, Whipping, Porch
encore: Jeremy, Elderly Woman, Better Man, Daughter, Alive
encore 2: Do The Evolution, Fuckin\' Up, Rockin\' In The Free World
after driving for 4+ hours, thanks to the good old NJ Turnpike, i was really hoping for a good show... Ed doing The Kids Are Alright was just what i needed to put me in a good mood.. :thumbsup: although i was overall happy with the main set (especially the first 7), the encore killed me... Ed even announced it as an \'all-request encore\'... also known as an all-radio or all-singalong encore... *sigh* the only good thing that came out of it (enc1) was s full Save It For Later tag at the end of Better Man (which i\'ve been waiting for for a while!)... encore 2 brought things back up to speed, but it sucks that 2/3 songs were played the night before...
rating: :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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peck, you know what? i thought about it, and the more i listen to pearl jam, the more i like them... eddie\'s voice actually gives me wood sometimes. i wish he\'d join pb.
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LMAO!!!
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i was at the first tweeter ma show and i must agree that it fucking rocked. hopefully i will make it tomorrow to msg
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peck you da man!!funny thing is nobody here except for me knows it!!cool ,funny shit.the more i think about it the more i am cracking up.you gots some magic powers man!!!
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Freddie, I DO get wood from Eddies voice and looks (cough cough) (It\'s ok, my gf knows this) and Im gonna be at all 3 boston shows and fucking A....NOTHING is better than an oceans opener....sooo sweet for my first shows....was waiting about 10 years for it too!
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buzzcocks set: Why Can\'t I Touch It? (w/ Ed)
setlist: Love Boat Captain, Last Exit, Save You, Green Disease, In My Tree, Cropduster, Even Flow, Gimme Some Truth, I Am Mine, Low Light, Faithfull, Wishlist/(Why Can\'t I Touch It?), Lukin > Grievance, 1/2 Full, Black, Spin The Black Circle, Rearviewmirror
encore: You Are, Thumbing My Way, Daughter/(With My Own Two Hands*), Crown Of Thorns, Breath, Better Man, Do The Evolution
encore 2: Crazy Mary, Indifference*, Sonic Reducer, Baba O\'Riley, Yellow Ledbetter
* with Ben Harper on vocals.
umm... ok.. remember what i said about mansfield1 being the best show i\'ve seen to date?? yeah, well.. this one is RIGHT up there. 3 hours; 30 songs!! unreal! where to start...
LBC - great opener. didn\'t see it coming. picked it up and rocked out for the next 3, before doing the reworked In My Tree. very nice. rockin\' again, and a nice jammin\' Even Flow, followed by :holyshit:Gimme Some Truth:holyshit:!! (my first)..
mellowed out for a bit, but Low Light/Faithfull was :thumbsup:. good to hear some yield.. back to business with Lukin, surprisingly going into Grievance instead of the typical Not For You. (no complaints though!) after going back down for a singalong with Black, they tore up the rest of the set, looking like they were having a particularly good time with Spin The Black Circle! RVM would obviously be the set closer, and a great way to go out.
first encore was great. 7 songs instead of the usual 5. big :thumbsdow to the Ben Harper appearance (can\'t stand him).. no complaints other than that, and they closed with a ferocious Evolution!
after coming back out for a second encore, eddie said that he was scared shitless during DTE, cause the room was shaking.. i guess someone backstage told him it\'s only happened 3 times before (for the Grateful Dead, Iron Maiden, and Bruce Springsteen), though i\'ve been there when it was shaking for Phish, so.. i dunno..
i called Crazy Mary, and was happy with my call! :D great to hear it, and excellent placement. MSG\'s curfew is 11:30, and the band is going over.. eddie says \'you know what, it\'s gonna cost us $14,000, but fuck it, we\'re not done! we\'re gonna keep going!\' NICE!
i would love to say that i loved hearing my first indifference of the year, but i can\'t when Ben Harper sang half of it... shoot me now.. :yack:Ben Harper
anyways...
SONIC REDUCER!!! ain\'t no loser! holy shit. THIS is what i wanted.. bassist from the Buzzcocks sat in on this. ROCKED!
lights on for Baba, with everyone in the room singing along! Buzzcocks guitarists sat in for this one, and it was a GREAT way to end the show...
so we thought...
but as we\'re walking out during the last note of Baba, almost making it all the way to the exit, we heard that the band was NOT done yet.. heard the opening riff to Yellow Ledbetter, and sprinted to the nearest enterance we could find. took YL in from a different view, and it was fantastic. Mike was off the hook at the end.. shredding like crazy. THANK YOU, good night!
a couple sprints, shoulder blocks, blisters, buckets of sweat, and a stressful cab ride, we made it to GCT barely in time for the 12:17 train!
rating (out of 5): :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::hump:
gonna be hard to top it, but doing it again tonight nonetheless!
(i\'ll go back and give all the shows a rating at some point.)
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Originally posted by freddiewaht
you gots some magic powers man!!!
so i\'ve been told... :hump:
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forgot to post this before:
In a shocking move, Pearl Jam has decided to play a pre-show set from 6:30-7:30 before the actual show on Friday, July 11th in Boston. This pre-show set is in addition to their regular set to be played after Sleater-Kinney\'s opening performance. The band added this set in order to make good on their promise of playing every song in their catalogue, which seemed all but impossible.
In addition, word has it that Pearl Jam is trying to get 250 tickets to give to the people who live in the trailer park next to the Tweeter Center (the show is not sold out). Why? So that they can play past the 11:00 o\'clock curfew.
Should be an exciting night for all attending!
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Dave, I agree with ya about ben harper. Freakin ben came out in 98 at msg and didnt know half the words to indifference. I hope theyre not gonna make it a constant thing with him and msg.
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Thats nuts what they are doing up in Boston. Thats cool as shit though.
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setlist: Crazy Mary, Save You, Hail, Hail, Whipping, Corduroy, Red Mosquito, Dissident, I Am Mine, Get Right, Given To Fly, Evacuation, Even Flow, I Believe In Miracles, Untitled, MFC, Deep, Present Tense, Nothingman, State Of Love And Trust, Porch
encore: You\'ve Got To Hide Your Love Away, Elderly Woman, Glorified G, All Or None, Do The Evolution, Alive
encore 2: Go, Know Your Rights, Rockin\' In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter
ok.. decent show, but it didn\'t come close to the first night. perhaps some of it had to do with me being on only 2 hours sleep, but i just didn\'t think it came close to MSG1.
wasn\'t bad. not at all.. too many repeats for starters... Crazy Mary was a nice surprise opener, but would have been better if it wasn\'t played the night before.. highlights for me were Red Mosquito (my first!), Untitled > MFC, You\'ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (ed solo), Glorified G (also my first!!), and Go (GREAT placement)...
up and down energy throughout the night.. we sat in a *really* shitty section, with a bunch of drunk college boys molesting each other the whole night (seriously)...
i thought it *sucked* that they closed with Yellow Ledbetter... love the song.. but it\'s a special song, and playing it 2 nights in a row, in the exact same spot - weak. oh well.. like i said, not a bad show all in all, just prolly woulda been better if a) i hadn\'t seen MSG1, and b) i was on more than 2 hours sleep.
that said...
rating: :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Your soo lucky dave....you got both Crown of Thorns and Breath at msg 1!
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update coming tomorrow...
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pre-set: Long Road, Of The Girl, Sometimes, Off He Goes, All Those Yesterdays, Driftin\', Thin Air, Sleight of Hand, Footsteps, All Or None, Parting Ways, Indifference
setlist: Can\'t Keep, Breakerfall, Brain Of J, Spin the Black Circle, Ghost, Green Disease, Tremor Christ, Given To Fly, Nothing As It Seems, Cropduster, Faithfull, Why Go, Wishlist/(Why Can\'t I Touch It?), Leatherman, Nothingman, Betterman, 1/2 Full, Untitled, MFC, Blood
encore: Breath, Habit, Down, Mankind, U, Black, Jeremy
encore 2: Arc, I Believe In Miracles, Know Your Rights, Fortunate Son*, Rockin\' In The Free World*
encore 3: Yellow Ledbetter
* with Sleater-Kinney.
:holyshit: 45 songs... 3 hours and 40 minutes of music! :holyshit:
as promised, the band came out around 6:30 and played a one-hour acoustic set. towards the begining of the set, Ed asked everyone to sit down during this set, saying it would be pretty cool since it\'s been a LONG time since they\'ve played to a seated crowd.. no one sat. finally, he convinced people by saying, "no seriously.. we\'re not gonna play an acoustic version of Blood or anything, so..." everyone sat.. pretty cool..
this was a really sweet set, with a lot of songs that they haven\'t been playing too much.. i nearly :poopself: when they started All Those Yesterdays! one of my favorite Yield songs, and they hadn\'t played it since \'98!! Thin Air and Sleight Of Hand were good to hear, as they\'ve become pretty rare, and Footsteps was really nice, featuring Ed on harmonica. i was really psyched to hear Indifference close the set - without Ben Harper!! :D Ed told everyone it was ok to stand up during Indifference. GREAT set!
their regular set rocked all the way through.. SO many songs in there that i never thought i\'d hear - Tremor Christ, Nothing As It Seems, Why Go, Leatherman.... awesome. and the encore was prolly the best i\'d seen in all the shows i went to. Breath opener was fantastic. Habit and Down rocked. Stone got to do Mankind for the first time in forever (said they hadn\'t practiced it at all either).. U was *completely* unexpected, and at this point, there was nothing this band could do to surprise me! unreal. Black and Jeremy were, well, Black and Jeremy... before Jeremy, Ed said \'this is it. we got one more.. well, one more of our songs anyways..\' so i had expected encore 2 to be covers..
at this point, we started heading out. if you\'ve been to greatwoods, you know the parking lot can be a nightmare. well, we were parked in probably the worst possible spot in the place, and would definitely be looking at 2+ hours to get out (which i\'ve done before) had we stayed till the end.
the only thing i would have liked to see was Arc, since it won\'t be on the bootleg. for the rest, i\'m not pist that i missed it, especially SK ruining Fortunate Son and RITFW.. no thanks.. apparently, the crowd was super rowdy at the end of the show, and no one would leave, so the band came back out and played Yellow Ledbetter (which they had played the first night) to get everyone to leave...
what can i say? amazing. PJ has always been one of my favorite bands, MA and MSG reminded me why.
rating: :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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so, you may have noticed that my 9-show PJ run was changed to 8 shows...
well, after friday night, i was wiped. really couldn\'t justify ~8 hours of driving for a 2.5 hour show. and after what i\'d just seen in MA, there was really nothing they could do to top it. so last minute, i decided not to make the trek.
i don\'t regret it either. nothing too out of the ordinary in the setlist, and i was asleep before midnight, so the drive home definitely would not have been fun.
final show of the US tour in jersey tonight. then that\'s it.. this run has been a lot of fun. one more to go!
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My appreciation of Pearl Jam went through the roof over the past week. They\'ve been one of my favorite bands for years and the one show I saw in Hartford in 98 was very good. But they simply topped all preconceptions with the two MSG shows and the Friday Great Woods performance, which rivals any concert I\'ve ever seen (Phish 12-30-97 is my favorite), produced a type of energy which I\'ve never experienced at any show. The crowd simply knows the words to every song, sings along, and the band appreciates it and feeds off it, playing with more ferocity as the crowd sings with added intensity. People move around too, although I don\'t know if you could officially consider it dancing. Either way, the place was going fucking nuts the entire show--really, all three shows--but Friday was the topper. When you play 45 songs, 21 of which I had never heard, many of which were bustouts, and you play three encores, you deserve to have 25,000 enjoying every second of it and screaming their heads off.
They kicked my ass. With these three shows, I saw virtually every song I wanted to hear (a few dark horses remain such as Not for You, Immortality, Release, Oceans), and got zero three-peats, which helped.
With these shows under my belt I can confidently say, because I\'m a geek who keeps track of this sort of shit, that...
For me personally, "PEARL JAM IS BETTER THAN LED ZEPPELIN"
I know. I never thought I would ever say that, but PJ gets the nod because I have seen them live and their shows are just a wee bit better than the Page/Plant performance I saw at MSG in 98 (which was still good). So I know it\'s a biased opinion considering I didn\'t grow up in the 70\'s and see Led Zeppelin (and hear them play the same show every night for a decade), but I like PJ better due to lyrical depth, sheer power, the obvious fun they have on stage, the physical and vocal crowd energy, and the fact that they are clearly a band who cares about and appreciates their fans and shows it by, most important, mixing up their setlists. It\'s just so much better when you can\'t accurately predict the show, a feeling that all of us know for sure. Another great thing is that they offer fan club members first dibs on seats, based on seniorty, for 45 bucks, which is great considering the blatant stupidity and lack of consideration inherent in Phish\'s "Tickets" By Mail System.
So in short, Pearl Jam kicks ass. But anyone who has seen them live knows that. I know stuff like this means nothing to most people, but Pearl Jam is my fifth-favorite band, behind only Phish, Beatles, Zappa and Floyd. Zepp is number six. Is it only a matter of time before number seven, MMW, creeps up and passes them out? Not until they write a song as good as Battle of Evermore. Then again, they could move ahead of Zepp as long as they don\'t record an album as bad as In Through the Out Door.
Chris Pitch
There is a common belief among non-Pearl Jam fans that every album after Vitalogy is a far cry from everything else. And while those albums would be hard-pressed to be better than the first three, No Code, Yield, Binaural, and Riot Act are all great works. Anyone who dismisses them just because they aren\'t from the "grunge" days is likely a poseur who stopped listening to PJ when Alternative Nation went off the air (Kennedy poster: GONE) and is just plain stupid. I hate when perception--Pearl Jam\'s better days are behind them--overshadows reality--Pearl Jam\'s best days never ended. Then again, all this shit is all of our perceptions, I know. But PJ still fucking rocks!!!!!
I think Pearl Jam is Fred\'s 141st favorite band, trailing Sublime, but just ahead of Foo Fighters, if I\'m not mistaken.
Pitch
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dude...couldnt have said it any better :)
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Your soooo right on the money about the misconceptions and stereotypes people have of Pearl Jam...I LOVE each and every album of theirs on their own merits. It\' s like they matured a little on each album and I have grown up with them. Fuckin a....a certain someone on this board thinks they are "too hard" for him....every album after Vitalogy is much like a classic rock album ala Neil or vocally you can compare ed to Plant, but better imo....especially No Code and Yield. Hard is not the word for Pearl Jam...Ballsy is...Ed is God...Amen
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ed solo: Dead Man
setlist: Wash*, Once, Even Flow, Go, Dissident, Corduroy, Nothingman, I Got Id, In My Tree, Present Tense, Given To Fly, Wishlist, Evacuation, Insignificance, 1/2 Full, Save You, Porch
encore: Growin\' Up**, Do The Evolution, Daughter, Alive
encore 2: Hunger Strike***^, Leaving Here^, Fortunate Son^, Rockin\' In The Free World^
encore 3: Yellow Ledbetter
* tour debut.
** Bruce Springsteen cover; Ed solo; first time played.
*** last played 3/20/98.
^ with Sleater-Kinney.
once again, this band leaves me saying wow. US tour closer, and what a way to go out.. Wash opens the show out of nowhere!! followed by Once, Even Flow, Go - now that\'s what i call bringing it! on fire right out of the gates...
i also really enjoyed the I Got Id, In My Tree, Present Tense section.. note that the entire main setlist, with the exception of Porch, appears in chronological order with their albums (i.e. Wash, Once, and Even Flow from the Ten era, Go and Dissident from Vs., and so on..). pretty cool.
Ed gives a long speech at the beginning of encore1. says they\'ve said a lot of things throughout the shows, and that it all comes from caring. they care about us, they care about our country, and that\'s what makes a patriot - just loving your country... he thanks everyone, fans, crew, people who go to several shows, etc... says he\'s gonna try one from someone you may be seeing over the next few nights (and the crowd erupts with BRUUUUUUUCE)... says he heard he was gonna play at PNC, but they didn\'t have 167 nights in a row available. Ed then played Growin\' Up, and the crowd ate it right up..
Evolution was rockin\' as always... Daughter and Alive were pretty standard, though the crowd was flipping out during Alive...
Hunger Strike!!!! it was on the Hershey setlist, but they didn\'t play it... didn\'t sound too bad actually... Leaving Here was great to hear again.. that was enough of SK though... :)
really good show. the setlist structure was cool, but i didn\'t like the song selection here and there... but the 3 bust outs made up for it, and for that:
rating: :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
can\'t believe it\'s over.. thank you PJ for an incredible run! keep on rockin\' in the free world!
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THE DAILY NUMBERS
15,000 - number of ticket-holders at Friday night\'s Pearl Jam concert at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield
11 - the Tweeter\'s nightly curfew
30 - minutes Eddie Vedder et al played past curfew
50 - cents violators are fined per fan for first 30 minutes past curfew
7,500 - Pearl Jam\'s fine, in dollars
It delighted their fans, of course, but Pearl Jam\'s 3 1/2-hour show didn\'t go over too well with Tweeter Center management. General manager Bruce Montgomery fined the band $7,500 for violating the town-imposed curfew of 11 p.m. "It\'s important for us to maintain good relations with our neighbors," he said. Ironically, the grunge-rockers had given neighbors 250 tickets to Friday\'s show. It seems unlikely the band will play the Tweeter Center anytime soon. At one point during the concert, Montgomery and the band\'s manager, Kelly Curtis, could be seen arguing backstage. Afterward the band was denied the usual police escort and was told to find its own way out.
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a couple sprints, shoulder blocks, blisters, buckets of sweat, and a stressful cab ride, we made it to GCT barely in time for the 12:17 train!
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