Pearl Jam Discussion Part 3

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Yep. We'll see what happens.

If Barcelona does take place, it might be special... But I am not getting my hopes up at this point.
 
I still have hope for the Barcelona shows. We're heading there on Thursday. So hopefully there is some clarity before that. Those are the only indoor gigs for this tour, so I'm hoping for something special.
 
The shows in Barcelona were great! Best crowd I've ever witnessed at a Pearl Jam gig. The atmosphere was explosive, even though the 2nd show in particular did not sell well.

I got my biggest wish that I have not heard before, which is Off He Goes.

It is still a privilege to see this band live.
 
After 15 shows, these are the songs I would love to hear live that have not been played in front of my ears and eyes yet (and most of them likely never will):

Parting Ways
Sleight of Hand
W.M.A.
You Are
Undone
Angel
Satan's Bed
All Those Yesterdays
Tremor Christ
No Way
 
I've been to only one show... the setlist was almost perfect for me. Five tracks from Vs including three of my five favourites (only missing Dissident and Leash). Black from Ten. A bunch of classics. Probably the two covers I would most want to hear at a Pearl Jam show. Yellow Ledbetter. Ben Harper showing up. Liam Finn showing up for an Aussie favourite. Dissident, Leash, Better Man, Nothingman, Love Reign O'er Me, Comfortably Numb, Rockin in the Free World, Interstellar Overdrive, they're probably the only other tracks I'd ask to hear in November.
  1. Elderly Woman Behind a Counter in a Small Town
  2. Corduroy
  3. Animal
  4. Got Some
  5. Brother
  6. Amongst the Waves
  7. Even Flow
  8. Oceans
  9. Lukin
  10. Green Disease
  11. Force of Nature
  12. Present Tense
  13. Gonna See My Friend
  14. Given to Fly
  15. Daughter
  16. Glorified G
  17. The Fixer
  18. Do the Evolution

  19. The Needle and the Damage Done
  20. Just Breathe
  21. Red Mosquito (w/ Ben Harper)
  22. Indifference (w/ Ben Harper)
  23. Jeremy
  24. Deep
  25. Why Go
  26. Porch

  27. Throw Your Arms Around Me (w/ Liam Finn)
  28. Black
  29. Spin the Black Circle
  30. Alive
  31. Baba O'Riley
  32. Yellow Ledbetter
 
13 shows deep. Baltimore will (finally) be #14. Was supposed to see them in late March of 2020 but, well, yeah.

Seeing most of these shows in New York helps knock a lot of songs off the list - but here are the album tracks and/or major singles I HAVEN'T seen

  • Tremor Christ
  • Bugs
  • Satan's Bed
  • No Way
  • Pilate
  • All Those Yesterday's
  • Habit
  • Around The Bend
  • God's Dice
  • Light Years
  • Nothing As It Seems
  • Rival
  • Soon Forget
  • Parting Ways
  • Big Wave
  • Gone
  • Gonna See My Friend
  • Johnny Guitar
  • Sound of Speed
  • Getaway
  • Future Days
  • My Father's Son
  • All of Gigaton and Dark Matter, obviously
I think the only songs on the "haven't seen" list that were surprising were Nothing As It Seems and Light Years. I'd like to check them off my list, along with Future Days, Parting Ways and All Those Yesterday's.

Then we have Lost Dogs... it's easier to list the ones I HAVE seen from that collection

  • All Night
  • Down
  • Alone
  • Black, Red, Yellow
  • Yellow Ledbetter
  • Hard To Imagine
  • Footsteps
  • Last Kiss
  • Sweet Lew
  • Brother

Leaving Here, Wash and Dirty Frank are bucket lists. Wash seems the most likely - Dirty Frank is an utter crapshoot.

Have seen a lot of guests join them on stage... Glenn Hansard (not sure he even counts), Sting, half of Cheap Trick, Beyonce, Ace Frehley, Ben Bridwell. But I'm hoping that the Baltimore show presents the ultimate of bucket list moments... as Bruce is playing Camden Yards the next night (and is at Nats Park earlier that week). God knows Eddie has joined Bruce on stage a kagillion times... think it's about time he returns the favor.
 
Since we're talking about setlists, one of the coolest things ever was back in '94, I was probably 13 at the time, I recorded the Atlanta show onto a cassette tape. During that show they played 3 songs from Vitalogy, which hat not been released yet. This was pre internet era, so I remember singing "Better Man" here or there, even learning it on guitar and playing it to my friends, and then the album came out and they were all like "dude, Pearl Jam stole your song"!
 
mikal said:
Since we're talking about setlists, one of the coolest things ever was back in '94, I was probably 13 at the time, I recorded the Atlanta show onto a cassette tape. During that show they played 3 songs from Vitalogy, which hat not been released yet. This was pre internet era, so I remember singing "Better Man" here or there, even learning it on guitar and playing it to my friends, and then the album came out and they were all like "dude, Pearl Jam stole your song"!
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Easter Sunday Night
Lots of us recorded that show off radio.
It was a thread on the PJ message board recently for the 30th anniversary, lots of folks talking about guessing the names of the unreleased songs when labeling the cassette. I got 3 of the 4 right, Whipping, Not For You and Better Man, but labeled (as many others did) Satan's Bed as "Already in Love". Still have that cassette. Think its in my garage in a cassette carrying case with dozens of others that used to be my car music.
Saw them live for the first time a week later on 4/10.(and then the second time on 4/11 and the 3rd time pn 4/12).
 
At the Barcelona shows I finally heard one of my white whales, Oceans. Of my top 3 of those white whales only Garden and Save You remain. Plus, in Barcelona, heard Habit and Wasted Reprise (and the Dark Matter songs of course) for the first time as well. Those were two great nights, great crowd response (from where I was standing, between Eddie and Jeff, around 10-12 rows deep).

But yeah, it's funny how at a Pearl Jam show you hear some songs easily that remain rarities for others. After 19 shows these are the main tracks I still haven't heard live.
  • Garden
  • Whipping
  • Around The Bend
  • No Way
  • Push Me, Pull Me
  • All Those Yesterdays
  • Gods' Dice
  • Of The Girl
  • Grievance
  • Rival
  • Parting Ways
  • Can't Keep
  • Save You
  • Cropduster
  • Ghost
  • Thumbing My Way
  • You Are
  • Get Right
  • Bu$hleager
  • Gonna See My Friend
  • Johnny Guitar
  • Force Of Nature
  • Never Destination
  • Take The Long Way
  • Comes Then Goes
  • Retrograde
  • Won't Tell
  • Got To Give
Hmm... Still quite a list. Guess I have to see them even more then. :)
 
Hewson said:
Easter Sunday Night
Lots of us recorded that show off radio.
It was a thread on the PJ message board recently for the 30th anniversary, lots of folks talking about guessing the names of the unreleased songs when labeling the cassette. I got 3 of the 4 right, Whipping, Not For You and Better Man, but labeled (as many others did) Satan's Bed as "Already in Love". Still have that cassette. Think its in my garage in a cassette carrying case with dozens of others that used to be my car music.
Saw them live for the first time a week later on 4/10.(and then the second time on 4/11 and the 3rd time pn 4/12).
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Yep, my brother had this on cassette as well. One of my very early exposures to the band. Still one of their greatest gigs.
 
I was revisiting this article: Five Horizons: Articles, Spin Online, August 2001: Ten Past Ten ... and this comment by our Boner was highly amusing:

BONO: I'm a fan of the Pearl Jam organization, of what you might call the culture around the group. It's like the Grateful Dead. We've been thinking a lot about that West Coast way of doing business. I must say, I'm not sure how long U2's going to have the energy to take on the mainstream. And the Pearl Jam/Grateful Dead model is something to be really proud of. They exist entirely unto themselves. They don't depend on the media, don't depend on the radio.

(the article is from 2001)
 
My only PJ show was real recently. Never thought I'd bother going as I haven't liked the post-Riot Act albums, but YOLO, ya know? I've been to hundreds upon hundreds of shows since the pandemic, so I thought, why not?

The way to prevent scalpers was kind of cool but it actually left a LOT of people holding the bag here in Oakland. Turns out, demand actually isn't very high among the general audience to pay $120 the day of show for a ticket. So there was a lot of half off deals where you'd buy the ticket at $120 and fans would reimburse you $60 which is how I got in.

Likewise, the lack of ability to get rid of the tickets on that last day meant my seat (a pretty good lower level one) had five empty ones to the left and right of me, lol. I loved the breathing space.

Anyway, Matt Cameron infamously got Covid so aside from three new songs from the then most recent album, everything else was from 1998 and prior. Show of my dreams!

I agree with that recent Pearl Jam book (from Steve Hyden I think) that their live peak was Binaural while Riot Act was the last record that really showed them doing anything artistically daring (although the last two albums are way, way better than the three that came before). So the band is now about 25 years removed from that and tend to play a lot more of the hits in the setlist than deeper cuts, it seems. But still a really phenomenal live act by any measure.

It would be a pretty short list of bands 35 years on that are better live than they are currently. The Cure, Yo La Tengo...The Church and Suede are real good....Luna. Not many!
 
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Avocado is their last great album as far as I'm concerned.

There is a reinvigorating and reenergizing feel throughout that whole record, and the songwriting is very strong. The supporting tour was fantastic. I'm not a big fan of their albums afterwards, but they are indeed still an amazing live act.

The Binaural-Avocado era was their second peak as a live band, after the 1994 tour IMO. So many legendary shows in the 2000-2006 era, including the epic Seattle tour closer in 2000, Mansfield 3-night no-repeat 'experiment' in 2003, the Benaroya Hall semi-acoustic show, the Gorge shows in 2005-06, the Immagine in Cornice concerts in 2006, and many more.
 
Found this online, still don't know if they're the actual lyrics

Unsealed, on a porch a letter sat
Then you said, "I wanna leave it again"
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand
And on the sand I wanna leave her again
On a weekend I wanna wish it all away, yeah
And they called and I said that I'll go
And I said that I'll call out again
And the reason I ought ta leave her calm, I know
I said, "I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag"
Oh yeah, can you see them, out on the porch?
Yeah, but they don't wave
I see them 'round the front way, yeah
And I know, and I know I don't wanna stay
Make me cry
I see oh, I don't know why there's something else
I want to, wanna drum it all away
I said, "I don't, I don't know whether I was the boxer or the bag"
Oh yeah, can you see them, out the on porch?
Yeah, but they don't wave
I see them 'round the front way
And I know, and I know I don't want to stay at all
I don't want to stay
I don't want to stay
I don't want to stay
I don't, I don't want to stay
 
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