Regarding parking. The structure at Expo and Figueroa is $20.
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Regarding parking. The structure at Expo and Figueroa is $20.
Ah, that's the one I was trying to remember. Parked there last time for the RATM show. ThanksQuote:
Originally Posted by TheClaw
Wow. I barely know what to say. Wonder what the hell I was thinking to not have seen these guys sooner? Always great to see a band at the top of their game and that's where PJ is right now. Got both Daughter and Elderly Lady. Also got some pretty sweet covers of Pink Floyd's Mother and The Who's Love Reign O'er Me. I suppose I could niggle over the mediocrity that is the LA Sports Arena, but it was hardly noticed. Met lots of great people and got three hours of killer music. Good times!
Fantastic shows both nights, but night 1 takes the cake as far as energy goes. The main set on Saturday felt like it flew by, whereas Sunday was pretty mellow in its construction. Liked hearing Go and Blood tonight. Eddie seemed a bit closer to earth tonight vs. yesterday...despite his claims of bringing the wine drinking up to "professional" level mid-set, haha. Amazed they didn't play Smile either night, thought I saw 3 or 4 signs asking for it.
Personally, I thought tonight's setlist flowed much better than last night. Although, it seemed like Ed was calling a lot of audibles all night. It'll be interesting to see what the original setlist looked like. But yes, the crowd energy Night 1 was much better. More importantly, though, I finally got Breath! I lost my mind when the first notes hit. Oceans, Immortality, No Way, and Mother were other highlights for me. Just a great way to end my tour. My final rankings for my three shows: No. 1 Phoenix, No. 2 Los Angeles 2, No. 3 Los Angeles 1.
Los Angeles, CA
LA Sports Arena
Nov. 24, 2013
01. Oceans
02. Low Light
03. Present Tense
04. Interstellar Overdrive
05. Corduroy
07. Lightning Bolt
08. Amongst The Waves
09. My Father’s Son
10. Given To Fly
10. Swallowed Whole
11. Immortality
12. Infallible
13. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
14. Future Days
15. Even Flow
16. Do The Evolution
17. Mind Your Manners
18. Sirens
19. No Way
20. Blood
Encore Break 1
21. Better Man/Save It For Later
22. Daughter/Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
23. After Hours
24. Sleeping By Myself
25. Mother
26. Breath
27. Go
28. Porch
Encore Break 2
29. Last Kiss
30. Unthought Known
31. Love, Reign O’re Me
32. Alive
33. Rockin’ In The Free World
That first encore was great. Mother->Breathe->Go->Porch was so strong.
That was the Pearl Jam die-hard's absolute dream setlist. Holy shit. I was up in the Concourse tonight, and about 15 people back in GA last night, and I thought tonight blew last night out of the water.
I took my mom to her first PJ show, and aside from it being nearly a dream setlist for me, her getting songs like Daughter, Elderly Woman, Corduroy, and Better Man was just awesome as well. Low Light was the second of my 3 white whale songs I've been able to cross off this past week, leaving Hard to Imagine as the lone remaining. Immortality is my favorite PJ song, and I don't think I've heard it since Irvine '03 I wanna say? Incredible. No Way was amazing to hear...you can't blame the band for a lack of energy from the crowd when they play a song like that the few fanatics go crazy for but the casual fan doesn't know. I applaud them for doing things like that.
The Velvet Underground cover was heartfelt and wonderful. The Pink Floyd cover was absolutely stellar. Only the 2nd time in 22 shows that I've seen Breath, yet again as I was losing my mind people were mostly standing still around me because it's not that well-known of a song. Again, not the band's fault if the crowd's lame.
The San Diego show still remains the finest I've seen from the band, but this is just a notch or two below.
I also took my mom and we were in concourse singing our asses off with everyone else! Amazing night
Like has been mentioned, lots of audibles called tonight. It does kind of kill me that they had planned on playing Hard to Imagine and scrapped it. Fuck. Oh well.Quote:
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Seeing that set list from last night kills me. KILLS me. Jesus. I was ok with missing SD and LA I, but I'm so bummed with what I missed yesterday. Portland, please be as special.
I think you'll definitely get something special in Portland. They'll have had two days of rest just like they did for Phoenix and look how that turned out for us. This might sound odd, but seeing Ledbetter crossed off stings the most for me. I haven't had it close a show since MSG 2 in 2008 and it would've been the perfect way to end my three show run. What a great run it was, though. Got to to take my mom to her first PJ show in Phoenix and what an incredibly high bar that set for her, especially with us being on the rail. LA Night 1 marked my dad's sixth PJ show. Then on Sunday I got to take both my mom and dad to a show for the first time since I didn't have 10C tickets. Just a great, great week. Here's to hopefully getting out to some shows in 2014. I got to cross off Breath from my top 3, but I'm still chasing In My Tree and Wash. I'll go to the ends of the earth to hear them if I have to.
Last night was insane and amazing. Ended up 1 back from the stage and watching Eddie make all those changes was something else. Picking between the two setlists, I'd probably pick night 1 because of Release, Garden and Black, three songs I've never managed to hear live before.
After seeing 5 shows in 2009 and not being able to cross any off my list, I'm extremely happy to have crossed off In Hiding and Low Light this time around. With Hard to Imagine remaining, the next ones that have moved up to #2 and #3 are Wash and Smile.Quote:
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Back home in Arizona now and I think I'm starting to enter the first stages of Post Tour Depression. Here are some shots I took at the LA shows.
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Bastards in Oakland got Thin Air AND Smile tonight. 3 hours 23 minutes, exactly how long the SD show was, an extra half hour longer than the LA shows were.
Awesome. I was at Sunday's show and honestly it was just the right length. The three hours flew by.
Yeah, looks like Oakland got a really great show. Would have loved to have heard Smile and Fuckin' Up at one of my three shows. Who ever thought that Phoenix, Oakland and Charlottesville would get three of the best shows of the tour? I mean, everyone kind of always suspects San Diego will get a great show because of the connections, so that wasn't too big of a surprise. Faithful was played for a Brazilian fan who got mugged outside the arena in the morning and had everything taken from her (money, cards and passport). She's been at every show since Phoenix and is supposed to continue on through Seattle. Sucks to hear that happened.
Oakland, CA
Oracle Arena
Nov 26, 2013
01. Pendulum
02. Nothingman
03. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
04. Why Go
05. Hail Hail
06. Lightning Bolt
07. Mind Your Manners
08. Dissident
09. Faithful
10. Setting Forth
11. Corduroy
12. Even Flow
13. Sirens
14. Daughter
15. Unthought Known
16. Let The Records Play
17. Down
18. State Of Love And Trust
19. Better Man/Save It For Later
Encore Break 1
20. After Hours
21. Yellow Moon
22. Last Kiss
23. Just Breathe
24. Thin Air
25. Given To Fly
26. Untitled
27. MFC
28. Big Wave
29. Do The Evolution
30. New World w/John Doe
31. Porch
Encore Break 2
32. Smile
33. Crazy Mary
34. Black
35. Alive
36. Fuckin' Up
37. Indifference
Got tickets for Oakland at the last minute, so glad I was able to. What a great set. Epic performance.
There was also a really nice moment during the encore when the band went over and played "Last Kiss" in front of the Bridge School students who were in attendance.
Note to self: travel to every PJ show that comes after a two-day break. Animal, Deep, You Are, Last Exit and All Those Yesterdays jump out at me when I look at the setlist. I knew Portland would get something pretty special. They also got a kinda sorta Sleater-Kinney reunion with a dash of R.E.M. thrown in during RITFW.
Portland, OR
Rose Garden
Nov. 29 2013
01. Pendulum
02. Low Light
03. Sometimes
04. Interstellar Overdrive
05. Corduroy
06. Lightning Bolt
07. Mind Your Manners
08. Animal
09. Deep
10. Sirens
11. Even Flow
12. You Are
13. Given To Fly
14. Infallible
15. After Hours
16. Spin The Black Circle
17. Rats
18. Lukin
19. Last Exit
20. Rearviewmirror
Encore Break 1
21. The End
22. Yellow Moon
23. All Those Yesterdays
24. Just Breathe
25. Mother
26. State Of Love And Trust
27. Why Go
28. Porch
Encore Break 2
29. Better Man/Save It For Later
30. Wasted Reprise
31. Life Wasted
32. Black
33. Alive
34. Rockin’ In The Free World w/ Carrie Brownstein, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Janet Weiss, Corin Tucker
Steve Gleason wrote the setlist for the second time this tour. The crowd convinced/pressured Stone to sing! Ed saw someone holding a sign that said "Jeremy Spokane Class Today" and a guy was holding a sign saying he'd shave his head if they played it. The guy had super long dreads. The band played Jeremy and later brought the guy up on stage and had Ed shave the guy's head. Heading into the stretch run with just three shows left; Calgary, Vancouver and Seattle.
Spokane, WA
Spokane Arena
Nov. 30, 2013
Set List
01. Pendulum
02. Release
03. Sirens
04. Corduroy
05. Once
06. Lightning Bolt
07. Mind Your Manners
08. Faithfull
09. Tremor Christ
10. Even Flow
11. Getaway
12. Present Tense
13. Swallowed Whole
14. Daughter
15. After Hours
16. Let The Records Play
17. Push Me, Pull Me
18. Jeremy
19. Do The Evolution
20. Porch
Encore Break 1
21. I Won't Back Down
22. Nothing As It Seems
23. Footsteps
24. Severed Hand
25. Don’t Gimme No Lip
26. Brain Of J/Dread Shave Blues Jam
27. Go
28. Black
29. Rearviewmirror
Encore Break 2
30. Given To Fly
31. Eruption
32. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
33. Alive
34. Yellow Ledbetter
So I never posted about my experience with the Portland show. Great crowd, great set, and a pretty good setlist. It is unbelievable how quickly the show zoomed by. And you never knew what was coming next outside of the pretty standard placement of songs from the new album. The new album songs definitely sound better live, too. For the special guests, I actually didn't know definitively who the REM guys were until after the show since I couldn't understand what Ed was mumbling when he introduced them (he was fucking HAMMERED. I just heard him say "Blhsljldhla Buck", so I thought it could be Peter Buck. Never had any clue who Scott was). I am not a S-K fan at all, but I guess it is a big deal they were on stage together. Corin's voice wasn't unbearable, so that's good! I have heard her butcher some songs on bootlegs, so her portion of the song was definitely better than what I had heard in the past.
It has been a little tough seeing all of these songs I had never heard being played in the shows immediately before or after the Portland show, but what can you do? Smile, Fuckin' Up, and No Way remain my top 3 songs I want to hear live that I have yet to hear. I also really wanted Hard to Imagine and Of the Girl (both played last night). I am bummed that I don't get to see them again this tour, as they are in great form.
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Last night was incredible. Velvet Underground cover was awesome as well as Eddie singing Homer's Mr. Plow song because we've been getting shit kicked by a blizzard the last couple of days.
Oh suuuuure...now they decide to break out some Binaural. Bastards. Final show of the tour tomorrow in Seattle. Wonder what the over/under on songs played is set at?
Vancouver, BC
Rogers Arena
Dec 04, 2013
01. Oceans
02. Can’t Keep
03. Low Light
04. Corduroy
05. Breakerfall
06. Mind Your Manners
07. Why Go
08. God’s Dice
09. Lightning Bolt
10. In Hiding
11. Even Flow
12. Setting Forth
13. Not For You/Modern Girl
14. Daughter/It’s OK
15. Infallible
16. After Hours
17. Sirens
18. Jeremy
19. Gonna See My Friend
20. Improv
21. Porch
Encore Break 1
22. Soon Forget
23. Yellow Moon
24. Thumbing My Way
25. Footsteps
26. Mother
27. Insignificance
28. Given To Fly
29. Got Some
30. Better Man/Save It For Later
Encore Break 2
31. Go
32. Do The Evolution
33. Black
34. Alive
35. Kick Out The Jams w/ Mark Arm and Steve Turner of Mudhoney
36. Yellow Ledbetter
Not sure if it's been mentioned here, or if there's interest, but Pearl Jam is featured quite well, and rather prominently, in the new movie Out of the Furnace.
Casey Affleck mentioned on Conan the other night that Eddie contacted him about contributing music for the film, and that he re-recorded Release for it and gave him tickets for one of the LA shows. Which makes sense now, because I spotted him near where Tim Robbins was sitting night 1 and I remember thinking that I hadn't heard of him being a fan of the band before.