the Thursday setlist is setting up to be an all-timer Eddie wasnt as political as I had thought, but lets see what happens when he does Neil Young. they would be better served playing at Bobby Dodd but Atlanta does not have another iconic venue for their size unfortunately.
Last Exit is the best opening track followed by Go. Release best closer. Fun game. Best opener. Best no 2 song, no 3, etc. Personal favorites: 1. Last Exit. 2. Hail Hail 3. Not For You 4. Given to Fly 5. Nothing as it Seems (Black might be the pick on a different day) 6. Off He Goes 7. Oceans 8. Corduroy (Porch and Rearview mirror hate leaving them off) 9. Grievance 10. Present Tense 11. Release (some bangers though) 12. Indifference 13. Immortality
Went to AC/DC last night and it got me so pumped for PJ next wk. Been tracking their show times and set lists on the tour here: https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/pearl-jam-23d6b80b.html
Same game but you only get one pick from each album would be interesting. Could include lost dogs disc 1 and 2
Would be pretty some. PJ needs to change up the closers. I can only hear Baba or Yellow Ledbetter so many times. Release is such a good opener though and Long Road.
This was tough. Something like... Go (Vs.) Superblood Wolfmoon (Gigaton) Love Boat Captain (Riot Act) Given to Fly (Yield) Wash (Lost Dogs Disc 2) Off He Goes (No Code) Pendulum (Lightning Bolt) Porch (Ten) Speed of Sound (Backspacer) Rival (Binaural) Setting Sun (Dark Matter) Come Back (Avocado) Immortality (Vitalogy) Undone (Lost Dogs) All or None (Binaural) Yellow Ledbetter (Lost Dogs) Not everything went to track 16 so Binaural and Lost Dogs got used twice.
Wish they had played Indifference with lights off in atl. Setting Sun needs way more play as a closer. Shelf baba, yl and rocking for a while. Move porch/rvm from set ender.
Not going to any of these shows but this resonates with me. We used to haul ass when they would play either song. Haven’t thought about this in years but it was always fun to run out of the venue.
Eddie coming out to play the tambourine with uber young KoL in Chicago at lolla in like 2006/2007 still one of my favorite moments at a festival. Cool to see them together again ~20 years later.
Top 5 for sure. Deep up there too. Everytime they play Evolution and the video pops up I am entirely taken back to being a kid watching MTV waiting and hoping for it come on. Being older at their shows and having all these original memories of the music and the shows with my dad makes me happy in different ways than their shows used to. It's pretty cool. Also old.
I still have a vivid memory of me sitting in my grandparents bed on a summer afternoon at like 330 watching whichever MTV video show it was (TRL? Don't remember) waiting for it and it came on and I was jumping around so much my grandmother came in to see what was up. She saw the video and was like "uh, what is this?". Called my dad out of concern to which my dad said "It's fine it's Pearl Jam".
My kid is in to 90s rock and he can shred on the guitar now. I've tried to get him to watch old concerts with me on youtube. He could not be less interested. I told him I would have committed several crimes at age 13-17 to have access to almost any concert I wanted to watch and you don't care at all.
Shit, the idea that you can just listen to any song you want whenever you want on 100 different devices is still wild. Or having radio stations that play the exact subgenre of music you like on command. The feeling of hearing the first cords of your song on the local radio station after waiting for 90 minutes will never be matched. Used to have the same feeling when we'd get close enough to Atlanta that 99X would finally come in clear on the radio. It made me so damn happy.
I remember when I got my own real stereo in my bedroom calling into the rock station at like 11pm to have them play Interstellar Love Song. I would also sit and listen waiting on specific songs then record them on a tape recorder I had.
The Birmingham alternative station aired a live Pearl Jam concert one NYE(I believe) and that was pretty awesome