Butler and a Mr. Plow reference. And wine, a lot of wine. Some great choices with State of Love and Trust, Red Mosquito, Sleight of Hand and the just incredible versions of Better Man and Porch.Incredible energy as always, probably 97% full, just a few patches of empty in the sections furthest from the stage. Bar has been set ridiculously high for Friday, but that's totally sold out and scalpers are going wild.
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I'm going to open up here. I'll probably get hazed pretty bad here, but this is why this concert meant so much to me.
20 years ago (when I was 14) I heard 'Once' by Pearl Jam for the first time. Ever since then, I've always wanted to see them live. But, every time I wanted to go I was either sick, broke, tickets sold out too quick, out of town or mother nature messed up plans to go.
Tonight I was determined to go. My car got stuck 3 times on the way to the c-train. After being pushed out the 3rd time, and also helping 5 other cars get out, I threw in the towel. It wasn't meant to be. I abandoned my car, 5 blocks from home, and walked back...defeated.
Fortunately, my wife's cousin was also going to the concert tonight and picking up his brother...whom also lives in my community (Martindale).
Thanks to him, I finally got to see Pearl Jam. I only wish my best friend was there to rock-out (do people still do this?) with me. I guess next time. He couldn't make it out of Royal Oak.
'Black' wasn't played. I guess that's PJ's way of saying "we'll play it next time." There will be a next time. Pearl Jam is coming back in the summer.
I'll be there!
I don't expect people to understand how I feel. "It's just a concert" is what I'm getting from a few people. For me it's like a long journey, and I've finally reached the end. 20 years in the making.
PS. the dudes that drove in from Regina, sitting behind me, were awesome!
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01. Of The Girl
02. Hard To Imagine
03. Nothingman
04. Lightning Bolt
05. Corduroy
06. Mind Your Manners
07. Animal
08. Red Mosquito
09. I Am Mine
10. Wishlist
11. Even Flow
12. Sirens
13. Given To Fly
14. Infallible
15. Do The Evolution
16. I Got ID
17. Rats
18. State Of Love And Trust
19. Lukin
20. Better Man/Save It For Later
Encore Break 1
21. After Hours-(Lou Reed)
22. Sleight Of Hand
23. Future Days
24. Daughter
25. Last Exit
26. Go
27. Porch
Encore Break 2
28. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
29. Crazy Mary-(Victoria Williams)
30. Alive
31. ####in’ Up-(Neil Young)
32. Indifference
About 2 hours and 50 minutes.
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I just about crapped my pants when I realized they were doing "Fataing Up" by Neil Young, because 13 months earlier I was watching the man himself playing that song --- in the very same seats too.
The real star of the show was Jaxon Smith (@jaxon_drums), 8-year-old son of Global TV's Kevin Smith, YouTube star and Today Show.
What a great life the kid has. Check out his twitter page, https://twitter.com/jaxon_drums where there will be a vid posted tomorrow of tonight's show.
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Glad you all enjoyed the show. Can't wait to hear it on PJ radio, Sirius 22!
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Whether it was that rather large magnum of red wine he was consuming, or simply that he is now a 48-year-old father-of-two, the one-time dour anti-rock star of Seattle’s Pearl Jam was good-natured, gracious, funny, warm and even playful when leading his veteran grunge outfit through an energetic and generous three-hour set.
Pearl Jam, arguably the most stadium-friendly of the 1990s grunge purveyors, unleashed a pitch-perfect show as a blizzard raged outside, paying tribute to their impressive back catalogue without forgoing their freshly released and underrated new album, Lightning Bolt. It’s a testament to the act’s prowess on stage — and its large quantity of durable songs — that they rarely seem to repeat a setlist, keeping their fans (and us hapless journalists struggling to identify tunes) on their toes. It all gave the evening a sense of spontaneity, a rarity for stadium acts.
While Vedder hasn’t abandoned his expressive singing, he has certainly embraced his band’s inherent crowd-pleasing, classic-rock vibe in ways he never did as a brooding young artist. He paid earnest tribute to everyone from Calgary snowplow drivers, to Lou Reed (before a wonderful, solo cover of The Velvet Underground’s After Hours), to flood recovery efforts at the Dome. But he also swung over the crowd on a lighting unit like Errol Flynn and showcased some Pete Townshend windmill moves, suggesting this one-time purveyor of angst and sorrow doesn’t take himself quite as seriously as he once did. He also pointed out that the evening’s opening act — old friend’s Mudhoney — had braved a 13-hour drive to play a 45-minute set for Pearl Jam’s fans.
Eddie is one of the best front-men - such a warm voice. I have never seen a Dome crowd so engaged. Maybe when I saw Springsteen do Badlands. Maybe. Kind of strange to see people party-dancing to sad songs like Daughter and Better Man, but those songs were performed with a lot of energy.
Strange too to see Eddie make light of how much wine he was drinking, in a band that was earlier plagued with substance abuse. He was stumbling and slurring his words towards the end of the show. If he is drinking that much "four or five nights a week", that can't be good for his health. Such is the life of a rock star.
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Vedder took several gulps from the biggest magnum of wine you’ve ever seen ... and it was game on.
When Pearl Jam walks on stage you inherently know that you are in the presence of a truly great rock and roll band. It’s a band’s band and a fan’s band. It’s everything a live music entity should be: spontaneous, loose and off-the-cuff, while at the same time musically precise, in-the-pocket, entertaining and consistently thrilling.
Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Matt Cameron, Jeff Ament and Mike McCready have long graduated from the late ’80s and early ’90s Seattle grunge scene that may have spawned them, but never did define them.
Pearl Jam’s Calgary performances (about once every two years) are events, and last night’s concert at the Saddledome may have been the best yet. A good seven weeks into the 25-date North American leg of its current Lightning Bolt tour, the band is, shall we say, dialed in.
Awesome show. I found a spot in 108 beside the stage and stayed there the entire show (right beside Jaxon)
Amazing band, I get why people travel so far to see them live, they really enjoy their fans, and love playing music and are really really good at it. McCready is a freaking beast.
The other songs scratched out besides Black and Jeremy were Worlwide Suicide, Got Some, Sleeping by Myself and Leavin' Here (both Eddie Vedder solo). Cannot for the life of me make out the other song.
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I wonder why he scratched them out.. I know he keeps track of what he plays in what city because he has said before multiple times when I've seen him "We've never played this one here before.." usually a coveted Ten song like those scratched out.
But obviously by now he would have played Jeremy in Calgary. He has yet to in Saskatoon, trust me
And Red-Mile DJ I totally understand what you are talking about, Pearl Jam is more than "just a band" and every show they put on is "more than just a concert". It is an experience in itself. Future Days is going to be my wedding song, I would have liked to hear it live... ah well, another day.
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I don't love pearl jam, but my girlfriend does, so I went with her. We had terrible seats, but after mudhoney finished, a guy came along and have a bunch of people in our section floor passes. It was a lot of fun being down 10' from the stage and being in the centre of it all. Had a great time.
On a side note, I think I was one of the very few who really enjoyed mudhoney.
Glad you guys were able to make it. Saw them here this summer at the Budweiser Gardens. They picked London, Ontario of all places to play a warm-up show for their only other concert of the summer at Wrigley (which turned out to be a stormy, rainy day). They were spotted all over London for the week before as they were using the Gardens to practise.
They have played here twice, which seems weird since at most the Gardens holds 10,500 - 11,000 for concerts (9,046 for hockey).
I don't love pearl jam, but my girlfriend does, so I went with her. We had terrible seats, but after mudhoney finished, a guy came along and have a bunch of people in our section floor passes. It was a lot of fun being down 10' from the stage and being in the centre of it all. Had a great time.
On a side note, I think I was one of the very few who really enjoyed mudhoney.
I liked Mudhoney. Mark Arm was watching PJ from the side of the stage for the last few songs. McCready was hamming it up with him during a long jam. I thought maybe Eddie was going to bring Arm up on stage for a song.
