Pearl Jam

[blg]

The band did their best Springsteen impersonation last night in San Diego and played 3 hours and 25 minutes. I personally had mixed feelings about the show, although from what I've read many thought it ranked up there with some of their best shows. Wouldn't go that far as quantity doesn't necessarily equal quality. I will say Ed's voice sounded better than it has in years and the band was super tight.

I took the night off from taping, but a friend did the deed. Had great seats since my wife has been in the 10 Club since 1993.

Setlist for anyone interested:

01 Intro
02 Pendulum
03 Nothingman
04 Sometimes
05 Why Go
06 Lightning Bolt
07 Mind Your Manners
08 All Night
09 Given To Fly
10 Tremor Christ
11 In Hiding
12 Setting Forth
13 Swallowed Whole
14 Army Reserve
15 Even Flow
16 Insignificance
17 Sirens
18 Better Man
19 Spin the Black Circle
20 Light Years
21 Porch

Encore 1:
22 -banter-
23 Sleight of Hand
24 Speed of Sound
25 Just Breathe
26 Sleeping By Myself
27 Severed Hand
28 In My Tree
29 Rearviewmirror

Encore 2:
30 -banter-
31 Leaving Here
32 Black
33 Do the Evolution
34 Alive
35 Baba O’Riley
36 -banter-
37 Yellow Ledbetter
38 Rockin’ in the Free World

[West E]

that's a hell of a show. wow. People definitely got their money's worth.
I don't think I've ever heard Sleight of Hand live.

[Hucksta G]

Quite a setlist!

[blg]

I thought the LA shows were great, with night 1 being a little better in my opinion. Both shows ran just under 3 hours. For these shows we had the GA floor fanclub area and I hung out towards the back of that. My friend taped night 1 and I did night 2. Btw, if anyone wants to hear, feel free to PM me and let me know whether you prefer MP3 of FLAC.

Setlists:
July 23, Sports Arena, Los Angeles:

01 Pendulum
02 Release
03 Long Road
04 Corduroy
05 Lightning Bolt
06 Mind Your Manners
07 Why Go
08 -banter-
09 Dissident
10 Getaway
11 Got Some
12 Garden
13 Do the Evolution
14 I Got Shit
15 -banter-
16 Sirens
17 State of Love and Trust
18 Jeremy
19 Leatherman
20 Eruption
21 Spin the Black Circle
22 Rearviewmirror

Encore 1:
23 -banter-
24 Yellow Moon
25 Footsteps
26 All or None
27 Come Back
28 I Believe in Miracles
29 Given to Fly
30 Once
31 Porch

Encore 2:
32 -banter-
33 Unthought Known
34 Black
35 -banter-
36 Alive
37 Baba O’Riley
38 Indifference

Total Time: 171:50

July 24, Sports Arena, Los Angeles:

01 Intro
02 Oceans
03 Low Light
04 Present Tense
05 Interstellar Overdrive >
06 Corduroy
07 Lightning Bolt
08 Amongst the Waves
09 My Father’s Son
10 Given To Fly
11 Swallowed Whole
12 Immortality
13 Infallible
14 Small Town
15 Future Days
16 Even Flow
17 Do the Evolution
18 Mind Your Manners
19 Sirens
20 No Way
21 Blood
22 -encore break 1-
23 -banter-
24 Better Man/(SiFL)
25 Daughter/(ABitW-II)
26 -banter-
27 After Hours
28 Sleeping By Myself
29 Mother
30 Breath
31 Go
32 Porch
33 -encore break 2-
34 Last Kiss
35 Unthought Known
36 Love, Reign O’er Me
37 Alive
38 Rockin’ in the Free World

Total Time: 175:30

[Strilo]

Originally Posted by West E

that's a hell of a show. wow. People definitely got their money's worth.
I don't think I've ever heard Sleight of Hand live.

I've been lucky enough to hear it live twice!

[West E]

Originally Posted by Strilo

I've been lucky enough to hear it live twice!

Lucky. There's people I know who don't even like PJ who love that song. I hope I get to see them again someday. 96,98,00,03. Haven't made it back since.

[Strilo]

I saw them in Portland on 11/29. It was a great show, probably the best I've ever seen in Portland.

[The Edge]

I've been listening to Pearl Jam lately and getting nostalgic for the early 1990's. I feel all the albums from Rock bands released between January 1990 and December 1994 were the best, certainly the most creative time in 1990's music. I haven't heard such great work since.

For me, personally, Ten, vs., and Vitalogy are Pearl Jam's best works, each album different from each other, too. No Code had a few good tracks, Yield I liked, I never heard Binaural, I remember liking Riot Act when it was the current album, and I really dug the Lost Dogs compilation.

Then, something happened. I bought the Avocado on the day of its release, not knowing at first that there was even an album coming. I started to listen and I just couldn't pay attention and actually listen. The first track passed through my ears like background elevator music. Couldn't get into the album. Was there something wrong with me? Did other people feel the same way? From that point on, I didn't bother with Backspacer or Lightning Bolt.

Now, I feel like I may have to give Avocado another chance and catch up on the albums I missed.

Now, onto why I'm in this thread right now: speaking of Ten, I recently listened to the Legacy Edition of Ten. I know that disc 1 is supposed to be the original album remastered and disc 2 is Brendan O'Brian's re-mix that the band commissioned. Listening to disc 1, however, it seems to me that the original album was "tampered", as in, I know it's supposed to be remastered, but this is not how I remember Ten sounding back in the day. Listening to the remaster of vs. as well, I'm getting the same feeling that perhaps the first discs from 20 or so years ago were the best those albums sounded.

If there is someone, anyone, familiar with both the original mastering of both albums (Ten, in particular) and their remastered counterparts, would you kindly explain what went on?

[nefilim]

love the band. i am so old that bought 'ten' when it came out and been fan since and own all the albums, dvds, blu's ... etc

BUT

they are know to tour a lot. but. they have been to Finland only once - when supporting Neil Young ... no headliners shows. WTF.

did Finnish beer put you off or something ... as they were pretty drunk in the show

come back !

[arcadeforest]

Count me as a fan of Pearl Jam

[stvn1974]

This thread made me put on Backspacer and Lightning Bolt earlier. I actually took my favorite songs from both and made a really great album.

[The Edge]

What are some opinions on Ten's 2009 remaster vs. the 1991 original master?

(No, I don't mean the 2009 remix)

[Strilo]

To my ears, the remaster sounds like the same mix as the original 1991 release. The only tampering would have been the remaster itself. I think it sounds a little better than the 1991 release. Cleaner and much better low end.

[The Edge]

For me, I prefer all the reverb from the 1991 release over the clean sound from the remaster. Because that way is how I and other people got to know the band back then. The remaster's clean sound comes off as sterile to me, and the remaster has so much compression and remastered too loudly. With today's technology, you would think there was a way to make it louder without compression.

U2's remasters did it right without brickwalling.

[Strilo]

I cannot even listen to the original mix anymore. The reverb may be how we got to know the band, but my love of everything since Ten has shown me that the sound of Ten wasn't them at all. I love the Redux mix and it's all I listen to anymore. I find it transitions into Vs. and Vitalogy much better now.

[GipsyDanger]

Hardcore fan, love everything they have done. Love the bands that helped form PJ and also Eddie's solo work. As far as the remasters go I never bother with them, I like to stick with what I grew accustomed to, plus with a lot of them I think the originals sound better anyways.

[starman15317]

More of the official bootlegs are on iTunes now. Can't wait to buy the Pittsburgh 2000 and 2013 shows.

[Filmmaker]

Got my tickets to their first performance ever in Tulsa, OK for this Fall the moment they went on sale Friday morning. Pretty excited--I've never seen them live before and they'll be supporting their best album in nineteen years.

[Trigger89]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

Got my tickets to their first performance ever in Tulsa, OK for this Fall the moment they went on sale Friday morning. Pretty excited--I've never seen them live before and they'll be supporting their best album in nineteen years.

Enjoy! Wish I had a chance to see them live.

[Strilo]

I am sad this tour is not taking them west of the continental divide.