Tuesday, October 04, 2005

10.3.05:Pearl Jam@Wachovia Center

It's been over a year since I've been to a major venue to see a show. My triumphant return to the "scene" was in grand fashion, as it was Pearl Jam's last show of their North American tour and I had the pleasure of seeing the show with cohorts Richard "Don't call me dick" Gaynor and Sue "Pass the dutchie on the left AND right hand side" Marino.
You see, Rich is a senior member of the Ten Club, the auspicious fan club of Pearl Jam and hinted at our drive down that the seats would be awesome. We headed out from hoboken at 1:30, making amazing time and arrived at the hotel right outside philly at promptly 3. We drank to drink and drunk to be drunk, and soon dusk descended, finding us walking to the show to find out what kind of seats we had. Rich went up to willcall and came back with 2 tickets on the 13th row! After locating our seats we found ourselves 13th rows back on the ground level between Mike McCready and Eddie Vedder with a perfect view of the rest of the band. The venue was alot smaller than I had anticipated which was fine since it felt more intimate. The one gripe i had is that the acoustics weren't as good as they should have been. Often during the set I found myself straining to make out the muddy vocals of Eddie Vedder.
Set list: Wash, Hail Hail, Brain of J., Spin The Black Circle, Given To Fly, Sad, Alone, Even Flow, Green Disease, Faithfull, Whipping, Not For You, Leatherman, Better Man, Nothingman, Once, Bleed For Me, Blood

1st encore: Around the Bend, Harvest Moon w/Sleater Kinney, Hard to Imagine, Crown Of Thorns, Crazy Mary, Alive

2nd encore: Last Kiss, In My Tree, Do The Evolution, Sonic Reducer, Little Sister, Leaving Here, Rocking in the Free World w/Sleater Kinney, Yellow Ledbetter

My favorite songs of the show were Once, blood, Crazy mary- where a techinical glitch spooked eddie and he jokinly refused to continue the song unless the crowd did first.
Mike McCready also had a pretty cool solo during even flow where he played the guitar on his back ala Hendrix:

For those of you who do not know the "leash story" Pearl Jam hasn't played this song
for many years. They almost played it at a prior show but the rest of the band members mouthed to eddie that they had forgotten to play the song. So at this show, shouts of "leash! leash!" bounced off the band at various pauses between songs, but sadly this amazing song was not played. They ended with yellow ledbetter, which of course is a PJ classic where they were joined by Sleater Kinney ( a band that I could have done without seeing)

These chicks look like any other skanks I see at the bars on the weekend. Not impressed at all. The experience has inspired me to see many more shows, instead of doing the same thing every weekend- drink at some gay lounge, wakeup feeling like shit,rinse, repeat. As always comments are welcome and appreciated ! :)

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, do the "skanks" at the bars you go to have seven albums under their belts and play their instruments like motherfuckin rock gods? Tell me where these bars are! I want to go!

4:41 PM

 
Blogger Rajan said...

i thought these skanks just look like the skanks seen at gay bars. what exactly does a skank with 7 albums under their belts look like? they must be busting a serious sag.

it also may be one thing to play like motherfuckin rock gods, but i doubt that changes a skank's appearance...

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o_0

12:04 AM

 

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