09-26-2006, 01:38 AM
I don't know if anyone cares or not, but I saw Pearl Jam here last night. Good show, though I was in concert no-man's land, three-quarters of a way back on the floor.
I'd never been to a Pearl Jam concert before, so the highlights I'm going to mention may well be things that happen at every Pearl Jam concert. Regardless, the highlights:
- Eddie reading phonetically from pre-written German text to talk to the crowd. Very cute. The crowd giggled a lot.
- Changing the lyrics in "Elderly Woman" to "My God, it's been six years," as that was the last time the band was in Austria
- Great versions of Elderly Woman, Daughter (nice echo game played with the crowd), Why Go, Off he Goes, Black, Alive, and Fucking Up.
- Eddie is good at tambourine throwing and catching.
- Eddie moved to the soundboard for the first song of the encore. It was the dreadful Last Kiss, but it's cool that he spent a song near the people sitting in the back.
- I liked his sign-off: "When we meet again, I hope the world's a more peaceful place."
Cheers,
John
I'd never been to a Pearl Jam concert before, so the highlights I'm going to mention may well be things that happen at every Pearl Jam concert. Regardless, the highlights:
- Eddie reading phonetically from pre-written German text to talk to the crowd. Very cute. The crowd giggled a lot.
- Changing the lyrics in "Elderly Woman" to "My God, it's been six years," as that was the last time the band was in Austria
- Great versions of Elderly Woman, Daughter (nice echo game played with the crowd), Why Go, Off he Goes, Black, Alive, and Fucking Up.
- Eddie is good at tambourine throwing and catching.
- Eddie moved to the soundboard for the first song of the encore. It was the dreadful Last Kiss, but it's cool that he spent a song near the people sitting in the back.
- I liked his sign-off: "When we meet again, I hope the world's a more peaceful place."
Cheers,
John
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've just seen that the bootleg download is available to pre-order if you're interested. 
I was actually planning on being there, but then I got a job and, well, the European Pearl Jam adventure got put off for the time being. But I'm glad you enjoyed yourself--they're truly one of the greats. btw, all that stuff you liked (or most of it, anyway) is right off-the-cuff; it's part of what makes the Pearl Jam live experience so bloody satisfying.