Setlist:
WWS, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Marker In The Sand, Come Back,
Gone, Even Flow, Garden, Insignificance, Given to Fly, Present Tense, Army
Reserve,Why Go, Do the Evolution, Comatose
Encore: Man of the Hour, Elderly Woman, State of Love and Trust, Porch
Encore 2:Alive, Yellow Ledbetter
according to Chaim, "closer but not perfect"
Notables and Celebs in balcony: Kelly Curtis, Tim Bierman, Gisele Bundchen (victoria secret model ) David Frike, Jim James of MMJ, Scott Ian from Anthrax (head bobbing to several songs) Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, marky ramone, Fabrizio Moretti from the strokes(siging most songs with a shit eating grin on his face), Drew Barrymore.
Venue - shoebox, smaller than the showbox, like seeing PJ at a college bar where youd expect a cover band to play. HOT AS HELL, Vedder was a sweaty mess.
McCready handed out CDs autographed by the entire band to 90% of those fans on the rail that waited in line all day. Ed asked crowd if they wanted Betterman or SOLAT....State of Love and Trust won in a lanslide. Porch was strait out of 1992 -1994, lots of crowd surfing, intense pit, Ed climbed out to the fans as a few fans on the rail held him up for the "hey hey hey hey heyyyyyyyyy" part. Marker in the Sand seems to be a crowd fav and sounded fucking amazing.
The band is very well rehearsed and playing very tight. Come Back live is much better than Come Back album. Some kid climbed the wall and stage dove during SOLAT to which Ed yelled into mike something like "look out" def. caught the band and security by surprise. Garden sounded different. (not bad just different I wasnt able to put my finger on it I will have to listen to the show again before i figure it out) A few on the rail were pointing at Stone during Why Go and yelling WHY GO STONE to which the Stoner laughed. Lots of Stone dances, calling out cords, duck walk etc. Stone had a sweet PJ hat with the new PJ logo from the XMAS single. The improv was about NYC, Stone gave out ALOT of pics which is unusual for him, Ed bummed cigarette of fan during ledbetter as he was looking for his but couldnt find them, Floor was bouncing during GTF and DTE, ALL the new songs were incredilbe and the highlight of the show for me along with Porch. More tomorrow.
