Chicago, le 16 mai 2006 – Topic officiel

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Salle: United Center
Première partie: My Morning Jacket
Nbre de spectateurs:
Membre(s) du PJforum présent(s): -

Setlist: Release, WWS, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Comatose, Given to Fly, Lowlight, Corduroy, I'm Open, I Got Shit, Evenflow, Unemployable, Daughter/(WMA), Present Tense, DTE, Jeremy, Save You, Porch

Rappels 1: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Betterman, Come Back, SOLAT, Black, Alive

Rappels 2: Go, Blood, Indifference, Baba O'Riley

Rappels 3: Yellow Ledbetter

TFT Notes: The house lights go down and the band hits the stage at 8:45 PM to "Master/Slave" entrance music. During "Release", Ed sang "Oh dear John" in place of "Oh dear Dad". The crowd singing was so loud during the first chorus during "release me", that Ed took a step back and leaned his head back, overwhelmed. "Worldwide Suicide" featured animated Mike split-jumps and several long strings of light bulb-sized crackling, lights hanging from the stage lighting rafters. For "Severed Hand" Ed gestured his flat hand above his head to animate "the room"s taller now"; lasers beamed in a circle pattern from the stage to the top rear seats of the arena, green circles of light searchlighting on the crowd. Ed says "can't talk now, got work to do" before "Comatose" and Mike plays the solo behind his head. Ed tells the crowd after that he's "starting to feel United", mentioning that "a lot of incredible things have happened under this roof" and that he was "honored to play this building", home of many Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls championships. He said he "did some research, and the roof weighs 230 metric tons" and that "with your help we can raise it with you tonight." Mike was physically all over the place during the solo in "Even Flow", at one point grinding with his amp stack so animatedly that it almost knocked over. Ed counted the crowd in with his fingers, "1,2,3,4" for the final chorus of "Even Flow", using hand gestures to ensure they got the words – hand away from himself for "chases them away", index finger to lips for "whispering hands". Ed introduced the crowd to a man in the front row wearing a Mother Love Bone T-Shirt who was at the first show they played. He asked about his girlfriend, who is now the man's wife and he dedicated a song to him, telling the crowd that this guy deserved to be front and center. Ed introduces "Daughter" by saying this next song is called "Thank Heaven for Little Girls". During the "W.M.A" tag, Ed sings "Texas son" instead of "American", "Up his nose/it comes right off" instead of "dirty his hands...", and "President" instead of "police man". After the song he comments that the many sports commemorative flags hanging from the rafters may be dampening the sound - particularly a Jordan jersey retirement banner - and that it should be taken down, and that he would gladly store it in his suitcase. Ed backed up from the mic and let the vocal crowd sing the first chorus of "Present Tense"; Mike again grinded with his amp stack. On "Do The Evolution", Ed sang "Thrift Store, Thrift Store", pulling on his T-shirt and gesturing to his pants after "admire my clothes". After "2010 watch it go to fire" Ed sang "don't let it." Ed calls out a fan "Rob" in the front row (center) who came to one of PJ's earliest shows in Chicago with "a Mother Love Bone shirt and a pair of glasses". Ed says that he's got a different pair of glasses and remembered he used to go to shows with his girlfriend. Ed sees his non-female companion for this show and jokes that "he's married an older man". Watery circles of white light bathe the crowd in the back of the house in swirls during "Jeremy", and a red light shines on Jeff as he plays the song out. Mike tags "War Pigs" in "Porch" (later again in "Alive") and Ed sang the final verse of "Porch" on top of the speaker stack on Mike's side of the stage. Off at 10:20 PM, back on 10:23 PM. Before "You Got To Hide Your Love Away", Ed spoke of how United Center was "like no other place", and while he was proud to be in a band from Seattle, he'd always be a kid from Chicago, for better or worse - "I think it's better". He encouraged the crowd to sing by speaking of "our Uncle Neil" Young using a 100-piece choir on his latest Living with War, and that "you all could blow 100 pieces away". After the long held note on that last chorus of "Better Man", Ed went over to play the guitar breakdown with Mike, leaning down, putting the top of his head against Mike's chest. The crackled mirror ball was spotlighted near the end of "Alive"; the extended end of the song featured Ed swinging his mic repeatedly, and then collapsing to fall flat on his back. Encore break at 11:00 PM, back on three minutes later. Ed thanked the crowd, and the band gave them a round of applause. "Go" featured a barrage of lasers shooting out from a bank of effects in front of the monitors as well as behind Matt. On "Indifference", Ed stepped back quickly to let the crowd sing "I will scream my lungs out "til it fills this room". During "Baba O'Riley", Ed put his fist through on tambourine and broke the other over his head, giving them to a guy in row 3, and to a fellow in the front row who had an avocado drawn on the top of his bald head.


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Suite à l’ajout des topics officiels du leg2 et des dates européennes, je post pour remettre en avant les topics officiels du leg 1

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Article pre-concert:

Pearl Jam sues to stop would-be bootleggers

Published May 12, 2006

Proving that rock 'n' roll isn't only about the music--it's also about the money--Pearl Jam filed suit in Chicago on Thursday to keep counterfeiters from cashing in on the band's name during its current U.S. tour.

Filed in U.S. Northern District Court against "various John Does, Jane Does and XYZ companies," the suit would allow the band's security to confiscate any pirated merchandise being sold outside the shows, said the band's Chicago-based lawyer, Douglas Masters.

The complaint was filed after bootleggers were spotted outside Pearl Jam shows in Toronto.

"Given the nature of Pearl Jam's fame and fan base, there's a high likelihood the [counterfeiters] will do it again," Masters said.

In the suit, Masters asks for the order to be effective throughout the tour, which lasts through at least August.

Masters said that such requests are common and that he has filed them for performers including the Smashing Pumpkins. Pearl Jam plays the United Center on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Pearl Jam comes back?

Last week, Pearl Jam released their eighth album, self-titled. It's their first album since 2002's "Riot Act" and first album under the Clive Davis-founded J Records label. It is also being hailed as their best album since their early and mid-90s mega-selling and chart-topping days; it seems as if music scribes are shamelessly tripping over each other to have their hosannas prominently included in the next round of newspaper and radio ads. Music fans have also responded in kind; "World Wide Suicide," the album's first single, topped Billboard's modern rock singles chart and topped off at the number two slot in their mainstream rock singles chart.

Truth be told, they may be on to something. "Pearl Jam" is certainly their most inspired, focused and direct set in the last ten years. But just because the masses turned their collective head away from the band starting with 1996's diamond-in-the-rough "No Code" doesn't mean the band lost their vitality. Those ready to return to the Pearl Jam fold with their latest effort and current tour would do themselves a service in giving post-grunge efforts such as "Code," "Riot" and 2000's "Binaural" a few spins. The band may have been out of the mainstream glare, but there are certainly moments of grace to be found that equal, or even rival, those found on benchmarks such as 1991's "Ten" and 1993's "Vs." And considering the band toured extensively behind "Binaural" and "Riot," It's hard for them to come back if they never really went away.

Louisville-based psychedelic-rockers My Morning Jacket open.

Pearl Jam, My Morning Jacket, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, United Center, 1901 W. Madison, Chicago. $51.

FYI: (312) 455-4500 or http://www.unitedcenter.com

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Release, WWS, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Comatose, Given To Fly

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Release, WWS, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Comatose, Given To Fly, Lowlight, Corduroy, I'm Open, I Got Shit, Evenflow, Unemployable, Daughter

I'm open en rotation

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Daughter/(WMA), Present Tense,

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Do The Evolution, Jeremy, Save You, Porch

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SETLIST!!

Release, WWS, Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Comatose, Given to Fly, Lowlight, Corduroy, I'm Open, I Got Shit, Evenflow, Unemployable, Daughter/(WMA), Present Tense, DTE, Jeremy, Save You, Porch

Encore 1: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Betterman, Come Back, SOLAT, Black, Alive

Encore 2: Go, Blood, Indifference, Baba O'Riley

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le poster:

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le poster:

ha ben pareil que Hartford, il finira pas sur un mur celui la !

Il passera par le 10 C....

[Jezus]

Perso, je suis assez déçu par les posters cette année.

Merci Oli

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il semble que le soundcheck a été :

Parachutes, LBC, Save You, Glorified G et Soon Forget

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just got back from the show tonight in chicago. i'm going to run down a personal highlight reel of stage-banter, etc. from tonight as the setlist is already up. fyi my fan club number is 325XXX and I was seated in section 103, off the floor, to the side of the stage, six rows up and about 250 feet away from the stage.

first off: release. GREAT to see this song live, it hearkened back to the glory days of the summer of '95 when the boys opened with this same song on July 11th in chicago.

before one of the songs ed taunts the crowd by suggesting that the large banners displaying the names of several well-known chicago professional basketball hanging above them ought to be removed as they are absorbing the sound. he goes so far as to suggest that jordan's banner in particular be removed, later quipping that he should fold it up and put in his suitcase. before another one of the songs he professes his chicagoan uprbringing and loyalty and states that he'll always be "a kid from chicago."

ed prefaced daughter by saying "this song is called 'thank heaven for little girls.'" of course refering to his two-year old daughter, who i spotted being carried by paramour/mother jill mccormick, who was walking around the floor to the sidestage before PJ went on. mccormick is tall and lanky and eddie's daughter is really cute with shoulder-length blond curly hair. she was with another older woman that i thought might have been ed's mom.

before the first encore ed goes into an extended bit about how everyone has their favorite Beatle. as he was holding his acoustic guitar and saddled with a harmonica, i immediately thought that he would proclaim lennon as his number one Beatle but instead he said that yoko was his favorite. i joined some of the crowd in booing this statement but after a few seconds he waved his finger at us and said, "you'll see, you need time" adding that people that are into "experimentation" usually find her as their favorite.

during the solemn Indifference mike's guitar tech bumbles up on stage to address some issue with mike's guitar, but somewhere along the way things screw up and mike's guitar goes "RAARRR" in the middle of the song, providing an obvious though short-lived interruption into the otherwise well-performed dirge. also (i need to listen to the bootlegs to confirm this) earlier in the show during evenflow mike's solo was questionably off-tempo for a prolonged period of time. he appeared to be in his own world and maybe wasn't very focused on the beat. but again, i need to hear the bootlegs to confirm this.

all in all, it was a great show. it reminded me a lot of united center june 98, where they also closed with baba and ledbetter. sound quality wise i thought that band could have been louder, but all in all it was a great mix. the laser lighting effects also added a great touch to the burning rockers "go" and "blood." head-smashed tambourines on baba.

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[dirtyfranck]

excellent !
parachutes en soundcheck ... d'la buuuuulette

[Palavas]

Merci Oli !
Si je peux, je tente le poster via bigpop.

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Tout les posters tuent pour le moment !!

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Le retour de Baba et de Glorified G en soundcheck. Perso, Ledbetter me saoule un peu.

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Eddie was very nice to a lot of people tonight, Rob was in the first row, center stage, and Eddie talked during a break about how Rob was at their first concert in Chicago(I'm guessing in Chicago), back when the band was still called Mookie Blaylock (according to Ed, I'm not big on their history of exactly when they changed their name). Ed said that this guy Rob was wearing a Mother Love Bone shirt that first concert, and has been at every Chicago concert since then. Ed said that Rob was in the first row, center stage, the way it should be. Then everyone gave Rob a nice ovation. Later Eddie threw him a tamborine.

Eddie also threw a tamborine to a young girl in the third row who instantly had the biggest smile in the place as she clung to that tamborine and then sang along to Yellow Ledbetter. I think earlier Eddie was trying to point her out to get her on stage, but the security guys picked out two drunk blonde's next to her and brought them to the front row. Eddie was singing, looked over and said, "oh well." The blondes never got on stage. Neither did the girl.

Finally, they played Lowlight, which was very special for a couple in the audience in the second row. Before the show they said that they had gotten married on Saturday and the bride walked down the aisle to Lowlight. I think it's very possible someone close to band heard this story somewhere and that's why it was played. Eddie said, "we don't play this song very often, but it's special," or something like that. It was really cool watching the guy and his new bride react to the song. They were hugging and waving their arms and kissing, very nice.

Several really nice moments, just watching the reactions of the crowd. Another great concert by the guys.

Cool poster tonight, too.

One more thing to ad, during the Daughter tag, when they went into WMA, Eddie changed the words, instead of singing
"Dirty his hands it comes right off,
Policeman
Policeman
Policeman"

he sang:

"Dirty his hands it comes right off,
President
President
President"

I'm very interested in how this bootleg will sound, since you get such a different perspective in the audience with everyone singing along, you almost do not hear Eddie's voice that much.

One last thing,
My Morning Jacket ROCKS!!