San Diego, le 7 juillet 2006 – Topic officiel

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Salle: Cox Arena
Première partie: Sonic Youth
Nbre de spectateurs: 11'500
Membre(s) du PJforum présent(s): -

Setlist: Oceans, Severed Hand, Corduroy, Brain Of J, World Wide Suicide, Love Boat Captain, Gone, Even Flow, Unemployable, Wasted Reprise, Betterman/Save It For Later, Satans Bed, Not For You/Modern Girl, You Are, Inside Job, Life Wasted/Improv, Rearviewmirror

Rappels 1: Long Road, Come Back, Small Town, Crazy Mary, Crown Of Thorns, Alive

Rappels 2: Last Kiss, Comatose, Leash, Big Wave, Rockin´ In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter/Star Spangled Banner

TFT Notes: During "Better Man", the crowd sings the first verse and chorus well enough to have Ed laud them with "That's fuckin beautiful, thank you so much." "Satan's Bed" is introduced as "a surf song in a way", continuing "Living in Seattle, all surf songs have to either have at least one thing: either waves, cars or the devil - or girls or the devil, or girls that are the devil - this one's the devil." The "Rearviewmirror" jam has Ed singing "Time heals the wounds that no one can see (3x) / I will forgive (2x) / we can all forgive." Ed starts the first encore with a long dialogue prior to "Long Road", detailing his relationship with Clayton E. Liggett (Ed's high school drama teacher and the inspiration for "Long Road") and explaining that this show's proceeds are going to benefit that theater. Ed continues to say that when he received a call with the news of Liggett's death, he escaped to a studio (during the Neil Young "Mirrorball" recording sessions) and just started hitting the opening D-chords of "Long Road" as if he was "trying to ring a bell to say that 'We lost one of the good ones'", and after "about eight minutes" the rest of the band just joined in without saying a word and the roots of the song were born. "Long Road" is dedicated to Liggett, and a powerful "Come Back" follows. "Elderly Woman..." is dedicated to "small towns" such as "Olivenhain, Chula Vista, Fallbrook" and "all you one-liquor-store kinda towns." After "Crazy Mary", Ed marvels at Mike's guitar working saying that "it's science ... but believe it or not but I just lit my cigarette off Mike McCready's amp." Closing the first encore, Stone Gossard is toasted as the one who wrote "the last one" ("Crown of Thorns") and "the next one" ("Alive"). Ed explains the risk he takes when mentioning past and future concerts, saying "the next gig's in Los Angeles, they've got their work cut out for them. You see what I do? I bad-mouth the crowd the night before (Ed earlier dissed Las Vegas mentioning his own health problems) and I'm bad-mouthing even the crowd we're gonna play for. But I promise to you - wine over my heart - I will never say nothing bad about you here tonight." "Big Wave" is the last song off of Pearl Jam to premiere, and Ed explains that "we were waiting until we got to the coast." Surfer Kelly Slater guests on "Rockin' in the Free World", and Ed mentions that Kelly took him out on waves "so big it put the future of our band in jeopardy."

[Olikatie]

Oceans, Severed Hand, Corduroy, Brain Of J, World Wide Suicide, Love Boat Captain, Gone, Even Flow, Unemployable, Wasted Reprise, Betterman/Save It For Later, Satans Bed, Not For You/Modern Girl, You Are, Inside Job, Life Wasted/Improv, Rearviewmirror

Long Road, Come Back, Small Town, Crazy Mary, Crown Of Thorns, Alive

Last Kiss, Comatose, Leash, Big Wave, Rockin´ In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter

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- Even Flow had an extended drum solo.
- There was an improv after Life Wasted with just Ed on guitar.
- RVM had a long jam.
- Alive featured both Ed and Mike climbing speakers on opposite ends of the stage.
- During Last Kiss Ed climbed a ladder 20 ft. in the air.
- Big Wave featured a jam ala Immortality sytle.
- RITFW with Kelly Slater

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[fredbab]

super set list !!!

[thefrenchconnection]

j'aime pas dut out le poster ... en pus il est sur la thématique du surf .... et çà me vexe parce que d'habitude ils déchiraient ... mais pas celui la ..;

moche

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[mamasan]

enorme set list

excèllente l'avt dernière tof

[Stan]

Elles sont vraiment bien les sets list de cette tournée, j'ai bon espoir ppour Bercy

Sinon Ed se remet à grimper partout, c'est bon signe ça

[Dissident]

Elles sont vraiment bien les sets list de cette tournée, j'ai bon espoir ppour Bercy

Sinon Ed se remet à grimper partout, c'est bon signe ça

Il saute toujours??

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http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=204524

First off, there WAS a preset- Ed played Soon Forget then announced Sonic Youth.

Secondly, this was my 11th time seeing this band. Of the 30 or so songs played tonight (including the preset), SIX were songs I had never heard live. SIX! And only one of those was from the new album. Four of the rest were songs I'd heard only once. To put this in perspective, seeing the Petty/PJ shows in St. Paul, in two nights of hearing Petty, I only heard three songs on the second night that I didn't hear on the first night. Yet another reason why this band is fan-fucking-tastic.

And I- just right now- realized they played 10 songs from the new record. It certainly didn't feel like they played 10 songs from Avocado- everything meshed incredibly well.

Oceans was great to hear for the first time. I had hoped that being at this show would yield me some interesting set choices, and hearing this right off the bat got me stoked instantly. I had said from the moment I bought my tickets that this show was going to be something special- I just felt it. And hearing Oceans as the opener gave me hope...

Severed Hand is in a tght battle with Inside Job as my favorite track on Pearl Jam, so I was more than excited to hear this next. There was no pre-recorded intro, either.

I hadn't seen Brain of J since my very first show back in 1998 and I was dying to hear it again. Thank you PJ for making that happen tonight.

LBC featured the 'Let the show begin' lyric, and Boom got a deservedly nice ovation.

If there was a "low" point to this show for me, it was the Gone/EFlow/Unemployable trilogy. The drum solo in EFlow was longer than I'd yet heard and Matt was going crazy. Good stuff, there.

Wasted Reprise into Betterman was a nice segue. The crowd singalong here was the first sign for me that this crowd was something unique. Save It For Later was great.

Satan's Bed! I had been telling my neighbor that in the next three shows I needed to hear this and Rats. He turned to me and gave me a high five at the start. It's always great at shows to share these kind of moments with complete strangers, bonded by appreciation for this band.

After that we were right into an awesome Not For You. The Modern Girl tag was really appreciated by my companion, who is a big S-K fan.

I had figured we were going to get You Are after hearing the guitar tech test the pedals during the break between SY and PJ. And I loved it- one of my favorite songs on Riot Act.

I wouldn't put the improv after Life Wasted- it was more an intro to RVM than a conclusion to LW, Ed repeating "I'll never go back again" over the first notes of RVM before going into the riff. Ed also sang during the first part of the mid-section jam, but I couldn't make out anything he was sayng from where I was. Speaking of, that jam was sick. Just plain sick.

Now, I cannot possibly put into words how moving the introduction to Long Road was. By the time they were starting the song I was choked up. When they came back out for the first encore, they all sat down and Ed said that he'd like to tell us a story. He asked for a show of hands of how many people have had a teacher who has had a large influence on their life. He then said that he too had one and that this was the story he wanted to share. The band and Neil were working on Mirrorball when Ed got the call that this teacher had passed away. He said that even though the band and Neil were in the room, he had to go in another room and sort out his thoughts. He said he needed to have a conversation though, and he was having it through his guitar. He started strumming the first note, stating that hey, it sunds like a school bell. He just kept doing that over and over... At this point Matt quietly started the drum part to the song. Ed continued and said that after a while, eventually the band and Neil came in to check on him, and without any of them saying a word, they all sat down, picked up their instruments, and in that moment....

"We all walk the long road..."

Absolutely. Fucking. Amazing. This was a moment. It wasn't manufactured. It was real. Real emotion. Real love. Simply beautiful.

Come Back was a fitting follow up, and I think they're finding the right groove with it.

Crazy Mary was, well, crazy. Boom got more time to solo and the band stayed around him for the majority of his spotlight moment. Mike's solo wasn't the greatest I've heard from him on this song, but the band built the song up to a magnificent crescendo during it.

Crown of Thorns! What can you say... you know it's a special show when you hear this song. I've been lucky enough to hear it twice now this year- in Chicago and tonight.

Speaking of Chicago- those of you who think the Alive from Chicago II was fantastic- you NEED to hear this one. That's all I'll say. Stage antics saw Ed atop one speaker stack stage left, with Stone soloing right below him, and Mike opposite stage atop his own speaker stack. Visually incredible.

Last Kiss featured Ed climbing a rope ladder at the back of the stage, getting a good 15-10 feet above the ground while singing to the club in the back. Jeff, ever the mother hen, sent a stagehand over to hold the ladder to keep it sturdy.

It was great to hear Leash after all the hype. Ed finished the song on his nees, arms outstretched, flipping everyone off with a big smile on his face.

Speaking of, all of the folks I went to the show with agreed that this is the most fun any of us have ever seen Ed have at a show. He was smiling all night, jumping all around, genuinely seeming to enjoy himself. Even Stone and Jeff were more animated tonight that I've ever seen them.

Up next was the moment I'd been waiting for- you knew it had to happen, and Ed specifically said they were saving it for the west coast- Big Wave! And it was glorious.

After all this, RITFW and YL were almost an afterthought. I say almost because the jamming in RITFW was intense (even with Kelly Slater, whom I think Ed oversold to the crowd), and Mike's Star Spangled Banner tag was inspired, but you knew this was the end. Ed noted what everyone else in the arena had to be thnking by altering the "I don't want to stay" line in YL to "I don't want to leave..."


This WAS a special show. I'll be at the next LA shows, and if they even come anywhere near to this show, those will be considered great shows. This show was twenty kinds of awesomeness, plain and simple. I really think this might be the best Pearl Jam show I've ever seen. When the aftershow hype dies down, I'll reassess, but in the very least, it's top 3, no doubt.

Amazing. A simply amazing evening with an amazing band with amazing fans.

God I love this band.

[dirtyfranck]

Excellent ils gardaient Big Wave pour la cote ouest, on va surement l'avoir pour le restant du Leg 2 ...
Setlist démentielle encore, on est pas a l'abris d'en prendre plein la tete

[dirtyfranck]

c'est kelly slater sur la photo avec Eddie !
me trompe-je ?

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non, c'est bien lui durant RITFW

[masterofmullets]

Excellent j'ai hate de l'entendre

[dirtyfranck]

Big Wave en video :
http://d.turboupload.com/d/766504/Big_W ... o.avi.html

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By finish, Pearl Jam, Vedder had a connection


Eddie Vedder referenced nearby small towns and paid earnest tribute to his former drama teacher in Encinitas.

It took the five members of Pearl Jam a while to get their groove on Friday night at SDSU's sprawling Cox Arena, where the Seattle-based band made its first area appearance since 2003. But everything came together with the group's fifth selection and recent single, “World Wide Suicide,” a song that rocked so hard and triumphantly its reverberations may still be echoing in Cox as you read this.

A charged anti-war anthem in pop-rock clothing, “Suicide” combines slashing power chords and propulsive drumming with an infectious, radio-friendly hook and a soaring chorus that The Who's Pete Townshend would probably be happy to claim as his own. Juxtaposed against this rousing musical burst is an introspective message, which tempers “Suicide's” anger at the Bush administration with palpable sadness about the heavy toll of human suffering and death wrought by the ongoing war in Iraq.

This combination of galvanizing music and thoughtful, impassioned lyrics has long provided the artistic template for Pearl Jam's best songs. On Friday, before a capacity audience of 11,500 loudly enthusiastic fans, the 16-year-old band breathed new life into old favorites (most notably the dramatically expanded “Better Man”), as well as performing 10 of the 13 songs from its self-titled new album.

One of them, the soul-drenched ballad “Come Back,” suggested lead singer Eddie Vedder has been absorbing the peerless vocal style of the immortal Otis Redding. Another new number, the surging “Big Wave,” was performed live for the first time, according to Vedder, who learned to surf here as a teenager growing up in North County.

The pacing of the concert lost momentum several times and was marred by an annoyingly uneven audio mix, which too often buried the superb drumming of former San Diegan Matt Cameron. But the band generally played with enough vigor to elevate even some of its lesser material. It also offered a few surprises, most notably a cameo on rhythm guitar by Kelly Slater. The surfing legend was featured on a combustible version of Neil Young's “Rockin' in the Free World,” which came as the 2½-hour concert's penultimate selection before “Yellow Ledbetter” brought the show to a close.

“This man has taken me on waves so big that it's put the future of our band in jeopardy!” a grinning Vedder said of Slater.
Augmented by frequently inaudible keyboardist Boom Gaspar, the group also showcased its classic-rock and punk influences, for better and worse. Crunchy, melody-rich guitar riffs and high-octane musical velocity have an enduring appeal, but aimless, overextended guitar solos do not. There were enough of the latter Friday to suggest Pearl Jam is starting to take the second part of its name too literally, and lead guitarist Mike McCready (also a former North County resident) lacks sufficient virtuosity and finesse to justify the length of too many of his unfocused solos.

Happily, Vedder compensated by once again fostering a welcome feeling of community with his fans, which they returned in kind. While too many other rock stars pay lip-service to their concert audiences and sprout inane cliches (think: “You rock, San Diego!” or “I can't hear you!”), Vedder is genuinely connected with his listeners, who sang along on many selections.

He dedicated “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” to “Olivenhain, Vista, Fallbrook . . . all your one-liquor store kind of towns.” Vedder also spent several minutes paying earnest tribute to Clayton E. Liggett, his former drama teacher and beloved mentor at San Dieguito High School in Encinitas. A portion of the proceeds from Friday's concert will help fund a theater in Liggett's name at the school, where Vedder once starred in a production of “Bye Bye Birdie” (and from which he dropped out during his senior year to more fully nurture his artistic creativity).

Liggett's 1995 death inspired Vedder to write one of his most moving songs, “The Long Road,” and its performance at Cox was a highlight. Despite smoking and conspicuously swigging from a wine bottle during parts of the concert – precisely the type of boorish rock star behavior he once shunned – Pearl Jam's bearded singer left no doubt that, like his band's most potent music, his heart is still in exactly the right place.

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+ de 70 photos ici
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46857924@N ... 6sandiego/

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Photos du 10c:

[thefrenchconnection]

Un type a rencontré Ed

A huge thank you to Ed. (sd/la show)

_____

man its been a looong time since ive posted on these boards =P but i just
have to say thank you somehow to ed and share my story of how fucking
awesome he is.
going to keep the story short and not share too much of our conversation,
but heres the story....
saw the SD show friday night, of course it fucking rocked, one of the best
shows ive seen and ive been to looots of shows. saturday afternoon im
sitting around at my place with my buddies and we decide to go to the local
taco shop we always go to. takes us about 45 minutes to get of our
stoned/drunk asses to finally go, and we get there, order and we sit by the
window waiting. then i see this surfer dude, looks like he just got out of
the water just looking up at the palm trees and blue sky, i stare for about
30 seconds before i realize, HOLY FUCKING SHIT ITS EDDIE. i knew he was from
my town and he would most likely be hanging out around town, but still i was
basically in shock, standing outside was my biggest fucking hero/favorite
musician of all time. went up and started talking to him, ed was the nicest
guy ever, we talked for about 5 minutes about the surf, the show, and the LA
show. im pretty sure he could tell i was nervous as hell, but he asked me
questions, made conversation and just seemed like a normal guy you would
meet on the street. i asked if we could get a picture and he said sure no
problem. we took the picture and he looked at it on my phone and told me
"this isnt a good picture lets go over here in the sun and take it" and i
told him "no no i dont want to waste your time" but he was the coolest guy
ever and told me it was cool and we got another picture. i was in shock
obviously because it was ed, but just his kindness, i couldnt believe it.

went back inside, ate my food, and as we are leaving ed says "john i forgot
to ask you, any requests for tomorrow night?" and i was speechless, i told
him it might take me a minute and he laughed and then i explained that i was
trying to think of the rarest song ive seen them play. told him i would lvoe
to see hard to imagine and he said "hmm, yea we'll see...maybe the 2nd
night, but i'll say hi." then he asked if i played guitar and i told him
yea, talked about my band for a second and joked around before we took off.
i know its a long story, and mostly pointless, but i just wanted to share
how fucking awesome ed is. unlike most rockstars, he didnt just blow me off.
he made conversation and just acted like a normal guy.

then comes the show on sunday. they start with release, 3rd verse instead of
"oh dear dad" i swear i hear "oh dear john, can you see this now." i thought
i was just a drunk/crazy fan freaking out and thinking crazy things since i
met him, but then i listened to it on the bootleg about 10,000 times and im
almost positive he does say john. maybe i am just a crazy fan and he doesnt
and hes just mumbling, but the crazy part of me thinks this was him saying
hi. and for this, i say THANK YOU EDDIE, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
THANK YOU ED, ILL NEVER FORGET THAT!





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