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par **Olikatie** » Dim Juil 23, 2006 7:22 pm

Wash
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Footsteps
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Little Wing
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Dirty Frank
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Blood
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Ed Welcome Gorge
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par **Olikatie** » Dim Juil 23, 2006 7:23 pm

Temperatures fluxuated between 104 up to the highest we saw at 109. We decided to stay at a hotel in Moses Lake for Saturday night because of the heat. Thank god.

Parking was a 45 minute wait for most people who weren't camping. The main Gorge campground looked very reminiscent of Woodstock. 10C ticket pickup was an hour wait as some have already said, with no real structure, people cutting the line and a good deal of confusion. Add to the confusion, Ticketmaster lost all service on the West Coast. Then there were the lines to get actually in to the Gorge itself.

But... wow. All those lines were worth the wait. Walking up the hill to look out at the stage and valley below, and the mountains beyond, literally brought tears to my eyes. It was just so damn gorgeous.

Me, Nixon in Detroit and Boston Bobby had 16th row, Mike's side towards the center and sat 2 rows in front of Ashley, Mike's wife. Ashley was with Chris Adams (?) whom Ed gave a shout out to as their friend who had recently gone through a lot of stuff in his life, which we believe was Crohn's related. What we (Nixon!) found out was that tonight's show was Chris's dream setlist. Chris & Ashley had made up the setlist in Portland and all throughout the show Mike and the boys kept pointing and waving to him and Ashley. For the last 2 songs, they left our area and went up on the side stage.

Thank you, thank you Chris, you wonderful human being.

Wash was just the perfect opener...then we get slammed with Cord, HH, WWS, Sev Hand, and then Ed went into a speech about staying "hydrated, indulated" and a few other -ated words (I think it was at this point) and taking care of our friends and neighbors then went into GTF.

Daughter tag included "the sun goes down... " to the most gorgeous sunset I've ever seen on the continental USA. Brilliant shades of of pink, red and orange streaking across the sky behind the mountains...Ed's voice coaxing the sun to down. Words can't do it justice.

Insignificance was great and reminded me of the Boein facility we passed on the way from Portland to Seattle. Blood was a riot of jumping, fist pumping and craziness.

Footsteps...beautiful. SOLAT into Crown was a personal favorite for me, at which point I could not help the tears again.

Last Kiss was on the roof of the sound area, which made an eh-eh song interesting. Inside Job, started off a teenie bit shakey, but was as beautiful as ever. When Baba started, we thought we were done..but oh no...

DIRTY FUCKIN FRANK baby!!

We had been chanting through the whole show and I literally think I peed my pants a little. I thought they were on fire. The bass line was groovy, with the help of the lyric sheet, Ed was on the money and it was just freekin incredible.
INCREDIBLE. I am a very happy girl.

par **thefrenchconnection** » Dim Juil 23, 2006 7:58 pm

un show qui commence par Wash ... comme à Panam en 96 .... (en lpus avec Leash et Dirty Frank dedans ...)

j'ai hate de le téléchrger.

par **mike baroud** » Dim Juil 23, 2006 9:51 pm

bon quelqu'un pour m'expliquer

c'est gorge, ou george ? :dordo:

par **GreenDisease** » Dim Juil 23, 2006 10:56 pm

si je me trompe pas

George c'est la ville

et

The Gorge le lieu

par **Olikatie** » Lun Juil 24, 2006 6:57 am

par **Olikatie** » Lun Juil 24, 2006 7:05 am

Eddie sur le toit:

par **Olikatie** » Lun Juil 24, 2006 7:14 am

Pearl Jam delivers sweltering Gorge set

GEORGE -- Pearl Jam delivered a set as sweltering as the triple-digit temperatures at the Gorge Amphitheatre Saturday during the first show of the band's two-night stint in Eastern Washington that closed the U.S. summer tour.

The band -- singer Eddie Vedder, guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Jeff Ament -- surprisingly started the show with "Wash," a B-side from the 1990s. Vedder was in top form as he jumped and danced around the stage, taking several chugs from multiple bottles of wine throughout the show.

The more bottles of his alcoholic elixir Vedder polished off, the more fuel Pearl Jam had for its fire as the gruffly-haired singer became increasingly feisty with each progressive draw.

He put his hands against his ears and squeezed his head as if it were in a vise while swaying from side to side during "Daughter," jumped and clicked his heels in the air after tossing a few tambourines into the crowd during "Baba O'Riley" and joked while thanking fans for the support before "Dirty Frank," a song he called one of the band's worst.

"Good morning, campers," Vedder said, addressing the crowd after "World Wide Suicide." He then mentioned the hot weather and told the fans they would be OK if they stayed "hydrated, undulated and emancipated."

The band didn't play much material from the four albums that mark the middle of its career, all records that weren't received well by critics or the mainstream. But that didn't matter because the set list, which Vedder said was put together by a friend of the band, carried the show's momentum well.

The band blazed through 2 1/2 hours of material from its new, self-titled avocado album and an abundance of its classic material, treating the sold-out crowd to a scorching-hot set that complemented the ovenlike conditions.

The rolling riffs of "Even Flow" were preceded by "Elderly Woman" and followed by "Down," creating a sandwich of perfectly picked songs. McCready's solo during "Even Flow" transformed the classic into an otherworldly experience. His playing continues to add an extra dimension to the group, as does Cameron's drumming, which also was showcased in the form of a surprising solo during the same song.

Unlike recent Pearl Jam performances, keyboardist Kenneth "Boom" Gaspar, the honorary sixth band member, had a low-key role. His playing could barely be heard all night. The same goes for Gossard, who mostly stayed stationary at his post to the right of Cameron's kit.

"Blood" capped off the first part of the show. Vedder clenched his teeth, gripped the microphone stand and screamed out "It's my buh-loooood" before he punctuated the end of the main set by throwing a composition book to the ground.

Like the main set, the first encore started with a rarity, "Footsteps." Most of the songs that followed were from "Ten," including "Once," "Alive" and "Porch."

Vedder found his way to higher ground to begin the second encore, singing "Last Kiss" from the roof of the sound booth, serenading the standing crowd at the top of the hill. As the hour got late and the band soldiered on, Vedder urged fans to stay for the rest of the show before diving into, appropriately enough, "Go."

As with most every Pearl Jam show, the night ended with "Yellow Ledbetter."

McCready's ode to Jimi Hendrix sent the fans home smiling, fittingly ending the blistering day with one of his many white-hot solos.

par **Olikatie** » Lun Juil 24, 2006 7:18 am

Pearl Jam works the rock clichés with panache

By Rachel Devitt

Apathy towards Pearl Jam falls somewhere between cardinal sin and cliché in this town, where Eddie et al constitute both a good two thirds of our miniscule celebrity pool and one of the last bands standing from the days when Seattle was SEATTLE. Its citizens mostly stand firmly on one side or the other of the great grunge divide: love 'em or loathe 'em. Personally, I've never really cared much about the band either way.

So sharing the Gorge's scorching temperatures with 20,000 sticky, sweaty, and (for many) beer-saturated Ten Clubbers on Saturday night wasn't exactly high on my summer to-do list. The first forty-five minutes were decidedly unpleasant: The "line" to get in was more like an excruciating cattle corral, and the hot, testy crowd management staff was pushed to its limits by the hotter, testier crowd.

Then the band started. The first set was a mix of big hits, lesser known favorites, and tracks from this year's eponymous release. Swilling wine from the bottle and looking pretty much exactly as he did in Singles, frontman Eddie Vedder charmed the crowd with that unique, coarse caterwauling that can only be described as downright sensuous and dedicated "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" to "all the locals whose towns we've invaded tonight."

Although lead axeman Mike McCready, with a tousled, bleach-blonde haircut and chic little glasses, looked more like a local hipster, he still acted every bit the rockstar, playing virtuosic guitar licks behind his head on perennial stadium-shaker "Evenflow" and throwing handfuls of guitar picks into the crowd. The most dedicated fans already knew all the words to "Unemployable," a peppy new tune with a hopscotching bass line and classic rock riffs.

By the time the sun magnificently set over the ravine as if on cue as Vedder sang the line, "The shades goes down" from "Daughter," I was sold and my head banged almost instinctively throughout the second set of classics like "Alive," with its evocative licks and swooping story arches, a jammed-out version of "Porch," and rarities like the brooding "Footsteps."

When security temporarily barred people from returning to their seats after the second set, the scene in the aisles turned a little violent, resulting in a fracas where one fan got his shirt ripped to shreds by the four guards pinning him to the ground. But everyone was eventually able to return peacefully to their seats in time for a "surprise" third set that included covers of "Baba O'Riley" and "Keep on Rocking in the Free World." Next to me, longtime fan and Vedder's fellow West Seattleite Bridget Merlino shared her battery-powered fan with everyone around her, while another devotee greeted friends he'd made while following the band around the country over the years.

Spawning a groupie community isn't exactly extraordinary among a band with this kind of longevity. In fact, it's fairly formulaic and, frankly, so are many of Pearl Jam's songs. What sets the band apart is that they still work the rock cliché with panache, passion, and compassion for both fans and hometown (a portion of Saturday's profits went to local nonprofit Arts Corps). When they closed the show with a cover of another great Seattleite's version of the "Star-Spangled Banner," it sure felt like all 20,005 of us were home.

par **Olikatie** » Lun Juil 24, 2006 7:20 am

Pearl Jam turns out epic performance at the Gorge

At one point it appeared Eddie Vedder might jump.
No, the charismatic crooner wasn’t distraught Saturday night as he led Pearl Jam’s epic, sold-out performance at the Gorge Amphitheatre. Quite the opposite, actually.

Vedder was clearly having a blast, fueled by both his fans’ enthusiasm (there were fist-pumping, sing-alongs aplenty) and frequent swigs from the wine bottles he’d carried onstage (two instead of the usual one, meant to last through nearly three hours of raucous rock.)

And there was a wild look in the bearded front man’s eye midway through “Alive” that made me wonder if he might start climbing the Gorge’s towering stage in an attempt to recreate the legendary stage dive from the song’s video. An lo and behold, while the singer didn’t climb upward, he went outward to the end of the rail on the right end of the stage.

As he bounced and swayed to the song’s infectious rhythm he appeared on the verge of leaping over the security barrier onto fans in the reserved seating section. A cluster of them even rushed forward to catch their idol.

But Vedder thought better of it, assuming he’d meant to jump at all, instead climbing back on stage and giddily vaulting an amp as his band mates – guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, bassist Jeff Ament, drummer Matt Cameron and keyboard Boom Gaspar – tore through the early hit.

Even if he didn’t go through with it (and hey, stage diving is an art best practiced on the other side of 40 anyway) the moment seemed to capture the reinvigorated spirit of a veteran outfit that’s enjoying more critical acclaim and exposure than it has since its 1990s grunge heyday. After years of laying low (if you don’t count the years of sold out arena shows that preceded this year’s “comeback”) Seattle’s rock kings are obviously savoring the spotlight once again.

Saturday’s set began on a strange note with “Wash,” a mellow early b-side that can be found on the rarities collection “Lost Dogs.” This set the tone for a nostalgic night that would be chock full of such oldies, goodies and often neglected tracks. Quirky funk-rock track “Dirty Frank” even made an appearance later on, introduced by Vedder as an example of the sort of dreck his band churned out before it conquered the world with chart-topping debut “Ten.”

And many of those old songs were big, clap-along hits, as could be expected. Favorites included “Even Flow” and “Black,” the former delivered as a frantic jam and held together by Cameron’s intense soloing. A stirring delivery of “Crown of Thorns,” a song first popularized by the late Andrew Wood and his band Mother Love Bone, which also included Ament and Gossard, was well-received, too.

But material from the band’s new, self-titled album held its own next to such favorites, from the moment Pearl Jam followed “Hail Hail” with this year’s scrappy radio hit “Worldwide Suicide.”

“Severed Hand,” “Unemployable,” “Life Wasted” and “Inside Job” all made appearances from the new disc, with only that last one killing a bit of the set’s momentum. But, hey, the band needed a slow song to give Vedder time to climb from the roof of the sound pit, from which he sang Frank Wilson’s “Last Kiss” to the appreciative folks packed on the Gorge’s grassy slope.

Chris Adams -- a friend of McCready’s and a fellow Crohn’s disease sufferer – picked the night’s set, Vedder explained at one point. And he obviously doesn’t have “Binaural” or “Riot Act” in heavy rotation at home, with only “I Am Mine” and “Insignificance” making appearances from the new album’s predecessors.

Despite temperatures the rose above 100 degrees, the Gorge’s majestic setting also greatly enhanced the concert experience. Vedder turned away from the crowd the part in “Daughter” where he usually adlibs a few lyrics, taking a moment to admire clouds that the sunset had painted psychedelic shades of pink and lavender.

“The sun goes down,” he sang dreamily before launching into a ragged rant about record temperatures (a little global warming, anyone?) and Middle Eastern conflict.

“It’s getting harder to harder to say it’s gonna be OK,” he lamented, before leading the crowd in an anthemic call and response of the line “it’s OK.”

Pearl Jam spent a chunk of a fun-filled final encore paying homage to other artists, starting with the aforementioned “Last Kiss.” After “Inside Job” and “Go,” it was an enthusiastic delivery of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley.” And couple of songs later, the band ripped into Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

In recent years Pearl Jam has closed many a show with “Yellow Ledbetter.” But McCready threw a curve ball during the song ending solo by switching to Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing,” an obvious inspiration.

It seemed totally spontaneous as the band exchanged glances and joined in for a few licks, sans Vedder who was, by then, enjoying a smoke and a few hearty chugs of vino. McCready topped the night off with his take on Hendrix’s feedback drenched take on “The Star Spangled Banner.”

If the band has half as much left in its tank for tonight’s second Gorge performance, fans will get more than their money’s worth.

Ernest Jasmin: 253-274-7389

ernest.jasmin@thenewstribune.com