Highlights from shows you’ve attended over the years…

[Bammer]

5/30/2003 Vancouver, BC (GM Place)
- Booked the cheapest hotel I could find in East Vancouver … cross-dressing hookers, human poop in the parking lot, cockroaches in the room, junkies everywhere on the walk to the arena … after the show we demanded our money back (see above re: cockroaches) and drove home.
- Setlist highlight: Bu$hleaguer with Ed donning the Dubya mask.

[Bammer]

10/22/2003 Seattle, WA (Benaroya Hall)
- Experience highlight: I won’t reveal how I got tickets to this show. I met a girl at this show who I ended up dating for a while.
- Setlist highlight: So hard to choose! I had a pen and paper with me, writing down each song … a few I did not know beforehand. I’ll go with I Believe In Miracles.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Bammer]

ITT bammer just lists shows he’s attended

Yes. It’s been a long standing note in my iPhone. I need to dump it somewhere.

[Monkey_Driven]

I know how Bammer got into that Benaroya show but I will never reveal his secrets.

[VinylGuy]

Padova, Italy 24-5-18

- Experience highlight: getting to travel by car from Cannes in France to Padova in Italy, listening a lot to PJ and other stuff, getting to stay one night in Padova, getting wasted there and at the show and watching the band again since 2015 and after they cancelled in 2018 because of a huge storm in Argentina.

- Setlist highlight: Gods Dice, Even Flow ( Cready´s solo was something else), Crazy Mary, Rvm, Smile and getting Indifference.

[VinylGuy]

April 6, 2013 – Lollapalooza, Parque O’Higgins, Santiago, CHL

- Experience highlight: going to Chile for the weekend, getting to Lolla for maybe the first time? Watching QOTSA, Ed sang with them too

- Setlist highlight: the two punch of Release - Go was so good, Severed Hand, Got Some, Once, Present Tense, Rockin’ In The Free World with Perry Farrell ( second time i saw him singing with the band) and Josh Homme.

[liebzz]

Hmmm…

Randall’s Island 1996 - John Popper guesting on Even Flow

MSG ‘98 - The Wall, Eddie climbing up the mic wire during Alive

Hartford ‘98 - let my people dance in the aisles!

Jones Beach ‘00 - It’s Okay

Saratoga ‘00 - that Black, the Nobody’s Fault But Mine tag on Yellow Ledbetter

Albany ‘03 - Peace sign campaign (that I actually organized!)

MSG ‘03 - The stage is bouncing sing like a choir!

Mansfield 3 - that stripped down set, and a raucous Jeremy at the end of the show!

Hershey - mosquito bites

Albany ‘06 - just remember this being a really wonderful show

Lolla ‘07 - Don’t go! BP Amoco!

MSG ‘08 - back up singers, Black Diamond!

Philly ‘09 - Whip It, Bugs, Outta My Mind, lots of confetti

MSG ‘10 - Slow Lukin, Better Man (live)

Brooklyn 2 ‘13 - another I remember as a really wonderful show

Central Park ‘15 - Redemption Song with Beyoncé

MSG ‘16 - Surrender w Cheap Trick, Driven to Tears with Sting!

Asbury Park ‘21 - Bruce is coming! Bruce isn’t coming but a nice My City of Ruins

MSG ‘22 - Present Tense (holy crap that was great!)

[coptheriotact]

melbourne 09 when it kept going as long as one of those epic US shows.
ben harper on indifference like at L@TG
slow night so long with EV and KOL in 2006
dead man in 06
meeting up with PJ randoms in adelaide

[E.H. Ruddock]

Seriously though, it was a very average show apart from the friendship/social element. I don’t fault the guy for prioritizing the actual music.

But we got Fatal and Pilate!

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[E.H. Ruddock]

Seriously though, it was a very average show apart from the friendship/social element. I don’t fault the guy for prioritizing the actual music.

But we got Fatal and Pilate!

Don’t forget in my tree

I don't remember that one

[Strat]

Seriously though, it was a very average show apart from the friendship/social element. I don’t fault the guy for prioritizing the actual music.

But we got Fatal and Pilate!

Don’t forget in my tree

I don't remember that one

And a killer version of Throw your hatred down

[VinylGuy]

fuckers, thats amazing

[Bammer]

9/24/2004 Seattle, WA (The Showbox)
- Experience highlight: We went down without tickets and a backpack full of “signed” PJ memorabilia. Held up a cardboard sign “Will trade autographed PJ stuff for tickets” … it was all forged signatures. No takers. We hung around and listened to the first couple songs from the street and then they ended up letting us in. Our cardboard sign got a mention in the Seattle Times which I clipped and have framed along with the show poster.
- Setlist highlight: Go. Favorite song, favorite venue. Amazing.

[E.H. Ruddock]

bammer - scamming fellow PJ fans since 2004

[teflonsteve]

Great thread idea!

9/19/05 - Quebec City

First show! Rained super hard all day and my crew spent the day hotboxing my buddies minivan. Had really bad seats and Eddie said the band was out drinking with Bono in Toronto the night before and you could kinda tell. Nevertheless my buddies and I had 6 seats together and it was a great Memory. Faithfull was the moment it finally kicked in that I was seeing Pearl Jam for the first time and I remember it being a great version.

9/22/05 - Halifax

A show 2 hours from where I went to high school seemed mind boggling to me and still does to the day. Got to hear soundcheck while picking up 10c tickets and couldn't believe they soundchecked Breath, You Are and Hard to Imagine! Wicked fucking show where they played the songs I heard in soundcheck, Jeff came out with Sleater Kinney to cover Danzig's Mother, Bu$hleaguer was played and Eddie sang Down with a beer can on his head.

6/19/08 - Camden

Finally getting to see the band in the US and in a city that shows them alot of love. Great show with a super hot crowd and got to hear my favorite PJ song, In Hiding.

6/28/08 - Mansfield

After the excellent show in Camden, a buddy and I decided to drive 8 hours down to Boston to do it all again. First time seeing a show alone and ended up sitting next to so older guys who were very sharing with their weed. Don't remember much of the show other than there being a very long and loud applause break during Betterman.

9/07/11 - Montreal

Met some RM'ers before the show (shoutout to cutuphalfdead and the argonaut) and I remember a very loud Mudhoney opening. Full band Setting Forth was great to hear and I'll take Hail Hail at any show I go to.

5/06/16 - Quebec City

Contender for my favorite show for sure. Only decided to go a week before the show and was glad I did. Band was on fire, crowd was great and there was a really good mix of rarities and hits. Light Years, You Are, NAIS, God's Dice, Pilate, Wash, Sad, Surrender....pretty damn good. Encore of Daughter w/ It's Okay, Black, Jeremy, DTE, Alive and Baba O'Riley had the crowd going nuts. Great show and couldn't recommend it more if you haven't listened to this one. 35 Songs!!!!

9/01/22 - Quebec City

First show in the pit and first show with my GF. Second row on Mike's side! Not as good as the 2016 show but the new songs were decent live.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Bammer]

3/18/2005 Seattle, WA (Paramount Theater)
- Experience highlight: This was a weird one-off benefit show that for some very strange reason wasn’t in high demand. I had an extra ticket that I only got like 20 bucks for.
- Setlist highlight: Despite the live debut of Comatose, called Crapshoot Rapture at the time, I’m gonna go with All Along The Watchtower. That was fun.

[wease]

bammer pissed because no one fell for his bammer premium pricing scheme.