Red Mosquito

Setting Forth is about the only miscue so far. Horribly out of tune.

I don't really understand how Not For You became a crowd participatory sing along. Nice long rendition, though, and played well by everyone but Ed.

Daughter is one of the better that I've heard in years. They absolutely nail the It's OK bit.

Infallible is awful live. I still haven't heard a version that succeeds. This one is closer than some of the others, mostly it's just Ed that falls short in the later measures. Oh yeah, and the chorus is utterly uninteresting. This one will be retired soon. I hope.

After Hours is perfect. Awesome 2 and a half minute moment.

Sirens. Let's see if I can make it through.... I'll give it a chance

Damn ed. Can't even get the lyrical climax right. Pretty good performance, then falls apart into the solo and coming out of it.

Ah hah, Oh ohh, Ah hah, Oh ohh, shut the fuck up.

bluestate wrote:I'm thinking I might put Philly 1 right up there with Hartford and Charlottesville as my favorite East Coast boots. Great setlist, great energy. Once again, I picked the wrong night to go, as Philly 2 was basically just a repeat of Brooklyn 2.

Philly 1 is actually very good. Great verisons of Lightning Bolt and Mind your Manners here. I have debating if the version of Mother from Philly 1 is better here or better in Oslo 12. The crowd is so great with there reaction to song in philly. It almost wins it over for me.

I'm glad to hear someone else is giving the Vancouver show a listen. I think the bootleg sounds fantastic and overall I would say its a very good to a great show. I really like that it doesn't get too sloppy at the end either. They played well the entire show and I think the encores are both really good.

lowlight79 wrote:

bluestate wrote:I'm thinking I might put Philly 1 right up there with Hartford and Charlottesville as my favorite East Coast boots. Great setlist, great energy. Once again, I picked the wrong night to go, as Philly 2 was basically just a repeat of Brooklyn 2.

Philly 1 is actually very good. Great verisons of Lightning Bolt and Mind your Manners here. I have debating if the version of Mother from Philly 1 is better here or better in Oslo 12. The crowd is so great with there reaction to song in philly. It almost wins it over for me.

we are loud down here

Hugh Mungus wrote:I'm glad to hear someone else is giving the Vancouver show a listen. I think the bootleg sounds fantastic and overall I would say its a very good to a great show. I really like that it doesn't get too sloppy at the end either. They played well the entire show and I think the encores are both really good.

Definitely one of the better shows I've listened through. Although, I only made it to Footsteps, then I skipped to Insignificance and stopped. And Insignificance was very well played if I recall, nice version.

I was impressed with Van. on paper. People who were there didn't have much positive to say about it while I was in Seattle. I was very surprised.

CopperTom wrote:I was impressed with Van. on paper. People who were there didn't have much positive to say about it while I was in Seattle. I was very surprised.

This really surprises me. I've been to 42 shows and have no problem being critical when Pearl Jam is bad (a lot of 2008-2012 shows I saw), but immediately after Vancouver I said it's in my top 5 PJ shows I've seen. It helps at your 41st show as well when they kick off the night with two songs I had not seen live before.

CopperTom wrote:I was impressed with Van. on paper. People who were there didn't have much positive to say about it while I was in Seattle. I was very surprised.

That really surprises me. I was at the show and honestly had an incredible time and thought the band sounded really good. I was a little worried that the bootleg would be a disappointment especially after people around here saying how bad the performances are from this tour.

CopperTom wrote:I was impressed with Van. on paper. People who were there didn't have much positive to say about it while I was in Seattle. I was very surprised.

Probably too much Binaural for them.

After 20+ years, I thought we've already heard every PJ background story there was to tell, but this tour has brought out some interesting stories from Ed that I've never heard before:

OK City - When the band realized that there might be legal problems with officially naming their band Mookie Blaylock they strongly considered naming themselves "Daron Oshay", which is Mookie's real name.

Buffalo - When working on Mirror Ball, Neil said "Well that makes 9 songs and if Ed has one that'll make 10, enough for a record." (I'm obviously paraphrasing here) Ed: "What?" Neil: "Do you have a song to contribute?" Ed: "I got shit!" Neil: "Well, there you go. That's the song."

I'm sure there were some other ones that I thought were interesting that I can't recall right now

Don't recall the show, but he told a story of playing the last night of some tour in Seattle and someone through a big fatty joint on stage. The whole band "lit it up" at encore and he doesn't remember the rest of the show, but it was a "great encore". We need to figure out what show that was

I can't tell you how disappointed I am that that guys real name isn't really Mookie.

so which boots are actually alright from the post-new-orleans-batch? people seem pretty keen on portland, anything else?

Has anyone compiled a Black Market LB yet? I'm curious what the gallery thinks were to the best live versions of the new songs. Hartford gets my Pendulum vote.

Iholdthepain wrote:Has anyone compiled a Black Market LB yet? I'm curious what the gallery thinks were to the best live versions of the new songs. Hartford gets my Pendulum vote.

There are a couple of lists on this blog, some choices better than others:

http://pjbootlegreviews.blogspot.com.au/

Iholdthepain wrote:Has anyone compiled a Black Market LB yet? I'm curious what the gallery thinks were to the best live versions of the new songs. Hartford gets my Pendulum vote.

Lightning Bolt from Vancouver gets mine

Iholdthepain wrote:Has anyone compiled a Black Market LB yet? I'm curious what the gallery thinks were to the best live versions of the new songs. Hartford gets my Pendulum vote.

I've been making a list since 2011. And that list is gonna become hopefully something special.

I'll say this so far for the new tracks

getaway - TBA
Mind Your Manners - Philly 1
My Father's Son - Buffalo
Sirens - Who cares
Lightning Bolt - Philly 1 or Hartford
Pendulum - Hartford
Infalliable -Worchester
Swallowed Whole - Charlottesville
Let the records play - TBA
Sleeping By Myself - TBA
Yellow Moon - Brooklyn or Charlotte
Future Days - TBA

I still have much of the second leg to go, this could change