Pearl Jam and The Gorge
Yesterday was an eventful day. Went down with some friends to the Gorge to catch Pearl Jam. It was my first time there. In fact, it was my first time seeing a concert outside of the Vancouver area. The drive is about 5hrs. A couple of my friends are doing the complete Pearl Jam Canadian tour, which stretches from Vancouver to St. John's, New Foundland and covers 16 shows. The Gorge show was the pre-Canadian tour prep show. It turned out to be one of my favourite concert experiences ever.
Our tour van was decorated to coincide with the Pearl Jam tour, and included each city stop along the way written in hockey tape along the van. After we reached the Gorge area, many people noticed our van and started taking pictures. A reporter from Entertainment Weekly also stopped by to interview us.
The venue of The Gorge was magnificent. The backdrop higlights the Columbia River along with the mass amount of rock and the earth at its most natural setting. Watching the sunset as the band played was unbelievable.
It was billed as an evening with Pearl Jam, with no opener. They started playing at 7:15pm and their set was finished at 10:30pm. 3hrs and 15mins in total with 3 encores.
Our seats were fairly close to the stage, with all the ten club members seated within the same vacinity. What I like about this is that everyone around you is a hardcore fan, some traveling great distances to reach the show.
The band came on and played their first few songs sitting down, acoustically. During Crazy Mary's "Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around" Ed proceeded to hand the front row a bottle of wine where they drank and shared. The acoustic part of the set lasted about 45mins before they came back on to rock out.
They reopened with Given To Fly and also whipped out many rare tracks during the set including Hard To Imagine and Crown of Thorns. Some highlights for me included Save You, State of Love and Trust, Dissident, Rearviewmirror, Low Light and the Elderly Woman sing-along. Throughout the set, Eddie, Mike and Jeff did many scissor kicks in the air. They had the same energy as if they were in their 20's. Mike also pulled out the behind the head solo in Even Flow.
Throughout the set, Ed teased an appearance by Tom Petty, who is playing The Gorge the next two nights.
Here's the setlist:
first set (acoustic): I Believe in Miracles, Elderly Woman ..., Off He Goes, Lowlight, Man of the Hour, I Am Mine, Crazy Mary, Black, Hard to Imagine
second set (electric): Given to Fly, Last Exit, Save You, Do The Evolution, Alone, Sad, Even Flow, Not For You, Corduroy, Dissident, MFC, Undone, Daughter, In My Tree, State of Love and Trust, Alive, Porch
first encore: Love Boat Captain, Insignificance, Better Man, Rearviewmirror
second encore: I Won't Back Down (Ed solo), Last Kiss, Crown of Thorns, Blood
third encore:Yellow Ledbetter, Baba O'Riley
Off to do it again right now and catch Pearl Jam at GM Place tonight. Can't wait.
Our tour van was decorated to coincide with the Pearl Jam tour, and included each city stop along the way written in hockey tape along the van. After we reached the Gorge area, many people noticed our van and started taking pictures. A reporter from Entertainment Weekly also stopped by to interview us.
The venue of The Gorge was magnificent. The backdrop higlights the Columbia River along with the mass amount of rock and the earth at its most natural setting. Watching the sunset as the band played was unbelievable.
It was billed as an evening with Pearl Jam, with no opener. They started playing at 7:15pm and their set was finished at 10:30pm. 3hrs and 15mins in total with 3 encores.
Our seats were fairly close to the stage, with all the ten club members seated within the same vacinity. What I like about this is that everyone around you is a hardcore fan, some traveling great distances to reach the show.
The band came on and played their first few songs sitting down, acoustically. During Crazy Mary's "Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around" Ed proceeded to hand the front row a bottle of wine where they drank and shared. The acoustic part of the set lasted about 45mins before they came back on to rock out.
They reopened with Given To Fly and also whipped out many rare tracks during the set including Hard To Imagine and Crown of Thorns. Some highlights for me included Save You, State of Love and Trust, Dissident, Rearviewmirror, Low Light and the Elderly Woman sing-along. Throughout the set, Eddie, Mike and Jeff did many scissor kicks in the air. They had the same energy as if they were in their 20's. Mike also pulled out the behind the head solo in Even Flow.
Throughout the set, Ed teased an appearance by Tom Petty, who is playing The Gorge the next two nights.
Here's the setlist:
first set (acoustic): I Believe in Miracles, Elderly Woman ..., Off He Goes, Lowlight, Man of the Hour, I Am Mine, Crazy Mary, Black, Hard to Imagine
second set (electric): Given to Fly, Last Exit, Save You, Do The Evolution, Alone, Sad, Even Flow, Not For You, Corduroy, Dissident, MFC, Undone, Daughter, In My Tree, State of Love and Trust, Alive, Porch
first encore: Love Boat Captain, Insignificance, Better Man, Rearviewmirror
second encore: I Won't Back Down (Ed solo), Last Kiss, Crown of Thorns, Blood
third encore:Yellow Ledbetter, Baba O'Riley
Off to do it again right now and catch Pearl Jam at GM Place tonight. Can't wait.
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