10/03/05 - Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
support act: Sleater-Kinney
Sleater-Kinney set: Promised Land (with Ed), One Beat (with Matt), Mother (with all of PJ)

set: Wash, Hail Hail, Brain Of J, Spin The Black Circle, Given To Fly, Sad, Alone, Even Flow, Green Disease, Faithfull, Whipping, Not For You/(Modern Girl), Leatherman, Better Man/(?)/(Save It For Later), Nothingman, Once, Bleed For Me, Blood
first encore: Around The Bend, Harvest Moon (w/Sleater-Kinney), Hard To Imagine, Crown of Thorns, Crazy Mary, Alive
second encore: Last Kiss, In My Tree, Do The Evolution, Sonic Reducer, Little Sister, Leaving Here (w/Sleater-Kinney), Rockin In The Free World (w/Sleater-Kinney), Yellow Ledbetter.

TFT Notes: Starting Sleater-Kinney's set, signer/guitarist Corin Tucker immediately thanked Pearl Jam for inviting them out on tour again, and "especially wanted to thank one person" as Ed came out and kicked off the show with Bruce Springsteen's "Promised Land". Matt was introduced and played "lead tambourine" on Sleater-Kinney's "One Beat". For Sleater-Kinney's finale, Corin called out all the members of Pearl Jam and the ensemble played Danzig's "Mother". Mike was on guitar stage-left, Stone was on tambourine in front of the drum kit and Matt stood alongside Janet Weiss and added percussion. Jeff came out in a black, long-sleeve, Samhain (Glenn Danzig's old band) t-shirt, white face paint with eyes blackened and a wig with strands of hair over his face in the Misfits/Samhain style. Ed discretely perched himself behind's Matt kit and filmed the event with a small video camera, before grabbing Matt's sticks and contributing on drums. Pearl Jam opens as they did their first Philly show in 1991 with "Wash". Ed first addresses the crowd before "Given to Fly" with "well, we heard that you were uh ... if you were waiting for us, know that we were waiting for you too ... nice seeing you!". The "man trilogy" of "Leatherman", "Better Man" and "Nothingman" makes its 2005 debut. Remarking that it "feels like the end of the tour" Ed hints that the night will be filled with songs that they don't play that often. Prior to the first encore, Ed's roadie brings out a short music stand complete with numerous lyric sheets, leading to "Around the Bend" (first time in 2005, first since Benaroya '03). Sleater-Kinney provide backup on "Harvest Moon", swaying to the "oooohs" in unison on Stone's mic. Ed mentions "Crown of Thorns" is "for special occasions, of which we consider this". "Crazy Mary" is started and immediately following the "L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G" line, the stage-left monitors start blasting this hideous screeching feedback, with all band members slowly backing away and the crew scrambling to isolate the problem. It lasts about 10-15 seconds and when it stops, the crowd erupts and all the band has that "what the fuck was that" look on their faces. A spooked Ed says that he never called "Mary" crazy in person, and he doesn't want to continue the song, laughing. Stone starts up the chords, Ed approaches the mic, then backs off shaking his head "I can't do it!". He mentions that Boom had told him during the encore break that he was going to take it "Crazy Mary" to the next level, so the band resumes the song with the second chorus and Mike and Boom do their solo trade-offs. For the second encore, Ed comes on and references their history with Philadelphia, the band's first Philly show at the club J.C. Dobbs July 1991 (commenting on the size of the J.C. Dobbs club by forming the small width of the room to the crowd in front of him with his outstretched hands in a "this small" manner) and as the band walks backstage to play "Last Kiss" to the crowd behind the stage, Ed turns to the crowd in front and says "we're gonna go do a club show." Ed repeatedly nodded sidestage during "Last Kiss" to his wife and daughter during the chorus' line "oh where oh where can my baby be". "Little Sister", an Elvis original, premieres. Eddie references his lyric sheet and the band members are all turned towards Matt, carefully working the new arrangement. Ed brings out Sleater-Kinney for "one more" then realizes they commonly sing encore backups on more than one song, so he asks the crowd "do you want one more or two more?" (to which most of the crowd started chanting "three!"), so they join in for "Leaving Here" and "Rockin in the Free World". On "Rockin'...", Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein played Ed's blue Gibson SG, Janet Weiss played Matt's kit as Matt accented on cymbals and Corin Tucker sang and played tambourine, rockin' with Ed as they slapped their tambourine's together in unison. "Rockin'..." and "Yellow Ledbetter" are played with the house lights on. On the setlist but not played: Footsteps, Don't Gimme No Lip.

1 year anniversary of this show! Easily in the top 3 shows I've seen. Not the top spot, but still a very special night.

Discuss...

A very good closer of a very good tour.

I have only listened to it once though. I didn't grab my attention as much as almost all Canadian shows. But hey, that's just me.

Honestly, the first encore was unreal. I don't think I'll ever hear something like that again.

66 shows and definitely in my top 5

Happy Birthday

i'll never forget the short out that happened during Crazy Mary

Ed looked truly nervous and scared

Drove 12 hours for that show. Worth every mile.

Awesome show. Great night.

A part of me was wishing that Crazy Mary would never be played again.

me too!

and bleed for me into blood... awesome!

I actually can't think of any part of me that wishes that Crazy Mary is still played.

If there's one PJ show I put on my iPod, this is probably it.

3 hours long, the Man trilogy, blissful 1st encore...I mean, the entire setlist is unreal.

wish more shows could be like this.

Amazing show. Amazing DVD. 5 Star PJ.

Flew in from Detroit to see this one last year and in spite of what I thought was a lame ass crowd it was an awesome show.
But not in my top 3 of the year.

ditto

Totally agree with the crowd. Could have been better.

My very first PJ show. The first encore is unreal. And I will also never forget Crazy Mary short out.

another thing I'll never forget: Boom's and Mike's solo tradeoff. Their best by far.

how do i get this dvd?

I've seen 10 PJ shows, and this one is far and away my favorite. I'll never forget seeing Jeff cover his ears during the Crazy Mary blowout.