Reading the setlist threads, I get the feeling we are all a little suprised at the two setlists so far. Do you guys think this is a sign of things to come on this tour or are they just giving some greatest-hits loving to the palces they don' play very often?

i dont really see anything different compared to other tours.

We'll know more tomorrow and the day after tomorrow when they play Munich & Katowice (non-festival shows). But the Madrid show sounds great. Warm-up? What the hell? You don't play a warm-up show at a festival.

To echo Angus I don't think it's fair to compare a festival set to a non-festival set. I would expect their solo shows to be much more appealing to us hardcore fans.

Maybe, maybe not. The setlists just seem really, for lack of a better term, "safe". Very radio friendly, easy for new fans to like. Hopefully it's just because they are festival shows and not because this is a "safe" tour.

I found the entire 2006 tour very "safe".

i think the whole pearl jam changin up their sets and playing shit laods of rarities is a myth that has just been perpetuated by the fans. Sure, there are special shows here and there that offer such tings, but for the most part, most pearl jam shows are typical of eachother, throughout the entire career.

compaired to most other bands...
or at least others that ive got boots of / have seen / and what not...

Pearl Jam seems to be in the top league when it comes to mixing it up...


Ive seen McCartney 3 times (with mom who was a huge Beatles fan) and let me tell ya... even the jokes were the same...

My roomies saw Bon Jovi twice (she likes them) and he said, the set was identical... not one song different... and the shows were almost 1 full year apart / different legs of a tour / different cities.


Were just spoiled having all these boots to compare sets too...
I think i figured, youd have had to have gotten around 20 boots of the 06 tour to get every song played at least once... thats 1/3 of the tour thats got something unique in it... and thats not even talking about changen up the set lists...

I don't believe this.



as to big bands, this is true

i'm starting to feel that strat is Stone's account or something.

But this is promising: two concerts down, no Go opener yet

groetjes,
Mirella

me too, a little "safe" at least

(I have never seen Go as a show opener btw )

im not gay enough to hump you, but almost.


At any given pj concert there are about 15 songs that you can put a good amount of moneyon hearing.

yea, they change it up more than most, but i dont see many sets that im completely blown away by the song choice.

yeah, the opened cleveland with BETTERMAN...can't get any safer than that.

This will be the least exciting, least memorable tour ever.

Blip on the radar.

Europe was pretty safe last year... there was a few great shows in their though...

Australia started safe, but ended GREAT...



but there is a set of songs you will hear...

Alive or Jeremy (definetly one almost every night)
Even Flow, Betterman, DTE
Small Town or Daughter
Corduroy or Given 2 Fly

Id say those 9 are pretty safe standard played songs...

I would want to see at least one of those at any show I was at and probably more than one. I listened to the Madrid show, and I would have had a great time at that one. It was 20 really fun songs with some great tags. Some of the rare songs just aren't very good songs. That's why they're rare.

Some of the songs that we consider part of a "hits" collection like HAIL HAIL, LAST EXIT, GREEN DISEASE(!?), and SEVERED HAND arent "hits" to most people. Most of the people at that festival would probably never have heard of those songs.

give it a few more shows, boss.

No, but Severed Hand is so boring.