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Pearl Jam 07/01/2003

SHOWID 163697

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My third PJ show... first since '98. The PJ tickets were also expensive, $50+ a pop. Apperently PJ is no longer worried about keeping prices down for the sake of the fans. Sat about 2 rows from the back of the pavillion. Circle Jerks opened for PJ, but I skipped most of their set, as I have never particularly cared for them. The cameramen seemed to focus largly on Mike McCreedy. Eddie & Mike got nearly all of the imaging on the big screens. We were sitting (standing) too far back to see the band clearly on stage.
Anyway, musically, the show was largly mellowed-out (as expected), but they still played tunes spanning all of their albums. Near the end of the show, Eddie announced that Ian McCaye (from Fugazi) had been backstage. I wish that he had come out to guest on a song or two (PJ covering Fugazi would have been really cool!)
For the final encore, they did a false start of Ledbetter & then tore into Rocking in the Freeworld. It was funny to see the whole crowd get pissed off at the band, for not playing Ledbetter. I like Freeworld better, so I rather enjoyed it. They ended up playing Yellow Ledbetter to close out the show, so everybody was happy.

(Nissan Pavilion rant: The people working the gates at Nissan are complete nazi assholes. Parking at Nissan is horrible, as is the long commute from Maryland. Everything costs too much there - $11 for a beer?! Rip off! I've been there many times and dislike it more and more each time. Not going back unless there's a show I really want to see.... Unfortunately that will probably be pretty soon, since most of the big-name acts tend to bypass Maryland.)
Daniel Cheatham
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Set I

Can't Keep
Small Town
Off He Goes
Corduroy
Green Disease
Save You
Even Flow
Nothing As It Seems
Cropduster
Half Full
Gimme Some Truth
Daughter/(WMA)(Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2)(No More Pain)
Thumbing My Way
Given To Fly
You Are
Better Man/(Why Can't I Touch It?)/(Save It For Later)
Black
Rearviewmirror

Set II

E1:
Do the Evolution
Spin the Black Circle
Blood
Why Go
Know Your Rights
Jeremy
Indifference

Set III

E2:
Rockin' in the Free World
Yellow Ledbetter

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