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I heard a bit of St. Louis on the way to work today. Footsteps and Thin Air sounded really great. For the first time in a long time I feel like Pearl Jam is getting better live, not worse.
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I heard a bit of St. Louis on the way to work today. Footsteps and Thin Air sounded really great. For the first time in a long time I feel like Pearl Jam is getting better live, not worse.
Being there, Footsteps was the highlight of the show for me. By far. I thought it was one of the better live moments I've experienced. The crowd loved it. I was giving high fives to strangers. And I'm not even a huge fan of that song. But it just fit perfectly coming out of Imagine->Just Breathe->Thin Air.
I heard a bit of St. Louis on the way to work today. Footsteps and Thin Air sounded really great. For the first time in a long time I feel like Pearl Jam is getting better live, not worse.
Being there, Footsteps was the highlight of the show for me. By far. I thought it was one of the better live moments I've experienced. The crowd loved it. I was giving high fives to strangers. And I'm not even a huge fan of that song. But it just fit perfectly coming out of Imagine->Just Breathe->Thin Air.
My thoughts too. Footsteps was incredible at that show.
"Thin Air" and "Footsteps" were the highlight for me too -- the rest of that show was such a merciless pummeling, the acoustic set was a well-deserved moment of respite, even if it did lead off with "Imagine."
In my quest to go through more of the 2014 bootlegs, I'm starting with Amsterdam 1.
Thoughts: * Holy shit, Pearl Jam is back. Where were you guys? This is tight as hell for the first show of the tour, and despite a few miscues they nail almost everything. This shows me they rehearsed a lot for this tour, because the glaring mishaps and flubs that have plagued the band for years are gone. The only miscues are the occasional Ed flub (particularly "Sonic Reducer, but you have to expect that at this point), but even those are few and far between. * Great versions of lots of songs, but particularly all of the Binaural songs (even "Evacuation" is surprisingly cromulent, other than being tuned wayyyyy down). * For not having played the song in years, "Who You Are" is fantastic. * "Breakerfall". I'm glad they've realized they need to keep playing this song, because it sounds great. * "Sonic Reducer" has been terrible for years and this is no exception, but it is improving. Ed seems to have rediscovered the delivery necessary to sell the song - now if only he could remember the lyrics! * Ed sounds much better than I expected. Either he quit smoking (or at least cut down on it), he's drinking less on stage or he's been working on his vocals a lot. My guess is a combination of all three.
I've been pretty harsh on PJ over the last 5-10 years but this is a major improvement on almost everything I've heard since 2006, and I'm excited to listen to more shows from this tour.
In my quest to go through more of the 2014 bootlegs, I'm starting with Amsterdam 1.
Thoughts: * Holy shit, Pearl Jam is back. Where were you guys? This is tight as hell for the first show of the tour, and despite a few miscues they nail almost everything. This shows me they rehearsed a lot for this tour, because the glaring mishaps and flubs that have plagued the band for years are gone. The only miscues are the occasional Ed flub (particularly "Sonic Reducer, but you have to expect that at this point), but even those are few and far between. * Great versions of lots of songs, but particularly all of the Binaural songs (even "Evacuation" is surprisingly cromulent, other than being tuned wayyyyy down). * For not having played the song in years, "Who You Are" is fantastic. * "Breakerfall". I'm glad they've realized they need to keep playing this song, because it sounds great. * "Sonic Reducer" has been terrible for years and this is no exception, but it is improving. Ed seems to have rediscovered the delivery necessary to sell the song - now if only he could remember the lyrics! * Ed sounds much better than I expected. Either he quit smoking (or at least cut down on it), he's drinking less on stage or he's been working on his vocals a lot. My guess is a combination of all three.
I've been pretty harsh on PJ over the last 5-10 years but this is a major improvement on almost everything I've heard since 2006, and I'm excited to listen to more shows from this tour.
My thoughts too seeing them twice this year and from what I've heard from the boots. Definitely unexpected.
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