Pearl Jam
July 11, 2003
Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts: Mansfield (Boston), MA
Official Bootleg #68
Source: SBD
Tools: Official Bootleg > WAV (EAC v0.9b4) > SHN (mkwACT v0.97b1)
[seek tables appended and log files included]
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Disc 1:
01 - Long Road - 06:18
02 - Of The Girl - 05:40
03 - Sometimes - 02:46
04 - Off He Goes - 05:44
05 - All Those Yesterdays - 04:53
06 - Drifting - 02:33
07 - Thin Air - 03:54
08 - Sleight Of Hand - 04:42
09 - Footsteps - 05:31
10 - All Or None - 05:28
11 - Parting Ways - 04:42
12 - Indifference - 05:08
Total: 57:24
Disc 2:
01 - Can't Keep - 04:17
02 - Breakerfall - 02:33
03 - Brain Of J - 02:34
04 - Spin The Black Circle - 02:55
05 - Ghost - 03:05
06 - Green Disease - 02:44
07 - Tremor Christ - 04:16
08 - Given To Fly - 04:36
09 - Nothing As It Seems - 05:31
10 - Cropduster - 04:46
11 - Faithful - 04:48
12 - Why Go - 03:19
13 - Wishlist/(Why Can't I Touch It?) - 10:05
14 - Leatherman - 02:43
15 - Nothingman - 04:49
16 - Betterman - 04:41
17 - 1/2 Full - 05:02
Total: 72:48
Disc 3:
01 - Untitled - 02:09
02 - MFC - 02:34
03 - Blood - 03:05
04 - Encore Break - 01:00
(Encore 1)
05 - Breath - 05:29
06 - Habit - 04:03
07 - Down - 06:05
08 - Mankind - 03:53
09 - U - 03:02
10 - Black - 08:32
11 - Jeremy - 05:37
12 - Encore Break - 03:16
(Encore 2)
13 - I Believe In Miracles - 03:10
14 - Know Your Rights - 04:27
15 - Fortunate Son * - 03:51
16 - Rockin' In The Free World * - 06:19
17 - One Note - 00:49
18 - Encore Break - 01:17
(Encore 3)
19 - Yellow Ledbetter - 06:16
Total: 75:00
* w/ Sleater-Kinney
Notes (from 5H):
This show is part III of the plan for PJ to play their catalog over the three
Mansfield shows with no repeats. The unique full band preset starts early with
a nearly full house with Ed thanking the crowd for participating in "the
experiment." After 'Of The Girl,' Ed asks the crowd to sit down saying, "We
haven't played to a seated crowd in a long, long time ... there's not gonna be
an acoustic version of 'Blood' or anything like that ..." The preset begins
acoustic with Jeff playing electric on some of the early songs and Mike going
electric on some of the later songs. Splendid song selection and very well
executed. At least three-quarters of the crowd leaves after the preset.
Sleater-Kinney thanks Pearl Jam for opening for them in their set.
PJ return for the main set, ripping through the first few songs at a staccato
pace. Ed toasts Boston #3 after 'GTF,' and mentions saving the best for last.
He says the next song could have been played in the preset but that they had
saved it, and Mike begins 'NAIS.' 'Faithfull' was saved specifically for night
three. Ed flubs 'Wishlist' but puts an extended jam on the end (acknowledging
the crowd has "forgiven" him) that evolves into the 'Why Can't I Touch It?'
tag, enlisting the crowd to sing and joking about not giving Atlanta this part
to sing. Ed introduces the "man" trilogy as three songs that "go together just
like teeth in a Georgian's mouth," and then apologizes to Atlanta. In usual
form, the crowd sings the first two verses to 'Better Man' before Ed even gets
a word out.
Returning for the first encore, Ed checks his notebook and says there are "...
still quite a few songs on the list, so take a deep ..." but doesn't finish the
sentence and they launch into 'Breath.' Unfortunately, there is no "speaking as
..." in 'Habit,' but just a complete stop from the build up. 'Down' is
introduced as a "b-side off the last record for the serious collector," and is
dedicated to Howard Zinn. Ed speaks more of Zinn's writings at the end of the
song. He addresses the 77 soldiers that have lost their lives in Iraq since the
war is supposedly over and that he hopes that our thoughts and actions are
still with those people overseas. "It will be a fine day when they all come
home." Ed introduces Stone, who says, "I've been waiting all tour to get the
mic. Finally I have it. It feels so good. Since we're playing all the songs,
here's the one that I sing ..." leading to 'Mankind,' played under pink lights!
He flounders on the repetition of the "... what's got the whole world faking"
lyric toward the end and says, "Well, it was sort of magic up to the last part
... the second verse was pretty good, I thought."
After 'Black,' Ed says they only have one more of their songs to do and it is
one the crowd knows so they can sing along, leading to 'Jeremy,' and afterward,
leaving the stage with, "We did it ... thank you!" The second encore begins
with "Eddie, Eddie" chants and he responds, "Yeah, it's just me up here." He
talks about how they were pacing themselves and the crowd outdid them. He says
they are going to break the curfew and says it isn't a deliberate act of
disrespect but they want to finish the setlist and that next time they will
probably play the Fleet Center. "It will never be like the Garden or like the
Orpheum Theater." After thanking those who showed up early for the "experiment"
of the opener, he introduces 'Arc' as another experiment, following it with 'I
Believe in Miracles.'
Sleater-Kinney come out for 'Fortunate Son' and 'RITFW.' Then, "There's one
more we haven't done. We've done it once in Birmingham ..." and they repeat the
loud "one note" and leave, to the dismay of the crowd that still continues to
stay and cheer. The band returns, repeating the "one note" but then going into
'YL' (apparently the only song that would signal they were really done to get
the crowd to leave). Mike adds a snippet of Boston's 'More Than A Feeling.'
Playing 30 minutes beyond the 11pm curfew allegedly cost the band $7,500.
(Total count for the three nights at Mansfield = 82 songs plus 11 covers.)