Pearl Jam

May 13, 2006
New England Dodge Music Arena: Hartford, CT

Source: Official Bootleg (FLAC)


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Disc 1:
01 - Severed Hand                                   - 04:43
02 - World Wide Suicide                             - 03:28
03 - Life Wasted                                    - 04:03
04 - Marker In The Sand                             - 04:30
05 - Hail, Hail                                     - 03:24
06 - Animal                                         - 02:53
07 - Dissident                                      - 03:38
08 - Unemployable                                   - 03:05
09 - Corduroy                                       - 04:46
10 - Better Man                                     - 05:11
11 - Why Go                                         - 03:36
12 - Garden                                         - 05:12
13 - I Got Shit                                     - 04:32
14 - Even Flow                                      - 08:36
15 - Inside Job                                     - 07:29
16 - Black                                          - 08:19
Total:  77:27

Disc 2:
01 - Rearviewmirror                                 - 10:06
02 - Encore Break                                   - 02:10
(Encore 1)
03 - I'm Open                                       - 03:19
04 - Sleight Of Hand                                - 04:39
05 - Comatose                                       - 02:14
06 - Do The Evolution                               - 04:11
07 - Encore Break                                   - 02:23
(Encore 2)
08 - Go                                             - 02:57
09 - Alive                                          - 06:25
10 - Rockin' In The Free World                      - 08:28
11 - Yellow Ledbetter                               - 06:08
Total:  53:04
Show Notes (thanks to 2FT):
The "clothed-in-layers" band takes the stage in the chilly outdoor venue at 8:36 PM to "Master/Slave" as the entrance music. The pre-recorded intro to "Severed Hand" is played before the band starts playing live, green lasers beginning their searchlight movement as the band starts playing. Ed remarks "we're gonna try and keep you warm for the next couple of hours" and, quickly warming, Stone takes his beanie off before "Marker in the Sand". Red and yellow lights bathe the crowd and stage during "Hail, Hail"; the crowd has hands ready and does fast claps during the breakdown with Ed's encouragement. Lasers highlight "Animal" shooting off in sporadic rays throughout. "Unemployable" is introduced as "an uplifting American number". The chorus of "Unemployable" features Matt, Stone and Jeff singing backing vocals. During the solo/end of "Corduroy", Jeff gets big air with a jump, and an energized Mike does three successive split jumps. Ed introduces "Better Man" saying "this is where you give Uncle Eddie a break", and the crowd sings the entire first verse. Stone plays the end-of-song breakdown with Boom. "Is it warming up out there? Don't lose your inner heat ... ever." Ed says before the re-worked "Garden".
Before "I Got Shit", when Ed addresses the crowd in back on the lawn, he asks for the camera man to focus on him so the crowd can see him on the big video screens. Jeff ends up grabbing the camera from the guy (Ed: "we've got a new cameraman"), panning across the audience and eventually onto Ed before handing it back, to much applause from those in in back. Ed, referencing those on the lawn, introduces the song by its real name "I Got Shit", but says tonight it can be called "I Got Shit Tickets". Ed prefaces "Inside Job" with "There will be some lasers on this song, so if you have something besides a cigarette to light, now would be the time." During the "Rearviewmirror" jam, Ed repeats "One day ... I'll forget". At the end of "Rearviewmirror", Ed is really into the jam at the end and gets lost on stage, knocking himself in the mouth with his mic (on the mic stand) and falls, kicking his legs out to help himself back up.
Main set over at 10:05PM. Back onstage, Ed talks about playing Hartford twice before (the others, Oct 2, 1996 and Sept 13, 1998), and how this time is like the "last bowl of porridge, this turned out to be 'just right'" (referencing children's story Goldilocks and the Three Bears). Ed attempts to start playing "I'm Open" and stops, saying "I was gonna play something but I can't remember how to play it". "Comatose" contains the lyric change: "High above / I'll break the law / if it's illegal / for me to fuck".
Prior to the second encore, the band is introduced as "Chairman of the Board" Mike McCready, "Secretary of State" Jeff Ament, "I'd elect him President" Matt Cameron, "He'd show Donald Rumsfeld a few things about truth and honesty" Stone Gosssard and "I am the outed CIA agent who knows all your phone numbers to see if you enjoyed the show" Ed Vedder. The crowd "booooms" for Boom and he's introduced saying "He's like our Barack Obama". Ed climbs up onto the stacks by Mike to sing "is something wrong she said". Stone joins the crowd singing "yeah! yeah!" in rhythm at the end of the song, raising and lowering his guitar and strumming in time with them.
During the breakdown of "Rockin' in the Free World", Ed pleads "we've been playing this song for like, i don't know how many years, 10 years. We used to play it for fun, we used to play it for Neil, we used to play it for ourselves; but now if we don't think about this shit, it's gonna go away. We gotta keep the United States a free world, free communication, free love, free association." Ed thanks the crowd, equating the shape of the seating area to a baseball field, thanking "right field, center field, left field, third base, short-stop, second base, first base. I guess we're the catcher, so here's the pitcher" and leads Mike to start "Yellow Ledbetter".