Pearl Jam

May 16, 2006
United Center: Chicago, IL

Source: Official Bootleg (FLAC)


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Disc 1:
01 - Release                                        - 05:22
02 - World Wide Suicide                             - 03:26
03 - Life Wasted                                    - 03:48
04 - Severed Hand                                   - 04:11
05 - Comatose                                       - 03:29
06 - Given To Fly                                   - 04:05
07 - Low Light                                      - 03:37
08 - Corduroy                                       - 04:57
09 - I'm Open, I Got Shit                           - 06:17
10 - Even Flow                                      - 08:08
11 - Unemployable                                   - 03:25
12 - Daughter/(W.M.A.)                              - 07:00
13 - Present Tense                                  - 05:52
14 - Do The Evolution                               - 05:30
15 - Jeremy                                         - 05:45
Total:  74:57

Disc 2:
01 - Save You                                       - 03:38
02 - Porch                                          - 10:05
03 - Encore Break                                   - 03:18
(Encore 1)
04 - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away              - 02:38
05 - Better Man                                     - 05:33
06 - Come Back                                      - 05:27
07 - State Of Love And Trust                        - 03:42
08 - Black                                          - 08:50
09 - Alive                                          - 07:24
10 - Encore Break                                   - 01:37
(Encore 2)
11 - Go                                             - 03:06
12 - Blood/(Atomic Dog)                             - 03:16
13 - Indifference                                   - 04:47
14 - Baba O'Riley                                   - 05:23
15 - Yellow Ledbetter                               - 06:40
Total:  75:25
Show Notes (thanks to 2FT):
The house lights go down and the band hits the stage at 8:45 PM to "Master/Slave" entrance music. During "Release", Ed sang "Oh dear John" in place of "Oh dear Dad". The crowd singing was so loud during the first chorus during "release me", that Ed took a step back and leaned his head back, overwhelmed. "Worldwide Suicide" featured animated Mike split-jumps and several long strings of light bulb-sized crackling, lights hanging from the stage lighting rafters. For "Severed Hand" Ed gestured his flat hand above his head to animate "the room"s taller now"; lasers beamed in a circle pattern from the stage to the top rear seats of the arena, green circles of light searchlighting on the crowd. Ed says "can't talk now, got work to do" before "Comatose" and Mike plays the solo behind his head. Ed tells the crowd after that he's "starting to feel United", mentioning that "a lot of incredible things have happened under this roof" and that he was "honored to play this building", home of many Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls championships. He said he "did some research, and the roof weighs 230 metric tons" and that "with your help we can raise it with you tonight." Mike was physically all over the place during the solo in "Even Flow", at one point grinding with his amp stack so animatedly that it almost knocked over. Ed counted the crowd in with his fingers, "1,2,3,4" for the final chorus of "Even Flow", using hand gestures to ensure they got the words ? hand away from himself for "chases them away", index finger to lips for "whispering hands".
Ed introduced the crowd to a man in the front row wearing a Mother Love Bone T-Shirt who was at the first show they played. He asked about his girlfriend, who is now the man's wife and he dedicated a song to him, telling the crowd that this guy deserved to be front and center. Ed introduces "Daughter" by saying this next song is called "Thank Heaven for Little Girls". During the "W.M.A" tag, Ed sings "Texas son" instead of "American", "Up his nose/it comes right off" instead of "dirty his hands...", and "President" instead of "police man". After the song he comments that the many sports commemorative flags hanging from the rafters may be dampening the sound - particularly a Jordan jersey retirement banner - and that it should be taken down, and that he would gladly store it in his suitcase. Ed backed up from the mic and let the vocal crowd sing the first chorus of "Present Tense"; Mike again grinded with his amp stack. On "Do The Evolution", Ed sang "Thrift Store, Thrift Store", pulling on his T-shirt and gesturing to his pants after "admire my clothes". After "2010 watch it go to fire" Ed sang "don't let it." Ed calls out a fan "Rob" in the front row (center) who came to one of PJ's earliest shows in Chicago with "a Mother Love Bone shirt and a pair of glasses". Ed says that he's got a different pair of glasses and remembered he used to go to shows with his girlfriend. Ed sees his non-female companion for this show and jokes that "he's married an older man". Watery circles of white light bathe the crowd in the back of the house in swirls during "Jeremy", and a red light shines on Jeff as he plays the song out. Mike tags "War Pigs" in "Porch" (later again in "Alive") and Ed sang the final verse of "Porch" on top of the speaker stack on Mike's side of the stage.
Off at 10:20 PM, back on 10:23 PM. Before "You Got To Hide Your Love Away", Ed spoke of how United Center was "like no other place", and while he was proud to be in a band from Seattle, he'd always be a kid from Chicago, for better or worse - "I think it's better". He encouraged the crowd to sing by speaking of "our Uncle Neil" Young using a 100-piece choir on his latest Living with War, and that "you all could blow 100 pieces away". After the long held note on that last chorus of "Better Man", Ed went over to play the guitar breakdown with Mike, leaning down, putting the top of his head against Mike's chest. The crackled mirror ball was spotlighted near the end of "Alive"; the extended end of the song featured Ed swinging his mic repeatedly, and then collapsing to fall flat on his back.
Encore break at 11:00 PM, back on three minutes later. Ed thanked the crowd, and the band gave them a round of applause. "Go" featured a barrage of lasers shooting out from a bank of effects in front of the monitors as well as behind Matt. On "Indifference", Ed stepped back quickly to let the crowd sing "I will scream my lungs out "til it fills this room". During "Baba O'Riley", Ed put his fist through on tambourine and broke the other over his head, giving them to a guy in row 3, and to a fellow in the front row who had an avocado drawn on the top of his bald head.