Pearl Jam

May 17, 2006
United Center: Chicago, IL

Source: Official Bootleg (FLAC)


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Disc 1:
01 - Severed Hand                                   - 04:57
02 - World Wide Suicide                             - 03:26
03 - Life Wasted                                    - 03:45
04 - Animal                                         - 03:07
05 - Marker In The Sand                             - 04:19
06 - Do The Evolution                               - 03:35
07 - Whipping                                       - 03:53
08 - 1/2 Full                                       - 04:48
09 - I Am Mine                                      - 03:55
10 - Even Flow                                      - 07:22
11 - Gone                                           - 06:52
12 - Insignificance                                 - 04:51
13 - Better Man                                     - 04:28
14 - Save It For Later                              - 02:38
15 - Down                                           - 03:19
16 - Garden                                         - 04:00
17 - Inside Job                                     - 06:43
18 - Lukin                                          - 00:55
Total:  76:58

Disc 2:
01 - Why Go                                         - 04:05
02 - Encore Break                                   - 00:23
(Encore 1)
03 - Wasted Reprise                                 - 01:10
04 - Man Of The Hour                                - 03:54
05 - Footsteps                                      - 05:42
06 - Once                                           - 03:21
07 - Alive                                          - 07:34
08 - Encore Break                                   - 00:36
(Encore 2)
09 - Last Kiss                                      - 03:51
10 - Last Exit                                      - 02:43
11 - Glorified G                                    - 04:57
12 - Small Town                                     - 05:45
13 - Crown Of Thorns                                - 06:12
14 - Rockin' In The Free World                      - 09:19
15 - Yellow Ledbetter                               - 06:49
Total:  66:23
Show Notes (thanks to 2FT):
Lights down at 8:53 PM. "Master/Slave" is followed by "Severed Hand" pre-recorded intro music. Ed does a hands in the air hippie dance during the lasers. "Animal" has a false start that makes Ed laugh; he steps off mic for the crowd to sing "I'd rather be with an animal". On "Marker in the Sand", red and yellow lights punctuate verse 2, and Ed encourages to sing "calling out" at songs end and they oblige. Just prior to singing the first verse of "Evolution", Ed takes a drink and throws his head back to make a spit fountain, bathing Jeff and a good portion of the security pit and front row. Ed also sings "admire Stone" instead of "admire my clone". Mike plays verse 2 of "Whipping" in front of his monitors, going wild at songs end by running back and forth across the stage, walking in quick circles and then falling on the floor and rolling in a circle. At the beginning of "1/2 Full", Ed gestured to one of his techs, then took the mic off the stand and angrily tossed the stand to the floor. During the solo, Ed put on one of his guitars, saying "I need a mirror" and proceeded to effectively use the scratchplate of his guitar for reflection, shining it around the arena. Large round yellow-gelled lights over the stage slid to amber during "I Am Mine".
Mike delivers the first part of his "Even Flow" solo behind his head; Ed walks to the back of the stage to bond with the crowd there before lighting his usual cigarette. Near solo's end, Mike leaned into one of his amps, leaning his head into it and finally putting a couple of large tears in the cloth cover. At song's end, Mike puts his arms in the air to get the willing crowd to cheer enthusiastically; Ed had his back turned and wondered about the sound, saying "I missed that one" and Mike did it once again. Ed teased "Goddamn, you saying it's that easy? It's not about spending day in and day out trying to find the perfect chord change and just the right words, all you have to do is ...." He makes the same motion and the crowd goes nuts. "That's just fucked. I guess if you're Mike McCready you can get away with that." Ed jokes.
Ed thanked the crowd for making a big city seem like a small town, mentioning that "that last song" is about how sometimes people can't change and get into life situations that are "hard to get out of", and that sometimes you need to get out of town in order to change. The crowd sings the opening verse of "Better Man" without prompting, to Ed's seeming delight. Red/purple gels over the stage slide to red on the "she dreams in red" line of the chorus, as song plays out, the sparkly light bulb strings twinkle and the bank lights behind Matt light the crowd in white. The song ends, and after a brief pause Ed starts playing the chorus guitar line, going into "Save It For Later", and the band joins him after a moment. Verses are swapped during "Down". Green lasers at beginning of "Inside Job" beam figure-eight swirls onto the upper decks across from the stage. Ed keeps his head down, swaying to the music for the entire intro. Following "Inside Job", Ed introduces "Lukin" as "another introspective number". Loud crowd sings "Why Go Home" break between verses of "Why Go".
Main set over at 10:14 PM, band back on at 10:19 PM to "Wasted Reprise". Ed introduces "Footsteps" saying "this song is about as old as they get". He rotates in a slow circle, playing to all sides of stage for the final chorus. Band leaves the stage at 10:40 PM, coming back after five minutes with no Ed. His voice is heard letting Matt know he's ready to "try this", and "Last Kiss" starts; Ed has a wireless mic and sings from the soundboard platform. Ed thanks the crowd for making the United Center a "safe place to break bread, play music and feel like a family". During "Elderly Woman...", band stops playing and crowd takes over singing "hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away". Ed calls out many Chicago area suburbs (Rockton, Schaumburg, Skokie, Wrigleyville) to sporadic crowd booing, and responds "is there any place that you like?". After the song he says "How about Park Forest?" still to more booing ("What the fuck is wrong with Park Forest?"). Matt sings "oh-oh-oh's" under Ed's "this is my kind of love" during "Crown of Thorns". After "Crown of Thorns", Ed mentions suburb of Park Forest to more booing, chiding the crowd for not liking any of the towns he said ("What's wrong with Park Forest?"). Ed mentions drummer Matt Cameron being from the great Seattle band Soundgarden to much cheering, and that his former guitarist Kim Thayil is from Park Forest, and band and crowd applaud.
Without prompting, the crowd sings "We got a thousand points of light For the homeless man we got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand", making Ed smile before he took over singing. Prior to "Ledbetter", Jeff pulls on his shirt, talking to a guy in the front row that had on the rare "Dirty Frank" T-shirt, saying "nice shirt". Mike plays his "Ledbetter" solo sitting on the stage in front of his monitors. Show over at 11:25PM.