Pearl Jam

May 19, 2006
Van Andel Arena: Grand Rapids, MI

Source: Official Bootleg (FLAC)
Ed pre-set source: Shure SM-98 > MT2496


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Disc 1:
01 - Small Town                                     - 04:13
02 - Given To Fly                                   - 03:41
03 - World Wide Suicide                             - 03:26
04 - Life Wasted                                    - 04:03
05 - Severed Hand                                   - 04:03
06 - Sad                                            - 03:57
07 - Marker In The Sand                             - 04:34
08 - Red Mosquito                                   - 04:32
09 - Even Flow                                      - 08:33
10 - Love Boat Captain                              - 05:11
11 - Corduroy                                       - 05:17
12 - Daughter/(Blitzkrieg Bop/I Believe In
                                        Miracles)   - 09:03
13 - Army Reserve                                   - 04:07
14 - Green Disease                                  - 03:34
15 - Why Go                                         - 03:53
16 - Inside Job                                     - 06:55
Total:  79:07

Disc 2:
01 - Rearviewmirror                                 - 10:15
02 - Encore Break                                   - 02:49
(Encore 1)
03 - Sleight Of Hand                                - 04:30
04 - Off He Goes                                    - 06:53
05 - Around The Bend                                - 03:43
06 - Parting Ways                                   - 04:20
07 - Hard To Imagine                                - 05:37
08 - Crazy Mary                                     - 10:10
09 - Alive                                          - 08:21
10 - Encore Break                                   - 00:50
(Encore 2)
11 - Do The Evolution                               - 03:47
12 - Comatose                                       - 02:36
13 - Satan's Bed                                    - 03:14
14 - Leatherman                                     - 02:32
15 - Blood                                          - 04:34
Total:  74:15

Disc 3:
01 - Baba O'Riley                                   - 06:28
02 - Yellow Ledbetter                               - 06:43

Ed pre-set:
03 - Dead Man                                       - 04:49
04 - I Can't Explain                                - 02:37
05 - It Makes No Difference *                       - 07:01
Total:  27:43

* Ed w/ My Morning Jacket
Show Notes (thanks to 2FT):
"Yeah, we're getting it going" Ed says to the energetic crowd to the crowd of about 12,000. "Daughter" is introduced as "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and there's a considerable gasp from some in the crowd. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a Gordon Lightfoot song about a real-life freighter that sank between Wisconsin and Michigan, but also a song often associated (incorrectly?) with an instrumental song on one of Stone Gossard's early 1990 demos. As "Daughter" starts though, Ed says to the crowd "Don't hate me." Ed introduces Boom and says he's standing in front of what looks like a "portable bar" and says "Love Boat Captain" was written in a "far away place and far enough away that anything seemed possible". Ed mentions the last time they played Grand Rapids was the "Vote For Change" tour and says the name of that tour was supposed to "make the point" and that "Vote for Change" was maybe "not explanatory enough because some people didn't figure out you were voting to change things for the better." He continues, "So a lot of us voted, but things have changed just for the worse and something hopeful, apparently there's a couple of veterans in the crowd and we have their support so we're very proud of that.", leading to "Army Reserve".
Jeff updates everyone on the Detroit vs. Cleveland playoff basketball game that night "We just found out that the Pistons won by two points", to large cheers. Ed then says he heard they actually lost by three points, to large boos. Ed then asks the crowd to vote for who they think the liar is, but he admits "it's gonna be me". During the "Rearviewmirror" jam, Ed sings "Time heals the wounds that no one can see (repeated) / I will forget, I will forgive (repeated)".
With the crowd going nuts, Ed comes on after the first encore saying "Are you kidding me? We're not gonna want to leave this place. And I thought we had friends in Chicago!". The first encore is full of "experimenting" and Ed clarifies that "there's a big difference between 'experimenting with you' and 'fucking with you', we're not going to fuck with you." Before "Around the Bend", Ed asks, "Would you like to hear 'Around the Bend'? We can try it. Are you sure? We haven't played it, we haven't practiced it, so we're fucking with ourselves at this point." Pearl Jam plays back-to-back breakouts with "Around the Bend" and "Parting Ways", both the only times played this leg. "Parting Ways" includes a sitar-like guitar effect which gives the main riff a different sound. A 10-minute "Crazy Mary" ends with Mike and Boom trading off on ascending high notes, being egged on by the band and the crowd.
Starting the second encore, Ed prefaces, "Alright, no more experimenting. We're gonna drive this thing home with ya. Seatbelts everybody ..." and they launch into "Do The Evolution". Ed uses a megaphone for the "High above ..." bridge in "Comatose". "Satan's Bed" starts and Ed jokes "I think we may be fucking with you again, sorry". The band nails "Satan's Bed", with supporting B3 by Boom (true to the studio version), and with Ed ad-libbing a hurried "Paris Hilton" after the line "Who set the standard 'born to be rich'?". After "Blood", Ed beckons "Is there anything left? (crowd roars) I think we did it all (crowd yells "No!!!")."
Ed toasts the day to the shared birthday of Joey Ramone (he says "Johnny" at first) and Pete Townshend and dedicates "Baba O'Riley" to them. "Grand Rapids, who knew?!? That was great ... thank you so much. If (fans) listen to the tapes, it's gonna sound like we're just bullshittin', but you had to be here. This was really great tonight, thank you so, so much." Yellow Ledbetter contains a brief "Star-Spangled Banner" tease and Ed changing the second verse lyrics to "And I see them, I'd like to wish this whole fuckin war away / and I try, and I say, I keep waking up with the news today / and the lies they tell, I can't take no more / because my brother he's comin' home in a box or a bag". Ed replaces the last "I don't wanna stay" line with "Fuck it, let's stay."