Pearl Jam

August 23, 2006
The Point: Dublin, Ireland

Source: Official Bootleg (FLAC)


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Disc 1:
01 - Inside Job                                     - 06:24
02 - World Wide Suicide                             - 03:19
03 - Severed Hand                                   - 03:49
04 - Animal                                         - 02:30
05 - Do The Evolution                               - 03:36
06 - Given To Fly                                   - 05:55
07 - Corduroy                                       - 04:14
08 - Gone                                           - 04:10
09 - Marker In The Sand                             - 04:33
10 - Daughter/(It's OK)                             - 07:20
11 - Better Man                                     - 04:30
12 - Why Go                                         - 03:58
13 - Education                                      - 02:48
14 - Even Flow                                      - 07:12
15 - Life Wasted                                    - 03:31
16 - Rearviewmirror                                 - 08:48
Total:  76:42

Disc 2:
01 - Encore Break                                   - 02:00
(Encore 1)
02 - Indifference                                   - 04:30
03 - Black                                          - 08:28
04 - Crazy Mary                                     - 07:53
05 - Alive                                          - 07:23
06 - Encore Break                                   - 00:49
(Encore 2)
07 - The Boys Are Back In Town                      - 02:38
08 - Leash                                          - 02:59
09 - Fuckin' Up                                     - 07:12
Total:  43:56
Show Notes (thanks to 2FT):
Pearl Jam begins the third of four legs of the world tour in support of Pearl Jam. There are two premieres at this show: "Education" (Binaural) and "The Boys are Back in Town", a cover by Dublin's Thin Lizzy. Ed greets the crowd and recognizes the time that has passed, "Hello, I think it's been a long time. I know exactly how long it's been, I think it's been six years or so. And a lot can happen in six years. Thanks for giving us this welcome back into this part of the world. Everybody OK out there? A lot can happen in six years: some of you might have graduated, got jobs, gotten out of prison. A lot can happen in 6 years. Probably the most important thing you'd take pride in knowing is that I fell in love with a woman that has Irish blood in her (cheers) - her last name is 'McCormick'. And it happened to Mike McCready as well ... fell in love with a girl named "O'Connor". And to top it off, now I have a little girl with Irish blood in her. So here's to the fire and the blood of the Irish." Later Ed mentions the typically enthusiastic European crowd "I don't want to say anything bad about America, but I just couldn't wait to get over here and hear people singing."
Ed prefaces the debut of "Education", "So most of the songs we've ever written, we play most of them. So it's actually kinda rare that we play something for the first time live because we usually play them, or they'be been played before. So this is kinda of a B-side type thing, but we've never played it and maybe we'll find out why. This song is called 'Education'." "Education" contains the lyric change "See the President who can't be pick out his own tie". Ed wonders about "boos" and realizes it's "Booooom", as this is his "first time in Europe, his first time overseas."
Ed continues his trend of telling jokes about "The Point" in Dublin, "About 2 years ago in Seattle, I was talking to the singer of an Irish band, and he was saying things about how 'when their bands make records it's like a horse, like breeding a horse. when we breed the horse we don't just want to breed the horse, we want to it to win. We don't want rock-and-roll to become a niche.' And I said 'But what's the point?' and he said, (Irish accent) 'Oh Eddie, The Point's a great fuckin place to play in Dublin.'".
Ed doesn't preface "The Boys Are Back In Town" and the band just jumps right into it. The crowd erupts after the first big chord and the signature bass riff by Jeff. Almost more than any Pearl Jam song the entire night, most of the Dublin crowd comes right in on the first lyric and helps Eddie out. The modified lyric "But man, I think we're fuckin crazy" (original: "But man, I still think them cats are crazy") gets a huge response. "Fuckin' Up" closes the show, with Ed saluting "we'd like to thank all our friends from Ireland that we see when they come on tour. We'd like to thank you for sticking by us and coming back to see us after all these years."