Pearl Jam
June 23, 1998
Fiddlers Green: Englewood, CO
Taper: Unknown
Source: Schoeps MK5 (cardioid) > R-Mod > Sony SBM-1 > D7 + Nakamichi 700 > SonyTCD-D8
CD > WAV > SHN: Rick Bendes (rarepj@hotmail.com, http://pearljam.simplenet.com)
Equipment: Sony CDU571-Q 16X IDE > Easy CD Creator > MKW Audio Compression Tool Kit
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Disc 1:
01 - Long Road - 05:35
02 - Corduroy - 04:51
03 - Hail, Hail - 03:36
04 - Brain Of J - 02:59
05 - Dissident - 04:18
06 - Given To Fly - 04:39
07 - MFC - 02:27
08 - Habit - 04:48
09 - In Hiding - 05:18
10 - Even Flow - 05:34
11 - Daughter - 06:32
Total: 50:37
Disc 2:
01 - Pilate - 03:33
02 - Off He Goes - 06:19
03 - I Got Shit - 04:11
04 - Do The Evolution - 04:47
05 - Alive - 05:22
06 - Black - 07:41
(Encore 1)
07 - Wishlist - 03:55
08 - Rearviewmirror - 06:43
09 - Better Man - 05:55
10 - Leaving Here - 04:43
(Encore 2)
11 - I Am A Patriot (Ed solo) - 03:40
Total: 56:50
Notes (from 5H):
A bad sound system makes Ed's vocals somewhat hard to hear, but the band turns
in a great performance. Ed comments on his altitude sickness the last time the
band played Denver before 'Given to Fly': "We're a mile high ... and I might
add that there is nothing wrong with being a little bit higher too!"
At his vocal part in the middle of 'Habit,' Ed encourages the crowd to enjoy
life, "... life has many detours, take them, enjoy them, but just don't get
stuck in the mud ..." The 'Daughter' tag is a Pixies cover, 'Monkey Gone to
Heaven' (in honor of Frank Black opening): "If man is 5, then the devil is 6,
then God is 7, this monkey's gone to heaven." Jeff seems to enjoy 'Pilate,'
smiling throughout. Ed leads in to 'Alive': Usually we just go into this song,
but tonight I just want to mention something. ... because there have been some
difficulties in my life, with parental figures and a father in particular, and
apparently I'm not terribly unique, because a lot of people like relate to
these things, I thought tonight we'd sing this song in tribute to the uh, for
reasons, there's reasons which I'm not going to tell you, but hopefully this
applies in your life. There are definitely good fathers out there for sure like
really good fathers so uh were kind of celebrating Fathers Day a few days
late." He changes a line to say "... what you thought was your father, was
really a great guy."
At the end of 'Black,' Ed adds "we can be much more than this." Before
'Wishlist,' Ed mentions something about how the last time they played this
venue was in 1992 with Soundgarden (Lollapalooza). Ed's solo during 'Wishlist'
had technical problems, and Jeff is hit in the eye by something thrown by a
member of the audience (we won't say fan) during 'RVM.' At the end of 'Better
Man,' Ed tells the audience that he understands that everyone got charged an
extra 50 cents for parking, and "that's wrong, that's just wrong" and comments
that the band is donating $8,500 to Gateway Battered Women's Shelter in
Denver.
After 'Leaving Here,' the band has pretty much left the stage for good, but Ed
returns with a guitar, noting some fans near the front with a cardboard sign
spray painted "Patriot Please." Quoting the Rolling Stones (somewhat), he says,
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might
find a sympathetic singer who gives a fuck." He says he's a sucker and that an
artist who cares just might do it, he doesn't know if he can remember the
words, but he'd try, and goes into a FANTASTIC version of 'Patriot'.