Missing Out
Pearl Jam is on tour in Canada right now, and I was checking out setlists of the dozen or so shows that they've done so far. As usual, they are playing amazing setlists.
That's the great thing about going to see PJ live. They're a great band as it is, but it's when you see them live that they just blow your mind. They have such a deep catalog that you could hear them eight nights in a row and have a completely different experience every night. Plus, there's the real rarities that they only break out occasionally that can make a show really special.
Anyway, I've seen them four times live so far. Every show has been amazing, and I've always wished I had seen more shows. The only thing that I've really missed so far is hearing Yellow Ledbetter live. It's one of my favorite PJ songs, and is great live -- a total send-up to Jimi Hendrix. For the first ten years or so that they toured, Yellow Ledbetter closed practically every show. On the last few tours (basically since 2000), they've started playing it at every other show or so (subbing Rockin in the Free World, Baba, Crazy Mary, and a few other songs as show closers). But somehow, I've always missed the nights that they played it.
So of course, with my luck, on this tour they have played it at the end of all but two shows. And of course I don't have tickets. I missed my best chance for tix (when they were playing Philly) because I was in a plane all day. I considered going to a couple of the Canadian shows, but the cost would have been prohibitive.
I'm hedging my bets, hoping that they do a full U.S. tour next year. If so, and I'm lucky (i.e. they don't hit the east coast during the bar exam or during my first month of work), I should be able to hit at least two, and maybe six or eight, shows (two in NYC, two or three in Boston, two in Philly, and maybe a couple in Jersey). We'll see how it goes, but if it works out, it would be like the best two weeks of my life. And, I should be able to hear Yellow Ledbetter at least once.
That's the great thing about going to see PJ live. They're a great band as it is, but it's when you see them live that they just blow your mind. They have such a deep catalog that you could hear them eight nights in a row and have a completely different experience every night. Plus, there's the real rarities that they only break out occasionally that can make a show really special.
Anyway, I've seen them four times live so far. Every show has been amazing, and I've always wished I had seen more shows. The only thing that I've really missed so far is hearing Yellow Ledbetter live. It's one of my favorite PJ songs, and is great live -- a total send-up to Jimi Hendrix. For the first ten years or so that they toured, Yellow Ledbetter closed practically every show. On the last few tours (basically since 2000), they've started playing it at every other show or so (subbing Rockin in the Free World, Baba, Crazy Mary, and a few other songs as show closers). But somehow, I've always missed the nights that they played it.
So of course, with my luck, on this tour they have played it at the end of all but two shows. And of course I don't have tickets. I missed my best chance for tix (when they were playing Philly) because I was in a plane all day. I considered going to a couple of the Canadian shows, but the cost would have been prohibitive.
I'm hedging my bets, hoping that they do a full U.S. tour next year. If so, and I'm lucky (i.e. they don't hit the east coast during the bar exam or during my first month of work), I should be able to hit at least two, and maybe six or eight, shows (two in NYC, two or three in Boston, two in Philly, and maybe a couple in Jersey). We'll see how it goes, but if it works out, it would be like the best two weeks of my life. And, I should be able to hear Yellow Ledbetter at least once.
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