Setlist

Varje konsert med Pearl Jam är olik. Bandet har inte en fastsatt setlist, trots att det är samma turné utan låtarna kan variera ganska mycket. Detta gör ju att varje konsert blir personlig - bandet spelar de låtar som de själva vill just den kvällen. Och ibland får publiken komma med önskemål.

Vid mina tidigare två konserter har jag fått höra dessa låtarna:
Grymma spelningar, bägge två :-)

Oslo, 29 juni 2000 (Binaural tour)
1. Sometimes
2. Breakerfall
3. Corduroy
4. Hail Hail
5. Animal
6. Red Mosquito
7. Given To Fly
8. Nothing As It Seems
9. In Hiding
10. Insignificance
11. Grievance
12. Wishlist
13. Evacuation
14. Alive
15. Spin The Black Circle
16. Daughter (+ In the mood/Hold on/Androgynous Mind covers)
17. Better Man
18. Immortality
19. Last Exit
20. Porch
21. Sleight Of Hand
22. Do The Evolution
23. Once
24. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
25. Timeless Melody (Th La's cover)
26. Black
27. Fuckin' Up (Neil Young cover)

Oslo, 9 juli 2012 (2012 European Tour)
intro (Metamorphosis 2, Philip Glass)
1. Long Road
2. Animal
3. Hail Hail
4. Given To Fly
5. Corduroy
6. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
7. Low Light
8. Severed Hand
9. Even Flow
10. Green Disease
11. Red Mosquito
12. Daughter (+ It's OK cover)
13. Immortality
14. Leatherman
15. The Fixer
16. Black
17. Why Go
18. Inside Job
19. Just Breathe
20. Breath
21. Mankind
22. Do The Evolution
23. Porch
24. Once
25. Smile
26. Mother (Pink Floyd cover)
27. Alive
28. Rockin' In The Free World (Neil Young cover)
29. Yellow Ledbetter

Love Boat Captain

Texten handlar om existentiella frågor, och har referenser till Roskilde-tragedin, "Lost 9 friends we'll never know,.. 2 years ago today". När låten spelas live ändrar Eddie texten så att antalet år blir rätt.
Spelad live 89 gånger sedan september 2002.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder & Boom Gaspar

Is this just another day,... this god forgotten place?
First comes love, then comes pain. Let the games begin,...
Questions rise and answers fall,... insurmountable.

Love boat captain
Take the reigns and steer us towards the clear,... here.
It's already been sung, but it can't be said enough.
All you need is love

Is this just another phase? Earthquakes making waves,...
Trying to shake the cancer off? Stupid human beings,...
Once you hold the hand of love,.. it's all surmountable.

Hold me, and make it the truth,...
That when all is lost there will be you,...
Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
And there's just one word I stil believe
And it's

It's an art to live with pain,... mix the light into grey,..
Lost 9 friends we'll never know,.. 2 years ago today
And if our lives became too long, would it add to our regret?

And the young, they can lose hope cause they can't see beyond today,...
The wisdom that the old can't give away
Hey,...
Constant recoil...
Sometimes life
Don't leave you alone.

Hold me, and make it the truth,...
That when all is lost there will be you.
Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
And there's just one word that I still believe and it's
Love,... love. love. love. love.

Love boat captain
Take the reigns,.. steer us towards the clear.
I know it's already been sung,... can't be said enough.
Love is all you need,.. all you need is love,..
Love,.. love,...
Love.

Pendulum

En vanlig öppningslåt sedan Lightning Bolt släpptes. Spelad live 19 gånger sedan oktober 2013.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament

Can't know what's high
'Til you've been down so low
The future's bright,
Lit up with nowhere to go,
To and fro the pendulum throws

We are here and then we go
My shadow left me long ago

Understand what we don't know
This might pass
This might last
This may grow
Easy come and easy go
Easy left me a long time ago

I'm in the fire but I'm still cold
Nothing works works for me anymore

Ah ah ah ah ah
To and fro the pendulum throws
To and fro the pendulum throws

To and fro
To and fro

Min andra PJ konsert

Oslo Spektrum, 2012-07-09

2012 hade det gått tolv år sedan sist Pearl Jam spelade i Skandinavien, och sist jag såg dem.
Jag lyckades lura med mig min sambo, som egentligen inte tycker att Pearl Jam är bra alls. Det är för gnälligt och deprimerande enligt honom. Men han fick en annan bild av dem efter denna kvällen, han tyckte att konserten var grymt bra! Och det är lite så med Pearl Jam - man kan inte INTE gilla dem efter att ha sett dem live. De skapar en helt magisk stämning.
Och vi som redan är frälsta, vi blir närmast fanatiska efter en konsert. Kärleken bara växer.

Nothing as it seems

Jag klurar på så mycket annat just nu så jag glömmer nästan bort att vi snart ska på konsert...!!! Därför kommer förra veckans låt nu istället för i fredags :-)
 
"It's a song about judgment and not always understanding what is going on with another person." - Jeff Ament

Text: Jeff Ament
Musik: Jeff Ament

don't feel like home, he's a little out...
and all these words elope, it's nothing like your poem
putting in, inputting in, don't feel like methadone
a scratching voice all alone, there's nothing like your baritone
it's nothing as it seems, the little that he needs, it's home
the little that he sees, is nothing he concedes, it's home
one uninvited chromosome, a blanket like the ozone
it's nothing as it seems, all that he needs, it's home
the little that he frees, is nothing he believes
saving up a sunny day, something maybe two tone
anything of his own, a chip off the cornerstone
who's kidding, rainy day
a one way ticket headstone
occupations overthrown, a whisper through a megaphone
it's nothing as it seems, the little that he needs, it's home
the little that he sees, is nothing he concedes, it's home
and all that he frees, a little bittersweet, it's home
it's nothing as it seems, the little that you see, it's home...

Who you are

Rytmiskt :-)
Låten är spelad live 36 gånger sedan september 1996.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Jack Irons, Stone Gossard

come to send, not condescend
transcendental consequence
is to transcend where we are
who are we? who we are
trampled moss on your souls
changes all you're a part
seen it all, not at all
can't defend fucked up man
take me a for a ride before we leave...
circumstance, clapping hands
driving winds, happenstance
off the track, in the mud
that's the moss in the aforementioned verse
just a little time, before we leave...
stop light plays its part
so i would say you've got a part
what's your part? who you are
you are who, who you are

Min första PJ konsert

Oslo Spektrum, 2000-06-29
Pearl Jam hade inte spelat i Skandinavien sedan 1993, och då hade jag inte fått åka på konserten för mamma, så jag var sjukt taggad inför denna spelningen. Pearl Jam var väldigt stora i min umgängeskrets i början och mitten av 90-talet men på slutet så var det många som hade tappat intresset. Det var därför ingen som ville gå på konserten med mig, men det spelade absolut ingen roll. Jag skulle gå. Basta. Så jag gick själv.
Och jag hade "the time of my life"!! :-) Pearl Jam levererar verkligen live, det var en helt fantastisk stämning. Trängde mig nästan längst fram - där det var så trångt att jag mest svävade fastklämd mellan alla andra, utan kontakt med golvet. Lite obehagligt (speciellt med tanke på vad som hände på Roskilde dagen efter denna konserten...) så jag drog mig tillbaka lite igen och stod på högersidan och "bangade". Och njöt. Jag vill tillbaka :-)

Hela konserten kan ses/lyssnas på här:

Life wasted

Från Wikipedia:
The lyrics for "Life Wasted" were reportedly written about the death of Johnny Ramone and about the feelings one has after driving home from a funeral. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Vedder stated:
When you leave that funeral, that drive is as important as any single stretch of road you'll travel on. You've got a renewed appreciation for life. And I think that feeling can last through the day, through the week, but then things start getting back to normal and you start taking this living and breathing and eating thing for granted. I think that song is there to remind you, 'This is that feeling'....The truth is—I'm a little sensitive and this is a close, personal relationship. I'll just say it. Fuck it. Right up front. Half the record is based on the loss of the guy who turned out to be the best friend I ever had on the planet. And that was Johnny Ramone.


Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard

You're always saying that there's something wrong...
I'm starting to believe it's your plan all along...

Death came around, forced to hear its song...
And know tomorrow can't be depended on.

I seen the home inside your head,...
All locked doors and unmade beds.
Open sores unattended
Let me say just once that

I have faced it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

I escaped it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

Having tasted,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

The world awaits just up the stairs
Leave the pain for someone else.

Nothing back there for you to find,...
Or was it you, you left behind?

You're always saying you're too weak to be strong...
You're harder on yourself than just about anyone.

Why swim the channel just to get this far?
Halfway there, why would you turn around?

Darkness comes in waves,... tell me,why invite it to stay?

You're warm with negativity,
Yes, comfort is an energy,...
But why let the sad song play?

I have faced it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

I escaped it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

Having tasted,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

Oh I erased it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

Daughter

Andra singeln från andra albumet (Vs.). Ååååååååhhhhhh vad jag längtar efter konserten nu!!

Text: Eddie Vedder (hela bandet)
Musik: Stone Gossard (hela bandet)

Alone listless breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Young girl, violin's center of her own attention
The mother reads aloud, child, tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud
The shades go down, into her head
Painted room, can't deny there's something wrong

Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me

She holds the hand that holds her down
She will rise above

Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to be
The picture kept will remind me

Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me

The shades go down
The shades go down
The shades go down
The shades go down

I see a girl of the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Oh, next to a garbage can

Now she's put her kid away
She's going to get a hit
She hates her life
And what she's done with it

That's one more kid
That'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love
Never get to be cool

That's one more kid
That'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love
Never get to be cool

He won the lottery
When he was born
A big hand slapped
The white male American

Do no wrong
So clean cut
Dirties his hands
It comes right off
Police man, police man

In hiding

Jag låter bandet själva berätta om hur denna låten kom till:

Text: Eddie Vedder

Musik: Stone Gossard

I shut and locked the front door
No way in or out
I turned and walked the hallway
And pulled the curtains down
I knelt and emptied the mouth of every club around
But nothing's sound, nothing's sound

I'd stay but my last cab left me
Ignored all my rounds
Soon I was seeing visions and cracks along the walls
They were upside down

I swallow my words to keep from lying
I swallow my face just to keep from biting, I, I..
I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, diving
I surfaced when all of my being was enlightened.

I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding

It's been about three days now
Since I've been aground
No longer overwhelmed and it seems so simple now
It's funny when things change so much
It's all state of mind

I swallowed my words to keep from lying
I swallowed my face just to keep from biting, I, I
I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, I was diving
I surfaced and all around my being was enlightened

Now I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
Oh, I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding

Om hur Eddie Vedder blev Pearl Jams sångare.

Jeff och Stone spelade in några instrumentala låtar, och via Red Hot Chili Peppers trummis Jack Irons så hamnade den kassetten i händerna på Eddie Vedder. Han "klottrar ihop" texter och spelar in dem samma dag - och skickar tillbaka kassetten till Jeff och Stone.
Resultatet blev Alive, Once, Footsteps - och så småningom PEARL JAM. Jag bockar och bugar och tackar högre makter för alla dessa lyckliga omständigheter, som man kan läsa om i detalj här.
Dessa tre låtar har senare kallats "The Mamasan" eller The Momma-Son", eftersom de alla är del av en trilogi/mini-opera som omhandlar förhållandet mellan en mor och en son; om födsel, incest och död. I Alive får sonen veta att mannen han har trott är hans far i själva verket är hans styvfar - hans biologiska far är död. I Once går sonen berserk och blir serie-mördare och i Footsteps sitter han i fängelse, dömd till döden, och ser tillbaka på livet. Historien har element av Eddies självbiografi i sig, men är till stor del uppdiktad.

Alla tre låtarna från "The Momma-Son demo":

Black

Texten har betytt så otroligt mycket för mig, och speciellt efter pojkvännens självmord 1996 blev denna låten "min". Jag kan fortfarande inte höra låten utan att börja gråta. Det blir för starkt. "How quick the sun can drop away".
Låten är spelad live av Pearl Jam 512 gånger sedan oktober 1990.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard

Hey... oooh...

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay

Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.

All five horizons revolved around her soul

As the earth to the sun

Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything

Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore

And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds

Of what was everything.

Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside

I'm surrounded by some kids at play

I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?

Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head

I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning

How quick the sun can drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass

Of what was everything?

All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black

Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be... yeah...

Uh huh... uh huh... ooh...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,

I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why

Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

Aah... uuh..

Too doo doo too, too doo doo [many times until fade]

Corduroy

Åttonde låten från tredje studioalbumet; Vitalogy.

"Q: Is "Corduroy" also about a relationship?
A: It is about a relationship but not between two people. It's more one person's relationship with a million people. In fact, that song's almost a little too obvious for me. That's why instead of a lyric sheet we put in an X-ray of my teeth from last January and they are all in very bad shape, which was analogous to my head at the time." Källa: Five Horizons


Text: Eddie Vedder (hela bandet)
Musik: Eddie Vedder (hela bandet)

The waiting drove me mad... you're finally here and I'm a mess
I take your entrance back... can't let you roam inside my head
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
I would rather run but I can't walk...
Guess I'll lie alone just like before...
I'll take the vermin's path... oh, and I must refuse your test
A-push me and I will resist... this behavior's not unique
I don't want to hear from those who know...
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
I don't want to limp for them to walk...
Never would have known of me before...
I don't want to be held in your debt...
I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed...
I'm already cut up and half dead...
I'll end up alone like I began...
Everything has chains... absolutely nothing's changed
"Take my hand, not my picture," spilled my tincture
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
All the things that others want for me...
Can't buy what I want because it's free...
Can't buy what I want because it's free...
Can't be what you want because I'm...
Why ain't it supposed to be just fun
Oh, to live and die, let it be done
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began...
It's your move now...
I thought you were a friend, but I guess I, I guess I hate you..

Crazy Mary

Victoria Williams cover.
Galet bra!

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around...

 She lived on the curve in the road in an old tar paper shack.
On the south side of the town on the wrong side of the tracks.
Sometimes on the way into town we'd say, "Mama can we stop and give her a ride?"
Sometimes we did but her hands flew from her side.
Wild eyed crazy Mary.
Down a long dirt road past the Parson's place.
That old blue car we used to race.
Little country store with a sign tacked to the side.
Said 'NO L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G ALLOWED.'
Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd.
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Drink it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
A-take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around.
One night thunder cracked. Mercy backed outside her windowsill.
Dreamed I was flying high above the trees over the hills.
Looked down into the house of Mary.
Bare bulb on Newspaper covered walls. And Mary rising up above it all.
Oh... Oh... Oh...
Next morning on the way into town saw some skid marks and followed them around.
Over the curve, through the fields, into the house of Mary.
That what you fear the most could meet you halfway. (x2)
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around.
Oh, pass it a... Pass it arround. Pass it a... Pass it a... Pass it a...
Oh yeah.

Mind your manners

Andra låten på tionde, och senaste, studioalbumet Lightning Bolt. Denna låten kommer garanterat att spelas på konserten i sommar!
I texten blir organiserade religioner kritiserade för "so many of the things which have come out of those organizations– like the abuse of children and then its cover-up."
Låten är spelad live 34 gånger sedan juli 2013.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Mike McCready

I've got an unfortunate feelin'
I've been beaten down
I feel I don't believe
And now the truth is coming out
What they've taken is more than a vow
They've taken your innocence
And then they throw them on a burning fire

All along they're sayin'
Mind your manners

I caught myself believin'
That I needed God
And if it's hard for some
We sure could use it now

Try my patience
My patience tried
This world's no longer good enough
That makes me wanna cry

All along they're sayin'
Mind your manners
Silence save him

Self-realized and metaphysically redeemed
May not live another life
May not solve a mystery
Right around the corner
Could be bigger than ourselves
We could will it to the sky
Or we could something else

No longer sayin'
Mind your manners
Always burning

Self-realized and metaphysically redeemed
May not live another life
May not solve a mystery
Right around the corner
Could be bigger than ourselves
We could will it to the sky
Or we could something else

Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell
Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell
Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell

Livin' Hell!