Pearl Jam on July 7, 2012

This concert turned out to be much better than what I expected, all thanks to the energy and glow of Eddie Vedder who smoked and drank to a considerable amount on stage: first frontman that I have ever seen to do so. He was as high or rather as hyper as his early days with the exception of not climbing the stage or anything similar! I thought that the crowd which are more into heavy metal and etc. here in Sweden would be quite dull when it comes to PJ music. On the contrary, I was very surprised to see that alomst everyone  responded very well to the band and Ed. In fact, this was the only concert that we had seats on the side row but we ended up standing for the whole 3 hours! I also noticed that many of the people attending were not Swedes (saw a couple of Italian flags and so on) and that could actually be the reason behind the atmosphere ;-) Anyway, I have to say that, at least for myself, seeing the film Pearl Jam 20 before the concert was a great help in getting to know the band on a more personal level (I didn't even know their names before but now, I really like Stone Gossard!)  and the track list, as seen below, was more than acceptable with a few minor disappointments which include "Release" and "Rearviewmirror". Also, I would have been very happier if he played "Long nights" or "Guaranteed" from Into The Wild. On the bright side, Matt Cameron on the drums, whom was and still is my favorite in Soundgraden after Chris Cornell was really remarkable. The fact that they opened with "Elderly woman..." was also something that can not be ignored as well as "Rockin' in the free world" which I thought to be the last song but they played another one afterward to leave an extra cherry on top.

Playlist XV.

1. "Elderly woman behind the counter in a small town"
2. "Corduroy"
3. "Got some"
4. "Why go"
5. "Amongst the waves"
6. "Wishlist"
7. "Given to fly"
8. "Comatose"
9. "Even Flow"
10. "World wide suicide"
11. "Garden"
12. "Better things" (Kinks cover)
13. "Unthought known"
14. "All those yesterdays"
15. "The fixer"
16. "1/2 full"
17."Jeremy"

18. "Off he goes"
19. "Just breath"

20. "State of love and trust"

21. "Do the evolution"

22. "Love, reign o'er me" (The Who cover)

23. "Porch"

24. "Once"

25. "Better man"

26. "Crazy Mary" (Victoria Williams cover)

27. "Black"

28. "Alive" 

29. "Rockin' in the free world"

30. "Yellow ledbetter/Little wing" (Jimi Hendrix cover)