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Pearl Jam: July 9, 2006
Los Angeles, CA - The Forum
support: Sonic Youth
Ed pre-set:
Porch (unfortunately, I missed this, as I hadn't arrived
at the venue yet. It'd been a long day.)
Main Set:
Release
World Wide Suicide
Corduroy
Do The Evolution
Given To Fly
Severed Hand
Jeremy
Gone
Even Flow
Unemployable
Wasted Reprise
Better Man
Whipping
Not For You (Modern Girl)
Inside Job
Life Wasted
Rearviewmirror
Encore 1:
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Come Back
Here's to The State of Mississippi
Black
Crown Of Thorns
Alive
Encore 2:
Last Kiss
Comatose
Why Go
Big Wave
Baba O'Riley
Yellow Ledbetter
Notes: A pretty hits-heavy show, but I didn't mind, because
I hadn't seen them in three years and everything sounded good to me.
This was the 2nd show in a crazy stretch where I saw 8
shows in 15 days and traveled many, many miles to do so...
July 8: drive from Fresno to Mountain
View to see NIN (#1) that night (165 miles)
July 9:
drive 340 miles south to LA for Pearl Jam (#2)
July 10: another night of Pearl Jam (#3)
in LA
July 11: drive 225 miles home to work in Fresno for a few days (have
to pay for these trips somehow!)
July 15: drive 200 miles north to San
Francisco to see Pearl Jam (#4) that night
July 16: more Pearl Jam (#5) in San
Francisco
July 17: a day off to be a tourist in San Francisco
July 18: more Pearl Jam (#6) in San
Francisco
July 19: take friend Brad to airport, then drive up to San Rafael to
spend night with friend Katy and do laundry (about 50 miles driven that day)
July 20: drive from San Rafael to Oakland (35 miles), fly from
Oakland to Seattle (about 800 miles). Meet Jenny at the airport to get her
suitcase before she flies to Portland to see Pearl Jam that night. Jenny's
friends drop her off at the hotel room she and I are sharing with Kari later
that night after driving up to Seattle from Portland.
July 21: day of being a tourist in Seattle with Kari and Jenny
July 22: Meet up with Tim and Ian at
hotel. Pick up friend Doug at SEA-TAC airport, then drive out to
Ellensburg, WA for Pearl Jam (#7) at The Gorge Amphitheatre that night.
(about 200 miles driven that day)
July 23: another night of PJ (#8) at the
Gorge (about 87 miles driven that day)
July 24: drive back to Seattle (113 miles), fly back to Oakland (800
miles), drive home to Fresno (172 miles). Make a sad face that it's all
over, and then DIE from exhaustion!
I made some rough calculations, factoring in distances covered between the
venues and where I was sleeping that night, as well as driving around the
cities that I got to play tourist in, and I traveled well over 3,325 miles
in the span of 15 days. The west coast was having a crazy heat wave that
second week, and temperatures reached over 113 degrees out at The Gorge and
it was pretty hot in San Francisco and Seattle, too. It was a
crazy-hectic-insane two weeks, and I'll probably never do something like
that ever again, but it was also a LOT of fun, I saw some fantastic shows
and spent quality time with some of my favorite people. Money, time, and
energy well-spent. No regrets at all.
(date review written)
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