Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder played at Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal on Thursday, and he made a heartbreaking revelation about the creation of Pearl Jam’s greatest songs.
prl wrote on the Ten Club boards, “Really amazing show! Eddie was in the best mood I’ve ever seen. The crowd was amazing, as usual in Portugal, singing and getting energy levels through the roof. Glen also got some well deserved love from the audience and he clearly enjoyed it.
The setlist was amazing, lots of great stuff in there. Drifting was a highlight for me. During the song Eddie started making up this story of a guy telling his boss he can’t go to work because he’s sick when in fact he wants to go surfing. Very loosely, it went along the lines of: “hey boss, I’m sick today, got a sore throat. It’s a coincidence that we have 10 ft waves today. And they say the sea water is actually good for my throat”. Great moment. Long Nights, Satellite, Smile, Black, Immortality, Imagine were other highlights for me.
Towards the end of the show a girl showed a sign that read “Your music saved my sanity”. Eddie acknowledged the sign and told her how their music even made him lose his mind at certain moments. Not that the music was the problem, it just highlighted problems that he had inside and had to be dealt with. Either way, wine was definitely not one of those problems (his words) so he opened a bottle of wine and shared a glass with her (he made sure the glass got to her).
A little girl in the second row was really tired and was sleeping when Eddie came to the rail. Eddie asked that everyone made less noise so we wouldn’t wake her up. Turns out it was the little girl’s 10th birthday so she had the crowd sing “happy birthday” to her and Eddie gave her his harmonica. Later on Eddie came back to the rail and sang a bit for her and she gave him a peck in the cheek as a thank you. Great moment and definitely great memories for the little girl.”
Setlist:
1. Red Limo improv-Alive {without Ed}
2. Far Behind
3. Just Breathe with Red Limo
4. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
5. I Am Mine
6. Immortality
7. Trouble-(Stevens)
8. Wishlist/Portugal improv
9. Drifting
10. I’m Open
11. Off He Goes
12. Satellite with Red Limo
13. Long Nights with Glen Hansard (bass) & Red Limo
14. Black with Glen Hansard (acoustic guitar) & Red Limo
15. Parting Ways
16. Better Man/Save It For Later-(Charley, Cox, Morton, Steele, Wakeling) with Red Limo
17. Lukin
18. Porch
19. Red Limo improv-Jeremy
20. I’m So Tired-(Fugazi)
21. People Have The Power-(Smith, Smith) 20 seconds just repeats phrase twice while strumming guitar
22. Imagine-(Lennon)
23. Song Of Good Hope-(Hansard) with Glen Hansard & Red Limo
24. Smile with Glen Hansard and Red Limo
25. Society-(Hannan) with Glen Hansard and Red Limo
26. Hard Sun-(Peterson) with Glen Hansard and Red Limo (red limo sings only)
27. Indifference (20 seconds)
28. Rockin’ In The Free World-(Young) with Glen Hansard and Red Limo
