Last night's drive music was the March 6th, 2003 Pearl Jam show in Nagoya, Japan. That was a night of rarities, very cool rarities. These songs include "You Are", this is a very cool song, a non Pearl Jam sounding song. Other cool rarities they played include "Light Years", "Green Disease", "Save You", "Bu$hleaguer", "Down" and the song from "I Am Sam"- "You've Got To Hide Your Live Away". They also played classics such as "Rearview Mirror", "Alive", "Crazy Mary" and "Spin The Black Circle". Also as they should they closed out the concert with "Rockin' In The Free World". They also played 27 songs that night. I would love for a similar set list in Salt Lake.
That was a great show that night, a show that was not so great from at least the set list. They played a lot of songs from their new CD, which is fine. However I haven't heard many of those songs yet, thus I'm not familiar with them. Songs that one knows usually are better live. I lack the means to buy their new CD. (Come on Rhapsody step up to the plate on "Backspacer".) 7 of the 27 songs were from "Backspacer". Other than that they played many songs that are not some of their better songs. For instance, they played "Faithfull" (yawn), a song they rarely play in concert justifiably. They also played "Sometimes" a blase mid-tempo song. They continued the theme with "Present Tense", although this song starts to show some life once it gets near the end of the song.
Interspersed with these dreary, mid-tempo songs there are still some butt kicking songs. Songs such as "Why Go", "Lukin" (a less than one minute shot of punk rock), "Go", "Black", "Spin The Black Circle", "Do The Evolution" and "Porch". Those blast of energy songs were just two few in their September 22nd, 2009 Key Arena 2 show. Honestly I'd be disappointed if they played a similar set list in Salt Lake.
Songs they didn't play on the 22nd that I really hope they play in SLC: "Jeremy", "Elderly Woman", "Rearview Mirror", "Even Flow", "Crazy Mary" (this song is hardly played live anymore), "Corduroy", "Leaving Here", "Save You", "You Are", "Not For You", "Rats" and "Love Reign O'er Me". Also Pearl Jam can skip "Yellow Ledbetter", that's probably their most played live song. I'm tired of that song. The song they should close out all their shows with is "Rockin' In The Free World". Especially the version of that song they played on February 9th, 2003 in Brisbane, Australia. That's a great song to have ringing in ones ears driving home.
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A couple of nights ago I watched one of the greatest movies of all-time. A movie that has aged well, its the hilarious "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". Phoebe Cates knew how to rock a red bikini. Sean Penn is hilarious as Jeff Spicoli, one of the greatest characters in modern movies. I was watching him playing that role and thinking who would have believed he would play Harvey Milk 26 years later. I bet Harvey Milk never had pizza delivered to his high school class.
This is a message to the super group Them Crooked Vultures, you've had a lot of praise for your early lives shows and you have set up a tour. Now you need to release a CD. I want to hear what all the hype is about. Your first show featured 80 minutes of music, I know you have enough music to make a CD. No word yet whether they are even working on a CD or not. There is no release date set either.
I've been reading the excellent "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" by Jon Krakauer. When he came out of high school he was only offered scholarships to three schools. One school was San Jose State, which he didn't want to go to because of it's lack of tradition. He was also offered a scholarship to BYU, but he didn't think he would fit in with their straitlaced ways. As he was a drinker, he was correct. He ended up going to play at Arizona State, lucky for them. Being a humongous BYU fan I thought that was very interesting.
I'm not sure when I will be back. Have a good weekend, themusicaddict
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