November 16, 2011 – Estadio Monumental, Santiago, CHL

Pearl Jam Show Notes 11/16/2011:

With a ‘buenos noches’ introduction, the band takes a loud chanting crowd on the way with Unthought Known as the opener. The intensity continues through the set as the crowd drives the band through the set. Ole works really well here as a lead in to Corduroy. After Corduroy the crowd leads an Ole chant of their own. This is followed by Ed asking, and then pleading, the crowd to take three steps back to help alleviate some of the people up front. The crowd doesn’t listen at first, which leads to Ed begging the crowd to move, for which they oblige. Small Town is in a great spot after having to tell the crowd to move and look out for each other. Cropduster makes one of its last appearances in a set to date with only three more performances coming after this. Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2 is tagged to Daughter, which causes Ed to say:

“It’s not teacher leave those kids alone, it’s government let the teachers teach, it’s government pay so the students can learn.”

Peter Gabriel song Red Rain is tagged for the first time ever following the Pink Floyd tag. Setting Forth is introduced as ”about a kid named Chris McCandless, Into the Wild” while Nothingman is intro’d by saying “that this one is about a big mistake.” Jeremy is played as a rare closer to the main set. Encore 1 set begins with a beautiful version of Just Breathe and the energy is brought right up with a joyous Down. A quick “Para mi amigo Johnny Ramone, I miss ya” leads into one of the most rocking I Believe In Miracles renditions that they’ve ever played. Eddie says a guy from the crowd who had a sign was going to be on the stage, but he gets tossed up on the setlist as World Wide Suicide is played first. At the conclusion of the song, Eddie introduces Juan Pablo to play along with them on Last Kiss. Ed says that he also asked Mike McCready to marry him! He gets Ed’s guitar and slug of wine before the band kicks in. Ed gives a shout out to X who opened the show before Rearviewmirror ends a stimulating first encore.

Encore 2 seems like they are trying to get in as many songs as possible before a curfew as there is very little chatter in between the songs. McCready and Boom have an excellent back and forth on their solos during Crazy Mary. Alive and Baba are great and lead into the double closers of Indifference and Yellow Ledbetter to cap off a crazy evening in Chile. Ed compliments the crowd calling them a perfect crowd, and the crowd returns the favor with a chant of their own. Ed sends some muchos gracias forever to the crowd on their way off the stage.