June 29, 2012 – Rock Werchter Festival, Werchter Festival Park, Werchter, BEL

Pearl Jam Show Notes 6/29/2012:

The show kicks into high gear with Do the Evolution to open. Ed addresses the crowd in Dutch before Got Some, and then the song has a false start. Ed tells the crowd that playing a big festival show is a lot of work and jumps into Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy. Another false start on Olé follows, with Ed joking after the false start that the song is called “O.” Spin the Black Circle is dedicated to Jack White (who was on the bill for this festival) for keeping vinyl records alive with Third Man Records. The crowd starts singing the first verse of Better Man before Ed and he stops, commenting “Normally, I…sometimes…some guys come up and they ask for too much singing, but goddamn if you don’t sound good!” before starting the verse. At the start of the encore, Ed gives a shout out to some of the other musicians that played the Festival: X, Mastodon, Jack White and Gossip. He continues:

“…for everybody out there who’s a musician, all I can wish for you, well I wish you a nice, healthy, happy, long life…don’t stay in school. Sorry…oh, my kids aren’t here…”

He also talks about the beautiful view and finishes off with “…red wine has never tasted better…” before Unthought Known. Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads joins on stage for Rockin’ in the Free World, and Jeff and Mike switch instruments. There’s a mini stage invasion as some fans make their way onto the stage and are led off by security. No “Little Wing” tag on Ledbetter tonight, that streak comes to an end.