Pearl Jam returns to Indiana to make good on the cancelled 2023 show. Stone opens up Wash with a dirty acoustic sound, and right away there’s a lyric change: “this city, so sweltering…” As Ed steps up to the mic…
Main Set: Wash, Nothingman, Present Tense, Last Exit, Spin The Black Circle, Not For You/(Modern Girl), Scared Of Fear, React, Respond, Wreckage, Daughter/(Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2)), Even Flow, Dark Matter, Upper Hand, Black/(We Belong Together), Do The Evolution, Running, Porch
encore 1: Song Of Good Hope, Lightning Bolt, Corduroy, Setting Sun, Alive, Baba O'Riley, Yellow Ledbetter
Show Notes:
Show Notes:
Pearl Jam returns to Indiana to make good on the cancelled 2023 show. Stone opens up Wash with a dirty acoustic sound, and right away there’s a lyric change: “this city, so sweltering…” As Ed steps up to the mic after the instrumental break, he adds some new lyrics:
“Been so many years/since we’ve all been here/
it’s been so long/and this was the song/that we first ever played here…”
Wash was indeed the first song ever played in Indiana back in 1991. After Nothingman, Ed says there was a request, and a kid is shown on the screens with a sign that says “Please play Present Tense so I can say the “F” word.” The request is granted, and it’s an outstanding version, but Ed does not add any of the ad-lib f-words that he normally does. It’s a heavy dose of Vitalogy early, with the first three songs off the record played next in order, followed by the first three songs off Dark Matter. Jeff is dancing and spinning around during STBC, and there’s a good call-and-response during Not For You. After Scared of Fear, Ed says it’s a “noble crowd in Noblesville tonight” and talks about Lollapalooza 1992, listing all the bands they played with, saving Soundgarden for last, and Mike plays a short tease of a Soundgarden song. Ed continues, saying “you look noble…it feels like a night to play distinguished alternative music with complete nobility…ah, fuck that let’s lose our minds.” As Daughter is transitioning into the tag, he says:
“Thirty years ago, we encouraged all the young people…to vote and let your voice be heard…Thirty-three years later, we’re still asking you that…encourage your kids to vote! Especially the young women…you are in control of your own destiny, young ladies…”
He then changes the lyric in the ABITW tag to “…keep your hands off my body, choice I make is my own.” After Dark Matter, Ed talks about The Police’s 50th anniversary and sings “Roxanne,” before talking about Stone and Jeff’s 40-year musical partnership. The crowd is loud on Black, with another impassioned solo from Mike. Ed adds a short improv at the end:
“…it’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be okay/
it’s gonna be alright, I tell myself, I tell myself I’ll be okay…”
After the break, Ed comes out with Glen Hansard and talks about a woman named Michele Mintz Menke, a member of the PJ community. Ed starts to get emotional, talking about how she’s “battling…she’s been battling” and that “optimism is the cornerstone of courage.” They perform Glen’s “Song of Good Hope” for the first time at a Pearl Jam show (Ed has covered it at his solo shows before). Halfway through, Ed stands up and goes down to the front to finish the song. Afterwards, he says they’re going to play “one we haven’t played in a while,” a request, and Lightning Bolt is played for the first time since 2022, dedicated to Caitlin Clark. One more Vitalogy song appears next, Corduroy, and Yellow Ledbetter closes the show, with Ed saying “…this is how we end the night, even when we don’t want to.”