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Hello Gremmies. Matt M has left his office and is heading over to meet up with the gang for an Irving Plaza pre-show party. I’ll bet it’s going to be a hoot. I’m just the behind-the-scenes nerd. And yes, I’m jealous.

Let me tell you how this is going to work tonight. Matt M will be posting pictures throughout the night: pre show, in-show, and post-show.

Unlike ‘This American Dream: A Gremmie Rock-umentary’, the images will not be accompanied by commentary (for the most part) in real time… instead, we’ll post the images so you can live vicariously through someone who’s had one hell of a Pearl Jam-ified week, and then after all is said and done tonight, Matt M will post a recap of the night’s event to match the images.

So, throughout the night, you’ll want to look here for images from the Super Duper Secret Irving Plaza Pearl Jam Show:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mammerman/tags/irvingplaza/

SETLIST (out of order)
Worldwide Suicide

Comatose

Army Reserve

Comeback

Gone

Severed Hand

Marker in the Sand

Life Wasted

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter

Insignificance

Given to Fly

Present Tense

Do the Evolution

Evenflow

Garden

Why Go

Encore 1:

Man of the Hour

State of Love and Trust

Porch

Encore 2:

Alive

Ledbetter

Again, thanks everyone for your support this week. Gremmie.net received over 300,000 hits between Monday and Wednesday. Just goes to show that Pearl Jam fans are the best…and there’s a lot of ‘em.

You know…”15 million hands upraised and open towards the sky….”

Or something.

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5.6.06 @ 00:58:00

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We’re back!!!!!! What a phenomenal show. For sure worth the 38 hour wait at Tower Records! It looks like that while we had gremmie.net setup for updates, I was simply not able to post the setlist directly from the floor of Irving Plaza. Sorry to eveyone who waited during the show! The setlist is now up, though a bit out of order. You try typing the words “Army Reserve” when you have a sweaty crowd moving back and forth like breaking waves! They for sure opened with WWS, the 1st Encore was definitely Man of the Hour , State of Love & Trust, Porch, and the 2nd Encore was Alive and Ledbetter.

The venue was tight and tiny. Reminiscent of the early days when Pearl Jam packed small clubs like CBGB’s and everyone in the crowd was warring for centimeters. Ed had a few funny things to say about New Yorkers during the show. Like when people in New York say hello they do it by saying “Hey Ed! Fuck you man!” Haahahaha. After Man of the Hour, Ed gave the crowd a choice of either “a campfire version of Betterman or State of Love & Trust. The crowd erupted with cheers for State of Love & Trust and they went right into it! Drew Barrymore, Fabrizio Moretti, Flea, Mary-Kate Olsen, Giselle Bundchen, Tim Robbins, Susan Saradon, the lead singer from Anthrax, and Ed’s wife (Jill) and daughter (Olivia) were all there.

During the end of Porch Ed stood up at the front of the stage on the barrier that separated the stage from the crowd and sang it out till the end. Fans rushed the spot he was standing and if you could see it was wonderful. Reminded this gremmie of Wishlist - “!5 million hands upraised….and up to Eddie Vedder…”. There were a handful of crowd surfers too along with songs like Comatose and Do the Evolution. True to form, Ed asked for the house lights be turned on for Ledbetter.

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