PJ at Jiffy Lube Live

at the chilis near venue.  dead as hell here chugging the 2 dollar drafts. no traffic but who knows how 66 is.  show is def not sold out or radiohead esque

wml7 wrote:
at the chilis near venue.  dead as hell here chugging the 2 dollar drafts. no traffic but who knows how 66 is.  show is def not sold out or radiohead esque

get all drunk and throw your shoes at eddie.  ;D

Great show last night.  Band of Horses sounded good and Pearl Jam was awesome.  I had a good view from my seat and it was right next to the sound board.  Looks like Eddie went to the PIL show the night before as he talked about it.  Said something along the lines that he didn't get cussed out by the singer or something  Getting out was a breeze too  ;D

This was my 7th or 8th show and was pretty average as far as PJ shows go.  Kind of like sex or pizza I guess - great even when it's just OK.

Was it me or was there something off with the sound?  The mix was pretty bad from where I was and I heard almost zero bass.  Was glad they played "Garden" anyway.

Agree that getting in/out was really easy (for once)

Solid show but Sec 101 Row S doesn't cut it…..as has been pointed out Eddie Vedder was wearing a PiL shirt and even drinking from a 930 water bottle.

Pearl Jam would have been a great opener for My Morning Jacket at MPP.

oh yeah they still had orchestra seats the night of the show at the box office

wml7 wrote:
oh yeah they still had orchestra seats the night of the show at the box office

In the end the pavilion was pretty full at least from 101 down there were hardly any empty seats…

If there had been I'd have moved up….


The tough economy has an impact on everybody.. when you have $80 tickets which turn to $100 with charges its tough to sell everything…I mean every seat in the pavilion was $79.99 or whatever… that ain't chumnp change.

The venue rep definitely depresses turn out.(particularly on a week night). I know a lot of people who just will not go out there regardless of who is playing..

I'd travel to another city before going out to JLL. I cannot stand that venue. I'd rather make the trek up to Philly, go to the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden (you can get there by ferry!) and at least enjoy a cheese steak or countless other fun things to do in Philly. Of course it helps that my friends live there and let me crash on a moment's notice.

Same for me. Swore off that venue and haven't regretted it. I've traveled to Philly to see PJ, but absolutely will not make the treck to Bristow.

I'll only go back if a show is on a weekend and/or it's a band I really want to see and is worthy of taking 1/2 day off work.

There are very, very few bands I'll go see at JLL.  Pearl Jam just happens to be one of them.  As much as I generally hate JLL, I have to admit that last night wasn't bad.  No problems getting in or out.  Lines weren't too long anywhere.  Most of my complaints from last night are probably things indicative of large shed shows in general.

And the place looked pretty well-packed from my vantage point.  I certainly didn't notice any empty blocks of seats in the pavilion and the lawn looked pretty full, save for the far corners.  Not a sellout, but they did a good job of filling the place.

didn't have problems getting in, but getting out we waited 30-45 mins.

i'm glad i left the city when i did yesterday (just before 4).  i made it out there with plenty of time to spare… time enough to drink a few & get to see band of horses.

it was a good, solid show, nothing revelatory though.

set list?

May 13, 2010 Bristow, VA, Jiffy Lube Live

Set List: Small Town, World Wide Suicide, Got Some, Brain Of J, Save You, Given To Fly, Present Tense, Down, Unthought Known, Insignificance, Even Flow, Comatose, Faithfull, All Those Yesterdays, Black, The Fixer, Do The Evolution

1st encore: The End, Just Breathe (dedicated to Carmine MacKaye), Garden, Why Go, Wasted Reprise, Life Wasted, Blood/Atomic Dog (Clinton, Shider, Spradley)

2nd encore: Better Man/Save It For Later (Charley, Cox, Morton, Steele, Wakeling) [song title dedicated to Sean Penn for Haiti relief work], Spin The Black Circle, Alive (dedicated to Jon Tester), Sonic Reducer (Bators, Blitz, Chrome, Magnum, Thomas, Zero), Yellow Ledbetter/Star Spangled Banner

nevermind ;)

Just to chime in some more:

We left downtown DC at 7:10 and were in our seats for the opening strains of Pearl Jam…so lets not make a mountain out of mole hill..

Yesterday was pretty smooth..

Now getting out we just hung around tailgating by car for 30-45 minutes while everyone sat in their cars in line to get  out..

I think Nissan or JLL got a lot better once they opened that second exit of 66. The problem for the venue is that a lot of people swore it off because it was so bad for so long.

I had no problems getting to the venue, though 66 was expectedly slow. We waited about 10 minutes leaving and we had run for the hills at the first notes of "Yellow Ledbetter" (as always).

For my 12th show, this was a pretty standard setlist and a fairly low energy crowd - at least in sect. 101, row F area (and especially compared to Philly last year) - but a good set nonetheless.

"All Those Yesterdays" was beautiful. That and "The End" were the only new songs for me. "Present Tense," "Insignificance," and "Sonic Reducer" were highlights.

What's up with the band playing some songs down a half-step? I almost didn't recognize "Brain of J" and I'm pretty sure "Life Wasted" was also tuned down. If Eddie doesn't want the strain on his voice, why doesn't he just stop performing "Blood"?