Set List: The Kids Are Alright (Vedder solo), Long Road, Go, Last Exit, Hail Hail, Red Mosquito, Who You Are, Off He Goes, Corduroy, Better Man, Habit, Even Flow, Daughter, Jeremy, Sometimes, Rearviewmirror, Present Tense, Alive, 1st Encore: Once, SOLAT, Nothingman, Smile, Porch, 2nd Encore: Yellow Ledbetter.

Ticket credit: Andrew McDougall, Australia

Milan Review
by: Alberto Traversi (altra@mbox.vol.it)

The show started at eight o'clock. Eddie Vedder, alone on the stage with his guitar, is playing "The Kids Are Alright". The crowd can't keep quiet. During the song, played so sweetly, everybody is screaming and calling loudly, "Eddie." The noise is deafening. After this unforeseen moment, Eddie introduces the supporter's show. The Fastbacks, Seattle's friends, play half an hour of good rock n'roll but when the five Pearl Jams begin to play together, the gap is enormous.

The first song was Long Road but the beautiful Go, the second track, is an explosion of powerful sound. The balance is perfect, I can hear all the instruments and Eddie's voice clearly . The temperature of the hall is rising up and the scream of the crowd is very loud expecially when the group plays the hits and all the people are singing with Eddie in unison. Corduroy, Jeremy, Alive and a beautiful long version of Rearviewmirror heats up the Forum. The staging is deliberately naked but the lights are hot and great, there are a lot of candles over the amplifier and the effect is magic ("hi Kurt!"). Everybody is singing, dancing and crying with Eddie especially when he plays Better Man in the second part of the concert. It is one of the best moments of the show. This version, played with a particular pathos, had a great success; the crowd is singing perfectly during the performance and Eddie was visibly touched.

After two hours of great music and lots of ooooh, the group leaves for the first encore: They play five songs: Once, In My Tree, Nothingman, Smile and Porch. At the second encore, they finished the show with Yellow Ledbetter, a great song. At eleven o'clock the lights switch on. For me and for these wonderful people, it will be impossible to forget this incredible evening.