Set List: Sometimes, Corduroy, Animal, Hail Hail, Brain of J, Red Mosquito, Given To Fly, Even Flow, Not For You, Wishlist, Lukin, Jeremy, Daughter/(Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd), Present Tense, State of Love and Trust, Do The Evolution; 1st Encore: Hard To Imagine, Better Man/(Save It For Later), Alive, Black, Leaving Here, Baba O'Riley; 2nd Encore: Yellow Ledbetter

Sophie Bélanger (belans@videotron.ca):
I've just come back from my first Pearl Jam live concert. I've been waiting this day for 4 years now, listening my live bootlegs over and over and trying to get the impression of what would it be to see them live. This is the more generous band I've ever seen, caring about their fans and this is really appreciate. The whole fun began when my friends and I realized that our fan club tickets were amazing...THANKS!!! We stayed to our seats waiting for Cheap Trick to play, so we started to chat with our seats neighbours...People also from the fan club who traveled some big distances like Toronto-Montreal to see them more than once in this tour. Everybody was happy and friendly, and I always get the impression I could be friend with anyone wearing a Pearl Jam T-Shirt!!! Then Cheap Trick opened...I've never been that much into this band, but I have to say they played with a lot of energy and fun, which is not that easy in front of 19 000 Pearl Jam fans only waiting for 'em! I remember the guitar player was always throwing guitar pics, and I got one ...And we also noticed Matt Cameron and the others members of Pearl Jam watching Cheap Trick backstage. They seemed to enjoy the show a lot.

After a 30 minutes intermission, Pearl Jam finally appeared onstage. The crowd was getting nuts for 15 minutes maybe! Many others people already wrote in fanviews which songs they played and most of the highlights, but here is what I could say:

All the songs were played with a lot of heart and intensity, the guys doesn't seem pissed off yet of playing such classics as Alive, Daughter and Better man, which is great! The fans here were really cool. Nobody threw shoes or stupid stuffs like that that could harm the guys ...and pollute the stage! *l* There was this freaky girl (ME!!!) who threw a little cow to Stone (he was wearing his cool Bovine sex club T-Shirt!), another person gave to Eddie a hockey New York rangers shirt I guess...And everybody gave all their screams and applause to the band who deserved it! The highlight for me was when during wish list I saw lighters opened everywhere in the Molson Center...the ambience was amazing and we really felt the communication between the crowd and the band. Eddie tried to speak some French, which was a nice effort even if all I've been able to understand was Merci Beaucoup! (Thanks a lot). And finally, I have to say thanks to the author of previous fanviews because they inspired me to bring a piece of paper with a special request on it (because I knew they read 'em). So on the first encore I was standing up my HARD TO IMAGINE request...Eddie said "we have some requests here for songs"...Than he said they were going to play hard to imagine!!! Everybody around me were so happy and could not believe this whole thing would work! At the end of the song Eddie said "this was for you and for you" and he was pointing the other person holding an H T I request and me!

Thank you Pearl Jam for this nice show full of intensity and please come back in Canada!!!

Paul Glass (paulmtl@hotmail.com):
Ever since buying my ticket in early April, I've been counting down the days until last night's show. The anticipation was so unbelievable. After Cheap Trick, the guys doing the sound checks before the Pearl Jam set were getting standing ovations, that's how pumped the crowd was. Finally the lights dimmed and the band members came running on stage. The crowd went fucking insane. With a "bonsoir", Pearl Jam broke into Sometimes and I could hardly restrain myself.

The set list was so much more amazing then I could have possibly imagined. They played my favorites from every album: Alive, Daughter, Not For You, Present Tense and Wishlist. Those last two songs were so powerful that I was nearly moved to tears.

The highlight of the night for me was a stunning version of Alive, my all-time favorite song followed by Black (for Vic). Both songs were played so incredibly, I didn't see how they could keep on going after that, but thankfully they did.

You could tell that the band was having the time of their life out there. They didn't look at the show as just another on a long tour like so many bands do. They gave everything they had from the time they ran on stage until the last note of a magical Yellow Ledbetter faded out of the building and we the fans really appreciate it.

The magic didn't end there though. 19,000 of us had just seen THE BEST FUCKING BAND IN HISTORY! Fans poured onto the streets of Montreal, singing and dancing, hoping that this night could last forever. We roamed the streets (not to mention the bars) of downtown and no matter where we went, we met Pearl Jam fans, all of them stopped to exchange high fives and talk for a few minutes. We must have met 100 people last night. People from Vancouver, New York, Thunder Bay and plenty of us Montrealers and not a single asshole among them. The bond shared by Pearl Jam fans is amazing. PJ fans have to be the nicest group of people on earth.

Massive thanks goes out to Matt, Jeff, Stone, Mike and Ed for playing their hearts out, all the other fans for being so amazing and the exceptional friends I went to the show with. All of you made this the best night of my summer by far and one of the best nights of my life.

Carolyn Richter (carolynr@shaw.wave.ca):
I had no clue what to expect from a crowd at a Montreal concert since I'm from Toronto, but I left the Molson Centre with the biggest smile on my face and this huge buzzing sound in my ears. I honestly was overcome by two things at the show: Pearl Jam, no doubt, and to my surprise, the crowd. From the moment my friend Laurie and I walked into the Molson Centre, and walked down to the floor (where two sound guys were laughing hysterically at us because we were pretty much freaking out over our 7th row seats), I knew that the crowd was going to be intense and really into the show. Every time someone down on the floor near us found their seats, they would completely freak out over how close they were to the stage. This was the closest we had ever been to the entire band as well, and we knew we were in for a treat.

Before Cheap Trick hit the stage, every few minutes someone would scream Pearl Jam and we all roared. Ed was right, 5 years was almost too long for Montreal to wait to see the band again since their last show in the city. The crowd was definitely psyched to see the band, doing the wave many times over and roaring. I've never been to a show, even ones where there were double the number there were last night, that was so loud thanks to the crowd. Truly memorable.

I can't even describe the sound level when the Colour Red began over the P.A. system and the lights dimmed. Everyone went absolutely crazy, jumping up and down, hands in the air. And the guys knew how much this concert meant to everyone in the crowd. The set list was full of their kick ass, pound-the-crap-out-of-your-drum-kit songs. This just added to the craziness in the crowd. Everyone was intense, fully concentrating on the magic that Jeff, Stone, Ed, Mike (especially!) and Matt were producing with their instruments, and everyone responded positively.

For the most part I was standing on my chair, arm in the air rocking out to the power tunes that Pearl Jam can pull off without much effort. For those sitting behind me, I can only apologize, but I was eye-level with the guys and I couldn't resist. While I was up there I would turn around and look at the thousands of people staring down at the stage. I would turn back, see Matt pounding his drumkit, Stone jumping up and down, Mike tilting his head back, Jeff's fingers moving a mile a minute with his eyes closed and Ed with that possessed look on his face. And I would think to myself, there is no other place I would rather be then here. NOW. What a night.

Adam Adalman (aadalman@yahoo.com):
I want to start off with a few thank you's: to the fan club for the 2nd row center seats, to security at the Molson center for being pretty cool and letting the 1st 2 rows stand at the barrier, and especially to PETE (PJ's head of security) for correcting the nice but misinformed security guys at the doors of the venue regarding tape recorders!! =)

Ok, Cheap Trick was pretty good, the guitarist flung picks 'o plenty and the lead singer had a great purple velvet suit on.....not much else to tell you since I don't know most of their tunes...

Pearl Jam was amazing, from the slow opener of sometimes...to the big four they played off of TEN (alive, even flow, Jeremy, black)...the rare hard to imagine (as a fan request), mike McCready's amazing solo to black/alive/Ledbetter (and others).....of the new songs - do the evolution, given to fly, and wish list all worked nicely (although I still want to hear MFC and Pilate live)....state of love and trust was still a fan pleaser....but the first encore's baba O'Riley was AMAZING!! i'd never seen that tune live and was certainly hoping to, it was worth the wait....yellow ledbetter was a great 2nd encore as well..... both Ed and stone were sporting some nice t-shirts: ed with a Quadrophenia t-shirt (under the button down), and stone with a "bovine sex club" t-shirt ("do me, milk me, kill me, eat me").

The band was in good spirits, the crowd was appreciative and not violent (it was refreshing to be at a show without crowd surfing where you didn't have to fight for air when near the barrier)....overall another amazing show!!!

andresgarciarejon@nrc.ca:

• This show was amazing
• It was my first ever Pearl Jam show
• Pearl Jam was so into it
• The set was better than I could have imagined
• 23 amazing songs
• A religious experience

Highlights: Any time Mr Mike McCready went nuts

Cool Stuff that happened:
1)When Eddie kissed everyone's ass because it had been 5 years since they visited Montreal

2)Present Tense: A water bottle was thrown on stage during the most intense part and Mike kicked it against Jeff's speaker cabinets and proceeded to take the show, steal it and run away

3)When Eddie asked for Jeff's big skateboard (longboard) all the techs were scrambling trying to find it

4)When they played Hard to Imagine

5)During Baba O'Riley a guy tried to get on the stage, but the security guards wouldn't let him, and he was hanging on to the monitors for dear life, but the guards beat his ass down and Pearl Jams techs tried to get him away from the guards

6)Yellow Ledbetter: Mike was on, he was the star of the show, he's been my idol since I picked up my first guitar, he really touched me, he had his head up like he was feeling every note flowing through him, he was the focal point of attention, he was awesome

7)I am in a band and we know two guys who got backstage and gave Eddie our demo tape, I hope he enjoys it. Without a doubt this was the greatest show if not night of my entire life. Pearl Jam have proved themselves to me that they are the best live band I have ever seen