Set List: Sometimes, Breakerfall, Corduroy, Gods' Dice, Animal, Nothing As It Seems, Given To Fly, Evacuation, Alive, Pilate, Better Man, Insignificance, Daughter, In Hiding, Wishlist, Grievance, Even Flow, Rearviewmirror;
1st encore: Hail Hail, Go, Once, Light Years, Small Town, Black, Fuckin' Up
2nd encore: Yellow Ledbetter

First time I saw them in The Hague, 't Paard, Holland.. As featured on the Small Club Bootleg... They were brilliant, been a fan ever since.... After that there I thought I'd let Pinkpop ('92) fly and went to Torhout, Belgium.... but that show was canceled and Pinkpop was a heavenly concert which i watched at home (sadly)... After that came the 2 concerts in Ahoy, Rotterdam and the last one before Bercy was Amsterdam, RAI, with a terrible sound quality and Pearl Jam promised never to play there again...

But back to the tour... once again i had the choice between Pinkpop, Werchter, Rock am Ring and the normal clubs.... When you live in Holland you usualy don't go to bands playing in clubs in other countries. With festivals thats different.... I heard about the Dutch Fanclub organizing trips to Paris (Fl. 175) and Hamburg and Berlin (Fl. 375 including Hotel).. So I booked....

First stop Paris, Zenith... but that changed to Paris, Bercy I had been to Paris before but never to a club and this time i was going to see Pearl Jam for the fifth time... The bus was full of fans with tapes of Pearl Jam, Videos and a little talking....

It had been a while so i was quite excited, we left at 7.00 o'clock in the morning from Rotterdam Central Station, that meant waking up at 5.15!!!! There was quite a traffic jam which lead to some delay and the bustrip lasted about 7 hours. We got out of the bus at 14.00, and changed the Zenith tickets for the Bercy, and then for me the waiting started. Some other people went downtown to see Paris, but I, I entered the line and waited in the hot sun..

Then there was movement (now at 19.15), was it possible... yes the doors opened and slowly started moving... I was destined to get a place in the front... I had to.... Passed the garts... RUN RUN RUN....

Yes made it... Igot a spot in the front, against the fence somewhere at the midright side of the stage... At about 20.00 the Vandal's came on... never heard of the name but it sounded alright and they realy got the place rocking.... some Grease covers and Sound of music covers and some selfwritten songs like My girlfriends dead (one day I had a girlfriend and then one day she dumped me .... I don't wanna talk about it, but someone always asks about her, so I tell them all SHE'S DEAD) and A-drake ( I've got an a-drake yes i do....)... The punk/skate/ska music sounded realy driven and the bandmembers were crazy...

And then the Vandals were finished the stage was made ready and then....... Nothing at first people were smoking and waiting for Pearl Jam to come... and then suddenly people started to try to make a wave crawl around the venue... and they succeeded it was fantastic it started at the right of the stage... went to back and came to front over the left side.... and then it was over because..... THE COMMERCIALS STARTED!!!!!! I have never ever in my life had such a disappointing experience... they were showing commercials on a big screen like Pearl Jam was a movie or something... It went over my head....

The pushing and shoving in the front started because Pearl Jam came on... Girls and guys screaming for Eddie (Hello, there's more to PJ then just Eddie)..... And they started of easy with sometimes, gliding into Breakerfall old songs gliding into new songs falling back into old songs.... It was beautiful.... Meanwhile my ribs were being crushed into the fence, my back half broken from the people pushing behind me.... my fingers bruised from holding onto the fence...My knees bruised from the fence, my arms bruised from the people pushing me sideways...but I had to stay... and I did.... Everywhere people got pulled out fainted, collapsed... but i had to hold on... i had to... stay alive Crowdsurfers banging on your head... but that wasn't important... Pearl Jam was playing... Then it was over or was it???? No... it wasn't they came back on and continued by saying what a nice time they were having.... They thanked the Vandals and a guy next to me started shouting that the Vandals sucked and that it was a waste of time... Ed just looked and said What did you say....??? The the guy continued with Edddddyyyyyyyyyyyyy, shake my hand, please (how pathetic)... Eddie responded o, fuck you and continued... and i couldn't help myself laughing at the way Ed handled it.... He finished off with Fuckin' up (middleingers in the air saying this is what my son does all the time, he calls it fuckin' up) and Yellow ledbetter...

That was all, it ended in a beatiful solo by Mike who earlier on smashed his (favorite???) guitar... I thought i saw the exhaustion on their faces... Ed got his polaroid camera and shot some pics of the audience... (I must be on the first one he made i think) and himself which he threw into the audience... The concert was over... i was intencely happy glad and when the crowd started spreading out, for the first time this evening i felt my legs... they were still there ... aching like hell... my ribs were pounding with pain... my arms, legs, and body pounding with bruises and pain... my T-shirt wet with sweat and some water that was given in the front... I slowly started twoards the exit, got a new T-shirt (the white one) got a few drinks and went to the bus... I was so satisfied and happy....

The bus left at midnight and I fell asleep... awoke again later with an aching .... everything... it was 5.15 am i recognised some buildings... Rotterdam again at last... I waited till 5.45 for the metro to start and went home... i took a shower and then i had to go to work.. at least i had a sollicitation at 10.00 o'clock so i had to get moving.. still happy, still aching I went there and at 13.00 o'clock i got offered a job... So all's well that ends well.... It was a beatiful day.... Next stop Berlin and Hamburg..... I'll be in the front again, if i make it, this time I'm going to be on the leftside for a change... Maybe the band recognizes me... maybe not... but I'm sure it's going to be a beatiful experience.... again.... I've only seen them five times since 1992... Berlin and Hambrg will be 6 and 7 and Rotterdam 8.... I'm looking forward to it.... Guys keep on making music, keep playing and most of all keep Jamming...

Love, Perry