Permanent Seats

At the Landmark Theatre

Four nights earlier the band had played Springfield; that night is told in A Small Club That's Full. Where it played next, the two chronologies differ: whether the Ithaca show fell on Monday the 4th or Wednesday the 6th, and whether the band was in Amherst on the 4th. Both list Tuesday, November 5, at the Houston Field House in Troy, New York, with no set list, and both print the same note: Vedder asked whether the crowd would hurt him if he came out there, and then crowd-surfed. A newspaper listing the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology reproduces calls it a triple bill at the R.P.I. Fieldhouse in Troy, Tuesday night at 7:30. The tour book for the run, as the same source reproduces it, has Troy on the 5th in a room it prints as the RPI Fieldhouse, a day off in Syracuse on the 6th, and the Landmark Theater on the 7th.

Both chronologies name the room the Landmark Theatre, Five Horizons with the article. A ticket the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology reproduces prints Metropolitan Presents, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Smashing Pumpkins, the Landmark Theatre, Syracuse, NY, Thursday, November 7, 1991, at 7:30 PM, an orchestra seat at $19.50, and does not name Pearl Jam. Five Horizons adds that the date had previously been believed to be at The Haunt in Ithaca, and that a representative of the Landmark confirmed the show date and a ticket stub surfaced. The theater, by Wikipedia's account, opened in 1928 as Loew's State, a movie palace on South Salina Street, closed in 1975, and was renamed the Landmark in 1977 by the group formed to save it from demolition.

The Performance

The set, the same in both entries, was eight songs: "Release," "Why Go," "Alive," "Garden," "Black," "Alone," "Even Flow," and "Porch." Both call it, in the same words, "a quick 30-40 minute set," with the band full of energy.

Against Springfield four nights before, the list is two songs longer: "Release" opens again, "Garden," "Black," and "Alone" are in, and the Beatles song is out. "Alone" had not been on a list the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology prints since the Wetlands in New York on July 17, as that night's encore, though many entries between carry no list, five of them on this run: Pittsburgh, Rochester, the first Toronto night, Boston, and Troy.

Anthony Kiedis, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' singer, jumped into the crowd after Vedder's stage dive, both entries say. The theater, both say, was only half full, and there were problems with the seats up front, where people tried to mosh and could not, because of the permanent seats.

The Next Step

The next entry in both is Friday, November 8, at CBGB in New York, a night the tour book had planned for Philadelphia; it is told in Ever Since I Was 14.