A Sea of People
Both chronologies put five hundred people in Nighttown, and only the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology prints a long note, in which the singer asks the crowd to "keep it in the sea" and Mike is carried across the first rows on his back while he plays. The two place "Straight to Hell" differently, the chronology in the main set and Five Horizons inside an encore improvisation.
On Friday, March 6, 1992, Pearl Jam played Nighttown in Rotterdam, which the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology places in the Netherlands and Five Horizons in Holland. Both documents put the attendance at 500; the chronology alone names Prodigal Sons as the opening act, and Five Horizons gives the show eighty-six minutes. The long note for the night is the chronology's alone, so everything the note says about the night rests on that one document. Five Horizons prints two sentences, one calling it another wild, fabulous Holland show, as the chronology's note ends, and one of its own pointing to its video guide.
The show
Photographs and a Video Guide
Five objects hang under this date on the chronology's page, all of them photographs, which are not described here, and no person's name is taken from their markup titles. Under its own entry Five Horizons links only its video guide, which was not opened here.
The Performance
Both documents run "Wash," "Once," "Even Flow," "State of Love and Trust," "Alive," "Black," "Deep," "Jeremy," "Why Go" and "Porch," with "Garden," "(Outshined)," "Leash" and "I've Got a Feeling" in the encore. They place "Straight to Hell" differently: the chronology lists it after "Even Flow" in the main set, and Five Horizons opens its encore with an improvisation it numbers #1 and ties to "Straight to Hell," before "Garden." At both places where Five Horizons numbers an encore improvisation, #1 before "Garden" and #2 before "I've Got a Feeling," the chronology prints "Improv." The note says that before "Once" the singer spoke at length about people getting hurt over the last few nights, calling the crowd "a sea of people" and asking, "Just keep it in the sea". After "Even Flow," it says, he sang some lyrics from "Straight to Hell" by The Clash. It says the whole band was having a great time, with Jeff feeling the bass and Stone bounding across the stage and back. During "Porch" the singer made no stage dives; instead he gently pushed Mike, who was soloing, backwards into the crowd. Its hands carried Mike flat on his back, still playing, across the first few rows and set him back on stage. He then destroyed his guitar, the note says, and Jeff explained that it had been his favourite, a gift he had been given at twelve. At the end of "I've Got a Feeling" the band left the stage one by one, and the singer recruited a fan from the crowd to play bass and played Mike's guitar with him for a minute, the two facing each other. He took a Polaroid of the guy in front of the crowd, the note says, and the curtain closed to Nirvana's "Lithium."
The Next Step
Eindhoven, the night before, is told in Part of the Crowd. Neither document has an entry for March 7, and both put the next show at the Live Music Hall in Cologne on March 8; it is told in From Luxor to the Live Music Hall.
Recording & sound
What the Record Preserves
The house holds three folders of recordings dated to the night, listed but not opened, and one of them names two tracks as Rotterdam improvisations #1 and #2, much as Five Horizons numbers them; a track name is a label in a folder, not a document from the night. Rotterdam comes down to a figure both documents print, a long note only the chronology gives, and two lists that put "Straight to Hell" in different parts of the night.
Other Media (1)
Other accounts
No further accounts of this show have been added.
Sources & thanks (5)
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1992 page
- Five Horizons — Concert chronology 1992, entries for 03/05/92, 03/06/92 and 03/08/92
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1992 page
- The house archive — Folder contents in the 1992-03-06 folder
- Five Horizons — 1992 page