Even Flow in Question
Of the night's house files, a note says "Even Flow" is not in the set while a remaster series file gives it a track from an FM source. The Pearl Jam Concert Chronology lists the song and Five Horizons does not.

On Friday, July 16, 1993, Pearl Jam played the first of two nights running at a Rotterdam hall that the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology heads Ahoy´ Sportpaleis and Five Horizons Sportspaleis Ahoy. The chronology's attendance line reads 10 500 (sold out) and Five Horizons' 9,500, and Tribe After Tribe is the chronology's opening act and Five Horizons' support act. The two lists part at "Even Flow," the chronology's seventh entry, which Five Horizons' list does not carry, and the house's files for the night part at the same song. Both notes say the band had some trouble getting used to the size of the venue, and both close on a short verdict in the show's favour.
The show
The Hall in Rotterdam
Both chronologies place the hall in Rotterdam, the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology in the Netherlands and Five Horizons in Holland, and Five Horizons brackets 105m after its heading without stating what it measures. The chronology sets an acute accent after Ahoy, and the house's remaster series file heads itself with a third form, Sportpaleis Ahoy. Neither entry prints a capacity, a show time or a ticket price.
The Performance
Both chronologies open the set with "Release," "Why Go," "Deep," "Jeremy," "Rearviewmirror" and "Elderly Woman," and the chronology then prints "Even Flow," which Five Horizons' list does not have; every other title the two print stands in the same order. Both add W.M.A. to "Daughter," Five Horizons without full stops, and both join a tag in parentheses to "Porch," the last entry of the chronology's setlist. The entries from Improv to "Leash" that end Five Horizons' set line are the chronology's first encore; after them both print "Sonic Reducer," "Rockin' in the Free World" and "State of Love and Trust" as one encore and "Indifference" as another. Both notes tell, in words they quote, how the singer introduced "Go" and the name he gave it, and how he asked for the lights to be switched on for "Alive" and kept on, and both end with the same short verdict in the show's favour.
The Next Step
The second Brixton night, two nights before, is told in Counting Heads at the Front; neither chronology prints a heading for July 15. Both chronologies put the next show the following night, July 17, at the same hall; it is told in Angie and a Drum Solo.
Recording & sound
What the Record Preserves
The chronology's entry ends with a remaster series line naming the band, the date and Rotterdam, with an info-file, and Five Horizons' entry has no such line. Fourteen objects hang with the night's entry on the chronology's page: two images whose markup titles read Setlist, the first before a credit; one titled Ticket; nine whose titles name Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament or both, each with a credit; and two untitled links into the chronology's remaster series, a zip and a text file. Who is pictured is the chronology's identification in its markup. The house holds three text files for the night in two folders: a note in one, and a remaster series file and its fingerprint list in the other. The note says its writer pieced parts of the show together from two ftp sources in Five Horizons' order, that the setlist is correct by Five Horizons' account, and that "Even Flow" is not in the set. The remaster series file gives its sources as an FM chain for thirteen songs and an audience chain through a Sony WM-d6 for ten. Its notes say the FM source was patched with the audience source to make the show complete, short of some talking at the start of the encores, and that the audience source, 2-5% fast, was speed-corrected to match. Its numbered labels, which the fingerprint list follows one file to a line, break the show where the chronology's list breaks it into a setlist and three encores, and they give "Even Flow" a track from the FM source. One of the chronology's untitled links goes to a remaster series text file of the same name, and the house's file dates its compilation July 2021. Rotterdam's first night comes down to a hall named three ways, two attendances, a song over which the lists and the house's files each part, fourteen objects and three house files.
Other Media (2)
Other accounts
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Sources & thanks (5)
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1993 page
- Five Horizons — Concert chronology 1993, entries for 07/14/93, 07/16/93 and 07/17/93
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1993 page, the entry for the date
- The house archive — Text file in the 1993-07-16 folder
- The house archive — Information file and fingerprint file (remaster series) in the 1993-07-16 folder