Neil and Tim Finn in Auckland
Both notes say Neil and Tim Finn joined Pearl Jam to cover two of their own songs, "History Never Repeats" and "I Got You," to the New Zealand audience's pleasure. Of the house's two files for the night, an archive's file list gives twenty-five MP3 title fields, two of which mark "Last Exit" and "Better Man" as cut.
On Friday, March 24, 1995, Pearl Jam played in Auckland, New Zealand, at the venue that the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology heads as the Mt Smart Supertop and Five Horizons as the Mt. Smart Super Top. Five Horizons gives an attendance of 13,000, and the chronology's entry prints no attendance line. The chronology names Dead Flowers as opening act, and Five Horizons names The Dead Flowers as support act. The chronology prints "Throw Your Arms Around Me" on a pre-set line marked as an Eddie solo. Its setlist then runs nineteen entries from "Oceans" to "Blood," and its encore four, ending with "I Got You," twenty-four entries in all. Five Horizons prints no pre-set or encore line and sets twenty-four entries on one set line, the first of them "Throw Your Arms Around Me." Both notes say Eddie walked out by himself with a guitar and played "Throw Your Arms Around Me" before the rest of the band followed with "Oceans."
The show
Supertop or Super Top
The two chronologies write the venue two ways, the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology as Mt Smart Supertop and Five Horizons as Mt. Smart Super Top, and both place it in Auckland, New Zealand. Five Horizons brackets 135m after its heading without stating what it measures, and the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology's heading carries no figure. Five Horizons' attendance line reads 13,000 and marks no status, and the chronology's entry has no attendance line. Both notes say that before the band had even come on, the crowd was smashing forward. Neither chronology's entry gives a capacity, a door or stage time, a ticket price, a promoter, or the way tickets were sold.
The Performance
The chronology's pre-set line holds "Throw Your Arms Around Me," marked as an Eddie solo. The chronology's setlist runs nineteen entries: "Oceans," "Last Exit," "Spin The Black Circle," "Tremor Christ," "Corduroy," "Elderly Woman," which it follows with three dots, "Lukin," "Animal," "Glorified G," "Daughter," joined by a slash to a label, then "Rats," "Go," "Jeremy," "Rearviewmirror," "I Got Id," "Not For You," "Immortality," "Alive," and "Blood." The chronology's encore line holds "Better Man," "Porch," "History Never Repeats," and "I Got You," so that its three lines carry twenty-four entries in all. Five Horizons' single set line, with no pre-set or encore line beside it, holds twenty-four entries and opens with "Throw Your Arms Around Me." Both notes say Eddie, whom Five Horizons calls Ed, came out on his own with a guitar, asked for calm and a slow start, and played "Throw Your Arms Around Me." Both say the rest of the band followed with "Oceans," still aiming for calm, and both call the crowd fired up and tightly packed. Both notes say Neil and Tim Finn joined the band to cover two of their own songs, "History Never Repeats" and then "I Got You," to the New Zealand audience's pleasure. The chronology gives the two of them as from Split Enz, and Five Horizons as formerly of the Split Enz. The chronology's note says that "History Never Repeats" later came out among the tracks of the fan club's 1995 discs.
The Next Step
Brisbane, two days earlier, is told in Mike Watt's Song in Brisbane. Both chronologies put the next show the following night, March 25, at the same venue in Auckland; it is told in The Tour's Last Show in Auckland.
Recording & sound
What the Record Preserves
Four objects hang under the night's heading on the chronology's page. They are an untitled link to a PDF file, an untitled image file of the same name, an image whose markup title reads Ticket, and an image that its markup title calls a ticket and photo. The house holds two text files for the night, in one folder, both in XML: an archive's file list and its metadata file. The metadata file gives Pearl Jam as its creator, 1995-03-24 as its date, and audio as its media type. Its title field names the date and gives the venue as Mt. Smart Supertop, in Auckland, New Zealand, a form that matches neither chronology's heading exactly. The file list has eighty file entries, among them the file list itself and the metadata file. Twenty-five of them are MP3 files over two discs, numbered 1-01 to 1-15 and 2-01 to 2-10, and each MP3 has an Ogg Vorbis and a PNG derivative. Their twenty-five title fields run from a field reading -intro- to "I Got You," and two of them mark "Last Exit" and "Better Man" as cut. Neither chronology's entry for the night prints an intro or a cut mark. Every MP3's artist field reads Pearl Jam, its album field names the date and the venue in the form of the metadata file's title field, and its genre field reads Rock. The two files name no source, lineage, taper, or transfer for the recording, and the metadata file carries no description. Auckland on March 24 comes down, in these documents, to one venue written two ways, 135m that Five Horizons brackets without saying what it measures, an attendance of 13,000 in Five Horizons and none in the chronology's entry, Dead Flowers and The Dead Flowers on the two bill lines, twenty-four entries in each chronology, notes that share Eddie's solo start and Neil and Tim Finn's two songs, four objects under the date, and an archive's file list of twenty-five MP3 files.
Other Media (3)
Other accounts
No further accounts of this show have been added.
Sources & thanks (4)
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1995 page
- Five Horizons — Concert chronology 1995, entries for 03/22/95, 03/24/95, and 03/25/95
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1995 page, the entry for the date
- The house archive — File list and metadata file in the 1995-03-24 folder