Brendan O'Brien at Soldier Field
Both notes say Brendan O'Brien, whom they call a producer, came on to play keyboard with the band on "Everyday People" and on "Let My Love Open The Door" after it. The Pearl Jam Concert Chronology's note says local radio stations sent the broadcast out again and that it was played over the PA outside the stadium for people without a ticket.
On Tuesday, July 11, 1995, Pearl Jam played at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, the venue and city that both chronologies give in their headings. The Pearl Jam Concert Chronology gives an attendance of 43 000 and Five Horizons gives 47,000, and neither marks a status for the night. The two chronologies print the bill in different orders: the chronology's opening acts line names Bad Religion, then Otis Rush, and Five Horizons' support act line names Otis Rush and Bad Religion. The chronology's setlist runs from "Release" to "Porch," its first encore holds six entries from "Everyday People" to "Blood," and its second encore holds "Yellow Ledbetter." Both notes open with a radio broadcast by Monkeywrench, and each calls it a first.
The show
Soldier Field
Five Horizons brackets 155m after its heading without stating what it measures, and the chronology's heading carries no figure. Both notes say the crowd was pumped, the word they use, and that people were already crowd-surfing while Otis Rush played. The chronology's note adds that local radio stations took the broadcast and sent it out again, and that it was played over the PA outside the stadium for people who had no ticket. Neither chronology's entry gives a capacity, a door or stage time, a ticket price, or a promoter.
The Performance
The chronology's note calls the night the tour's first show whose Pearl Jam set went out on Monkeywrench Radio. Five Horizons' note says this was the first night Monkeywrench put the show out by radio. The chronology's setlist gives, in this order, "Release," "Go," "Last Exit," "Spin The Black Circle," "Tremor Christ," "Corduroy," "Whipping," "I Got Id," "Dissident," "Even Flow," "Deep," "Jeremy," "Glorified G," "Daughter," "Animal," "Habit," "Lukin," "Not For You," "Little Wing," which it sets in parentheses, "Elderly Woman," which it follows with three dots, "Immortality," "Alive," and "Porch." The chronology's first encore field holds "Everyday People," "Let My Love Open The Door," "Better Man," "Rearviewmirror," "Black," and "Blood," and its second encore field "Yellow Ledbetter." Five Horizons' set field runs from "Release" to "Porch" in the chronology's order, its first encore field gives the same six entries as the chronology's, and its second encore field gives "Yellow Ledbetter." Where the chronology sets "Little Wing" in parentheses, Five Horizons follows the title with the word teaser in parentheses, and where the chronology follows "Elderly Woman" with three dots, Five Horizons prints none. Five Horizons' note tells of a riff after "Lukin." Both notes tell of Eddie wrecking his black Telecaster against the microphone stand. Both notes say Brendan O'Brien, whom they call a producer, came on to play keyboard with the band in "Everyday People," which they call surprising, and in "Let My Love Open The Door" after it. Both notes credit "Everyday People" to Sly and the Family Stone. Both notes say lightning came first and fireworks later in the sky that night. They close with a verdict of their own: an amazing setlist, and a long performance given under pressure in a venue they call intimidating.
The Next Step
Milwaukee, two nights before, is told in Eddie Joins the Frogs in Milwaukee.
Recording & sound
What the Record Preserves
The chronology's entry has no remaster series line, and Five Horizons' entry closes with three lines that read as links: ticket, Monkeywrench, and Radio link. Seven objects hang under the night's heading on the chronology's page. Three are images whose markup titles read Ad, Ticket, and Eddie Vedder, and one is an image that its markup title calls a front cover, with the year 1996. One has a markup title that begins with Backstage and names Pearl Jam, and two are untitled: a link to a PDF file and an image. Chicago comes down, in these documents, to one stadium named alike, 155m that Five Horizons brackets without saying what it measures, an attendance of 43 000 in the chronology and 47,000 in Five Horizons, a bill in two orders, a setlist and two encores whose order the two chronologies share, notes that both tell of the radio broadcast, the broken guitar, Brendan O'Brien's keyboard, and the lightning and fireworks, and seven objects under the date.
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Sources & thanks (3)
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1995 page
- Five Horizons — Concert chronology 1995, entries for 07/09/95 and 07/11/95
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1995 page, the entry for the date