From Release to Alive in Rome
The chronology's setlist opens with "Release" and closes with "Alive," and its encore ends with "Rockin' In The Free World." The chronology's page hangs images whose markup titles read Setlist and Ticket under the night's heading.
On Tuesday, November 12, 1996, Pearl Jam played in Rome, Italy, at the venue that the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology heads as PalaEur and Five Horizons as Palaeur. The chronology gives an attendance of 11 500 and marks the show sold out; its opening act line names Fastbacks, and Five Horizons' support act line names The Fastbacks. The chronology prints twenty entries in its setlist and five in its encore, and Five Horizons nineteen on its set line and five on a line it calls enc.
The show
The Venue in Rome
Five Horizons brackets 117m after its heading without stating what it measures.
The Performance
The chronology's setlist runs "Release," "Last Exit," "Animal," "Hail Hail," "Dissident," "In My Tree," "Corduroy," "Better Man," "Not For You," "Even Flow," "Daughter," "Jeremy," "Hunger Strike," "Black," "State Of Love And Trust," "Sometimes," "Rearviewmirror," "Immortality," "Lukin," and "Alive." The chronology's encore holds "Who You Are," "Once," "Present Tense," "Smile," and "Rockin' In The Free World." Five Horizons gives nineteen entries on its set line and five on its encore line, the encore in the order of the chronology's. Both notes call the night another pleasant show, with the audience and the band both in a good mood. The chronology's note says that a little of "Hunger Strike" was played once "Jeremy" was over and calls that a surprise, and Five Horizons' note says that the song made another appearance, which it calls somewhat unusual. Both notes say that "Sometimes" broke off abruptly, that the crowd cheered, and that the song was taken up again from the place where it had stopped. Both notes say that Mike's guitar playing stood out in the last song, which the chronology's note names as "Rockin' In The Free World," that the crowd clapped through the final verse, and that the singer draped a flag of a local soccer club over Jack's drum.
The Next Step
Zurich, three days earlier, is told in A Strap Made in Zurich. The next show was in Milan the following night; it is told in A Song Before the Fastbacks in Milan.
Recording & sound
What the Record Preserves
Five Horizons ends its entry with a line that reads setlist scan. Under the night's heading the chronology's page hangs an image whose markup title reads Setlist, one whose markup title reads Ticket, and three more images. Rome comes down to one venue in both headings, 117m that Five Horizons brackets without saying what it measures, an attendance of 11 500 in the chronology, one act on both bill lines, a setlist of twenty entries from "Release" to "Alive" in the chronology and nineteen set entries in Five Horizons, five encore entries in each, and five objects under the date.
Other Media (2)
Other accounts
No further accounts of this show have been added.
Sources & thanks (3)
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1996 page
- Five Horizons — Concert chronology 1996 (part 2), entry for 11/12/96
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1996 page, the entry for the date