A Near-Perfect Show in Auckland

In Auckland

The Pearl Jam Concert Chronology gives an attendance of 20 000, and Five Horizons gives 20,000.

The Performance

The chronology's soundcheck runs "Sometimes," "Not For You," "All Those Yesterdays," "Tremor Christ," "In My Tree," "Habit," and "Given To Fly," and Five Horizons' soundcheck line gives the same seven titles in the same order. The chronology's setlist runs "Sometimes," "Hail Hail," "Brain Of J.," "Animal," "Faithfull," "Even Flow," "Wishlist," "Corduroy," "Jeremy," "Daughter," "MFC," "Habit," "Given To Fly," "State Of Love And Trust," "Off He Goes," "Black," and "Alive," and Five Horizons prints a set line. The chronology's encore holds "Do The Evolution," "Better Man," and "Yellow Ledbetter," and Five Horizons' encore line gives the same three in the same order.

Both notes say the opener came in on tribal drums. The chronology's note says that, once "Brain Of J." had started, Eddie stopped it to check on a crowd the note calls hectic, and that the band then finished the song from where they had stopped. Five Horizons' note says Ed paused more than once to see to a crowd it also calls hectic. Both notes say "Habit" had a new start. As Mike ended his solo in "Alive," both notes say, Eddie, Ed in Five Horizons' note, climbed high up the scaffolding and waved to the audience. Both notes say Eddie recalled nearly drowning on his last trip to New Zealand and said he now surfs in a lifejacket, and that he put on a yellow lifejacket Stone passed to him onstage. "Yellow Ledbetter," flawless and extended, both notes say, closed a show they call near perfect.

The Next Step

Wellington, two days earlier, is told in A Skateboard at the Encore in Wellington. Both chronologies put the next show two days later, March 2, at Melbourne Park in Melbourne; it is told in Shudder to Think's Singer Helps Out in Melbourne.