The Singer on Drums at Thebarton Oval
Both chronologies' notes say the singer walked out by himself before the second encore and took to the drums, and that Mike was given the stage again for his solo in "Yellow Ledbetter." The house's one text file for the night, a Twenty-Ten information file, repeats Five Horizons' heading and note.
On Saturday, March 7, 1998, Pearl Jam played Thebarton Oval in Adelaide, which both chronologies head by that name. Five Horizons' attendance line reads 21,000, and Shudder to Think stands on the chronology's opening act line and on Five Horizons' support act line. The chronology's main list opens with "MFC" and "Brain Of J." and closes with "State Of Love And Trust" and "Alive," and both chronologies give the same first encore and the same second encore, "Yellow Ledbetter." Both notes call it a great show, of the band's usual merriment, happiness, interaction and musicianship.
The show
An Oval in Adelaide
Five Horizons brackets 110m after its heading without stating what it measures. Its heading gives the date as 03/07/98 and the place as Adelaide, Australia, and the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology's gives March 7, 1998, with the same venue and place.
The Performance
The chronology's setlist runs from "MFC" to "Alive," and its entries include, in order, "Brain Of J.," "Hail Hail," "Animal," "Do The Evolution," "Dissident," "Jeremy," "Corduroy," "Wishlist," "Lukin," "Even Flow," "Daughter," "Given To Fly," "Habit," "Elderly Woman...," "Nothingman" and "State Of Love And Trust." Five Horizons gives the main set on a set line. Both chronologies give the same first encore, "Go," "Once," "Better Man" and "Last Exit," and the same second, "Yellow Ledbetter."
Both notes call it a splendid outdoor show. Both notes call "Nothingman" a surprise. Before the second encore, they say, the singer took to the drums on his own, and Mike was again given the stage for his solo in "Yellow Ledbetter."
The Next Step
Melbourne Park two nights earlier, on March 5, is told in A Third Melbourne Night on the Radio. Sydney, two nights later, on March 9, is told in A Night Full of Surprises in Sydney.
Recording & sound
What the Record Preserves
Five Horizons' entry closes with two short lines that read as link labels of its page: review, then tour poster. Two images hang with the night's entry on the chronology's page. The house holds one text file for the night, a Twenty-Ten information file, whose first twenty lines repeat Five Horizons' heading, with its bracketed figure, and its note. Its numbered labels run in one group from "MFC" to "Yellow Ledbetter." After them the file calls its recording complete, measured against the setlist and the information it cites, a claim about the recording, not the concert. March 7 at Thebarton Oval comes down to a venue both chronologies head alike, a bracketed figure, Five Horizons' attendance line of 21,000, one act on both bill lines, the same two encores in both, notes that both call it a great show, two images, and one house file that repeats Five Horizons' heading and note.
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Other accounts
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Sources & thanks (4)
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1998 page
- Five Horizons — Concert chronology 1998, entry for 03/07/98
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1998 page, the entry for the date
- The house archive — Information file (Twenty-Ten series) in the 1998-03-07 folder