September 24, 1996 Merriweather Post Pavilion – Columbia, MD

This show opens with a particularly sweet version of ‘Long Road.’ During ‘Not for You,’ Ed chats a bit. “If you catch me missing a lyric … if you catch me making a mistake. It’s just I got a lot on my mind. Like I was just thinking a minute ago, ‘I hope these people know that this song isn’t about them.’ I just hate to be misunderstood.” ‘Red Mosquito’ is introduced as ‘Song X’s’ baby brother. Ed makes a joke: “It looks like some of you are on grass …” (referring to the people on the lawn). ‘Habit’ is modified to, “Speaking as someone standing in complete darkness.” After the band plays the intro to ‘Immortality,’ Ed takes a drink, the crowd goes wild, the band stops and goes on to ‘Better Man,’ entirely scrapping ‘Immortality.’ Quelling the “Ed-die” chants later, he says, “Enough of that. If you could just see what you look like from here. It’s just crazy … it’s crazy. Just crazy. You guys are really nice …” then launches into ‘Blood.’ The ‘Daughter’ tag includes a snippet of Embrace’s ‘No More Pain,’ (“Your emotions are nothing but politics, so get control”). Before ‘Mankind,’ Stone says “Do you want to hear me sing one?” (The crowd goes nuts.) He continues (laughing), “Awww, no you don’t!” Returning for a second encore, Stone asks if it rained outside, while Ed references people holding up signs for “super rare songs.” The crowd gets a very nice surprise … a super version of ‘Wash.’ Excellent show!

Notes provided by: Twofeetthick

Pearl Jam
September 24, 1996
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Columbia, MD

Source: Ambisonic ST-250 -> Sony D10 ProII (6th row, center)
Lineage: DAT(M) -> DAT(3) 48khz -> FLAC
Transfer: DA-20 -> Monster coax -> DiO 2496 -> CEP 2.1 -> WavePad (resample to 44.1) -> xACT -> FLAC

01 Long Road

02 Hail Hail

03 Animal

04 Spin the Black Circle

05 In My Tree

06 Corduroy

07 Not for You

08 Jeremy
09 Red Mosquito

10 Black

11 Habit

12 Rearviewmirror

13 Immortality (song stopped)

14 Better Man

15 Whipping
16 State of Love and Trust

17 Alive

18 Blood
19 -encore break-
20 Who You Are

21 Even Flow

22 Daughter/(No More Pain)/(WMA)

23 Mankind

24 Leaving Here
25 -encore break 2-

26 Wash

27 Yellow Ledbetter

Notes: The sound is more up front than the MK4 source, but it suffers from more audience noise. The crowd around the taper does seem to settle down about half-way through the show.

Thanks to CPS for the tape.

Transfer by BLG
compiled on 01-04-05
Tracked, encoded & additional notes 07-30-11

Pearl Jam

09-24-96

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Columbia, MD

Source: Schoeps MK4 caps -> Schoeps pre-amp (48v p/s) -> Sony TCD-D8 (24th row)

Generation: DAT(c) 44khz -> FLAC

Transfer: DA-20 -> Monster coax -> DiO 2496 -> CEP 2.1 -> CDWave -> FLAC

Disc I

01 Intro

02 Long Road

03 Hail Hail

04 Animal

05 Spin the Black Circle

06 In My Tree

07 Corduroy

08 Not for You

09 Jeremy

10 Red Mosquito

11 Black

12 Habit

13 Rearviewmirror

14 Immortality (song stopped)

15 Better Man

16 Whipping

Disc II

01 State of Love and Trust

02 Alive

03 Blood

04 encore break 1

05 Who You Are

06 Even Flow

07 Daughter/(No More Pain)/(WMA)

08 Mankind

09 Leaving Here

10 encore break 2

11 Wash

12 Yellow Ledbetter

Thanks to JR for the DAT.

Transfer by BLG

compiled on 01-26-05

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