I went to the Pearl Jam show last night at the United Center. The show was fantastic! This is the third time I’ve seen them and all shows have been amazing. This time around, they played for almost three hours! They opened with Release and went on to play half of the Ten album by the time the concert was over, including Black (my favorite song by them) and Porch (one of their greatest live songs, always with an extra long solo in the middle). The also played a few of their most popular B-sides and covers: Yellow Ledbetter, State of Love and Trust, and Baba O’Riley. Other interesting moments: they played part of Open as an intro to another song (I forget which one now), the end of Daughter became a short rendition of W.M.A. that replaced “White Male American” with lyrics about a “white texas son” and the chorus was just “President”, and the encore included lots of Versus songs (Go, Blood and Indifference).

If you ever get a chance to see Pearl Jam live, don’t pass it up. They manage to sound even better live than in studio and they do their best to repay their fans for having to shell out a lot of money for the concert tickets.