Pearl Jam Rocks Out at Rupp Arena

Pearl Jam played another great night of music at Rupp Arena last evening. The band played another 3 hour show to loyal fans from all over the country. Fresh off headlining New Orleans Jazz Fest, they kept the energy up and delivered a whopping set of music. Pearl Jam is on their way to play Philadelphia, Madison Square Gardens in New York, and Fenway Park in Boston. They will then headline Bonnaroo and end their tour at Wrigley Field in Chicago. It has been a pleasure to be one of their tour photographers. Check them out at PearlJam(dot)com...and the Rupp Arena setlist and official write-up from the  band's management below...

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Pearl Jam

Rupp Arena

Lexington, KY

April 26, 2017

Set List

Walk On Music:08:30 It Happened Today-R.E.M 

Band On Stage: 08:32

Band Off Stage: 11:34

(Band walks onstage to R.E.M and the house lights on.  Song starts with house lights still on.  House lights come down during the second half of the first verse)

01. Lightning Bolt

02. Mind Your Manners

03. Animal

04. Why Go

05. Deep

06. Satan’s Bed

(Ed says it looks great having people in seats all the way to the top.  He thanks the audience and Coach Cal for the all the championship flags in the building because it helps the sound on stage.)

07. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town

08. Corduroy

09. Sirens (sing along outro)

(Ed introduces the next song as being for all of the teachers and intellectuals here tonight.  He asks if anybody in the band graduated from university?  None have.  “Don’t tell our kids, we are gonna try and keep that lie going for a while.”)

10. Education

11. Evenflow (Mike goes into the crowd to solo.  Ed gives the mic to someone in the audience. for a line.  It doesn’t stay long.)

12. Spin The Black Circle

(We’ve played to a lot of active duty members and veterans on this tour.  I hope that they get to stick around and that the government pays attention to all the hard work they have to do.  This one is for you.)

13. Army Reserve

14. Daughter/Another Brick In The Wall-part 2-(Waters){lyric changed to “preacher leave those kids alone” instead of teacher}

15. 1/2 Full (Ed inserts Donald Trump into the lyrics.  During the outro Ed reflects a spotlight off of the pick guard of his guitar back into the audience like a sweeping spot light)

16. Given To Fly

17. Swallowed Whole

18. Lukin (with a slow intro)

19. Rearviewmirror

Encore Break One

(EV compliments the audience on their energy and thanks them for giving it up. He says, “It sure is beautiful here in Kentucky.  I don’t remember that.  And there has to be more than one guy that paints all the fences white.  That has to be a two man job.”  He also compliments Kentucky on making the right choice in rejecting laws that would have discriminated against others.)

20. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away-(Lennon, McCartney) {Ed solo}

21. Just Breathe {Dedicated to Matthew and Lindsey}

22. Thumbing My Way

(“I’d like to dedicate this one to a friend we all knew.  Mr. Tomas Young.” Ed talks about how heroic Tomas was and also notes that a new book came out by Mark Wilkerson about Tomas Young.)

23. Comfortably Numb-(Gilmour, Waters)

24. Do The Evolution

25. Sonic Reducer-(Bators, Blitz, Chrome, Magnum, Thomas, Zero)

26. Porch

Encore Break Two

27. Smile

(This song is about treating your woman right.  I know that isn’t a problem here.  You are all gentlemen.  I hear a lot of stories about college and they better clean up their acts before my daughters goes to college.)

28. Leaving Here-(Holland, Holland, Dozier)

29. Black

30. Betterman/Save It For Later-(Charley, Cox, Morton, Steele, Wakeling)

31. Alive

32. Baba O’Riley-(Townshend)

33. Yellow Ledbetter