Pearl Jam, Live at Barclays Center, Brooklyn

Pearl Jam played an epic two-night run in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center this weekend. The band always brings its best to New York and these two stops on their current Lightning Bolt tour were no different. Friday night saw a two and a half hour show including several new songs which fell right in line with the many classics, and a few rarities, including Mother Love Bone’s “Chloe Dancer” and “Crown of Thorns,” an impromptu cover of Van Halen’s “Eruption” by guitarist Mike McCready and Pearl Jam’s own rarely played “Sleight of Hand.” For Saturday, the band ran a full three hours, only repeating ten of the 32 songs from Friday, crafting an entirely new set.

Eddie Vedder was particularly chatty both nights. In thanks to Barclays for hosting them and referencing Jay Z’s association with the arena, Vedder quipped, “We got 99 problems, but a place to play ain’t one!” Also generous with praise for the audience, he thanked fans of the Northeast for their support “even in the early days, touring with the Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth….” On Saturday, “We have some friends here tonight, people we’ve known for many, many years, from all over. You make us look really good in front of our friends.” Upon spotting a fan in the front row wearing a t-shirt in support of Every Mother Counts, a charity focusing on women’s healthcare dear to Vedder’s heart, he led the band in a surprise cover of “Leaving Here,” another live rarity.

Below are photos from Night One; set lists to both nights follow.

Brooklyn, Night One
Pendulum
Release
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Lightning Bolt
Corduroy
Mind Your Manners
Dissident
Why Go
Swallowed Whole
I Am Mine
Infallible
Given to Fly
Sirens
Eruption (Mike McCready solo)
Spin the Black Circle
Chloe Dancer
Crown of Thorns
Save You
Let the Records Play
Do the Evolution
Rearviewmirror

Encore 1:
Oceans
Yellow Moon
Sleight of Hand
Just Breathe
Daughter
Got Some
Porch

Encore 2:
Wasted (Reprise)
Life Wasted
Alive
Sonic Reducer
Indifference

Brooklyn, Night Two
Pendulum
Wash
Nothingman
Lightning Bolt
Mind Your Manners
Last Exit
Hail Hail
In Hiding
Down
Sirens
Even Flow
Infallible
Present Tense
Rats
Unthought Known
Immortality
State of Love and Trust
Once
Given to Fly
Better Man

Encore 1:
Footsteps
Yellow Moon
All Those Yesterdays
Future Days
Do the Evolution
Go
Porch

Encore 2:
Whipping
Blood
Leaving Here
Black
Alive
Rockin’ in the Free World
Yellow Ledbetter
Star-Spangled Banner (Mike McCready solo)