On August 20th, 2016, Pearl Jam rocked the Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, playing not only their hits (and some of my favorites, such as “Corduroy”, and “Mind Your Manners”), but they also brought out a strew of covers, including Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and The Who’s “Baba O’Riley”, and not to forget the very fitting “All the Way” in one of their three encores, which was very special to hear, and hopefully gives Wrigleyville some good luck, considering it’s a song about how Someday, the Chicago Cubs (the full time tenant of Wrigley Field) will go all the way, and finally win the World Series after a 108+ year drought!

Much like the Inevitable smell of Marijuana, Pearl Jam fever was spreading throughout Wrigleyville all day, with various bars and restaurants in the immediate area blasting the band’s catalog for all the streets to hear. Rather thoughtfully places or not, the band did treat us to a little sound check jam during the afternoon, featuring “Amongst the Waves’, ‘Light Years’, ‘Sad’ and ‘Getaway’, which definitely kept the rooftop bars full of enthusiastic concert goers.

Set List:

1. Low Light

2. Release

3. Rain (Beatles Cover)

4. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

5. Do the Evolution

6. Last Exit

7. Lightning Bolt

8. Sad

9. Amongst the waves

10. Even Flow

11. Light Years

12. I got ID

13. Mind your manners

14. Unthought known

15. Masters of War (Bob Dylan Cover)

16. I am A Patriot (little Steven Cover)

17. Daughter (with W.M.A.)

18. Jeremy

19. Better Man (with “Save it for Later” Pete Townshend Cover)

Encore #1

20. Bee Girl

21. Just Breathe (Acoustic

22. I believe in miracles (acoustic Ramones Cover)

23. Let me sleep

24. Inside job (with Steve Gleason)

25. Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd Cover)

26. Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd cover)

27. Corduroy

28. Porch

Encore #2

29. Go

30. Black (with we “belong together”)

31. Surrender (Cheap Trick Cover)

32. Alive

Encore #3

33. All the way (Tour Debut)

34. Baba O’Riley (The Who Cover – with Tim DiJulio on guitar)