The show for which we have been waiting since late winter/early spring arrives in Boston tonight, as Pearl Jam plays the first of two shows at Fenway Park. It’s hard to believe that Eddie Vedder and company have never played Fenway before, especially when Theo Epstein was the GM of the Red Sox, but that is taken care of tonight.
It’s the fifth Fenway show For Dayna and me as we have seen Paul McCartney (2013), Tom Petty (2014), and Foo Fighters twice (2015). Cam will be joining us, as he did for both Foo Fighters shows last summer.
To make things interesting, Dayna and I each wrote down 40 songs we think will make tonight’s setlist. Whoever gets the most correct gets to pick the concert t-shirt we purchase. We compared lists already, and we had 25 songs that were the same, which means we came up with 55 possible songs for tonight.
Update: Through 25 songs, I hold a 15-14 lead
On both lists
Lightning Bolt
Do the Evolution
Mind Your Manners
Elderly Woman … Small Town
I am Mine
Corduroy
Once
Spin the Black Circle
Smile
Alive
RVM
Given to Fly
Why Go
Unthought Known
Down
Yellow Ledbetter
Even Flow
Release
Dissident
Porch
State of Love & Trust
Wishlist
Nothing as it Seems
Man of the Hour
Black
Only on Dayna’s List
The Fixer
Setting Forth
My Father’s Son
Low Light
Red Mosquito
Brain of J
Love Boat Captain
Faithful
Hail Hail
Rockin’ in the Free World
Not for You
Lukin
World Wide Suicide
Sonic Reducer
Future Days (which was our wedding song!)
Only on Steve’s List
Jeremy
Inside Job
Baba O’Riley
Just Breathe
W.M.A.
Nothingman
Go
Animal
Sirens
Yellow Moon
Daughter
Better Man
Imagine
Soon Forget
Present Tense
Rant and Roll 