Pearl Jam Does Their Best to Cheer Up Depressed Concert Goers In Cleveland

A band that was named, for a time, after an NBA player must be basketball fans, so surely they know how Clevelanders are feeling right now. Hours after their beloved Cavaliers fell to the Boston Celtics in the NBA Playoffs, thousands of concert goers descended on the Quicken Loans Arena to catch Pearl Jam to try to brighten their mood, For most of the show, it didn't seem like it was going to work but once Eddie Vedder spoke to the crowd about the state of the Cavaliers, things seemed pick up.

Vedder told the crowd that they should do their best in not letting Jay-Z steal LeBron James from his home state, and said he was in the Cavaliers' corner while they try to bring the city their first championship in nearly 5 decades. Along the way, the band that shot to fame in the early 90's treated the crowd to an expansive career retrospective. The crowd, which was billed a sellout but had some unfilled seats in the top levels, was happy to oblige the band who asked them to record Mother's Day greetings for their moms back home in Seattle.

The show didn't pick up speed until the first encore, which included the pep talk by Pearl Jam's leader, and started off slow, but once it gathered steam you could see why this band is a cult favorite for so many fans around the country. It's a shame that they didn't get to come play Cleveland following a bigCavs win as the energy would likely have been much stronger at the Q, and would have helped produce a much better show for everyone involved.

Here is the setlist and a video of what fans had to say following the gig:

1. Wash
2. Hail Hail
3. Corduroy
4. Got Some
5. In Hiding Play
6. World Wide Suicide
7. Force of Nature
8. Immortality
9. Go Play
10. Even Flow
11. Army Reserve
12. Unthought Known
13. DaughterAdditional Information: with W.M.A.
14. Sleight Of Hand
15. Johnny Guitar
16. Do The Evolution
17. The Fixer
18. Why Go
19. Encore:
19. Just Breathe
20. Given To Fly
21. Leash
22. Porch
23. Encore 2:
23. Wasted Reprise
24. Life Wasted
25. Black
26. The Real Me (The Who cover)
27. Smile: fan requestfan request
28. Alive
29. Indifference