It was a fitting ending: America’s song for America’s showplace – probably the only way this long, wonderful run of the Spectrum could end. Then, McCready stood alone on stage, bare-chested, and played Jimi Hendrix’s version of “The Star Spangled Banner.” The crowd, at this point berserk, screamed through it. “We ain’t playing shows this long ever again,” Vedder said.īut as if the show couldn’t end, the band returned for “Yellow Ledbetter.” The main set closed with “Rockin’ in the Free World,” the house lights up red, white and blue confetti and balloons raining down on the crowd and the card girl dancing onstage with the band. “Tell that guy to get out his check!” Vedder said.Īnd Pearl Jam played the requisite hits, including “Jeremy” during a seven-song set with the string quartet an anthemic “Better Man” and “Alive” as the second-last song in the main set. The songs ranged from the touching “Just Breathe,” with Vedder on acoustic guitar backed by a string quartet to “Even Flow,” during which Vedder donned devil horns and guitarist Mike McCready - who was smokin’ all night– played a long solo, even dropping to his knees.Īs it did during its entire four-night stand, which began Tuesday, the band dug deep into its catalog for rarities such as “Out of My Mind,” which Vedder said an anonymous donor had pledged “a large amount of money” to charity if they played. Why can’t we keep this one? … Elvis played here!” And the band segued into a segment of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” which Vedder ended with the lyric: “Leave this building alone!” Let’s just keep playing rock “n’ roll, man.”Īn hour into the show, during “Don’t Call Me Daughter,” Vedder said, “The Greeks, the Romans, they kept their coliseums. “I don’t want this place to go,” he said.
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