1100 Macs and 800 iOS devices at National Geographic – no wonder the magazine looks so good every month
I love hearing stories about tech spread across multiple countries – takes me back to the airline world
Finished the 5K in 23:59 (7:44 pace) – still love the beer wagon at mile two
Up early for the JNUC 5K
I cannot get insurance anymore – they don’t take credit, only gold…
Today I got to hear presenters from Australia, Ireland and Pixar – all for free
Feel like iOS 8.1 has messed with the scroll sensors on my 5S – lots of weirdness today
JNUC has killed both Guthrie wireless and Minneapolis AT&T LTE
Lunch break walkies @ Stone Arch Bridge
Nearly double the attendees this year, plus double-sided badges
JNUC keynote highlight – shadow puppets with @cedge318
How can it possibly be eight years since Pearl Jam was at Xcel with Tom Petty? We’ve seen both a number of times since then, but none in Minnesota. Colleen had tried to order Ten Club tickets for both Moline and St. Paul, but all she got was the latter (with the usual process of not knowing where exactly your seats would be until the day of the show). Halfway up section 117 wasn’t the best available non-GA area, but they were still pretty good. Apparently reserved fan club seats are assigned according to seniority and Colleen is “only” at ten years or so, since she dropped her membership for a few years when the girls were born.
The club had sent out an email earlier in the day showing a map indicting the location of the outdoor merchandise trailer (just like OKC), including a stated opening time of 1pm. She went down early to take a look and found a line already two blocks long. She waited and waited – they finally opened one window around 2:15, but it moved very slowly and she had to leave to avoid a parking ticket. Doors were scheduled for 6:30, so we both came back around 5:30 to wait in the will call fan club line, but that part was awesome – no line and we got to sit in the foyer by gate one and listen to sound check.
There were two merch booths inside gate one, so we headed straight there once our tickets were scanned. I picked up the cool St. Paul poster for $35 (plus a very reasonable $2 for a nice cardboard poster tube). Colleen got a red tour shirt, a button and a couple of stickers. We also picked up some mini donuts and a couple Cokes on the way to our seats. We settled in, expecting the show to start right away at 7:30 (no opening act). Roughly 45 minutes later, the band finally started off with Pendulum from the latest album. The lighting for the first few songs was just like Oklahoma – each musician was basically in the dark and difficult to see. The two video screens has some serious low-light cameras, though, which was great. The video production all night was very artsy and cool, providing unique, interesting views you don’t normally see (wide angle lens from the guitar pedals, for example).
This was definitely one of those “get your money’s worth” type of shows, with three plus hours of music and 32 songs in total. All of the reviews I saw were positive (Chris here, Ross here and City Pages here). I’m guessing Corduroy was probably the highlight for Colleen, as they haven’t been playing that one a lot lately. I was holding out for Black, which opened the second encore. Overall, I felt the setlist had a really nice mix of new and old, popular and obscure. No sound issues this time, either (thank goodness).
Such fun music times, no?
Set list (per Riemenschneider):
- Pendulum
- Release
- Nothingman
- Go
- Life Wasted
- Corduroy
- Lightning Bolt
- Mind Your Manners
- Save You
- Even Flow
- Sirens
- Love Boat Captain
- Daughter
- I Got Id
- The Fixer
- Unthought Known
- Given to Fly
- Rearviewmirror
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- ENCORE 1:
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- Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
- Thin Air
- Footsteps
- Imagine (John Lennon cover)
- Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran cover)
- Why Go
- Do the Evolution
- Porch
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- ENCORE 2:
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- Black
- Setting Forth (Eddie Vedder solo song)
- Better Man
- Alive
- Rockin’ in the Free World (Neil Young cover)
- Indifference
Really looking forward to JNUC this week – see you all tomorrow at the Guthrie
If I ever win the lottery, the first two things I’d buy are a vacuum cleaner that doesn’t spread the dirt around and a decent electric razor
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass, of what was everything…
It’s evolution, baby @ Xcel Energy Center
Better seats than OKC, but still pretty far down the fan club seniority list, apparently
That thing is huge! @ Xcel Energy Center