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29/5/00 - Wembley Arena, London, England

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Disclaimer: Owner of all 72 official PJ bootlegs. This bootleg shows Pearl Jam still getting their mammoth 2000 world tour rolling, and this evening is one of the more competent performances of the early part of the tour. As compared to the bootleg series in general, this is definitely an above-average performance, but not one of the greats. The band is mostly rocking hard, and the overall performance is pretty solid, but not too mind-blowing. This show also has a rather predictable and slow-moving set list, with only a couple of surprises like the uncommon "Faithful," plus the cover of "Timeless Melody" by The La's. Some of the highlights of the evening include energetic renditions of "Given To Fly," "Black," and "Alive." Unfortunately there are a few too many errors, indicating that it's still early in the tour. This includes a breakdown in the final chorus of "Gods' Dice" and an extremely rickety take on the cover "Soldier of Love." Eddie Vedder screws up "Soon Forget" pretty badly, but this can be attributed to the crowd's off-time clapping, and this is actually a pretty funny moment in the show. Also, there is something wrong with the audio mix during much of the first disc, as the mid-range seems to be missing and Jeff Ament is almost inaudible. These problems were apparently fixed by the middle of the show. If you are only in the market for a few of these official Pearl Jam bootlegs, this one is a mostly solid and rocking performance, but it's not one of the greats in the series. However, one of the greats happens to be the following show, also in London the next evening, which is an incredible performance and one of the best of the European series.

I had the honour of being present at this concert, the first time I have ever seen Pearl Jam live, and I can assure you it will not be the last. I will be there whenever they visit these shores in the future.

The favourites are all here, RVM, Alive, Courdroy and Go, and you will never hear Vedders vocals clearer than when they are recorded straight from the soundboard as they are on this bootleg series. I have since bought 11 of the series with the view to buying the whole collection before this year is out.

Matt Cameron has superb timing in all of the numbers on show here, and proves that his timing is by far the best of all the Roster of Pearl Jam drummers they preceded him.

Vedder delivers vocals clearly and with the passion that we have come to expect from one of the great vocalists of out time. His banter with the croud is also very humorous and I must say enlightening as I have been so used to his rants which to be honest go nowhere, and bring negativity to previous gigs.

In conclusion, not the finest of the bootleg series, that honour goes to the "Live in San Sebastian, Spain" gig, but a worthy addition to any collection.

I was so happy when Pearl Jam announced that they were releasing 25 different bootleg CD's. And as Pearl Jam fan I got so extatic that I was going to buy them all at once. Now that didn't go as planned as I thought. So I started off by buying this one. And I couldn't believe how good the sound quality was. I have some old PJ bootlegs that sound really awful compared to this one. This gig was the first of two nights at the (soon to be) legendary Wembley Arena. And it's difficult to say how the concert was visually. But it sounds like there's thousands of people. How many I don't know but Wembley holds 72.000 people. Anyway the choice of songs on this record is quite weird. They start off with 5 songs of the new record. I guess that they wanted the crowd to hear the new stuff. Because that record was just released. There's the standard PJ tracks from all the five records as well. And after a encore break, Eddie starts to speak a lot about London as a religious place over the clouds and stuff. And he talks about all those famous people that has influenced him. From The Beatles to The Who, but then they play a The La's track "Timeless Melody". Which is really cool because I didn't know Eddie was into that group. Anyway this CD is really good and I recommend every PJ fan to buy it. The best track on this CD is Daughter. That has the now famous "It's Okay" add to it. It gives you shiver down the spine.

This is the fourth show in Pearl Jam's mammoth 2000 world tour. They opened with Lisbon, a solid show, went to Barcelona which was a little rusty, then to San Sebastian which was half brilliant and half disaster.

This first night at Wembley is fantastic, however, and outranks the first three shows combined. This is Pearl Jam getting down to business, and it shows in the performance. Great versions of old and new songs abound over both discs. The concert begins with five straight songs from Binaural, all of which are fantastic (especially "Of The Girl," a perfect "Grievance," and a blistering "Breakerfall"). "Gods' Dice" features the band making its only real technical mistake of the night, but it's forgivable, since it was the first time the song had been played on the tour. The older songs are just as good: "Animal," "Even Flow," "Daughter," and "MFC" are all really great.

If the first disc isn't convincing enough, the second puts it over the top. We have here the best performances yet of "Black," "Rearviewmirror," and "Yellow Ledbetter." Also included is a fine "Insignificance," a stellar "Alive," two great covers ("Soldier Of Love" and "Timeless Melody"), a rarity ("I Got S--t"), and a funny take on the song "Soon Forget." The next night would be almost as good, but did not match this, the first truly inspired gig on the tour.

I went to this show, the band's 1st in Europe since 1996. It was on a public holiday in England so the venue was pretty full by late afternoon. There was a genuine air of anticipation and excitement at the prospect of seeing America's finest band - and they showed why they deserve the title.

Starting with 5 tracks from Binaural the band were at ease with themselves and the crowd, and ran through a well paced set which included 2 of the best non - album tracks, I got ID and the classic Yellow Ledbetter.

The moment that summed up the evening was Mike playing the solo to Ledbetter while the rest of the guys watched in appreciation.

I have got 18 of the European shows, this ranks in the top 5.

All credit to Amazon.com for listing all of the series, and for all the information regarding each release.

First off, let me say I never heard that much Pearl Jam in the past. I never got into that grunge music, so other than occasional STP and Pearl Jam I would catch on the radio, I wasn`t familiar with their material. Well that has changed. Being a fan of live CD`s when I heard that they were releasing their entire tour, I applauded their allegiance to their fans. So I picked up a couple and that was it, I was hooked. Now not being a hardcore fan I can`t say what sets are better are what songs are missing or not. I can only say that these CD`s show what live rock music is and should be. I`m sitting here at midnight listening to the first Wembley show and my god. Besides Eddie`s incredible vocals, I have to say Mike McCready is one of the best guitarist I`ve ever heard, period. My favorite songs from this set are Even Flow, Nothing As It Seems, and Daughter.As I stated, this is coming strictly from the ears of a novice. I now own 13 of these and will have the others in time for the reported U.S. tour releases. These are simply powerful and amazing recordings.

i was shocked that p.j. put out an entire tour.i believe its never been done before. the set starts out crisp and clear with 4 songs from the new lp.although eddie does mess up thelines on one song,then takes full blame afterwards in a comical way. there are many great moments on these discs, one being faithful,a great version.in our local paper here in canton,ohio is an artical about these shows in which guitarist mike mcready recommends disc#10,#16,and 4 & 5 from london.i will surely buy at least 2 more of these shows,they are greeat.

Upon hearing about Pearl Jam's seemingly monumental effort to release live recordings of their ENTIRE European tour, I almost fell off my seat. First off, was this for real or a sick, twisted joke? But more importantly, how good would they be? Well, after hearing 29-5-00 (their first London show), I was impressed. In terms of variety in this particular concert, everything from "Ten" to "Binaural" to even a couple of songs from some of their singles was played. Despite the cardboard packaging, there's some great stuff on this one (and at a good price as well).