1996-09-29 Randall's Island, New York, NY 2 (with DVD)

Great 2-nd night show at Downing Stadium, NY. No rain, no mud - everything was fine, and enthusiastic raging crowd enjoed this very long performance which was stopped for a couple of times to calm people down. It's reported. that as the "Porch" jam was moving on, Ed wrapped his entire body with a sort of tape and then dived into the audience (unfortunately this very moment had not been recorded since the video tape went out). "Jeremy" was performed as (new) "No Jeremy".

This is an audience video of the entire show, except part of "Porch" jam missing due to tape change and the end of "Yellow Ledbetter" due to battery exhaustion (audio finished with blank screen). DVD video is split to 3 single-layer DVD discs.

Set: Sometimes, Go, Spin The Black Circle, Hail Hail, Animal, Tremor Christ, Who You Are, Corduroy, Lukin, Better Man, Not For You, No Jeremy, Once, Rats, Last Exit, Habit, Rearviewmirror, Immortality, Whipping, I Got Id, Black, Alive, Porch*, In My Tree, Even Flow, Daughter, Mankind, Long Road, Leaving Here, Off He Goes, Present Tense, Yellow Ledbetter**
* - part of song is missing
** - blank screen at the end of the song

Duration: 2:39;  Size: 880Mb
Video: Windows Media Video 9 640x480 29.97fps
Audio: Windows Media Audio 48000Hz stereo 192kbps
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1996 Randalls Island 2 (wmv).part1.rar
1996 Randalls Island 2 (wmv).part1.rar

DVD (3 single-layer discs): Menu = yes; Size: 10,4Gb
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (4:3) 29.97fps
Audio: 0x0000 48000Hz stereo 1536kbps [LPCM]
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1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part01.rar
1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part02.rar
1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part03.rar
1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part04.rar
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1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part08.rar
1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part09.rar
1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part10.rar
1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part11.rar
1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part12.rar
1996_Randalls_Island_2_(3DVD).part13.rar

1996-11-24 Cascais, Portugal 1 (with DVD)

This very intense Portuguese show was the very rare occasion where the audience could see some stage diving from Eddie Vedder after he gave up his early years wild on-stage habits. During "Porch" jam Ed jumped into the crowd and after some surfing returned with his shirt rent, like in old good times. At this show the band played "Portugal Portugal" improv for the first time.

This is an audience video, shot by Miguel Afonso, DVD is by Kobra Videos, audio is a bit too loud.

Set: Release, Last Exit, Animal, Hail Hail, Once, Dissident, In My Tree, Corduroy, Small Town, Whipping, Habit, Off He Goes, Even Flow, Daughter, Jeremy, Improv (Portugal Portugal), Present Tense, Black Red Yellow, Rearviewmirror, Alive, Smile, Black, State Of Love And Trust, Porch

Duration: 1:56;  Size: 0,99Gb
Video: Windows Media Video 9 640x480 25.00fps
Audio: Windows Media Audio 48000Hz stereo 192kbps
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1996 Cascais 1 (wmv).part1.rar
1996 Cascais 1 (wmv).part2.rar

DVD: Menu = yes;  Size: 3,78Gb
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x576 (4:3) 25.00fps
Audio: MPEG1 Audio 48000Hz stereo 384kbps
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1996_Cascais_1_(DVD).part1.rar
1996_Cascais_1_(DVD).part2.rar
1996_Cascais_1_(DVD).part3.rar
1996_Cascais_1_(DVD).part4.rar
1996_Cascais_1_(DVD).part5.rar
1996_Cascais_1_(DVD).part6.rar
1996_Cascais_1_(DVD).part7.rar

1996-11-15 Prague, Czech Republic

Before the start of the show Eddie had to apologize for 2-hours delay admitting that the truck drivers despite snow did their best to deliver all the equipment and make this show happen.

This is an audience video.

Set: Go, Last Exit, Animal, Spin The Black Circle, Hail Hail, Red Mosquito, Who You Are, Off He Goes, Corduroy, Better Man, Habit, Even Flow, Daughter, Jeremy, Sometimes, Rearviewmirror, Present Tense, Black, Alive, Mankind, Once, (Hunger Strike), State Of Love And Trust, Immortality, Smile, Porch

Duration: 1:58;  Size: 704Mb
Video: DivX 5 640x480 29.97fps
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 256kbps

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1996-11-13 Forum, Milan, Italy (with DVD)

Mind blowing audience support (level with best Madison Square Garden or Spanish-Portuguese shows) and great set-list made this Italian concert rock. Ed sang a sort of improv 'I wish I'd never woke up this morning' as a tag for "Daughter".

This is good picture quality two-camera audience video.
Updated (2013-09-08): DVD-DL of the same video added

Set: Long Road, Go, Last Exit, Hail Hail, Red Mosquito, Who You Are, Off He Goes, Corduroy, Better Man, Habit, Even Flow, Daughter (Improv), Jeremy, Sometimes, Rearviewmirror, Present Tense, Alive, Once, State Of Love And Trust, Nothingman, Smile, Porch, Yellow Ledbetter

Duration: 1:48;  Size: 482Mb
Video: DivX 5 640x480 25.00fps
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 256kbps

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DVD-DL: Menu = yes; Size: 6,95Gb
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (4:3) 29.97fps VBR
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 448kbps [AC-3]
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1996_Milan_(DVD-DL).part01.rar
1996_Milan_(DVD-DL).part02.rar
1996_Milan_(DVD-DL).part03.rar
1996_Milan_(DVD-DL).part04.rar
1996_Milan_(DVD-DL).part05.rar
1996_Milan_(DVD-DL).part06.rar
1996_Milan_(DVD-DL).part07.rar
1996_Milan_(DVD-DL).part08.rar
1996_Milan_(DVD-DL).part09.rar

1996-11-04 Hamburg, Germany (with DVD)

Picture quality of this audience video is very good for that time period. Unfortunately this is not the full show - only the beginning of it. Check another special version of "Corduroy".

Set: Wash, Hail Hail, Once, Last Exit, Animal, Dissident, Who You Are, Corduroy, Small Town (aborted), Better Man, Whipping

Duration: 0:36;  Size: 204Mb
Video: DivX 5 640x480 25.00fps [Stream 00]
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 256kbps [Stream 01]

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DVD:  Menu = yes;  Size: 2,42Gb
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (4:3) 29.97fps
Audio: 0x0000 48000Hz stereo 1536kbps [LPCM]
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1996_Hamburg_(DVD).part1.rar
1996_Hamburg_(DVD).part2.rar
1996_Hamburg_(DVD).part3.rar
1996_Hamburg_(DVD).part4.rar
1996_Hamburg_(DVD).part5.rar

1996-10-19 Bridge School Benefit 1 (with DVD)

A special night 1 at Bridge School. Pearl Jam played not only entirely acoustic set, but some songs  massively altered. My personal highlight is slow tempo "Corduroy" re-arranged in similar way and rate as "Lukin II" at 2010 MSG. The band was accompanied by an artist playing organ, much more skilled than Boom Gaspar nowdays, and he did really nice job flavouring all the songs.

This is a professional video of the entire show, picture quality is average, since the original source seems to never had been digital.

Set: Footsteps, Sometimes, Better Man, Corduroy, Off He Goes, Nothingman, Black, (Song X), Daughter, Small Town, Yellow Ledbetter

Duration: 0:50;  Size: 530Mb
Video: Windows Media Video 9 640x480 29.97fps VBR
Audio: Windows Media Audio 48000Hz stereo 192kbps

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DVD: Menu = yes;  Size: 2,37Gb
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (4:3) 29.97fps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 192kbps
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1996_Bridge_School_Benefit_1_(DVD).part1.rar
1996_Bridge_School_Benefit_1_(DVD).part2.rar
1996_Bridge_School_Benefit_1_(DVD).part3.rar
1996_Bridge_School_Benefit_1_(DVD).part4.rar
1996_Bridge_School_Benefit_1_(DVD).part5.rar

1996-10-01 Buffalo, NY

The show at Marine Midland Arena. During "Porch" jam a fan managed to sneak to the stage, and Eddie traded his shirt with him. After that the fan performed a spectacular dive into the audience, in Ed's shirt.

This is an audience single-camera video of the entire show, except "Animal" and the end of "Yellow Ledbetter".

Set: Oceans, Last Exit, Hail Hail, Spin The Black Circle, [Animal], Tremor Christ, In My Tree, Corduroy, Lukin, Better Man, Not For You, State Of Love And Trust, Rats, Jeremy, Off He Goes, Footsteps, Whipping, Immortality, Alive, Porch, Even Flow, Daughter, Blood (Heaven) (Fame), Present Tense, Yellow Ledbetter (not up to the end)
[] - missing

Duration: 1:53;  Size: 892Mb
Video: DivX 5 640x450 25.00fps
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 256kbps
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1996 Buffalo (avi).part1.rar
1996 Buffalo (avi).part2.rar

1996-09-28 Randall's Island, New York, NY 1

It was the show before a relatively large NYC crowd of 30000. Despite rain pouring down, people were overheated, and Ed had to interrupt "Whipping" because of the fight in the audience. Greatest moment of this show was "Even Flow" jam with a big stout man called John Popper playing harmonica solo.

This is an audience video of the full show. Few gaps in video stream (mostly between the songs) are filled with still stopped picture or blank screen as the sound plays on, but beginnings of "Animal", "Rearviewmirror" and "Even Flow" are omitted. Sound in "Alive" is partly lost. This is what I have. If you have better video, just let me know!

Set: Last Exit, Hail Hail, Animal, Spin The Black Circle, Red Mosquito, In My Tree, Lukin, Not For You, Better Man, Corduroy, Jeremy, Dissident, State Of Love And Trust, Black, Habit, Rearviewmirror, Alive, Blood (Noise of Carpet), Who You Are, Even Flow, Daughter, Whipping, Leaving Here, Indifference

Duration: 1:42;  Size: 551Mb
Video: DivX 5 640x480 25.00fps
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 256kbps

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1996-09-22 Toledo, Ohio (with DVD)

This really good show took place in a small venue before very devoted crowd. Ed was in beautiful vocal shape, and closed the show with memorable almost a-capella "Indifference". For "I Got Id" he messed up lyrics and had to restart the song.

This is an audience video of the full show, with very good sound. Picture quality is average VHS copy, couple of gaps between the songs are missing.

Set: Sometimes, Hail Hail, Animal, In My Tree, Spin The Black Circle, Corduroy, Last Exit, Better Man, Lukin, Not For You, Jeremy, Even Flow, Mankind, Daughter, Habit, I Got Id, Alive, Blood, Go, Who You Are, Rearviewmirror, Leaving Here, Indifference

Duration: 1:26;  Size: 678Mb
Video: Windows Media Video 9 640x480 29.97fps
Audio: Windows Media Audio 48000Hz stereo 192kbps

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DVD: Menu = yes;  Size: 4,24Gb
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x480 (4:3) 29.97fps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 448kbps
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1996_Toledo_(DVD).part01.rar
1996_Toledo_(DVD).part02.rar
1996_Toledo_(DVD).part03.rar
1996_Toledo_(DVD).part04.rar
1996_Toledo_(DVD).part05.rar
1996_Toledo_(DVD).part06.rar
1996_Toledo_(DVD).part07.rar
1996_Toledo_(DVD).part08.rar
1996_Toledo_(DVD).part09.rar

1996-09-21 Toronto, Canada (with DVD)

This show at Maple Leaf Gardens was full of snippets. After "Daughter" Ed sang tags for three The Who songs: Cut My Hair, The Real Me and Young Man Blues. With "I Got Id" Eddie played a teaser of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" (and so he did in Toronto in 2006 and 2011).

These are 2 different audience videos of the full show: 1) avi variant good is multi-camera edited video with better sound, but video stream is not smooth, it looks as if it's 15 fps or something, although in reality it's 25 fps video; 2) DVD variant is smooth, but only a single-camera video. Picture quality for both variants is fairly the same and not good, though it's the common problem of 1996 recordings. Anyway you may try both variants and decide which one is better for you.

Set: Release, Hail Hail, Last Exit, Tremor Christ, In My Tree, Corduroy, Red Mosquito, Animal, Jeremy, Habit, Immortality, Even Flow, Not For You, Daughter (Cut My Hair) (The Real Me) (Young Man Blues), Lukin, Rearviewmirror, Alive, Blood, Who You Are, I Got Id, Leaving Here, Yellow Ledbetter

Duration: 1:42 (multi-camera); Size: 591Mb
Video: DivX 5 640x480 25.00fps [Stream 00]
Audio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 48000Hz stereo 256kbps [Stream 01]

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DVD (single camera): Size: 3,58Gb
Video: MPEG2 Video 704x480 (4:3) 29.97fps
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 256kbps
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1996_Toronto_(DVD).part1.rar
1996_Toronto_(DVD).part2.rar
1996_Toronto_(DVD).part3.rar
1996_Toronto_(DVD).part4.rar
1996_Toronto_(DVD).part5.rar