Last week, Pearl Jam returned to Seattle after five years for two shows at Safeco Field, the historic stadium in the city.
Not only did the group play there – and honored other grunge legends such as Chris Cornell and Andrew Wood – but also set up a small exhibition celebrating their long career.
Well, but now comes the coolest part. According to KOMO News, the band raised more than $ 11 million dollars to help Seattle’s homeless. Of the total profit from presentations, 90% went to organizations hosting these people.
One of them is Mary’s Place, and site director Marty Hartman said:
“That’s what these shows can do. Literally bring more people home, out of those cars, those stalls, off the sidewalk and give them a safe space to be, put them in a house forever.”
Still according to the news portal, more than 80 Seattle restaurants have joined Pearl Jam’s request to donate part of their profits to the institutions.
See the setlist below:
- Long Road
- Release
- Low Light
- Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
- Corduroy
- Go
- Do the Evolution
- Mind Your Manners
- Throw Your Hatred Down
- Lightning Bolt
- Given to Fly
- All Those Yesterdays
- Even Flow
- Help!
- (The Beatles cover)
- Help Help
- Black
- Setting Forth
- I Am a Patriot
- Porch
- Encore:
- We’re Going to Be Friends
- (The White Stripes cover) (live debut by PJ)
- Nothing as It Seems
- Let Me Sleep
- Breath
- Again Today
- State of Love and Trust
- Rearviewmirror
- Wasted Reprise
- Better Man
- Comfortably Numb
- Alive
- I’ve Got a Feeling
- Rockin’ in the Free World
- Yellow Ledbetter
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