We got in free, so why not? Everyone sang along to "Daughter" and "Evenflow," and hardcore fans sang to all the songs, and seemed to feel compelled to pump their fists A LOT. Weird. Oh, and it was 36 DEGREES in Alabama in April. Eddie suggested if you want to relive the concert in the future, get a bootleg tape, put on headphones, open the freezer and sit in front of it with a fan pointing at you and your feet in ice water... then "let it rip." And no, you weren't supposed to have a camera, but the camera fit in my pocket, and the security guys literally got sick of searching people just as I got to the front of the line. Seriously, they just got tired of it and walked away. Someone call the Homeland Security Department please.

	First, we photgraphed ourselves in our ridiculous winter gear. Here is Rachael.
	...and here is Heather who apparently got stoned WAY before any of the rest of us.
	Ladies and gentlemen, the least flattering picture ever taken of me, proving cold weather is NOT my type of weather.
	The picture of me was so ridiculous, we decided it was prime time for yet another Blair Witch parody.
	And now the pics of what we came to see. This is a typical view, and a typical lighting concept for the evening. I believe this was during Evenflow when all the drunks in the audience remembered they came to see Pearl Jam.
	This is a crappy picture, but it does show Eddie Vedder's favorite pose for the evening, as if shot with a rifle.
	Pearl Jam and crowd basking in the red glow. That's a ferris wheel in the background, which was part of a mini-fair taking up all the damn parking and forcing hundreds of folks to park a trillion miles away in dirt.
	Ah, finally a clear picture from row 1 billion! If his hairline keeps receeding, he'll be Mr. Ed Vedder, your grumpy next-door neighbor, before you know it. "You kids get off my lawn! I-YI-YI-YI-YI-YI-OOOOOOOOOOoooooo!!!"
	Here's where drummer Dave shot Eddie in the neck. One of many times he thrashed around as though fired upon or puking or epileptic.
	Another nice picture of the stage from our vantage point showing the alien spacecraft attracted by the noise.
	Here's what the pictures would be like without a zoom lens from our seats.
	This was either Chuck Norris, based on the jacket, or Billy Ray Cyrus, based on the pants. Either way, it made no sense.
	We started taking pictures of ourselves again when the heavenly blue lights shined upon us from the stage.
	Then they kicked on the 1,000,000 watt heat lamps, trying to keep us warm, but to no avail.
	Seriously, the giganto blue light was pointing RIGHT AT US. Cool. We waved.
	Rachael used the blue light to put Heather and I on the cover of a non-existent Queen album.

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