Tonight Pearl Jam is set to play their 1000th show in Stockholm, Sweden. I know this because a friend of mine has been in Europe on what many would consider a trip of a lifetime — spending weeks following Pearl Jam all across Europe, hanging out for days in some of the world’s great cities in the process. So far she’s been to Amsterdam, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Stockholm — where she is presently — and in the next week she’ll follow the band to Oslo and Copenhagen. No, I’m not envious AT ALL.

Anyway, my friend isn’t the only Pearl Jam fan on such a trip right now — hundreds, if not thousands of others are doing the same thing, many of them members of the band’s fan club: the Ten Club. To show their appreciation for such folks, Pearl Jam picked one fan to win a trip to Amsterdam to see the band play there and tossed in a little something extra as a surprise: the lucky fan got to craft the set list for one of the two Amsterdam shows.

According to Rolling Stone, the lucky fan — 46 year-old Rhode Island native Brian Farias — has seen the band perform over a 100 times in his lifetime and has been a member of the Ten Club since the days of Mother Love Bone, the pre-Eddie Vedder version of the band. As you might expect, Farias took his calling quite seriously, creating dozens of drafts before finally settling in on the one the band used.

Reports Rolling Stone: