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How memorable was your first Pearl Jam show?
Satans Red Mosquito
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in The Porch
I ask, because my first was Bonnaroo 2008. The way I explain it to people is that it was like a religious experience, I was a fan and wanted to see them and decided Roo was 1.5 hours away and I'm 20, I'll do it, and I couldn't have got more hooked if a junkie was main lining heroine into me. Especially Eddie's rant during Porch, so powerful. I still get chills I think about it or hear metamorphosis 2 by Phillip glass.
Shows Attended
2008 - Bonnaroo
2009 - Chicago 1
2010 - St Louis, Columbus, Indianapolis, Washington D.C
2011 - Pearl Jam Twenty Festival
2012 - Music Midtown Festival
2013 - Wrigley, Dallas, Oklahoma City
2014 - St. Louis, Memphis
2016- Greenville, Lexington, Bonnaroo, Wrigley 1
2008 - Bonnaroo
2009 - Chicago 1
2010 - St Louis, Columbus, Indianapolis, Washington D.C
2011 - Pearl Jam Twenty Festival
2012 - Music Midtown Festival
2013 - Wrigley, Dallas, Oklahoma City
2014 - St. Louis, Memphis
2016- Greenville, Lexington, Bonnaroo, Wrigley 1
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Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
It was a hell of a show!
6/19/95 Red Rocks
9/11/98 MSG
11/19/12 EV solo Tulsa
7/19/13 Wrigley 10/19/13 Brooklyn 2 10/21/13 Philly 1 10/22/13 Philly 2 10/25/13 Hartford
10/08/14 Tulsa 10/09/14 Lincoln
9/26/15 New York City
4/16/16 Greenville 4/28/16 Philly 1 4/29/16 Philly 2 5/1/16 MSG 1 5/2/16 MSG 2 8/7/16 Fenway 2 8/20/16 Wrigley 1
4/7/17 RRHOF New York City
9/02/18 Fenway 1 9/04/2018 Fenway 2
9/18/21 Asbury Park
9/11/22 New York City
9/14/22 Camden
It was 2003, I was 12 years old. My dad's friends backed out on him last minute so he decided to take me and my brother to the show. The only song I wanted to hear was Do the Evolution. I wanted to hear that song more than any other song cause that was my favorite PJ song when I was 12. I really didn't know the other songs. They opened with wash, I turned to my dad "what song is this?". The answer was not Evolution. I wasn't disappointed but I tried to see the video screens over the people in front of us while waiting for the next song. This continued through out the whole set.
My first show was Holmdel 2003. I was completely oblivious about the songs being played in 'album order'. I didn't know the names of most songs, nevermind what albums they were on.
Then the encore starts. Ed tells some story about Bruce and plays a song (Growin Up). I didn't know how rare that song was at the time, but then it happens. The unmistakable opening riff of DTE. And that's when I became an addicted PJ fan. I don't remember how I 'rocked out' as a 12 year old, but I'm sure it looked rediculous. Next was Daughter, a song I actually knew because it was my mom's favorite song at the time! And next Alive, a third song I knew, (probably the only other one I knew ha).
Hunger Strike -> NO CLUE how special that was.
The rest of my memories from the show are from listening to the bootleg about 1000 times since then. I had a 1 CD portable played with headphones that I would take on car rides. I can still sing all the guitar parts for almost the entire Porch solo.
So maybe I guess my first show was memorable, even if I don't remember living most of it 'in the moment'.
2010: 5/20 NY, 5/21 NY ... 2011: 6/21 EV NY, 9/3 WI, 9/4 WI ... 2012: 9/2 PA, 9/22 GA ... 2013: 10/18 NY, 10/19 NY, 10/21 PA, 10/22 PA, 10/27 MD
2015: 9/23 NY, 9/26 NY ... 2016: 4/28 PA, 4/29 PA, 5/1 NY, 5/2 NY, 6/11 TN, 8/7 MA, 11/4 TOTD PA, 11/5 TOTD PA ... 2018: 8/10 WA ---- http://imgur.com/a/nk0s7
Grizzly Stadium has this cool hill behind it where people without tickets could watch from. The concert was epic, the crowd was epic, some dude proposed to his g/f on stage. I crowdsurfed during Yellow Ledbetter and found my friend who I hadn't seen since the first song crowd surfing too.... lol (and no I would never be disrespectful and crowd surf again.. but I was only 20 at the time...)
good times...
It was very memorable because it was not just my first PJ show, but my first real concert ever. And it was during that ticketmaster fiasco. It was a surreal experience to me that they sounded so good live. I wasnt expecting them to be that good!
First real show was the Bayfront Center, St Pete, 94. It was unmitigated chaos, like nothing else. I don't know if those who started seeing PJ in the 2000's can even fathom what is was like back then. I'm not saying it was good, but any of the 'alt' bands from that era had shows that were really fun, but really dangerous. They totally over-sold shows back then.
I also remember it because it was my girlfriend's 21st birthday and I ditched her to go to the show. She was a little judgmental on my partying, so I didn't want anything to lame out the night. Alas, that was pretty much the end of that relationship.
If anyone has a bootleg of the St Pete show (their only visit to that city I believe), please let me know. I've never run across it.
Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
Me, in a relative baby. My 1st PJ show was Auckland November '09 but it got me hooked bad seeing I've now got 24 shows under my belt(including EV solo), only 2 in my home country & many, many 1,000s of miles travelled.
PJ - Auckland 2009; Alpine Valley1&2 2011; Man1, Am'dam1&2, Berlin1&2, Stockholm, Oslo & Copenhagen 2012; LA, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle 2013; Auckland 2014
EV - Canberra, Newcastle & Sydney 1&2 2011
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
Travelled across the country, into sweltering heat, on the edge of a mountain, to see my favorite band perform a great set that closed their US tour. Severed Hand, a song I was obsessed with at the time and is my username, opened the show. Best performance of Crazy Mary I've ever heard. First Little WIng with lyrics. EV climbed the soundbooth that was close behind me to play Given to Fly in the encore.
A night I will never forget.
2010: Newark 5/18 MSG 5/20-21 2011: PJ20 9/3-4 2012: Made In America 9/2
2013: Brooklyn 10/18-19 Philly 10/21-22 Hartford 10/25 2014: ACL10/12
2015: NYC 9/23 2016: Tampa 4/11 Philly 4/28-29 MSG 5/1-2 Fenway 8/5+8/7
2017: RRHoF 4/7 2018: Fenway 9/2+9/4 2021: Sea Hear Now 9/18
2022: MSG 9/11 2024: MSG 9/3-4 Philly 9/7+9/9 Fenway 9/15+9/17
LOOKING FOR A SINGLE TICKET TO MSG NIGHT 2
then my hs buddy says he rented a private suite for the show and invited his whole wedding party to attend for free(his 10th anniv gift to us)free drinks. doobies in the private washroom. i knew all the words and my buddy was like WTF u r crazy man
50 shows later im still alive
2013 - Philly 1, philly 2, charlottesville,
2015 - NYC (global citizen)
2016 - Philly 1&2
2022 - Camden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgsSc9LWHv0
|11.6.00Seattle|6.6.03Vegas|6.7.03PHX|5.25.06Boston|7.22.06Gorge|7.23.06Gorge|9.21.09Seattle|9.22.09Seattle |10.6.09LA|11.19.13PHX|11.29.13Portland|12.6.13Seattle |10.22.14Denver| 8.8.18 Seattle | 8.10.18 Seattle
EV Solo |7.15.11 Benaroya|7.16.11 Benaroya|4.13.12PHX|10.30.14Redmond|
TOTD 11.11.16 San Fran
Got 4 GA tickets from the 1-800 number on the anti-ticketmaster tour. Went with college roommates, and we taped the show (audio).
My wife was in the seats, her first show too. We met four years later and have now been married for ten years.
I'm having the tickets framed as we speak for an anniversary gift. Pretty cool because our names are on them.
Big Mac broke the home run record during the show and Ed let us all know.
#'s 85 and 86 are coming up in Amsterdam. 16 years and still road trippin. The hotels are much nicer now though.
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