FRONT ROW seats!!!

gndcd402

ThrowUrArmsAroundMe wrote:

Exactly. I'm only 20. But I own 60 boots, and love the band. It doesn't make me less of a fan than someone who has been a member of the club for 15 years.

Exactly. I'm 21 and have given back more than my share to the PJ community and I'm happy I FINALLY have at least a very tiny chance of getting somewhere near the stage! Sorry I couldn't join the fan club when I was 4...

Androgynous Mind

I am real excited at the possibility of potentially being able to snag seats within the first ten rows. My number is high, but the love is there. This adds a whole new element to the anticipation on concert day.

Androgynous Mind

gndcd402 wrote:

Exactly. I'm 21 and have given back more than my share to the PJ community and I'm happy I FINALLY have at least a very tiny chance of getting somewhere near the stage! Sorry I couldn't join the fan club when I was 4...

I know exactly where your coming from. I think I was only five at the time of the beginning of the Ten Club

sky08

Please enjoy whatever seats you have. It's always a great night.

Even though no one will believe me, my first row seats (the one time I had them) were not my favorite. Among other reasons, the guy next to me was on his cell phone all night giving a play-by-play report to a friend.

Second and third row can be perfect. Fifth and seventh were great. Other places where I was on the floor much further back, but the arena was well-constructed were also just fine. I don't know, first row made me feel self conscious or something, like I was expected to be having the best time of anyone there. Plus the band usually look a bit past the first row. Also one time at MSG when I was in the second row I was behind two losers who argued on and off the whole time b/c one guy had backstage access in some way but couldn't or wouldn't take the other guy back there. It was so juvenile (and distracting for me). In Seattle one time, I think 2000, (that time that there was that ridiculous entry line that snaked for miles before the show on the first night) a fight broke out in the first row before the show, and the people got thrown out. I always wondered what could have been so important that you would risk getting thrown out of a first row seat at a Seattle PJ show (if anyone knows, please let me know!). So I guess the moral of the story is that it's much more fun when the people immediately around you are having a great time.

Laura in NJ

Oatsdad wrote:

If you've been a fan all that time, why'd it take you so long to join the 10C? I became a fan in 1994 and JOINED in 1994...

I became a fan in 1992 but didn't join til 1996 (I actually got to go to the 1994 NYC show, for which tix were NOT sold to the public AT ALL--so count your blessings!--by winning them from WDHA, a NJ radio station). Sometimes you just fuck up, ya know?

Anyway, I'm okay with my 10C # 161XXX. It gets me 10th row in Colorado and 22nd row in NY/NJ. It hasn't failed me yet.

BustedDownThePretext

Oatsdad wrote:

The point is that I have little sympathy for someone who claims to have been a big fan since 1991 who obviously waited a long time to join. The club was only $5 back then and everybody with an interest in PJ knew that FC membership brought ticket privileges. If he was too cheap/lazy/whatever to join, that's fine, but don't whine about being left out in the cold for front row tickets...

ummm...no...see not EVERYONE that was into pj since back then knew about the fan club and ticketing privileges. i was 20 in 1991 and have been a fan since ten. i never read the liner notes closely enough to see the 10c info--i was more focused on the music and having fun with my friends. in fact, when i joined the 10c in 2001, i still didn't know anything about 10c tickets. i joined on a whim because i was able to get tb2k cheaper than retail. it wasn't until the riot act tour mailing that i learned about 10c tickets, but it was on after that! i've seen them 26 times all over the world since then.

NewJPage

gndcd402 wrote:

Exactly. I'm 21 and have given back more than my share to the PJ community and I'm happy I FINALLY have at least a very tiny chance of getting somewhere near the stage! Sorry I couldn't join the fan club when I was 4...

and i'm sorry i never got to see jimi hendrix...that's just the way it goes, people. 10club has given in slightly to all the bitching, so everyone should be happy with that. and this is coming from a dumbass who let his '94 number lapse until 2000, so its not like i'd be way up front. just everyone enjoy the shows and accept the fact that you were too young for Pearl jam back in the day, just like i was not born before zeppelin's last show. all love at the show. no more bitching...

unless its about ticket prices. thats still ok to bitch about.

bovy_j

Oatsdad wrote:

Oh, in no way do I claim to be a "great fan" - that wasn't the intention of my post. God, there are scads of people here who are way into PJ. My point was simply that I see no reason why these superfans didn't join way back in the day.

I take issue with folks who say they've loved PJ forever but whine that they have crummy 10C numbers even though they go back so far. Sorry, but you really couldn't afford $5 a year when you were 15? I apologize if money was really that tight, but then again, if you couldn't shell out $5/year, then you had problems to worry about other than concert tickets...

Oh well...I'm sorry that I didn't join 15 years ago! I was a lot younger and listening to Hanson as I was in primary school. Sorry!!!!
I loved Pearl Jam since I discovered them in around 2001. I didn't have the funding to become a member until a few years ago.
I guess since I have all the albums/dvds/4 show posters/lots of memorabilia/live bootlegs and am getting a pearl jam tattoo in a couple weeks...i guess that doesn't show my likeness for the band. I guess not!

All hail you, you amazing fan! Grow the fuck up.

Fighting Hellfish

Oatsdad wrote:

If you've been a fan all that time, why'd it take you so long to join the 10C? I became a fan in 1994 and JOINED in 1994...

I've been a fan since 1992, but didn't join the fan clun until I got a computer in 1999.

Fighting Hellfish

Laura in NJ wrote:

I became a fan in 1992 but didn't join til 1996 (I actually got to go to the 1994 NYC show, for which tix were NOT sold to the public AT ALL--so count your blessings!--by winning them from WDHA, a NJ radio station). Sometimes you just fuck up, ya know?

Anyway, I'm okay with my 10C # 161XXX. It gets me 10th row in Colorado and 22nd row in NY/NJ. It hasn't failed me yet.

I guess 1996 to 1999, or maybe it was early 2000, were really the lean years. i joined 3 or 4 years after you, and my number is 206XXX. What show did you see in 1994? Limelight?

RiotAct10

I have been in the club since 1999, when I was 14. If I had known I would be a huge fan later in life, I would have joined the 10 Club when I was 6, but I did not know that would be the case. Anyways, I would piss my pants if I got to that ticket window and they handed me seats in the first or second row. I was wondering though, what about people with really good numbers, is it possible that someone who would be placed in the fourth row, would randomly be assigned the 10th row? This shouldn't affect me, but I did wonder about that.

BustedDownThePretext

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

I guess 1996 to 1999, or maybe it was early 2000, were really the lean years. i joined 3 or 4 years after you, and my number is 206XXX. What show did you see in 1994? Limelight?

sounds more like 2000. i joined in april of 2001 and i'm 232xxx

Fighting Hellfish

It's the 10 Club's fault, for not going to your kindegarten class to sign you up.

Fahka

oh yeah... ive seen 12th once.. and then since then anywhere from 15-- 4th row..


4th row was just as exciting as first row to me but, it will be cool if it works out once in my life time

Fighting Hellfish

BustedDownThePretext wrote:

sounds more like 2000. i joined in april of 2001 and i'm 232xxx

could be. I got my first computer in Sept 99 when I started grad school. I remember finding the fan club website shortly after and immediately joining. By the way, oatsdad earlier said:

The club was only $5 back then and everybody with an interest in PJ knew that FC membership brought ticket privileges.

Maybe I'm wrong, since I didn't join until 2000, but wasn't the 2000 tour the first where you could get tickets via 10Club? And you could only pick one show, to boot. Did they do fan club ticketing before that?

Laura in NJ

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

I guess 1996 to 1999, or maybe it was early 2000, were really the lean years. i joined 3 or 4 years after you, and my number is 206XXX. What show did you see in 1994? Limelight?

No, the Paramount Theater show in NYC...right after Kurt Cobain died. It really affected the band and at the time, they weren't sure when--or if--they would play another live show

04/17/94 - Paramount Theater: NYC, NY [100m]
attendance: 5,500
support act: Mudhoney
set: Rearviewmirror, Whipping, Go, Animal, Dissident, Even Flow, Glorified G, Daughter/(Tonight's the Night), Why Go, Jeremy, Alone, Garden, Footsteps, State of Love and Trust, Satan's Bed, Blood, Not for You, Elderly Woman, Sonic Reducer
notes: The '94 tour ended abruptly with this at the Paramount Theater, located inside NY's Madison Square Garden. Area Ten Club members had preference for tickets. Remaining tickets were distributed to New York radio stations and were given away starting the Friday before (the show was on a Sunday) until late Saturday night. Winners then went to a separate location to pick up the tix before the show. Ed leads the crowd in a "fuck" chant before 'Alone.' A female fan, screaming "I love you, Eddie" is dealt with. "Aww, that's sweet. I love you too," Ed responds sarcastically. "You don't love me. You love who you think I am and the image you have created in your mind. You can't love me cause I'm already in love. Did you know my ten year anniversary with my girlfriend, Beth, is next month? That is the longest relationship of anyone in the band, unless you count Stone and Jeff." 'Dissident's' lyrics are changed to a spoken, "Escape is never the safest plan." Mark Arm joins PJ for 'Sonic Reducer.' A very spiritual, intense, cathartic show with an entire night of pummeling beats and guitar solos, Ed howling and pulsating hair. It is unclear what direction PJ will take from this point. Ed references this and suggests going off and living in a cave with Beth.

U R A Crazy Breed

i tell ya,my first show i was waaayyyyyyyyy back.2nd show near the sound board.3rd i was 12 rows from the stage and it was such a totally different experience(fucking spiritual) i can't explain how special that night was for me!

but first row! holy shit! i could die after the show and be content for eternity!!

NOCODE#1

Oatsdad wrote:

If you've been a fan all that time, why'd it take you so long to join the 10C? I became a fan in 1994 and JOINED in 1994...

wow that has absolutely no point on who was a fan longer

NOCODE#1

Laura in NJ wrote:

I became a fan in 1992 but didn't join til 1996 (I actually got to go to the 1994 NYC show, for which tix were NOT sold to the public AT ALL--so count your blessings!--by winning them from WDHA, a NJ radio station). Sometimes you just fuck up, ya know?

Anyway, I'm okay with my 10C # 161XXX. It gets me 10th row in Colorado and 22nd row in NY/NJ. It hasn't failed me yet.

wow it must have been late 96

URthekey

I think that they will do the distribution like this,
Every 10C member in the running for rows 1-2.
Then seat by seniority until row 9.
Random distribution from remaining 10C members for rows 9-10.
Then seat 11- lower tiers for the rest of 10C.

I doubt if you usually pull 3rd row w/ your # you would be in the drawing to be randomly selected for row 9 or 10, that wouldn't seem fair.

I'm just hoping that for one of the 5 shows I bought tix for that RANDOM acts of kindness come my way.