*** London, UK, SBE Fanviews Here 8/11/09 ***

tremors

Ron The Shelf wrote:

The fact that I have seen them many times and in many locations gives me my own personal perspective, not better or finer, merely my own. Thanks for singling me out. I'll remember to check the party line before expressing myself in future.

Personally I think it's useful to have some firmer 'reality checks' from people who have a completely different assessment, and I thought your posts made a lot of sense and were well argued Ron, so thanks. I agree, the worst thing is if anyone felt they have to be positive about the band. It becomes dishonest, and a cult, and not credible. The fact that my experience at Shepherd's Bush last night was more on the 'near mystical experience' / 'sublime religious revelation' side of the rock concert spectrum shouldn't detract from your ability to remind us that Ron Wood is probably a complete wanker
(which I thought you put forward a good case for by the way)

[edit, for the casual reader, this last sentence was me trying to crack a poor joke & insert a bit of good old British tongue in cheek, which a, doesn't work well in print, b, often upsets non-brits, and c, caused me quite a lot of trouble in my previous stint here. I can't bring myself to use a 'lol' I'm sorry. I live in the land of Shakespeare and Shelley, they are surely turning in their graves at the sight of this phrase!)]

For me it was the symbolic part of his input, almost like an induction of the seattle boys into our more venerated and mature Great British rock and roll traditions. I thought PJ looked the part jamming with him, in fact the sound coming out of all those fucking guitars at that point was seriously exciting, and I thought 'this ain't grunge, it's just fckin rock and roll'. Whatever.

Anyway, I also thought the guy you were arguing with (facepollution) was pretty eloquent, so it's unfortunate you were at odds!

To be honest the most shocking part of last night was being able to stand up and go to the bar at a major rock gig and not face one single other person in the queue. It was strangely surreal, especially compared to how hectic it all was outside the venue. Like being at the eye of the hurricance. Everything slowed. We were in a little bubble in the middle of london. For me it was all special.

Anyway, no doubt there will be many killer shows this year. If any of us are lucky enough to attend more than one PJ show a tour, at least one of them is quite likely to be worth telling the grandchildren about!

mrs_vedder

Last night I popped my Pearl Jam cherry! I have nothing to compare it with, so for me, it was the best Pearl Jam gig ever!!!

I managed to get loads of pics but this is one of my favs. I'm gonna get a poster made of it.

Matt Smith

wishchris wrote:

Alright Matt,

Chris here-I guess it's you we were standing next to in the queue. I lost you as soon as it started. The pit was full on.

Don't be despondant about 10club tickets and getting in early. Darren and I are both in the fan club and we had to settle for normal tickets because there weren't enough to go around. 10club is only £15 a year and is well worth it. Darren and I should be up the front for Manchester.
Hope you enjoyed it in the end.

Hey! Yeah I couldn't see you after they started. I tried to stay where I was but managed to get dragged a bit nearer to the front and almost knocked over, all good fun though.

Have fun at Manchester!

tremors

mrs_vedder wrote:

Last night I popped my Pearl Jam cherry! I have nothing to compare it with, so for me, it was the best Pearl Jam gig ever!!!

I managed to get loads of pics but this is one of my favs. I'm gonna get a poster made of it.

Nice godammn photo! That is the spirit of pearl jam right there. I'm so loved up currently though, I'm probably not the best judge!

Think I'm gonna put that as my wallpaper now. Can I make a mousemat?

You look like you know what you are doing with that lens!

Force Of Nature

tremors wrote:

mrs_vedder wrote:

Last night I popped my Pearl Jam cherry! I have nothing to compare it with, so for me, it was the best Pearl Jam gig ever!!!

I managed to get loads of pics but this is one of my favs. I'm gonna get a poster made of it.

Nice godammn photo! That is the spirit of pearl jam right there. I'm so loved up currently though, I'm probably not the best judge!

Think I'm gonna put that as my wallpaper now. Can I make a mousemat?

You look like you know what you are doing with that lens!

Thats an awesome first gig, it was my 4th and i swear they just get better and better.
love the photo as well, great seeing them in such a small venue with the crowd so close. wonder how the band feels after playing massive arenas, and then getting to do something special like this.

grazman

Wow! what an amazing show. Didnt know i was going until Sunday night (thanks for the ticket Paul) and was well worth it. Great setlist, crowd were squeezing me into the front barriers all night, lost abit of weight and nearly all the water in my body but was superb! Even met Stone, Boom and Mr Vedder after the show which made it even more amazing and got them to sign a picture. Great guys. Other than that the only complaint was the Wimpy burger with 15 chips i ate on the way to London which cost £6, and a stupid ozzie bird who kept elbowing me all night (its okay, she fainted during the 1st encore and was ejected).

Force Of Nature

grazman wrote:

Wow! what an amazing show. Didnt know i was going until Sunday night (thanks for the ticket Paul) and was well worth it. Great setlist, crowd were squeezing me into the front barriers all night, lost abit of weight and nearly all the water in my body but was superb! Even met Stone, Boom and Mr Vedder after the show which made it even more amazing and got them to sign a picture. Great guys. Other than that the only complaint was the Wimpy burger with 15 chips i ate on the way to London which cost £6, and a stupid ozzie bird who kept elbowing me all night (its okay, she fainted during the 1st encore and was ejected).

what sort of time did the guys come out then?

wishchris

. Other than that the only complaint was the Wimpy burger with 15 chips i ate on the way to London which cost £6, and a stupid ozzie bird who kept elbowing me all night (its okay, she fainted during the 1st encore and was ejected).[/quote]

ha ha ha
just pissed myself

Strangest Guy

Holy good bejaysus, last night was one of the best nights of my life. I was up front at the barrier with my girlfriend on Mike's side and we both had a ball! I loved the setlist as it was a bit different from what I had seen before and they played Present Tense and Inside Job so I was very happy!
At the end when Mike threw all his picks into the crowd I and the guy to my left missed out but Mike went and found a couple more and handed them to us! It was just an awesome way to end the night and it was just so cool to get a pick handed to me by my the guitarist who has influenced my playing so much over the last few years.
It was also cool to meet some fellow 10C folk, although i didn't talk much because I'm a shy bastard when meeting new people!

I got loads of good photos, so I'm going to try and get them uploaded.

In conclusion... THANK YOU PEARL JAM!!!

roll on next tuesday

facepollution

Ron The Shelf wrote:

The fact that I have seen them many times and in many locations gives me my own personal perspective, not better or finer, merely my own. Thanks for singling me out. I'll remember to check the party line before expressing myself in future.

Ok, so don't accuse people of "blindly accepting" and "losing objectivity". By using those terms, you are impying that you have objectivity and a more 'realistic' appreciation of the show - based purely on your prior experience of shows. I'm merely pointing out that unless one show goes drastically wrong, there is no real 'objective' way of saying one is better than another.

By the way, you're welcome, I'll always point out when someone is being a complete hypocrite.

lukinlinda

Eddie Vedders shirt last night was the old LA hardcore punk band FEAR from the 80's. As a guy that grew up on hardcore and punk, the fact that he was wearing a shirt of a great and yet very obscure band outside of hardcore circles put a massive smile on my face.

I love PJ more and more every single day. My poster from the show is already framed and on the wall haha

Steve

Kat

Can the people debating whether or not they're entitled to have an opinion please take it to another thread so this thread can be for Fanviews? Thank you.

Admin

facepollution

Kat wrote:

Can the people debating whether or not they're entitled to have an opinion please take it to another thread so this thread can be for Fanviews? Thank you.

Admin

Apologies, I'll hush up now.......and maybe try and work out how the hell to post my EV pic in a size where people can actually tell who it is......

grazman

unthought_known wrote:

grazman wrote:

Wow! what an amazing show. Didnt know i was going until Sunday night (thanks for the ticket Paul) and was well worth it. Great setlist, crowd were squeezing me into the front barriers all night, lost abit of weight and nearly all the water in my body but was superb! Even met Stone, Boom and Mr Vedder after the show which made it even more amazing and got them to sign a picture. Great guys. Other than that the only complaint was the Wimpy burger with 15 chips i ate on the way to London which cost £6, and a stupid ozzie bird who kept elbowing me all night (its okay, she fainted during the 1st encore and was ejected).

what sort of time did the guys come out then?

Well, we hung around till about 1.30am i think, missed Mike, Matt and Jeff as we were standing at the wrong end of the alley where the stage door was so were made a quick run round the back of the building and lo and behold Mr Gossard makes an appearance, then boom and finally the Eddie. Some pics of them below, got Stone and Booms autograph and shook Eddie's hand and said 'hi Ed' in a trembling voice. Great guys.

facepollution

Woah, awesome pictures, I'm very jealous!

JordyWordy

eddie was the only one who came up to the barrier at the far end. very cool of him. Boom gave us a wave when we called him. we stayed at that end purely out of stubborness, hoping that eddie would come over if he knew there were people there, and sure enough he did.....legend.

facepollution

Just saw that Tenclub got my video of The End taken down from Youtube, didn't occur to me that they wouldn't want it out there, I guess it's because it's new? :?

Wow, I am in the bad books with 10c today :oops:

bobby dazzlers

so happy that boom is on tour!!!

Mindless Drifter

EDDIE GAVE MY MOM A PLEC SHE WAS ON THE FRONT BAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

redrock

facepollution wrote:

Just saw that Tenclub got my video of The End taken down from Youtube, didn't occur to me that they wouldn't want it out there, I guess it's because it's new? :?

Wow, I am in the bad books with 10c today :oops:

Tut, tut... naughty, naughty boy!