Ten club pairs at the shows- observation

hollyster70

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

hollyster70 wrote:

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

You know what's a good show? POISON! The music is horrible but there are a lot of hot women in their 40's at their shows. Pearl Jam is a sausage-fest....but nothing like Rage Against The Machine. Rage shows were 95% guys and 5% girls....and those girls could totally kick my ass if they wanted to you.

Holy crap...did I perhaps talk to you in parking lot D pre show? The Def Leppard guy?

lol, no that wasn't me. my feelings on Del Leppard can be summed up with the end of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZbdIQLsEpU

The guy i met in the lot was trying to convince my friend & I that we were mistakenly at a Def Leppard show...Poison was the opening act. It could be possible that the smell coming from our car made him think we were easy marks. We got a GOOOOOOD laugh out of it.

81

Evergreen85024 wrote:

81 wrote:

because guys will go to a concert with a buddy. chicks are needy and need a guy to take them.

and when was the last time you saw a girl go solo to a show??? never? yet guys go solo all the time. why, cause we got some.....balls.

Oh, no, you did not really just say that outloud.

pft!

I only go to concerts with my girlfriends and leave the guy at home...whatever.

oh i did.

yes there are exceptions, but you know those are the rules.

P-Town-P-Jam-Fan

mrswhatsit

81 wrote:

because guys will go to a concert with a buddy. chicks are needy and need a guy to take them.

and when was the last time you saw a girl go solo to a show??? never? yet guys go solo all the time. why, cause we got some.....balls.

Lighten up, Francis. I attended half the 2000 tour shows on my own.

supersonicyears

81 wrote:

because guys will go to a concert with a buddy. chicks are needy and need a guy to take them.

and when was the last time you saw a girl go solo to a show??? never? yet guys go solo all the time. why, cause we got some.....balls.

That is not true. I go to shows by myself. I prefer it. I can go wherever I want at the show more easily than when I'm with someone. I've seen other girls at shows by themselves too.
I have been told I have some balls though.

One Song Glory

Well I'm flying solo to Philly for 2 shows to celebrate my 21st birthday! I am meeting up with another girl I know for the Halloween show but I'm going with a stranger from the board to the 30th. I have no problem with it.

I'd never been to a show completely by myself until this summer, and I went to 7 Ottawa Bluesfest shows by myself because none of my friends would shell out the money for 9 out of 12 nights!

Corey Lynn

I always go to shows with my best friend. We are both girls. To prove your point...we were walking down the street from the United Center after night 1 and noone could get a cab. Then a cab stopped for us and we got in. The cabbie said "I picked you girls out of all of those guys"...he was not a murderer or rapist and we made it back to the Hyatt.

JLF78

I went with my husband to Chicago N1, and one of my best girl friends from college to N2. I will admit that for N2, my friend and I spent the entire Bad Religion set chatting it up outside of the entrance to our section. What can I say? I only see her a few times a year! Oh, and if the two guys from Boston that we shared a cab w/ after the show happen to read this, I hope you had a great time at Rush & Division and made it home safely!

LiteTheMatch

No offense, but it is common for me to hear females talking during concerts.. Of course, there are always the drunk males as well... I like to be around people who do not need to talk during concerts.


oh and by the way, i go to Pearl Jam concerts with my sister cuz she's a huge fan

Fifthelement

I have always been comfortable doing things by myself even as a child. I have absolutely no problem going to a show alone, let alone anything else, i.e. movies, dinner, etc. Thankfully that has paid off and I see it as one of the benefits of being married to someone in the armed forces. Why should I sit at home alone for six months or more when I can go out and see and do what I want by myself?

Personally, I believe that people who are afraid of doing or seeing something that they really like just because they are alone probably don't really enjoy their own company and that is sad :? :(

icemanap

81 wrote:

because guys will go to a concert with a buddy. chicks are needy and need a guy to take them.

and when was the last time you saw a girl go solo to a show??? never? yet guys go solo all the time. why, cause we got some.....balls.

Speaking of that...

Did you hear what the mother of South African athlete Caster Semenaya, the woman's new 800m world champion has expressed her outrage at her daughter having to undergo a gender test. She said "this is a real kick in the bollocks to my daughter..."

Sorry.....

Evergreen

mauichick wrote:

mikep wrote:

haha i've noticed this phenomenon as well. lots of saaagages. lol. It was like that too at teh EV shows which i remember someone mentioned once as a real testement to eddie's ability to connect with people b/c lots of guys would be scared of tender love songs and that sort of thing. but ya. it's a neet maybe sociological thing. dunno. but it's all good, except for meeting lots of single girls. lol.

mike

Behold the power of the man crush

I like seeing the man crush every now and again. :evil:

Backspacer_Backer

this is an interesting topic...it seems like anytime i meet a woman and she finds out i'm a pearl jam fan, so many tell me they're big fans too. then i ask how many shows they've been to or if they've ever seen the band live and they say no.

so is it that they are posing as fans to sound like they are cooler than they actually are, or are women generally just not as likely to go to this type of rock show?

and, as for pearl jam specifically, do women generally have the intellectual capacity to appreciate EV's genius?

my wife is a college grad and very smart in many ways, but her idea of good rock music is Bon Jovi. when i ask her why she says it's because BJ's songs are simple to understand and "he doesn't scream like EV".

polaris_x

pj is a frat boy band ... whether one likes that or not - it's the reality ...

Backspacer_Backer

polaris_x wrote:

pj is a frat boy band ... whether one likes that or not - it's the reality ...

i disagree 100%. most of the guys in my frat didn't even like PJ.

Gonzo1977

You think Pearl Jam concerts are sausage fests...You should see a WHO concert!!!

Seriously!!There's not a woman within a hundred and fifty yards of the venue...It's pretty scary.

I don't really know how to explain it.

The WHO sang from the perspective of angry teenage boys quite a bit -Quadrophenia, I Can't Explain, ect ect-so it's understandable that there audience would comprise more of guys than girls.

Pearl Jam on the otherhand has always confused me. I think despite the fact that much of their music lends itself to the prespective of both guys and girls, I tend to think that somehow they remain cursed by the image of "Grunge" music.

"Grunge" like Punk before it, was seen mostly as an agressive angry scene for a bunch dudes to get pissed drunk, jump around, mosh, and beat the shit out of eachother...It looked scary, and it probably scared alot of the girls away.

Afterall, I don't recall there being many girls in the audience at Black Flag shows either.

Who knows...It's possible that this kindler, gentler, poppier approach will bring more ladies to Pearl Jam shows.

I've always felt that Pearl Jam has been unfairly represented by the small portion of meatheads, fratboys, and amateur drinkers who ruin the vibe of Pearl Jam shows because they came to hear "Even Flow" and drink themselves sloppy.

I'd be more than happy to see these jock assholes vanished forever from Pearl Jam shows.

It would make more room for the ladies who just want to dance, sing, and listen to good tunes.

More Women always means more fun

See you out there.

Brain Of Jeremy

polaris_x wrote:

pj is a frat boy band ... whether one likes that or not - it's the reality ...

Hmmm, I have seen truth to this over the years but I think it has died down more recently.

The worst case of this I witnessed personally was at Vegas 03, bunch of frat guys were running around all wearing the same self made t-shirt.

At the show they were doing the whole "drunk frat boy at a show" routine. However, when Ed started to trash Bush; they started to boo and get all rowdy. To each his own, I have no problem with people voicing a different opinion but they started to get kind of obnoxious. Also, there Last Kiss sing along was worse then Ed's rendition that night (if you were there and remember, you know what I am talking about).

theboxerorthebag

oh please, I have gone solo to shows many times. I am taking a different female friend to each of the two nights that I am seeing the band in Seattle. But I do know what you mean about how there seems to be a lot more guys then women at PJ shows.

81 wrote:

because guys will go to a concert with a buddy. chicks are needy and need a guy to take them.

and when was the last time you saw a girl go solo to a show??? never? yet guys go solo all the time. why, cause we got some.....balls.

Lauri

LiteTheMatch wrote:

No offense, but it is common for me to hear females talking during concerts.. Of course, there are always the drunk males as well... I like to be around people who do not need to talk during concerts.


oh and by the way, i go to Pearl Jam concerts with my sister cuz she's a huge fan

The females you hear talking are probably the girlfriends the male fan club members insist on bringing along even though they could care less about pearl jam. Real fans wouldn't chit chat during the show (how could you even if you wanted to?). The two guys sitting infront of me the other night where clearly on E and they kept wanting to chit chat with everyone around them (not to mention hug and kiss them) they kept like tapping me on the shoulder to tell me stuff. They were guys...

polaris_x

Brain Of Jeremy wrote:

polaris_x wrote:

pj is a frat boy band ... whether one likes that or not - it's the reality ...

Hmmm, I have seen truth to this over the years but I think it has died down more recently.

The worst case of this I witnessed personally was at Vegas 03, bunch of frat guys were running around all wearing the same self made t-shirt.

At the show they were doing the whole "drunk frat boy at a show" routine. However, when Ed started to trash Bush; they started to boo and get all rowdy. To each his own, I have no problem with people voicing a different opinion but they started to get kind of obnoxious. Also, there Last Kiss sing along was worse then Ed's rendition that night (if you were there and remember, you know what I am talking about).

this is hilarious - cuz I WAS THERE ... the fucking line to pick up tickets was ridiculous ... they played hard and fast all night ... and it was cool seeing the wilson sisters up there ...