Has PJ ever made you cry?

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  • pj8
    pj8 Posts: 408
    Katyz wrote:
    They will if I don't get to see them in 2011!!! :shock:

    Yep, me too. It's been too long.
  • Liesl
    Liesl Posts: 64
    Present tense....Daughter...black... thumbing my way ....do you know what I love...hearing a Eddie after not really listening for a few days, it sort of feels like comming home..weird aye, have tried describing to my family.. they dont really get it, I understand probley sounds nutty....dont care....
  • Street Dream Films
    Street Dream Films Posts: 2
    A number of times a Pearl Jam song, usually playing serendipitously through the radio, has caught me off-guard, raised the bumps on my arm, and sometimes misted my eyes over. Such a time was in Mexico City some years ago now, I was making a film there and sort of hadn't quite started interviews - my Spanish wasn't so great - and to procrastinate I ended up in Starbucks to check my email. I found out then and there that the missing persons' search for a good friend of mine was finally over... they had finally found her remains... and so this meant that she was gone... Angel was really gone. We could all forget about hoping for the best.

    After hearing that news I wandered the markets of the city in a sort of depressed stupor, feeling sorry for myself I guess. I was all by myself that week, and it was my first time ever really experiencing the loss of somebody that close and I didn't really know how to cry right. But, in the midst of my walking through the maze of merchant stalls, mostly selling pirated music and movies and cheap electronic junk, I was listening to the very boisterous music blasting randomly and from everywhere (Latin America is soooo loud for that) and all of a sudden the noise all around me sort of died off, except for one boom-box, which played Yellow Ledbetter in perfect clarity. I choked. Somehow that had been arranged for me I think. The rest of the world continued to bustle and barter, but I stood there and let tears fall down.

    That movie is not finished yet. But in a scene demonstrating the madness of the market stalls I have snuck a few bars of Yellow Ledbetter in there to remind me of that day.

    Nice thread here, I don't know if I've told that story before. To think I never used to like Pearl Jam when I was younger. I could never hear the words. Then I not only could hear the words, but I could feel the emotions, and I think that language is far more important than English. Long live PJ.
    Michael Wood.
  • awang_vedder
    awang_vedder Jakarta, Indonesia Posts: 191
    cry?. yes sometimes.
    i love Man of Hour...(and also the movie Big Fish). the story are suit with my life. thanks Ed.
    - "I wish I was a messenger, and all the news was good" -
  • snezy7
    snezy7 Posts: 1
    Oh yes!!!
    That's why I love them. They touch my heart. I feel the songs. I get emotional. Sometimes sad emotional, sometimes happy emotional. Heineken Jammin festival 2010, I went alone, and for a miracle ended up in the front row, and I seemed to recognise her breath made me choke with emotion, made me want to sob, I was sooooo happy, I asked a unknown girl next to me if I could hug her, she understood and smiled, and I was HAPPY!
    makes much more sense to live in a present tense
  • drummer1
    drummer1 Posts: 314
    My first PJ concert last year...Columbus Ohio, they played Crazy Mary which I had heard a number of times on bootlegs. The crowd was insane and the energy was so thick you could touch it. "Mary rising up above it all", it really got me.

    Two days later we were in Cleveland Ohio for their show and I started crying when the lights went down...the excitment, the memory of the other show...

    I am pretty sure my dad got teary-eyed too.

    Thanks, Pearl Jam, for everything.

    XO
    COLUMBUS, OH 5.6.10
    CLEVELAND, OH 5.9.10
    E.V. DETROIT, MI 6.26.11
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  • drummer1
    drummer1 Posts: 314
    Liesl wrote:
    Present tense....Daughter...black... thumbing my way ....do you know what I love...hearing a Eddie after not really listening for a few days, it sort of feels like comming home..weird aye, have tried describing to my family.. they dont really get it, I understand probley sounds nutty....dont care....

    I know exactly what you mean...
    COLUMBUS, OH 5.6.10
    CLEVELAND, OH 5.9.10
    E.V. DETROIT, MI 6.26.11
    PJ20 ALPINE VALLEY, WI 9.3.11
    PJ20 ALPINE VALLEY, WI 9.4.11
  • TamaDrummer91
    TamaDrummer91 VA Posts: 1,294
    First PJ show was with my dad at Bonnaroo. Playing Release near the end of the set was a shock and caught me off guard. Where I was with him the "Dad can you see me now" line got to me. Yep, I cried.
    2008: Bonnaroo
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    2013: Charlottesville, Charlotte
    2014: Cincinnati
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  • MD168145
    MD168145 Posts: 2
    Yes,The End everytime i hear it.It just raises so much emotion.
  • dr0ptheleash
    dr0ptheleash Posts: 1,264
    Street Dream Films wrote:
    A number of times a Pearl Jam song, usually playing serendipitously through the radio, has caught me off-guard, raised the bumps on my arm, and sometimes misted my eyes over.

    I not only could hear the words, but I could feel the emotions, and I think that language is far more important than English. Long live PJ.

    Well said. I cried the first time I heard Come Back live. Eddie put so much emotion into it, and I felt like he knew exactly what I was going through at the time and played it just for me. :) Felt like a beautiful dream.
  • Maaz
    Maaz Nothern Germany Posts: 304
    Yeah, When they played Come Back in Berlin in 2010... I really cried my eyes red...it was the 10th Anniversary of Roskilde...
    Fuck The Pessimists!


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  • clashman
    clashman Posts: 320
    uff.
    during hard to imagine in new york 08, tears of joy.
    during come back (hartford or mansfield 08) first time that i could cry since my grandma left
    at the beginning of come back in berlin, had to sit down.
  • Brandy1964
    Brandy1964 Posts: 32
    In concert that are many...even Black after so many years..live its completely encompasing...most recently has to be The End...
    "BE SOUND..."
  • Mshill21
    Mshill21 Posts: 43
    I was having some rough times with the girl friend one weekend. Went to workout and during a one of my sets Come back came on and my eyes started to water. And when I saw black for the first time in concert.
  • bigmattk11
    bigmattk11 Posts: 284
    Mshill- So glad I was standing next to you that night.
    I got some if you need it.

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  • hockeygrrl
    hockeygrrl Posts: 141
    Truly more times than I can even count, but there are some moments that stick out.

    The first time I heard the cover of Last Kiss I was driving home from the funeral of someone I really cared about, I was in 12th grade at the time. I cried like a baby, and actually today, almost 12 years later, it had the same effect on me when I was driving to work. I cannot hear that song without thinking of my friend.

    Every single time I listen to The End I cry. I actually have a hard time listening to that song when I'm driving just because it's not safe to drive and blubber like a baby at the same time.

    My first time seeing Pearl Jam back in 2000 was a pretty emotional time. I probably cried at least 5 times during the show.

    Then just thinking of the impact Pearl Jam has had on me and on my life makes me tear up with happiness :D
    Isn't it great to be a fan of the best band ever??
    <b>One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain</b> <i>~Bob Marley</i>
  • LifeWasted.
    LifeWasted. Posts: 33
    Quite a few times for me.

    Black
    The End
    Release
    Save You

    And that's what I love about them.
    All five horizons revolved around her soul.
    As the earth to the sun.
  • jopetto75
    jopetto75 Posts: 397
    edited April 2011
    yea last tour columbus come back not cause the missing person /man it hit me hard i couldnt stop i guess everything that i had been going thru all came out. unplugged black that one gets me every time!
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    until next time......
  • MoonTurtle
    MoonTurtle Posts: 752
    Second time I heard Ten, Autumn 1991, Release made me cry. I still skip it sometimes so I won't cry!
    :cry: :oops:
  • jodiem
    jodiem Posts: 133
    Soooo many times.. it is the music and words that touch my soul and is the soundtrack to my life..

    Black - forever will
    Just Breathe -"stay with me.... lets just breathe" - I shed a tear at every Eddie's solo show when he performed this
    Come Back
    Nothingman
    Man of the Hour
    Light Years
    Nothingman
    Release
    Wishlist
    Betterman - particularly Eddies new solo version

    Also two that haven't been mentioned (I don't think anyway)
    Smile - "I miss you already"
    Garden - I got really choked up with the version PJ they played at Philly...
    1995: Perth
    2006: Sydney x 2
    2009: Philly, Sydney
    2013: San Diego, LA1 & 2, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Vancouver, Seattle

    EV Solo - Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney x 2

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