WICH ARE YOU FAVOURITE PJ YEARS

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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    1996 - Yield, my first shows
    2003 - Riot Act, the Mansfield experiment
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • CranMalReign
    CranMalReign Posts: 1,928
    I'm gonna start w/ 98... the year I re-discovered them. I lost interest with Vitalogy. Won Yield as a door prize at a community service club meeting in college and fell in love. My g/f got me tickets to the Pgh show for my birthday that year. Up to that point and after, I dug up everything I could find on them... found all this awesome new music, came across fantastic bootleg songs... it was a good time.

    Second place... that one's tougher... my passion has been rekindled this year with Backspacer after having faded a bit over the previous years... so I'll say 2009.
    • 98 Pgh
    • 00 Pgh
    • 03 Pgh|Philly|PSU|Camden 1+2|Hershey
    • 04 Boston 1|Reading
    • 05 Philly
    • 06 Camden 1+2|Pgh
    • 08 Camden 1+2|Hartford|Mansfield 2
    • 09 Philly 1 [EV]|Toronto|Spectrum 1-4
    • 10 Cleveland|Buffalo
    • 11 Philly [EV]|PJ20
    • 12 Philly
    • 13 London|Pgh|Buff|Philly 1+2|Balt
    • 14 Cincy|StL
    • 16 Philly 1+2|Philly 2 [TotD]
    • 18 Boston 1+2
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    2009- I appreciate them more each year :)
  • PASSION76
    PASSION76 Posts: 136
    Deep In The Ocean wrote:
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    TJJ76 wrote:
    92 - 2009 and everything inbetween!!

    Not much of a Mookie Blaylock fan I see

    :lol:

    Who's Mookie Blaylock...JK.
    I'm from Adelaide, AUSTRALIA and the first time i ever heard PJ was in Jan 92. I was watching a Saturday morning music video show and ALIVE came on and i've been a fan ever since.
    Looking back now what the US was experiencing in the middle of 91 didn't really hit our shores until early 92(or maybe i was just a bit slow).
    Thank god for technology or i would still be waiting for the release of Backspacer.
  • Smellyman
    Smellyman Asia Posts: 4,528
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    1996 - Yield, my first shows
    2003 - Riot Act, the Mansfield experiment

    1996=No Code
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    2000!!!!
  • CopTheRiotAct
    CopTheRiotAct Posts: 953
    2003 because of the new found energy and enthusiasm in the live shows.

    2009 great energy and positivity in the shows. their song catalog is the biggest and just about any song theyve ever written can be played live now.
    ...The Moon is Rollin' Round....
  • hollow bottle
    hollow bottle Posts: 183
    1998 was a fantastic year. The Yield tour was their best. For some reason, it seems like they are getting a little unorganized in their shows. I think it is great to have 2.5 to 3 hour shows, it demonstrates their appreciation for their fans. However, many of the long shows are roller coasters and a bit sloppy. I would love to see the band practice a specific setlist until it is mastered, sound and light engineers included, and play it somewhere to be released on Blu Ray.
    TDR
  • yield2me
    yield2me Posts: 1,291
    98 hands down
    “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.” - Frank Sinatra
  • cbbjr
    cbbjr Posts: 241
    That is like trying to pick your favorite child. I guess 96-98 (i.e. the release of No Code and Yield), when I went from a fan who thought they were my favorite band to becoming a lunatic fanatic.
    98-KC; 00-Indianapolis, StL, KC; 03-KC, DC; 04-DC; 06-Camden2, DC, Pittsburgh; 08-DC; 09-Chicago1, Spectrum3; 10-DC; 13-Baltimore; 16-Chicago1; 18-Seattle2; 22-NY; 23-St Paul1&2, Chicago1; 24-Chicago2, NY1, Baltimore
  • STT757
    STT757 Posts: 302
    '92-'94

    I didn't get to see them live then as they didn't play the East coast as much back then, and when they did getting tickets was impossible. The raw energy and emotion of the band was never any higher than this period, I have dozens upon dozens of bootlegs from this period. I've been collecting Pearl jam bootlegs for about 15 years now, and I would have given anything to have been at one of the '92-'94 shows. My first Pearl Jam show (9/29/96) was probably the closest I'll ever come. Not just because it was only two years removed but that Randall's Island show was the last of that era imo, the energy, the crowd, the overall experience that night is something I've never experienced again. I've been to eight additional Pearl Jam shows since 1996, Seattle night II 2000 was special. However Randall's Island '96 was an experience, I think the '92-'94 shows were also experiences.

    These assigned seating venues have nothing on open fields with tens of thousands of crazy fans just letting loose, the whole Spectrum and Garden thing seems pretty artificial in comparison.
    Randalls Island New York 9/29/96 - Oakland Coliseum Oakland California 11/15/97 - MSG New York New York 09/10/98 - Key Arena Seattle Washington 11/05/00, 11/06/00 - PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel New Jersey 7/14/03 - Tweeter Center Camden New Jersey 5/28/06, MSG New York New York 06/25/08, Spectrum Arena Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10/27/09
  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,932
    94-96
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    1993 and 1998 are the undisputed winners. case closed.

    kat--please lock this thread now.

    thank you.
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  • hollow bottle
    hollow bottle Posts: 183
    cbbjr wrote:
    That is like trying to pick your favorite child. I guess 96-98 (i.e. the release of No Code and Yield), when I went from a fan who thought they were my favorite band to becoming a lunatic fanatic.

    Me too. You read my mind.
    TDR
  • Hub.
    Hub. Posts: 1,991
    92-94, it was an awesome time.
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    now. backspacer rules.


    and live they sound amazing.
  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    92'...93'...and 03' :)
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    Deep In The Ocean wrote:
    Only one or two years max...... I MUST SAY 94 AND 96........FANTASTIC TIMES!!!!!


    ha ha wich :lol::lol::lol:

    my fave year(s) is/are 2009 and 2010
  • Deep In The Ocean
    Deep In The Ocean Posts: 196
    cbbjr wrote:
    That is like trying to pick your favorite child. I guess 96-98 (i.e. the release of No Code and Yield), when I went from a fan who thought they were my favorite band to becoming a lunatic fanatic.


    :lol:
    From Montevideo, Uruguay.
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,067
    2003 - 6 shows during the spring and summer - awesome times

    2009- Spectrum shows - 'nuff said

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