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The complaining on this board is getting way out of control

JamilyManJamilyMan Posts: 240
edited February 2008 in The Porch
No matter what the band does or what decisions are made, people will find reason to complain. To me, it is getting old very quickly.

I understand that there is a need to feel validated in your frustration, and this board is a place to hopefully find like-minded people to commiserate with... but it seems that whatever decisions are made, people complain.

At the end of the day, Pearl Jam is a rock band AND a business. They make business decisions that they feel make the best business sense. That means doing things that won't alienate the fanbase, and also doing things to help promote growth. While we won't love all decisions they make and several will be unpopular, please know that there are factors that drive decisions that may not be immediately known to the fans (or ever known to the fans).

Perhaps the no cameras and recording of the shows is because they are releasing official CDs and/or DVDs and they want it to be released with their artisitc vision in mind (read they want to make coin on it, as well).

I guess what I am saying is that at the end of the day I am seeing a lot of complaining about something that we are all supposedly very fond of. Perhaps we can start one thread called COMPLAINTS, and we can use that thread to vent in... and the rest of the board can be less toxic.
For those who scoff at "Jamily" in my name... 9 years ago, when my first daughter was born there were jokes about whether my priority would be my family or PJ. I smiled and quipped "I am a JamilyMan." What was a family joke became a hated term among jammers. Didn't see that one coming!
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    dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    you are complaining about complaints? do you see the irony!!! :D

    also your username has the word Jamily in it... ergo i'm outta this thread :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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    IndifferenceIndifference Posts: 2,640
    Another thread!!!!


    Jamily -eeewwww

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    LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    We are the hands that feeds them.

    BTW, I didn't become a forum addict until last year.
    When was the birth of the term "Jamily" and who created it?
    Also when did it become fashionable to hate the term?
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    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i need to avoid the Porch for awhile. Pearl Jam fans kinda get on my nerves. heheh
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    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    LongRd. wrote:
    We are the hands that feeds them.

    BTW, I didn't become a forum addict until last year.
    When was the birth of the term "Jamily" and who created it?
    Also when did it become fashionable to hate the term?


    i started hating the term 'jamily' sometime around the first time i ever heard it. Surely there is a better name. Jammer? Vedhead?
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    LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    MrSmith wrote:
    i started hating the term 'jamily' sometime around the first time i ever heard it. Surely there is a better name. Jammer? Vedhead?
    I've always thought it was "Jammer"
    thumbs down for Vedhead...that's something a groupie would say.
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    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    LongRd. wrote:
    I've always thought it was "Jammer"
    thumbs down for Vedhead...that's something a groupie would say.

    i can agree with that
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    upina2001upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    LongRd. wrote:
    I've always thought it was "Jammer"
    thumbs down for Vedhead...that's something a groupie would say.


    I woke up this morning with vedhead. took me forever to comb it. :D

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    guertin32guertin32 Posts: 205
    Could be worse... could be snowing... (shit! it is...)
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    pjtaperpjtaper Posts: 3,020
    I think the amount of threads about the amount of complaining on this board getting out of control is getting out of control
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    Mrs.Vedder78Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    upina2001 wrote:
    I woke up this morning with vedhead. took me forever to comb it. :D


    LOL! :D


    This thread is complaining about the complaining.... its always like that... it's ticket season ya'll!!!! Tickets always seems to bring out the best in people... it'll calm down once there is nothing going on sale, no tickets no posters or limited edition stuff... this is not outta the norm :D
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    GmoneyGmoney Posts: 1,618
    Yield Rules
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
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    pjtaperpjtaper Posts: 3,020
    Mrs_Vedder78 wrote:
    LOL! :D


    This thread is complaining about the complaining.... its always like that... it's ticket season ya'll!!!! Tickets always seems to bring out the best in people... it'll calm down once there is nothing going on sale, no tickets no posters or limited edition stuff... this is not outta the norm :D
    Bring on Klausen's Dusseldorf!!!(but please not during the Ed Solo Tix sale)
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    upina2001upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    Gmoney wrote:
    Yield Rules


    best album ever!!!! woo-hoo!!!

    lets turn this into another "YIELD IS THE GREATEST" thread :D

    and stop complaining....(bunch of bitches....)

    i dont get the luxury of going to any shows this year, and Im not bitchin'.
    Who doesnt wish that PJ or Ed would come closer to their house??

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    pjtaperpjtaper Posts: 3,020
    anyone ever try tempeh bacon? That shit is REALLY good!
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    upina2001upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    pjtaper wrote:
    anyone ever try tempeh bacon? That shit is REALLY good!

    NO but i saw my buddy put his finger up a sheep's ass!!! :D

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    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    Ten rules
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    LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Ten is rocked. So does Vs., No Code & Yield.
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