Craziest Thing You've Done To Go To A PJ Show

weremin23

With the new tour approaching, and crunch time for finals approaching at the same time, this brings an interesting question to mind. What's the craziest thing you fellow Jammers have done in order to attend a show?

Personally, 2 years ago for MSG, I went to the show the night before my Physics Regents. (This was after crunching out an english final in 45 minutes (should have taken 3 hours) in order to get to the Garden on time) Had a blast at the show, got home at 230, got maybe 40 minutes of sleep and got a wonderful 37 on the Physics Regents. (Probably more along the lines of me being a dumbass when it comes to math, then the after effects of the show, but I digress) Would do it all over again the same way.

Have a similar situation this year. I already finagled a way to take a final early so I could go to St. Louis, but I think I just figured out a way to go to Columbus and still make it back to New York in time for an 8 AM final Friday morning.

So what are some crazy things you people have done?

bry321f11

Night 2 at MSG two years ago...Maybe even the same show as you. I went to the show knowing I had training the next morning I could not miss. So I said no big deal, I would drive home and be home by 2 or 3 at latest. What I didnt realize is that construction happenes in the city during the middle of the night. Suffice to say, I didnt get home until 6 am. Training was at 9. Most miserable day of my life, but I did dream about the show every time I dozed off!!!

DewieCox

Decided to drive to Boston 2 08 5 days before the show, from IL. Even had time for a few stops on the way. RocknRoll HoF and Niagara.

neilybabes86

flew to chicago for lolla sunday morning ...flew back to ny sunday night

BrianM

October 2nd, 1996
Dodge Music Center
Hartford, Connecticut

Got into a car accident on the way down there,. Raining pretty hard. Borrowed my Dad's car for the show.
The right side side of the car was pretty banged up with my bumper hanging for dear life. Me and 3 of my friends were pretty bummed out until we got the idea to take the laces from the sneakers I had in the trunk and tie up the front bumper so it would drag on the ground. I couldn't really take any right turns the rest of the way cause the bumper was hitting my tire., but managed to take lefts the entire way and got to the concert right on time.

Thank you to the other dudes after the show who helped me just rip the bumper entirely off with some tools.

rick1zoo2

October 31, 2009 - Took my son trick or treating until 6:30, got on the road and raced the 70 miles to Phila. fearing a traffic gridlock from the World Series Game being played right next to the Spectrum. Luckily, traffic and parking were not that bad, made it in plenty of time.

cippociappo

I was in Philly 10/30 even if I had to run the NYC marathon two days after...

...wow, the concert took its toll during the run, but I would do it again.

..and againn, and again, and again....

release23420

senior yr of high school missed the like first weak due to 2000 tour

Hinn

Walking up and down the main strip of central Manchester, with the Northerners not exactly known to take kindly to idiot clowns, with that bee/convict suit on, decked out from head to toe, for a whole day.

How I didn't get beat up I do not know.

Or, after Vancouver last year, flying back to London via DFW to do a job interview and allow mother to visit, then getting my arse back over to pond again to Philly to finish off the tour.

tkepearljamn

Scheduled a doctors appointment as a sophomore in high school next to the venue. Then skipped the appointment to get ten club seats. Scored second row. You can see me during given to fly on TB2K. I am the tall kid not looking at the stage with spiked blue hair.

SpinTheBlackO

killed a man

Ando

decided the day before philly 3 that i needed to hop a plain from Salt Lake City to catch the last two concerts. Met a Ten clubber on the forum and sharred a room and taxis with him (im a dude) to save money. Worked out really well!

.lovethepj.

My wife and I were planning a big move...from Southern California to Colorado. We pretty much had all the plans set. Movers were scheduled, work, everything. Then Pearl Jam had to announce a tour. We postponed our moving plans a couple of weeks and saw 5 Pearl Jam shows in and around Southern California. That is one thing that I REALLY miss. I would always get to see the boys about 4 times (LA, Vegas, San Diego, Santa Barbara) when living in Cali. Now I have to travel to go see them. I'm not complaining though. It's nice to still get to see them in new cities that I've never been to!

Since moving here, I'll have seen them in Seattle, Kansas City, and Cleveland!

BinauralJam

i'm gona stop drinking for 7 weeks, one week down.

mensane

it was for Benaroya Hall.
at the time, i was living in Salt Lake City. i wasnt able to get a ticket through the ticketmaster sale, but i still wanted to try.
it was too much $$$ to fly directly from SLC to SEA, but I got a cheap ticket on Southwest from Reno to Seattle. So, I took the greyhound bus over night from Salt Lake City to Reno (took about 7 hours). walked from the bus station in downtown Reno to the Harrah's casino and used their airport shuttle to get to the airport. Flew to Seattle. Luckily I had friends that had already got in line at Benaroya. About 5 minutes before the show started, they released tickets and I was able to buy one. I ran into the lobby and heard the band starting right as i was finding my seat.
Great Show.

also, in 2000, I was living in North Carolina and got a job at Delta just so I could fly for free to Seattle for the Key Arena shows. you had to be employeed for 3 months before the flight benefits would kick in and my background check was taking awhile. luckily, it went through on the next to the last day before my hire date would be less than 3 months before the shows.

Wobbie

release23420 wrote:

senior yr of high school missed the like first weak due to 2000 tour

Looks like you might have skipped more than one "weak."

mickeyrat

spintheblackO wrote:

killed a man

was that in Reno?

pjheasds8

I appear crazy(in front of my wife) every time I am trying to get tickets!

Wobbie

mickeyrat wrote:

spintheblackO wrote:

killed a man

was that in Reno?

just to watch him die.

mickeyrat

imalive wrote:

mickeyrat wrote:

spintheblackO wrote:

killed a man

was that in Reno?

just to watch him die.

no no. took his ten C #!!!!

URthekey

In June of '95 my friend Stacey and I hitchiked from NY to CO to go to Red Rocks. Took 4 days and we had to ride for 10hrs with some guys who were heading to a Rainbow Family gathering but we made it to the show. That was one sick ass trip.

My friend was getting married so I got 6 girls together in a minivan to go to the Randalls Island show in '96.
We used the show as her 'bacholette party' and had crazy times finding male dancers in the parking lot who were willing to entertain us.

In 2005 I flew from NY to Halifax, then took a hellacious ferry to Newfoundland, only to find it was still an 11 hr drive to St.Johns. I brought my niece, who was supposed to watch my 7week old daughter while I went to the shows. She was 20 and the drinking age in Canada is 19 so on the night off btwn shows she goes out and gets alcohol poisining and is too fuckin sick and hung over to watch my kid and I had to miss the 2nd night in St. Johns. I couldn't even sell my tickets after standing out in the rain in front of the venue for an hour and finally found a passerby to give them away to for free. So I traveled over 2000 miles and had to eat tickets too.
That's crazy shit.