Pearl Jam vs DMB no comparison

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  • TheGossman
    TheGossman Posts: 1,120
    And to the original poster, I think seeing PJ playing an outdoor stadium would be boring as well, that would be horrible. The only band I'd ever go see in a baseball/football stadium is prob metallica, because they'd have the best stage show/presence for that type of show. DMB needs to stick to arenas and amphitheaters.
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,292
    Newch91 wrote:
    To me, he's a ripoff of the Doobie Brothers and Bruce Springsteen.

    i would love to hear why you say this
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    I attended both nights, section 126, and happened to think both shows were really really great. Saturday's show made 5 DMB shows for me, and the crowd may have not been the most high energy I've ever seen (at least night 1), but there sure as hell were a lot of people really into it. Waaaay less douchy folks than I've experienced at the previous DMB shows I've seen (PJ fans kick DMB fans asses, gotta say!), and pretty much everyone around me seemed to be having a great, great time and behaving.
    But really, two different bands, different shows, different styles of touring--again, it's all just different! But having said that, there is NOTHING that is like a PJ show :)
    And, back to DMB for a second, as a little side note: as someone who happens to really like DMB, it was really freaking cool to be able to shake Dave's hand before night 1. Right place, right time- gotta love it!
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  • ScottandPearlJam
    ScottandPearlJam Posts: 1,126
    Just to kinda clear my original post I am not bashing....but I expected more. Thats the problem with PJ the bar is set so friggin high that everything else falls short..........everything.

    scott
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    one attracts hot babes to every show
    one attracts a sausage fest with a few hot babes to ever show


    one is a jam band
    one is in the top 20 bands of all time

    one actually tours
    one just tours for 2 weeks and calls it a tour
    TheGossman wrote:
    Say what you want about them, while yes I agree PJ is a better live band, I think DMB treats their fans better. When they tour, they play everywhere, not just hot spots, Amazing musicians as well, and Dave is a very unique guitarist. Pearl Jam blows them away live, no question, and has a much better fanbase, but I just wish they would actually do a full tour when an album comes out.
    very honest and well said

    to bad this post will get bashed by "hardcore" pj fans :roll: :lol::lol:
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,368
    edited July 2010
    VinylGirl wrote:
    A little bitter are we? if you wanted to see PJ that badly, you would have taken a road trip or 2, like the rest of us, to see them. PJ are way more powerful live than DMB. Plus they know how to grab an audience by changing up the setlist according to the feel of the crowd. chag
    bootlegger10 wrote:
    Well, they are not that comparable since DMB is a touring band while Pearl Jam is a play at their convenience band. DMB actually tours so of course they will have more dud shows than Pearl Jam. It is easy for Pearl Jam to keep the energy up when they "tour" for three weeks and then need a year break to get over "road life".

    Sorry, I live in Indiana and could have seen DMB at my hometown like 15 times compared to two Pearl Jam opportunities.


    I've seen Pearl Jam 44 times since 2003. I know how to do a roadtrip.

    Pearl Jam has to change up their setlists to stay relevant.
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  • SW36403
    SW36403 Posts: 43
    I just think I've "out grown" DMB.
    But I will mever out grow Pearl Jam.
    "The waiting drove me mad"
  • SW36403
    SW36403 Posts: 43
    Of course - I'll never spell check either... but that's another story
    "The waiting drove me mad"
  • NHiding
    NHiding Posts: 1,911
    His voice reminds me of Rosie the maid from the Jetsons
  • Mac Dog
    Mac Dog Posts: 79
    Have been to around 30 PJ shows, 40 Springsteen shows and 25 DMB shows.

    All very different but all are considered great live performers in their own rights....

    The one factor that is often the common denominator as to whether a show is great or not....

    THE VENUE.

    The smaller the venue, usually, the better the show..... and let's face it, DMB tunes aren't really compatible with the 50,000 seat stadium experience. Shouldn't have been playing a venue like that to begin with.
  • UKpearljammer
    UKpearljammer Bath, UK Posts: 910
    I'm from the UK and I've tried to get into the DMB, I’ve got the album ‘These Crowded Streets?’ I think!! A friend of mine is a fan so and has played me some live stuff and some of their other albums, their version of All Along The Watchtower is pretty cool and there’s no doubt of their musicianship but I just can’t get into them, they just bore me. Compare his voice to Ed’s, well there’s no comparison Ed for my money blows Dave Matthews away. I always think it’s funny how they’re so big in North America but the rest of the world has largely ignored them.
    My PJ shows:
    London 28/10/96, Las Vegas 11/7/98, London 29/5/00, Nurnburg 11/6/00, Prague 14/6/00, Salzburg 18/6/00, Verona 20/6/00, Milan 22/6/00, Zurich 23/6/00, New York 8-9/7/03, Boston 11/7/03, Reading Festival 27/8/06, Shepards Bush 11/8/09, Berlin 15/8/09, Manchester 17/8/09, London 18/8/09, Dublin 22/6/10, Belfast 23/6/10, London (HRC) 25/6/10, Alpine Valley (PJ20) 3-4/9/11, Manchester 20-21/6/12, Leeds 8/7/14, Milton Keynes 11/7/14 To be continued....
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    big whiskey is what finally got me into DMB after all these years.

    big whiskey > backspacer in my opinion.

    pearl jam is a band i will spend anything to go see... DMB has a price cap. i tried getting tickets at citifield, but tickets were outside of the cap.
  • MisterEtake2
    MisterEtake2 Posts: 410
    ScottandPearlJam wrote:
    I know this has been done before but who cares....
    Lastnight my GF got tix to see DMB at Citi Field in NY WHAT A LETDOWN.

    Lets set the stage..........Brand new CITI FILED home of the mets....(Pretty funny everyone was channting "let go yankees") anyway
    Citi Field 40-50,000 fans DMB one of the greatest band.....this place is gonna rock.........then
    BLAH 2 hours of nothingness. Hey, I like the DMB just like the next person.....I know more then the hits but is was boring has hell. A soldout stadium it only came alive for 2-3 songs it was horrible. Tons of people just talking the enitre show...almost like they didn't care. I was letdown I thought this place was gonna rock I was excited. Yea there were a few fans dancing singing.....but not in mass like PJ. I'll say it again we are friggin spoiled as PJ fans we complain about them sometimes.....but we are truly in the ELITE CLUB it comes to pj.
    On a side note I did see a PJ SHIRT AND HAT on different people I even took pics of them.
    Anyway....

    Scott


    You can't really compare an arena show to a baseball stadium show. Most of the crowd is much too far away to really get into it. Go to a DMB show at the Garden sometime and you will probably come away with a different opinion. Nothing is going to top Pearl Jam, but DMB puts on damn good show. Two Step was amazing!
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,832
    I saw DMB at Bethel Woods last week. They sounded great and tore it up musically, but I really had to compete with a lot of background noise to actually HEAR the band play-- there really were so many people just hanging out talking with each other and using the music as more of a background experience. It may also have had to do with where I was sitting and the acoustics of the venue, since I also went to Sanatana this past weekend, and sat way off to the side versus dead center for DMB, and I could hear the band so much better.

    But yes, there's nothing like being at Pearl Jam and having every person in the venue completely into what the band is doing at all times.
  • Drop1The0Leash
    Drop1The0Leash Posts: 954
    shiningstar wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    To me, he's a ripoff of the Doobie Brothers and Bruce Springsteen.

    i would love to hear why you say this

    +1

    The Doobie Brothers? :wtf: I don't see it at all
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  • ScottandPearlJam
    ScottandPearlJam Posts: 1,126
    MisterEtake2 wrote:
    ScottandPearlJam wrote:
    I know this has been done before but who cares....
    Lastnight my GF got tix to see DMB at Citi Field in NY WHAT A LETDOWN.

    Lets set the stage..........Brand new CITI FILED home of the mets....(Pretty funny everyone was channting "let go yankees") anyway
    Citi Field 40-50,000 fans DMB one of the greatest band.....this place is gonna rock.........then
    BLAH 2 hours of nothingness. Hey, I like the DMB just like the next person.....I know more then the hits but is was boring has hell. A soldout stadium it only came alive for 2-3 songs it was horrible. Tons of people just talking the enitre show...almost like they didn't care. I was letdown I thought this place was gonna rock I was excited. Yea there were a few fans dancing singing.....but not in mass like PJ. I'll say it again we are friggin spoiled as PJ fans we complain about them sometimes.....but we are truly in the ELITE CLUB it comes to pj.
    On a side note I did see a PJ SHIRT AND HAT on different people I even took pics of them.
    Anyway....

    Scott


    You can't really compare an arena show to a baseball stadium show. Most of the crowd is much too far away to really get into it. Go to a DMB show at the Garden sometime and you will probably come away with a different opinion. Nothing is going to top Pearl Jam, but DMB puts on damn good show. Two Step was amazing!

    Maybe thats it IDK I just figuered DMB at CITI FIELD place was going to erupt but just a massive dud.

    scott
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  • MisterEtake2
    MisterEtake2 Posts: 410
    Drop1The0Leash wrote:
    shiningstar wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    To me, he's a ripoff of the Doobie Brothers and Bruce Springsteen.

    i would love to hear why you say this

    +1

    The Doobie Brothers? :wtf: I don't see it at all


    Before these Cowded Streets...Takin it to the Streets....it's so obvious.

    Bruce Springsteen? An even worse comparison.
  • Drop1The0Leash
    Drop1The0Leash Posts: 954
    MisterEtake2 wrote:
    Drop1The0Leash wrote:

    +1

    The Doobie Brothers? :wtf: I don't see it at all


    Before these Cowded Streets...Takin it to the Streets....it's so obvious.

    Ah now its all making sense :lol: I guess Dave's voice is a bit like Michael McDonald
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  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    I saw DMB at IZOD in NJ in 2009. Awesome show. Crowd was great, energetic, loud. It has been my only DMB concert so I didnt really know anything but the hit songs... (Free ticket)

    I think the open air of the baseball stadium contributed towards the low crowd energy feel.
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  • Electric_Delta
    Electric_Delta Posts: 977
    I've seen DMB three times, the latest was at Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA on July 9th. I was so disappointed. It was totally boring. No crowd engagement. When I had previously seen them, they were excellent.
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