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Jeremys Spoken
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Well I was watching a show on my favorite baseball team, and they asked what's on the iPod's in the locker room..
Aaron Heilman replied "Anything by Pearl Jam." And Scot Schoenwise replied "Pearl Jam, definitely Pearl Jam."
Nice to see my Mets players are listening to good music. Too bad they both SUCK.
Aaron Heilman replied "Anything by Pearl Jam." And Scot Schoenwise replied "Pearl Jam, definitely Pearl Jam."
Nice to see my Mets players are listening to good music. Too bad they both SUCK.
2008 - MSG 6/24-6/25
2010 - Newark 5/18 MSG 5/21
2011 - PJ20 9/3-9/4
2012 - MIA Festival 9/2
2013 - Wrigley Field 7/19 Brooklyn 10/18-10/19 Philly 10/22
2015 - Colbert show - 9/23 Global Citizens Festival 9/26
2016 - Philly 4/28-4/29 MSG 5/1-5/2
2010 - Newark 5/18 MSG 5/21
2011 - PJ20 9/3-9/4
2012 - MIA Festival 9/2
2013 - Wrigley Field 7/19 Brooklyn 10/18-10/19 Philly 10/22
2015 - Colbert show - 9/23 Global Citizens Festival 9/26
2016 - Philly 4/28-4/29 MSG 5/1-5/2
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its cool they like PJ tho
2006: Camden 1&2, East Ruth 1&2
2008: BONNAROO, MSG1, MSG2, Hartford
2009: Philly 1, 2, 4
2010: Hartford, MSG1, MSG2
2012: Made in America
2013: BK1, BK2, Hartford
2015: Global Citizens
2016: MSG 2 (ISO MSG1)
EV Solo: NJPAC 2008; Tower Theatre, PA 2009; Hartford 2011
gets to me every time
Ibanez strikes a chord
01/03/2008 11:25 AM ET
By Doug Miller / MLB.com
Raul Ibanez is accustomed to kids in Mariners jerseys approaching him with that familiar look of nervous wonder, leaning from their Safeco Field seats to possibly get an autograph or at least a smile and wave of the hand.
And if anyone thinks Seattle's star outfielder can't identify with those wide-eyed youngsters, think again. Ibanez admits he feels the same way when he's in the presence of his rock n' roll heroes.
Through his baseball connections and his passion for music, Ibanez has met members of Guns N' Roses, Creed, and one of his favorite bands, Seattle's own Pearl Jam. He almost met Bono and The Edge from another one of his most beloved groups, U2. And when he was playing in Toronto against the Blue Jays one night, he couldn't help but notice the presence of another one of his rock heroes.
"I came close to meeting (Rush lead singer and bassist) Geddy Lee," Ibanez says. "He's one of my all-time musical idols and he was sitting in the stands. I was going to get him to sign my guitar, but the game went extra innings.
"He stayed for a while, but then he took off. Hopefully one day that will happen."
But as for the rock stars he has met, Ibanez has nothing but good things to say about Pearl Jam and its lead singer, Eddie Vedder.
"It's been really cool to meet and get to know those guys," Ibanez says. "I got their tape in late 1991, so I've always been a fan. And it's even better when you spend a little time around them and they're just great human beings. That for me is the ultimate. If you meet somebody like that that you really admire and respect and they're jerks, it deflates the balloon. So it's been great to meet these guys and not be disappointed."
As for his own musical journey, Ibanez says he'll continue work on his own guitar chops and possibly try out the piano. He says he's been playing guitar for the last five years, ever since he bought one "just because."
Ibanez says having an accomplished guitarist such as former teammate Dave Hansen around helped tremendously, and that former Mariners first baseman Ben Broussard, who has his own CD of original material, was a bonus during his brief time in Seattle.
"Those guys not only taught me songs, but they also taught me chord progressions and just kind of how to play," Ibanez. "Watching them do it makes it a lot easier for me."
Ibanez owns several Taylor acoustic guitars, including a 12-string, plus the requisite electric rock guitar, the Fender Stratocaster, plus a cherry red PRS Carlos Santana model. He says he's always had an ear for music, which isn't surprising considering his 101-year-old grandmother was a concert violinist who taught the instrument for years and his grandfather was a piano teacher.
"Even when I first picked up the guitar, I'd been able to match a note I heard with notes on the guitar," Ibanez says. "I didn't have the perfect pitch where I could say, 'Yeah, that's a D chord,' but I could fiddle around and find it."
These days, Ibanez says he'll take a small acoustic guitar with him on occasional road trips. As a result of impromptu hotel sessions with Hansen and Broussard, Ibanez says he's "gotten better and improvising and soloing, and not just that, but I've gotten better at timing and rhythm within the song and the right tempo."
Rhythm, timing and tempo are very familiar concepts to a guy known for a smooth left-handed swing in the batter's box, but when it comes to goals for the future, Ibanez says his current profession has taught him a lot when it comes to expectations with music.
"I'd like to improve steadily (at guitar), but the reason why the guitar has this allure for me is because the way that I view it and approach it is completely different from how I approach baseball," Ibanez says.
"That perfectionist side of me with the game of baseball is still going to apply, but with the guitar, I'm kind of able to suppress that part of me and really just improve at my own pace and figure that, 'Hey, I can't play this right now, but six months from now, I'll be able to play it, and if not that, than a year, and if not that, three years.'
"It's a steady progression, and I look at it like a lifelong endeavor. I'll just continually get better."
Found that, that's awesome.
2010 - Newark 5/18 MSG 5/21
2011 - PJ20 9/3-9/4
2012 - MIA Festival 9/2
2013 - Wrigley Field 7/19 Brooklyn 10/18-10/19 Philly 10/22
2015 - Colbert show - 9/23 Global Citizens Festival 9/26
2016 - Philly 4/28-4/29 MSG 5/1-5/2
2010 - Newark 5/18 MSG 5/21
2011 - PJ20 9/3-9/4
2012 - MIA Festival 9/2
2013 - Wrigley Field 7/19 Brooklyn 10/18-10/19 Philly 10/22
2015 - Colbert show - 9/23 Global Citizens Festival 9/26
2016 - Philly 4/28-4/29 MSG 5/1-5/2
Didn't know David Wright was a fan either. I'll be at a Mets game in about a week, so hopefully I'll hear some Pearl Jam prior to at bats.
I went to a Brewers game a couple years back and I remember Geoff Jenkins, in some between innings video, talking about how he always listens to Pearl Jam and Soundgarden on game days. Always made me like Jenkins, despite that awful looking beard.
-ed july 8th MSG 2004
5/25/06 - Boston
6/28/08 - Mansfield
6/30/08 - Mansfield
8/2/08 - Eddie in Boston (FRONT ROW!)
this could be a problem...
june 24 @ pittsburgh
june 25 @ pittsburgh
Anybody want Delgado ?
yeahhhh... doubt they can make the shows.
Schoenweis has been pretty good this year actually. About a 2.00 ERA.
Mansfield II '08
EV Solo Shows:
NYC I
NJPAC
I. LOVE. YIELD.
I agree! He and Jose Reyes are my favorite players!
Up here so high the sky I scrape...
I'm so high I hold just one breath here within my chest...
Just like my innocence...