Randalls Island 9/29/96

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  • aicbones1
    aicbones1 Posts: 6
    I was there too. This was my first, favorite and most memorable Pearl Jam show. What I heard and experienced that night just blew my 16 yr old mind away. Pearl Jam was amazing. Ben Harper was amazing. I was already going with a good friend of mine, but was able to score a couple of more tix and bring another good friend along after they rereleased a bunch because of some scam or something.
  • OutOfMyMind
    OutOfMyMind Posts: 47
    That was my first show as well. Just after my 21st b'day, and though I was a pretty big fan at the time, I was hooked for life after that. How could you not be after 3 /12 hours and 35 or so songs? I recently played this boot again, great, great show, amazing crowd, just a perfect night, one I'll always remember.
    Where do i go to soothe my head? Guess i'll turn on music instead.
  • yoke
    yoke Posts: 1,440
    xkevvx wrote:
    lol. How does this happen?


    honestly I have no clue. I assume that when I was surfing I kicked someone in the head with my DocMartins and pissed them off.. I can only assume that the tearing started then and by the time I left the "pit" (after Porch) I was soaked head to toe, missing a pant leg, had a big old bump on my head and still clutching my poster. Still the best show I was ever at.

    I can still hear Eddie yelling at us:)



    Oh and the first night was great also but for different reasons. The rain,Popper on stage it was just awesome. I had to have everyone I was with take their clothes and shoes off before getting into my girlfriends(now wife) car. She just got it that week and of course I was parked on the baseball field on 1st base. After the show it sunk about 1 foot into the mud.. haha goodtimes... like a 3/4 hour drive back to NJ cuz we got lost.
    Thats a lovely accent you have. New Jersey?

    www.seanbrady.net
  • spearhead
    spearhead Posts: 600
    This was my FIRST show also, the second night, when it DIDN'T pour rain.
    I was thinking that I was a fan of this band because I'd been listening to their frist two discs, but I'd never even heard them play live at all before ... this night changed my life.
    25 shows later and I am so hooked thatI can never imagine stopping now...
    I was alone and far away when I heard the band start playing!

    ...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,098
    my fav part of the 1st night when ed says the pussys in tampa would of left 1/2 hr ago as it continued to pour they just rocked and we just kept on rocking with them those two shows are my fav two show combo from any yr ...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • EPOTTSIII
    EPOTTSIII Posts: 190
    joint in a tree wrote:
    i get nothing on that site but spam crap?


    And i have the audio....looking for video clips.


    Sorry I meant http://www.pearljambootlegs.org ....... !
    9/29/1996 NY
    9/1&2/2000 Camden
    7/6/2003 Camden
    5/27/2006 Camden 6/1&3/2006 NJ
    6/19/2008 Camden, 6/22/2008 Washington DC, 6/25/2008 NY
    8/7/2008 Eddie Vedder NJ, 6/11/2008 Eddie Vedder Philly (3rd Row! Thanks 10c!!)
    10/28,30&31/2009 Philly
  • EPOTTSIII
    EPOTTSIII Posts: 190
    yoke wrote:
    honestly I have no clue. I assume that when I was surfing I kicked someone in the head with my DocMartins and pissed them off.. I can only assume that the tearing started then and by the time I left the "pit" (after Porch) I was soaked head to toe, missing a pant leg, had a big old bump on my head and still clutching my poster. Still the best show I was ever at.

    I can still hear Eddie yelling at us:)



    Oh and the first night was great also but for different reasons. The rain,Popper on stage it was just awesome. I had to have everyone I was with take their clothes and shoes off before getting into my girlfriends(now wife) car. She just got it that week and of course I was parked on the baseball field on 1st base. After the show it sunk about 1 foot into the mud.. haha goodtimes... like a 3/4 hour drive back to NJ cuz we got lost.


    I got lost with my girlfriend too for like 4 hrs back to jersey
    9/29/1996 NY
    9/1&2/2000 Camden
    7/6/2003 Camden
    5/27/2006 Camden 6/1&3/2006 NJ
    6/19/2008 Camden, 6/22/2008 Washington DC, 6/25/2008 NY
    8/7/2008 Eddie Vedder NJ, 6/11/2008 Eddie Vedder Philly (3rd Row! Thanks 10c!!)
    10/28,30&31/2009 Philly
  • joint in a tree
    joint in a tree Posts: 392
    So.......no one has a link or something to a video clip????
    "Find myself singing the same songs every day....
    ones that make me feel good when things behind the smile ain't ok...." -Hoon
  • Soybeans
    Soybeans Posts: 258
    I have a shitty boot of this show. It isn't great quailty, but sometimes I pop it in just to try to grab a piece of the energy of that night.

    PJ had not played a big gig in NY at all since Ten came out. The people were starved for a PJ show. They hit the stage and it was like the friggin Beatles came to town, but instead of corny teen chics screaming there heads off, it was a mosh pit of angry grunge kids. I was in that pit with you all. I could write a novel about that day/night.

    They've come close a bunch of times, but I have yet to see a better show.

    When Roskilde happened I remembered what happened at Randall's Island and thought how lucky we all are that no one was killed that night.
    90 shows and counting...some of my favs: Randall's Island night 2, Milwaukee '95 night 2, Hawaii '06, St Johns '05, PJ20!
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    i was there at the tender age of 14. me and like 7 of my buddies... we were crowd surfing like professionals. managed to stay clear of the pit though.

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