2008 The Slowest PJ year in 6 years. What's up?

GauchoB
GauchoB Posts: 224
edited April 2008 in The Porch
Anyone want to speculate? Lots of solo stuff abounds. 13 random dates and no album talk of any kind. No ...What's really going on here? Green River? Ed Solo? Band gone? Hiatus?
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  • Smellyman2
    Smellyman2 Posts: 689
    I think we are only 4 months into 08 and a 13 date tour sounds pretty good to me.

    I would say abosolutely nothing is wrong.
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Ed solo was a quick little number on both recording and touring wise.
    Green River is a one day thing.

    I think they're already got some new tracks ready for us in June. OK, not "some" maybe two or three new tunes.

    This band ain't goin' no where!
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • Bangers_n_mash
    Bangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    Wtf? How is this a slower year than 2007 or 2004?

    A solo Eddie tour with 13 dates. And a 13 date US tour.

    No new releases yet or anything but it's only April... New Stone record before the end of the year at least hopefully. :)
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  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,121
    This is not a Slow Year! A PJ Tour, Ed solo tour, Green River reunion, Stone solo album, plus hopefully a Brad tour and album- 08 is going to be a great year!
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  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    they have done a fair bit of touring in the last few years, they have families to think of! enough said!
    they have no album to promote, so be thankful that there is a tour!
    some bands wouldnt!
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

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  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    They're getting slower in terms of new music

    Ten - 1991
    Vs - 1993
    Vitalgy - 1994
    No Code - 1996
    Yield - 1998
    Binaural - 2000
    Riot Act - 2002



    Avacado - 2006








    Next record - ????
    'The more I studied religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.' - Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • Joostone
    Joostone Posts: 242
    It is most likely that the band is in the studio as we speak (they have been one month ago and could be there in the may month aswell), we might hear some new stuff on that 13-date tour (don't expect it, but who knows :) )

    They probably finish the record after the summer so they can release it late 2008/early 2009.

    Brad has finished their fourth disc and Stone is working on a new solo disc, but Pearl Jam always comes first.

    The band is always going somewhere doing something, they just don't communicate everything to the media. I only wish we had a new rumourpit with some Q&A.......
    PJ: Pinkpop 2000, Sydney I/II/III 2003, Adelaide 2003, Arnhem 2006, Antwerp 2006, Berlin 2006, Dusseldorf 2007, Nijmegen 2007, Werchter 2007, Rotterdam 2009, Berlin 2009, Nijmegen 2010, Amsterdam I/II 2012, Amsterdam I/II 2014, Amsterdam I/II 2018, Pinkpop 2018, Werchter 2018, Pinkpop 2022, Budapest 2022, Krakow 2022, Amsterdam 2022.
    EV: Amsterdam II 2012, Amsterdam I/III 2017, Amsterdam I 2019
    Brad: Zoetermeer & Utrecht 2013
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  • yielder
    yielder Posts: 160
    shitty post
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  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    Bangers'n'mash wrote:
    Wtf? How is this a slower year than 2007 or 2004?

    A solo Eddie tour with 13 dates. And a 13 date US tour.

    No new releases yet or anything but it's only April... New Stone record before the end of the year at least hopefully. :)


    whats next people crying about the number 13
    being too scary.

    I think 13 dates a year in the us would be great.As for the album they have announced a producer allready, I think usually on an album year they get together and rehearse for like 2 weeks before they write, I think this time they choose to play out, alas Ed prob wanted to send a clear measage after his solo gigs that the band was foremost in great shape after his solo tour. Usually they hide out before an album.
    Some people have religion I have Pearl Jam.


    no more shows
  • NeverbeenLedbetter
    NeverbeenLedbetter Posts: 213
    Cropduster84 wrote:
    They're getting slower in terms of new music

    Ten - 1991
    Vs - 1993
    Vitalgy - 1994
    No Code - 1996
    Yield - 1998
    Binaural - 2000
    Riot Act - 2002

    Avacado - 2006

    Next record - ????

    I think most artists crank them out when their young and easily pushed around by record labels and things are really fresh, between '02 and '06, LDs and RVM were released (necessary to end a contract), plus they changed labels. I do think they will be on a consistant 2.5 to 3.5 year in between albums for many reasons.
    Raleigh '03; Hartford '08; Mansfield II '08; Buffalo '10; Hartford '10;
    East Troy I '11; East Troy II '11; DeLuna Fest '12; Wrigley '13; Buffalo '13;
    Toronto II '16; Wrigley I '16; Wrigley II '16; Wrigley I '18; Wrigley II '18;
    Asbury Park '21; MSG '22; Camden '22
  • Gmoney
    Gmoney Posts: 1,618
    well they're all getting pretty old, they have families, they have money, they have other projects. All considered im just happy they're still a band.
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • flyinwhole313
    flyinwhole313 Posts: 1,651
    This may be the dumbest "I have nothing to post but I want to post something" instance to date in 2008.
  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,976
    are you nuts?

    there are tour dates, Mike has said that they you never know what can happen when asked about playing seattle this year. Ed has said that they are recording on one of his solo dates.

    in 07 they had 2 dates, which was really 1 with a fan club show.

    come on man...
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,167
    I am happy with what they are doing.
    They could have taken the summer off to write songs. But they are going out on the road.

    and who knows what vedder has up his sleeve for the fall? Maybe nothing, but maybe something BIG.
  • Mrs.Vedder78
    Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    Gmoney wrote:
    well they're all getting pretty old, they have families, they have money, they have other projects. All considered im just happy they're still a band.

    Absolutely!
    "Without the album covers, where do you clean your pot?" - EV
  • Travelar
    Travelar Posts: 3,443
    GauchoB wrote:
    Anyone want to speculate?

    Since most of them have pretty new additions to their family, and they haven't let up the past few years.... it makes pretty good sense to me.
  • violetpsyche
    violetpsyche Posts: 122
    One thing puzzles me and it's not this supposed inactivity of the band. The website doesn't appear to be updated very often anymore. I found out about the tour by chance, through Facebook. Forgive me if I am being blind and stupid, but it wasn't put up on the news page was it? Does anyone else find that odd?
  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    There was a tweet on the message board. Then I got a 10C email and the tour was put up in the news section.

    Pretty sure this is how it went down.
  • violetpsyche
    violetpsyche Posts: 122
    Aha, then my self-assessment was correct. I only ever check the news page and that still has an announcement from Dec 2007 as the latest piece of info. I should check these things more thoroughly in future. I think I shall crawl back into my cave now...
  • Hatfield
    Hatfield Posts: 122
    yielder wrote:
    shitty post
    !!
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