1998-06-30 Minneapolis
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2 2018-06-18 London 1 2018-08-18 Wrigley 1 2018-08-20 Wrigley 2 2022-09-16 Nashville 2023-08-31 St. Paul 2023-09-02 St. Paul 2023-09-05 Chicago 1 2023-08-31 Wrigley 2 2023-09-15 Fenway 1
07-09-95 Milwaukee, WI (Summerfest) - 10-08-00 Alpine Valley Music -06-16-03 St. Paul, MN - 09-03-11 Alpine Valley Music Theatre -09-04-11 Alpine Valley Music Theatre - 09-30-12 Missoula, MT - 07-19-13 Wrigley Field - 11-15-13 Dallas, TX - 10-3-14 St Louis, MO - 10-19-14 St Paul, MN
solid run of shows out there in cali. still embarrassed i forgot the sign. i brought that damn marker home, though, so i can get some other constructive use out of it.
shows 23-25 for me. san diego show was by far the best (after the post-show buzz dies down, it will still make my top 5 at the least), followed by la1 then la2 in that order. la2 was just weird. seems like a lot of folks think it was a great show and ed was only pissed during sirens, but that wasn't what i saw.
lots of highlights from all three shows. finally heard tremor christ (vitalogy: complete!) and all or none. the band doing all of their pink floyd tunes at la2 was also pretty great. glad my father's son showed back up in the setlists as that was the lightning bolt song i most wanted to hear, and i thought the la2 lightning bolt (the song) was a very strong version.
lots of memories on this run. wish i could have spent more time with vant and hannah beyond ticket swapping and quick post-show hellos, but they were understandably doing their own thing. i met a LOT of cool fans out there- pretty much anywhere we went we'd run into them, so it was easy to strike up conversations. folks from new york, florida, arizona, other parts of california,... they were everywhere. and it was great times.
solid run of shows out there in cali. still embarrassed i forgot the sign. i brought that damn marker home, though, so i can get some other constructive use out of it.
shows 23-25 for me. san diego show was by far the best (after the post-show buzz dies down, it will still make my top 5 at the least), followed by la1 then la2 in that order. la2 was just weird. seems like a lot of folks think it was a great show and ed was only pissed during sirens, but that wasn't what i saw.
lots of highlights from all three shows. finally heard tremor christ (vitalogy: complete!) and all or none. the band doing all of their pink floyd tunes at la2 was also pretty great. glad my father's son showed back up in the setlists as that was the lightning bolt song i most wanted to hear, and i thought the la2 lightning bolt (the song) was a very strong version.
lots of memories on this run. wish i could have spent more time with vant and hannah beyond ticket swapping and quick post-show hellos, but they were understandably doing their own thing. i met a LOT of cool fans out there- pretty much anywhere we went we'd run into them, so it was easy to strike up conversations. folks from new york, florida, arizona, other parts of california,... they were everywhere. and it was great times.
Ryan! Feeling way guilty now...I was fighting a cold the entire time (still am), so I apologize if I was a bit out of it.
1998-06-30 Minneapolis
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2 2018-06-18 London 1 2018-08-18 Wrigley 1 2018-08-20 Wrigley 2 2022-09-16 Nashville 2023-08-31 St. Paul 2023-09-02 St. Paul 2023-09-05 Chicago 1 2023-08-31 Wrigley 2 2023-09-15 Fenway 1
no man, don't! you mentioned going to the beach and stuff, it's all good. it's just cool to hang out in non-minnesota locations and was hoping to talk about our shows up to that point over a beer or two. no worries! hope you feel better eventually- coming home to 20 degree weather probably isn't going to help!
it was NICE only having to wear a t-shirt and jeans for a few days there.
In case anyone cares, Ryan inspired me to recap our trip...
It will probably be impossible to describe this trip, and as Ryan said about LA2 show, I'll say about California in general: it's just weird (in good and bad ways).
In so many ways, California (I've been twice before) is great. Maybe it was the scrubby gold and green hills in every spaghetti western or seeing latino kids skateboarding amongst palm trees in Thrasher when I was 13 and freezing in Minnesota, but I've always had this romantic ideal about it.
Nothing about this trip diminished those dreams or the pull that Cali has on me (I'd be lying if I said that being up in the hills on Sunday didn't almost make me choke up). But there were times when the luster died and the varnish wore off, and all the reasons why some people loathe LA and California became apparent. Rude people. Fakey smiles. An inability to ask a question and get a response from a stranger, ever. Again, we had a wonderful time, and these oddities served only as the warts of any place that, while small, merely warrant mention (and NOT as the roots of a generalization about the place). In other words, the bad stuff was outweighed by the good!
San Diego is a great town, but we really didn't spend that much time there. We went to the show at night, and then back to our Inn on Coronado. I highly recommend staying in Coronado if you're ever there (across the bridge from San Diego, palm trees, shops, beach, awesome). We struck up a conversation with a random couple next to us, only to find out that one of our good friends in Minnesota...was the lady's ex-boyfriend. Small, small world. "The Pearl Jam Effect." The show itself was awesome. Great setlist (even if it was populated with songs that are cult favorites but which I believe are highly overrated), great sound, great crowd for the most part. We had seats that were 4 rows from the top, straight back, facing the front of the stage, which meant - if I may be so snobby - that we were among the "casual" fans. Lots of energy for the hits, Facebook status updates for the non-hits. Thankfully the arena was small enough we still felt the energy from the enthusiastic fans on the floor. This was probably the best show of the 3 we saw.
Los Angeles is a whole other animal. Highways, palm trees, boutiques, cell phone stores, liquor stores, hills, cell towers, horns, gun stores and lots and lots of people. We stayed in West Hollywood at a place called Farmer's Daughter, which is a hipster-ish hotel in a great location. Fantastic staff, cozy amenities, whisky hour from 5-6pm every day. What more could you want?
Our first day there, we drank, ran into actor Steve Sheridan (on the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry David gets caught stealing silverware from a restaurant, he played the host who reports Larry - he's also from Minnesota), drank some more, ate great Singaporenese (sp?) food, got heckled at a comedy show at the Improv, stumbled home.
Our second day there was the day of LA1. We went to Canter's deli (great jewish diner/deli across from CBS Studios) and ate well. Our good friends Joe and Diane (Joe is JOEJOEJOE on the forum) were kind enough to take us around to see the sights (Walk of Fame, the high school of Jack Irons, Anthony Kiedis etc, local rock spots, Scientology building), including the largest and most overwhelming record store I've ever seen (Amoeba Records in Hollywood. Wow). We then went to the show, where we had GA tickets. Great show, great energy to start, and great crowd around us. Unfortunately, we had to learn how great our fellow fans were only after a large, very spacey, very high guy ran into, semi-groped her, and wouldn't leave. My fellow fans and I took care of him (I'll leave that to your imagination), but suffice it to say, it ruined a few songs for Hannah and I. The rest of the show after the dust-up was great. The version of "Black" from LA1 was possibly the best I've heard and getting "Garden" was awesome. Come to think of it, this show epitomized why most of Ten still plays really, really well. "All Or None" was another nice surprise (only played 11 times total) in a fantastic first encore.
Our third day was the day of LA2, and we decided to get out of the city for the day. After packing a sweet lunch, we took the pacific highway north, past Malibu, to El Matador state beach, which is a secluded beach, tucked under the coastal bluffs and lined with huge rocks that resemble bulls (at least to me).
We ate our lunch, walked the beach, swam a little bit (unintentionally). There was an incident (a very sad one too) with a bird, but that's for a story in person. Other than that, it was a great day, perhaps a highlight of the trip.
That night was night 2 of the LA shows, and I agree with Ryan's assessment that it was, all in all, a weird one. Our seats were reserved, on the floor. Highlights for me included finally getting "Oceans" (which completed Ten for me), "My Father's Son" (leaving me one away from completing Lightning Bolt), "Immortality," "No Way" and "Blood." The weirdness from the show didn't stem from the setlist, but more the order of songs. Both encores seemed very spiky, which might have been due to Ed's mood that night. Much was said about Ed's demeanor with the "Night 1 Kick-Out Fiasco" so well documented here on the forum (which I have pictures of if anyone would ever like to see).
But night 2, his mood again seemed to impact the show as there was apparently an issue with a guitar tech during "Sirens." During the middle of the song, it sounded very off and I watched Ed drop his guitar on stage, purposefully out of the hands of the waiting guitar tech, at about that time. I'm sure you'll hear on the boot how weird the middle of the song sounds. But the encores themselves had a weird pace to them, and that might be what made the second night seem just a little off.
We got back to our hotel exhausted and tired (and me still fighting a nagging cold) only to have the sink in our hotel break and water flood all over the front part of the room. If you played Benny Hill music in the background and filmed it with a wide angle lens, the scene couldn't have been more perfect: me holding the faucet down with my hands and a towel, containing all but a heavy mist, Hannah dumping the fast-collecting water out of the sink with the ice bucket, the front staff calling their maintenance staff (who was not on duty at 1am), many of our belongings getting soaked. Thankfully, they moved us to a dry room immediately and refunded the last night in the hotel, so we were well-taken care of and would definitely go back to that hotel.
Overall, the shows were great and the band seems to be truly having fun again. Our trip was fantastic, but once again - as always when traveling for Pearl Jam - it became less about seeing Pearl Jam and more about all the other stuff. Hannah and I had a great time, met some great people, saw some great friends, had a few run-ins with some weirdos and flaky Californians, had a few run-ins with some awesome strangers, saw the sites we wanted to see (the hills, the beaches, the Improv, Jewish delis and diners etc) in a state that while I'm not sure I could live, I will never hesitate to visit.
Our Pearl Jam California trip was truly one of my favorites and like usual, there is so much more to tell than I ever could here. We can't wait to do it again. If I can figure out how, I will post pictures.
End vantrant.
1998-06-30 Minneapolis
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2 2018-06-18 London 1 2018-08-18 Wrigley 1 2018-08-20 Wrigley 2 2022-09-16 Nashville 2023-08-31 St. Paul 2023-09-02 St. Paul 2023-09-05 Chicago 1 2023-08-31 Wrigley 2 2023-09-15 Fenway 1
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LAX bump!
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
2018-06-18 London 1
2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
2022-09-16 Nashville
2023-08-31 St. Paul
2023-09-02 St. Paul
2023-09-05 Chicago 1
2023-08-31 Wrigley 2
2023-09-15 Fenway 1
Holllleradooooo
.. hippies
Hope so. I have a feeling the band knows about this thread.
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shows 23-25 for me. san diego show was by far the best (after the post-show buzz dies down, it will still make my top 5 at the least), followed by la1 then la2 in that order. la2 was just weird. seems like a lot of folks think it was a great show and ed was only pissed during sirens, but that wasn't what i saw.
lots of highlights from all three shows. finally heard tremor christ (vitalogy: complete!) and all or none. the band doing all of their pink floyd tunes at la2 was also pretty great. glad my father's son showed back up in the setlists as that was the lightning bolt song i most wanted to hear, and i thought the la2 lightning bolt (the song) was a very strong version.
lots of memories on this run. wish i could have spent more time with vant and hannah beyond ticket swapping and quick post-show hellos, but they were understandably doing their own thing. i met a LOT of cool fans out there- pretty much anywhere we went we'd run into them, so it was easy to strike up conversations. folks from new york, florida, arizona, other parts of california,... they were everywhere. and it was great times.
Ryan! Feeling way guilty now...I was fighting a cold the entire time (still am), so I apologize if I was a bit out of it.
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
2018-06-18 London 1
2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
2022-09-16 Nashville
2023-08-31 St. Paul
2023-09-02 St. Paul
2023-09-05 Chicago 1
2023-08-31 Wrigley 2
2023-09-15 Fenway 1
it was NICE only having to wear a t-shirt and jeans for a few days there.
-Christopher Walken
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I Lysoled the crap out of my car today. Also left the windows down for an extended airing out.
-Christopher Walken
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It will probably be impossible to describe this trip, and as Ryan said about LA2 show, I'll say about California in general: it's just weird (in good and bad ways).
In so many ways, California (I've been twice before) is great. Maybe it was the scrubby gold and green hills in every spaghetti western or seeing latino kids skateboarding amongst palm trees in Thrasher when I was 13 and freezing in Minnesota, but I've always had this romantic ideal about it.
Nothing about this trip diminished those dreams or the pull that Cali has on me (I'd be lying if I said that being up in the hills on Sunday didn't almost make me choke up). But there were times when the luster died and the varnish wore off, and all the reasons why some people loathe LA and California became apparent. Rude people. Fakey smiles. An inability to ask a question and get a response from a stranger, ever. Again, we had a wonderful time, and these oddities served only as the warts of any place that, while small, merely warrant mention (and NOT as the roots of a generalization about the place). In other words, the bad stuff was outweighed by the good!
San Diego is a great town, but we really didn't spend that much time there. We went to the show at night, and then back to our Inn on Coronado. I highly recommend staying in Coronado if you're ever there (across the bridge from San Diego, palm trees, shops, beach, awesome). We struck up a conversation with a random couple next to us, only to find out that one of our good friends in Minnesota...was the lady's ex-boyfriend. Small, small world. "The Pearl Jam Effect." The show itself was awesome. Great setlist (even if it was populated with songs that are cult favorites but which I believe are highly overrated), great sound, great crowd for the most part. We had seats that were 4 rows from the top, straight back, facing the front of the stage, which meant - if I may be so snobby - that we were among the "casual" fans. Lots of energy for the hits, Facebook status updates for the non-hits. Thankfully the arena was small enough we still felt the energy from the enthusiastic fans on the floor. This was probably the best show of the 3 we saw.
Los Angeles is a whole other animal. Highways, palm trees, boutiques, cell phone stores, liquor stores, hills, cell towers, horns, gun stores and lots and lots of people. We stayed in West Hollywood at a place called Farmer's Daughter, which is a hipster-ish hotel in a great location. Fantastic staff, cozy amenities, whisky hour from 5-6pm every day. What more could you want?
Our first day there, we drank, ran into actor Steve Sheridan (on the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry David gets caught stealing silverware from a restaurant, he played the host who reports Larry - he's also from Minnesota), drank some more, ate great Singaporenese (sp?) food, got heckled at a comedy show at the Improv, stumbled home.
Our second day there was the day of LA1. We went to Canter's deli (great jewish diner/deli across from CBS Studios) and ate well. Our good friends Joe and Diane (Joe is JOEJOEJOE on the forum) were kind enough to take us around to see the sights (Walk of Fame, the high school of Jack Irons, Anthony Kiedis etc, local rock spots, Scientology building), including the largest and most overwhelming record store I've ever seen (Amoeba Records in Hollywood. Wow). We then went to the show, where we had GA tickets. Great show, great energy to start, and great crowd around us. Unfortunately, we had to learn how great our fellow fans were only after a large, very spacey, very high guy ran into, semi-groped her, and wouldn't leave. My fellow fans and I took care of him (I'll leave that to your imagination), but suffice it to say, it ruined a few songs for Hannah and I. The rest of the show after the dust-up was great. The version of "Black" from LA1 was possibly the best I've heard and getting "Garden" was awesome. Come to think of it, this show epitomized why most of Ten still plays really, really well. "All Or None" was another nice surprise (only played 11 times total) in a fantastic first encore.
Our third day was the day of LA2, and we decided to get out of the city for the day. After packing a sweet lunch, we took the pacific highway north, past Malibu, to El Matador state beach, which is a secluded beach, tucked under the coastal bluffs and lined with huge rocks that resemble bulls (at least to me).
We ate our lunch, walked the beach, swam a little bit (unintentionally). There was an incident (a very sad one too) with a bird, but that's for a story in person. Other than that, it was a great day, perhaps a highlight of the trip.
That night was night 2 of the LA shows, and I agree with Ryan's assessment that it was, all in all, a weird one. Our seats were reserved, on the floor. Highlights for me included finally getting "Oceans" (which completed Ten for me), "My Father's Son" (leaving me one away from completing Lightning Bolt), "Immortality," "No Way" and "Blood." The weirdness from the show didn't stem from the setlist, but more the order of songs. Both encores seemed very spiky, which might have been due to Ed's mood that night. Much was said about Ed's demeanor with the "Night 1 Kick-Out Fiasco" so well documented here on the forum (which I have pictures of if anyone would ever like to see).
But night 2, his mood again seemed to impact the show as there was apparently an issue with a guitar tech during "Sirens." During the middle of the song, it sounded very off and I watched Ed drop his guitar on stage, purposefully out of the hands of the waiting guitar tech, at about that time. I'm sure you'll hear on the boot how weird the middle of the song sounds. But the encores themselves had a weird pace to them, and that might be what made the second night seem just a little off.
We got back to our hotel exhausted and tired (and me still fighting a nagging cold) only to have the sink in our hotel break and water flood all over the front part of the room. If you played Benny Hill music in the background and filmed it with a wide angle lens, the scene couldn't have been more perfect: me holding the faucet down with my hands and a towel, containing all but a heavy mist, Hannah dumping the fast-collecting water out of the sink with the ice bucket, the front staff calling their maintenance staff (who was not on duty at 1am), many of our belongings getting soaked. Thankfully, they moved us to a dry room immediately and refunded the last night in the hotel, so we were well-taken care of and would definitely go back to that hotel.
Overall, the shows were great and the band seems to be truly having fun again. Our trip was fantastic, but once again - as always when traveling for Pearl Jam - it became less about seeing Pearl Jam and more about all the other stuff. Hannah and I had a great time, met some great people, saw some great friends, had a few run-ins with some weirdos and flaky Californians, had a few run-ins with some awesome strangers, saw the sites we wanted to see (the hills, the beaches, the Improv, Jewish delis and diners etc) in a state that while I'm not sure I could live, I will never hesitate to visit.
Our Pearl Jam California trip was truly one of my favorites and like usual, there is so much more to tell than I ever could here. We can't wait to do it again. If I can figure out how, I will post pictures.
End vantrant.
2003-06-16 St. Paul
2006-06-26 St. Paul
2007-08-05 Chicago
2009-08-23 Chicago
2009-08-28 San Francisco
2010-05-01 NOLA (Jazz Fest)
2011-07-02 EV Minneapolis
2011-09-03 PJ20
2011-09-04 PJ20
2011-09-17 Winnipeg
2012-06-26 Amsterdam
2012-06-27 Amsterdam
2013-07-19 Wrigley
2013-11-21 San Diego
2013-11-23 Los Angeles
2013-11-24 Los Angeles
2014-07-08 Leeds, UK
2014-07-11 Milton Keynes, UK
2014-10-09 Lincoln
2014-10-19 St. Paul
2014-10-20 Milwaukee
2016-08-20 Wrigley 1
2016-08-22 Wrigley 2
2018-06-18 London 1
2018-08-18 Wrigley 1
2018-08-20 Wrigley 2
2022-09-16 Nashville
2023-08-31 St. Paul
2023-09-02 St. Paul
2023-09-05 Chicago 1
2023-08-31 Wrigley 2
2023-09-15 Fenway 1
-Christopher Walken
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-Christopher Walken
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-Stephen Colbert
too funny!
Happy Thxgvg everyone!
I'm thankful for PJ playing Target Field in 2014. Midway Stadium?? The Zoo???
-Christopher Walken
you're=you are
your=showing ownership
The truth has a well known liberal bias.
-Stephen Colbert
-Christopher Walken
you're=you are
your=showing ownership
The truth has a well known liberal bias.
-Stephen Colbert
bump.