Lethargic Vancouver crowd
lgarvey
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Solid setlist but when three people around you are sitting down during Porch, you know it's a subpar crowd. I was embarrassed and Eddie even called out people in the first row for being lame. Again, fantastic setlist but the crowd did not do it justice.
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I've been unfaithful. I let my 10C lapse and now I'm in the boondogs. However, tonight I rocked out more than any other show I've been to. Reading that the front was lame is disheartening.
This being said the band killed and it was my first time hearing Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns and Mankind live, not too mention Ole.
These pop up after every show, and they're annoying. Ed called out the front rows, but that's lottery, right? All I know is that everyone around me (14th row) was losing it the entire time, people were digging the rarities, and it was a lot of fun. I don't know about the other shows, and I don't care. Same stuff was posted here after Seattle in 2009, and all I saw was a lot of people having fun there too.
Besides, do we all need to have the same reaction to satisfy the crowd judgers? Please. The crowd was loud, the show was great, and people had a great time. Can't that be enough?
Now I think eddie's call out was simply playin to the folks in rear, "we should get some of the folks from the back up here..." but there was some truth to it, a bit. He was raggin on someone... And then he spewed wine on them.... Lol.
When the lights came up, that place was pretty rockin, but yeah for the most part only the front third was really into it. Only the up high back corners were sitting for a bit as far as I could tell, everyone standing straight back to us, lots of head bobbin, but not a lot of arms raised, fists pumping, hair flyin mayhem.
But c'mon, no daughter, better man, nothing man ... None of the real sing alongs. But Alive was the proof, really weak shouts at the end. Eddie tried a bit of call and response at one point that went nowhere....
And I had told my wife to get ready for a stadium singing every word loud and proud, and afterwards she said, meh, we sang louder at Rush! (NICE WALK OUT MUSIC BY THE WAY... Tom Sawyer!)
I will say, a very polite crowd, not a lot of the unruly meatheads staggering around. So there's that.
The chemistry at a show is always delicate, the mix of songs and venue and sound and location. This was not the best crowd I've seen but it was still a great crowd and a fantastic show.
And blaming it on Seattle, get a life. I wasn't offended by what Eddie said, he was just playing the crowd.
Crowds are a personal thing. For some people a dead crowd can literally kill a show experience. The best shows I've been to have been the ones where the crowds are absolutely into it. Setlists are great on paper and certainly make a big difference when it comes to bootlegs, but crowd energy is really important to me when I see the band live. I consider myself fortunate that most of the Pearl Jam shows I've been to have had incredible crowd energy. My favorite show was Kitchener 2005; a show that when you look at the setlist or listen to the boot isn't particularly special but the crowd was into it and the arena was tiny.
If Crowd energy isn't important to you, that's probably to your advantage. For me, a great crowd is essential. Still, I have a hard time believing that Vancouverites couldn't get into a set that was this amazing.
Well said. I was up front and every one was killing it except for this small group right in front of Ed towards Stone. It was loud around me and the crowd was great. Amazing show.
Honestly, I think you're going to get some people in Van who are more into the idea of going to a Pearl Jam concert than they are the actual concert ... Not saying the whole city either, just the vapid Yaletown crowd that I had the misfortune to live near when I was there for internship. The crowds on the Prairies were better, though, at least in 2005 and 2011. Apparently the Van crowd in 2009 was awesome, so who knows?
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The crowd just wasn't as LOUD.
Reasons: Not enough beer, End of tour letdown, Sunday night end of weekend blues and anticipation of getting back to the "real" world on Monday, more rarities. I don't think I cheer loud for Unemployable but I certainly enjoyed it. And maybe some old Seattle guys who were in shock that they were moshing 20 years ago and suddenly realized that they were losing hair and having issues with erectile dysfunction amongst other things.
To say the crowd was a letdown is all relative. A couple of people not moving shouldn't speak for everyone. It's like this: Eddie was talking about America throughout the show and pointing out shit that troubled him. He wasn't pasting that label on all Americans, in fact he appreciated the ones there. I was surrounded by 1000's of cool Americans. In fact, some asshole Canadian got kicked out in front of me. There are always a few in a crowd. But it was a damn good crowd, just not loud.
Lethargic.... that's a nice word though.
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2 years ago, when they played Seattle just because Vancouver, Ed called out Seattle at the Vancouver show and said Vancouver's crowd is always much better than the Seattle crowd, seems perhaps we had too many Seattle-ites there last night.
I agree with some of the other posts that when they play Van they should try to do Seattle at the same time, I got sucky 10C tix, and I see that it's because everyone from out of town got the choices seats - it's nice that some people are able to travel to see multiple shows, but some of us only get to see them at home, and it would be nice to be able to get good tix rather than them all going to out-of-towners.
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How the hell you can be so close to the stage and just stand like you don't even care, I am glad that Ed did what he did, they should be a shamed for what they did or should I say for what they didn't do.
Anyway don't about Seattle crowd, never been to Seattle show, I only heard in 3 different occasion same story from 3 different person (one US, one Can. one EU) and they all told me that Seattle shows were the worst because the crowd was lame, now like I said I never been to the any of these shows but seems to odd to me that they all had a same opinion.
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These judging crowd threads and discussions are lame. Ed's too.
I thought the show was absolutely mind blowing and I saw nothing but really happy and excited people. Not a single other people in the crowd ruined my great time. And to start a thread about this just because Ed said something rude the folks in the first row - now it's hip to start threads about it? Pretty lame thread, and pretty lame of Ed to keep hounding Seattle crowds and the first row of the Vancouver crowd.
Seriously, no better way for Ed to really turn the band's hometown against them.
When he ripped Seattle a new one in Vancouver of 2009, it made me not want to go see Pearl Jam in Portland of that year. His comments really were hurtful about the band's hometown. Maybe if Key Arena wasn't filled with so many of their friends and family members, it would have been a better crowd in his mind. Also, maybe if these shows were not on a Sunday night, that also would have helped the vibe.
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