**Winnipeg Fanviews Here**

Betterman77

I just got home from Winnipeg, been there a few days, The show was the best I've ever seen, Thier energy reminded me of the way they played back in the early 90's I just couldn't believe it. We had totally amazing 10c seats right off on Stone's side. Best moment for me was when Eddie came to the very corner of the stage and sang they last verse of Alive, I took my hat off and waved it high to grab his attention and he looked right at me as he sang "Oh do I deserve to be, is that the question" WOW I had a huge chill go down my back. Thanks to Pearl Jam and the Supersuckers and all thier crew for finally comming to Winnipeg and putting on a memorable show.

YieldInHiding

It....was MY cell phone that Eddie sung on my friend's voicemail...we're still trying to figure out if he got it or not. At least we have the bootleg!

I was so fucking pumped I stood on my chair and pumped my fist and the whole crowd went crazy! One of the most unbelievable experiences of my life!

...and to top it off...they played IN HIDING!!!!!!!!

I will definitely write a "full" review of both shows (Peg and T-Bay) later...at this point I'm just listening to the boot trying to relive it all again!

i'mlost_i'mnoguide

YieldInHiding wrote:

It....was MY cell phone that Eddie sung on my friend's voicemail...we're still trying to figure out if he got it or not. At least we have the bootleg!

I was so fucking pumped I stood on my chair and pumped my fist and the whole crowd went crazy! One of the most unbelievable experiences of my life!

...and to top it off...they played IN HIDING!!!!!!!!

I will definitely write a "full" review of both shows (Peg and T-Bay) later...at this point I'm just listening to the boot trying to relive it all again!

Hey! I'm listening to the Winnipeg boot right now. Did you see the picture with your phone in it? Awesome!!

It was awesome meeting you! What time did you guys get home today?

YieldInHiding

i'mlost_i'mnoguide wrote:

Hey! I'm listening to the Winnipeg download bootleg right now. Did you see the picture with your phone in it? Awesome!!

It was awesome meeting you! What time did you guys get home today?

It was great meeting you too! I found the pic and nearly shat myself! We got to the cities around 430...We woke up around 1030 and took off not long after that and noticed your guys' car was gone. You must have gotten up early!

i'mlost_i'mnoguide

YieldInHiding wrote:

It was great meeting you too! I found the pic and nearly shat myself! We got to the cities around 430...We woke up around 1030 and took off not long after that and noticed your guys' car was gone. You must have gotten up early!

We woke up around 10 and left at about 10:50. We stopped in Minneapolis for Chipolte and got back to Kato around 6:30. BEAUTIFUL drive!

PhillyPJ

YieldInHiding wrote:

It....was MY cell phone that Eddie sung on my friend's voicemail...we're still trying to figure out if he got it or not. At least we have the bootleg!

I was so fucking pumped I stood on my chair and pumped my fist and the whole crowd went crazy! One of the most unbelievable experiences of my life!

...and to top it off...they played IN HIDING!!!!!!!!

I will definitely write a "full" review of both shows (Peg and T-Bay) later...at this point I'm just listening to the boot trying to relive it all again!

thats fucking awesome dude!!!!! we updated the YIELD thread in your honor. you called for In Hiding in Winnipeg and PJ fucking delivered it.

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=112630

alternagirl

I wish I got to meet you guys. But I'm glad you liked my town

And I'm so proud that it was your phone, Yield. That's awesome


xox Alternagirl

YieldInHiding

i'mlost_i'mnoguide wrote:

We woke up around 10 and left at about 10:50. We stopped in Minneapolis for Chipolte and got back to Kato around 6:30. BEAUTIFUL drive!

You can thank me for giving you guys the idea.... We went to Chipotle in St Anthony when we got back...mmmmmm hit the spot!

dont_go_on_me

YieldInHiding wrote:

You can thank me for giving you guys the idea.... We went to Chipotle in St Anthony when we got back...mmmmmm hit the spot!

we hit up the Calhoun chipotle. Double steak...mmm, fucking delicious.

YieldInHiding

don't_go_on_me wrote:

we hit up the Calhoun chipotle. Double steak...mmm, fucking delicious.

Nice...how ya feelin'? I'm exhausted, thrilled, and sore. What a great time!

dont_go_on_me

YieldInHiding wrote:

Nice...how ya feelin'? I'm exhausted, thrilled, and sore. What a great time!

exactly the same man.

i'm satisfied, yet craving more! Listened to bits and pieces of the boots and i'm still blown away...still doesn't even remotely do it justice however!

and of course it was nice meeting up with you guys and having a few beers


i'll be hitting the sack here and sleeping in until about noon i reckon!

zolstice

Betterman77 wrote:

I just got home from Winnipeg, been there a few days, The show was the best I've ever seen, Thier energy reminded me of the way they played back in the early 90's I just couldn't believe it. We had totally amazing 10c seats right off on Stone's side. Best moment for me was when Eddie came to the very corner of the stage and sang they last verse of Alive, I took my hat off and waved it high to grab his attention and he looked right at me as he sang "Oh do I deserve to be, is that the question" WOW I had a huge chill go down my back. Thanks to Pearl Jam and the Supersuckers and all thier crew for finally comming to Winnipeg and putting on a memorable show.

Wow, we both have something in common from this show. During Fuckin Up, when Ed came over to Stone's side to destroy a tambourine (just before he hopped down to talk with the guy in the wheelchair) I was just staring up at him in Awe. I had my hands in the air, clapping and pumping my fists, and just started mouthing the words "Thank You" as I watched him, and next thing I know he was staring right at me, making solid eye contact for a good minute or so, and it looked like he was saying something back. I thought I was hallucinating or something, I thought I was just seeing something I wanted. But after the show my girlfriend turned to me and said "What was he saying to you? It was like he was talking right to you"

I know to some it may seem like "whoah, big deal, so he looked at you?" But when you consider how much this band tries to interact with the crowd, how much they share the crowd's energy, it is just phenomenal when any one of them focuses on you for any lengthy stretch of time.

RiotAct

don't_go_on_me wrote:

we hit up the Calhoun chipotle. Double steak...mmm, fucking delicious.

What a trip! Man, that was a lot of driving but it was a beautiful drive for the most part. I think it ended up being about 1300 miles in 3 days. Winnipeg show rocked! The band was not as intense as I saw them in Vancouver but the energy from the crowd was better. We didn't get up til about 11:45 and got on the road about 1pm. Stopped by Taco Hell and KFC about 40 miles from the Twin Cities and then had to make a Chipotle run myself tonight at 9pm. Wally, PM me your email address and I will send you my pics.

Vancityray

This concert was amazing, PJ kicked fuckin ass with a long show and the crowd was crazy loud. I couldnt even hear Eddie talk over the crowd in between songs and on the boot I can hear him but barely the crowd. The band looked like they were genuinely enjoying themselves up there and their performance was really quite impressive and makes this boot totally worth getting. Too bad you can't get the dvd footage to go with this concert, I would buy that too. The set list has a good mixture of tunes, I was hoping they would play Tremor Christ, but PJ have soooo many good songs you'll never hear them all in just one concert. Drank a few beers, smoked a couple of joints, this was without a doubt the best PJ concert I've ever been to. Kicking myself in the ass for not planning ahead and catching more of these shows on the Canadian tour.

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MFC

Winnipeg was insane. here i am 4 days later still talking about it , mentioning it to everyone i know/see. i then proceed to ask them if they had witnessed it and everyone always answers with that same ear to ear grin "F**KING RIGHTS best show i have seen" ...then get into the whole "energy" topic.
...brings me right back to that night .....every time... the Winnipeg Sun had a CRAP review of the show.. where the heck do they get some of these writers? they shouldnt even be called writers. i have read more fascinating things on the bathroom stall of the ZOO (local dive).
However the Winnipeg Free Press had a more interesting article... stilll... i come here to see what you have to say ... because quite frankly i dont give a flying *bleep* what the media has to say....its US and the band that really matters.

i jotted around from seat to seat in the upper upper level before finally just saying the heck with it and sat in my "proper seat". It didnt matter that i could barely see the band , and my first thoughts of "hey they dont have video projection screens of the band thats pretty S*itty" quickly changed by the time the chorus of Betterman kicked in and 16,000 maniacs were screaming at the top of their lungs.

Corduroy,GTF, Sad,..... Not For You (SASKATOON!!!) i laughed it was awesome. gotta love eds sense of humour..\

Daughter i thought they would tag w/ Neil Young but they Floyd tag was great anyways because they would play neil at the end.

Even Flow oh my gawd i thought this song would NEVER end .. Mike McCready was like a Schitzophrenic Jim Hendrix with A.D.D.. something like 3 minute or 4 minute solo...and probably one of my favourites from him of the night.

MFC , this is really what i wanted to hear live , they just kept making my night over and over again.

Imortality cut me in half i felt as though my brain was leaking fluid... "IM LOSING PLASMA BY THE THIMBLE FUL!" .. i didnt know where i was for 5 minutes.

Lukin - shook the hell out of me, pieced me back together and reminded me i was at the Pearl Jam concert.

im glad i got to hear EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE SONGS.
Wishlist was magical and the lights were perfect 200 percent for this..i really REALLY am glad i got to hear this live .. also its my brothers fav song and it made him smile~ ... im happy he got it.

Black blew the hell right out of me , i think i had my eyes closed the whole time. its too bad that the bootleg did not capture the audience as loud as they were the whole time, but especially on this song because it was for me the highlight of the show. i guess some things you just cant relive , and this , i will say is one of them.
After Black i just lost it completely.. i was aware then that i was at the best show i had ever been to in my life (including Jane's Addiction).

In Hiding - i almost had a heart attack and pissed my pants at the same time. completely unexpected. couple slips , they pretty much nailed it though.

In my tree- i wanted to cry except couldnt.

Alive , once again the crowd and its orgasmic like eruption... at times i thought ed was just going to let us sing a whole song by ourselves... another deranged lunatic solo ..... the Atlanta brave tomahawk chopish (because thats exactly what the eff it looked like!) "hey , ,hey ,,hey" just came out of nowhere ....every single person... again i felt like grabbing one of these chord looking things from the rafters and wanted to swing around ...

when the house lights went on at the end i couldnt believe it , i could not spot an open seat in that place...people sitting on the sstair midrow on the upper 3rd bowl.. the view was surreal.. i thought it was the perfect way to end and already perfect show. (the whole lights on , then having them go back out again for them to come back on typical rock show thing bugs me)
This just goes to show you that again this was not a typical show
Having the band be able to see a bunch of people from Neil's home town while they cranked out his songs.i imagine felt amazing. me? i felt like i was in an oversized night club .. a really really huge one.. to me it was yes, that intimate.

that's my story... im not sticking to it... i can add things as they come back to me and remove whatever i want anytime i want.

i want to thank the whole PJ crew and everyone at the show for being such good sports.

ps - does anyone have a DVD of them at Gimli Motorsport park in 93' they could perhaps burn me?

dont_go_on_me

RiotAct wrote:

What a trip! Man, that was a lot of driving but it was a beautiful drive for the most part. I think it ended up being about 1300 miles in 3 days. Winnipeg show rocked! The band was not as intense as I saw them in Vancouver but the energy from the crowd was better. We didn't get up til about 11:45 and got on the road about 1pm. Stopped by Taco Hell and KFC about 40 miles from the Twin Cities and then had to make a Chipotle run myself tonight at 9pm. Wally, PM me your email address and I will send you my pics.

That was an unbelievable trip! Two amazing shows...and i have to say the best 2 PJ shows i've seen!


It was great meeting up with you guys. And again, i can't thank you enough about yourself and Brian hooking us up with tickets. 2nd row in front of Mike for two straight shows truely was a dream come true (and a dream that i never thought would happen given my number!) So again, thank you to both of you...an amazing experience. Glad we could have a few beers after the show too! Let's hope we'll get to do this again next summer!

i look forward to getting all your pictures too, hint hint :D:D

CanadianReefa

Winnipeg was insane, almost 3 hours long, by far the best show so far on this tour.

breathe34

MFC, I totally understand where you're coming from....I keep thinking about the show..talking about it....wishing I could do it all over again tonight. It really was amazing; I've been to a few shows and this one was remarkable, quite possibly the best. The band and the crowd just seemed to feed off each other's energy. It was beautiful. Ijust can't thank everyone who was involved enough.....it was a night that I'll never forget.

djsmoot

First of all, thank you 10C for the great tix - this was my 13th or 14th show and the first time I made it into the front row. Leaving my wife and kids to rock out with PJ is much easier to do when I don't have to stand in line all day, so needless to say, I hope you stay with your current system for the US tour.

My buddy and I were right in front of Mike. He puts on a great show and it is absolutely amazing to see how he jams for the entire night.

The reviews have been written and I just wanted to reiterate that this show rocked. If it is not the best show I have ever been to, it is right up there. It is nice to see that band seemed just as excited to be on stage as we were to watch them perform.

I also wanted throw some "props" out there to my fellow PJ fans. Friendly as all hell and you all make it easy to enjoy a show.

Winnipeg should be proud. Talk to you later....

YieldInHiding

Here's my review:

This review is hard for me to type. It’s hard for me to put in words how amazing this band and this show is/was, but I'll try. We got into Winnipeg from Minneapolis around 3 or so. After checking into the hotel, we hiked over to the MTS Centre and walked around the outside of the arena looking for the 10c ticket window. Finally we found it and I gave the nice blonde gal my ID and she gave me an envelope with my name on it. I opened it slowly with my eyes closed and when I pulled out the tickets I saw a little “4” on the top and rejoiced! After tackling my friend in celebration, we headed for the Kings Head for the pre-concert meet up. Not too many people were there so we just headed for the venue.

The Supersuckers were on stage when we got inside and got some beverages to keep our throats clear during the show. Before we went to our seats, we found some of our synergy board friends in the hallway and we all agreed to meet up at the same location after the show.

It got close to the time for the boys to come on so we headed to our seats in the 4th row (THANKS 10c!). We speculated what they would open with (my money was on Long Road, but I was holding out hope for Oceans) and after ten minutes, they came out to thunderous applause and cheering. Then Ed broke into Betterman. I was shocked! What a great change of pace for an opener.

The next few songs were pretty standard, except they started to play the beginning of Sad, but something went wrong and they stopped and huddled and then ripped into Given To Fly. They made up for the flub by playing Sad right after Given To Fly. The boys always aim to please. Not For You followed Sad and it was typical Ed, screaming his lungs out. At one point in the song, he said “Where’d the fuck did they come from? SASKATOON!” which was a nice little add in for the local folks.

Then, something magical happened for me. Daughter was the next song and I was excited to hear it and wondered what tag they would have. A friend of mine asked me to call him and leave him a message with some music from the show so I figured now was a good time to do it since I had heard Daughter many times before. I dialed him up and his voice mail picked up so I put the phone up towards the band as they played the song. After I had left the message, I look up and Ed is motioning to me to give him the phone. I was not going to go against his wishes so I quickly called my friend again and passed my phone up (thanks people in front of me!) and they gave it to Ed. He then proceeded to sing a mini tag for daughter into my friend’s voicemail! I was standing there simply stunned. Ed must have noticed my friend’s voicemail picked up so he sang a message into the phone and casually added at the end “Uhh, we’re in Winnipeg. You’re in Los Angeles? Argh! Good-bye!” Then, he folded up my phone and threw it underhand to me. In my stunned state, I managed to sum up some concentration and I made the grab!! I was so excited, I jumped up on my seat and pumped my fist and the whole crowd cheered! It was unbelievable! They finished up with Another Brick in the Wall for the rest of the Daughter tag.

After the main set was over, the first encore was my absolute favorite Pearl Jam song, IN HIDING! My screen name on synergy has something to do with that song and I was absolutely stunned again that they played it at the first concert of this tour that I attended! To add to that, they followed In Hiding with a great version of In My Tree.

The rest of the concert was just amazing, the crowd was so into it, so loud, and so intense! It made the entire experience like a dream for me. Thank you so much again Ten Club for the wonderful seats! Thank you Ed, for the message to my friend. It was probably not a big deal to you, but it meant the world to me. Thank you Pearl Jam, for a night to remember!