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The first live show you ever BOUGHTand HEARD (not attended)

LeatherMosquitoManLeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
edited August 2006 in Given To Fly (live)
Mine was San Sebastian, Spain, from early 2000...

I was kind of oblivious during the 2 yr stretch between Yield and Binaural... and didn't realise that PJ was releasing each boot as an individual album..

So i went to a record store one night, and thought "what the fuck is this?!?" when i saw the little cardboard package with a setlist on the back...

so i bought it, and listened to it, fell in love w/live shows all over again, and now i have over 120 shows...

San Sebastian, Spain, 5/26/00

My first ever live show i purchased.

First ever live show i heard was in '95, living in australia, they broadcasted on Triple J (or JJJ) the 3/17/95 Melbourne show... you know, w/the 'NW' words...

i sat in front of the stereo, and had these huge ass headphones on (i was 15) and recorded the whole thing on 3 cassettes. Now i finally have the thing on cd, and got relive it recently.. and i remembered every word from 11 years ago.

That was the first live show i ever heard.

San Sebastian '00 - bought
Melbourne 3/17/95 - heard
-Chris
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  • Randy420Randy420 Posts: 47
    First one I bought was Seattle #2 from the 2000 tour. After that, I had to get more, so I got Detroit, and then I think I got Lisbon, so I had the first and last from the tour. 6 months after I bought Seattle #2, I had all 72 of the 2000 boots, and since then I've gone nuts and have probably around 400 live shows...
  • liesandsaysliesandsays Posts: 132
    A friend gave me the cd for a present... I still kick myself for not going to the show... just a short flight away...
    Up the West Coast in 2006 and Hawaii++Santa Barbara, San Fran x 3, Portland, Gorge x2
    Chicago and Down the Coast in 2003
    Seattle 2005
    SF 2000, 2001, 2003--- oh or you can come to terms and realize you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself
  • canuckleheadcanucklehead Posts: 67
    Bought-4/3/94 Atlanta
    Heard-11/4/95 San Jose
  • TrophyManTrophyMan Posts: 29
    Columbus, OH, 8/21/2000

    My friend had an extra ticket but I couldn't make it. I guess I was in a phase where I wasn't listening to PJ that much. Some months later, I went to a record store and saw a shitload of the slim cardboard PJ boots, also not expecting it; so I looked at a few, considered getting Las Vegas, Seattle & Columbus and settled on Columbus because I nearly went. THat just triggered a bootleg obsession because I hadn't even heard Binaural before I bought the boot. So I got 10-15 from that tour and I have 100+ and never looked back.

    So literally because of the boots, I got back into PJ. Ingenious.
    "I'm ahead, I'm advanced; I am the first man to clean up poopy pants"
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  • Parachutes FanParachutes Fan Posts: 63
    Does it count if I borrowed Penn State 2003? If not it would be Gorge 1.
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    Summerfest '95, Summerfest '06, BSB (1 & 2) '06, Wembley '07, Lollapalooza '07
  • Gossard_Is_GodGossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    Bridge School benefit 1999 night 1 and 2
    Pearl Jam - London Astoria 20/4/06....One hell of a night :)

    Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!

    Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing

    Wembley 2007 :D
  • sebaarg88sebaarg88 Posts: 1,277
    bought and heard: perth '03
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    but only love can brake your fall
  • ||Release_Me||||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    Mine was Salzburg - June 18th, 2000. It was 2002 and i'd just discovered Pearl Jam. I went to a music store nearby and bought Binaural, Vs, and the Salzburg boot. After the first listen i couldn't get enough of that version of Betterman. Eddie's voice sounded so smooth and pure, i was amazed. From there, i was hooked.
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  • pjfan020pjfan020 Posts: 426
    milan, italy from 2000. I didn't have any other album except the first two so hearing present tense for the first time kind of blew my mind.
    "Tonight we're just gonna play you some good old American Rock and Roll." tom petty-7-15-05
  • TelecasterTelecaster Posts: 24
    7/11/95 Soldier Field.

    Found the bootleg at a used record store in 99. Paid an obscene amount for it, but it started my obsession with Pearl Jam bootlegs. Great show :D
  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Does the MSG DVD count? If not, then Dublin '00.
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,168
    Spodek Poland 2000. what a great show. my dad was part of some record club and when all of these boots came out together he chose this one randomly. what a pick- its probably my favorite 2000 show.
    severed hand thirteen
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  • FnCircusFnCircus Posts: 439
    2000-08-24 Jones Beach, NY.....actually, my ex-wife (NOT a PJ fan) bought it when it came out cause she liked Last Kiss, but then I listened to the whole thing and I stole it from here, it became mine! hahahaha
  • jay26jay26 Posts: 1
    seattle 2000
    first time i heard the covers of crazy mary and a couple of the who classics

    definately made me want to see pj live
    just gonna have to wait till they tour south africa.

    ps why do they call it a world tour if they only do europe and oz oh and south america once
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