***The VIC Fanviews Here, Aug 2, 2007***

cropdustress

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:

I have never posted on this forum before, but over the years I have read many other fans sharing their experiences as I have followed Pearl Jam tours in past years. I have always found it interesting to see another PJ fans perspective on how the band has influenced them with the music they have given to us. Now that I am back home in Arizona, I was a little reluctant to post my story because I did not want to be known as the biggest idiot of a PJ fan to every exist. But driving 2200 miles from Chicago back to Mesa, Arizona really left me with a monkey on my back that I just can't shake! Despite being lucky enough to see PJ 31 different times in Concert from 1992-2007, I never realized how long I had waited for a chance for a show like the VIC in Chicago. For 15 years, I never believed I would have the opportunity to see PJ in such an intimate venue and when the 10Club sent me that email announcing the show, I almost died from excitement and anticipation of trying to get my hands on some tickets when they went on sale Thursday morning. I did not sleep for two days and when Thursday came around...I scored Two Tickets for the Exclusive 10 Club show at the Vic Theater 8/2/07.

My best friend and our 4 Lost Dogs (3 Staffordshire Terriers and 1 Chihuahua/Weiner Dog) packed our bags and were off to Madison, WI from Mesa,AZ to stay with his Mom before the big show with PJ @ the Vic and Lollapalooza @ Grant Park. His mom lives in a Log cabin on Lake Wisconsin, so we helped he stain her cabin during the week prior to the shows. Somehow working 12-13 hour days in 80-100% Humidity, I lost track of the day. I have always taken pride on using my Fan Club privileges to bring a person with me who has never seen Pearl Jam live. I take joy in opening someone new to the PJ experience and watching them go to a place I have been lucky enough to know since 1992! Thursday night before the Big Vic show, I am sitting with my friends Sean and Dan in Wisconsin talking about what songs that we hoped to hear. Dan was cool enough to give up his ticket to Sean (Childhood bud) since it would be his first PJ show ever. Sean wanted to hear them open with "I am Mine" and Close with "Yellow Ledbetter". I was hoping to get "Hard to Imagine" and "Indifference" as the closer. After talking about how awesome the show at the Vic was going to be...we hit the hay to get an early start to Chicago from Madison, WI the next morning. Around comes Friday 8/3/07 and we are driving down I-90 to Chicago to the Vic and Sean, a die hard Cubs fan says to turn on the Cubs radio because Eddie was going to sing the 7th Inning Stretch. I am thinking great, lets get a nice warm up song for the big Vic Show. After a commercial break the Cubs announcer delivers us the devastating news..."Hello Everyone from Wrigley Field today we have a very special guest, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam has joined us in the booth. They played an amazing show LAST NIGHT AT THE VIC THEATER" I almost came to a screeching halt in disbelief...they was no way that I missed the Vic Concert! I pulled off I-90 in Rockford, IL to pull out my email confirmation to see it said Thursday, 8/2 at The Vic. I still have no idea how it happened, but in my mind the show was always on Friday night. I called the 10 Club Hotline, because I needed confirmation and the girl who answered made me feel even more like killing myself when she asked me how I messed the dates up? I had to then explain that I did not drive 2200 miles from Mesa, AZ to miss the concert on purpose, so that my 10 Club membership was not negatively affected for not showing up at the Vic on the right night. It was one of the WORST days of my life and the 90 minute drive back to Madison, WI was quite emotional for me. And in 15 years it was the first time I had ever shed tears over the band. Listening to Live at Beneroya Hall on the drive back, it was one of the first times that I had really reflected on the past 15 years enjoying live Pearl Jam and then realized that I had never tried to reach out to another Pearl Jamily member. After reading the Vic reviews and seeing the Vic clips on You Tube, it was was even harder for me, but I can appreciate that other fans were cool enough to share some of the experience that I have forever lost. My passion and energy for the band was missing from that small Vic room and my voice was missing from the Jamily sing alongs. You all brought a huge lump to my throat when I heard everyone singing with Ed at the Vic! You sounded beautiful. I truly want to apologize to the Band and all the other 10 Club members who made it to the Vic. I wish fate had never picked 8/2/07 to be the biggest mistake of my life. I would have cherished the opportunity to meet many different fans. I hope to get a chance in the future to listen and share the unique PJ experiences that we can all spend a lifetime trying to explain. It truly is Hard to Imagine! Thanks, Ray

Oh
MY
GOD
:eek:

This is so sad. Im in shock :(

Teddyledbetter

cropdustress wrote:

Oh
MY
GOD
:eek:

This is so sad. Im in shock :(

Just when I was thinking my life was bad...
Damn.. I hope you at least had a great time at Lolla!

jlew24asu

eh, show was ok.

Pegasus

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:

I was a little reluctant to post my story because I did not want to be known as the biggest idiot of a PJ fan to every exist.

...I scored Two Tickets for the Exclusive 10 Club show at the Vic Theater 8/2/07.

Around comes Friday 8/3/07 and we are driving down I-90 to Chicago to the Vic and Sean, a die hard Cubs fan says to turn on the Cubs radio because Eddie was going to sing the 7th Inning Stretch. I am thinking great, lets get a nice warm up song for the big Vic Show. After a commercial break the Cubs announcer delivers us the devastating news..."Hello Everyone from Wrigley Field today we have a very special guest, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam has joined us in the booth. They played an amazing show LAST NIGHT AT THE VIC THEATER"

:eek:
yes you are!
I just can't believe someone can be THAT daft! not for THAT show!

Sorry, I know I should be compassionate, but I can't stop thinking your 2 tickets could have been used by someone that actually had their head screwed on!

too many friends that hang around all day desperately looking for tickets to be understanding!

I'm gobsmacked!

panthergirl

ohmygod.
that just made my stomach ache.

what a nightmare.


i don't know what to say..

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC

For those of you who shared some sort of sympathy, I Thank you and appreciate the stories, pictures and video clips that you have shared!

As for the response from Pegasus...The last thing I needed in posting my story, was to get some sarcastic response from some pompous PJ rookie, who barely got his first taste in 2006! Get off your high horse insulting me by calling me an idiot who did not have my head screwed on. Jamily members do not insult and crap on each other, but I guess you have never made a mistake in your life Pegasus! You think I have any compassion for your friends who did not have any tickets for the Vic show and were only hoping to get in knowing they had no tickets. The chose to wait in the Hot sun for the slight chance at getting in the Vic. If they had a high speed internet connection they too had the chance to buy tickets online just like I did. Like I said, I did not drive across the USA to miss the show on purpose. Sometimes people make mistakes doing good for other people as I got caught up with helping my buddies Mom and lost sight of the actual date. This lapse in time has never happened to me before and I have never missed a concert in that past 300+ shows that I have attended. DON"T EVER MAKE A MISTAKE PEGASUS BECAUSE I AM SURE SOMEONE WILL BE THERE TO CALL YOU AN IDIOT! I guess you were one of the fans at the Vic that I was better off never meeting.

After getting this nasty response on my first attempt at posting, I now know why I was so reluctant to even share my story. Thanks for being "THAT GUY" Pegasus, I hope you are proud!

Pegasus

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:

For those of you who shared some sort of sympathy, I Thank you and appreciate the stories, pictures and video clips that you have shared!

As for the response from Pegasus...The last thing I needed in posting my story, was to get some sarcastic response from some pompous PJ rookie, who barely got his first taste in 2006! Get off your high horse insulting me by calling me an idiot who did not have my head screwed on. Jamily members do not insult and crap on each other, but I guess you have never made a mistake in your life Pegasus! You think I have any compassion for your friends who did not have any tickets for the Vic show and were only hoping to get in knowing they had no tickets. The chose to wait in the Hot sun for the slight chance at getting in the Vic. If they had a high speed internet connection they too had the chance to buy tickets online just like I did. Like I said, I did not drive across the USA to miss the show on purpose. Sometimes people make mistakes doing good for other people as I got caught up with helping my buddies Mom and lost sight of the actual date. This lapse in time has never happened to me before and I have never missed a concert in that past 300+ shows that I have attended. DON"T EVER MAKE A MISTAKE PEGASUS BECAUSE I AM SURE SOMEONE WILL BE THERE TO CALL YOU AN IDIOT! I guess you were one of the fans at the Vic that I was better off never meeting.

After getting this nasty response on my first attempt at posting, I now know why I was so reluctant to even share my story. Thanks for being "THAT GUY" Pegasus, I hope you are proud!

wow, you went from 31 to 300 shows in the space of 1 post?
and btw, the fact I didn't manage to see them until last year doesn't mean I'm a rookie.. there's some parts of the world they don't tour every year, some places they've never been even...

I didn't call you an idiot you did it yourself...I just agreed with you.

I know it was a mistake, I just can't believe someone would make it..it's not like the show was booked 6 months in advance, it was only 1 week!
Were it for any other show, I'd have simply sympathised, and I do to a point, but for that particular show, it borders on 'criminal' ...the fact is that your tickets gone to waste when so many people who cared enough to make sure they were there on time (see all the posts where people were stressing out about not landing/arriving on time), but were UNLUCKY and didn't get tickets could have used them.

as for what 'Jamily' members do (most people hate that term btw), you said yourself

that I had never tried to reach out to another Pearl Jamily member

, so how would you know?
if you were as considerate as you pretend to be, you wouldn't come here looking for sympathy (and you ONLY came here for that) where so many people would have done anything to make sure to be there and get in, had they had been lucky in scoring tickets... it's like dangling rotten meat at a starving dog.. my sympathy goes to them.

and yes I make mistakes, but I don't brag about them and don't expect people to feel sorry for me when I screw up.

Stereotype

Pegasus wrote:

:eek:
yes you are!
I just can't believe someone can be THAT daft! not for THAT show!

Sorry, I know I should be compassionate, but I can't stop thinking your 2 tickets could have been used by someone that actually had their head screwed on!

too many friends that hang around all day desperately looking for tickets to be understanding!

I'm gobsmacked!

You are heartless and selfish.

MrFadedGlory

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:

For those of you who shared some sort of sympathy, I Thank you and appreciate the stories, pictures and video clips that you have shared!

As for the response from Pegasus...The last thing I needed in posting my story, was to get some sarcastic response from some pompous PJ rookie, who barely got his first taste in 2006! Get off your high horse insulting me by calling me an idiot who did not have my head screwed on. Jamily members do not insult and crap on each other, but I guess you have never made a mistake in your life Pegasus! You think I have any compassion for your friends who did not have any tickets for the Vic show and were only hoping to get in knowing they had no tickets. The chose to wait in the Hot sun for the slight chance at getting in the Vic. If they had a high speed internet connection they too had the chance to buy tickets online just like I did. Like I said, I did not drive across the USA to miss the show on purpose. Sometimes people make mistakes doing good for other people as I got caught up with helping my buddies Mom and lost sight of the actual date. This lapse in time has never happened to me before and I have never missed a concert in that past 300+ shows that I have attended. DON"T EVER MAKE A MISTAKE PEGASUS BECAUSE I AM SURE SOMEONE WILL BE THERE TO CALL YOU AN IDIOT! I guess you were one of the fans at the Vic that I was better off never meeting.

After getting this nasty response on my first attempt at posting, I now know why I was so reluctant to even share my story. Thanks for being "THAT GUY" Pegasus, I hope you are proud!

Thanks for sharing...that is awful though. Makes me wonder how many of the 800 people on the floor ran into some type of test on that trip. My wife and I got our car parked exactly one hour before show time (thanks to the time change). We got delayed departing and then waited for over a half hour in traffic on I-70 where apparently a semi had jacknifed and left one side of the highway closed. I finally turned around in the median and re-routed through the countryside...my 6 hour drive turned into 8 and we barely made it. I'm just surprised nobody else in your crew read the email and caught it; so sorry.

MrFadedGlory

Pegasus wrote:

as for what 'Jamily' members do (most people hate that term btw)

Thank God...I thought it was just me

Mine

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:

For those of you who shared some sort of sympathy, I Thank you and appreciate the stories, pictures and video clips that you have shared!

As for the response from Pegasus...The last thing I needed in posting my story, was to get some sarcastic response from some pompous PJ rookie, who barely got his first taste in 2006! Get off your high horse insulting me by calling me an idiot who did not have my head screwed on. Jamily members do not insult and crap on each other, but I guess you have never made a mistake in your life Pegasus! You think I have any compassion for your friends who did not have any tickets for the Vic show and were only hoping to get in knowing they had no tickets. The chose to wait in the Hot sun for the slight chance at getting in the Vic. If they had a high speed internet connection they too had the chance to buy tickets online just like I did. Like I said, I did not drive across the USA to miss the show on purpose. Sometimes people make mistakes doing good for other people as I got caught up with helping my buddies Mom and lost sight of the actual date. This lapse in time has never happened to me before and I have never missed a concert in that past 300+ shows that I have attended. DON"T EVER MAKE A MISTAKE PEGASUS BECAUSE I AM SURE SOMEONE WILL BE THERE TO CALL YOU AN IDIOT! I guess you were one of the fans at the Vic that I was better off never meeting.

After getting this nasty response on my first attempt at posting, I now know why I was so reluctant to even share my story. Thanks for being "THAT GUY" Pegasus, I hope you are proud!

Never apologise because you have a life. I bet you ain't that sorry for missing it after all now.

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC

Pegasus wrote:

wow, you went from 31 to 300 shows in the space of 1 post?
and btw, the fact I didn't manage to see them until last year doesn't mean I'm a rookie.. there's some parts of the world they don't tour every year, some places they've never been even...

I didn't call you an idiot you did it yourself...I just agreed with you.

I know it was a mistake, I just can't believe someone would make it..it's not like the show was booked 6 months in advance, it was only 1 week!
Were it for any other show, I'd have simply sympathised, and I do to a point, but for that particular show, it borders on 'criminal' ...the fact is that your tickets gone to waste when so many people who cared enough to make sure they were there on time (see all the posts where people were stressing out about not landing/arriving on time), but were UNLUCKY and didn't get tickets could have used them.

as for what 'Jamily' members do (most people hate that term btw), you said yourself , so how would you know?
if you were as considerate as you pretend to be, you wouldn't come here looking for sympathy (and you ONLY came here for that) where so many people would have done anything to make sure to be there and get in, had they had been lucky in scoring tickets... it's like dangling rotten meat at a starving dog.. my sympathy goes to them.

and yes I make mistakes, but I don't brag about them and don't expect people to feel sorry for me when I screw up.

Wow...I shouldn't even respond because it is obvious that you do not get it! How you have come across to everyone is obvious by what they have said about your nasty response. You are the only person who took my post as an open invitation to throw salt in my wounds and it shows what type of person you are! You make many ASSumptions about what my intentions were in posting my story. Do you really think that sympathy does anything to take away from how bad I have felt about missing the show? I have been a 10 Club member since 1992, around when the "Jamily" term was adopted and you are the first to claim that it is so widely disliked. That is ridiculous...it is only a word to identify a large group of people and if some don't like it...so be it. I have been to 31 Pearl Jam shows and over 300+ concerts from various bands in my life, not 300+ PJ shows as you thought you read. I have dedicated 15 years to the band and have met and share stories with 1000's of fans over the years, I was saying that I have never reached out to other PJ fans in an online forum. You are ridiculous if you really think that I did not care enough to be there at the Vic on time! Nobody drives 4500 miles to miss a PJ show! I have been asking myself for 9 days now how this actually happened. Rather than wanting sympathy, I was more hoping to hear if anyone else had any similar experiences or what they went through to make it to the Vic. You followed one European tour in 2006 and you think you have been given the title of "PJ Executioner." You wear that mask proud because someday karma will take something from you. I am pretty sure if your friends were not outside begging to get in, you would not have been such a jerk in your response. In 15 years of interacting with PJ fans, you are the first that I have ever had an unpleasant experience with. Like others in the forum have said, you are "selfish" for making this about you and your friends who did not get in. How about shame on you and your friends for having no respect for the Pearl Jam 10 Club and encouraging those with no tickets to show up at the Vic nearly making it impossible to distribute the tickets to those fan club members who had rightfully paid for them. You act as if my two tickets were entitled to your friends because they struggled in the Hot sun trying to get into the Vic. You have no idea what the Vic show meant to me and I don't expect someone who just got their first taste of Live Pearl Jam on that last European Tour to truly understand how I really feel about the band and following them around the USA for the last 15 years. BE CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES PEGASUS BECAUSE I AM SURE SOMEONE WILL BE THERE TO TAKE A HUGE DUMP ON YOUR HEAD LIKE YOU HAVE DONE TO ME.

VIVA LA PEARL "JAMILY" FOREVER!

panthergirl

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:

Wow...I shouldn't even respond because it is obvious that you do not get it! How you have come across to everyone is obvious by what they have said about your nasty response. You are the only person who took my post as an open invitation to throw salt in my wounds and it shows what type of person you are! You make many ASSumptions about what my intentions were in posting my story. Do you really think that sympathy does anything to take away from how bad I have felt about missing the show? I have been a 10 Club member since 1992, around when the "Jamily" term was adopted and you are the first to claim that it is so widely disliked. That is ridiculous...it is only a word to identify a large group of people and if some don't like it...so be it. I have been to 31 Pearl Jam shows and over 300+ concerts from various bands in my life, not 300+ PJ shows as you thought you read. I have dedicated 15 years to the band and have met and share stories with 1000's of fans over the years, I was saying that I have never reached out to other PJ fans in an online forum. You are ridiculous if you really think that I did not care enough to be there at the Vic on time! Nobody drives 4500 miles to miss a PJ show! I have been asking myself for 9 days now how this actually happened. Rather than wanting sympathy, I was more hoping to hear if anyone else had any similar experiences or what they went through to make it to the Vic. You followed one European tour in 2006 and you think you have been given the title of "PJ Executioner." You wear that mask proud because someday karma will take something from you. I am pretty sure if your friends were not outside begging to get in, you would not have been such a jerk in your response. In 15 years of interacting with PJ fans, you are the first that I have ever had an unpleasant experience with. Like others in the forum have said, you are "selfish" for making this about you and your friends who did not get in. How about shame on you and your friends for having no respect for the Pearl Jam 10 Club and encouraging those with no tickets to show up at the Vic nearly making it impossible to distribute the tickets to those fan club members who had rightfully paid for them. You act as if my two tickets were entitled to your friends because they struggled in the Hot sun trying to get into the Vic. You have no idea what the Vic show meant to me and I don't expect someone who just got their first taste of Live Pearl Jam on that last European Tour to truly understand how I really feel about the band and following them around the USA for the last 15 years. BE CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES PEGASUS BECAUSE I AM SURE SOMEONE WILL BE THERE TO TAKE A HUGE DUMP ON YOUR HEAD LIKE YOU HAVE DONE TO ME.

VIVA LA PEARL "JAMILY" FOREVER!

ok ok.... let's all take a deep breath now....

when posting on these boards, you open yourself up to this kind of stuff...


don't focus on it.

most of us are beyond sympathetic and empathetic and truly feel your pain.

i think i checked for my tenclub email and id a million times before i finally reached the vic.

our flight from miami was delayed THREE HOURS (the windshield on the plane had to be changed !!) and if we would not have had such an early flight ... there is a chance i wouldn;t have made it.
believe me, the thought made me sick to my stomach.


anyway...
again... so so sorry you weren't there...
and maybe there will be a next time (i'm sure hoping for it )

Pegasus

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:

Wow...I shouldn't even respond because it is obvious that you do not get it! How you have come across to everyone is obvious by what they have said about your nasty response. You are the only person who took my post as an open invitation to throw salt in my wounds and it shows what type of person you are! You make many ASSumptions about what my intentions were in posting my story. Do you really think that sympathy does anything to take away from how bad I have felt about missing the show? I have been a 10 Club member since 1992, around when the "Jamily" term was adopted and you are the first to claim that it is so widely disliked. That is ridiculous...it is only a word to identify a large group of people and if some don't like it...so be it.

I'm just the only person that bothered saying out loud what I'm certain many thought..ok I probably should be more diplomatic..or not bother..but that's my gut reaction, and at least I'm not hypocritical about it.
As for the term 'Jamily', every time it has been used here or on other forums, I've seen people reacting negatively on it..so I'm just saying what I've witnessed..someone above agreed on that btw.

I have been to 31 Pearl Jam shows and over 300+ concerts from various bands in my life, not 300+ PJ shows as you thought you read. I have dedicated 15 years to the band and have met and share stories with 1000's of fans over the years, I was saying that I have never reached out to other PJ fans in an online forum.

ok, it seems that either you didn't express yourself clearly on those points, or I didn't understand them, or a bit of both. Fair enough.

You are ridiculous if you really think that I did not care enough to be there at the Vic on time! Nobody drives 4500 miles to miss a PJ show! I have been asking myself for 9 days now how this actually happened. Rather than wanting sympathy, I was more hoping to hear if anyone else had any similar experiences or what they went through to make it to the Vic. You followed one European tour in 2006 and you think you have been given the title of "PJ Executioner." You wear that mask proud because someday karma will take something from you.

I don't see what your 'seniority' has to do with it.. (I've seen as many shows as you have and have listened to the band for as long as you have so not sure what it actually means anyway)
and I flew 12000km to be able to see them 1 more time, festival setting or not, not just because there was a 'special' show (decision made before the Vic was announced... literally hours before in fact...so karma wanted me to be there it seems )
and the people I know trying for tickets outside the vic were in town for Lolla too...not just before there was a 'cool' show on.

I am pretty sure if your friends were not outside begging to get in, you would not have been such a jerk in your response. In 15 years of interacting with PJ fans, you are the first that I have ever had an unpleasant experience with. Like others in the forum have said, you are "selfish" for making this about you and your friends who did not get in. How about shame on you and your friends for having no respect for the Pearl Jam 10 Club and encouraging those with no tickets to show up at the Vic nearly making it impossible to distribute the tickets to those fan club members who had rightfully paid for them. You act as if my two tickets were entitled to your friends because they struggled in the Hot sun trying to get into the Vic.

I believe your tickets were entitled to someone, anyone, that would actually be there to use them.
Believe me or not, but I'd say exactly the same thing if I hadn't personally known anyone wanting tickets... just known that many people wanted those tickets desperately...and ANYONE could have used the ones you wasted..
can't fathom how caring about those makes me selfish...:rolleyes:..It's precisely because I'm thinking of others (any, not specifically my friends), that I reacted to your post...selfishly, I got in so shouldn't care about wasted opportunities.

and since you were not at the show, I really don't know where you got the notion that people trying to get tickets in any way impaired the normal distribution or entry.. they didn't...
nor did I encourage anyone to come without tickets..I actually dissuaded someone to change her flight in the off chance to score a tix.

You have no idea what the Vic show meant to me and I don't expect someone who just got their first taste of Live Pearl Jam on that last European Tour to truly understand how I really feel about the band and following them around the USA for the last 15 years. BE CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES PEGASUS BECAUSE I AM SURE SOMEONE WILL BE THERE TO TAKE A HUGE DUMP ON YOUR HEAD LIKE YOU HAVE DONE TO ME.

don't worry, If I ever make a mistake like that, the biggest possible kick in the butt, slap in the head and dump will come from myself!! by far!

Don't think we'll get any further, you'll keep thinking I'm a heartless jerk (or whatever the female equivalent is) and I that you're a wasteful idiot...
I just hope next time you get such an opportunity, you'll be more careful (and I'm sure you will and I hope you get another chance).

lets get back on topic .. how cool the Vic show was

wulffeld

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:

I hope to get a chance in the future to listen and share the unique PJ experiences that we can all spend a lifetime trying to explain. It truly is Hard to Imagine! Thanks, Ray

Damn, that fucking sucks. I can't imagine anything more horrific including death and torture. I've had nightmares about confusing dates but you're living it. Get well soon.

Temple of Love Bone

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hrd2imgn

rollingstone423 wrote:

you got someone ejected for moving in front of you at a GA show- A GA show? WTF- mustve been quite boring and stiff up front- ha- what a joke

this was stake your claim and keep it admission, not just fucking walk in front of people waiting all day for the goods seasts GA ala Lolla. And there was nothing stiff about the front at all except my crank when they played H2I. The crowd was amazing all night, especially in the front.

hrd2imgn

mozman88 wrote:

Highlight: Being second row balcony dead center, EVERYTHING!
Lowlight: Dipshits sitting at a local bar making bootleg wristbands....I think 10C went after them and I hope the fucker who lended his to them to copy got banned.

they did catch them, security was right in front of us Mikes side and they used my wrist band to compare it to the fake. It was a shitty job, but good enough to get by on a glance. It had puffy letters and obvous cut and tape work.

hrd2imgn

that is the worst Pearl jam thing I have ever hear reagrding tickets.

It hurts even reading it, at least you can get a good boot of it as a minute fraction of a consellation.

augustwest

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:

I have never posted on this forum before, but over the years I have read many other fans sharing their experiences as I have followed Pearl Jam tours in past years. I have always found it interesting to see another PJ fans perspective on how the band has influenced them with the music they have given to us. Now that I am back home in Arizona, I was a little reluctant to post my story because I did not want to be known as the biggest idiot of a PJ fan to every exist. But driving 2200 miles from Chicago back to Mesa, Arizona really left me with a monkey on my back that I just can't shake! Despite being lucky enough to see PJ 31 different times in Concert from 1992-2007, I never realized how long I had waited for a chance for a show like the VIC in Chicago. For 15 years, I never believed I would have the opportunity to see PJ in such an intimate venue and when the 10Club sent me that email announcing the show, I almost died from excitement and anticipation of trying to get my hands on some tickets when they went on sale Thursday morning. I did not sleep for two days and when Thursday came around...I scored Two Tickets for the Exclusive 10 Club show at the Vic Theater 8/2/07.

My best friend and our 4 Lost Dogs (3 Staffordshire Terriers and 1 Chihuahua/Weiner Dog) packed our bags and were off to Madison, WI from Mesa,AZ to stay with his Mom before the big show with PJ @ the Vic and Lollapalooza @ Grant Park. His mom lives in a Log cabin on Lake Wisconsin, so we helped he stain her cabin during the week prior to the shows. Somehow working 12-13 hour days in 80-100% Humidity, I lost track of the day. I have always taken pride on using my Fan Club privileges to bring a person with me who has never seen Pearl Jam live. I take joy in opening someone new to the PJ experience and watching them go to a place I have been lucky enough to know since 1992! Thursday night before the Big Vic show, I am sitting with my friends Sean and Dan in Wisconsin talking about what songs that we hoped to hear. Dan was cool enough to give up his ticket to Sean (Childhood bud) since it would be his first PJ show ever. Sean wanted to hear them open with "I am Mine" and Close with "Yellow Ledbetter". I was hoping to get "Hard to Imagine" and "Indifference" as the closer. After talking about how awesome the show at the Vic was going to be...we hit the hay to get an early start to Chicago from Madison, WI the next morning. Around comes Friday 8/3/07 and we are driving down I-90 to Chicago to the Vic and Sean, a die hard Cubs fan says to turn on the Cubs radio because Eddie was going to sing the 7th Inning Stretch. I am thinking great, lets get a nice warm up song for the big Vic Show. After a commercial break the Cubs announcer delivers us the devastating news..."Hello Everyone from Wrigley Field today we have a very special guest, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam has joined us in the booth. They played an amazing show LAST NIGHT AT THE VIC THEATER" I almost came to a screeching halt in disbelief...they was no way that I missed the Vic Concert! I pulled off I-90 in Rockford, IL to pull out my email confirmation to see it said Thursday, 8/2 at The Vic. I still have no idea how it happened, but in my mind the show was always on Friday night. I called the 10 Club Hotline, because I needed confirmation and the girl who answered made me feel even more like killing myself when she asked me how I messed the dates up? I had to then explain that I did not drive 2200 miles from Mesa, AZ to miss the concert on purpose, so that my 10 Club membership was not negatively affected for not showing up at the Vic on the right night. It was one of the WORST days of my life and the 90 minute drive back to Madison, WI was quite emotional for me. And in 15 years it was the first time I had ever shed tears over the band. Listening to Live at Beneroya Hall on the drive back, it was one of the first times that I had really reflected on the past 15 years enjoying live Pearl Jam and then realized that I had never tried to reach out to another Pearl Jamily member. After reading the Vic reviews and seeing the Vic clips on You Tube, it was was even harder for me, but I can appreciate that other fans were cool enough to share some of the experience that I have forever lost. My passion and energy for the band was missing from that small Vic room and my voice was missing from the Jamily sing alongs. You all brought a huge lump to my throat when I heard everyone singing with Ed at the Vic! You sounded beautiful. I truly want to apologize to the Band and all the other 10 Club members who made it to the Vic. I wish fate had never picked 8/2/07 to be the biggest mistake of my life. I would have cherished the opportunity to meet many different fans. I hope to get a chance in the future to listen and share the unique PJ experiences that we can all spend a lifetime trying to explain. It truly is Hard to Imagine! Thanks, Ray

Wow that is quite a story/post. I too missed the show(didn't get the ticket icon till 25 mins into the sale) and although I'm not quite at your level of sadness I do completelt understand and empathize with your pain. It must have been very hard to post what you did, without having great greif in the writing of it.

Mistakes happen all the time. Good fate and karma will come back your way again

Having said that I have finally heard the VIC show and not to beat you down because of your story...but I will say that even when I listen to this Vic show it still brings me happiness. It's the first time I heard the band play Love Reign O'er Me and that has made my entire week/month. It has been the greatest gift the band could ever give me being a huge Quad/old Who fan.
I really hope they continue playing that song so one day I can see it go down.