Pearl Jam to play Oracle OpenWorld

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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    yeah maybe....some angst...some reliving the romance of the past
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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    callen wrote:
    yeah maybe....some angst...some reliving the romance of the past...refered to the agnst of why people reject corporations...topic of most of the thread
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  • veddertown
    veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    So, who is going to start the ***Please Play Not For You At Oracle OpenWorld*** thread..... :?

    Come on, it's a great song!! ;):D
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,660
    veddertown wrote:
    So, who is going to start the ***Please Play Not For You At Oracle OpenWorld*** thread..... :?

    Come on, it's a great song!! ;):D
    :lol:
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  • BlackCorduroy
    BlackCorduroy Posts: 1,374
    One nice story out of this...My mother's work is sending her here and she called me today absolutely ecstatic that PJ is playing. She's hates her job and I always feel terrible about it. It truly blows...she works long hours in a cubicle, often on call all night and works the next day. It's miserable and exhausting for her. It pays ok, but nothing impressive- plus she's a single mother and homeowner so money is tight. She's a huge PJ fan though, 10c member, seen them 20+ times with me. Bummed she couldn't score an extra pass for myself, but she really deserves this and she's so happy.
    As corporate as this all appears, PJ is not selling songs to Oracle commercials. They were paid to play somewhere. That's what working musicians do. The attendees of this event will not all be scumbag rich CEOs. They are regular people who work with computers and whose company probably sponsored them.
  • BE9456
    BE9456 Posts: 148
    BlackCorduroy wrote:
    As corporate as this all appears, PJ is not selling songs to Oracle commercials. They were paid to play somewhere. That's what working musicians do. The attendees of this event will not all be scumbag rich CEOs. They are regular people who work with computers and whose company probably sponsored them.
    No, the CEOs have reserved boxes and seats. But yes, most of the attendees will be customers of Oracle.

    Wonder if the "they are just being payed to play" excuse worked for Beyonce when she played for Ghadaffi.

    Again, putting aside the corporate gig aspect, the thing that is pissing most of us off is that they are playing 2 US shows this year, and one is not for us.
  • ceska
    ceska New York Posts: 1,137
    I see 4 shows listed on the touring page (and this is not one of them).... but whatever... So you mean if this gig was somewhere in the mix of a 72-date tour, no one here would say a peep about this? So then it truly has nothing to do with the corporate-ness of this event, putting it aside or not.

    Look, the band just isn't doing a US tour this year. We should have no expectation of a US tour this year or any year that isn't an album release year (or the following calendar year as was the case in Backspacer), and it seems pretty clear that the times of 72-date tours are over. They just did Europe... Ed's going on tour soon too.. Next year it might be something else, maybe they'll tour Antartica finally, who knows.... They're not ignoring their fans by any stretch. We'll get our US PJ tour in due time.
  • Better Dan
    Better Dan Posts: 5,684
    BE9456 wrote:
    BlackCorduroy wrote:
    As corporate as this all appears, PJ is not selling songs to Oracle commercials. They were paid to play somewhere. That's what working musicians do. The attendees of this event will not all be scumbag rich CEOs. They are regular people who work with computers and whose company probably sponsored them.
    No, the CEOs have reserved boxes and seats. But yes, most of the attendees will be customers of Oracle.

    Wonder if the "they are just being payed to play" excuse worked for Beyonce when she played for Ghadaffi.

    Again, putting aside the corporate gig aspect, the thing that is pissing most of us off is that they are playing 2 US shows this year, and one is not for us.


    Technically, neither one of them are for us. If Tester wasn't running for re-election or wasn't a friend of Jeff's they likely wouldn't be plaing Missoula at all this year.
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  • Tboz51
    Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    BE9456 wrote:
    BlackCorduroy wrote:
    As corporate as this all appears, PJ is not selling songs to Oracle commercials. They were paid to play somewhere. That's what working musicians do. The attendees of this event will not all be scumbag rich CEOs. They are regular people who work with computers and whose company probably sponsored them.
    No, the CEOs have reserved boxes and seats. But yes, most of the attendees will be customers of Oracle.

    Wonder if the "they are just being payed to play" excuse worked for Beyonce when she played for Ghadaffi.

    Again, putting aside the corporate gig aspect, the thing that is pissing most of us off is that they are playing 2 US shows this year, and one is not for us.

    She played for Ghaddafi's sons the two butchers who are up for war crimes. Not to be squelching of your excellent point.

    The Mod's of this site don't like these types of posts fyi.... (you know factual events that happened and can be vetted).
    Lionel Ritchie
    Nellie Furtado
    Jay-Z
    are all also known to play shows for million dollar pay days for murderers.

    In fairness to Beyonce she did blame her handlers for this (because it is impossible for a grown person to actually take responsibility for their own actions) and donated the 2 million dollars (yes two separate concerts for his sons) to charity.

    To date none of the other people have donated anything (on record).

    Playing a corporate event for people who are not in their fan base for money is pathetic.

    I will probably be banned for this post, but it will never change my opinion of these people who took money from the Ghadaffi sons who stole it from the Libyan people.

    Look at my avatar, I want to find reason to believe that this isn't exactly what it is... in all these regards. But I can't be a hypocrite and lie to myself.

    I hope D Flo and whoever sees the show enjoys their time.... But we must call this exactly what it is...

    Here is the nice to women Khaddafi son article... http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/beyonce_sings_for_khadafy_CpEA6KZgpM5y5nV5mKZFEL

    I stand corrected on Furtado...
    http://blog.music.aol.com/2011/09/28/nelly-furtado-donates-million-dollar-gaddafi-concert/
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    :-)
  • teeman
    teeman Posts: 337
    Can't wait to rock out at this show in my $90 flannel shirt!
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,788
    Can't we let this one slide off the front page now? There's a new lumber jacket in the shop for everyone to bitch about instead...
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  • sheri zona
    sheri zona Makai Side Posts: 356
    Well, we can safely say the people attending this corp event most likely won't be singing all the riffs of Even Flow. I see a group of people who are 'going to check out pearl jam' at the conference. Half are excited, the other half are wearing their embroidered Oracle golf shirts, cup in hand, chatting and networking during the show. I've been to some of these and that's usually what ends up happening unfortunately.
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  • PillowPants
    PillowPants Posts: 4,877
    sheri zona wrote:
    Well, we can safely say the people attending this corp event most likely won't be singing all the riffs of Even Flow. I see a group of people who are 'going to check out pearl jam' at the conference. Half are excited, the other half are wearing their embroidered Oracle golf shirts, cup in hand, chatting and networking during the show. I've been to some of these and that's usually what ends up happening unfortunately.

    I disagree

    I went to see Barenaked Ladies at the PeopleSoft Conference years ago

    you've got a venue full of people juiced up on free booze who will sing along to anything

    granted - i don't think of Pearl Jam as a party band... but they put on a show so it will be fun
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,660
    PillowPants wrote:
    sheri zona wrote:
    Well, we can safely say the people attending this corp event most likely won't be singing all the riffs of Even Flow. I see a group of people who are 'going to check out pearl jam' at the conference. Half are excited, the other half are wearing their embroidered Oracle golf shirts, cup in hand, chatting and networking during the show. I've been to some of these and that's usually what ends up happening unfortunately.

    I disagree

    I went to see Barenaked Ladies at the PeopleSoft Conference years ago

    you've got a venue full of people juiced up on free booze who will sing along to anything

    granted - i don't think of Pearl Jam as a party band... but they put on a show so it will be fun
    Your avatar is weirding me out for some reason. :lol:
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  • teeman
    teeman Posts: 337
    sheri zona wrote:
    Well, we can safely say the people attending this corp event most likely won't be singing all the riffs of Even Flow. I see a group of people who are 'going to check out pearl jam' at the conference. Half are excited, the other half are wearing their embroidered Oracle golf shirts, cup in hand, chatting and networking during the show. I've been to some of these and that's usually what ends up happening unfortunately.

    I actually agree with this wholeheartedly.
  • foriginalsin
    foriginalsin Posts: 713
    Still would like some sort of explanation.
  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    foriginalsin wrote:
    Still would like some sort of explanation.
    They don't owe you one
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,660
    LloydXmas wrote:
    foriginalsin wrote:
    Still would like some sort of explanation.
    They don't owe you one
    Exactly.
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  • foriginalsin
    foriginalsin Posts: 713
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    LloydXmas wrote:
    foriginalsin wrote:
    Still would like some sort of explanation.
    They don't owe you one
    Exactly.

    No they don't owe me one. I said I would like to have one. Its a request. Get off your fucking pedestal.

    So ri249107 posted in the setlist thread that,

    "So this is only my second PJ concert (first time was in vienna 2006, such long time ago). I must say I was happy to see that the guys, although they felt the need to sort of apologize every once in a while for doing this kind of a show."

    And jimed14 wrote,

    "Green Disease was brilliantly placed within the set. A little joke for us PJ fans. Ed did state they were "getting paid" but said it was to fund other charitable projects the band supports (Perhaps making up for scoring a goose egg for the Montana Tester show? ) He did give a shout out to the Wounded Warrior program ... so, hopefully they saw a little action from tonight's proceeds as well."

    Clearly this issue was not lost on the band or Ed. Green Disease was a nice wink wink gesture. Its good to know that the money went to charity, which is what I thought would happen.

    Missoula was awesome. Met a lot of great people. Heres look forward to the next full tour.
  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    First this. Now Wrigley :x

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