Pearl Jam to play Oracle OpenWorld

justam

intodeep wrote:

The times are a changing :(

Is that really coming out too?

Haywood Yablomee

I guess the PAID IN AMERICA festival wasn't enough money for them...

"Oh where, Oh where has my favorite band gone? The money took them away from me..." EVERYBODY!!
Sing in the same key as Last Kiss

Tboz51

skeetopunk01 wrote:

I'm a Metclub member as well and won tickets via a contest to the Dreamforce 2011 show. What a cool experience that was. I'm sure Pearl Jam will do something similar, set up a contest for tenclub members. If you get selected, you get to bring a +1. When I won the contest, I took another Metclub member for free. Keep in mind, some winners were charging hundreds for there +1's. Guess What.... because I did that... someone took me to Night 4 of the 30th Anniversary Metallica shows at the Fillmore last December for free. Those +1 tickets were going for $400+ on the Metallica forums.

How great is this?

One member gets to go see Pearl Jam at a concert for executives.

I am sure glad the 250,000+ membership of Pearl Jams fan club are being rewarded for their years of loyalty.

With the opportunity to maybe win a contest to go see your band that hasn't done a tour for nearly 2 years in the US.

The chances of winning this unbelievable thing will probably get another 100,000 US fans to join the site and maybe in the next 5 years have a 10 city tour of the USA.

Good times

SolarWorld

shep wrote:

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

Not that this is necessarily the case here, but some bands that do corporate gigs often do them to create work for their crew members during the bands downtime.

this is exactly what's going on here.... I hope everyone realizes that in their post.

The band decided to play a promotional event for John Tester.

To do this, that means they have to mobilize the ground crew.

Most people don't realize the mobilization fee is ridiculous large compared to the operating cost. In order to pay off the mobilization costs, the band would have looked at exactly how many shows it would take to put them back in the black for the "tour".

The number of shows worked out to 3 festivals + this gig. End of story. It was the quickest, easiest way to not have a net loss for playing the promotional even for Tester.

Again - I point out to the RATM tour of Europe last year... what was it 4 shows + the free show in the UK? Same deal.

Just because PJ are donating a show to John Tester for his campaign fund it doesn't mean they don't have to pay the US ground crew...

Hey Logic and Reason... :nono: You have no place here...

:wave: Get out!

SolarWorld

intodeep wrote:

The times are a changing :(

Oh and then the NA tour was a failure, so who's living in the real world here?

Tboz51

At risk of being banned I pose this question again...

When will Pearl Jam play Iran, China or do some shows in the diamond mines of Africa... Maybe the Africans can hold up lighters with the hand (they still have)?

Shameful

SolarWorld

Tboz51 wrote:

At risk of being banned I pose this question again...

When will Pearl Jam play Iran, China or do some shows in the diamond mines of Africa... Maybe the Africans can hold up lighters with the hand (they still have)?

Shameful

Why would they ban you for something that makes no sense, at all... :?

So now they dont do enough charity? :fp:

Tboz51

SolarWorld wrote:

shep wrote:

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

Not that this is necessarily the case here, but some bands that do corporate gigs often do them to create work for their crew members during the bands downtime.

this is exactly what's going on here.... I hope everyone realizes that in their post.

The band decided to play a promotional event for John Tester.

To do this, that means they have to mobilize the ground crew.

Most people don't realize the mobilization fee is ridiculous large compared to the operating cost. In order to pay off the mobilization costs, the band would have looked at exactly how many shows it would take to put them back in the black for the "tour".

The number of shows worked out to 3 festivals + this gig. End of story. It was the quickest, easiest way to not have a net loss for playing the promotional even for Tester.

Again - I point out to the RATM tour of Europe last year... what was it 4 shows + the free show in the UK? Same deal.

Just because PJ are donating a show to John Tester for his campaign fund it doesn't mean they don't have to pay the US ground crew...

Hey Logic and Reason... :nono: You have no place here...

:wave: Get out!

They could also do a tour to pay the "ground crew".

Instead of just breaking even or giving money during this down time...

Corporate gigs, headlining shows at festivals for quick money... is this really the new Pearl Jam?

Tboz51

SolarWorld wrote:

Tboz51 wrote:

At risk of being banned I pose this question again...

When will Pearl Jam play Iran, China or do some shows in the diamond mines of Africa... Maybe the Africans can hold up lighters with the hand (they still have)?

Shameful

Why would they ban you for something that makes no sense, at all... :?

So now they dont do enough charity? :fp:

What part of it makes no sense?

Lots of money to be made in those countries. Lots of free money to help pay the ground crew.

Haywood Yablomee

Viva La Weiner wrote:

Set List:

Green Disease
Soon Forget
Hard to Imagine (they are playing this)
Gimme Some Truth (played backwards)
Satan's Bed (2nd time eating crow)
Sad (yes it is)

Encore:
Green Disease reprise
Save You

You forgot pre-set.
The pre-set would be dedicated to Jimmy of The Frogs.
"I only play for money"
I dont think Ed has sang it since '95.
What an appropriate time to bust it back out for several reasons...

PissBottleMan

When did this band turn into Fugazi? I missed that tweet.

PBM

Haywood Yablomee

PissBottleMan wrote:

When did this band turn into Fugazi? I missed that tweet.

PBM

They didn't... They turned into a JOKE!

I heard through the grapevine that the working title of their forthcoming album is "The epitome of hypocrisy."
You heard it here first!!

my2hands

josevolution wrote:

So what the fuck has happened to the band , fuck these types of events .....

LineOneMightyFine

Tboz51

Haywood Yablomee wrote:

PissBottleMan wrote:

When did this band turn into Fugazi? I missed that tweet.

PBM

They didn't... They turned into a JOKE!

I heard through the grapevine that the working title of their forthcoming album is "The epitome of hypocrisy."
You heard it here first!!

be careful... there are rats in this forum that'll rat you our for having an opposing view point of anything PJ. They will then ban you from the forum.

No one is allowed to disagree or question what PJ does with themselves.

This is a love fest site...

Those lost young men we use to follow who fought against 2500$ tix prices and oppressing people and their opinions are forever gone.

This new regime will take any money they can get no matter the cost to their reputation or to their respect they have earned.

Don't worry though, there are plenty of cheerleader clowns in here that'll set you straight about yourself for questioning anything that PJ does....

Haywood Yablomee

Tboz51 wrote:

Haywood Yablomee wrote:

PissBottleMan wrote:

When did this band turn into Fugazi? I missed that tweet.

PBM

They didn't... They turned into a JOKE!

I heard through the grapevine that the working title of their forthcoming album is "The epitome of hypocrisy."
You heard it here first!!

be careful... there are rats in this forum that'll rat you our for having an opposing view point of anything PJ. They will then ban you from the forum.

No one is allowed to disagree or question what PJ does with themselves.

This is a love fest site...

Those lost young men we use to follow who fought against 2500$ tix prices and oppressing people and their opinions are forever gone.

This new regime will take any money they can get no matter the cost to their reputation or to their respect they have earned.

Don't worry though, there are plenty of cheerleader clowns in here that'll set you straight about yourself for questioning anything that PJ does....

I believe the tickets are only $2,400...

Tboz51

I stand corrected, thank you.

Better Dan

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ComeToTX

shep wrote:

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

Not that this is necessarily the case here, but some bands that do corporate gigs often do them to create work for their crew members during the bands downtime.

this is exactly what's going on here.... I hope everyone realizes that in their post.

The band decided to play a promotional event for John Tester.

To do this, that means they have to mobilize the ground crew.

Most people don't realize the mobilization fee is ridiculous large compared to the operating cost. In order to pay off the mobilization costs, the band would have looked at exactly how many shows it would take to put them back in the black for the "tour".

The number of shows worked out to 3 festivals + this gig. End of story. It was the quickest, easiest way to not have a net loss for playing the promotional even for Tester.

Again - I point out to the RATM tour of Europe last year... what was it 4 shows + the free show in the UK? Same deal.

Just because PJ are donating a show to John Tester for his campaign fund it doesn't mean they don't have to pay the US ground crew...

I'm guessing they're getting paid for the Tester show. He's making money off meet and greet folks and dinner with Jeff folks, etc. They're probably taking a pay cut but I'm guessing they'll make a profit.

Better Dan

ComeToTX wrote:

norm wrote:

they wanna play corporate gigs for $$$? awesome, go for it...i was never one that cared about their social or political stances...i'm here for the music

but when you only play 3 shows in the us in nearly 3 years and instead of playing shows for your fans, you play a corporate party? yeah, i think i got a problem with that...play a 15 show west coast tour and they'll make the same $$

Yup.

Hey, they've done more corporate shows than they've played Texas in the past 10 years. :fp: