Pearl Jam to play Oracle OpenWorld

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Hugh Freaking Dillon

I hope they sell a limited edition Pearl Jam Laptop with a stickman mouse at the show and one of you fuckers complaining about this is going to lose his life savings paying for it on ebay.

rrivers

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

I hope they sell a limited edition Pearl Jam Laptop with a stickman mouse at the show and one of you fuckers complaining about this is going to lose his life savings paying for it on ebay.

Pure class.

Indifference71

stickfig13 wrote:

Tboz51 wrote:

I had an epiphany today....

Has it occurred to anyone else that maybe they are doing this Oracle gig because Oracle is helping them to find the saboteur who crashed the web server during the ticket scandals?

Think about it....

EV and Jeff are paying back the group who is going to track the people responsible for this scandal.

Makes total sense now to me.

Kinda like how OJ was looking for the real killer...I get it

This thread is pretty entertaining.

jrnyc

fall by the wayside wrote:

At this point in their careers I could care less about the whole sellout angle. If the band plays private corporate shows like this it's up to them I guess. Its not the first time they've done so and clearly they've changed their stance on such matters over the years.

I do find it a bit disheartening though, that they can find time in their schedule to play events like this, but can't schedule more than a couple festival appearances for the general public in their home country, for the fans who stood by them for years and actually put them in this position. I'm not pissed off, but the more they continue this new outlook on gigs, the less I care. It's their choice I suppose, as is mine to spend my money to see other acts who actually make the effort to get on the road and connect with their fans more than a handful of times, whenever the fuck they feel like it.

This right here. Only two shows in the middle of nowhere last year and not much this year. They can play a show for Oracle where the majority of people couldn't care less. But they can't do some arena shows this year for their real fans?????

Indifference71

jrnyc wrote:

fall by the wayside wrote:

At this point in their careers I could care less about the whole sellout angle. If the band plays private corporate shows like this it's up to them I guess. Its not the first time they've done so and clearly they've changed their stance on such matters over the years.

I do find it a bit disheartening though, that they can find time in their schedule to play events like this, but can't schedule more than a couple festival appearances for the general public in their home country, for the fans who stood by them for years and actually put them in this position. I'm not pissed off, but the more they continue this new outlook on gigs, the less I care. It's their choice I suppose, as is mine to spend my money to see other acts who actually make the effort to get on the road and connect with their fans more than a handful of times, whenever the fuck they feel like it.

This right here. Only two shows in the middle of nowhere last year and not much this year. They can play a show for Oracle where the majority of people couldn't care less. But they can't do some arena shows this year for their real fans?????

Exactly. They have barely toured the US the past couple years yet they'll go play some corporate gig like this. Frustrating.

green_girl

They work for a living, just like most or all of us here.* Give them a break.

*Just for a lot more $$$, of course.

hgpjam11

I only read a few pages of this thread -and I don't love the idea that they're playing a corp gig. But it's not unusual for these big software companies to have things like this.

I was at the salesforce.com conf last year and saw Metallica. this year they have RHCP. Neil Young & MC Hammer were special guests at the conference last year, though not performing. I assume the $2400 is for the whole conference, not just he show.

bootlegger10

green_girl wrote:

They work for a living, just like most or all of us here.* Give them a break.

*Just for a lot more $$$, of course.

The fans are willing to pay for a show just like Oracle is. It doesn't matter if it goes to charity or not. The fact is the Oracle offerred the band money to play, and PJ fans are more than willing to pay the band to play, and the band picked Oracle. The band could just as easily donate the proceeds of a fan paid concert to charity.

green_girl

bootlegger10 wrote:

green_girl wrote:

They work for a living, just like most or all of us here.* Give them a break.

*Just for a lot more $$$, of course.

The fans are willing to pay for a show just like Oracle is. It doesn't matter if it goes to charity or not. The fact is the Oracle offerred the band money to play, and PJ fans are more than willing to pay the band to play, and the band picked Oracle. The band could just as easily donate the proceeds of a fan paid concert to charity.

Are they donating the money to charity?
Coincidence: PJ Radio is playing a bootleg from 2005 and EV just said they're going to go over curfew and pay the $14K because you've "made us rich motherf$#@ers " and the fans deserve it. LOL.

bootlegger10

green_girl wrote:

bootlegger10 wrote:

green_girl wrote:

They work for a living, just like most or all of us here.* Give them a break.

*Just for a lot more $$$, of course.

The fans are willing to pay for a show just like Oracle is. It doesn't matter if it goes to charity or not. The fact is the Oracle offerred the band money to play, and PJ fans are more than willing to pay the band to play, and the band picked Oracle. The band could just as easily donate the proceeds of a fan paid concert to charity.

Are they donating the money to charity?

We don't know, but that is an argument people make that is totally irrelevant in my mind since the band could just as easily play a show for fans and donate the proceeds to charity.

IgotshitID

hgpjam11 wrote:

I only read a few pages of this thread -and I don't love the idea that they're playing a corp gig. But it's not unusual for these big software companies to have things like this.

I was at the salesforce.com conf last year and saw Metallica. this year they have RHCP. Neil Young & MC Hammer were special guests at the conference last year, though not performing. I assume the $2400 is for the whole conference, not just he show.

It actually makes me feel better to hear that Neil young has done something like this. Also someone said Bob Dylan did a google event so I guess pretty much everyone does bullshit like this. Has Radiohead sold out yet?? Seems like one of the only bands I can think of who hasn't (that I am aware of anyways)

South of Seattle

29 pages and most people still don't get it :roll:

I've gleaned over this thread and I'll clear up things for the mentally challenged.

1. Tickets to this show are not $2400
2. IT professionals know who Pearl Jam are and listen to their music. Many fans I have met through the 10c work in IT.
3. We don't know what PJ is getting or the details of the deal.
4. Pearl Jam is more than 5 guys and a hairy Hawaiian
5. The sense of entitlement is mind boggling.

Other than that, how's everyone doing? :wave:

Hugh Freaking Dillon

rrivers wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

I hope they sell a limited edition Pearl Jam Laptop with a stickman mouse at the show and one of you fuckers complaining about this is going to lose his life savings paying for it on ebay.

Pure class.

kinda like the rest of this thread. it's embarassing to read.

neilybabes86

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

All of this corporate gig controversy started as a direct result of Jeff Spicoli hiring Van Halen to play his birthday party in 1982!

And Sean Penn is supposed to be such a good friend of the band!

Hmmmph!

because he saved brooke shields from drowing

neilybabes86

LloydXmas wrote:

surprised this thread isn't a sticky yet

not gonna happen because this event will not be addressed by the fan club

Byrnzie

I wonder what Ed's favourite kind of cocktail is?

Mine are Pina Colada's.

By the way, is this event casual dress, or do the band have to don tuxedo's?

Byrnzie

The Dead Kennedy's - Pull My Strings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm0t99WmSCM

Pull My Strings is a song by the Dead Kennedys, written by lead singer Jello Biafra and drummer Ted specifically for the 1980 Bay Area Music Awards. The song would not find its way onto a record until 1987's 'Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death'.

The song, recorded live at the awards show, begins with the band playing the opening chords to "California Über Alles", one of their more famous songs. After the first few bars, Biafra yells out "Hold it!" and sarcastically tells the audience that they're becoming a New Wave band because they "need to prove [they're] adults now". Klaus Flouride begins to play another bass line, and a new song begins:

"Pull My Strings"

I'm tired of self respect
I can't afford a car
I wanna be a prefab superstar

I wanna be a tool
Don't need no soul
Wanna make big money
Playing rock and roll

I'll make my music boring
I'll play my music slow
I ain't no artist, I'm a business man
No ideas of my own

I won't offend
Or rock the boat
Just sex and drugs
And rock and roll

Drool, drool, drool, drool, drool, drool
My Payola!
Drool, drool, drool, drool, drool, drool
My Payola!

You'll pay ten bucks to see me
On a fifteen foot high stage
Fatass bouncers kick the shit
Out of kids who try to dance

If my friends say
I've lost my guts
I'll laugh and say
That's rock and roll

But there's just one problem

[Chorus]
Is my cock big enough
Is my brain small enough
For you to make me a star
Give me a toot, I'll sell you my soul
Pull my strings and I'll go far

And when I'm rich
And meet Bob Hope
We'll shoot some golf
And shoot some dope

Is my cock big enough?
Is my brain small enough?
[Repeat chorus, etc. etc.]

bootlegger10

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

rrivers wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

I hope they sell a limited edition Pearl Jam Laptop with a stickman mouse at the show and one of you fuckers complaining about this is going to lose his life savings paying for it on ebay.

Pure class.

kinda like the rest of this thread. it's embarassing to read.

I don't think this thread is embarrassing at all. There is a reason this thread is 30 pages long so far. It is a topic that many people want to discuss and it is a good debate of people from both sides of the issue.

Some of us complainers (myself included) need to be slapped down at times by the likes of you, but sometimes we have have valid points as well. For example, it seems like a lot of people on this board let economics rule their values. Corporations were evil in the 90's, but they aren't anymore. WHat changed? Economics. Fans had kids and families, the band had kids and families, expenses are higher, music business changed....I find it fascinating that what people didn't accept 10 years ago they freely accept now because it is affecting their pocket book now more than back then.

PJ_Soul

Noooooooooooooo! What, are they broke?? :fp: