Berlin(Checkpoint Eddie) - Berlin - 23.09.06

Bunuel

I'm off in a couple of hours too. First by train to Helsinki and then flying tomorrow morning to Berlin Tegel airport. We're staying at Aparthotel an der Spree. If you guys see me there or somewhere say hello, i'm probably wearing dark blue Pearl Jam shirt with orange coloured Evolution print: a monkey, a man and a DNA chain.

About 30 hours till the moment PJ hits the stage!

Ulanbulan

I'm taking the buss next hour from Malmö in Sweden with my brother and 2 friends.
I'm going to stay at the hostel at Zoo. Looks like a decent place. Not very near Wuhlheide but it's nice to live at central Berlin too.
I don't know what I am going to wear but you might recognice my brother. He is going to wear a white suit that you usually wear to protect your clothes when you are painting. On the back it says "Sign here if you are going to Pearl Jam 23/9". Thought that would be a funny idea if you guys could sign on him and it would be a pretty cool souvenire later. Hope you see us!

wendy1976

nice idea!!!I wil defenetly sign if we run in to eachother!!if not have a great show and lots of fum in berlin!
I am going to pack my bag ...WE WIL LEAVE FIRST THING IN THE MORNIIIIING....OFF TOO BERLIN!!!!
i feel like a little kid that is going to six flags;)

sammer

this post is the last thing I do before leaving to berlin from belgium.
this will be my last show (of this year) for now after antwerp and paris.
i'm ready to rock! cee you all in 24hours.

i'm hoping they'll open with release

PJ Sweden

hey all good people, iĺl see ya in18 hours or so. weŕe at the citystay on roserstrasse. see you at the show manana!!! PJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJ

Dercheef

Alright, will leave in about an hour. See you all tonight

deep_schismic

Off to the big show :D:D

See you all there...I have a feeling it just might be somethin a little extra special...

peace

deep_schismic

Alrighty then...so it's 6 fuckin AM the next morning...I just got back to my hotel 20 min ago (yes, it took exactly 2 freakin hours, involving 30min of walking back to the Schönweide s-bahn stop...i'm lucky i wasn't robbed! haha)

will write more later, but all i can say is...overall excellent show, but the only thing that kept it from being perfect...1) nazi motherfucking security guards to who felt the need to basically bitch about me and my SLR...EVEN THOUGH IT WAS INSPECTED AND OK'D BY THE DUDES AT THE ENTRY. fucking cunts. I had 5 different people come up to me warning me about taking pictures, with the last guy actually trying to tug the camera from my fucking hands, even though I WAS NOT ACTUALLY USING IT AT THE TIME!!! However, i believe it was one of the PJ crew who was largely responsible for that shit as he was the 1st dude who came up to me and 'insisted i give him my camera'...and I insisted that I would no do such thing as it had been ok'd by security at the entry and that it was NOT a pro camera (if anyone knows anything about photography, a D100 with a 50mm is NOT a pro setup..)...but anyway...to that long grey-haired gentleman with rings on his fingers...I convey a huge 'FUCK YOU, suck my dick, why don't you attempt to stop the other 10,000 people in the audience taking pictures!'. Seriously, I actually feel like somehow making a profit on the photos I did get just to spite this rat bastard. FUCK.

ok, venting over. That's all i can say...so I didn't get to take as many shots as my great vantage point with 10c tix in the 3rd row offered me...and the other thing was...the crowd was largely pushy and elbowy...and I had the wonderful luck of ending up behind a scottish dude with a stupid hat who blocked half my view and another dude who was as tall as he was who ruined another 1/3 of my view...basically i have never gone through so much effort to take a few decent photos at a concert...and I attended huge ass festivals with gigantic moshpits for bands that are quite heavier than PJ. It was an experience indeed....

I shall talk about the actual show and Ed's entertaining drunkenness and hilarious German later...

peace out!

p.s. just a howdy-do to WhiteRiot and Renster from the forums who I had the pleasure to meet at the show, and also to OutofBreath and his crew...hope you guys had a good show!

Renster

Hi Deep,

It was really hilarious seeing all those security guys came up to you every 10 minutes trying to grab that telelens thing out of your hands..!!!

Had a great night, won''t forget the hotelbar, you and Whiteriot who was by the way drunk again yesterday evening.

Renster

jamie uk

got home at 2am this monday morning from Berlin, I thought the band were amazing as usual and the venue was very spectacular. But what the hell was the entry problem all about? We arrived 15 minutes after the gates opened, after rambling through the woods to find the bloody place! The que-man! Almost 2 hours to get inside the venue, and when we got in to the gig the que behind us was even bigger! I saw last 2 songs of the black keys, but at least I made sure that I saw the whole Pearl Jam set. I assume that some could have missed the beginning, because of the entry hold up. I know that 10c members had a different way in, but did the venue have just the one main entry? What a problem getting away from there also-walked bloody miles before I got a taxi. I wouldn't do all this for any other band, man-they are shit hot! I caught them 3 times in 14 years, I hope they don't leave it too long before they tour again. By the way, all you Berliners can be proud of a very special city. We walked most of the centre on Sat' and Sun', saw most of the historical sights-and a great little antique market by the river with a few cool old vinyl stalls. Loved the place, I will return.......Jamie

deep_schismic

jamie uk wrote:

By the way, all you Berliners can be proud of a very special city. We walked most of the centre on Sat' and Sun', saw most of the historical sights-and a great little antique market by the river with a few cool old vinyl stalls. Loved the place, I will return.......Jamie

Ditto that! A truly great great city. By far the best place I have seen in Germany...makes it depressing to be back in sterile Bavaria lol

deep_schismic

Renster wrote:

Hi Deep,

It was really hilarious seeing all those security guys came up to you every 10 minutes trying to grab that telelens thing out of your hands..!!!

Had a great night, won''t forget the hotelbar, you and Whiteriot who was by the way drunk again yesterday evening.

Renster

hehhe yeah it's goin to make a great story after i stopped being pissed off about it...and hey i did manage to steal some good shots...so 'sucks to their assmar!'

Man, I was annoyed...the 2 hours it took me to get back to my hotel sobered me up lol. though walking through some random part of Berlin at like 4am was interesting haha...i essentially followed the tram line back to that s-bahn station!

DR220141

Anyone have an extra GA ticket for either of the shows?