What was the first PJ song you heard LIVE and how did you feel?

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  • Evolutionary
    Evolutionary Posts: 880
    Here was mine... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xDFGb4U-W4 - can just see the green off my flag down in the front of the crowd at the start
    After nigh on 12 years of trying to see this band and always missing them (had tickets in hand on two different occasions and couldn't make the gigs) it was a touch emotional for me :P
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  • Malcolm-Edge
    Malcolm-Edge Posts: 94
    In My Tree, I was kind of like WTF? Then just went with it and rocked it out!
  • kenshunt
    kenshunt London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,863
    the first pj song i heard live was oceans, and i thought here we go in a pumped sorta way.
    London 2005
    Toronto 2011 night 2
    Hamilton 2011
    London 2013
  • Time_Bomb
    Time_Bomb Posts: 147
    Sometimes at the Los Angeles 10/24/2000 show. It was intense. I was only 14. I had been listening to Pearl Jam since I was about 12 cause of my brother. He took me to the show. I couldn't believe I was actually witnessing live Pearl Jam.

    I'm taking my brother to Bridge School this year, to repay him. :D
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  • BoltOfLightnin'
    BoltOfLightnin' South Jersey/Florida Posts: 719
    Release...felt like my heart was fluttering out of my body! That was in '98. Gave me the same feeling a few weeks ago in AV. :) But I'm a little jealous of those who've seen Oceans... ;)
    No time to be void or save up on life...you've got to spend it all.
  • Fluxus
    Fluxus Posts: 5
    My first PJ song live was Bee Girl. It was at the 8/21/09 show in Toronto. The band basically had to be their own opener because the singer from the opening band couldn't get into Canada. At one point during this improv pre-show Jeff and Ed came out and played Bee Girl... I was in awe and knew I was witnessing one hell of a first time PJ show.
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  • Pat2976
    Pat2976 Posts: 34
    Long Road, the opening song of the 2003 show in Montreal.
    Montreal 03
    Ottawa 05
    Gorge #1 06
    Eddie Vedder #1 Montreal 08
    Ottawa 11
  • flintstoned
    flintstoned Posts: 118
    Rearviewmirror, Chorzów 07. I was like, what the fuck, my mind imploded. Short, but memorable show it was.
    Chorzów 2007, Berlin 2009, Berlin 2010
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  • PJ218304
    PJ218304 Posts: 15
    Corduroy at the Rose Garden, Portland '98. It was insane, because that was, at the time, my favorite song, and I drove for three days to see that show, so it was just intense. I remember during the drive down thinking that it would all be worthwhile if I could just hear that one song, everything else would be a bonus, and they come out and that's the first thing they played.
  • animus
    animus Twin Cities area Posts: 530
    Of the Girl. I was absolutely stunned and couldn't believe I was finally seeing PJ after waiting for such a long time. OTG was special too because at the time I was very deep into Binaural and its one of my favorite tunes of that album. It was such a great way to kick off the show. The pounding kick drum and the low lights set a great mood. Right after OTG they went into Animal and the crowd blew up.
  • christo1980
    christo1980 Posts: 14
    release at maple leaf gardens in '96.
    fucking spectacular.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bSKyWIOxbw
  • good names r taken
    good names r taken Posts: 148
    better man at melbourne #1 2003. crowd smashed out the first verse as usual, pearl jam were supreme. closed the night with baba. very memorable first pj experience
    2003: Melbourne 1
    2006: Verona, Vienna, Zagreb, Melbourne 1-2-3, Adelaide 1-2
    2009: Melbourne
    2010: Belfast
    2012: Werchter
    2014: Melbourne, Adelaide, EV Melb 1-2
  • Stardog3..
    Stardog3.. Posts: 1,527
    Oceans and it definitely was what could be best described as being in a state of euphoria. definitely had tears in the eyes. :)
  • WWS
    WWS Ontario Posts: 460
    Go Toronto 1993...I was already exhausted from the heat. What a daay Soundgarden PJ and Neil Young all on the same stage.

    This vid is hilarious. I forgot how big cameras were back then lol

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZCsorIXiXA
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  • bolivar2151
    bolivar2151 Posts: 138
    It was "Go" in Athens 2006...
    I couldn't believe that i was actually seeing PJ live after of so many hours listening Bootlegs, so it was a bit strange feeling... ;)
  • Cree Nations
    Cree Nations Posts: 2,247
    Jeremy 1991 ....made me feel intensely angry and happy at the same time....still does.
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  • tremrchrist
    tremrchrist Posts: 5
    Arc, fargo 2003

    I was amazed
  • Left Porch
    Left Porch Posts: 846
    Long Road Uniondale 03, had never heard the song before, felt part of something bigger than myself, amazing feeling.
    Uniondale. 2003
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  • DavidG
    DavidG Posts: 23
    Long Road. Seattle, 2000.

    I was overcome with emotion. I cried.
  • LastExit23
    LastExit23 Posts: 32
    I posted this in another thread but I guess I can try to explain... Somehow...

    The first song I heard was Oceans in Buffalo, NY on October 1, 1996. I was sixteen years old and it was my first time in the then called Marine Midland Arena (Not The F'N Center or First Niagara Center).

    I paid $150 for my ticket and the only reason I could afford it was because the weekend before I won my football parlay card. I think I won about $95 and my Mom paid the rest

    I went to the arena right after school. I milled around until it was time to go in. I went all the way to the top and sat in the last row just to get a feel for the new place. I had a floor ticket and back then it was general admission. I didn't watch the opening band opting instead for pizza and pop.

    Just before the lights went down I managed to make it to a solid sport in what would have been about the fourth row in front of Jeff. The lights went out, Ed said, "Good Evening. 1..2..3..4 - OCEANS

    I have been to 71 shows since so I guess it hit a nerve. Another small note from the show, I barely survived State of Love and Trust. The mosh pit was so raging I thought death was the only way out. Luckily that shit has calmed down.
    let the ocean swell, dissolve away my past...

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