It was WWS and I was feeling as if I died and gone to heavan.
Actually my brain wasn't catching up yet at that point, only at around even flow sometime during the Astoria show it started sinking in... that was a once in a lifetime first time for me,
Now its like making love ...
the first live song I heard was Release in the desert of Indio California in 1993 . I just remember how beautiful the setting was and that Eddie's voice sounded exactly like their recording off of Ten. Then they went into Go and I was scared for my life, extreme moshing. What an incredible night, leaving that night and seeing the moon, it looked like you could walk to it.
My first song was WASH, at Finsbury park London on July 6th 1992. I'd got Ten early in the year but managed to miss the small clib tour of England in the Feb'. So when they were announced as special guests to the Cult ( they actually came on before Neds Atomic Dustbin also) for their huge outdoor show in London, I made absolutely sure I was there-It was a massive day for me, my mate drove his knackered old Vauxhall all the way from our little town in the south Wales valleys to London, we got hopelessly lost and ended up in Oxford street- outside Harrods!!!! Whilst on the right track for Finsbury Park we stopped at the, then closed down, Rainbow theatre. It was like a pilgrimage, so many of the greats had played there in the 70's. Anyone who has seen the Thin Lizzy live and dangerous video will have seen the famous scenes in the street behind with the crew unloading the gear-i digress. Anyway, here on the stage at around 4 in the afternoon, came this hot new American band that only around a third of the audience seemed interested in, for their first big show in London-and they sauntered onto the boards and went into-the b-side of their first single! I think I was among only a small amount of people who knew the song, but isn't that just like PJ, they've done just about everything on their own terms all the way through their careers, and I think that along with about the most consistent run of albums, in terms of musical quality, that any band has ever achieved is one of the points that set the band apart from the crowd. Afew months later I got a hold of a bootleg video of the set, filmed from around the same vantage point that I held that day-what a way to keep the golden memory alive.
P.S. I still have the long sleeved 'Rhino' t-shirt that I got that day, last time I wore it was Cardiff 2000-I keep the mother safe in my wardrobe these days, and incase you're wondering, yes it does still fit me!
The slow version of "the kids are alright" that Ed and boom played at the NW School show...then they ripped into the slow intro porch for the first time ever...
"Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
-my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
my first song - after 7 years of waiting for them - was Release in Verona 2006.... Standing in the heavy rain and being soaked to the bones it was still like ... just incredible, unforgettable moment... hearing the first chords and then eddies strong voice the first time not from a CD or vinyl - "I see the birds in the rain..."
Mine was Release on 11/3/93 in San Diego. I had played 10 over and over and couldn't get enough. I was on such a high after that concert that we bought tickets for Las Vegas the next day. We're old and have been to many concerts, but PJ is just in a class by themselves.
"I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
my first show was zagreb, and severed hand was my first song. died and gone to heaven, as someone put it. but yeah, i just wanted to say that this is a great read
In Athens - my first show - the band opened with Go, which kind of set itself as the "first times" song.
Vs. was the first PJ album I listened to.
so it turned out Go was the first PJ recorded song I've listened to, and also the first PJ song I heard on my first live show.
I was ecstatic, Go is such an energetic song, i was just happy and ready for the show to start.
But I'm still hoping to get Release as an opener, maybe next time.
It was my first show.. after waiting for almost half of my life to hear them live..the waiting drove me mad and then..
...Severed Hand!!!
I went into another state of being after only hearing the first few notes..It was like all of the emotions I am capable of feeling came into realization at the very same time and I had to express them, get them out somehow, otherwise I would explode...It was almost to much for me to handle...and words are so fucking inadequate to express this..it was very intense and It felt different that anything I knew before. It occupied my mind and my body , sucked me inside of it... and I'm glad people were rough around me 'cause somehow It was needed..it felt more real...
This must sound weird but I really wanted this so badly and waited too long. I hope I can feel that again someday..hopefully sooner than in 7 or 8 years...
The worst enemies of music? Money and Mathematics. Combined with music, they both do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to do. Money makes music cheap, mathematics makes it stupid and predictable.
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Zagreb 2006/ Munich 2007/ Venice 2007/ Berlin 2009 / Venice 2010 / 2 x Berlin 2012 / Stockholm 2012 / Milan 2014 / Trieste 2014 / Vienna 2014 / Florence (EV) 2019 / Padova 2018 / Prague 2018 / Imola 2022 / Budapest 2022 / Vienna 2022 / Prague 2022
Stereotype, I totally get you.
I felt the same way at my first show.
when I tried to explain my friends how I felt I couldn't find the right words, cause no words can describe this kind of feeling, I'm glad you got to experience this.
I shit my self, I wasn't a big fan then but I heard Long Road a week before the show and fell in love with it and they opened with it. Turned out to be one of the greatest versions ever!
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The 1st Pearl Jam song i heard live was Why Go, at Brixton Academy July 13th 1993. The feeling of first seeing them live was simply breathtaking, i haven't looked back since!!
Please come back to the UK soon!!!
Brixton'93
Reading'95 (with Neil Young)
Wembley'96
Manchester'00
Leeds'06
Paris'06
Hail, Hail at Blossom Music Center, Cleveland 1998
...and I felt like one of the "lucky ones"! Ed came riding out on stage on a skateboard, set down his composition book and bottle, and BAM they went off!
The crowd went nuts, and all I could do was jump up and down, sing my butt off and smile.
It felt so unreal, yet at the same time completly natural that the band were standing right in front of me. Now, thinking back I can't believe I didn't faint or anything.. But it just seemed like it was the most natural thing in the world for them standing there and playing those song I've listened to countless times the past years.. it was the weirdest feeling...
The crowd went nuts, and all I could do was jump up and down, sing my butt off and smile.
It felt so unreal, yet at the same time completly natural that the band were standing right in front of me. Now, thinking back I can't believe I didn't faint or anything.. But it just seemed like it was the most natural thing in the world for them standing there and playing those song I've listened to countless times the past years.. it was the weirdest feeling...
Wow, amazing. You were at that show?? Too bad I was a bit too young to go to concerts at that time...
How was that concert?
Wouldn't it be great if they would Vera again?
I also was young. I didn't tell my parents/brother and just went to Groningen. I used to live in Drachten those days. It was amazingggggggg!!!!!!!!!! I even talked to EV.....
Up the West Coast in 2006 and Hawaii++Santa Barbara, San Fran x 3, Portland, Gorge x2
Chicago and Down the Coast in 2003
Seattle 2005
SF 2000, 2001, 2003--- oh or you can come to terms and realize you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself
Release Pittsburgh 98'. The strangest part is how long I had to wait to hear it again. I've seen 25 shows and have only had it twice, the second was Chicago Night One 06'.
"I'd like to thank all you mother fuckers. All you mother fuckers..." EV-10/03/05
I still haven't seen Release live yet either,I seem to always get the wierd openers(Breakerfall, I am Mine ect.)
My first opener was Oceans. I could not believe how perfect the song was for what I was going through at the time. Very special show, too. London Ontario September 05. Full of rarities...
I had to wait my 6th show to have release (Verona this year).
I could not believe it. I cried like a baby. It truly is a special opener, and you will appreciate it even more having waited for it a long time
... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
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I think I was touching cloth during that song... It was unbelievable!
Proud member of the European Touring Bus 2006!
Actually my brain wasn't catching up yet at that point, only at around even flow sometime during the Astoria show it started sinking in... that was a once in a lifetime first time for me,
Now its like making love ...
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P.S. I still have the long sleeved 'Rhino' t-shirt that I got that day, last time I wore it was Cardiff 2000-I keep the mother safe in my wardrobe these days, and incase you're wondering, yes it does still fit me!
During the 2000 tour
I wasn't a really big fan of that song at the time, but it was my first live PJ so it was all cool
-my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
It was very emotional to hear that song as the first one.
hail hail the lucky ones...
Vs. was the first PJ album I listened to.
so it turned out Go was the first PJ recorded song I've listened to, and also the first PJ song I heard on my first live show.
I was ecstatic, Go is such an energetic song, i was just happy and ready for the show to start.
But I'm still hoping to get Release as an opener, maybe next time.
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
9.03-04.11 PJ20!!!
7.19.13 - Wrigley!!!
10.19.14, 10.20.14 (Yield!!)
...Severed Hand!!!
I went into another state of being after only hearing the first few notes..It was like all of the emotions I am capable of feeling came into realization at the very same time and I had to express them, get them out somehow, otherwise I would explode...It was almost to much for me to handle...and words are so fucking inadequate to express this..it was very intense and It felt different that anything I knew before. It occupied my mind and my body , sucked me inside of it... and I'm glad people were rough around me 'cause somehow It was needed..it felt more real...
This must sound weird but I really wanted this so badly and waited too long. I hope I can feel that again someday..hopefully sooner than in 7 or 8 years...
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Zagreb 2006/ Munich 2007/ Venice 2007/ Berlin 2009 / Venice 2010 / 2 x Berlin 2012 / Stockholm 2012 / Milan 2014 / Trieste 2014 / Vienna 2014 / Florence (EV) 2019 / Padova 2018 / Prague 2018 / Imola 2022 / Budapest 2022 / Vienna 2022 / Prague 2022
I felt the same way at my first show.
when I tried to explain my friends how I felt I couldn't find the right words, cause no words can describe this kind of feeling, I'm glad you got to experience this.
April 30th Uniondale, NY
I shit my self, I wasn't a big fan then but I heard Long Road a week before the show and fell in love with it and they opened with it. Turned out to be one of the greatest versions ever!
Sent shivers down my spine, and my body shook violently.
Still does it every time I listen to it.
Another habit says its long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
Vera - Groningen
march 1 1992
Wow, amazing. You were at that show?? Too bad I was a bit too young to go to concerts at that time...
How was that concert?
Wouldn't it be great if they would Vera again?
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Please come back to the UK soon!!!
Brixton'93
Reading'95 (with Neil Young)
Wembley'96
Manchester'00
Leeds'06
Paris'06
...and I felt like one of the "lucky ones"! Ed came riding out on stage on a skateboard, set down his composition book and bottle, and BAM they went off!
The crowd went nuts, and all I could do was jump up and down, sing my butt off and smile.
It felt so unreal, yet at the same time completly natural that the band were standing right in front of me. Now, thinking back I can't believe I didn't faint or anything.. But it just seemed like it was the most natural thing in the world for them standing there and playing those song I've listened to countless times the past years.. it was the weirdest feeling...
Too bad I sold that ticket :(
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I also was young. I didn't tell my parents/brother and just went to Groningen. I used to live in Drachten those days. It was amazingggggggg!!!!!!!!!! I even talked to EV.....
SF 2000
amazing
Chicago and Down the Coast in 2003
Seattle 2005
SF 2000, 2001, 2003--- oh or you can come to terms and realize you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself
My first opener was Oceans. I could not believe how perfect the song was for what I was going through at the time. Very special show, too. London Ontario September 05. Full of rarities...
I had to wait my 6th show to have release (Verona this year).
I could not believe it. I cried like a baby. It truly is a special opener, and you will appreciate it even more having waited for it a long time