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

Jaymac

Inside Job...

I think I was touching cloth during that song... It was unbelievable!

einatshaul

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 ...

skindevil

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.

jamie uk

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!

Buru

Mine was Of the girl... I almost missed the start!
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

SomethingCreative

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...

one_stone

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..."

skynet

mine was Long Road, in Monterrey, Mexico, last december.

It was very emotional to hear that song as the first one.

wolfbear

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.

BySleightofHand

PJ popped my cherry with Release. It was amazing. I can still hear the opening notes in my head and the crowds reaction to it.

porcher

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

noa.who

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.

dats

release, arnhem

Lizard

Mine was Release in 1995. I did not even know the song --can you believe it???? Still, it made me cry hearing it the 1st time.

Jibiti

Last Kiss. Did not expect it at all, espicially for an opener. I felt a little confused at first, but just kept singing along.

Stereotype

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...

noa.who

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.

HailHailVitalogy

Long Road
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!

hrd2imgn

Release Chicago Stadium 94

Sent shivers down my spine, and my body shook violently.

Still does it every time I listen to it.

The Waiting Trophy Man

long road, 2000. it was what i wanted to hear. : )