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

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  • YellowLeadbenny
    YellowLeadbenny Posts: 5
    Mine was Hard to Imagine, it gave me chills, actually still gives me chills when i hear the bootleg. I also got Release at San Francisco 3 this year which was amazing, i was like 4th row (G/A).

    Still waiting on Oceans, Long Road....

    Till then the bootlegs will have to do

    This band kicks so much ass!
  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Inside Job in the Point 23/8/06...

    Fuckin beautiful... The little jangly outro from the record played over the PA, Mike walks over, picks up his SWEET doubleneck SG, and I just knew... Inside Job... I nearly guffed myself unconscious... This was THE song that got me through my Leaving Cert... My favourite song since I don't know when... And they were opening with it...

    Instrumental beginning was stunning... Then out comes Ed for the verse... And it all took off from there... As Mike begins the outro solo, I break out my sign - "McCready - 1/2 Man, 1/2 Guitar solo", and HE SEES IT, and, imo, points the solo in my direction...:D

    Now, listening back on the boot, it's still just as magical... One of the most special moments of my life...
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • thesoviet
    thesoviet Posts: 41
    Release....my words "no fucking way............."
    i cannot stop the thought.......running in the dark

    Vancouver 9/2/05
    Gorge 7/22/06
    Gorge 7/23/06
    EV Vancouver 2 04/06/08
  • Ricsard
    Ricsard Posts: 1,943
    SOMETIMES - 1996 Budapest, Sportcsarnok, Hungary
    It was just a short/light opener, I could not really digest and accept THEY are here in my city (I thought they never would) but they started to play Corduroy...the arena went wild and nuts!!!! I will never forget this...



    After 10 years of waiting for PJ...Arnhem was like a second chance to see them first... and it was my all time favourite (PJ) song...RELEASE...I thought I would die immediately:) it was so fuckin beautiful we started to cry:(:(:(
    And then Corduroy came...:) again!
    Budapest.Budapest.Arnhem.Antwerpen.Vienna.Madrid.Katowice.Nova_rock.Nijmegen.Rotterdam.Berlin.Dublin.Belfast.London.Venice.Prague.Stockholm.Copenhagen.Vienna.Leeds.Milton_keynes.Padova.Prague.Seattle1.Seattle2.Chicago1.Budapest.Cracow.Vienna..>>>LONDON.BERLIN1.BERLIN2
    Eddie: Dublin & London
  • solace23
    solace23 Posts: 704
    mine was Release- Brisbane 1995
  • Spencer
    Spencer Posts: 867
    MFC - Adelaide '98

    Great night, crazy crowd though...Jack still on drums, always a plus.
  • WWS
    WWS Ontario Posts: 460
    Go - Toronto 1993

    The whole show was cool. Here's the line-up as I remember

    Blues Traveler
    Pearl Jam
    Soundgarden
    Neil Young (with PJ on stage for RITFW)
    '93 Toronto, '98 Barrie, '00 Toronto, '03 Buffalo, '05 Hamilton, '06 Toronto 1&2 '09 Toronto, '09 Philly #4, '11 Hamilton, '13 London, '13 Wrigley,    '13 Buffalo, '14 Detroit Rock City,'16 Ottawa, '16 Toronto 1&2, '16 Fenway '18 Wrigley 1&2, '20 Baltimore. '22 Hamilton, '24 Wrigley 1&2
  • Clone
    Clone UK Posts: 147
    Go.
    It was one of the greatest moments I have had.
  • Marga
    Marga Posts: 15
    Last Exit

    I´ll never forget this moment!
    12/4/05 - Rio de Janeiro
    9/9/06 - Marseille
    9/11/06 - Paris
    I always wanted to go to Rio... like a picture in a sunny day... (EV)
  • Telomere
    Telomere Posts: 39
    "Corduroy", Portland Oregon 1998 was my first, and my favorite PJ song at th time. It was a Great show but was too naive to realize what I was seeing at the time.

    The moment when I realized exactly how incredible this band was, especially live, was "Present Tense" in Charlotte, NC 2000...

    Haven't looked back since.

    I love this band
    Portland 98; Charlotte 00; Greensboro 00; Raleigh 03; Bristow 03; Asheville 04; Toronto 05; Sydney x 3 06; Newcastle 06; San Diego 09
  • froggy bunnyman
    froggy bunnyman Posts: 164
    For me, it was "Long Road".
    In Marseille 2006.
    After a 2 year's waiting, it was perfect.

    I was shivering like a leaf, because of the emotion.

    Perfect opener for my 1st PJ show, here in my country.

    What a great moment !!
    Still waiting for a gig in Paris (in a venue not a festival) since 2006...
    Spin, spin !!

    Marseille + Paris 2006
    London + Werchter 2007
    Arras + Belfast 2010
    Arras 2012
    Paris Lollapalooza 2022
  • BillyJoe
    BillyJoe Posts: 2
    parel jam wrote:
    Hey folks,

    Mine was "Corduroy" at the Pinkpop festival back in 2000. After years of waiting the band came on stage and started playing this song. I know it was really hot weather that day but I was compeltely overwhelmed. Since that moment I became more and more fan of PJ...

    How about you guys?
    Mine was 'Corduroy' too - in the UK. Felt awesome waited to see the band eversince I started liking them. Best live band ever - best band ever!!!!!!!!!!
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    will find out on monday night in melbourne :)

    if i start crying i want whomever's gonna be next to me in my crappy 10c seats to give me a wack or something

    :o
    wah
  • Guiness
    Guiness Posts: 46
    The first song I heard was Of The Girl at St. Louis on the 2000 tour. I have to admit I was disappointed as that is my least favorite Pearl Jam song. The feeling did not last as I was treated to Footsteps, Porch, U, and Sonic Reducer.
    I got scratches all over my arms, one for each day since I fell apart.

    Me you wouldn't recall for I'm not my former.

    St. Louis 10/11/00
    West Palm Beach 4/11/03
    Kissimmee 10/8/04
    West Palm Beach 6/12/08
    Tampa 6/13/08
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Long Road at Hartford 96 and it was a life changing experience. I was already hooked before that and was as big of a fan as you'd ever meet, but this put me way over the edge.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,003
    "Sometimes" at Camden in 2000. I can still picture Ed start to strum the opening notes. it was awesome
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2, 2025: Pittsburgh 1

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  • LuthienTinuviel
    LuthienTinuviel Posts: 125
    release - 09/02/2005 Vancouver

    it was the greatest moment in my life...

    i did not expect that eddies voice would sound that deep...

    oh and when he sang "i'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me...i'll open up..." it was like someone hit me...unbelieveable
    "now i've got room to spread my wings and my messages of love...yeah love was my drug but that's not what i died of"

    "I don't wanna think, I wanna feel"

    "Go then, there are other worlds than these!" - Jake Chambers

    09/02/2005 Vancouver
    09/23/2006 Berlin
    06/21/2007 Düsseldorf
  • twojawas
    twojawas Posts: 318
    'Sometimes', 19 July 1998.

    How did I feel?

    Gobsmacked. Thrilled to be seeing and hearing a legendary band play amazing music.

    One of my favourite performances would be 'Better Man', first show Melbourne, 2003. That was an amazing show opener.

    Every time I've seen Pearl Jam it has been amazing. I've been really lucky.
    My Pearl Jam concert footage:
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  • natureboy46
    natureboy46 Posts: 165
    It was Corduroy - Melbourne 1995

    I'm not sure if it is all due to that being the first song I heard live but it's still my favorite song. I can still feel the energy (from the band and the crowd) like it was yesterday.
    In the land of the little kings
    Profit is the only thing
    And everywhere the little kings
    Are getting away with murder
    - Paul Kelly

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  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    natureboy46 wrote:
    It was Corduroy - Melbourne 1995

    I'm not sure if it is all due to that being the first song I heard live but it's still my favorite song. I can still feel the energy (from the band and the crowd) like it was yesterday.

    Especially the sentence "The waiting drove me mad" - imagine people waiting for hours before the show...
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫

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