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

pjamaholic

Better Man in Melb '03. I honestly couldn't have cared what song they came on stage with, as long as I was seeing them. The crowd erupted when they appeared, and it was awesome. Have heard BM live 5 times overall, a concert staple and classic song.

jondu003

Corduroy, brilliant!

Nossie

I don't have a particular song as such - but the whole of the Vitalogy album will always have a special place in my heart.

It was the first album Pearl Jam toured for... and is and album that helped me through those tubulent teenage years!

I (like many) was first introduced to PJ in Ten, was ravenous for the second helping with VS, however, Vitalogy is that album - you know, the one that you will always listen to when times are tough, you need a little pick me up, or as the line in the brilliant "Almost Famous" by Cameron Crowe states, put on a record - and all your friends are there... Vitalogy is that for me...

NOT FOR YOU is my angry, throw things around, make myself feel better jam, SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE is my 'out-of-control' song, Corduroy has personal meaning to me... The whole album is non stop... from start to finish... CLASSIC!!!

linzpjam

'92 Bridge Benefit. As a huge Neil fan and Santa Cruz local, I had been going every year since the beginning. Hadn't heard Pearl Jam at all before that night. Footsteps was the opener and it's been a long love affair ever since. It was an unforgettable evening...would love a good video.

parel jam

jondu003 wrote:

The first song I've ever heard was Driven To Tears followed by Throw Your Arms Around Me. The concert was in Stockholm '92. I don't remember very much from the show, however I do remember feeling kinda confused. I had listened to Ten a lot and neither of the first two songs were from that record.

Wow cool - seeing PJ in 1992...

Nitro

Courduroy, Hartford 1998.

I got into the place just as they started. I think Ed may have been wearing a wig? Awesome show.

nothingman44

release...


awesome

chiquimonkey

last exit at the polo fields in SF in '95, and i felt a mixture of emotions, sheer excitement to see the band finally, worry when i saw ed looking like shit, and tehn feeling like i was gonna either a) suffocate from the heat, or b) suffocate from being crushed in the mosh pit just a few feet from the stage (which was by accident lol). first and only time i ever i punched someone was during 'go'....fun times hahaha

Gary Carter

b thats a cool story,love that u punched someone.

love boat captain msg1 03, i rember just having this rush of energy when the first notes hit and being stoned helped alot too, just the whole night was awsome. had some good people around me getting me beer all night.i rember i just walked around nyc after the concert was over and thinking wow i just saw pj

chiquimonkey

metsfan531941 wrote:

b thats a cool story,love that u punched someone.

love boat captain msg1 03, i rember just having this rush of energy when the first notes hit and being stoned helped alot too, just the whole night was awsome. had some good people around me getting me beer all night.i rember i just walked around nyc after the concert was over and thinking wow i just saw pj

well dude kept groping. he was asking for it lol

MSG1, what a great first show to have! i sorta see the polo fields and the make-up show at spartan stadium later that year as one, sorta picking up where the other left off. that one opened with release, and that was just gorgeous to me (plus i was safe and sound with my friends in the bleachers haha)

Gary Carter

chiquimonkey wrote:

well dude kept groping. he was asking for it lol

MSG1, what a great first show to have! i sorta see the polo fields and the make-up show at spartan stadium later that year as one, sorta picking up where the other left off. that one opened with release, and that was just gorgeous to me (plus i was safe and sound with my friends in the bleachers haha)

haha, cool way to look at it. id love to hear release as an opener, i would probably go really fucking crazy

norm

Masters of War - Night one at Bridge 2003.

Jammer4Pearl

MFC in Prague '06, my first concert, I was waiting 6 years for that. It was great kick off...unbelievable

mAci

my first song was MFC in prague too,it was very nice start of the show...but higlights for me were daughter,man on the hour,betterman,given to fly when i felt shivers on my back,and hearing RITFW while i was crowdsurfing:)

so glad you're gone

my first song was sometimes in budapest in 1996, first row in front of mike, the first song was really emotional for me, the way ed sang it, very quietly, with candles burning on the stage, the whole show was great, this was also the first time ever they played black red yellow

Federico

I got shit...bsas soundcheck...unforgettable moment

thelowlightargentina

Breakerfall...Buenos Aires I...When the song was finished, my body was completely wet...the feelings of the first guitar sounds, the band on stage, the lights, the screaming, all those years waiting, 20000 people jumping at the same time...there are no words to explain this feelings

Mickey1794

Release in Indio '93. Still can't forget the chills down my spine as Eddie moaned the opening notes. That's why there will never be a better opening song in my heart,

lateralus

In 2000 I didn't even know pj, so my first concert was on the european tour last year. I always dreamed of seeing them live one day.

The first song I saw was Go in Bern. I just thought "damn, they rock!"

But I think release would be even greater. Or Porch.

Stella

Long Road, 98... OmG what a perfect first song. I couldn't have asked for anything else