Reasons why YOU think the 1995 tour was amazing..

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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Just watched Red Rocks again. Fuck!!
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  • Ty
    Ty Posts: 1,007
    Staying up in the dark to listen to the Triple J broadcast from Melbourne Park Tennis Centre, then winning a copy from Triple J. An amazing show and an amazing night and I wasn't even there.
    PJ - Sydney 1998; Sydney 2003; Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle 2006; Melbourne, Sydney 2009; Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney 2014.
    EV - Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney 2011; Sydney 2014.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Ty said:

    Staying up in the dark to listen to the Triple J broadcast from Melbourne Park Tennis Centre, then winning a copy from Triple J. An amazing show and an amazing night and I wasn't even there.

    Just listened to half the show this morning. So damn good.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Jack Jack Jack....
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Wish I could say, but I was stuck in a bumfuck central Florida college town with no money or transportation.

    "That's OK. I still got my guitar."
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • jdopj
    jdopj Posts: 771
    My 2nd and 3rd shows, Milw 1 & 2.
    Night one, first time I ordered and used 10c seats. Lots of emotion. They cancel, than back on!! Great nights.

    If they do release anything from '95 from the vault, I strongly vote for the Asian leg. The shows I've heard are outstanding. Great vibe. Ed sounds much better than later in the year.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Jack, Jack, Jack...
    Release a 1995 show!
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    That DC 95' show....so good! Jack sounds like he's playing for his life!
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Jack, Jack, Jack....
    www.cluthelee.com
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Next vault show, please make it a 1995 show!!
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,125
    Any 95 show!!
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • cydonia
    cydonia Denbighshire, North Wales , UK Posts: 456
    Wasn't so lucky to catch them until 2000, but recently saw the Vitalogy tour film , which went around the pacific, I think it was 95, the live performances are great...Jack irons on drums particularly. Tremor Christ is intense...just so focused. A band growing and moving forward..
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eOwWSmiNqI
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  • The Camaros Hood
    The Camaros Hood Boston, MA Posts: 482
    Austin, TX 9.16.95 This was my first ever PJ concert and like someone said above, you never forget your first. I was 20 years old and my life was never the same after that night. I used the first few songs to finally get to the very front of the crowd on the rail and never relinquished my spot. I was staring at EV the entire time and I'm quite sure we made eye contact several times through the show. I never watched a show from such a close vantage point....until Fenway 2 when 10C blessed me with 2nd row dead center in front of EV. Its been a 21 year odyssey seeing them live and last Sunday was coming full circle to be back at the front. Aaaah 1995 that was amazing!! And the fuckin Ramones opened. How great is that??
    Austin, TX - 9/16/95 ~ Charleston, SC - 10/5/96 ~ Dallas, TX - 7/5/98 ~ San Antonio, TX - 4/5/03 ~ Denver, CO - 7/2/06 ~ EV - LA #2 - 4/13/08 ~ Austin, TX - 10/4/09 ~ Los Angeles, CA #1 - 11/23/13 ~ Los Angeles, CA #2 - 11/24/13 ~ Seattle, WA - 12/6/13 ~ NYC #1 - 5/1/16 ~ Boston, MA #1 - 8/5/16 ~ Boston, MA #2 - 8/7/16 ~ Boston, MA #1 - 9/2/18 ~ Boston, MA #2 - 9/4/18 ~ Louisville, KY - 9/17/22 ~ Ft. Worth, TX #1 - 9/13/23 ~ Ft. Worth, TX #2 - 9/15/23 ~ Austin, Texas #1 - 9/18/23 ~ Austin, Texas #2 - 9/19/23 ~ NYC #2 - 9/4/24 ~ Boston, MA #1 - 9/15/24 ~ Boston, MA #2 - 9/17/24 ~ Atlanta, GA #2 - 5/1/25
  • Cubu
    Cubu N.W. Suburban Chicago Posts: 91
    I was Laura Kaplan for the Soldier Field show...Still have the ticket stub..that whole name thing was a riot..
    Chicago Stadium -94, Soldier Field -95, United Center -98, Allstate Arena -2000, United Center -03, United Center -06, United Center -09, Alpine Valley - 11, Wrigley Field-13, Wrigley Field-16
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,648
    My 1st show I traveled too !! Milwaukee
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    edited September 2018
    I only saw 1 show on this tour, 11/4/95 San Jose. A local radio station recorded it from the soundboard and for a long time it was a favorite boot, so the music and setlist were phenomenal (why is the setlist not on this site anymore?)

    But I have amazing memories from this show, absolutely a special special one.
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Empty Glass said:

    My favorite:



    Austin, my first. May not be the best overall performance, but you always remember your first

    Mine too.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    The Camaros Hood said:

    Austin, TX 9.16.95 This was my first ever PJ concert and like someone said above, you never forget your first. I was 20 years old and my life was never the same after that night. I used the first few songs to finally get to the very front of the crowd on the rail and never relinquished my spot. I was staring at EV the entire time and I'm quite sure we made eye contact several times through the show. I never watched a show from such a close vantage point....until Fenway 2 when 10C blessed me with 2nd row dead center in front of EV. Its been a 21 year odyssey seeing them live and last Sunday was coming full circle to be back at the front. Aaaah 1995 that was amazing!! And the fuckin Ramones opened. How great is that??

    My memories:

    God, it was hot. The show was moved up to 4 in the afternoon to allow clean-up for the next night's Radiohead/REM show in the same venue. (Think about that Ramones, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, REM in the span of 48 hours).

    But did I mention it was hot? Texas in September. It's over 100 degrees, I'm sure, and humid as the devil's balls. And there's 70,000 of us crammed together in this one GA field.

    Ed comes out in his corduroy jacket, fake bundled up as a joke about the heat. They launch into Act of Love. On about the second strum of the G chord, the crowd surges forward and I get pinned facing 180 degrees in the wrong direction. I loose myself and say, "Fuck this" and try to navigate my way from in front of the stage toward the relative safety of the hillside.

    Then I hear the opening chords of "Go" and say, "Fuck it." I push back toward the stage and proceed to spend the next 8 songs or so getting my ass absolutely kicked. I crowd surfed throughout the entire intro to Corduroy. Somewhere in the middle of Evenflow, I get flung toward the middle of a mosh pit and, in a stroke of luck, would collide with one of the eight people I can to the show with, but who i haven't seen since Act of Love began and all hell broke loose.

    I've never been to war, but I assume those first eights songs or go must have been what it is like -- except with better music. My friend and I proceed to crowd surf over the barrier in front, some nice security/medical people give us each a bottle of water and then we decide to go try and find the rest of our friends, who were smart enough to watch the entire show from the comfort of the aforementioned hillside.

    Almost the entire show was played during daylight hours. In my (admittedly hazy) recollections now, I remember watching the sun set behind the stage as Indifference closed the show.

    Beautiful.

    Listening to the boot now, it was kind of a rough show. Ed's voice was blown for good bits of that tour. The chaos of being in the pit for the first several songs kind of hampered my technical enjoyment of the show.

    But as someone mentioned earlier, you never forget your first time. That was my first time. It will always be special. I was 18 years old. That was more than half a lifetime ago. And yet I still haven't found anything quite like that moment.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,125
    JH and slightofjeff, I love these stories!!!!
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......

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