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So about twenty years ago, I'm waiting outside a bowling alley in fucking Omaha because the bill is Smashing Pumpkins and Chili Peppers with this barely-known Pearl Jam opening first with five songs. I'm devoted to TEN but I learn too late a crucial fact: tonight's show is not, repeat not, an all-ages show. And I'm shy of the legal drinking age by a few months. The bouncers don't budge.
I hang outside the alley and hear the muted music for ten minutes, then I go home and smoke cigarettes and listen to TEN, fantasizing how I could've gotten in anyway. For the next however many years, this pattern is followed. For one stupid reason or another, mostly being broke, I could never quite make a live show to Pearl Jam work. They almost never played around me, which is no excuse, but still. A former girlfriend and I drove to KC on the YIELD tour, but we had some stupid argument in the car and never got inside.
This is a long way of saying I'm 40 now, and I'm headed to my first -- first! -- PJ show at Wrigley Field this July.
My question. For anyone who's got the time to answer, what is the routine? Is there the Pearl Jam version of tailgating at a place like Wrigley? What time do most folks recommend that I show up, snag the tickets, and walk inside the GA area? These may seem like totally fucking obvious questions from a nincompoop, but my excitement and relief at finally getting to see the boys is, like, at nerd level and I want to make sure I do it right.
That's it.
Paul
So about twenty years ago, I'm waiting outside a bowling alley in fucking Omaha because the bill is Smashing Pumpkins and Chili Peppers with this barely-known Pearl Jam opening first with five songs. I'm devoted to TEN but I learn too late a crucial fact: tonight's show is not, repeat not, an all-ages show. And I'm shy of the legal drinking age by a few months. The bouncers don't budge.
I hang outside the alley and hear the muted music for ten minutes, then I go home and smoke cigarettes and listen to TEN, fantasizing how I could've gotten in anyway. For the next however many years, this pattern is followed. For one stupid reason or another, mostly being broke, I could never quite make a live show to Pearl Jam work. They almost never played around me, which is no excuse, but still. A former girlfriend and I drove to KC on the YIELD tour, but we had some stupid argument in the car and never got inside.
This is a long way of saying I'm 40 now, and I'm headed to my first -- first! -- PJ show at Wrigley Field this July.
My question. For anyone who's got the time to answer, what is the routine? Is there the Pearl Jam version of tailgating at a place like Wrigley? What time do most folks recommend that I show up, snag the tickets, and walk inside the GA area? These may seem like totally fucking obvious questions from a nincompoop, but my excitement and relief at finally getting to see the boys is, like, at nerd level and I want to make sure I do it right.
That's it.
Paul
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As far as Wrigley....I've been there a few times and it's literally just plopped right in the middle of a bunch of bars. There isn't one big parking lot to tailgate but everyone just hits up bars before and after. It will be a great time, man.
Congrats on finally making it.
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Watch what you eat the day of the show...wouldn't want you to get food poisoning and miss it.
Be carefully crossing the street. Wouldn't want to get hit and miss it.
Limit your beer consumption to one or two. Your excitement may cause you to drink too many and be physically at the show but miss it due to blacking out.
i.e. hope your bad luck runs out so be careful...and enjoy the show.
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