***HALIFAX 2006 Thread***

lanners

Sward, you haven't killed the thread, in fact you took the heat off me for a while...i always feel obligated to keep the thread going, so if someone else is doing it then i don't feel so bad!

okay...you want to know what's sad? i looked at the stats of who has posted how many replies in this thread and it goes like this...


lanners 96
sward 39
Truthmonger 38
mookie blaylock 10 34
funkymonk 27
teflonsteve 18
olderman 13
warehouse 11
Boozer 11
yellowstripes 11
Gallant88 10

i need a life! if i devoted as much time to keeping this thread alive to keeping my plants alive, my aloe would be thriving! if i devoted as much time to keeping my apartment clean i wouldn't be so embarrassed to have people over!

Whitty

Lanners, your "Stay Gold" sig is very similar to how Matt Mays signs his name. My older brother knows Matt through high school (Auburn Drive), so I got to meet him a few times (we used to live in Cole Harbour). He signed a couple cd's for me and always finished with a "Stay Gold". Wierd coincidence.

Sward, I'm in Cavendish alot, so if I see a fellow PJ car, I'll honk. We're like the "Stonecutters" from the Simpsons.

-Mitch

lanners

Whitty wrote:

Lanners, your "Stay Gold" sig is very similar to how Matt Mays signs his name. My older brother knows Matt through high school (Auburn Drive), so I got to meet him a few times (we used to live in Cole Harbour). He signed a couple cd's for me and always finished with a "Stay Gold". Wierd coincidence.

Sward, I'm in Cavendish alot, so if I see a fellow PJ car, I'll honk. We're like the "Stonecutters" from the Simpsons.

-Mitch

I wonder if Matt Mays loves The Outsiders as much as i do? hee hee.

small town beck

lanners wrote:

I wonder if Matt Mays loves The Outsiders as much as i do? hee hee.

Not really on topic of the thread, lanners, but are you coming over to see Matt Mays with Sam R. and the Hip for Canada Day weekend?

Oh, yes and PJ come back to Halifax(to keep on topic)

lanners

small town beck wrote:

Not really on topic of the thread, lanners, but are you coming over to see Matt Mays with Sam R. and the Hip for Canada Day weekend?

Oh, yes and PJ come back to Halifax(to keep on topic)

i would love to come for that show...sounds like it's going to be a great day. however, i don't drive and i'm a little strapped for cash at the moment.

i'm not ruling it out though. depends on what my more mobile friends have planned. if someone said they were going and had an extra seat, i wouldn't turn them down. i have friends who live on the island so i could always crash with them.

oh, yeah...come back PJ!

Truthmonger

Ah, the Stonecutters:

"who keeps the metric system down ?, we do, we do".......''

that was a fucking classic. LOL

Man, I had 38 posts for this mother ? Couldn't let Sward get the upper hand here. Sorry Sward. Its all for a good cause. In a related note, I read somewhere here that there are apparently no Southern dates for this tour - as just recently noted by KAT. Sorry Birmingham. Sorry Tallahassee. Sorry New Orleans.

PJ, get your fucking asses back to Halifornia(I like that one). No excuses now, just fucking do it.

sward

Dammit Truthmonger..I was going to take a night off!

Truthmonger

sward wrote:

Dammit Truthmonger..I was going to take a night off!

Sward, its you and me in a no-holds-barred, knock-em-down-drag-em-out, PJ cagematch. "Blood" plays on the background. Followed by Alive. The winner gets a shot at that shameless, non-stop bumper Lanners.

funkymonk

lanners wrote:

okay...you want to know what's sad? i looked at the stats of who has posted how many replies in this thread and it goes like this...


lanners 96
sward 39
Truthmonger 38
mookie blaylock 10 34
funkymonk 27
teflonsteve 18
olderman 13
warehouse 11
Boozer 11
yellowstripes 11
Gallant88 10

i need a life! if i devoted as much time to keeping this thread alive to keeping my plants alive, my aloe would be thriving! if i devoted as much time to keeping my apartment clean i wouldn't be so embarrassed to have people over!

Daaanngg! I feel so honoured and humbled to be included in this prestigious group of Jamaholics. It's funny how I still run into people at other non-PJ shows who were at this show and everybody still comments at how phenomenal this show was. I ran into a couple at the Alice Cooper show in Saint John who saw PJ in Hali and they said that the only Pearl Jam they listen to now is the boot from the show (Warning: Please do not attempt this without appropriate adult supervision!)

Zillah13

I completely support this thread! I "unfortunately" couldn't afford to go past Toronto on the Cross-Canada tour. But man, if they do decide to go east, I'll make the trip. I don't care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've heard that the Halifax show was awsome!!!!!!
That it was the second best show on the tour.
Ottawa being no# 1.(You had to be there to understand that comment!)
Keep this thread going indefinately!!!!!!!!!!!
Let them know...... we want another show!!!
Shit I want another cross country tour!!!!!!!
That would be sweet!!!!!!!

lanners

i'm glad that people aren't totally sick of us keeping this thread alive.

wow...page 4...too bad i work all day. otherwise i would just spend my days bumping this thread up until Kat and Sea get sick of us and just give in and give us a sticky.

i hope they come back. from all the buzz from the recent shows in Boston and Camden, i'm itching real bad to get to another show.

i'm going to have to get my brother to buy the boots for those shows to get an idea of what is to come WHEN they come back.

i will not lose faith because i'm stubborn as hell.

sward

this is to bump....and add one on Truthmonger ;-)

lanners

god, if this turns into a competition i've got you all beat with my whiny bumps and miss merry sunshine hope.

bah.

LanceUppercut

This is off topic, but I see WWS on MuchMoreMusic all the time now, it is even on the countdown. I also saw life wasted on Much once. Pretty cool.

sward

I have yet to see a video on much...maybe because I hardly watch..but still..hasn't happened yet. Can't wait for when I do. Is it on any of the countdowns?

sward

Slow day at work..bump.....

lanners

i caught the premier of Life Wasted on Much and have seen WWS on MuchMore quite a few times.

it's funny when a station that used to pride itself in playing the more subdued/adult contemporary pop-ish music is now playing more PJ than Much does.

MMM is by far the better music channel.

sward

Bump time

lanners

this rant won't really apply to anyone here, i just needed to get it off my chest and figured that no one would flame me if i posted it here...or better yet maybe it would get more people reading this thread and bring more attention to it. either way, this rant is totally selfish in nature and i apologize to the HFX regulars if i offend.

i would just like to take this opportunity to express my sincere disdain at the amount of bitching and complaining that has been going on on the boards since this tour started. For example:


~The "I'm tired of the setlist" complaints
~The "Why won't they play Leash" and conversly the "Why won't they stop playing Leash" complaints
~The "I only got (insert number) row floor seats"

etc...etc...etc...

Okay, whiny babies, shut your pie holes! You bitch, you whine and when things change you don't like it, so you bitch and you whine and it drives the rest of us who may not get to any shows this tour insane.

Do you not know just how good you have it? Do you know how spoiled you are?

I'm sorry, but it's been driving me nuts. If i were any member of the band and reading the threads on this board i would get a little sick in my mouth and cancel all the big shows and play for elderly women behind the counter in small towns, tiny hamlets and small farms in obscure places just to play for fans who appreciate the music, the band, the experience because they aren't jaded little cry-babies who have been to too many shows and think the band owes them something.

The band should just go places they've never been, or rarely go to because they are more appreciated there. Did you hear much bitching after Halifax or Saint John's? NO!

so there's my rant. i'm just tired of all the complaining lately. i'm sorry for taking up your time.

flame away. i'm too tired to argue anymore.

sward

lanners wrote:

this rant won't really apply to anyone here, i just needed to get it off my chest and figured that no one would flame me if i posted it here...or better yet maybe it would get more people reading this thread and bring more attention to it. either way, this rant is totally selfish in nature and i apologize to the HFX regulars if i offend.

i would just like to take this opportunity to express my sincere disdain at the amount of bitching and complaining that has been going on on the boards since this tour started. For example:


~The "I'm tired of the setlist" complaints
~The "Why won't they play Leash" and conversly the "Why won't they stop playing Leash" complaints
~The "I only got (insert number) row floor seats"

etc...etc...etc...

Okay, whiny babies, shut your pie holes! You bitch, you whine and when things change you don't like it, so you bitch and you whine and it drives the rest of us who may not get to any shows this tour insane.

Do you not know just how good you have it? Do you know how spoiled you are?

I'm sorry, but it's been driving me nuts. If i were any member of the band and reading the threads on this board i would get a little sick in my mouth and cancel all the big shows and play for elderly women behind the counter in small towns, tiny hamlets and small farms in obscure places just to play for fans who appreciate the music, the band, the experience because they aren't jaded little cry-babies who have been to too many shows and think the band owes them something.

The band should just go places they've never been, or rarely go to because they are more appreciated there. Did you hear much bitching after Halifax or Saint John's? NO!

so there's my rant. i'm just tired of all the complaining lately. i'm sorry for taking up your time.

flame away. i'm too tired to argue anymore.

I totally agree. I've never been one from that camp. I really do appreciate all that PJ does...from varied setlists, to bootlegs, to free downloads...the list goes on and on. Hey..I'll take Betterman every show I go to. It's ok with me to see the rest of the crowd (that aren't fanatics like us) enjoy the songs that they do know..because I guarantee they leave there wanting to discover more.

Who would have thought that I'd be following a band for 15 years?....from university, girlfriends, breakups, sadness, joy,life,death, marriage, birth of my son, gainful employment..list goes on ;-)......and the band would be the one constant of my life. That is what Pearl Jam is to me. Not setlists and ticket fiascos...but a part of my life. I guess with that comes the ups and downs of any 'relationship' and that is what these people are encountering...but for me...it's been nothing but great. The naysayers will say that Im (we) are just blinded by all that is PJ..but that's not true. I don't love every song..I haven't loved every album...I haven't loved every decision. But I trust their instincts and the place the fan plays in their choices.

I got to meet all the members of PJ in NFLD and I remember being a little wary of meeting EV, if only because I didn't want to take a chance of leaving a bad taste in my mouth..but it was more than anyone could ever ask for because it was genuine...that's all I could say about the whole experience to sum it up for friends...it was genuine...very gratifying experience all around.

So..to that I say thanks to PJ for 15 years and counting and I raise a toast to all the Halifax thread contributers because, this too is genuine. ;-)