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Ive Got To Be Honest About Pj's Snl Performance

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  • Smellyman2Smellyman2 Posts: 689
    Every party has a pooper
  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    edited July 2012
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  • cafeamericaincafeamericain Posts: 88
    i said it earlier that i didn't care for matt's backing...stone is so much better...i do think there was a problem because matt's voice was too loud during world wide suicide and they seemed to fix it for the second song. but still the same "they're far and away the best band goin'"
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  • LetiLeti Posts: 25
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  • The Waiting Trophy ManThe Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    hey look everybody - it's another debbie downer!!
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  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    edited July 2012
    aBoxOfFear wrote:
    hey look everybody - it's another debbie downer!!

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  • adam42381adam42381 Kernersville, NC Posts: 2,505
    I'm going to have to agree somewhat. The songs were great sonically but Ed's voice seemed a bit strained. Hopefully it will be fine for the tour. I didn't mind Matt backing Ed too much. The song choice was decent (WWS was obvious) but I would have preferred a slower tempo song to close like Gone or Come Back, especially with the condition of Ed's voice. I still enjoyed it thoroughly although my wife seemed a bit indifferent. She's not a huge PJ fan so I'm not sure how tonight's performance will grab the casual listener.
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  • Low_Light03Low_Light03 Posts: 1,227
    Can't blame someone for giving his or her opinion.
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  • PearlJam134PearlJam134 Posts: 66
    Sound was off terribly so. Mike was quiet, Ed's mic was lower than Matt's. They needed to have that straitened out earlier... Mike was TEARING in the second song.
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  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    edited May 2010
    adam42381 wrote:
    I'm going to have to agree somewhat. The songs were great sonically but Ed's voice seemed a bit strained. Hopefully it will be fine for the tour. I didn't mind Matt backing Ed too much. The song choice was decent (WWS was obvious) but I would have preferred a slower tempo song to close like Gone or Come Back, especially with the condition of Ed's voice. I still enjoyed it thoroughly although my wife seemed a bit indifferent. She's not a huge PJ fan so I'm not sure how tonight's performance will grab the casual listener.


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  • LeilaMoonTurtleLeilaMoonTurtle Posts: 1,418
    yay someone that feels like i do
    and y did the drummer run to the front of the stage at the end of wws? the song was barely over and he was tripping over himself to get to the front. the close-ups were only of ed and drummer boy--which is great but what happened to mike, jeff and stone have they not earned camera time. either way they sounded great (less back up vocals) and played very well, did not miss a beat.

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=180062&page=15

    LeatherMandi wrote:
    Energy was great.... eds voice, was eh... hopefully warming up...

    i dont know how to feel about all this matt backing up ed... just doesnt hit me right...


    and honestly, i cant dig those two songs.... it makes me sad.... cuz im not used to that :(


    but yeah, dont want to be a downer, just how i feel, figured everyone would be praising it all to hell and back... so i guess im the token person to keep the board even :D u know, the ying and the yang...





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  • Riot_MacRiot_Mac Posts: 473
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    hey look everybody- its just someone being honest, so f you ;)

    im going to be honest when i say i thought both those songs kicked major ass
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  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    this party blows im leaving theres no hot chicks here
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  • mathrules76mathrules76 Posts: 3
    adam42381 wrote:
    I'm going to have to agree somewhat. The songs were great sonically but Ed's voice seemed a bit strained. Hopefully it will be fine for the tour. I didn't mind Matt backing Ed too much. The song choice was decent (WWS was obvious) but I would have preferred a slower tempo song to close like Gone or Come Back, especially with the condition of Ed's voice. I still enjoyed it thoroughly although my wife seemed a bit indifferent. She's not a huge PJ fan so I'm not sure how tonight's performance will grab the casual listener.


    I agree with strained vocals, but I think it has more to to do with how WWS sounds live and what with the whole emotive response to incompetent foreign policy & using the miltary as mercenaries . They're just warming up. The tour's going to rock.
  • Smellyman2Smellyman2 Posts: 689
    LeilaMoonTurtle wrote:
    yay someone that feels like i do
    and y did the drummer run to the front of the stage at the end of wws?

    And what about the singer? What's his name?
  • goat boygoat boy Posts: 8
    anyone with negative thoughts about this performance is fuckin nuts. The energy was there Eds voice has been better but he is a 41 year old smoker so what do you expect. I am ready for the tour. Severted hand is an awsome tune and the band sounds as good as they ever have.
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    Riot_Mac wrote:
    im going to be honest when i say i thought both those songs kicked major ass
    i agree i was really excited with both songs. Folks expecting ed to sound like he did 15 years ago unfortunately need to realize he will never sound that way again. His voice is not that good anymore.
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  • giventoyfly316giventoyfly316 Posts: 72
    I don't really like "WWS". I wasn't impressed with the AOL Studios performance of it. And the same goes for SNL. With the way Matt could practically be heard over Eddie during the chorus and the ultra simplistic chord progression of the song, I thought they sounded like a highschool garage band.

    However, I thought "Severed Hand" really rocked. The breakdown is reminiscent of "Insignificance", but that doesn't bother me at all.

    As for Eddie's voice, I agree. He was straining big time during "WWS". He was better on "Severed" though.

    "and honestly, i cant dig those two songs.... it makes me sad.... cuz im not used to that"

    Even though I like "Severed", I know what you mean. I am having a lukewarm reaction to the songs I've heard from this album.
  • Smellyman2Smellyman2 Posts: 689
    intodeep wrote:
    i agree i was really excited with both songs. Folks expecting ed to sound like he did 15 years ago unfortunately need to realize he will never sound that way again. His voice is not that good anymore.

    Better IMHO
  • goat boygoat boy Posts: 8
    Eds voice is still superior to anybodys but it is not what it used to be but still the best
  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 28,001
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    Energy was great.... eds voice, was eh... hopefully warming up...

    i dont know how to feel about all this matt backing up ed... just doesnt hit me right...


    and honestly, i cant dig those two songs.... it makes me sad.... cuz im not used to that :(


    but yeah, dont want to be a downer, just how i feel, figured everyone would be praising it all to hell and back... so i guess im the token person to keep the board even :D u know, the ying and the yang...





    Ps. I liked "Life Wasted" more back when it was "Insignificance"


    I thought it was a great performance. I think there was a problem with the audio on Mike's side. Maybe that's what threw you off. And I think Eddie's voice sounded good. I knew there was gonna be post/s like this but oh well.
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  • Low_Light03Low_Light03 Posts: 1,227
    I do agree that Ed's voice is drowned out by Matt's a little. It sounds good and I can't wait to hear WWS at each of the 6 shows i'm going to.
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  • SeelosSeelos Posts: 5
    Stoked to see PJ out and about again, but I am also having lukewarm reactions to the songs. WWS has grown on me, but first listen to severed hand not so excited. I know most of the album is fast, and I believe they only have to slow tempo songs on this album, so I hope they all grow on me.
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  • motherlovebonemotherlovebone Posts: 24
    Get over it, people.....It was Pearl Jam and they rocked. Where else you gonna go?
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  • Betterman77Betterman77 Posts: 92
    I don't know why people judge the sound quality of tv performances, First off, the bands sound crew has absolutely nothing to do with the sound feed going for the televison, thats run by the SNL people, which is why almost every band that plays on tv sounds totally off, wait till they place thier own shows with thier own sound crew, then thier true sound will come through.

    By the way the performance was pretty good id say. Never seen them with that much energy for a long time. Past few years has been them just standing there in one spot playing, so it was good to see that older engery again.
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  • The Waiting Trophy ManThe Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    Betterman77 wrote:
    I don't know why people judge the sound quality of tv performances, First off, the bands sound crew has absolutely nothing to do with the sound feed going for the televison, thats run by the SNL people, which is why almost every band that plays on tv sounds totally off, wait till they place thier own shows with thier own sound crew, then thier true sound will come through.

    By the way the performance was pretty good id say. Never seen them with that much energy for a long time. Past few years has been them just standing there in one spot playing, so it was good to see that older engery again.

    they've never lost energy in their live performances.
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  • DaytimeDilemmaDaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    LeatherMandi wrote:



    Ps. I liked "Life Wasted" more back when it was "Insignificance"


    Uhhh..wha? Those songs sound nothing like each other?


    And even if you mean severed hand...I still hear NO resemblence to Insignifcance.
  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 28,001
    DaytimeDilemma wrote:
    Uhhh..wha? Those songs sound nothing like each other?


    And even if you mean severed hand...I still hear NO resemblence to Insignifcance.

    Yeah I didn't get that reference.
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  • JumpingtheGreenJumpingtheGreen Posts: 32
    igotid88 wrote:
    Yeah I didn't get that reference.

    Yeh, I just pretended I didn't read that. I thought I was just too dumb to get it.
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