*** Tampa Fanviews Here 6/12/2008 ***

mcgruff10

was the tampa show pretty much packed or were there a lot of empty seats around the top of the arena? just wondering.

guacamolejoe

prsntnse wrote:

Just got back to NY from Florida. Both shows were great. My buddy in Florida hit the lottery(guacamolejoe), and there we were 1st row Mikes side. It was an amazing experience. I took alot of pics, that could have been amazing if I knew how to use a fu**** camera. Although some did come out pretty good.

http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn275/prsntnse/?action=view&current=010-1.jpg

I took alot of video also, if i figure out how to put that on here I will.
Now I am getting ready for 5 more shows up here.

Nice shots, I wish I was there. Oh yeah! I WAS!

I WON THE LOTTTTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

ScottZeagle

mcgruff10 wrote:

was the tampa show pretty much packed or were there a lot of empty seats around the top of the arena? just wondering.

There were some empty seats, way up top.

RW

Got a few good shots at WPB and Tampa, especially these:
http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c336/RainierWolfcastle/WPBTampa/?action=view&current=055.jpg
http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c336/RainierWolfcastle/WPBTampa/?action=view&current=024.jpg
http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c336/RainierWolfcastle/WPBTampa/?action=view&current=027.jpg

here's the rest:
http://s30.photobucket.com/albums/c336/RainierWolfcastle/WPBTampa/

RacerN8

ScottZeagle wrote:

There were some empty seats, way up top.

As bad as it sounded up there, my guess is there will be a lot more if PJ decides to play that dump again...

nukeboot

RacerN8 wrote:

As bad as it sounded up there, my guess is there will be a lot more if PJ decides to play that dump again...

Sorry you had a bad experience.

I've sat in most areas of the Forum for concerts and have never had a problem with sound, but I may just have been lucky.

The building is perfect for hockey and arena football. The steep, close bowls are great for sports, but maybe not great for concert sound?

Herd Behavior

I've read fanviews over the past 10-15 years so I figure I'll post my first, even though I've been to 6 shows from 94 to last Thursday night.

When we arrived at the ticket office, I knew we had a shot at the lottery (298k tc #) but my wife and I were really not expecting anything crazy. We were just happy to be there, seeing we came from Nashville to St. Pete Beach to get away from work for a week and also celebrate our 10 years of marriage.

So, we pick up the tickets and I see FL2, row 1. I'm thinking, cool, we are first row somewhere in the arena..I then look at the seating chart and I'm blown away. Our tickets are front and center, row 1. At that point, it is a blur...After a few "holy sh*ts" coming from our mouths which we picked up off of the floor I make the move to covertly stick the tickets in my wallet and then zip my pockets, only to check every 5 minutes for the next hour before we can enter the arena.

This is my favorite band since my freshman year of college when Ten came out, and we are about to be about 10 feet away from our rock and roll heroes. My wife and I couldn't f'n believe it. (and to this day we still don't..I got goosebumps yesterday thinking about it)

Kings of Leon are a band that my wife and I have followed for some time now, seeing how we are from Nashville where they are based. We had just seen them at the Ryman Auditorium a few months prior, and they are a fantastic live band. To be able to see them open for PJ was truly phenomenal for us. Those kids can blow the roof off. Their set was killer.

The sound quality was FANTASTIC from our spot.

PJ comes on, and we are blown away. 4 days later I still cannot put into proper words how cool the next 2 hours were. A few things come to mind..

As a band, they sounded better than any show I've ever heard them....

My wife and I cannot catch a damn guitar pick to save our lives. We absolutely sh*t the beds at least 3 times with picks. If I knew that the tickets were going to be that good we would have practiced!!......

We normally drink 2-3 beers at shows but since we were in the situation where our tickets were unfreaking real we both concluded that not a drop of liquid would be consumed. There was going to be NO instances of having to go find a restroom.

Ed forgot the lyrics during "Life Wasted" and looked directly at us for help. By that time a guitar solo had started (I think) and it was past the point where we could conjure anything to help the man. I feel slightly bad for laughing when it happened because I cannot imagine having a catalog so deep and remembering all of the lyrics. I was laughing at his reaction to forgetting lyrics because he gets pretty animated. Once he looked down and saw that my wife and I were useless he shot us a bird, which was pretty funny! Sorry Ed!!

Everyone around us was really cool..Special "what up" to Fury Three. (I'm pretty sure that is your handle) Nice to meet you.

Great to see all of the guys up close having a good time, and they looked pretty happy to be there!

The setlist could have been a bunch of Creed covers and I wouldn't have cared due to our seating situation. I cannot stress how cool this was...

I have probably around 35-45 boots, and I cannot wait to get this one along with the Roo set....

Again, thank you very much Ten-Club!!! We seriously had one of the best days of our lives...I can probably do a better job being descriptive in a few more days, but this is all I can produce now.

Cheers!

TremorChrist77

Herd Behavior wrote:

I've read fanviews over the past 10-15 years so I figure I'll post my first, even though I've been to 6 shows from 94 to last Thursday night.

When we arrived at the ticket office, I knew we had a shot at the lottery (298k tc #) but my wife and I were really not expecting anything crazy. We were just happy to be there, seeing we came from Nashville to St. Pete Beach to get away from work for a week and also celebrate our 10 years of marriage.

So, we pick up the tickets and I see FL2, row 1. I'm thinking, cool, we are first row somewhere in the arena..I then look at the seating chart and I'm blown away. Our tickets are front and center, row 1. At that point, it is a blur...After a few "holy sh*ts" coming from our mouths which we picked up off of the floor I make the move to covertly stick the tickets in my wallet and then zip my pockets, only to check every 5 minutes for the next hour before we can enter the arena.

This is my favorite band since my freshman year of college when Ten came out, and we are about to be about 10 feet away from our rock and roll heroes. My wife and I couldn't f'n believe it. (and to this day we still don't..I got goosebumps yesterday thinking about it)

Kings of Leon are a band that my wife and I have followed for some time now, seeing how we are from Nashville where they are based. We had just seen them at the Ryman Auditorium a few months prior, and they are a fantastic live band. To be able to see them open for PJ was truly phenomenal for us. Those kids can blow the roof off. Their set was killer.

The sound quality was FANTASTIC from our spot.

PJ comes on, and we are blown away. 4 days later I still cannot put into proper words how cool the next 2 hours were. A few things come to mind..

As a band, they sounded better than any show I've ever heard them....

My wife and I cannot catch a damn guitar pick to save our lives. We absolutely sh*t the beds at least 3 times with picks. If I knew that the tickets were going to be that good we would have practiced!!......

We normally drink 2-3 beers at shows but since we were in the situation where our tickets were unfreaking real we both concluded that not a drop of liquid would be consumed. There was going to be NO instances of having to go find a restroom.

Ed forgot the lyrics during "Life Wasted" and looked directly at us for help. By that time a guitar solo had started (I think) and it was past the point where we could conjure anything to help the man. I feel slightly bad for laughing when it happened because I cannot imagine having a catalog so deep and remembering all of the lyrics. I was laughing at his reaction to forgetting lyrics because he gets pretty animated. Once he looked down and saw that my wife and I were useless he shot us a bird, which was pretty funny! Sorry Ed!!

Everyone around us was really cool..Special "what up" to Fury Three. (I'm pretty sure that is your handle) Nice to meet you.

Great to see all of the guys up close having a good time, and they looked pretty happy to be there!

The setlist could have been a bunch of Creed covers and I wouldn't have cared due to our seating situation. I cannot stress how cool this was...

I have probably around 35-45 boots, and I cannot wait to get this one along with the Roo set....

Again, thank you very much Ten-Club!!! We seriously had one of the best days of our lives...I can probably do a better job being descriptive in a few more days, but this is all I can produce now.

Cheers!

Hey Herd Behavior, thanks for deciding to share your experience at the show. And don't worry, you were plenty descriptive, I actually got goosebumps reading about your goosebumps lol. But I think it's so awesome that you guys were able to get that close. I too was at the show and from where I was seated which was row F the band sounded fucking amazing but I really couldn't see the looks on the guys faces all too well, from your view it must have been unreal. But reading your post really makes me want to write about my experience in Tampa too. I just might have to do that.

Claudia

Herd Behavior wrote:

The setlist could have been a bunch of Creed covers and I wouldn't have cared due to our seating situation.

ha

Fury Three

Herd Behavior wrote:

I've read fanviews over the past 10-15 years so I figure I'll post my first, even though I've been to 6 shows from 94 to last Thursday night.

When we arrived at the ticket office, I knew we had a shot at the lottery (298k tc #) but my wife and I were really not expecting anything crazy. We were just happy to be there, seeing we came from Nashville to St. Pete Beach to get away from work for a week and also celebrate our 10 years of marriage.

So, we pick up the tickets and I see FL2, row 1. I'm thinking, cool, we are first row somewhere in the arena..I then look at the seating chart and I'm blown away. Our tickets are front and center, row 1. At that point, it is a blur...After a few "holy sh*ts" coming from our mouths which we picked up off of the floor I make the move to covertly stick the tickets in my wallet and then zip my pockets, only to check every 5 minutes for the next hour before we can enter the arena.

This is my favorite band since my freshman year of college when Ten came out, and we are about to be about 10 feet away from our rock and roll heroes. My wife and I couldn't f'n believe it. (and to this day we still don't..I got goosebumps yesterday thinking about it)

Kings of Leon are a band that my wife and I have followed for some time now, seeing how we are from Nashville where they are based. We had just seen them at the Ryman Auditorium a few months prior, and they are a fantastic live band. To be able to see them open for PJ was truly phenomenal for us. Those kids can blow the roof off. Their set was killer.

The sound quality was FANTASTIC from our spot.

PJ comes on, and we are blown away. 4 days later I still cannot put into proper words how cool the next 2 hours were. A few things come to mind..

As a band, they sounded better than any show I've ever heard them....

My wife and I cannot catch a damn guitar pick to save our lives. We absolutely sh*t the beds at least 3 times with picks. If I knew that the tickets were going to be that good we would have practiced!!......

We normally drink 2-3 beers at shows but since we were in the situation where our tickets were unfreaking real we both concluded that not a drop of liquid would be consumed. There was going to be NO instances of having to go find a restroom.

Ed forgot the lyrics during "Life Wasted" and looked directly at us for help. By that time a guitar solo had started (I think) and it was past the point where we could conjure anything to help the man. I feel slightly bad for laughing when it happened because I cannot imagine having a catalog so deep and remembering all of the lyrics. I was laughing at his reaction to forgetting lyrics because he gets pretty animated. Once he looked down and saw that my wife and I were useless he shot us a bird, which was pretty funny! Sorry Ed!!

Everyone around us was really cool..Special "what up" to Fury Three. (I'm pretty sure that is your handle) Nice to meet you.

Great to see all of the guys up close having a good time, and they looked pretty happy to be there!

The setlist could have been a bunch of Creed covers and I wouldn't have cared due to our seating situation. I cannot stress how cool this was...

I have probably around 35-45 boots, and I cannot wait to get this one along with the Roo set....

Again, thank you very much Ten-Club!!! We seriously had one of the best days of our lives...I can probably do a better job being descriptive in a few more days, but this is all I can produce now.

Cheers!

Hey, good to hear from ya! That was me right next to you all right. Did any of your photos come out?

I think Ed and the front row all flubbed the lyrics to Life Wasted at the same time. It was a group effort. We also got flipped off during the Jose story for having front row seats.

Bloodpisser

Tampa was awesome!

KOL were great and I wish they had played longer. I will have to check them out when they headline. Not many people seemed that into them around me.

My seats were the best I have ever had for a show. 3rd row on the stone side about 15 rows deep from front of the stage.

my four friends and I played the"one song from each CD you would like to hear" game and I am the only one who got shut out, but I still didn't care as it was still an awesome show with amazing energy. My first indoor PJ show.

Insignif. GTF and Present Tense were my favorites. Porch was really good as well. Thanks PJ for an awesome show. I got to slow dance with my girl during YLB and that was pretty awesome too. See you at MSG I!

Hitchhikergirl

I'm so glad PJ played the south, since I just moved to Florida from New Jersey in 2007.

We definitely got the best setlist for FL! Sometimes, Light Years, Present Tense, Insignificance, and NOTHINGMAN! I've been waiting for that one live!

I made my husband go with me, so this was his first PJ show. He knew most of the songs because of being forced to listen to them daily; but of course, "the hits" made his night. I was also next to 2 guys on my right who just stood there and kept looking at all of us 10c folks like we were insane, then would leave for beer or whatever. They probably stayed for 4 songs total. My husband kidded that I probably ran them away with my dancing/singing "energizer bunny" routine. Oh well, I guess those seats have to be filled somehow.

Overall it was a fabulous night! The best PJ show for me thus far! I hope to go to as many more shows as possible without losing my job!!

TPATURK

Hello - I am a native Tampa man and was actually born right across from the Forum. I am a huge concert goer and have been to many shows there and elsewhere. By far the sound at the PJ show on Thursday was the best I have ever heard from the opening song. I am very critical on sound and I judge shows by sound quality. At the WPB shows it took 6 to 7 songs to get the sound quality LEVEL. The drums were loose, the bass was wobbling and the vocals were drowned out in WPB. After 6 songs or so it got adjusted and was on tight. As for the arena show and PJ, I salute the sound people. From note one this show was tight, the best I have heard. I really have not seen a bad show from PJ in Tampa, they seem to love the venue and the crowd always seems to respond.
I was at the VIC show last year and was dissappointed towards the end when the guitars were so heavy we lost Eddie. Anyhow the band is on, they are better than ever. The shows will get better as this tour concludes and then into the studio
I hope we are all back here in 6 months to a year doing the same thing with new material. For now it is serious live withdraw from the Jam.
Yes and for all you diehards this is Brian Turkel, the guy who posted all the great pics, vids and shot of setlist from the last Tampa show 08/12/00 show. http://www.fivehorizons.com/tour/cc/t2000p2.shtml#08/12/00
I am happy other TC members get front row because it is a well deserved for all to see them once like that.

loveboatcayden

I loved the energy of the Tampa show. I was in section 117(mike's side, 18 rows back and 5 rows up) Sometimes was a great opener and the versions of Porch, Black and Present Tense were the best I have seen. We went crazy when Ed gave a shout out to "B-Town". I cried, again, during Small Town as it has some personal significance for me and my buddy cried during the end of Wishlist, "bring'em home" as he has a brother in Iraq. Like everyone else, I could have used a few more song doses, but they were out there for about 2 1/4 hours. You can't complain about that. The sound was great from where I was, but I have been to other shows in the Forum up high and to the sides and yes, the sound tends to be weaker up there. This was my 6th show and certainly my favorite.
In addition, the fundraiser was awesome. I had a great time and was so happy to see the look on Karen and co.'s faces from HDF on how giving you guys were. Fantastic job to Clinton and crew for setting it up and thanks for allowing me to be a part of it. Thanks to everyone for playing as I know my MC/auctioneer skills aren't polished. Next time we'll get the bar to turn the music down sooner. To BIG $ Ben, thanks brother. I can't wait for next time.

nukeboot

Has anyone heard the boot of Tampa yet?

Wondering how it turned out before I buy it.

Reviews?

loganandsienna

I must admit to pure luck getting the chance to see PJ play in Tampa. I'm from Seattle. It just so happened they were playing the Forum while I was in Orlando for a week.

Despite growing up listening to PJ, I had only seen them in concert once, Halloween night in San Francisco eight years ago. Two years ago, I failed to to see them play the Gorge a few hours east of Seattle and regretted it, making myself the promise to never miss on another chance.

I'm glad I followed through.

The Forum will never be the best venue to hear a concert, but I'll remember the music from that night forever. The first PJ concert I saw I still hold images of the Halloween costumes and the atmosphere from that night.

The Tampa show. I'll simply remember how damn good my favorite band sounded.

Here's hoping for a West Coast swing sometime later this year.

____
10/31/00 Shoreline Amp.
6/12/08 Tampa

dcfaithful

yea this show was GREAT!

I was really suprised to hear Light Years, Down and Nothingman.
it was truly an awesome PJ show, although days after I looked at some other setlists and saw that they played some songs on other setlists I wish I could've heard.

my favorite part about a PJ show is going in and feeling that overwhelming excitement of not knowing what songs you're going to hear...you don't have that freedom of sitting in front of your stereo, reading the bootleg case and knowing what is next...but at the show, you have no need for imagining what the band is doing on stage .

would've loved to hear some Low Light, Dissident, Sleight of Hand, Last Exit...that stuff

i loved the backdrop...the waves were awesome, they sounded just great as well. and bringing up the house lights for Yellow Ledbetter was classic.

great show.

Veryundude77

I figure a week is just about the right amount of time to formulate a review of the show...

Got to the arena around 6:30ish, found cheap parking (bonus!). My friend and I were still exhuasted from the West Palm show, having to drive 3 hours to Tampa. We made a bee line for the ticket counter. 3rd row Stone side... i was quite happy w/ that. Next stop.... merch stand. I got the poster, which I liked better than the WPB show poster, though my wife doesn't like it. I skipped Kings of Leon, as I didn't much care for them the previous night. I would have much preferred Ted Leo.

PJ comes on and kills it. Great set list... Down, Present Tense (my fave track from No Code), Nothingman.... a mellower set list than the previous night in WPB. The guys seemed to be having a great time on stage. I can't wait to hear the bootleg and relive the experience.

My only complaint was that the people around my friend and me were total tools. Every other show I've been to, I've had great conversations and alot of fun w/ the 10c peeps. The worst offenders were the 4 douche nozzles in front of me, 2 of whom only stopped taking pictures of the band to take pictures of themselves in various myspace poses (open mouths, kissy faces, gang signs, what have you...).

MakeMeCry43

Thank you to all who posted damn great reviews! I loved reading them, eventhough, I know it adds to my pain of missing another great PJ show lol, but hey, still makes me real glad that all who went there had a great time and great seats too! And Herd beahavior, your review gave me goosenumps man! Just felt like I was there for a moment and I thought it was real funny that Ed flipped you the bird, haha how nice of him And also some damn great photos posted up here! A lot of thanks to all who posted those kick ass pics and I loved your pics Fury Three! They looked like great seats! Lucky duck! Definitely am going to try and get the boot for this, the setlist just sounds pure awesome, I guess Mike Mcready is true to his word when he said in an interview that at this leg of the tour they would be playing some gems! Eventhough I wasn't there or haven't witnessed a show yet, but I wanna say thanks to the band for giving all of us other fans gems and gifts hehe...they're really a great band to be a fan of! Any other reviews that haven't surfaced, please write some more folks!

Oblivia

I'll preface by saying that I am just jotting some quick notes to share for the Tampa show. I know it's late, but I'm still plenty excited about the show that happened a week ago and I have been obsessively lurking on the Message Pit as a result, and I am never on here.

My brother and I walked in right as the band started "Sometimes" and it took a while for us to get to our seats. It seems that when you are on the floor somewhere, folks working the venue can't really direct you properly. We watched a bit of "Sometimes" from section 104, where we couldn't get all the way down the stairs. We stayed in a couple of empty seats in the same section to see "Corduroy" and tried to make our way back out to the floor. Heard "Why Go" from the hall and stairs because Elevator Dude made us walk. Weaved through the awesome bar downstairs and dark floor seats during the rest of "Why Go" and "Severed Hand." Still was walking up the floor through several sections during "Severed Hand" and finally was directed to FL2. Little did we know that we were not at the Stone end of our section, but at the Eddie end--pretty much center--and in the first row no less. Yes, we had won the lottery. (!!!)

To go hand in hand with this thread, I think the fan pictured in the 4th pic of this gallery is the same one that I was standing next to. If so, then she also was first to delve into the wine that was passed along during the Tampa show. She had told me the name of the wine, but it escapes me now. The bottle also went to her right--to her boyfriend. I was on her left, so I missed out. I would have partook if I were the second or third, but not after the whole front row took swigs. I think Eddie was also only expecting her to swig and then have it returned too. He watched for a while and put his hands up in defeat as if to say, "Oh, go on and have it."

A few times during the show, Eddie was distracted by someone in the center of the crowd. He would point and wave and of course, he was looking at me. Ha! Just kidding. Actually, around YL, don't remember if it was before or after, he pointed out a little 2-3 year old girl, who was about 5 rows back atop her dad's shoulders, asked her name (Emma), and thanked her personally for being up for the whole show. The crowd loved it. There was some great energy and all around good vibes that night.

I am wholly understating the lottery win though. I was really just agape for a few songs at the amazing seats we had. I normally get 10th row on a good day with the 10c. The folks around me were really nice and really happy to be there. I think I finally snapped out of it when "Even Flow" started. That whole string of songs (Even Flow->PT->Insignificance->Betterman->DTE) was full of WIN.

And for a comparison, a couple of my friends bought regular tix through TM and were in a high up section in the St. Pete Times Forum where the stairs are so steep and they loved every minute of it too! One had come to a couple other PJ shows in Kissimee and New Orleans with me before. But the other one attended FOR THE FIRST TIME. She had been waiting 13 years to get a chance to see them and she was happy as a clam to get "Hide Your Love Away" for her first show too. They couldn't understand what Eddie Vedder was mumbling about in between songs, but the songs came through just fine.

And mumbling between songs consisted of baseball heroes and references to front row being "seats behind home plate", registering to vote, the movie Recount and how Florida was the star of that movie, Bradenton, little girl Emma, brief intro to the part of the set (Encore 1) as fan requests. Encore 1, again, was full of WIN.

Many from the crowd roared, "Thank you!" Thanks to the band for putting on an excellent show for us. They even took a bow at the end.

Cheers and everyone enjoy the rest of the shows.


---Olivia