Lame Seattle crowd yet again

Mike Gossard

Phoenix is usually a lame crowd, but this last show they really were excited to see the band. Maybe it was the fact they hadn't been here in ten years but the crowd was really great this time around.

Yes Way

SomethingCreative wrote:

I was at Portland and Seattle this tour... as well as the seattle 09 shows. This crowd was better than all 4 of those shows.

I thought the crowd was fine and I KNEW as soon as Ed said that we'd have a thread like this. I was behind the stage last night and had a really good vantage point of the arena and I think what a lot of people are misconstruing as silence was actually people being moved by the music. Big difference.

I totally disagree about Portland. That was the loudest crowd, easily, of the four shows I went to, followed by Spokane, Seattle and then about 400 notches below, Oakland. In fairness, Oakland WAS the drunkest crowd I've ever seen at a concert, ever. Which is amazing because beer was $13.50! I just don't know how you can be so hammered and quiet at the same time.

vaggar99

Pearl Jam please come play my living room. I couldn't make any shows this year due to personal obligations. I haven't missed a tour since No Code. I promise to have the best per capita crowd of any other in the world. I can pay you with fine wine from Trader Joes.

ForceofNature101

Which crowd was more subdued LA2 or Seattle? I was at LA2 and thought the crowd was decent yet people were commenting on them being less exited than LA2

Sounds like Seattle was ironically the least exited

ForceofNature101

Pushin Forward Back wrote:

If they played better songs rather than the vanilla bullshit people would have been more rowdy ! #fact

At LA1 it was mostly a hits show yet the crowd was fantastic

I would say the Seattle show was probably just filled with lame people. It happens here in LA quite a bit, thankfully not with PJ this go around

Wilds

ForceofNature101 wrote:

Which crowd was more subdued LA2 or Seattle? I was at LA2 and thought the crowd was decent yet people were commenting on them being less exited than LA2

Sounds like Seattle was ironically the least exited

Tough one. Of the six shows I went to those two were definitely the most subdued. I guess I'd have to say Seattle was because all things being equal, Seattle was on a Friday and LA2 was on a Sunday, and followed a balls to the wall LA1 show.

P J P

This.

Yes Way wrote:

I thought the crowd was fine and I KNEW as soon as Ed said that we'd have a thread like this.

I was in the middle of GA surrounded by a whole lot of people who had spent hours waiting in sub-freezing temps and they still rocked out. As for the generalizations about Seattle fans being lame and aloof: bullshit. No different than any other city. Almost everyone I met at the show was from out of town, not sure if that was typical of GA or the whole crowd, but whatever. My daughter and I had fun, sang and danced, met a lot of friendly people from all over the world (Italy, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico just in my little pocket of the floor), and we all had a blast.

We got to see a great band play a great show in our hometown and that's good enough for me.

akgrown46

Sounds like yall are just jealous of last nights epic, home town, tour ending show. Complete with Eddie swingling wildly from stage lights while singing to an adoring crowd, the best set list so far (including Let me Sleep, Unthought known, classic Mother Love Bone, Corduroy, Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Eruption), a Kim Thayil appearance, and a lengthy show ending after midnight. Not to mention the communal benefit of the anniversary of legalization.

Yup, was a good day to be a Seattleite.

Thanks for the Amazing show PJ!

akgrown46

Oh, and with little search effort, a quick view of the "dead, lack-luster crowd"
http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/25/16/66/5565830/0/960x540.jpg

Note their dead expressions, lack of movement, and flags they display representing the many neighborhoods of Seattle area.

Yes Way

P J P wrote:

This.

Yes Way wrote:

I thought the crowd was fine and I KNEW as soon as Ed said that we'd have a thread like this.

I was in the middle of GA surrounded by a whole lot of people who had spent hours waiting in sub-freezing temps and they still rocked out. As for the generalizations about Seattle fans being lame and aloof: bullshit. No different than any other city. Almost everyone I met at the show was from out of town, not sure if that was typical of GA or the whole crowd, but whatever. My daughter and I had fun, sang and danced, met a lot of friendly people from all over the world (Italy, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico just in my little pocket of the floor), and we all had a blast.

We got to see a great band play a great show in our hometown and that's good enough for me.

Yup. I don't need a good crowd to ROCK OUT myself. I dragged my section along with me

P.S. Behind stage is pretty cool. I was higher up than I'd prefer, but the perspective was cool and the sound was great. Plus I got to watch stuff on the screens in reverse.

SZ303389

akgrown46 wrote:

Oh, and with little search effort, a quick view of the "dead, lack-luster crowd"
http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/25/16/66/5565830/0/960x540.jpg

Note their dead expressions, lack of movement, and flags they display representing the many neighborhoods of Seattle area.

that was after eddie said goodnight, they were happy the show was over so they could go home and be more lame

Zod

I thought the show was solid.

I only went to the last two of the tour. Vancouver/Seattle. I went from having the best seats in Vancouver (a few rows in on the floor) to the worst seats in seattle (second level behind the stage).

Breath/Let Me Sleep made the setlist for me. For the rest I liked the song selection in Vancouver better. They seem to play some of my favorite songs on the albums they covered. Jeremy (which is the song that got me into PJ), Why Go, Oceans, In Hiding, etc...

I think Vancouver was better but I'm very biased due to being in the GA pit. Being amongst the diehards always creates a different experience.

The seattle crowd didn't seem horrible to me. Way better than 09. Not as good as Vancouver but not bad.

SZ303389

and eddie was right in BC, "we have one more of these, in seattle, and i don't think they will bring it quite like this." true enough

BigNolDogg

I was in the 200's and the crowd was great. Maybe the floor needs to step their game up. Seriously the crowd was great for most of the songs. Didn't they all Small town off setlist? Wonder why??? During the one part where Eddie said that was definitely a lull, but the crowd rocked the entire rest of the show. Ever think the Key Arena just sucks for sound? In every aspect?

jonboy66

The only thing that I was upset about last night was that Jay Z and Robinson Cano didn't come out during the encore.

Pushin Forward Back

jonboy66 wrote:

The only thing that I was upset about last night was that Jay Z and Robinson Cano didn't come out during the encore.

Thats a lonely boat !

jonboy66

Pushin Forward Back wrote:

jonboy66 wrote:

The only thing that I was upset about last night was that Jay Z and Robinson Cano didn't come out during the encore.

Thats a lonely boat !

The loneliest. It's just me and all of my unfulfilled dreams.

Go Beavers

vaggar99 wrote:

Pearl Jam please come play my living room. I couldn't make any shows this year due to personal obligations. I haven't missed a tour since No Code. I promise to have the best per capita crowd of any other in the world. I can pay you with fine wine from Trader Joes.

Just so you know in advance, Jeff insists on the chocolate covered, peanut butter filled pretzels.

ZeldaZonk

I thought the show was good. I enjoyed the Portland show more, but the Seattle show still rocked.

quasi

Sorry, I'd rather be at a supposedly "lame" show in Seattle than at supposedly "awesome" shows in Portland or Vancouver BC any day. Not gonna let some angry dude change the fact that I had a great time and at a great show. I had a great time and met cool people from all over including New York, Kentucky, Florida, Louisiana, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and England.