Dublin crew!!!

redrock

Ha ha ha ha

Jennytree

dunkman1974 wrote:

about a week ago they decided that all the people on this thread were so great that if they replied by 4pm last friday to meettheband@pearljam.com then we would indeed meet the band at the Dublin show... pretty cool huh

haha... I'll never leave again!!!

Heineken Helen

Jennytree wrote:

haha... I'll never leave again!!!

Actually you mainly missed:

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redrock

Yep - it's all been happening at the Astoria thread!

newagehippie

Okay….where do I start?? On Thursday night we departed out of Cincinnati Ohio and made our way toward Grand Rapids Michigan. The trip included myself and 3 of my good friends, who ironically are HUGE Pearl Jam fans as well. We make our way along the 6.5 hours drive rocking out to Pearl Jam and My Morning Jacket, after all they are from KY, the entire way. We arrive at Grand Rapids @ 2:30 in the morning, can’t get a room, so we crashed with the other car load of us that drove up, and proceeded to drink alcohol and what not.
We wake up Friday morning, get checked into our rooms, get cleaned up, grab some food, and we are on our way. To the bar that is. We stop at our motel bar, have a few drinks, and eventually make our way down to the CCFA fundraiser/pre-party. Once there we continue drinking donate some money, and meet up with all the wonderful PJ fans we have known over the years. Amongst them was luvisatower, lbc72, and foxymop. Enough about that, let’s get to the show.
We enter the arena just as doors open, grab a poster and t-shirts, and head to our seat. Ed came out and sang dead man and played the first song with MMJ. MMJ absolutely rocked the house. I may be biased, but I love their music. They played a very progressive set list, and included songs off of albums from the past 6 years. Now on to PJ
HAVE you seen the setlist?????:eek: HOLY SHIT!! I was a little thrown off with Small Town for an opener, but man did it do the trick. The crowd was on cue from then on. There were several times when someone would look over and say, “well we got about 3 more”, and nope….they played at least 12 after that!! They didn’t wanna stop playing and you could tell! It was evident that they were changing the setlist as they went, we were floored when we got songs like Why Go, SATAN’S BED, Slight of Hand, the list goes on and on. At one point Ed said “we can do around the bend if you’d like” the place went nuts. “we haven’t even practiced it, but we will play anyway”. And let me tell you, they nailed it!! They did a sit down entire second set, that was phenominal!!! The version of blood they did was absolutely amazing, it was the biggest “rocker” of the night in my opinion. Over all the show was amazing, or Awesome, if dunk likes that better. They played for damn near 3 hours, and didn’t wanna go. Most likely the best show I have ever seen. I’m not a big fan of their new laser show, but they can do whatever they want!!
After they show we went to the motel bar, loads of folks from the show was there, the music sucked, Chris, my good friend, took his guitar up there and played 2 PJ songs, and brought the house down. The bar shut down, so we ended up with like 45 PJ fans in our room singing to Chris play, it was nice, but I had to go to bed.
The next morning we got up and drove 5 hours to Cleveland. The drive sucked, we got there just around 3:30 or so, checked in our room, cleaned up, drank some beers, and went to the Preparty/CCFA fundraiser. Pretty much the same story as the night before. I didn’t get in to see Ed’s pre-set or MMJ, after all I had more drinking to do. The Cleveland show was great in it’s own rite, but couldn’t touch the night before. We did get a gem in “don’t gimmie no lip” which I had never heard. They highlight of the night was Yellow Ledbetter, not because of the song, but because Mike played it in it’s entirety behind his back, the whole fucking song!! I was absolutely amazed, and I was to mike's left so I could see they whole thing.
Then I went to the pub and got rocked….end of trip.
It was great to see the guys really enjoying themselves, especially on Friday night. Going into this tour I was afraid of rumors and things flying around about this being the last tour, NO fucking way!! There is no way those dudes will ever not play…..especially if you would’ve seen what we saw that night!! It was a super long weekend, and I am glad I can now recoup a little. I can not wait to see them in Dublin with all you guys for my 15th show!!!!. One word of advice, ladies, DO NOT WEAR MAKEUP, because you are gonna get your faced rocked off!!!!!!!!! Until August…..take care……sorry it is so long, there was so much more I wanted to put in there, just not enough time at work. On a side note, I was at the PUB Sat, and we saw Barbaro go down, such a shame…..no triple crown this year….maybe next………Have they announced the opening band yet?????? PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

redrock

Wow newagehippie - makes us wanting to have been there! GR is one to download then! Sounds like an awsome night! Don't apologize for length of post - one like that is never too long!

And about that make-up thing... there's lots of good waterproof (sweatproof) stuff about!

Now only... how many more days to Dublin?

chime

newagehippie you lucky thing You must still be on a high.

Have pencilled GR in for my first download

Sure you passed on a message to the guys to play an amazing set for us in Dublin


BRING IT ON

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

Actually you mainly missed:

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what.... eight pregnant women standing in a line

dunkman

newagehippie wrote:

Over all the show was amazing, or Awesome, if dunk likes that better.

awesome is indeed ok when describing the gigs of Pearl Jam... awesome

nice story there NAH... could be another downloader i think

redrock

dunkman1974 wrote:

nice story there NAH... could be another downloader i think

Chime said she is considering that one...

Still trying to download bloody Chicago 2!

Heineken Helen

newagehippie wrote:

Okay….where do I start??

Wow that all sounds absolutely fucking brilliant and I think we all know how you're feeling right now

On a side note, Ireland have the triple crown this year

So where are the pictures?

dunkman

redrock wrote:

Chime said she is considering that one...

yes Chime can join our Secret Society cant she

redrock

dunkman1974 wrote:

yes Chime can join our Secret Society cant she

if she wants to...

UKDave

Are we missing any at the moment...?

Society Members that is... :cool:

redrock

Haven't from Stoney....

Heineken Helen

UKDave wrote:

Are we missing any at the moment...?

Society Members that is... :cool:

:mad: Well I don't like being left out of stuff... but I've a feeling I'd be useless to your society :(

redrock

Aawwww, don't feel left out! All societies need supporters, ummmm cheerleaders (for Dunky or was it Dave?)... a guide in Dublin....

We can work something out!

UKDave

UKDave wrote:

Are we missing any at the moment...?

Society Members that is... :cool:

Do I need to "recruit" any of our recent American friends to the society?

redrock

I think newagehippie is part of the family now, isn't he?

stonesgstring

redrock wrote:

Haven't from Stoney....

*ears prick up* I heard my name mentioned...anything I should be aware of