*** St Louis Fanviews Here 10/3/14 ***

SarahMcNadia

nycrats said:

am i the only out of towner that actually enjoyed st louis and the people?

I LOVED it and want to go back!!

Abe Froman

SarahMcNadia said:

nycrats said:

am i the only out of towner that actually enjoyed st louis and the people?

I LOVED it and want to go back!!

It's a great city! Please come back and see it again. (Hopefully for a PJ related event sooner than later!)

Sarava

SarahMcNadia said:

nycrats said:

am i the only out of towner that actually enjoyed st louis and the people?

I LOVED it and want to go back!!

I am from Chicago and had an awesome time down there. The people were nice, the atmosphere for the Cardinals playoffs was awesome, the arch was great to see up close finally. I definitely have nothing but great things to say about St. louis and the trip we just had. I'll definitely be back.

Sarava

Oh and how cool was it when everyone was going nuts during that 8 run inning the Cardinals had before PJ took the stage? I'm a White Sox fan, but couldn't help but cheer on that rally. I hope they go on to win the World Series.

SarahMcNadia

Abe Froman said:

SarahMcNadia said:

nycrats said:

am i the only out of towner that actually enjoyed st louis and the people?

I LOVED it and want to go back!!

It's a great city! Please come back and see it again. (Hopefully for a PJ related event sooner than later!)

Yes!! Wouldn't mind catching a ballgame or doing some more power play arm dances at a Blues game lol

SarahMcNadia

Sarava said:

Oh and how cool was it when everyone was going nuts during that 8 run inning the Cardinals had before PJ took the stage? I'm a White Sox fan, but couldn't help but cheer on that rally. I hope they go on to win the World Series.

I thought that was great too!

xbuster314

They dedicated a song to my friend Seth who passed away earlier this year after falling 250 feet from a cellphone tower he was working on. Seth's favorite band as the same as all of us and his brothers is pearl jam. His memorial was filled with pearl jam songs and eddies into the wild. His brother tony sent them a letter to say thankyou for their music as it helped shape Seth into the great guy he was. His birthday was the same day as the concert and we had about 30 people with us that celebrated the day remembering Seth full of amazing people and friends and the best show I've seen yet from them (this is my 7th show, 1st in the pit). For them to dedicate setting forth for Seth is the most amazing gesture that I could have ever hope to see. It was very emotional and a moment that his family nor I will ever forget. Thankyou to the great fans that I got to meet and thankyou Pearl Jam for the best night I've ever had! I can't say enough how it meant to is all! Truly the greatest band ever and I the most amazing fans as well! You all deserve a round of applause for the way everyone showed up in St. Louis!

SloopJohnB

I have so many stories from this show, I don't even know where to begin. It was my first time seeing Pearl Jam from the GA, and I wanted to be on the rail. I showed up early, and I got it. Directly in front of Mike. I made friends in line, and saw a friend for the first time who flew in from Seattle. We met over the Twitterverse and had the time of our lives.

I made a sign that said "BALLS IN YOUR MOUTH" because that's my sense of humor. Mike was so confused. hahahahaa Finally, Eddie saw it during "Daughter" and pointed to it and said, "That's funny!" Everyone immediately to my right flipped out. We had such a blast. I don't think my husband and I have ever danced our asses off at any other concert quite like this one. We HAD to, we were Mike's cheer leading squad!! It was my husband's 40th birthday and he wore the Sub Pop "Loser" shirt I got him, and Eddie pointed him out and motioned to his own shirt as if to say he liked the shirt, which of course he had back in the 90s. He was so stoked.

But one of the coolest things ever was this moment with one of the kids I'd been standing in line with all day, Aaron. Right before the show we found out Aaron had been bedridden for two years from lyme disease; he had only recently begun walking again. He told us how Pearl Jam had helped him through this awful time. Well, who should Eddie happen to give his microphone to but Aaron during "Alive." I have chills thinking about it. Aaron didn't have a sign mentioning his situation, but he had a cast on his hand because his lyme disease gave him tendinitis. Maybe Eddie saw the cast and singled him out? We'll never know for sure, but watching Eddie coax Aaron into singing that verse of "Alive" is something I'll never ever forget. I saw someone got a video of it on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6qNGe313T4 That's my husband and I freaking out to the right of Aaron after Eddie walks away. During "Baba," Eddie came back and pointed to him and tossed him a tambourine. I mean, it doesn't get much more magical than that.

Hey Aaron, if you're out there, here's the picture I took of you when the lights went up after the show ended! So happy for you, bud!

mattcoz

Sarava said:

Oh and how cool was it when everyone was going nuts during that 8 run inning the Cardinals had before PJ took the stage? I'm a White Sox fan, but couldn't help but cheer on that rally. I hope they go on to win the World Series.

Yeah, it was incredible, and I'm a Sox fan too. Very cool that they put it on the big screens. Nobody had done anything like that against Kershaw. When it was 6-1, I figured it was over, no chance. A Cards fan in front of me commented that he was glad he was at the show instead of staying home to watch them lose, I wonder if he still thinks that, heh. I just love playoff baseball, anything can happen. As an added bonus, the Royals game went to extras so I was able to catch the end of that at Maggie's after the show. I'm pulling for them too.

Gern Blansten

SloopJohnB said:

I have so many stories from this show, I don't even know where to begin. It was my first time seeing Pearl Jam from the GA, and I wanted to be on the rail. I showed up early, and I got it. Directly in front of Mike. I made friends in line, and saw a friend for the first time who flew in from Seattle. We met over the Twitterverse and had the time of our lives.

I made a sign that said "BALLS IN YOUR MOUTH" because that's my sense of humor. Mike was so confused. hahahahaa Finally, Eddie saw it during "Daughter" and pointed to it and said, "That's funny!" Everyone immediately to my right flipped out. We had such a blast. I don't think my husband and I have ever danced our asses off at any other concert quite like this one. We HAD to, we were Mike's cheer leading squad!! It was my husband's 40th birthday and he wore the Sub Pop "Loser" shirt I got him, and Eddie pointed him out and motioned to his own shirt as if to say he liked the shirt, which of course he had back in the 90s. He was so stoked.

But one of the coolest things ever was this moment with one of the kids I'd been standing in line with all day, Aaron. Right before the show we found out Aaron had been bedridden for two years from lyme disease; he had only recently begun walking again. He told us how Pearl Jam had helped him through this awful time. Well, who should Eddie happen to give his microphone to but Aaron during "Alive." I have chills thinking about it. Aaron didn't have a sign mentioning his situation, but he had a cast on his hand because his lyme disease gave him tendinitis. Maybe Eddie saw the cast and singled him out? We'll never know for sure, but watching Eddie coax Aaron into singing that verse of "Alive" is something I'll never ever forget. I saw someone got a video of it on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6qNGe313T4 That's my husband and I freaking out to the right of Aaron after Eddie walks away. During "Baba," Eddie came back and pointed to him and tossed him a tambourine. I mean, it doesn't get much more magical than that.

Hey Aaron, if you're out there, here's the picture I took of you when the lights went up after the show ended! So happy for you, bud!

awesome....I saw the kid on the screens but didn't know the details. Great stuff

DewieCox

Great show, and as a song collector I did pretty well. Couldn't believe the crowd and it was definitely a cool experience being in ga inside the belly of the beast. It doesn't make a show, but seeing them up close is definitely pretty neat to see. Not sure where Mike gets his energy and loved scoping out his cool gear.

The Cards rally was great to watch and the timing was great as it happened right after a few putz Dodger fans decided to start the trash talking.

Did have the most obnoxious fan a couple back from me. I'm sure others heard him booing Ed speeches, mellower tunes and just being an overall douche, til a large fella told him "shut the fuck up".

Did have to skip out towards the end of Alive to avoid the wife passing out in the pit, but had a great time and had mostly cool people around us.

Highlights....Lowlight and Chloe/Crown....two songs I've had on the must hear list for years and sorta forgot about them, but was thrilled when they kicked in.

PJ_Soul

badbrains said:

PJ_Soul said:

davet7462 said:

JB308262 said:

Fuck St. Louis and their conservative fucking values. Never coming to this part of the country again. Living in West Seattle I take a lot of things for granted, not anymore. Scottrade Center users, you people suck, big time. Never been treated in such a hostile manner. Go fuck yourself and your minium wage fucking jobs. Power Trippers. What fun you must have ruining people's good time when they come to your city. The next time I talk with Ed I am going to tell him never to come back to this shit hole ever again. This place is fucked up! It's 2014, not 1950 assholes. Get a life St. Louis, I mean really, you need to!

My wife and I were sitting right behind you and your wife. Couldn't believe the fuckin' gestapo-ish rent-a-cop pulled that shit on you. It was total bullshit. That ass even came back and raided under your seats. I'm sorry, man. Just wrong.

Whatever. Moral of the story is don't get caught smoking weed (or other drugs or outside booze??) in a venue. No one to blame but themselves it sounds like. Now if they were actually doing nothing illegal he would have a good reason to be mad... although not at the entire city of St. Louis, lol. I don't get that sentiment at all!

A little harsh no? It's fucken weed. The dude flew from Seattle and DIDNT deserve to get tossed for fucken weed. That security guard was 100% asshole wether weed is legal or not. Turn the other way. You'd be pissed to if you were thrown out for whatever reason. I knew someone who got thrown out of Brooklyn for NO REASON at all. Security thought he was smoking weed and the guy had no idea wtf they were talking about. And that guy flew all the way from Sweden. So u need to maybe not be so harsh to your fellow club members for letting off some steam. Getting kicked out of a fucken concert for weed is straight bullshit. From what I got, it was everywhere in St. Louis.

Hey, I am pro weed and pro anyone getting away with smoking it. But when you DO get busted, there is no one to blame but yourself. It's the risk you take when you decide to smoke up at a concert (or anywhere else in public for that matter). This is from someone who has been arrested twice for possession, lol, and one of those times was at a music festival. I was just smoking weed at the wrong place and wrong time. Did inthink they were being a bit harsh as theu read me my rights? Yes. But absolitely no one to blame but myself! I should have been keeping a closer eye on where the cops at the venue were! So as someone who has been through it, I have no sympathy for someone who gets all angry and self-righteous when he was the one who is to blame, no matter how much of a hard ass the security guy was - he was still doing his job.

CM234968

badbrains said:

PJ_Soul said:

davet7462 said:

JB308262 said:

Fuck St. Louis and their conservative fucking values. Never coming to this part of the country again. Living in West Seattle I take a lot of things for granted, not anymore. Scottrade Center users, you people suck, big time. Never been treated in such a hostile manner. Go fuck yourself and your minium wage fucking jobs. Power Trippers. What fun you must have ruining people's good time when they come to your city. The next time I talk with Ed I am going to tell him never to come back to this shit hole ever again. This place is fucked up! It's 2014, not 1950 assholes. Get a life St. Louis, I mean really, you need to!

My wife and I were sitting right behind you and your wife. Couldn't believe the fuckin' gestapo-ish rent-a-cop pulled that shit on you. It was total bullshit. That ass even came back and raided under your seats. I'm sorry, man. Just wrong.

Whatever. Moral of the story is don't get caught smoking weed (or other drugs or outside booze??) in a venue. No one to blame but themselves it sounds like. Now if they were actually doing nothing illegal he would have a good reason to be mad... although not at the entire city of St. Louis, lol. I don't get that sentiment at all!

A little harsh no? It's fucken weed. The dude flew from Seattle and DIDNT deserve to get tossed for fucken weed. That security guard was 100% asshole wether weed is legal or not. Turn the other way. You'd be pissed to if you were thrown out for whatever reason. I knew someone who got thrown out of Brooklyn for NO REASON at all. Security thought he was smoking weed and the guy had no idea wtf they were talking about. And that guy flew all the way from Sweden. So u need to maybe not be so harsh to your fellow club members for letting off some steam. Getting kicked out of a fucken concert for weed is straight bullshit. From what I got, it was everywhere in St. Louis.

This situation just crossed my mind again and it takes me back to the two shows at Key Arena back in 2009. Anyone there? Well, you couldn't even take A BEER inside the bowl for those shows. Yes, you heard that right. If you wanted a beer, it had to be consumed out on the concourse. You know what I didn't do? I didn't take beer inside the bowl because I didn't fly to Seattle to get kicked out of a PJ show. You know what else I didn't do? I didn't get on here and talk trash about Seattle and their ridiculous alcohol restrictions.

Game, set, match.

mcgruff10

How is it bs to get kicked out for having weed if it s illegal? It s illegal, plain and simple.

mrussel1

Game, set, match.


Does this mean you've officially ended the discussion and no one else is permitted to opine? Because usually I'm looking for a..'nuf said' as the generally accepted way to declare yourself the winner.

CM234968

Of course not, discussion is always encouraged. I challenge someone to find more logic in the Seattle restrictions than those in St. Louis however.

I'll be sure to keep the 'nuf said' in mind for future use. Thanks for the tip.

Suziemay

Better Man/It's OK. At around 4:13, Ed and Mike are leaning and then they are on the ground LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRLZthnoDls

badbrains

CM234968 said:

Of course not, discussion is always encouraged. I challenge someone to find more logic in the Seattle restrictions than those in St. Louis however.

I'll be sure to keep the 'nuf said' in mind for future use. Thanks for the tip.

Does this mean the game went into OT? )

CM234968

The final point went to replay and was overturned. If you ask me, it was a BS call

badbrains

CM234968 said:

The final point went to replay and was overturned. If you ask me, it was a BS call

Always those fucken refs, they blow everything, kind of like those security guards ey.....HALTS MAUL, "nuff said" )