Your favourite thing about the 1998 tour?

mcgruff10

msg night two front row in front of ed.....wow. I wish I didn't lose those damn pictures.

derbydave

mcgruff10 said:

derbydave said:

BinFrog said:

derbydave said:

whichwaysign said:

Matt Fuckin' Cameron on drums

I got to see Matt play drums on the '96 / No Code tour...
He filled in for an ill Jack Irons at the Seattle / Key Arena show!!

Jack Irons 100% played drums at the 1996 KeyArena show.

Sorry about that...
You're right!!
It must've been the secret show at The Showbox where Matt filled in for Jack.

dave you drinking again?

NOPE...just OLD MAN BRAIN!!!

Backspacer 76

Ledbetterman10 said:

Live on Two Legs

Live on Two Legs will always be my go to live PJ. It still sounds great after all these years.

Zod

Backspacer 76 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Live on Two Legs

Live on Two Legs will always be my go to live PJ. It still sounds great after all these years.

The live boot's from Melbourne and Seattle '98 are also pretty damn good.. I'm glad a few soundboards leaked in the days before official boots.

BinFrog

Zod said:

Backspacer 76 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Live on Two Legs

Live on Two Legs will always be my go to live PJ. It still sounds great after all these years.

The live boot's from Melbourne and Seattle '98 are also pretty damn good.. I'm glad a few soundboards leaked in the days before official boots.

yup. Seattle sounds really good but a little thin. Melbourne sounds amazing...and has, in my mind, the hands down best version of Immortality they have ever played. I do not say that lightly.

BinFrog

Here's a random assortment of great '98 tunes, including the aforementioned Immortality from 3/5/98.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/1q2yb7

Enjoy.

cp3iverson

BinFrog said:

Zod said:

Backspacer 76 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Live on Two Legs

Live on Two Legs will always be my go to live PJ. It still sounds great after all these years.

The live boot's from Melbourne and Seattle '98 are also pretty damn good.. I'm glad a few soundboards leaked in the days before official boots.

yup. Seattle sounds really good but a little thin. Melbourne sounds amazing...and has, in my mind, the hands down best version of Immortality they have ever played. I do not say that lightly.

Their best In My Tree too in my opinion

Caught-A-Bolt-Of-Lightning

My first show and just great freakin' posters....

BinFrog

cp3iverson said:

Their best In My Tree too in my opinion

Tough call there because some of the '96 versions (Berlin and Hartford come to mind) are epic too.

3/5/98 has contender for best Brain Of J too.

pledgeagrievance

Oceans in East Rutherford. Still the only time I got it. Ed talking about the McGwire/Sosa chase and McGwire broke the record as the boys brought a Ping pong table out to the stage.

Hard to Imagine in Camden

In 98 there was a good chance you were going to hear Brain of J which is always a good thing.

bgirl59

My favorite thing about the Yield Tour (1998) is that it was!
I got to see 3 shows- Phoenix, Camden/Philly & W. Palm Beach :x
The band was up- happy & energetic, and, drumroll, please, I actually met Ed during the break- Thanksgiving Eve in Phoenix to be exact- remember they did the west coast, took a break and did the east coast? Hovercraft played The Mason Jar in Phx and I drove up from Tucson- soooo awesome- we didn't "meet- meet", we bumped into each other and he excused himself- it was the highlight of 1998 for me! 8->
Plus they added a final show at W. Palm Beach, during Hurricane Georges- so awesome remembering- we drove through 4 hours of rain from Bradenton to W Palm Beach-that was an amazing tour! =D>
and of course Live on Two Legs- like Ledbetterman10 said earlier...

JH6056

So cool how many people's 1st show was Camden 1 '98! My first show was '93, seen them about 57 times up to '13, and this Camden 1 remains my personal favorite PJ show ever.

1st off, if I remember correctly, they hadn't played Philly/Camden in like 5 yrs, do I have that right? So knowing that right there, the energy both in the audience and on the stage was through the roof. A blissful reunion! But before PJ took the stage, during Mudhoney out of the corner of my eye I thought I caught sight of Ed going from the stage into the audience and sitting down. It was still pretty sparse up there but people definitely noticed and started to crowd around. I stayed put but did walk over when I saw him walking up the aisle. Hard to explain what I said and why I said it, but it had to do with Mia Zapata and the Gits. There were simultaneously tons of people yelling "EDDIE!!!" in his ear so even though he asked me to repeat what I said 3 times, I finally gave up and just wished him a great show as I realized he would never hear it.

Mudhoney was great, Iggy even greater, me and my row danced our butts off. I would have been happy with the day just to hear a 4 hour version of "Lust for Life" and a 2 hour "I Wanna Be Your Dog". Then it was PJ time, and yeah the energy was just out of this world. Setlist speaks for itself. Although I have definitely seen more "epic" PJ shows (like MSG2 a few days later), I feel like I had more fun during this show than almost any other PJ show ever.

Great main set and 1st encore, setlist speaks for itself:
SET 1
Release
Animal
Hail, Hail
Given To Fly
Corduroy
MFC
I Got Id
Even Flow
Jeremy
Daughter
Suck You Dry
W.M.A.
Off He Goes
Immortality
Rearviewmirror
Brain Of J.
Black
Better Man
Alive

ENCORE 1
Philadelphia Freedom
Sweet Home Alabama
Hard To Imagine
Wishlist
Last Exit
Go
Leaving Here
Once
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town

ENCORE 2
Porch

Fast forward to the middle of 1st encore, they played several songs (including snippets of Philadelphia Freedom, Sweet Home Alabama (wtf?? LOL!), and Hard to Imagine!), then played Go, and then during the break Ed said (probably not exact quote but pretty close)... "Earlier today I was sitting down there... over there... and a young woman came up to me and... well... you know who you are. And so... you know what this song means. Everyone else, this song is called "Leaving Here". We hope you enjoy it." Now, I've got quite a few shows overall under my lifetime belt... seen some astonishingly amazing bands and been deliriously happy to be there. But that moment of realizing that what I said to him, he did hear it, and having him recognize it that way, that was one of my biggest "gurgling puddle of fandom" moments I've ever had! Not to mention... I have always loved their version of "Leaving Here" and it was so awesome to hear it!

What was amazing about the show and the day did not end there, and I also met some of the nicest fellow fans and just lovely Philadelphians (and Camdenians?). All around one of my top memories ever of enjoying a pre-show, show, and post-show.

And, ok, this is going ot sound really random but another memory I swear I have from either this or Philly 2 was - is it possible that Guns and Roses was touring either in the years right before this or this year, and women being up on someone's shoulders and flashing their boobs for the big screens (which were probably just starting to be used at amphitheaters around then)? I just have this really clear memory of either Camden '98 or Camden '00 and seeing a woman at a PJ show flashing her boobs and everyone cheering and cracking up and thinking "Oh no... oh no... is PJ really attracting the GNR crowd now???" (not that GNR weren't talented, but you understand my point!) So yeah, that also stands out about '98 as first boobs I witnessed at a PJ show.

CM189191

1st show was in 98!!! Still not 100% sure which Alpine Valley one it was tho...

cp3iverson

I remember your story. You wrote about it in Letkemans fanzine right?

bgirl59

JH5056- that's a riot!! I remember Iggy Pop at Camden/Philly!! Lust for Life- running around shirtless- so full of energy!!
At the W.Palm Beach show the girls in front of me were flashing their "girls" too! Which made the night for the guy who took me to the show cos he was not a fan at all- so we were both happy! )

JH6056

cp3iverson said:

I remember your story. You wrote about it in Letkemans fanzine right?

Letkeman wrote it, but yes I did tell her the story and it was in her mag. Did I say the part about thinking Ed thought I was just yelling "Chicken! Chicken!" at him the whole time? That is the part that mortified me at first, but set me into giggles every time after.

I haven't seen her in ages, does she still do a paper mag (I know she does twofeetthick.com but not sure what else)? Edited to add: You helped me jjust remember that this was the show I met her at for the 1st time. I think I gave her and some of her friends a ride after Camden 2, but maybe I just gave her friends rides... anyway, like I said, lots of great people there!

JH6056

bgirl59 said:

JH5056- that's a riot!! I remember Iggy Pop at Camden/Philly!! Lust for Life- running around shirtless- so full of energy!!
At the W.Palm Beach show the girls in front of me were flashing their "girls" too! Which made the night for the guy who took me to the show cos he was not a fan at all- so we were both happy! )

Great, many of us got to see many "girls" during 1998 LOL! Glad both you and your friend "enjoyed" the show by the end

josevolution

It was good

mcgruff10

BinFrog said:

Zod said:

Backspacer 76 said:

Ledbetterman10 said:

Live on Two Legs

Live on Two Legs will always be my go to live PJ. It still sounds great after all these years.

The live boot's from Melbourne and Seattle '98 are also pretty damn good.. I'm glad a few soundboards leaked in the days before official boots.

yup. Seattle sounds really good but a little thin. Melbourne sounds amazing...and has, in my mind, the hands down best version of Immortality they have ever played. I do not say that lightly.

Agreed! That immortality was amazing. Mr irons sounded awesome on this one.

Last-12-Exit

I was in noblesville.