Walk out music on this tour....is it the end?

Daron Oshay

I think everyone is overthinking things

myoung321

then a break, then Fenway and Wrigley with two shows each. Where do they go after that?





Winter - West Coast for 10 shows + - (after Cubs season)... then if things calm down in Europe.. Spring shows over there...

CapnBob

EnterThanman said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

Just too strange they continue walking out to this. The band is secretive enough, they could just walk away from it all at the end of the tour.

Honestly, I've been thinking that since about a week after they announced the tour, even more now. Seems like they're doing all the big/special/important cities where they've had some memorable shows, then a break, then Fenway and Wrigley with two shows each. Where do they go after that?

25 years seems like a good number. And two shows at Wrigley seems like a pretty good book end.

I've also never bought into these theories before, but this tour has a different feel. Guess we'll see.

I swear, I had the same thought you did when the tour announced and I saw the venues BUT I keep telling myself that it's a PJ25 Tour even though it isn't billed as that .. Plus, remember they only played 1 North American date last year - this year more than makes up for it!

njnancy

Just to clear up the farewell thing. Eddie is talking about a report that was issued recently that said due to global warming, certain areas of the country will be affected by rising water levels. So farewell to Jacksonville was goodbye to the Florida leg of the tour and a reminder about global warming. I obviously am not living in Eddie's head, so that is what it meant to me.

2-feign-reluctance

PP193448 said:

I blame 2-feign... It's all his fault.

Not sure many of you know that I am a licensed therapist - and have endured a client suicide before. Sorry for the buzz kill, suicide just isn't funny. Carry on.

teskeinc

Highly doubt it. They haven't played West Coast since 2013. Whoever said they will go out on their own terms, they have been on their own terms forever. There would be no point to officially saying "its over" etc. They only play a few shows a year as it is. Its not like they need a cash grab by announcing a "farewell tour". Its feasible to think that for the next 10 years, things will stay the same, unless someone has health related issues.

CapnBob

njnancy said:

Just to clear up the farewell thing. Eddie is talking about a report that was issued recently that said due to global warming, certain areas of the country will be affected by rising water levels. So farewell to Jacksonville was goodbye to the Florida leg of the tour and a reminder about global warming. I obviously am not living in Eddie's head, so that is what it meant to me.

understood - but still made my heart stop for a sec when he said the words "farewell tour" last night... certain things you just don't want to ever hear, in jest or not ... lol

njnancy

CapnBob said:

njnancy said:

Just to clear up the farewell thing. Eddie is talking about a report that was issued recently that said due to global warming, certain areas of the country will be affected by rising water levels. So farewell to Jacksonville was goodbye to the Florida leg of the tour and a reminder about global warming. I obviously am not living in Eddie's head, so that is what it meant to me.

understood - but still made my heart stop for a sec when he said the words "farewell tour" last night... certain things you just don't want to ever hear, in jest or not ... lol

I agree with you there!!

Daron Oshay

njnancy said:

Just to clear up the farewell thing. Eddie is talking about a report that was issued recently that said due to global warming, certain areas of the country will be affected by rising water levels. So farewell to Jacksonville was goodbye to the Florida leg of the tour and a reminder about global warming. I obviously am not living in Eddie's head, so that is what it meant to me.

This

RKCNDY

teskeinc said:

Highly doubt it. They haven't played West Coast since 2013. Whoever said they will go out on their own terms, they have been on their own terms forever. There would be no point to officially saying "its over" etc. They only play a few shows a year as it is. Its not like they need a cash grab by announcing a "farewell tour". Its feasible to think that for the next 10 years, things will stay the same, unless someone has health related issues.

I don;t think they like the west coast...especially Seattle.
If they 'go out' without playing Seattle again, I wouldn't be surprised.

PP193448

2-feign-reluctance said:

PP193448 said:

I blame 2-feign... It's all his fault.

Not sure many of you know that I am a licensed therapist - and have endured a client suicide before. Sorry for the buzz kill, suicide just isn't funny. Carry on.

Yes, buzz kill. This whole thread. Dude... Stop analyzing please. Just kidding.

Mike D88

pearlgirl52 said:

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but shut the f@#k up.

rummy

CH255210 said:

Guessing last song of the tour will be The End then.

Or Parting Ways.

njnancy

rummy said:

CH255210 said:

Guessing last song of the tour will be The End then.

Or Parting Ways.

I'm still here.

CH255210

2-feign-reluctance said:

It Happened Today. Anyone recall the CAN cover the day REM called it quits? Is the band done after this tour?

No Way, I'm sure it's Nothing as it Seems

SVRDhand13

Any mad would announce a farewell tour to increase ticket sales. I bet they'd play MSG like 8-10 times

DPrival78

rummy said:

CH255210 said:

Guessing last song of the tour will be The End then.

Or Parting Ways.

Remember when the Binaural track listing came out and that song was to signal the end of Pearl Jam?

bootlegger10

Pearl Jam is not breaking up any time soon. They have figured out the formula.

SVRDhand13

bootlegger10 said:

Pearl Jam is not breaking up any time soon. They have figured out the formula.

Play 10-25 three hour shows a year. Switch up the set lists. Release cool merch. Blow our minds. Rinse and repeat.

CapnBob

SVRDhand13 said:

bootlegger10 said:

Pearl Jam is not breaking up any time soon. They have figured out the formula.

Play 10-25 three hour shows a year. Switch up the set lists. Release cool merch. Blow our minds. Rinse and repeat.

Agreed... Could be Matt farting on a snare drum for 3 hours and I would be there! Lmao

igotid88

We go through this every tour or album since Binaural. Everyone thought Parting Ways was a sign. Then they thought The End was a sign.

vant0037

If our only "evidence" is the walkout song they picked for this tour, let's assume that the band DID pick it because they decided before the tour that this was going to be it. Don't think that's an extremely strange way to do it?

There's a reason relationships don't end with the couple immediately going on a vacation together.

...to which someone might respond "but the guys don't hate each other."

Right, which would only make it all the more strange that they would still enjoy working together but conspire to (1) end their lucrative professional relationship, but (2) only after touring together for four plus months while also (3) picking some song as a "hint" of said ending relationship, the only deducers of said hint being their thousands of soon-to-be heartbroken fans (whom for some reason, they thought it appropriate to torture with said hint). Whew. Weird.

They don't have to break up or be done or announce a thing. PJ could exist via this webpage or via random show announcements when they feel like playing, various catalog releases, album reduxes etc etc etc ad infinitum you know I'm right. They could - for all intents and purposes - "quit" and we'd never know it. They work four months a year now, and it could be two months a year going forward, and they make millions doing it. Just by having the band still "exist."

So, could they break up? Of course.

Will they any time soon? Nope.

And if they were going to, would they doing it by dropping a "hint" like this? Nope again.

Did I just ask myself questions and then answer them? Yep.

Bottom line: you're reading too much into something that's not there. Go see Pearl Jam before it's too late.

Daron Oshay

bootlegger10 said:

Pearl Jam is not breaking up any time soon. They have figured out the formula.

Daron Oshay

vant0037 said:

If our only "evidence" is the walkout song they picked for this tour, let's assume that the band DID pick it because they decided before the tour that this was going to be it. Don't think that's an extremely strange way to do it?

There's a reason relationships don't end with the couple immediately going on a vacation together.

...to which someone might respond "but the guys don't hate each other."

Right, which would only make it all the more strange that they would still enjoy working together but conspire to (1) end their lucrative professional relationship, but (2) only after touring together for four plus months while also (3) picking some song as a "hint" of said ending relationship, the only deducers of said hint being their thousands of soon-to-be heartbroken fans (whom for some reason, they thought it appropriate to torture with said hint). Whew. Weird.

They don't have to break up or be done or announce a thing. PJ could exist via this webpage or via random show announcements when they feel like playing, various catalog releases, album reduxes etc etc etc ad infinitum you know I'm right. They could - for all intents and purposes - "quit" and we'd never know it. They work four months a year now, and it could be two months a year going forward, and they make millions doing it. Just by having the band still "exist."

So, could they break up? Of course.

Will they any time soon? Nope.

And if they were going to, would they doing it by dropping a "hint" like this? Nope again.

Did I just ask myself questions and then answer them? Yep.

Bottom line: you're reading too much into something that's not there. Go see Pearl Jam before it's too late.

Completely agree with this. Just because Ed sings on this song and he decided to cover it the day REM retired means that the song is the official song of retirement?

KV4053

vant0037 said:

If our only "evidence" is the walkout song they picked for this tour, let's assume that the band DID pick it because they decided before the tour that this was going to be it. Don't think that's an extremely strange way to do it?

There's a reason relationships don't end with the couple immediately going on a vacation together.

...to which someone might respond "but the guys don't hate each other."

Right, which would only make it all the more strange that they would still enjoy working together but conspire to (1) end their lucrative professional relationship, but (2) only after touring together for four plus months while also (3) picking some song as a "hint" of said ending relationship, the only deducers of said hint being their thousands of soon-to-be heartbroken fans (whom for some reason, they thought it appropriate to torture with said hint). Whew. Weird.

They don't have to break up or be done or announce a thing. PJ could exist via this webpage or via random show announcements when they feel like playing, various catalog releases, album reduxes etc etc etc ad infinitum you know I'm right. They could - for all intents and purposes - "quit" and we'd never know it. They work four months a year now, and it could be two months a year going forward, and they make millions doing it. Just by having the band still "exist."

So, could they break up? Of course.

Will they any time soon? Nope.

And if they were going to, would they doing it by dropping a "hint" like this? Nope again.

Did I just ask myself questions and then answer them? Yep.

Bottom line: you're reading too much into something that's not there. Go see Pearl Jam before it's too late.

Thanks for bringing sense to this thread.

tschav

on2legs said:

Didn't Eddie contribute vocals to this song? I think people are reading too much into it.

Eddie's on the track. Shouldn't read much more into it than that.

2-feign-reluctance

vant0037 said:

If our only "evidence" is the walkout song they picked for this tour, let's assume that the band DID pick it because they decided before the tour that this was going to be it. Don't think that's an extremely strange way to do it?

There's a reason relationships don't end with the couple immediately going on a vacation together.

...to which someone might respond "but the guys don't hate each other."

Right, which would only make it all the more strange that they would still enjoy working together but conspire to (1) end their lucrative professional relationship, but (2) only after touring together for four plus months while also (3) picking some song as a "hint" of said ending relationship, the only deducers of said hint being their thousands of soon-to-be heartbroken fans (whom for some reason, they thought it appropriate to torture with said hint). Whew. Weird.

They don't have to break up or be done or announce a thing. PJ could exist via this webpage or via random show announcements when they feel like playing, various catalog releases, album reduxes etc etc etc ad infinitum you know I'm right. They could - for all intents and purposes - "quit" and we'd never know it. They work four months a year now, and it could be two months a year going forward, and they make millions doing it. Just by having the band still "exist."

So, could they break up? Of course.

Will they any time soon? Nope.

And if they were going to, would they doing it by dropping a "hint" like this? Nope again.

Did I just ask myself questions and then answer them? Yep.

Bottom line: you're reading too much into something that's not there. Go see Pearl Jam before it's too late.

Great response! To all the others - you're stating the obvious when you say I'm reading into it. Glad we could have this chat though! Haha!!

Ledbetterman10

2-feign-reluctance said:

It Happened Today. Anyone recall the CAN cover the day REM called it quits? Is the band done after this tour?

Yeah. Just like Binaural ending with a song called "Parting Ways" was the end. And just like Backspacer ending with a song called "The End" was the end.

pjalive21

KC138045

Relax people. Even if they announced a "Farewell Tour" it wouldn't mean the end. Fucking Kiss has had at least 10 farewell tours for cripes sake.