*** New York, NY Fanviews Here 5/2/16 ***

caughtAbolt

who cares about the repeats? It looked to me like 20k people or whatever were happily singing along to them!? If they were "repeats" to you, consider yourself lucky to be there both nights

I thought the setlists were great and I got to hear pretty much everything I really wanted to hear over the two nights other than Immortality

curmudgeoness

teskeinc said:

Whoever shot those videos above really rocks! Awesome job!

No kidding! mfc172, you are the best! I wish I could have your seats, but you get the best videos.

abulr

teskeinc said:

Whoever shot those videos above really rocks! Awesome job!

agreed... good work...
anyone happen to get Evenflow on video, or the snippet where Eddie throws the mic to the crowd? trying to track that down... thanks!

nycrats

abulr said:

teskeinc said:

Whoever shot those videos above really rocks! Awesome job!

agreed... good work...
anyone happen to get Evenflow on video, or the snippet where Eddie throws the mic to the crowd? trying to track that down... thanks!

i dunno but i was watching on the big screen, was really cool how the guy he threw the mic to wanted to get his neighbors involved and passed it around..

Wma31394

mcgruff10 said:

oh and even flow into sirens?! wtf?! that's like having really hot sex and then stopping in the middle of it to go look at your stamp collection.

Classic

shetellsherself

This show ends my little tour for now until Fenway 2 and Wrigley 1. I was surprised not to hear any avocado or binaural. However, the moment I'm standing in a PJ concert listening to my favorite band play any song they wish and I have an ounce of disappointment in the songs they choose is the moment I kick myself in the face to wake myself up and re-evaluate my life and my gratitude list.

This show was simply awesome! Many repeats but they all sounded great. It was my 16 yo daughter's first real PJ show (she went to GCF). She's a true fan at this point and to watch the delight in her face when each song started up was indescribable. It was like experiencing it all for the first time again. We had perfect 10c seats for her first show. 102. Dead center. 2nd row in the section. Straight back from the stage. She could see the lights, stage and the entire crowd without turning her head at all!

Mom look how everybody in the pit starts jumping at the same time!

Wow!!! everybody screams "MIND YOUR MANNERS!!!!" Exactly together!

ONCE (fist pump) UPON A TIME....

12345 against 1 (with the fingers counting in the air)

Yeah FUCKERS!!! He still stands!!! (Yes she yelled fuckers with the rest of us. )

I got very emotional during small town. I guess just thinking about my life and how it's changed and what my expectations were and having her there with me. It was intense.

Man trilogy. I have no words for that one. Clearly betterman is a very special song to me. To hear all three of those in a row was definitely a rare treat

Before the tour I'd hoped to hear garden, deep, leash. Got them all.

Mikes solo on all or none is just so bluesy and heartfelt. It really speaks to me. He's such a rock star. Sucks that the crowd was more concerned about their beer at that point.

My daughter also wanted present tense and breath so that was awesome for her to hear them back to back

Those were the highlights but every moment of every PJ concert is a highlight for me. I'm so grateful to this band for all they have done and continue to do. I'm so grateful to my family for making it possible for this working mom of 3 to take off for 36 hours and fly from NJ to SC for Greenville and for holding our lives together while I just saw 4 shows in 5 days! Gratitude. I'm so grateful for my brother for being my PJ buddy and making the entire experience full of everything we wanted it to be.

Funny note.... My daughter has seen Sting at both of her PJ shows

curmudgeoness

opsopcopolis said:

Best thing I heard leaving last night: "I had no idea who any of the people that played with them were. They were kinda boring"

LOL. We went to see Richard Thompson and Glen Hansard a few months ago; Glen Hansard's great live, but RT has been performing for longer than I've been alive, he's an amazing guitarist and songwriter, still creating great albums -- he's an incredible talent and performer. People in front of us: "Who is this guy?"

Anyway, the concert: I agree with both the positive and the negative reviews. Band energy was great, crowd energy was great, "Surrender" and DTT were awesome, the guys really bring it every night, Leash into the first encore (Present Tense! Breath!) was killer. But the set list was underwhelming, compared to night 1, compared to Philly (meaning, lots of repeats from Philly, not Philly is better than NYC). I don't have the "NYC is special" attitude. For me, I think it's more a matter of Ten just not being my favorite PJ album, by quite a long shot, and I feel as if that album got a lot of play in Philly and NYC. I get the need to balance between more casual fans and die-hards, and I know how hard it is to get a ticket to MSG -- this was our first MSG show, and we've lived in New Jersey for eleven years! But I, personally, would have liked to see more tracks from other albums getting played.

I had a great time, nonetheless.

SB51327

I had a great time. I was looking to trade my FC GA for reserved and I am glad I didn't. I showed up around 7:30 and I was about 10 rows back on Stones side. Like most of you I have been to many shows and I liked the setlist. I brought a friend who as a casual fan and he had a blast. I thought the crowd was awesome and much better than night 1. The GA experience was awesome, and I had some cool people by me including a little kid maybe 10. I heard the sound issues like everyone else, but it didn't bother me. Of course, when it cut out during porch that was a bit annoying and sucked a bit of life out of the show. When Sting came out, that was really cool, and I don't know how he looks younger now than he did 20 years ago. I did have one complaint, and I hope the creepy guys read this. On the right side, Jill was sitting in section 109 right by where I was. These two guys who seemed to be fans would literally stalk her every movement. They would stop watching the show just to stare at her. She would often come down to floor level and go backstage and then go back to her seat. Every time these creepy guys were calling for her and taking pictures. So just gave them this look like "leave me alone". I was so disturbed by it I took a picture of them with the intention to post it but I won't. Just enjoy the show do you really need to stalk Eddie's wife? I saw a lot of celebrities and Dennis Rodman was standing side stage the whole show with no animation at all, he must be sober now. Anyway, it was a great night for me as I am no setlist snob.

chiwhitesox

Sounds like New York City has a hard time dealing with proper tambourine dissemination protocol.

Shame on you NYC. Shame!

curly

hsohi said:

"(I mean do you have any idea how much they make off merchandise on a nightly basis? Not even Springsteen fans will wait on line two hours for a poster)"

That probably says more about us than about Springsteen fans...and not in a positive way.

no long sleeve t's at the merch tents on this tour... Dammit!!!

on2legs

My wife and I drove in from NJ and headed right to the box office to get her tickets after parking. She let her 190xxx membership lapse years ago and only rejoined this year so we weren't expecting anything too close. We were just happy to be in the building. Needless to say, we were blown away when she got her tickets and saw they were front row center floor seats directly behind GA. We were smiling ear to ear.

We found our seats and had a blast being so close. It was cool to have the rail to lean on and I was hoping Mike might pass in front of us during Alive like I saw him do from the 200 level the night before. The crowd in our section was extremely energetic and nobody was acting like an idiot. I thought the band and the crowd were on fire. After seeing the two Philly shows and the first MSG show, I wouldn't have minded them mixing it up a little more but I was glad my wife got to hear many of her favorites.

The night went from great to amazing during Porch. We watched Ed make his way off the stage and I assumed he was going to wade into the GA crowd up front like he usually does to finish the song. But he kept walking and ended up making the turn into the walkway that separated GA from the floor seats. People were slapping hands with him as he walked by and me and my wife were leaning forward ready to take our turn. I got confused when he stopped right in front of us and I wasn't sure what was going on. But then Ed proceeded to climb up the rail directly in front of us. We were holding his arms as he climbed onto the rail and then one of the security guys from the band told us to hold his legs as he stepped onto the top of the rail. Ed belted out the rest of the song standing over us as we braced his legs. I was little concerned he was going to fall at one point. And then he hopped off and headed back to the stage to finish it up. It all happened so fast that it didn't seem real. I never expected him to make his way halfway out across the floor and never in a million years did we expect Ed to end up singing in front of our faces. Amazing. We even got Mike walking right in front of us later during his Alive solo too. Still riding the high from the show and so thankful to the ten club for hooking us up with great seats.

mrk2

mcgruff10 said:

oh and even flow into sirens?! wtf?! that's like having really hot sex and then stopping in the middle of it to go look at your stamp collection.

Or hurry up from the pissbreak (E-Flow) only to discover that you would've had plenty of time to buy snacks, beer and merch too during the same break.

bootlegger10

caughtAbolt said:

who cares about the repeats? It looked to me like 20k people or whatever were happily singing along to them!? If they were "repeats" to you, consider yourself lucky to be there both nights

I thought the setlists were great and I got to hear pretty much everything I really wanted to hear over the two nights other than Immortality

Breaking news: Guy who heard pretty much everything he wanted thought the setlists were great and everyone should feel lucky to be there. Ha.

slobberdog68

q said:

It is hard to figure out if the hardcore fanbase is getting increasingly picky about the rarity of setlists or if the band is actually getting more predictable and formulaic with the sets.

Both!

abulr

nycrats said:

abulr said:

teskeinc said:

Whoever shot those videos above really rocks! Awesome job!

agreed... good work...
anyone happen to get Evenflow on video, or the snippet where Eddie throws the mic to the crowd? trying to track that down... thanks!

i dunno but i was watching on the big screen, was really cool how the guy he threw the mic to wanted to get his neighbors involved and passed it around..

good point, am grateful to(for?) that dude

nicknyr15

chiwhitesox said:

Sounds like New York City has a hard time dealing with proper tambourine dissemination protocol.

Shame on you NYC. Shame!

Seriously wtf. Both nights

Gern Blansten

phungi said:

64 songs over 2 nights (not counting the Ishtar song) with 10 repeats. 54 different songs. Quit yer bitching and respect the band for bringing it with some serious energy.

thanks for the perspective....10 repeats is not a big deal

HP24632

brianwilson said:

They should play the same set (w/ a couple changes every other night) like 95% of the bands that tour regularly.

I'll bet every member of the band or their crew has, once or twice, said to one another, "That show was fuckin' tight, we killed it tonight! Let's see if the fans heard what we heard from the stage."

Then they just laugh their asses off when they read a standard like, "Quite a few repeats tonight," etc. etc. etc.

It's embarrassing.

Absolutely embarrassing. Humans proves once again they can't really appreciate the good stuff and only focus on the weak stuff, according to their own interpretations and experiences... Big deal, we got technical outtage during porch, oh well, that'll be something to laugh about, not bitching the band of their crew...

Last night was my 10th show, 4th of this tour. I thought msg 1 night had a more raw power set. MSG 2 was about a more versatile setlist, exploring many color of their catalog, not counting the guests appearances. I'm the kind of persone who try to find the best in everything, and msg 2 has a lot!!!! Mike made me cry in All or None!

Everyone who got in MSG for either show show be grateful. We all the post I read from top until here, I'd like to quote Ed during the 2003 MSG Live at the Garden "Pessimist. Fuck the pessimist! Fuck'em!"

slobberdog68

opsopcopolis said:

Best thing I heard leaving last night: "I had no idea who any of the people that played with them were. They were kinda boring"

I'm sure some of the younger people wouldn't have a clue who they are. My 13 year old daughter would have known Surrender because she hears it on my itunes, Sting....not so much. I think a lot of younger people had no idea when they pulled out Takin' it to the streets also.

my2hands

there were slight sound issues on Sunday night during the start of Go...

I could see Jeff looking to the side a little confused... no problems after that though