*** Fenway 2 Boston, MA Fanviews Here 8/7/16 ***

Daughter5

I went to the House Of Blues and saw the show the night before. I am so thrilled I was at Sunday nights show!!! I've seen them many times but this by far was the best ever, still have goose bumps LOL. WE ROCKED BOSTON WITH PEARL JAM SUNDAY NIGHT!!!

Daughter5

donatelloa said:

I do not ever add gas to a fire but I am sitting in my hotel room right now say WTF just happened.!!! That was amazing. Almost beat Randalls Island in 96. Thanks PJ for making memories.

ski-bum said:

HOLY SHIT
What the hell just happened?
I was finally at a classic.
Sorry, That just destroyed Friday night

I sat on The bed feeling the same way, Today is Thursday still feeling on fire : )

jkalman

Daughter5 said:

donatelloa said:

I do not ever add gas to a fire but I am sitting in my hotel room right now say WTF just happened.!!! That was amazing. Almost beat Randalls Island in 96. Thanks PJ for making memories.

ski-bum said:

HOLY SHIT
What the hell just happened?
I was finally at a classic.
Sorry, That just destroyed Friday night

I sat on The bed feeling the same way, Today is Thursday still feeling on fire : )

Yeah. Feeling post partum show depression myself.

Us fans help with the show. We feed on each other and the band feeds on us. I spent much of my show actively engaging the people around my seating area, or wherever I went during the show, to sing. We shook that stadium.

First night was historic because it's the first time they were at Fenway. I chalk up a lot of the lackluster on that first night to the stress the band felt for that historic moment and for all the special guests. I think they weren't ready for the sound issues from the green wall either. Eddies voice was cracking, the band was missing notes and beats. The first set in particular they struggled off and on to stabilize. I still enjoyed it. And, as a tour head with the Grateful Dead, I can say, even a bad night for PJ is exponentially better than a bad night for the dead. Fans of bands sometimes have a tendency to be blindsided by their enthusiasm. I'm happy to be there either way. I just call it as I hear it. I also think that Saturday draws a more diverse crowd while Sunday would draw more of the bands hard core fans. That's why I focused my Ten Club choice with Sunday as the first pick.

Still figuring out if I'll go to Wrigley's or not. So much to do. Not sure I can go another year or so without a show since they've been alternating years. I'll have to figure things out.

SimmZ

The Camaros Hood said:

SimmZ said:

The Camaros Hood said:

UPDATED: I just wanted to share my pics from the weekend. Sure wish it was a week ago and we were all preparing for the weekend instead of going through withdrawals. *Sigh*.....

https://flic.kr/s/aHskEm2Syd

These are great! Do you have any more? I was just to the right of you on Sunday #night2, sec A3, front row and am looking for pictures during "Rockin in the Free World", It was my birthday and I caught a tambourine from Eddie as he went to his left on stage. Please let me know and we can connect. He wore my wife's shades during "Breath" as well and tossed them back to us. It was unreal. "I Believe In Miracles"

Thanks!! This is all I grabbed. Lots of others I took came out blurry. These were the best ones. I'll take a look later and see if I grabbed any at that point of the show that may have you in them.

Awesome, I appreciate it!!! Yeah, please let me know.

ikiT

Tiki said:

Yeah I saw someone in my section getting twi-fed the setlist on but thankfully he kept that shit to himself.

...it didn't hurt the fact that shit was way too small for me to read without my add on specs (a problem pretty rampant in that audience) seeing as we're all OLD AF.....it all worked out.

Merkin Baller

jkalman said:

Yeah. Feeling post partum show depression myself.

Us fans help with the show. We feed on each other and the band feeds on us. I spent much of my show actively engaging the people around my seating area, or wherever I went during the show, to sing. We shook that stadium.

The post show depression is real. In recent years, I'm either one or the other:

"I have tickets for an upcoming Pearl Jam Show" or
"I don't have any Pearl Jam tickets right now"

Currently I'm in the latter category. The depression hasn't set in yet, because I'm still riding the high from the weekend, but I'll come down soon. (TOTD in Philly will help stave off that depression, but come mid-November I'll be scouring the 2017 Tour Rumors thread looking for any glimmer of hope)

RE: Crowd & Band energy:

Sunday night was a night where you can't tell who's feeding off of whom more. The only other time I saw something comparable was Hartford '13. In that bootleg you can hear Eddie say "This isn't normal" and he wasn't just paying lip service...... Something special happened that night between the band & the audience, and it happened again at Fenway on Sunday. It's hard to describe, but anyone who was at either of those shows knows what I'm talking about.

withflyingcolors

mikerl said:

I can't think about anything clearly since this past weekend. I just want it to be last Thursday again, anticipating these shows.

This. So much. I haven't been able to write a review I'm in denial that it's over. Who I Am kinda sums it up though lol. And getting to experience it with my mom...priceless.

mcgruff10

by the way, it took 57 shows but I finally heard interstellar overdrive live. It was well worth the wait! fucking amazing!!

Suziemay

Yea, some serious post show depression going on here. I normally don't feel this down after a couple of shows, it's generally been bad after a string of like 5-6 shows but man, been going through the motions at work and it's been rough. Thank god tomorrow's Friday.

JI658763

cured my post show depression by getting tickets for Wrigley today!!!

SVRDhand13

Suziemay said:

Yea, some serious post show depression going on here. I normally don't feel this down after a couple of shows, it's generally been bad after a string of like 5-6 shows but man, been going through the motions at work and it's been rough. Thank god tomorrow's Friday.

I feel it too. We're crazy!

wall05

SVRDhand13 said:

Suziemay said:

Yea, some serious post show depression going on here. I normally don't feel this down after a couple of shows, it's generally been bad after a string of like 5-6 shows but man, been going through the motions at work and it's been rough. Thank god tomorrow's Friday.

I feel it too. We're crazy!

I'm in the same boat, lol!
The only thing that's keeping it from being full blown is having Temple Of the Dog tickets, hahaha!

The Camaros Hood

JI658763 said:

cured my post show depression by getting tickets for Wrigley today!!!

Perfect antidote.

Cortez the Killer sent me

JI658763 said:

cured my post show depression by getting tickets for Wrigley today!!!

I too have just got tickets.
Way out there in 515

I don't think I'll ever get seats better than what I got for Fenway 2.
Turf B5
Row 1
Thanks 10c for the second chance sale earlier in the week!

Saw Breath 3 times this year!!!
Best Back to Back shows I've seen

mpedone

Suziemay said:

Yea, some serious post show depression going on here. I normally don't feel this down after a couple of shows, it's generally been bad after a string of like 5-6 shows but man, been going through the motions at work and it's been rough. Thank god tomorrow's Friday.

I have something like the...opposite? I'm not sure. I think it's "phantom excitement". Like amputees feel a phantom limb? A week ago, I was excited for the HOB party and Sunday, and then my wife e-mailed that she had bough tickets to the Friday show. I was pretty giddy the rest of the day, and not very productive (very nearly took a half day, but my wife had just worked an overnight, and needed to sleep before the show). Now, I'm thinking back on that, and feeling that same excitement building up inside, but there's nothing going on this weekend. Well, except some rest for my still tired feet.

nicknyr15

Big time post show depression. Wrigley is an impossibility due to work and it's killing me.

SVRDhand13

nicknyr15 said:

Big time post show depression. Wrigley is an impossibility due to work and it's killing me.

I'm just looking forward to the boots and all the vinyl that's been preordered (pj vault #6, TMR vault #29, no code, yield, TOTD, MLB.... It's crazy!!!

gregkitefan

Loved both shows. really cool set lists. Night one did have a lot of covers. My 37th and 38th shows. Keeping with tradition at Mass shows they played the super rare Strangest Tribe night 1 and Angel night 2. In 13 at Worcester we got Fatal night 1 and Other Side night 2 . In 10 we got Undone and back in 08 they did Education. I enjoy the rare songs but I do feel that 90% of the crowd has no idea when they do these songs. Can't make Wrigley so might be a while until I see them again. Overall a great experience.

ikiT

There was a surprising amount of head scratching in my section during Angel, and that Ramones tune.

kid canada

SimmZ said:

marcPJfan said:

My pics from both nights.

Night 1: https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcdmbfan/albums/72157669066709243

Night 2: https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcdmbfan/albums/72157672102102356

These are great! Thank you so much! Do you have any others? One of the last ones you have from Night 2 is my arm holding up the tambourine that Eddie tossed to me during "Rockin in the Free World". My wife is putting up the peace sign to my left. We were sec A3, front row and am looking for pictures during "Rockin in the Free World",if you have any others. It was my birthday and I caught a tambourine as Ed went to his left on stage. Please let me know and we can connect. He wore my wife's shades during "Breath" as well and tossed them back to us. It was unreal. "I Believe In Miracles"

I was 2 rows behind you in a Jays cap. No pics of you but can confirm that you had a pretty good time.