Future Days - A Shameless Plea.....
redmosquito83
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I know this is a crazy long shot, and probably won't make it anywhere, but from having been to a bunch of shows and lurked here on the boards for many years, I've seen and heard of many stories of a note reaching the band.
This is a shameless attempt to try and do something special for my wife.
When Shannon and I met, I was already a huge PJ fan, but she wasn't. Over our first years together, she grew to like the band as a result of being exposed to their music regularly. She knew how much going to shows has always meant to me, but had yet to experience it herself until a couple summers ago.
As a Chicago native (now based on the West Coast), I figured there would be no better first PJ show experience she could have than one in my hometown. So we went to the epic rain delay show at Wrigley, and that night she became a massive fan. One of many highlights was the band playing Future Days for the first time ever. As a beautiful love song, being played for the first time live, at her first show, in The Windy City, after a long rain delay....it instantly became 'our song,' as I know it has for so many other PJ couples.
Since then, we've been to more shows together, but that first Future Days experience is still top of the list. So much so that she walked down the aisle to the song (sung by her sister), at our wedding a few months ago. Additionally, being the incredible woman she is, her wedding gift to me was a framed poster from that Wrigley show to add to my collection, mounted alongside shots of us from the concert and a lyric sheet to Future Days.
We are so fortunate to be going back to the pit for PJ at Wrigley on 8/22. Far be it for me to presume to weigh in on setlist decisions (I haven't been let down yet), but I can't honestly imagine the look on Shannon's face if they play Future Days live there again, and it's a look I'd do anything to see.
Steve
This is a shameless attempt to try and do something special for my wife.
When Shannon and I met, I was already a huge PJ fan, but she wasn't. Over our first years together, she grew to like the band as a result of being exposed to their music regularly. She knew how much going to shows has always meant to me, but had yet to experience it herself until a couple summers ago.
As a Chicago native (now based on the West Coast), I figured there would be no better first PJ show experience she could have than one in my hometown. So we went to the epic rain delay show at Wrigley, and that night she became a massive fan. One of many highlights was the band playing Future Days for the first time ever. As a beautiful love song, being played for the first time live, at her first show, in The Windy City, after a long rain delay....it instantly became 'our song,' as I know it has for so many other PJ couples.
Since then, we've been to more shows together, but that first Future Days experience is still top of the list. So much so that she walked down the aisle to the song (sung by her sister), at our wedding a few months ago. Additionally, being the incredible woman she is, her wedding gift to me was a framed poster from that Wrigley show to add to my collection, mounted alongside shots of us from the concert and a lyric sheet to Future Days.
We are so fortunate to be going back to the pit for PJ at Wrigley on 8/22. Far be it for me to presume to weigh in on setlist decisions (I haven't been let down yet), but I can't honestly imagine the look on Shannon's face if they play Future Days live there again, and it's a look I'd do anything to see.
Steve
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Would be a cool moment if they play it either night.
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Sorry, didn't mean to sound harsh. Ed wrote it and likes it so obviously the OP is right and my opinion is shit.
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Maybe they can play it instead of Just Breathe or SBM? There has to be some slow songs/piss break songs at rock concerts people.