The 2020 Spring Tour Leg One Postponement Positivity Thread

PP193448

My wife isn’t pissed since I’m now not going to see PJ AGAIN while she is home with the kids.

SVRDhand13

GIGATON

march fucking 27th 

Gibson

Let's just use our flights and have meet ups anyway.

Celticskemba8

CantKeepmedown said:

Huge bummer, but they will reschedule.  Everything is gonna be fine.  

*I do feel quite badly for those that don't have refundable travel. And those that inevitably won't be able tot make the rescheduled dates*

This is the worst part, those that can’t go to the rescheduled dates. I totally understand doing this but, QC woulda been my first time seeing the band & now it’s questionable if I will be able to go to the rescheduled date so who knows if I will ever see them. 

Weston1283

There’s no way the dates get rescheduled before June right?  Would have to be the fall?

willbarclay

I too got away pretty easy on this one. I Live only 20 mins from the Ottawa show so I lost nothing on travel or accommodations. Ill probably take a refund when the time comes and Ticketmaster reaches out with the options.

moving forward I have a David Crosby show to look forward too. Its in Mid June so I hope it does not get cancelled.

Lostpawn

My wife made plans to meet with a client in Denver on the day of the show. That way her company would pay for her flight and our hotel. Now with the cancellation, she’ll be going on a business trip and I’ll be staying home with the kids. 

Positive: After I get the kids to bed, I’ll chill in the living room with a beverage of choice, and put on Gigaton. That sounds like a lovely evening to me!

GlowGirl

Had tickets to msg and Baltimore. I live in NYC so no financial losses there. Have a fully refundable hotel in Baltimore and Amtrak is pretty good with their cancellation policy. While I am bummed about the postponements, my positive is that I have met some amazing people on the Fan to Fan thread and look forward to meeting them when the shows are rescheduled. 

SVRDhand13

MF117973 said:

Had tickets to msg and Baltimore. I live in NYC so no financial losses there. Have a fully refundable hotel in Baltimore and Amtrak is pretty good with their cancellation policy. While I am bummed about the postponements, my positive is that I have met some amazing people on the Fan to Fan thread and look forward to meeting them when the shows are rescheduled. 

Pretty much same here except I didn’t even have amtrack. Already cancelled the hotel and should receive my refund soon. So I guess I should consider myself lucky. Oh yea I also don’t have Coronavirus yet 

mpedone

sp1984 said:

Tickets to 4 shows on this now cancelled leg. Out the cost of 2 sets of NHL tickets at 2 different rinks (and it seems like the cost of RT tix to Toronto). Sad and disappointed, but I can understand where they are coming from with this.

Positive positive: I start a new job the week that I was supposed to leave for Nashville and St. Louis which put me in an awkward position - so now I'll be home and able to save the vacation time I would have used for that trip to spend later in the year. And I have a new job on a better shift that allows me to spend more time with my husband (rather than work on opposite shifts). And I get another weekend to hang with my goddaughters (rather than fly to Baltimore and back in 18 hours). I'll still try and watch the Leafs and Preds games we were supposed to go to (and make fried chicken the night of the cancelled Nashville show). Maybe it'll be nice enough to smoke up some ribs for the night of the St. Louis show. 

My positive thought right now? I'm married to this woman!

(Though, I was thinking we'd smoke a pork butt for the Nashville show. Maybe just earlier that week?)

gatorjam

I am in a funk about this news, but they will reschedule, and I will find a way to go and my wife will help me go and maybe they can go with me this time.  

mattcoz

My positive: I won't miss the Final Four games. Semifinals would have been the night of the St Louis show. That is if there is a Final Four, at this rate it might get canceled too. Sorry, this was supposed to be about positivity. Go Illini!

Veddernarian

I was scheduled for LA Forum 04/16/2020.  Positive thoughts?  Let me see....  This postponement lets me savor the enjoyment of having just paid my taxes without the interruption brought on by the likes of a Pearl Jam concert.

PJFAN13

Positivity: our favorite band has the good conscience to consider the overall health of everyone opposed to just the money signs for themselves!

Positivity: our favorite band is releasing a new album on March 27th!

Positivity: these postponed dates will be rescheduled and we will all be rocking out soon enough!

Positivity: The same day San Diego gets postponed, Ohana Fest featuring Pearl Jam gets announced AND I scored 2 tix. 

Positivity: my barber lost a family member due to Coronavirus, and I am relatively healthy as are my kids, wife, fam and friends. Perspective always helps.

Remember: disappointment is ok and allowed!  But negativity never helps, and positive ANYTHING is way better than negative nothing!  Stay positive everyone - our postponed shows will be rescheduled.  Be positive. Be healthy. And if you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours!

steven87

Stay positive, positive!  Like everyone else, I'm of course upset that the tour has been postponed as I was super excited to see some shows in just a couple short weeks. But I'm not the least bit surprised about the postponement given how rapidly the virus has spread around the globe over the past several weeks. While the tour isn't happening right now, it hopefully will in the near future, and we'll all get to go and rock out to PJ once again! Also, we've got a new album coming out for the first time in 7 years in just a couple of weeks, which I'm beyond excited for! I really like what I've heard so far, and am pretty amazed that the band is still making such innovative, high-caliber music at this point in their career. Despite the postponement, this is still a very exciting time to be a PJ fan! I feel incredibly lucky and grateful to be a fan of this band, and a member of this amazing, supportive community. Given the uncertainty regarding the virus, if the shows had went forward as scheduled, I think there would have been an air of concern hovering over these shows that would have zapped them of their usual energy and intensity. And IMO, it's that incredible energy that separates PJ from other bands. I'm very confident that by the time these shows happen (which I suspect will be in the fall), the increased anticipation occasioned by the delay coupled with the excitement over the new album (which we will have more time to digest and obsess over before the shows) will push the energy level of these shows through the roof! I can't wait to experience these incredible shows with all of you; we'll just have to wait a little while longer. And a sincere thank you to the band for the overwhelming amount of incredible music, memories, and inspiration that you've provided to me and countless others over the past three decades, and for the incredible memories yet to come!       

Weston1283

Billie Eilish kicked off her arena tour last night.  Positive is maybe I’ll check that out in Boston now that I won’t be in Ottawa

TheReplicant

You know they'll make up for it, keep your heads up, and hands away from your face!

hockeyguy76

1. College reunion trip to Nashville built around show. Tremendous effort to secure 10 tix so we can all see together. House rented, 10 flights from all over NE booked, divorce papers threatened, etc., etc., ...

week after,

2. Major trip w/ 16yo son(Big PJ Fan, says the lyrics actually mean something) fully booked starting at Phoenix show and ending at Oakland show with Grand Canyon, river rafting, National Parks along the way. Huge financial and planning efforts here in addition to landing the seats. Spring break week.

Positively still going on both trips. 
Positively will not be able to afford trip(s) back to any of the rescheduled shows.
Positively Positive no lesson learned here that I can share out loud other than friends and family first.

Positively Positive that we will not experience a lesser exposure threat to virus missing the shows now as we'll instead be in bars, restaurants, hotels, cabs, public spaces, bordellos, music venues, etc. for those few hours instead. Note that living life is continuing all over the place. The supermarket was packed this afternoon with people, for instance. Isn't someone suppose to notify them and the staff that their putting Human Civilization at risk being in public? Ooops. That was out loud. Sorry. Sea, warned me once already.

I'm I wrong here? I can handle the truth. 

REALITIVITY

PureandEasy

CantKeepmedown said:

Huge bummer, but they will reschedule.  Everything is gonna be fine.  

*I do feel quite badly for those that don't have refundable travel. And those that inevitably won't be able tot make the rescheduled dates*

I was supposed to go to both LA shows from Philly, I'm hoping they reschedule them at some point.  Contacted American Airlines, they waived a change fee, basically gave me a voucher for the cost of my ticket, only limitation is I must book by Dec 31, 2020.  I LOVE AMERICAN AIRLINES.  Doesn't even have to be the same city.  I'm thinking if they don't announce rescheduled dates by August, I just might be heading to Ohana in September.  That's a positive for ya!

MR242791

I'm not pissed just bummed that i can't get a cancellation waiver or refund for my airline tickets to california.  $400 is a lotta money and i really don't wanna spend more $ to reschedule without knowing the new concert dates.