An Experiment - The First Song You Ever Saw Live

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  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,147
    Act of Love - Austin '95
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,649
    Merkin Baller said:
    JimmyV said:
    PJNB said:
    Release 15/10/13
    Worcester 1. Helluva good show. 
    Worcester 2 - not as good as Ed was hungover from Worcester 1.  :D 
    True...and our expectations were through the roof after night 1. Still, we got Other Side that night!
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  • DT6012
    DT6012 Idaho Posts: 234
    Long Road - Red Rocks 6/20/95...technically.

    I’ve always considered Why Go my first live PJ song!

    Was at what would have been my first show on Wolf Mountain in Park City. Crowd was singing “Why go home? Why go home?” as Eddie explained that they couldn’t play because of the thunderstorm that rolled through. 
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,796
    JimmyV said:
    Merkin Baller said:
    JimmyV said:
    PJNB said:
    Release 15/10/13
    Worcester 1. Helluva good show. 
    Worcester 2 - not as good as Ed was hungover from Worcester 1.  :D 
    True...and our expectations were through the roof after night 1. Still, we got Other Side that night!
    I (foolishly) skipped Worcester 1 being a Tuesday night & having already scored tix for Hartford & also Brooklyn 2, which was fine... those two nights more than made up for the 'down' night of Worcester 2. 
  • KV4053
    KV4053 Mike's side, crushed up against the stage Posts: 1,519
    ryph raph said:

    WASH



    SATURDAY OCTOBER 26TH 1991

    CLEVELAND MUSIC HALL

    Opening band

    There was no one there at the time. 

    #winner
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  • madtowndave
    madtowndave Minneapolis, MN Posts: 4,013
    Sometimes
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,732
    +1 Sometimes Randalls 96

  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 32,365
    Sobelberg8 said:

    At some point where we got enough data we stopped counting, but these are the top 10 songs from the responses we got that were people’s first song they ever heard. Response number in column one, times opened with in column two.

    the hypothesis going into this was that an overwhelming majority of people witnessed Release as their first ever performance. This has proved our hypothesis correct, but take into account how many more times its been opened with over the other in the top 10 here. Sometimes is likely the most surprising number even though the average fans debut show was anywhere between 1996-2000 and Sometimes as an opener is within that wheelhouse. A lot more data came in after we stopped counting (count all the votes, I know, but this isn’t a real election) so Long Road may have ended up with a higher total than Sometimes. Wash is lower on the list even though it’s been opened with more because more of the times they chose to open with it was in 1991 before many current fans began attending shows.

    Might be interesting to see a column, or another sheet charting the years people responding took in those shows.

    Probably a lot of interesting ways to look at this.  Cool idea for a thread.
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    Ando Denver Posts: 410
    Breakerfall Saratoga Springs 2000
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    mattcoz Chicago Posts: 2,243
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  • Dr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh
    Dr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh Posts: 1,180
    Release Camden 98
    looking to hear of the earth
  • dreamcode
    dreamcode Posts: 165
    edited November 2020
    Wash, Hamburg, Germany 96

    Does this count? Big Green Country (Mirrorball band w/ Neil Young), Roskilde Heyday, Denmark August 13th 1995
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    he just gives it away...
  • jjflash
    jjflash Posts: 5,059
    Why Go, New Orleans '92
  • KV4053
    KV4053 Mike's side, crushed up against the stage Posts: 1,519
    jjflash said:
    Why Go, New Orleans '92
    Isn't there an old bootleg of that somewhere
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  • mr bungle
    mr bungle Posts: 1,446
    Go.  Seattle 93
  • jcckjc1
    jcckjc1 Posts: 26
    Oceans.  Portland 5/17/1992
  • Sobelberg8
    Sobelberg8 Posts: 1,023
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Sobelberg8 said:

    At some point where we got enough data we stopped counting, but these are the top 10 songs from the responses we got that were people’s first song they ever heard. Response number in column one, times opened with in column two.

    the hypothesis going into this was that an overwhelming majority of people witnessed Release as their first ever performance. This has proved our hypothesis correct, but take into account how many more times its been opened with over the other in the top 10 here. Sometimes is likely the most surprising number even though the average fans debut show was anywhere between 1996-2000 and Sometimes as an opener is within that wheelhouse. A lot more data came in after we stopped counting (count all the votes, I know, but this isn’t a real election) so Long Road may have ended up with a higher total than Sometimes. Wash is lower on the list even though it’s been opened with more because more of the times they chose to open with it was in 1991 before many current fans began attending shows.

    Might be interesting to see a column, or another sheet charting the years people responding took in those shows.

    Probably a lot of interesting ways to look at this.  Cool idea for a thread.
    I thought of that but it was a little late, gonna be tough to go back through everything that had people’s participation in. I like the idea because it shows the average era where people started going, which is why you don’t see Pendulum in the top 10 because most fans have been to shows before 2013
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    ceska New York Posts: 1,153
    Release, Camden, NJ - 8/28/98
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