What’s up with Fresno?

100 Pacer

JimmyV said:

These are the final days of the Before Fresno era. On Monday night, every day to come will be After Fresno. A pivotal moment in time and history unfolding before our eyes.

I love this guy…honestly.

mcgruff10

JimmyV said:

These are the final days of the Before Fresno era. On Monday night, every day to come will be After Fresno. A pivotal moment in time and history unfolding before our eyes.

This is amazing lol

elcazador83

I am getting a vibe that we are getting the acoustic preset a la Mansfield. 

PJNB

It is great to be hyped but if you think this will be much different than the first 6 shows I think we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. I am just super excited to finally see these guys in an arena again. 

pearljammr78

PJNB said:

It is great to be hyped but if you think this will be much different than the first 6 shows I think we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. I am just super excited to finally see these guys in an arena again. 

There is one difference. Pearl Jam will be playing deep in the pits of shit covered Hades on Monday renamed Fresno to not scare away tourist dollars. 

newharlmshuffle

pearljammr78 said:

PJNB said:

It is great to be hyped but if you think this will be much different than the first 6 shows I think we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. I am just super excited to finally see these guys in an arena again. 

There is one difference. Pearl Jam will be playing deep in the pits of shit covered Hades on Monday renamed Fresno to not scare away tourist dollars. 

🤣🤣🤣

PJammer4life

JimmyV said:

These are the final days of the Before Fresno era. On Monday night, every day to come will be After Fresno. A pivotal moment in time and history unfolding before our eyes.

 The Prophecy must be fulfilled!! 

Weston1283

2 days until Fresno!

JimmyV

No one can know what will happen. We can only know that it will be magical. 

PJNB

Just passed my covid screening test. Leave tomorrow bright and early to fly kitty corner across NA to one of the best kept secrets in the USA.

FRESNO! 

pearljammr78

Fres-No?

 Fres-YES!!!!

💩🤮🤮💩

RatherStarved

PJNB said:

Just passed my covid screening test. Leave tomorrow bright and early to fly kitty corner across NA to one of the best kept secrets in the USA.

FRESNO! 

Safe travels my friend.  

PJammin'

HEY HO, FRES NO!

100 Pacer

Black and Red and Yellow and Fresno.

100 Pacer

PJNB said:

Just passed my covid screening test. Leave tomorrow bright and early to fly kitty corner across NA to one of the best kept secrets in the USA.

FRESNO! 

💪👍🤘

FlyBono24

I drove through Fresno on vacation once.... on accident....  it was terrible

pearljammr78

FlyBono24 said:

I drove through Fresno on vacation once.... on accident....  it was terrible

Glad you didn’t stop, you might not have made it out. This place is like quicksand made of diarrhea and meth residue. 

Hail hail the lucky ones. 

pearljammr78

Seriously, Fresno is such a shit hole that when you ask people who live here what’s so great about it and their answer always is the same. 

“You’re like a hour and a half from the mountains and 2.5 hours to the beach.”

The best thing about this place is the road trips you have to take to leave it. Wow. We are lucky to live here. 

I guess now we can say. Well Pearl Jam played here twice and only 22 years between shows. We are lucky. Hail hail. 

cp3iverson

at this point I think I’m buying this poster no matter what.  Just to have a document from this show.  

drakeheuer14

pearljammr78 said:

Seriously, Fresno is such a shit hole that when you ask people who live here what’s so great about it and their answer always is the same. 

“You’re like a hour and a half from the mountains and 2.5 hours to the beach.”

The best thing about this place is the road trips you have to take to leave it. Wow. We are lucky to live here. 

I guess now we can say. Well Pearl Jam played here twice and only 22 years between shows. We are lucky. Hail hail. 

Haha that’s how I felt about Columbia, SC. 

pearljammr78

If anyone thinks that I’m exaggerating please listen to the one and ONLY other time Pearl Jam was here. Oct 27 2000 bootleg. Eddie even references how shitty the crowd is. 🤣🤣🤣

100 Pacer

pearljammr78 said:

If anyone thinks that I’m exaggerating please listen to the one and ONLY other time Pearl Jam was here. Oct 27 2000 bootleg. Eddie even references how shitty the crowd is. 🤣🤣🤣

10/27/00 - Selland Arena: Fresno, CA
support act: Supergrass
set: Interstellar Overdrive/Corduroy, Breakerfall, Whipping, Last Exit, Hail Hail, Animal, Dissident, Nothing As It Seems, Untitled, MFC, Habit, I Got Shit, Daughter/(Another Brick In The Wall), Even Flow, State of Love and Trust, Black, Parting Ways
enc 1: Soon Forget, Better Man, Insignificance, Do The Evolution, Footsteps, Rearviewmirror
enc 2: Indifference, Rockin' In The Free World
notes: After 'Dissident,' Ed addresses the crowd, how they've never played Fresno but they've passed through it going 65-70 mph. He also mentioned that he had gone to the doctor because he'd been sick, "so the singer's on drugs tonight" and asked if anyone else was...there were cheers and then he said, "ah Fresno, I wouldn't expect anything less of you." After 'MFC,' Ed then apparently tells a joke about an Australian guy who got a tattoo on his ass of Yogi bear. He then intro'd Habit as "this is a song about looking into a dark hole and getting sucked into it." The "speaking as" line was, "speaking as Mike McCready with more tattoos than anyone else in the band." During 'Even Flow,' Ed is smoking during the solo break, and then goes over and puts his cigarette into Mike's mouth as he finishes. After "Black" Ed says, "That last song was about being in love and it's all over, this next song is about something scarier, being in love and you know it's going to end soon," and the band goes into 'Parting Ways.'

Courtesy: 5H concert chronology

PJNB

pearljammr78 said:

If anyone thinks that I’m exaggerating please listen to the one and ONLY other time Pearl Jam was here. Oct 27 2000 bootleg. Eddie even references how shitty the crowd is. 🤣🤣🤣

A half sold out show will sure make him change his mind on that lol. 

pearljammr78

Thank you to 5H for the recap and 100 Pacer for the post. 

There is a point in the show where he addresses the crowd and says that it’s not the normal energy or something the band is used too. Which is weird cause the crowd on the boot sounds loud. I was stationed in North Carolina at the time and caught the Greensboro show as my first PJ show. I laughed my ass off in Carolina when I heard the boot. Typical Fresno. A shit hole. 

Full disclosure. I left and came back so who’s the real dumb ass. Me. And now I’m stuck for at least 20 more years. FML. ☠️☠️🤯🤯

PJNB

Love Parting Ways. My white whale for sure. After the show  we will be Parting Ways from Fresno never to return!

Weston1283

Can we start the petition for “FresNo Code” with Jack Irons if Matt can’t go 

FlyBono24

PJNB said:

pearljammr78 said:

If anyone thinks that I’m exaggerating please listen to the one and ONLY other time Pearl Jam was here. Oct 27 2000 bootleg. Eddie even references how shitty the crowd is. 🤣🤣🤣

A half sold out show will sure make him change his mind on that lol. 

Why would they even go to Fresno?
Why not come to Long Beach, we have a few large arenas like the Long Beach Convention Center, they used to play ice hockey here.  
Then again I guess it's pretty close to L.A. so that would be redundant.

JimmyV

Sometimes Fresno chooses you. 

WishfulThinking

I hope they burn the house down in Fresno.

WishfulThinking

Wish I could be there.