Atlanta 2025

CarryTheZero

Yes, you are correct! Nice catch. 👍 Forgot about Denver. I was in the same boat with you and had seats way back in the rows. Get much better seats now.

Cocaine backstage gave me a big laugh, too!

Porchsitter

MM70435 said:

Anyway it was a great show but my 10C # was so bad at the time I was three rows from the back row of the large amphitheater.  I now get great seats with 10C and wondered what happened to all those people that were in front of me then.  I have now found out many are still fans and still go but they let their membership lapse at some point.

I was in section 203 just beyond the cover of the amphitheatre, sort of center right. If I remember correctly, I was sitting just before the cover to the right of the soundboard which was several rows to the front. I had let my membership lapse before the show but re-upped once I heard they were touring and have kept my membership from lapsing since. It was a great night.

lolobugg

Porchsitter said:

MM70435 said:

Anyway it was a great show but my 10C # was so bad at the time I was three rows from the back row of the large amphitheater.  I now get great seats with 10C and wondered what happened to all those people that were in front of me then.  I have now found out many are still fans and still go but they let their membership lapse at some point.

I was in section 203 just beyond the cover of the amphitheatre, sort of center right. If I remember correctly, I was sitting just before the cover to the right of the soundboard which was several rows to the front. I had let my membership lapse before the show but re-upped once I heard they were touring and have kept my membership from lapsing since. It was a great night.

Ed did have to ask someone to take down a huge American Flag because it was blocking the view of folks behind it. 

LukinFan

At the 2003 show, didn't Ed talk about seeing a bumper sticker on the back of a truck on the way to the show - and then made a reference about a local serial killer on the loose?

CarryTheZero

Yes he did! I remember thinking that was a weird anecdote.

JojoRice

"While you're honking, I'm reloading." was the phrase on the bumper sticker that Ed was talking about. 

CarryTheZero

Yikes! Yes, that’s correct. Sounds like some spots from north Georgia I’ve driven through.

LukinFan

JojoRice said:

"While you're honking, I'm reloading." was the phrase on the bumper sticker that Ed was talking about. 

haha - that's the one! What a show! So many great memories. I just wish I hadn't gone with my now ex-wife 

Porchsitter

I was meaning to post this a few days when a few were showing off their Atlanta posters. I just began learning how to cut mat a few months ago for this purpose specifically. It bums me out that I have been collecting PJ posters for 25 years and only have 3 posters from Atlanta (should be four because of the nixed Atlanta 2000 poster but, at that price, no thanks!).

matt3846

Porchsitter said:

I was meaning to post this a few days when a few were showing off their Atlanta posters. I just began learning how to cut mat a few months ago for this purpose specifically. It bums me out that I have been collecting PJ posters for 25 years and only have 3 posters from Atlanta (should be four because of the nixed Atlanta 2000 poster but, at that price, no thanks!).

Fantastic collection! Great job on the self framing! I’ve got those 98 and 03 ATLs also… still not up on the wall after all these years.

CarryTheZero

Porchsitter said:

I was meaning to post this a few days when a few were showing off their Atlanta posters. I just began learning how to cut mat a few months ago for this purpose specifically. It bums me out that I have been collecting PJ posters for 25 years and only have 3 posters from Atlanta (should be four because of the nixed Atlanta 2000 poster but, at that price, no thanks!).

Those are amazing! Love that Spawn poster in the middle (big comic nerd).

Wasn’t into posters yet so I don’t have an ‘03, although would love one!  I do have those Munk Ones for Atl and Charlotte. Nice!

Porchsitter

Thanks! I began collecting on a whim and have mostly kept it to just shows I've attended (though, also as comic book nerd, I couldn't pass up the Copenhagen Spawn) so I don't have very many. Not photoed and will eventually frame are Hershey 03, Asheville 04, Columbia 08, the Music Midtown Owl poster from 2012, and Greenville 16. 

deb1211

CarryTheZero said:

Yikes! Yes, that’s correct. Sounds like some spots from north Georgia I’ve driven through.

I think those ppl live behind me 😆 

RatherStarved

Hi all, I’m new to the Atlanta thread, and not a local.  My comments:

1) Agree there should be party @lmckenney24

2) Best post was 3 hour drive from Atlanta to Atlanta.  I don’t live there, but have been there, and I get that. 

Honorable mention to the bumper sticker.  

3) Don’t know if the Play Minnesota thread really had anything to do with the choice of Minnesota but if it did how cool is that.  

4) ATL is a very good logistical choice for people to travel to due to the fact that just about everywhere has direct flights.

So I’m in.

CarryTheZero

Porchsitter said:

Thanks! I began collecting on a whim and have mostly kept it to just shows I've attended (though, also as comic book nerd, I couldn't pass up the Copenhagen Spawn) so I don't have very many. Not photoed and will eventually frame are Hershey 03, Asheville 04, Columbia 08, the Music Midtown Owl poster from 2012, and Greenville 16. 

Nice! Asheville was another I went to, but of course wasn’t buying posters. I do have Greenville and I bought my sister the Columbia online later. Was on the way there to meet her for the show and my wife had preterm labor with my first kid. Had to turn around and miss the show. Thankfully, all was well and he waited to come till much closer to his due date! 😃 

Porchsitter

CarryTheZero said:

Nice! Asheville was another I went to, but of course wasn’t buying posters. I do have Greenville and I bought my sister the Columbia online later. Was on the way there to meet her for the show and my wife had preterm labor with my first kid. Had to turn around and miss the show. Thankfully, all was well and he waited to come till much closer to his due date! 😃 

That's great it all worked out and everything went successfully. There's some interesting symmetry here though, one, it was not as serious for us and, two, I was able to make the show. My wife was supposed to go to Columbia with me but had to back out at the last minute. We had just found out she was pregnant with our first about a month before the show, and she had an awful bout with morning sickness. So much so that she wasn't sure she'd be able to hang. She insisted I go so my friend took her ticket. 

CarryTheZero

That is interesting! Glad it all worked out. Columbia boot sounds amazing and my sister loved the show. 10C let her have the tickets! 😅 

I missed Inside Job and WMA! Ugh. Caught them in 2016 finally! 

JojoRice

Bump because it's been a few days. 

CarryTheZero

Yes! Got to assess some kindergarteners, but new Atlanta memory later today!

CarryTheZero

https://youtu.be/KJ4FpNFxVBw

Continuing our campaign to will an Atlanta show into existence, here is another amazing PJ in Atlanta moment, and huge reason to come back to Atlanta, Georgia! Lakewood amphitheater, 1998!

Technically not a memory for me, I was at college in Greenville (went to the ‘98 show at the Bi-Lo center), but see the show above and tune into about the hour twenty mark for Daughter with TWO R.E.M. tags, Talk About the Passion and The Wrong Child!

Photo above is the train trestle in Athens, GA on the back of the essential album, Murmur, R.E.M.’s first full length album! Nice day trip from Atlanta for those who visit!

There is a big friendship over the years between the bands, with Ed even singing on R.E.M.‘s last album.

 R.E.M. Is one of the best bands ever and these have to be some of the best Daughter tags ever!

PJ, come on down and cover Texarkana or Near Wild Heaven. I’m sure Mike Mills would drive up from Macon to sing! Or any of the other members stop on by to play!

Let’s make it happen!

Sound off if you were present for this version of Daughter!