*** Chicago, IL 2 Fanviews Here 9/7/23 ***

Inzzzane

Forgot to mention: kudos to the girl who gave a frienship bracelet Swiftie-Jammie Style 

cjorea

What happened to this thread since I last checked in 🤣 Hope everyone has resolved any differences/conflicts...

cjorea said:

Matt wearing a Pearl Jam shirt - all I could think was that he spilled something on the shirt he was going to wear, and they had to go to the merch tent… ❤️ed it.

So I guess it was by design... rather than committing a "cardinal sin" of never wearing the shirt of the band you are wearing 😇, Jeff went with Merkinball.... What were the others?

cjorea

Also wanted to comment that I saw something this night that I had never seen before at a concert...

On the way in, I was behind a scalper - he had already tried to sell/buy any tickets from me earlier.... He was standing with a group that he had sold tickets to, and was walking them in "to prove they were real."

When they all got to the front, they came up as bogus, but the person scanning tickets was in on it - she let them in.

Blown TF away - scalpers running operations with the door handlers - hahahahaha - the Madhouse on Madison - brilliant.

cblock4life

vedpunk said:

Pearl Jam has been absolutely crushing it this tour! Go Longhorns! 🤘🏼

Explains so much!  Fucking worst state in the country.  

Gern Blansten

We were in Sec 303 front row on night 2...the two guys next to us were drunk as hell and/or possibly ate too many edibles.

It started off ok...they were nice enough, kept bumping into my wife, etc.  Then we notice the guy next to her leaning on the rail like he was going to hurl. They both left about three songs in and never came back.

The guy gave us his leftover french fries as a final gesture.

steven87

noahbena57 said:

Set was f-ing amaaaazing! Was in the 300 level, 303, was so so good, so fun. Only complaint was GA seemed like they were kinda dead most of the show!! 

Can’t speak for the rest of the pit, but everyone else up there on the rail with me and those in the few rows behind me at least were jumping around and screaming the whole show! It was loud up there and the energy was great!

steven87

PJNB said:

Loved this show. I have done 4 shows so far this tour and I am so thankful how much they are mixing it up. Amazing night! 

Great pics!!!

cblock4life

Gern Blansten said:

We were in Sec 303 front row on night 2...the two guys next to us were drunk as hell and/or possibly ate too many edibles.

It started off ok...they were nice enough, kept bumping into my wife, etc.  Then we notice the guy next to her leaning on the rail like he was going to hurl. They both left about three songs in and never came back.

The guy gave us his leftover french fries as a final gesture.

I was a section over but close.  We wondered what was going on.  Hey, at least you got to spread out a bit!  Hope you didn’t eat the fries! 

bluetuned

Some views from behind the stage

danceswithsquirrels

Did anyone notice anything off with the sound? I was in 219 and it sounded like one of the guitars was completely missing for awhile. I believe the first song I noticed it was Tremor Christ. Still enjoyed the hell out of the show. Just wondering if anyone else noticed. 

ddeschler

I was in Sec 114.  I could hear every note of Mike's guitar, but I wasn't getting much of Jeff's bass.

mrussel1

Gern Blansten said:

We were in Sec 303 front row on night 2...the two guys next to us were drunk as hell and/or possibly ate too many edibles.

It started off ok...they were nice enough, kept bumping into my wife, etc.  Then we notice the guy next to her leaning on the rail like he was going to hurl. They both left about three songs in and never came back.

The guy gave us his leftover french fries as a final gesture.

Damn dude.  I was in 305 row 1. I would have come to say hey.  
Great seats.  I think I'm done with lottery and just going to buy the front row of a section from now on.  It was great to sit and chill. 

I was also able to set up my camera on a tripod and let it run without anyone in front.  Can't beat it. 

jniko

Sound was great in 212.  I commented to my bud how I could hear all the instruments even Booms piano was coming through. Loved the show.  Never thought I’d see Tremor Christ.  Garden and Immortality are my favorite songs.  

locked

Garden, Black, Immortality , and Deep all in the same setlist was insane ! I was in heaven!

Gern Blansten

mrussel1 said:

Gern Blansten said:

We were in Sec 303 front row on night 2...the two guys next to us were drunk as hell and/or possibly ate too many edibles.

It started off ok...they were nice enough, kept bumping into my wife, etc.  Then we notice the guy next to her leaning on the rail like he was going to hurl. They both left about three songs in and never came back.

The guy gave us his leftover french fries as a final gesture.

Damn dude.  I was in 305 row 1. I would have come to say hey.  
Great seats.  I think I'm done with lottery and just going to buy the front row of a section from now on.  It was great to sit and chill. 

I was also able to set up my camera on a tripod and let it run without anyone in front.  Can't beat it. 

wow...that's great

Yeah I was happy with those seats. I was in 333 the first night. Those weren't bad but it was a direct side view.

Gern Blansten

cblock4life said:

Gern Blansten said:

We were in Sec 303 front row on night 2...the two guys next to us were drunk as hell and/or possibly ate too many edibles.

It started off ok...they were nice enough, kept bumping into my wife, etc.  Then we notice the guy next to her leaning on the rail like he was going to hurl. They both left about three songs in and never came back.

The guy gave us his leftover french fries as a final gesture.

I was a section over but close.  We wondered what was going on.  Hey, at least you got to spread out a bit!  Hope you didn’t eat the fries! 

hell no...it was a cup of fries with like 6 fries at the bottom. Totally fucked up thing to offer someone you don't know

I was starting to picture what would happen if the guy barfed all over everything. Honestly I was hoping that he would spew over the rail on the people below so that I wouldn't have to smell it and could just continue uninterupted.

troubledsoulsuniteblog

ddeschler said:

I was in Sec 114.  I could hear every note of Mike's guitar, but I wasn't getting much of Jeff's bass.

danceswithsquirrels said:

Did anyone notice anything off with the sound? I was in 219 and it sounded like one of the guitars was completely missing for awhile. I believe the first song I noticed it was Tremor Christ. Still enjoyed the hell out of the show. Just wondering if anyone else noticed. 

Agreed. Both nights I was on MIke's side (309 and 111). Could hear him loud and clear, but it almost sounded like Stone was turned off and the bass was way down. If I plugged my ears, then I could hear the low end stuff, but otherwise it was as if they were playing as a Ed, Mike, Matt trio.

Gern Blansten

So Leash got scratched....just realized that. Once took its place

cblock4life

Gern Blansten said:

So Leash got scratched....just realized that. Once took its place

Honestly can’t complain about either but wish it would have been both.  Throw in rats, satans bed, go, anything or all from binaural and I’m 
 happy.  

mrussel1

Gern Blansten said:

So Leash got scratched....just realized that. Once took its place

Oh man.. that would have taken a great show to the next level.  The crowd goes bananas for that song.