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Four Years ago today

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Seems like forever ago but wasn’t really that long ago all things considered.  I remember seeing this news while at a dinner with a bunch of work colleagues at a conference, and thinking, why the heck am I at this dinner! That was two days before the NBA shut down and everything changed.  The band was ahead of the curve.  Anyone on the fence about going to a show, remember the days when we didn’t know when or even if concerts would be back.  
PJ: 2013: London (ON); Buffalo; 2014: Cincinnati; 2016: Sunrise, Miami, Toronto 1-2, Wrigley 2; 2018: London (UK) 1, Milan, Padova, Sea 2, Wrigley 1-2, Fenway 1-2; 2021: SHN, Ohana, Ohana Encore 1-2; 2022: LA 1-2, Phx, Oak 1-2, Fresno, Copenhagen, Hyde Park 1-2; Quebec, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto; MSG, Camden, Nashville, Louisville, St. Louis, OKC; 2023: St. Paul 1-2, Chicago 1-2; Fort Worth 2; Austin 1-2; 2024:  Vancouver 1-2, LV 1-2, LA 1-2, Napa, Barcelona 1-2
 
EV Solo: 2017 Louisville and Franklin, 2018 Ohana, 2019 Innings Fest, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dublin and Ohana; 2021 Ohana Friday (from beach) and Saturday; 2022 Earthlings Newark; 2023 Innings Fest and Benoraya 1-2.

Gutted:  London 2 2018, Sacramento 2022, Noblesville 2023
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  • GlowGirlGlowGirl Posts: 10,920
    I absolutely remember when that news broke. After trying for weeks to upgrade my Baltimore ticket, everything just stopped (everything!!!). It was a pretty scary time here in NYC. A few weeks after this I got Covid. Luckily a mild case - but lost my sense of smell and taste for about a week. Four years ago already. Wow. 
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 13,878
    When I listen to whoever said and that intro starts I can go back to a time driving my car all the windows done up. All the vents shut  , delivering food to the door step of family members.  Such a mad time to explain in words. Still haunted really.
    brixton 93
    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Go AnimalGo Animal Posts: 5,692
    Seems like yesterday...
    PJ - 09/23/98: West Palm Beach II, 08/12/00: Tampa, 04/12/03: Orlando, 04/13/03: Tampa, 06/12/08: Tampa, 06/27/08: Hartford, 09/22/09: Seattle II, 04/11/16: Tampa, 05/01 & 05/02/16: MSG I & II, 09/18/21: Sea Hear Now, 10/01 & 10/02/21: Ohana Encore I & II, 05/06 & 05/07/22: Los Angeles I & II, 09/11/22: MSG, 09/16/22: Nashville, 09/02/23: St. Paul II, 09/07/23: Chicago II, 09/18 & 09/19/23: Austin I & II, 05/16 & 05/18/24: Las Vegas I & II, 08/29 & 08/31/24: Wrigley Field I & II, 09/03 & 09/04/24: MSG I & II, 09/27 & 09/29/24: Ohana Festival I & II

    EV - 08/04 & 08/05/08: (Eddie solo, w/Liam Finn) NYC I & II, 11/27 & 11/28/12: (Eddie solo, w/Glen Hansard) Orlando I & II, 02/09 & 02/10/22: (Eddie & the Earthlings) Chicago I & II, 09/30/23: (Eddie & the Earthlings) Ohana Festival

    Song Wishlist: Oceans, Brother, Alone, Let Me Sleep, full W.M.A., Hold On, Bugs/all of Vitalogy, Gremmie Out Of Control (BAM!), Mankind, Around The Bend (full band), Whale Song (DOUBLE BAM!), The Long Road, Don't Gimme No Lip, Pilate, Push Me Pull Me, All Those Yesterdays, Rival, Parting Ways, Ghost, Bu$hleaguer, WWS, Parachutes, Army Reserve, low octave Driftin', Strangest Tribe, Other Side, Undone, Fatal, Hitchhiker, Education, Black Red Yellow, Of the Earth, Love Reign O'er Me, Gonna See My Friend, Amongst the Waves, Santa Cruz, Infallible, Yellow Moon, Alright, Comes Then Goes, Got to Give, and the Mamasan Trilogy.

    Wanted Posters: WPB '98, Tampa/WPB '00, Tampa '03, EV Batmobile '08        ISO: any picks, or setlists from any of my shows!
  • deb1211deb1211 Posts: 1,603
    I was actually relieved cuz I was getting very scared to go to Nashville in April
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,473
    lastexitlondon said:
    When I listen to whoever said and that intro starts I can go back to a time driving my car all the windows done up. All the vents shut  , delivering food to the door step of family members.  Such a mad time to explain in words. Still haunted really.
    Yep. Nothing is the same here in my head. Blah
  • Hankj25Hankj25 Posts: 315
    During the lockdown days of late march and April, I’d listen to gigaton on my 3 mile walk, it almost timed perfectly for a loop around the greenbelts near my house.  If I walked fast enough I could skip over River Cross LOL.  

    The absolute chaos, and mashed up Quick Escape was so poignant, even if it was recorded before anyone knew about Wuhan.  It was just utter back and forth and uncertainty, just like the way that song moves…I remember just walking and feeling lost on a trail I knew by heart.

    I was in Vegas when this news broke.  Was so bummed because i had great tickets for St. Louis and Denver.  Four years have gone so slow…Honestly, because of the way time stopped, it felt like 20.
    Seattle 8-8-18
    Chicago 8-18-18
    Chicago 8-20-18
    St. Louis 4-4-20
    Denver 4-9-20
    Denver 9-22-22
    Noblesville 9-10-23
    Vancouver 5-6-24
    Seattle 5-30-24


    EV
    Chicago 2-9-22
    Tempe 2-26-23
  • KwienekeKwieneke Posts: 1,654
    Didn’t believe it when I saw the post on instagram. I was so angry. However, this was when the situation became very serious to me and other events followed very soon after, like the NBA cancelling the season. 
    Noblesville 5.7.2010. Lexington 4.26.2016. Nashville 9.16.2022. St Louis 9.18.2022.
    Chicago 1 9.5.2023. Chicago 2 9.7.2023. 
    *Noblesville 9.10.2023* (Gutted) 
    Seattle 5.30.2024  Noblesville 8.26.2024  Chicago 8.29.2024  Chicago 8.31.2024 
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 92,537
    That day sucked hard!
  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 9,870
    killed the Yankee/Oriole PJ Show Doubleheader on a freakin Saturday

    that hurt.....wouldve been an amazing day
  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,503
    Wow, I didn't remember that those shows were postponed on the 9th. I have such a vivid memory of the chronology leading up to March 11, the day all the shit hit the fan (the WHO declared it a pandemic, Trump addressed the nation, Tom Hanks announced that he had COVID, the NBA shut down), and I don't remember that happening before the 11th, although it obviously did. If you had asked me when those PJ shows were postponed, I would have said not before the 12th. I had had a local event on the 6th that was cancelled, but I traveled to Chicago for a big (in retrospect, it easily could have been a super-spreader) event on the 7th, returned to L.A. on the 8th, and then distinctly recall heading out to my regular Wednesday-night gig on the 11th not thinking that anything particularly drastic was going to happen, but then by the end of that evening, I was stopping at the grocery store at 11:30 p.m. to buy a couple of weeks' worth of food as, in the preceding four hours as the bad news was piling up, I had decided it would be wise to hunker down starting the next day (which I did).
    I gather speed from you fucking with me.
  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,503
    Go Animal said:
    Seems like yesterday...
    Really? I generally am of the belief that time seems to pass at a consistent rate, but the pandemic is the one event that seemed to dilate time. It feels like a lot more than four years have passed since March 2020.
    I gather speed from you fucking with me.
  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Posts: 3,988
    Yep. Four years. I remember people on here were upset -- I reminded them of the "Philly Flu" (H1N1) that took out so many of us in 2009. I had just cancelled my own flight to Boston to see my son's recital (his school closed at the end of the week).

    My husband had worked on, among other things, the H1N1 pandemic response. On his (mostly empty) flight across the country on the 11th, he looked at the available information, did some mathematical modeling, and upon landing informed me that we were f--ked.

    The tone on here seemed to change pretty quickly with the cancellation of the NBA season, etc -- went from "the band is paranoid" to "they were ahead of the curve" in the blink of an eye. A lot of things changed rapidly that week.
    All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Posts: 3,988
    BF25394 said:
    Go Animal said:
    Seems like yesterday...
    Really? I generally am of the belief that time seems to pass at a consistent rate, but the pandemic is the one event that seemed to dilate time. It feels like a lot more than four years have passed since March 2020.

    It pretty much destroyed my perception of time. It's both a bad dream from another lifetime and just last week, for me.
    All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  • ZodZod Posts: 10,588
    It seems like a long time since Covid even, but in reality it was only two years ago we had to do covid tests to go both to and from the US, to got the EV shows in Seattle, and I think I still needed a negative test to fly to Oakland a few months later.

    Yes it feels distance and in the past now.  Kind of like that time I moved to Alberta.. sort of just feels like it didn't happen.. lol.
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,925
    Who's the 3rd band member who's a former resident of the Whale's Vagina (besides Ed & Matt)?
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 13,878
    Josh maybe 
    brixton 93
    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,925
    lastexitlondon said:
    Josh maybe 

    It says 3 of the 5 members. 
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 13,878
    Oh . No idea can't be true.
    brixton 93
    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Posts: 3,988
    Poncier said:
    Who's the 3rd band member who's a former resident of the Whale's Vagina (besides Ed & Matt)?

    Mike maybe?
    All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
  • RS151862RS151862 Posts: 2,642
    Haven’t had to go into the office since. So one good thing came from it. 
    Pittsburgh 1998 • Pittsburgh 2006 • 2012 Isle Of Wight Festival • 2012 Made In America Festival • Baltimore 2013 • Seattle 2013
    St. Paul 2014 • Mexico City 2015 • Philadelphia II 2016 • Ottawa 2016 • Amsterdam I & II 2018 • Wrigley Field II 2018 • Phoenix 2022
    Apollo Theater 2022 • Chicago I 2023 • Baltimore 2024

  • seanwonseanwon Posts: 471
    RS151862 said:
    Haven’t had to go into the office since. So one good thing came from it. 
    Same!
    1996: 9/29 Randall's Island 2,  10/1 Buffalo                  2000: 8/27 Saratoga Springs
    2003: 4/29 Albany,  5/2 Buffalo,  7/9 MSG 2                   2006: 5/12 Albany,  6/3 East Rutherford 2
    2008: 6/27 Hartford                 2009: 10/27 Philadelphia 1              2010: 5/15 Hartford,   5/21 MSG 2
    2013: 10/15 Worcester 1,  10/25 Hartford                       2014: 10/1 Cincinnati
    2016: 5/2 MSG 2,   8/5 Fenway 1,  11/7 Temple of the Dog MSG
    2018: 9/2 Fenway 1
    2020: 3/30 MSG             2022: 9/11 MSG            2023: 9/10 Noblesville
    2024: 9/3 MSG 1, 9/4 MSG 2 , 9/15 Fenway 1, 9/17 Fenway 2
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,925
    curmudgeoness said:
    Poncier said:
    Who's the 3rd band member who's a former resident of the Whale's Vagina (besides Ed & Matt)?

    Mike maybe?
    Don't think so, born in FLA then moved to Seattle as a child as far as I know. 
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • Indifference71Indifference71 Posts: 14,844
    CROJAM95 said:
    killed the Yankee/Oriole PJ Show Doubleheader on a freakin Saturday

    that hurt.....wouldve been an amazing day
    Yep.  Was pumped to check out Camden Yards and see PJ on the same day.  That sure would have been nice!
  • mpedonempedone Posts: 1,947
    Poncier said:
    curmudgeoness said:
    Poncier said:
    Who's the 3rd band member who's a former resident of the Whale's Vagina (besides Ed & Matt)?

    Mike maybe?
    Don't think so, born in FLA then moved to Seattle as a child as far as I know. 

    He's listed on Wikipedia under the category "Musicians from San Diego". Article says "former San Diegans", not "native", so he may have lived there for a while?
    "I'm a lucky man, to count on both hands the [shows I've done]. Some folks just have one, others they got none..."

    Hartford 10.02.96 | Mansfield 2 09.16.98 | Mansfield 1 08.29.00 | Mansfield 1 07.02.03 | Mansfield 3 07.11.03 | Boston 2 05.25.06 | Tampa 04.11.16 | Fenway 1 08.05.16 | Fenway 2 08.07.16 | Fenway 1 09.02.18 | Fenway 2 09.04.18 | Baltimore 03.28.20 | Hamilton 09.06.22 | Toronto 09.08.22 | Nashville 09.16.22 | St Louis 09.18.22 | Baltimore 09.12.24 | Fenway 1 09.15.24 | Fenway 2 09.17.24

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    He goes to hell, of course. We're going to heaven."
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,925
    mpedone said:
    Poncier said:
    curmudgeoness said:
    Poncier said:
    Who's the 3rd band member who's a former resident of the Whale's Vagina (besides Ed & Matt)?

    Mike maybe?
    Don't think so, born in FLA then moved to Seattle as a child as far as I know. 

    He's listed on Wikipedia under the category "Musicians from San Diego". Article says "former San Diegans", not "native", so he may have lived there for a while?
    Maybe. Or he went to the zoo once and the Whale's vagina claimed him as one of their own.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 13,878
    Yeah mike= florida
    brixton 93
    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • RatherStarvedRatherStarved Posts: 5,024
    Thread integrity people 
    PJ: 2013: London (ON); Buffalo; 2014: Cincinnati; 2016: Sunrise, Miami, Toronto 1-2, Wrigley 2; 2018: London (UK) 1, Milan, Padova, Sea 2, Wrigley 1-2, Fenway 1-2; 2021: SHN, Ohana, Ohana Encore 1-2; 2022: LA 1-2, Phx, Oak 1-2, Fresno, Copenhagen, Hyde Park 1-2; Quebec, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto; MSG, Camden, Nashville, Louisville, St. Louis, OKC; 2023: St. Paul 1-2, Chicago 1-2; Fort Worth 2; Austin 1-2; 2024:  Vancouver 1-2, LV 1-2, LA 1-2, Napa, Barcelona 1-2
     
    EV Solo: 2017 Louisville and Franklin, 2018 Ohana, 2019 Innings Fest, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dublin and Ohana; 2021 Ohana Friday (from beach) and Saturday; 2022 Earthlings Newark; 2023 Innings Fest and Benoraya 1-2.

    Gutted:  London 2 2018, Sacramento 2022, Noblesville 2023
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,925
    RatherStarved said:
    Thread integrity people 
    What we're discussing is in your opening post.  =)
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Posts: 36,985
    I was so stoked for the Ottawa show that was supposed to happen on March 20. cancelled the week prior. you wanna know gutted? that's fucking gutted. then had tickets to the makeup date in 2022 but couldn't swing it. 

    haven't seen them since 2014, and I don't know when/if I'll ever see them again. 
    new album "Cigarettes" out Spring 2025!

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  • RatherStarvedRatherStarved Posts: 5,024
    Poncier said:
    RatherStarved said:
    Thread integrity people 
    What we're discussing is in your opening post.  =)
    Gotcha.  I forgot about that.  The essence was the cancellation, not the 3/5, but fair enough.  
    PJ: 2013: London (ON); Buffalo; 2014: Cincinnati; 2016: Sunrise, Miami, Toronto 1-2, Wrigley 2; 2018: London (UK) 1, Milan, Padova, Sea 2, Wrigley 1-2, Fenway 1-2; 2021: SHN, Ohana, Ohana Encore 1-2; 2022: LA 1-2, Phx, Oak 1-2, Fresno, Copenhagen, Hyde Park 1-2; Quebec, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto; MSG, Camden, Nashville, Louisville, St. Louis, OKC; 2023: St. Paul 1-2, Chicago 1-2; Fort Worth 2; Austin 1-2; 2024:  Vancouver 1-2, LV 1-2, LA 1-2, Napa, Barcelona 1-2
     
    EV Solo: 2017 Louisville and Franklin, 2018 Ohana, 2019 Innings Fest, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dublin and Ohana; 2021 Ohana Friday (from beach) and Saturday; 2022 Earthlings Newark; 2023 Innings Fest and Benoraya 1-2.

    Gutted:  London 2 2018, Sacramento 2022, Noblesville 2023
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