The Official 2025 Tour Rumor Thread

tylermoore · January 27

Shaindli1 said:

Do you think an announcement of a fall NA leg might hurt ticket sales for the springs hence keeping a lid on it?

The spring is sold out. Except premium tickets.

If anything it hurts the fall because people already made plans to travel for the spring. Still the answer is no.

There’s not enough dates for them to be worried about not selling.

Haijay · January 27

10LordsALeaping said:

Merkin Baller said:

Could always try being corrigible, I suppose.

I did. There was no quote. So back to it then.

I find PJ to be one of the most irregular and unpredictable touring bands. Maybe some people are into that and find it endearing. No doubt, they can and have earned the right to do as they want. I guess it just gets a little old with, 'maybe they'll do this and maybe they'll do that.' Endless speculative hope. It's one thing if there are legit rumors. We got nothin'. We have hopes. We have dreams. I guess that's enough?
Even me, when they were here in Philly in 2016 at the Ten show and Eddie was remarking on the 10 flag referencing how many shows Bruce played here saying we have to play X amount of shows every year. I took that as challenge accepted. Then, they didn't come back until 2024. I guess one could count Camden in 2022, but that would be half a point in a full point system.
Even The Rolling Stones tour more frequently with longer tours. Granted, stadiums. So, no thank you regarding PJ. Other than Wrigley and Fenway of course

Would a lot of you be happier if they released an album, played 100-125 shows, then went away for 4 years? Certainly some of their touring decisions in the last 20 years have been head scratchers, but i like that they are at least playing some shows pretty much every year. Its tough, touring would suck, especially when you’re 50 plus, and you cant blame them for not wanting to do it the “normal” way.

RatherStarved · January 27

tylermoore said:

Shaindli1 said:

Do you think an announcement of a fall NA leg might hurt ticket sales for the springs hence keeping a lid on it?

The spring is sold out. Except premium tickets.
If anything it hurts the fall because people already made plans to travel for the spring. Still the answer is no.
There’s not enough dates for them to be worried about not selling.

The spring is not sold out. Guaranteed TM is holding a bunch of tickets to release closer to the date. That has been their pattern consistently since 2022.

tylermoore · January 27

RatherStarved said:

tylermoore said:

Shaindli1 said:

Do you think an announcement of a fall NA leg might hurt ticket sales for the springs hence keeping a lid on it?

The spring is sold out. Except premium tickets.
If anything it hurts the fall because people already made plans to travel for the spring. Still the answer is no.
There’s not enough dates for them to be worried about not selling.

The spring is not sold out. Guaranteed TM is holding a bunch of tickets to release closer to the date. That has been their pattern consistently since 2022.

Bud……duh. ticketmaster has always done this for most shows. Not just PJ

I mean currently. As of now they’re sold out. Cmon now. That doesn’t change the fact it won’t hurt sales….they aren’t worried about 50-100 more tickets for each spring show

RatherStarved · January 27

Some shows last year they released hundreds or even thousands of tickets closer to.

ddeschler · January 27

What date are we thinking for the Zihuatanejo show?

Merkin Baller · January 27

10LordsALeaping said:

Merkin Baller said:

Could always try being corrigible, I suppose.

I did. There was no quote. So back to it then.

I find PJ to be one of the most irregular and unpredictable touring bands. Maybe some people are into that and find it endearing. No doubt, they can and have earned the right to do as they want. I guess it just gets a little old with, 'maybe they'll do this and maybe they'll do that.' Endless speculative hope. It's one thing if there are legit rumors. We got nothin'. We have hopes. We have dreams. I guess that's enough?
Even me, when they were here in Philly in 2016 at the Ten show and Eddie was remarking on the 10 flag referencing how many shows Bruce played here saying we have to play X amount of shows every year. I took that as challenge accepted. Then, they didn't come back until 2024. I guess one could count Camden in 2022, but that would be half a point in a full point system.
Even The Rolling Stones tour more frequently with longer tours. Granted, stadiums. So, no thank you regarding PJ. Other than Wrigley and Fenway of course

I was just being an a-hole in reference to your corrigibility (or lack thereof).

I share your frustrations with the touring schedule. It's only getting harder & harder to see these guys and I don't think it's going to get any easier or better moving forward, especially what with the direction the 10C tickets are going.

10LordsALeaping · January 27

Haijay said:

Would a lot of you be happier if they released an album, played 100-125 shows, then went away for 4 years? Certainly some of their touring decisions in the last 20 years have been head scratchers, but i like that they are at least playing some shows pretty much every year. Its tough, touring would suck, especially when you’re 50 plus, and you cant blame them for not wanting to do it the “normal” way.

You sort of read my mind. I was going to come back in here and post credit, where credit is due, since it seems they've been picking up the pace with touring. Who knows if that will last? Sometimes, it's just a little, only a little, bothersome that the onus and financial investment is on us to have to travel and see them when they have the infrastructure to do it.

If one isn't traveling and they don't play your city, then ostensibly they have gone away for four years. Unfortunately, that's most cities and markets. Like you said, it's a head scratcher. We have sort of been forced into a travel or no dice situation. Like I had said before, and no doubt you already knew this, they hadn't played Philly in 8 years with Camden for one night being the exception. If someone is attempting to travel getting shut out of multiple tours (me) because demand is high due to there aren't enough shows around the country, then that also hurts our rabid fanbase. Like an idiot, I paid for premium tickets on Philly day of sale, which I will never do again because now we can all see what Ticketmaster is doing.

Double edit: When two premium tickets to two shows eat up what would have been the cost of 5 shows through the 10C. Sure, my fault. But, the rabidness. Booo Ticketmaster. Booo me too. And boo hoo cry me a river. I'll see myself out.

MJ178168 · January 27

Haijay said:

10LordsALeaping said:

Merkin Baller said:

Could always try being corrigible, I suppose.

I did. There was no quote. So back to it then.

I find PJ to be one of the most irregular and unpredictable touring bands. Maybe some people are into that and find it endearing. No doubt, they can and have earned the right to do as they want. I guess it just gets a little old with, 'maybe they'll do this and maybe they'll do that.' Endless speculative hope. It's one thing if there are legit rumors. We got nothin'. We have hopes. We have dreams. I guess that's enough?
Even me, when they were here in Philly in 2016 at the Ten show and Eddie was remarking on the 10 flag referencing how many shows Bruce played here saying we have to play X amount of shows every year. I took that as challenge accepted. Then, they didn't come back until 2024. I guess one could count Camden in 2022, but that would be half a point in a full point system.
Even The Rolling Stones tour more frequently with longer tours. Granted, stadiums. So, no thank you regarding PJ. Other than Wrigley and Fenway of course

Would a lot of you be happier if they released an album, played 100-125 shows, then went away for 4 years? Certainly some of their touring decisions in the last 20 years have been head scratchers, but i like that they are at least playing some shows pretty much every year. Its tough, touring would suck, especially when you’re 50 plus, and you cant blame them for not wanting to do it the “normal” way.

If they played Detroit every 4 years, then yes.

mcgruff10 · January 27

RatherStarved said:

Some shows last year they released hundreds or even thousands of tickets closer to.

What shows?

HailHailVitalogy · January 27

mcgruff10 said:

RatherStarved said:

Some shows last year they released hundreds or even thousands of tickets closer to.

What shows?

Almost all of them dude. You scored Philly 1 day of on TM drop. I scored Philly 2 day of on TM drop. But msg dropped standards, the ballparks were dropping tickets, the west coast leg was a joke…I got my LV1 ticket 12 rows up from Mike the week before the show on a drop after refreshing for months.

RatherStarved · January 27

Also LA, Vancouver, Baltimore

HailHailVitalogy · January 27

Indy dropped the first 2-3 rows of the middle 200s section

PhartN · January 27

I think you could have gotten tickets day of for literally every show last tour. I was watching them all pretty closely (except for maybe MSG?). I got GA for Indy hours before the show (Thanks @SHZA and @JE224127) could have gotten SEA2 as well if I would have been a little more hardcore about it. Baltimore had pretty much any seat in the house as did Mizz and most west coast shows.

Haijay · January 27

mcgruff10 said:

RatherStarved said:

Some shows last year they released hundreds or even thousands of tickets closer to.

What shows?

Vancouver night 2 they released about 1000 lower bowl tickets two weeks before the show. When again, both shows “sold out” on the first day, and i know lots of people who registered for the sale but didn’t receive the code to participate. Complete bullshit, what they do
Both of the shows ended up full, but what a move to pull. Bands should be pissed about this…..

iOnlyownMymind · January 27

Haijay said:

mcgruff10 said:

RatherStarved said:

Some shows last year they released hundreds or even thousands of tickets closer to.

What shows?

Vancouver night 2 they released about 1000 lower bowl tickets two weeks before the show. When again, both shows “sold out” on the first day, and i know lots of people who registered for the sale but didn’t receive the code to participate. Complete bullshit, what they do
Both of the shows ended up full, but what a move to pull. Bands should be pissed about this…..

Why would the band be pissed? They want to sell the Premium tickets for as much as they can. When they aren't selling, then the prices eventually drop. The band is a business and wants to make the most money per show that they can. Look at the Europe shows - they had poor planning and charged too much for the market which led to lower sales. They seem to have a better idea of the demand and what to charge in the US. Sacrifice a few empty seats in the end to sell others at over inflated prices. It is what it is and appears to be the model for most bands.

tylermoore · January 27

Thousands of tickets is definitely an exaggeration…. I’d be surprised if it was more than a few hundred

mcgruff10 · January 27

HailHailVitalogy said:

mcgruff10 said:

RatherStarved said:

Some shows last year they released hundreds or even thousands of tickets closer to.

What shows?

Almost all of them dude. You scored Philly 1 day of on TM drop. I scored Philly 2 day of on TM drop. But msg dropped standards, the ballparks were dropping tickets, the west coast leg was a joke…I got my LV1 ticket 12 rows up from Mike the week before the show on a drop after refreshing for months.

I did get Philly one! What a morning lol

Zen23 · January 28

Sea said:

4. Please respect topic integrity by not derailing discussions from the original poster’s intent (OP). You can begin a new topic of your own in the appropriate forum.
https://community.pearljam.com/discussion/228366/forum-posting-guidelines

Thank you

Thank you very much.

kmcmanus · January 28

10LordsALeaping said:

Haijay said:

Would a lot of you be happier if they released an album, played 100-125 shows, then went away for 4 years? Certainly some of their touring decisions in the last 20 years have been head scratchers, but i like that they are at least playing some shows pretty much every year. Its tough, touring would suck, especially when you’re 50 plus, and you cant blame them for not wanting to do it the “normal” way.

You sort of read my mind. I was going to come back in here and post credit, where credit is due, since it seems they've been picking up the pace with touring. Who knows if that will last? Sometimes, it's just a little, only a little, bothersome that the onus and financial investment is on us to have to travel and see them when they have the infrastructure to do it.
If one isn't traveling and they don't play your city, then ostensibly they have gone away for four years. Unfortunately, that's most cities and markets. Like you said, it's a head scratcher. We have sort of been forced into a travel or no dice situation. Like I had said before, and no doubt you already knew this, they hadn't played Philly in 8 years with Camden for one night being the exception. If someone is attempting to travel getting shut out of multiple tours (me) because demand is high due to there aren't enough shows around the country, then that also hurts our rabid fanbase. Like an idiot, I paid for premium tickets on Philly day of sale, which I will never do again because now we can all see what Ticketmaster is doing.
Double edit: When two premium tickets to two shows eat up what would have been the cost of 5 shows through the 10C. Sure, my fault. But, the rabidness. Booo Ticketmaster. Booo me too. And boo hoo cry me a river. I'll see myself out.

Are you seriously trying to sell Philly as a city that isn’t getting enough shows? Sure it’d be nice to get them everywhere every year but 5 shows in 8 years (4.5 by your math) is pretty damn good when a double digit number of cities have gone a double digit number of years without shows.

dmbolp · January 28

DMB 2025 Tour dates should be up in the next hour or so

Weston1283 · January 28

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Somehow, the new amphitheater in Richmond, VA pulled DMB and there’s rumors of Phish as well

i believe it only seats 7500-8000

Can I someday hope that Pearl Jam plays Richmond for the first time ever?

dmbolp · January 28

Weston1283 said:

Somehow, the new amphitheater in Richmond, VA pulled DMB and there’s rumors of Phish as well

i believe it only seats 7500-8000

Can I someday hope that Pearl Jam plays Richmond for the first time ever?

Coran Capshaw, etc

drakeheuer14 · January 28

Green Day just played South Africa… a PJ excuse to go back again is welcome.

JojoRice · January 28

DMB once again with a proper US Summer tour. PJ should be taking notes!

JimmyV · January 28

My annual jealousy-induced count has 11 shows spread between New England, New York and New Jersey.

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on2legs · January 28

I remember when Pearl Jam would have done the NJ > Brazil > NY tour dates within a week way back when. 😂

JimmyV · January 28

on2legs said:

I remember when Pearl Jam would have done the NJ > Brazil > NY tour dates within a week way back when. 😂

The two week Canada-Europe-Canada run was pretty wild in 2009.

on2legs · January 28

JimmyV said:

on2legs said:

I remember when Pearl Jam would have done the NJ > Brazil > NY tour dates within a week way back when. 😂

The two week Canada-Europe-Canada run was pretty wild in 2009.

Sorry… I wasn’t throwing stones at your post. Just a joke about how much more flexible DMB is tour wise these days. I would faint if PJ had a tour anywhere close to that DMB schedule.

RS65573 · January 28

If Pearl Jam did this id have to take a sabbatical. I'm in IT so I don think that would work.

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