What is PJ's most poorly attended show/most intimate show?

Gather No Moss

Sounds like a great first show..!!!

SDHSClassof82

Gather No Moss wrote:

Sounds like a great first show..!!!

It was but I really wish I could have been at the 10/20/91 show that you were. What was that like? Where?

bernmodi

What about the show at the "Albany" in Winterthur/Switzerland in February 1992? I could kick my ass that I was not there ... The Albany is a small club, for an audience of maybe 400 -500 people. All I've heard about the show is that the band didn't get their equipment on the tiny stage and they had to do something like an unplugged show. Anybody here who attended?

||Release_Me||

If i'm not mistaken, i think Nijmegen '07 was fairly intimate

Hatfield

The Birmingham show in 2003 at Oak Mountain (one of the coolest venues in the south) was poorly attended. It probably holds 12,000 and I imagine there were only about 6,000 there. It was around 38 degrees at show time. We had a great time though.

ponner1us

Borgata was pretty intimate(but still rockin'!)

Julien

how many people were at the VIC last year ?

mateo45

so, easy street, 200 people. pearl jam was 2.5% of the people in attendance. that would've been real sweet to be at. that wins for smallest show yeah?

my2hands

Easy Street 2005 (wasnt there, but i have been to the record shop, couldnt have fit more then 150-200 in there)

The Vic was pretty damn small (guessing 1500 tops)

The Borgata was pretty damn small (guessing 1500 tops)(eds preset there were maybe 300)

VFC Reading 2004 was a small venue, maybe 5,000

VFC Ashville 2004 was even smaller... size of a large high school gym... i think that was maybe 4000

tybird

Hatfield wrote:

The Birmingham show in 2003 at Oak Mountain (one of the coolest venues in the south) was poorly attended. It probably holds 12,000 and I imagine there were only about 6,000 there. It was around 38 degrees at show time. We had a great time though.

....and the wind was blowing the whole time. It might be on record as the second coldest PJ show. They sold a bunch of hoodies that night.

lowlight10

06/16/00 - Spodek: Katowice, Poland [145m]
attendance: 3,000 (capacity 8,000)
support act: Dismemberment Plan

set: Release, Of The Girl, Sleight of Hand, Thin Air, Insignificance, Grievance, Corduroy, Animal, Hail Hail, State of Love and Trust, Evacuation, Daughter/(ABitW)/(On a Rope), Jeremy, I Got Shit, Light Years, Leatherman, In Hiding, Off He Goes, Dissident, MFC, Habit, Alive
enc: Smile, Immortality, Black, Leaving Here, Soldier of Love, Last Exit, Soon Forget, Yellow Ledbetter

notes: [This date was originally scheduled for the Petiofi Csarnock in Budapest, Hungary.]
Those who showed a ticket stub from the previous night's show could buy a ticket to the second show at half price! The whole band is in a great mood, smiling throughout the show. A special atmosphere is created from the very beginning of the show, making it feel like they are playing right in your living room. Ed fucks up the lyrics and starts directly with "Oh dear dad, can you see me now...", making 'Release' a very short song but still very intense. 'Of The Girl' and then two more slow songs follow, introduced with, "We'll try and take it easy tonight. Let's get through the pretty ones first..." After each song the band gathers in the middle of the stage and discusses what they will play next. Eddie keeps the other band members from changing their instruments a few times. Mike seems to be very tired and introverted during the first few songs, but still interacts very much with the crowd in front of him. Ed catches a bouquet with a note. He reads it and says, "Oh, they're from a guy" -- 'I'll meet you the show.'" He rips the petals off the flowers during 'Sleight of Hand' while the stage is bathed in blue light. The crowd is hypnotized witnessing something special happening on stage as it seemed like they would go on with slow songs forever but then they changed hitting with five unbelievable rocking tracks in a row !!! Ed dons a gas mask during 'Daughter' (hey, it was only a matter of time). 'Daughter' is breathtaking with Mike playing some short riffs from 'Another Brick in the Wall' throughout the whole song. When Ed starts singing the verse, everyone joins in with Ed encouraging them by pointing at his ear several times. He sings, "The shades go down..." through a gas mask that was thrown on stage by a fan. 'On a Rope' is a Rocket From The Crypt song. Ed omits out the first chorus of 'Jeremy' like the "new" version played on previous tours. He introduces 'Light Years' with, "This song is about ... well, you know what it is about. It means a lot to me and I hope that it means a lot to you as well." After the song he adds, "The next song is also about a dead guy," and then they start 'Leatherman.' Before 'Off He Goes' Ed says, "That's a little song about friendship. About a friend that is an asshole". Then he points his finger at himself saying quietly that he is an asshole. The audience responds: "Noooooo!". Ed catches a t-shirt during 'Alive' and blindfolds his eyes with it throughout half the song. Mike catches a rose and attaches it to his guitar. The audience yells "Smile, smile" between the songs, and they play it as the encore opener. 'Black' and 'Immortality' are just magical, first with Ed burning the cork of his wine bottle and painting his face and arms with it and then the whole band lining up in front of Matt during the end of 'Immortality,' letting everyone see what a great time they are having and how much they still enjoy playing music together. After 'Soldier of Love,' the audience does the "cha-cha-cha" thing from the single and it makes Ed laugh. Ed manages to convince every fan to be silent during 'Soon Forget,' although they start quietly singing along with Ed. Mike tags some of Van Halen's 'Dance the Night Away' onto 'YL.' Ed takes the usual polaroids of the first row and takes one picture of himself which he throws off the stage right in the hand of some lucky fan. The setlist was modified as they played this amazing show.

rhinomagic

Gather No Moss wrote:

they were billed as "The Barking Seals"...

I think it was The Honking Seals. But you are right about the club show @ the Catalyst.

Cool thread.

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Elderly Man

how many people were at the letterman show?

and only 750 tickets were available for irving plaza, 450 for whoever waited on the tower records line and 150 pairs for the ten club

Indifference

my2hands wrote:

Easy Street 2005 (wasnt there, but i have been to the record shop, couldnt have fit more then 150-200 in there)

The Vic was pretty damn small (guessing 1500 tops)

The Borgata was pretty damn small (guessing 1500 tops)(eds preset there were maybe 300)

VFC Reading 2004 was a small venue, maybe 5,000

VFC Ashville 2004 was even smaller... size of a large high school gym... i think that was maybe 4000

From the shows I went to and re-call looking up the info:

VIC :1200-1300
Reading: 8,500-9,000
Borgata: 3500-3700

Also many of the euro shows in 92 where 300-500 people.

Gather No Moss

SDHSClassof82 wrote:

It was but I really wish I could have been at the 10/20/91 show that you were. What was that like? Where?

That fall tour I saw in 1991 was Pearl Jam opening, then Smashing Pumpkins, and Red Hot Chili Peppers played last... It was at some ballroom in Omaha, NE.. Couldn't have been more than 2,000 people there... Luckily I wasn't that drunk yet for Pearl Jam's set and remember it pretty well... EV staged dived right on top of me and my friends...lol.. It was an awesome show all around..

stickfig13

What about the show they played in a park in seattle. There is a bootleg video floating around. There was a guy with a ponytail sticking out of his ball cap....

Mural....I think?

Solat13

07/12/91 - JC Dobbs: Philadelphia, PA [45m]
support act: Carnival of Souls and Mellow Vibe
set: Wash, Once, Even Flow, State of Love and Trust, Alive, Oceans, Jeremy, Why Go, Porch, Alone, Breath
notes: Ed thanks the opening bands and makes a reference to Mother Love Bone playing there in the past. 'State of Love and Trust' and 'Oceans' are played live for the first (documented) time.

Whenever they play in Philly, Ed always jokes about playing at this bar and saying there were around maybe 50 people there to watch them that night.

xavier mcdaniel

what about the show the following night at the wetlands in new york. that's got to be up there also in terms of sparse crowds.

Gather No Moss

rhinomagic wrote:

I think it was The Honking Seals. But you are right about the club show @ the Catalyst.

Cool thread.

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Thanks, I changed that... I must have been drunk last night when I posted it..lol

NewJPage

rhinomagic wrote:

I think it was The Honking Seals. But you are right about the club show @ the Catalyst.

Cool thread.

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what is the show where they were billed as the "piss bottle men?" i'm sure that was somewhere small too...