People who bring their kids to PJ shows...

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  • Rockin Rita
    Rockin Rita Posts: 21
    i just dont think it is a place for children to go....Shouldn't a 3 year old be in bed at that time anyway?.....
  • merlin2600
    merlin2600 Posts: 63
    catwoman wrote:
    What about children who bring their parents to shows? That's what happened to me. I got tickets for my kids (who were then 17 & 20), and they insisted that I go with them. I thought I was too old to go to a rock concert, even though I've loved PJ from the start and I was the one who introduced my kids to them. They talked me into, though, and I had a blast. Everyone was so friendly & nice, and I don't even think I was the oldest one there. I'm still getting tickets for my kids, but now it's assumed that I'm going too (plus I'm the one who's the 10C member).

    I always see someone who is at least old enough to be retired at PJ shows. In Buffalo '03 I saw a lady who must've been in her 70's AT LEAST. Pretty hilarious, and it looked like she was having a good time too!
  • voodoopug
    voodoopug Posts: 1,011
    My first concert was The Rolling STones at age 4.....had the time of my life, still remember it fondly.
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,834
    yield2me wrote:
    I've noticed some threads lately about people wanting to take their kids to shows so I felt it might be story time...

    Last tour, at the Pittsburgh show there was this guy who brought his daughter (age 7-8ish) and her three friends (same age) and sat directly in front of us. We were close to the stage, in the stands on Mike's side. Everything is going fine and the girls seem to be excited about the show. About 2 songs into it the guys next to us and a guy who is by himself, next to the dad and 4 girls all spark up joints at the same time. Now the guy next to the dad and girls looked like he'd been eating mushrooms under the overpass for the last two weeks..scary.

    Anyway, the pot smoke is just covering these girls and they're holding their mouths closed and the dad looks worried...long story short they leave after 3 songs.

    I'm all for a younger group of people discovering/enjoying Pearl Jam but if you bring your kids make sure you realize that there will be pot all around you and crazy mushroom eating dudes who sleep under the overpass standing next to you (potentially). At the very least a lot of drunk people.

    I personally think its retarded to take young kids to shows...seen some people with 2-4 year olds at these things. No reason they should be there IMO.

    Seems to me that people can make up their own minds as to whether or not to bring kids. And it seems like the Dad in this case had his limits and decided to leave WITHOUT bothering anyone.

    Now, for the idiots that would spark up next to kids...that's a whole other topic.
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  • Dylan Stone
    Dylan Stone Posts: 1,145
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    I realized what is so weird about this whole conversation...it's...backwards!

    isn't it usually the case that young kid goes to mum and dad "pa-leeeeze let me go to rock show X"

    mum and dad say "nooooo way"

    kid begs and begs

    mum and dad finally say ok but we are going with you

    kid is mortified but goes to the show with the parents.

    No. What's weird about this thread is people's need to tell others how to raise their kid. At this point my kid only watches PBS. But I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid does not eat McDonalds and will hopefully not want to for a very long time...if at all....but I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid WILL NOT attend the Catholic church and be left with freaks with a screwed up value set...but I'll bring him to rock shows.

    My kid will do some things. Other people's kids will do others. If it's not abuse or neglect... which none of the aforementioned are...it's personal opinion.

    If you can't feel cool with kids around...then that is your hang up.
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    GTFLYGIRL wrote:
    No. What's weird about this thread is people's need to tell others how to raise their kid. At this point my kid only watches PBS. But I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid does not eat McDonalds and will hopefully not want to for a very long time...if at all....but I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid WILL NOT attend the Catholic church and be left with freaks with a screwed up value set...but I'll bring him to rock shows.

    My kid will do some things. Other people's kids will do others. If it's not abuse or neglect... which none of the aforementioned are...it's personal opinion.

    If you can't feel cool with kids around...then that is your hang up.

    This really should be the last word on any of these threads :)
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  • wilfmiss
    wilfmiss Posts: 196
    GTFLYGIRL wrote:
    No. What's weird about this thread is people's need to tell others how to raise their kid. At this point my kid only watches PBS. But I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid does not eat McDonalds and will hopefully not want to for a very long time...if at all....but I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid WILL NOT attend the Catholic church and be left with freaks with a screwed up value set...but I'll bring him to rock shows.

    My kid will do some things. Other people's kids will do others. If it's not abuse or neglect... which none of the aforementioned are...it's personal opinion.

    If you can't feel cool with kids around...then that is your hang up.

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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    GTFLYGIRL wrote:
    No. What's weird about this thread is people's need to tell others how to raise their kid. At this point my kid only watches PBS. But I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid does not eat McDonalds and will hopefully not want to for a very long time...if at all....but I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid WILL NOT attend the Catholic church and be left with freaks with a screwed up value set...but I'll bring him to rock shows.

    My kid will do some things. Other people's kids will do others. If it's not abuse or neglect... which none of the aforementioned are...it's personal opinion.

    If you can't feel cool with kids around...then that is your hang up.

    sure, but don't be upset when Ricky lights up a 6 paper joint and passes to his drunkin' buddies Julian and Bubbles.
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    GTFLYGIRL wrote:
    No. What's weird about this thread is people's need to tell others how to raise their kid. At this point my kid only watches PBS. But I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid does not eat McDonalds and will hopefully not want to for a very long time...if at all....but I'll bring him to rock shows. My kid WILL NOT attend the Catholic church and be left with freaks with a screwed up value set...but I'll bring him to rock shows.

    My kid will do some things. Other people's kids will do others. If it's not abuse or neglect... which none of the aforementioned are...it's personal opinion.

    If you can't feel cool with kids around...then that is your hang up.

    what I mean was, back in the day, it was a teenager/20-maybe30s thing to go rock shows. Old people (aka parents) didn't go to them and children didn't either. the controversy arose when kids felt they passed that teenager threshhold and wanted to go and their parents didn't think they should (hell my first PJ show I 16- it was my first "real" rock show and my parents hemmed and hawed whether to allow it for weeks- see for example the episode of Freaks and Greeks where Lindsay wants to see the Who) now it seems like people keep going to shows well into their 40s in larger numbers, so bringing kids becomes an issue that wasn't there before. It's more of cultural change that I'm pointing out here. very interesting. I wonder why older adults go to shows more these days? is it more disposable income? and also why rock shows have become less of a crazy/taboo place where parents and children go for a night out? interesting.
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    inmytree wrote:
    sure, but don't be upset when Ricky lights up a 6 paper joint and passes to his drunkin' buddies Julian and Bubbles.

    This pisses me off though. My child has a legal right to be there, the joint smokers do not. How about that?
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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    meme wrote:
    This pisses me off though. My child has a legal right to be there, the joint smokers do not. How about that?

    how about what...?

    ok, I'll try again...

    don't be upset when a drunken Corey and Trevor slam into you child who has legal rights..
  • SPALMA
    SPALMA Posts: 2,279
    I'm bringing my kid to the Tampa show... He's 24 ! :D

    He and his girlfriend are coming, but not sitting with us ... I get the club tickets (better seats I hope).

    I took my younger son to his first concert when he was 12 - to Pearl Jam. They were lousy seats way up in the back. He was snitty and acted like he didn't know us and when someone offered him a toke he politely refused.

    Kids gotta know about it and learn how to deal with it.

    All these years later, it turns out, he know is proud that we made him go to that concert.
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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    meme wrote:
    This pisses me off though. My child has a legal right to be there, the joint smokers do not. How about that?

    legal or no, who has more a of a cultural right to be there? I'm just sayin'.

    btw, I don't really get why it would be so terrible for a kid to see someone smoking pot. they would probably just assume it's a cigarette, and if they ask, just tell them the truth- it's an illegal drug that these people shouldn't be using in public and that you don't do it and neither should they. they're going to see it in the school yard in a couple years anyway. it's probably a good way for them to be exposed to it really, with you right there.
  • ctvedhead
    ctvedhead Posts: 58
    Do we really need another thread going on this?
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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    ctvedhead wrote:
    Do we really need another thread going on this?

    too late, it already happened.
  • HermanBloom
    HermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    Why does everyone have to be so stupid and smoke pot and do drugs anyways? Is this really who we are as Pearl Jam fans: a bunch of stoned idiots? Seriously, we don't need to be in another realm, the music will take you there on its own. You should want to remember the show. This is not Pink Floyd or the Dead. I thought we were more sophisticated than this.
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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    nathanastin wrote:
    Why does everyone have to be so stupid and smoke pot and do drugs anyways? Is this really who we are as Pearl Jam fans: a bunch of stoned idiots? Seriously, we don't need to be in another realm, the music will take you there on its own. You should want to remember the show. This is not Pink Floyd or the Dead. I thought we were more sophisticated than this.

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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    nathanastin wrote:
    Why does everyone have to be so stupid and smoke pot and do drugs anyways? Is this really who we are as Pearl Jam fans: a bunch of stoned idiots? Seriously, we don't need to be in another realm, the music will take you there on its own. You should want to remember the show. This is not Pink Floyd or the Dead. I thought we were more sophisticated than this.

    hahahaha #1, I don't smoke pot or do any other illegal drugs, however, the words "sophistication" and "rock" don't belong in the same sentence. that's ridiculous! dude, you have totally lost sight of what rock is about. haven't you ever seen School of Rock? Jack Black puts it perfectly: "It's about sticking it to the man." Over the course of rock history there have been countless means by which to "stick it to the man" (and *I* personally don't think smoking pot is cool after age 17) but still, that's the underlying drive. not sophistication!
  • pjtaper
    pjtaper Posts: 3,020
    I like the dude who brings his kids to the shows so they can each get him a poster!
  • voodoopug
    voodoopug Posts: 1,011
    nathanastin wrote:
    Why does everyone have to be so stupid and smoke pot and do drugs anyways? Is this really who we are as Pearl Jam fans: a bunch of stoned idiots? Seriously, we don't need to be in another realm, the music will take you there on its own. You should want to remember the show. This is not Pink Floyd or the Dead. I thought we were more sophisticated than this.

    I do not smoke pot, take drugs, or drink more than the occassional beer/martini and my professional status and success reflect that.

    If people want to be potheads and burnouts, more power to them, and less competition for me in the real world. Typically everyone in our society feels entitled, why shouldn't the pot smokers feel entitled also? My only take on it is if you get caught, turned in, etc....take your punishment with your chin up because you took the risk. Don't cry foul because you got pitched out of the stadium for breaking a rule. It would be "rock and roll" for me to charge the stage and hop up and start dancing, but as cool as that may be....I'd expect to get pitched out of the building.
    There's Pearl Jam, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson......and then everybody else.

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