Has anyone in PJ ever gotten emotional during a song/performace?

DonJon

When I finished my uni degree (after doing 4 subjects AND working fulltime in my last semester) I put on LATG. In My Tree came on and I cried my eyes out for about 3 minutes.

Best stress relief of my life. Even a BJ from Jennifer Hawkins couldnt have helped me that much at that point in time

Tom K

Light Years... Montreal 05... I got a little emotional, must have been all that good Canadian beer

CitizenRick

Shit...I'm getting misty eyed just reading some of these posts. I always become overwhlemed at some point during the shows...it all just hits me at once.

Hands down...the most powerfull band on the planet.

MichaelMcKevin

DonJon wrote:

When I finished my uni degree (after doing 4 subjects AND working fulltime in my last semester) I put on LATG. In My Tree came on and I cried my eyes out for about 3 minutes.

Best stress relief of my life. Even a BJ from Jennifer Hawkins couldnt have helped me that much at that point in time

In My Tree has gotten me while driving. Pretty sure Black and Thumbing My Way have too, but none of these occurred at a concert.

Porchsitter

I usually get the chills when they first take the stage, but the one song that had me tearing up was when I heard the piano intro to Chloe Dancer in Atlanta 03. I've always loved that song and I never thought I would ever hear CoT live, but it was a pleasant surprise that evening.

genevieve

the wolf wrote:

i think i get a little choked up at the start of every show. just because the music means so much to me, and i know it the start to what will be a beautiful evening.

ya know? that feeling you get when the lights go down, and you hear the first notes. ahhhhh. bliss.

You said it.

the wolf

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

i didnt know if i should cry at cincy....

or laugh my fucking ass off...........

i still dont get why you think this show was so bad, i think it was a good show.

ONCE DEVIDED

pearljamfan99 wrote:

When Ed talked about Long Road in San Diego was pretty emotional for everyone there.

I first heard long road 3 days b4 my mother died from lung cancer, My younger brother played it for me on our way to pick up my oldest brother from the airport so he could be with her on her death bed.
That was in late december, 4-5 months later Pearl Jam toured ( yeild tour) I went to Sydney 1 and they opened with Long road, I just sat there and wept and wept my mates around me with their hands on my shoulders.
when I heard that Sandiego boot I lost it so hard.
I ring the bell for my mum very often- sometimes I cry somtimes I feel great joy in the words Even though the sun has set - the sun will rise again -
I think of my daughter
PJ has always been an anchor in a very rough sea for me

Foxy Mop

Man of the Hour.. gets me every time. Reminds me of my dad...

T C H

All i have to say is best thread in ages! Good stuff

bernmodi

Eddie's speech before Come Back in Berlin 2006 was so emotional. Besides, I've found out that the thrill is even bigger a couple of days after a show, when you realize how really overwhelming it all was.

knitted

i've not cried at a gig coz it's too exciting. but i cried the first time i listened to riot act, it was very odd, in retrospect i think it's just a very emotional album (which is saying something for pj).

the thread title says 'has anyone in pj ever gotten emotional during a song/ performance', i remember reading that ed had trouble with black a lot in the u.s. tour after roskilde, and the thread in the live section about last years copenhagen gig says that most of the band were in tears at some point during that gig.

Sian-of-the-dead

just dave wrote:

I have read about people getting emotional when certain songs are played. Like the beatles when they came, girls screamed for them and you see the odd one crying and such. Does this or has this ever happened with PJ fans?

Has anyone started to cry because they played your favourite tune? or something that was really deep?

And with that emotion from people, has any member of the band gotten emotional from playing a song.

I'm just wondering about this, cause i've read from various places about people and songs meaning so much to them. Plus you hear that PJ has saved people's lives like certain songs and such. Music saved Ed's life, so wonder if he has ever felt this way.

Of course!

When I saw PJ for the first time at Reading in 2006 I cried uncontrollably like a bitch for Better Man. It's always been my favourite PJ song anyway so that made me emotional enough but I was also in the middle of a long term relationship breakdown, it was deeply personal for me to see that live and being able to sing it at the top of my lungs with tears rolling down my face was intense.

I then saw them at Wembley in 2007. Again, I cried, but this time it was to Long Road and Present Tense. I so very nearly shed a tear of pride for Given to Fly but didn't wanna make a complete fool of myself. :rolleyes:

In so far as Pearl Jam's music saving people's lives, I can relate to this to a certain level.
As I said, I went through a difficult time in 2006 and to be quite honest, it was Nothingman that ended my car wreck of a 6 year relationship. I remember listening to it riding to work one day and just getting so completely choked I had to stop. Every single word related to the situation I was living in, I didn't love him and he didn't love me... it was all just routine and "I love you" had lost all meaning - hence why Better Man made me emotional.
I ended the relationship once and for all and started to rebuild what was left... That's when Given to Fly came into my life. I was riding one day (mountain biker) and was coming over a field near my house. The sky was simply stunning - the sun was setting and the clouds were gold and pink, i'd never felt so free in my whole adult life and suddenly I knew who I was, liked who I was and I realised there was hope.
Since then, other PJ songs have taken on different roles in my life. I've met someone I adore and who never ceases to amaze me. Parachutes represents this perfectly. Alive just makes me grin from ear to ear due to a fantastically memorable Tenclub night out in Birmingham and seeing them at Wembley with Urbanhippie for her first PJ gig... It reminds me of great friends I've gained thanks to Pearl Jam.

elvistheking44

At Wembley in 07, my first show since 98 I fucking cried my eyes out during Present Tense. In college, I lost a friend of mine to a drug overdose and it was my fault, it was right in front of me and I never put a price on his life only on the money I was making from him and others. The words in Present Tense have always gotten to me about him, and when I first heard the opening chords I just broke down....I am a 33 year old man with a wife and two kids and I can honestly say it may have been the hardest I have cried in all my life......

pineapplesandwaves

I was so surprised and excited and overwhelmed with emotion when I heard the first few notes of Low Light in Toronto '06, I felt like I was going to explode into uncontrollable tears. Thankfully, I did not.

I was misty-eyed when they opened with Release (Toronto '03).


My level of excitement at a Pearl Jam concert is usually about a 20 on a scale of 1 to 10, so I'm usually too excited to get emotional, despite being an emotional person.

tiklemynausea

Ed had to sit down(dont know about crying)During black at jones beach in n.y..He was pretty emotional.....And i never saw a pearl jam fan cry before?Maybe i wasnt at the right spot

walkunafraid

When PJ opened the 2006 show at the Forum in Los Angeles with "Release" I was shocked that I was almost brought to tears. I'm not a crier at all, so it was a very odd, but pleasant, experience.

The goosebumps hit me a few other times that evening, too -- during Elderly Woman (primarly due to the crowd singalong), during Inside Job, and during Mike's Star-Spangled Banner tag after YL.

Ditto goosebumps (not tears, mind you) when I heard Masters of War for the first time at Bridge School '03. Also, when Oceans started off the Santa Barbara '06 show (must be something to do with show openers, now that I think about it...).




On the boot for the Boston (Mansfield) '98 show Eddie clearly chokes up during Given to Fly and then, even more so, during Dissident. He even asks the crowd for a moment to let him compose himself after Dissident. Later in the show he mentions how a close friend of the band's had just passed away and how it came as sort of a shock.

mhterrapin

There have been so many moving songs and shows, but I cried during In Hiding at the Vic in Chicago. What a crowd.

Danimal

And it's no nay never.....no nay never no more!

Sorry never did. Pearl Jam shows were always a way for me to get aggression out.

Steve Dunne

Danimal wrote:

And it's no nay never.....no nay never no more!

(thump thump thump thump!)

When Stone took over the mic on 7/11/03 I laughed myself to tears.