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

Blind3

The first few times I heard "Last Kiss" . Maybe I should just get over it as its been 20+ years, but the pain of losing my fiance to a drunk driver in 1983 coupled with a very poignant ,beautiful song about loss , on a highway, had me in tears. I guess you could say I reject the idea that you get used the pain. My Last Kiss was on the lips of a beautiful young woman on life support on the day her family consented to removing her from that support. That adds to the sadnes. Now I politely sit down when I hear it in concert and never clap. The song leaves me cold.

The other song is that fills me with emotion is "Down". I am a recovering alcoholic. I was so far down that I once stood on the wrong side of the bridge rail of the Platt Bridge, Philly, before it got lights . I guess my fear of heights overcame a fear of dying. Sorry if this invokes humor as it wasn't meant to. The idea of throwing the booze or pills or any substance or deons, thanks to Employee Assistance at work, away leaves me with the same kind of deep emotion, ,including tears, as described in this thread . For me,tears of relief and revelry.

Thank you very much for this thread. It's therapy. My doc says it's better to speak of ones emotions.

writersu

SENROCK! wrote:

i remember in kissimmee florida during black, ed was really emotional and it appeared he was crying and then he started slow dancing with susan sarandon. it was really really nice.

why? did she step on his feet?

writersu

||Release_Me|| wrote:

Ok, i'm going to actually answer the question that was originally posed, not like everyone else in this thread

i saw Ed with tears in his eyes at the end of Black in Milano 2006, he was pretty overwhelmed by the crowd singing and clapping at the end of the song.

Ed also cried at the end of Baba O'Riley in Dusseldorf 2007. It was an amazing crowd that went nuts all night and after Baba he just stood there looking around at everyone in shock as if he was blown away by us all.

Everyone in the band was pretty emotional when Ed gave that moving speech before Betterman in Copenhagen last year. I imagine that was a pretty tough gig for them.

During Rockin' in the Free World in Nijmegen last year, Ed was dancing and then he just said "you guys must be exhausted!" because everyone was still jumping up and down and going nuts because we didn't want the night to end!

I don't know why, but as soon as the band left the stage in Nijmegen, i just started crying. Everyone was pouring out of the park and i was stood by the rail crying. It was the weirdest feeling, i couldn't control it at all.

I have never been close enough to see the band cry..........

pjalive21

sgossard3 wrote:

i teared up a bit at the vic... just really happy... and i felt really fortunate to be there... such an incredible experience... i was very grateful to have the opportunity and to be so close[/quote

AMEN to this!

when they played Hard to Imagine...the eyes swelled up..plus it was my fiancees first show and sharing the experience with her was special

SENROCK

||Release_Me|| wrote:

Ok, i'm going to actually answer the question that was originally posed, not like everyone else in this thread

hey! i DID answer the question!!!! :eek:

knitted

SENROCK! wrote:

hey! i DID answer the question!!!! :eek:

yeah, me too!

||Release_Me||

SENROCK! wrote:

hey! i DID answer the question!!!! :eek:

hehe, my bad! apologies, i meant that most people didn't answer the question!

SENROCK

||Release_Me|| wrote:

hehe, my bad! apologies, i meant that most people didn't answer the question!

ALRIGHT URE FORGIVEN!

goldenegg

I have a hard time listening to Black during a live performance without getting emotional. That song hits way too close to home for me.

Big Man

There There.

We are Men. Men dont fuckin talk emotions. Come on guys, wtf? Keep that talk between you and your mother. jeez.

Pittsburg Black is fuckn emotional. forgot the year. its called the" OMG Eddie is really crying on this -Black" this transcends music, this is emotion pure, like the other night, when I got my daily Big Brother dosis, that one girl was crying like i have never seen before. Man, that was so great to watch. Made me feel like a human.

random.

nadja_vedder

I always get emotional seeing them live, specially when they play crazy mary and black!

Given2Fly...SD

yeah i've done it, but

I heard Neil Young got choked up at Bridge School after pearl did Black.

nowayimfaithfull

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.

Well the thing with me is differant pj tunes mean differatn things to me, it isnt always about eds lyrics, It has a lot to do with time and place and memories.
So when I hear certain songs I GET EMOTIONAL AND TEARY EYED, USUALLY THINKING ABOUT MY DAUGHTERS.

Kraven

Light Years gets me, just the studio version. I haven't seen it live, but I know if I do get the chance to hear it, I will probably cry, or weep. It just makes me think everyone you have lost and everyone you will lose, and it reminds you that time is precious, and don't waste your time doing trivial things, spend your time with the ones you love because you just never know.

I remember being ecstatic when they dropped the leash in Boston in '06, but that was joy, the same with the first time I heard Yellow Ledbetter in Hartford '06.

PineappleAna

All the time

any given lyric or song, usually listening to better man at msg '3 it brings me right back to that huge room with all those voices and seeing ed back away from the mic while we all took over

and the when I finally heard smile live

and when I hear wishlist live "50 million hands upraised and open toward the sky" and when mike goes into the solo and the spot light hits the mirror ball

and on any given day when I hear a song that hits me just right

this band is my religion I equate how it makes me feel to the gospel choirs in the deep south

Jeremys Spoken

My 1st two shows are coming up at MSG... I know for a FACT Im going to get emotional once those lights dim and they are ready to come on!

Indifference, and man of the hour get me..

guacamolejoe

I don't know if anyone from PJ was seen being emotional, never that close, but I can tell you that I have.
At the very start Release was in my top 3, always having a place in my heart because of the special relationship I had with my father who passed away in 1989. But it was not until 6/17/01 FATHER'S DAY where the song took over a whole new meaning. I was working then as a fireman in NYC when we got a call about a fire at a hardware store. It wasn't long before things took a turn for the worst. As I was clearing out the window so the smoke could escape from the basement, as the 2 fireman next to me were doing, I heard one of the fireman next to me say "its blowing". Just assuming the spray paint cans were blowing up, I turned my face away from the building, that split second as I was turning saved my life (thank you Harry, RIP along with John & Billy). The explosion blew out the whole 3 story wall which collapsed on top of me and the 2 fireman next to me. It also trapped another fireman in the basement who couldn't be reached in time. It was 2 weeks when I awoke from the coma, it was another couple of weeks before they let me know about the brothers (fellow fireman) that where killed in that explosion. The 3 fireman that were killed that day known as the FATHER'S DAY FIRE left behind 8 children and their loving wives. Being single at the time I lived with survivor's guilt, why on Father's Day did I survive yet the 3 brave men who died that day had 8 children who no longer had their fathers?
I was in the ICU unit for over 8 weeks before being transfered to a rehab hospital. It was during that time while still in the hospital that I witnessed the horrific events of 9/11. I could never describe the feelings and emotions that went through my mind that day while I was on morphine for pain for over 3 months. There I was in a hospital bed unable to help myself let alone do anything to help my fellow firefighters or the people of this great city.
After being released from the rehab hospital in late sept., I was finally home, still unable to walk on my own or even get out of the bed by myself. I had different friends staying over my house taking care of me. Four days a week I was picked up by the Fire Dept. and taken to my physical therapy rehab. Every day and I mean every day for over 3 years, before the intense rehab I would put on ten and play release, hit the repeat button and scream out "release" until I was picked up, hearing the song at least 3-5x. Screaming "I'll hold the pain release me" did release some of the physical and emotional pain I had to deal with each and every day for over 3 yrs. I would feel the level of pain slowly leave my body before I left for rehab. The only relief I would feel for years. It took several years of therapy just to get my body back to 25% of the things I was able to do. I'll never be able to work again because of the physical and emotional things I have gone through but there are plenty of things I can do and being able to go to a PJ show a couple of times a year is something I wasn't going to miss ever again.
It took me 13 shows including traveling to europe to finally get to hear them open with release on that magical night in Nijmegen last year. When they opened with the first few notes I broke down instantly. I could feel the souls & weight of my fallen brothers (3 on FATHERS DAY, 343 on 9/11, RIP) who I leaned on and asked for the strength to get me through the pain every day being "RELEASED". I cried every day for 6yrs for those lost souls I was never able to help, at times carrying their weight, although most of the time they were carrying me through the tough times. Since then I don't break down as much, some of the cries are actually good cries just like the one I had when I finally heard PJ open with "RELEASE".

VOLITION

Jones Beach II : Daughter/it's ok
I didn't cry but man it was hard not to feel something that night.

South of Seattle

Crown of Thorns, Vegas 2000.

That whole night was crazy. Was living in Utah, called friends in Portland and said they should meet me in Vegas to see PJ. A couple of friends and myself drove down from SLC. I get to Vegas and like 20 of my friends from home showed up in Vegas. The whole weekend was a blast. FF to the MGM before the show, walking in I find out it was the 10th anny show. Was kinda out of loop at the time and didn't realize it. Once Ed started telling the story I was telling one of my Best friends that they're gonna play Crown, and they did. My friend who was the biggest PJ fan out of all of us started to tear up, I held it back, barely. It was good to experience, little did I know that my friend had a tumor and would only make it 4 more years. RIP Colin!

So yeah that was kinda emotional

patrickredeyes

Inside Job- Vegas 2006

Just alot going on up to that show. When they opened up with it I just lost it.