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

bonowall

Wow - there are some great posts here. Some really powerful stories that show how powerful and influential the band's music is on all of us.

I know I'm supposed to "represent" the manly approach but i will confess proudly - i well up with excitement at almost every single show just because the experience brings me such intense joy and excitement.

Key tunes that do it:

MOTH / Release - Thinking of dad and my past gets me every time
Gone - my life retold
Present Tense - energy to keep me looking forward and never backwards

Oh shit, all of them have meaning to me....

nfanel

bonowall wrote:

Wow - there are some great posts here. Some really powerful stories that show how powerful and influential the band's music is on all of us.

hey! :eek: it's you! we were missing you at the southern cali pre-parties! good to see you, buddy!

for thread integrity... light years hit me pretty hard at montreal in '05. it was my first pj show in over a year and my first time seeing them after my dad died and light years was kind of my song for that time... so i felt like ed was speaking to me even though it was really because of the anniversary of johnny ramone's death. very touching moment for me.

JordyWordy

Blind3 & guacamolejoe's posts are getting me teary-eyed as im reading!
what a brilliant thread.


for me it was Dublin 06...most of us cried when Paddy Casey came out..

In truth though id gone thru a real bad break up few weeks b4 show and dealt with it by being angry about it for a long time...it was my first PJ show and they opened with Inside Job...i had shivers in every inch of me....the encore pairing of Indifference & Black was the killer for me though....seriously choked up!!
the Black tag was untouchable. really got to me. felt so much better after the show than i had in a LONG TIME. (continued that high by going to see Radiohead & Beck the next day )


was in better mental state by the time of last years shows:
Copenhagen set was littered with tearjerkers considering the occasion (Long Road, LBC, Light Years, Love Reign, Black, Hard To Imagine, Alive).... the band were crying during eds speech, the families of some of the fans lost at roskilde were in the balconies, and i spoke with people outside during soundcheck and throughout the day with people in the crowd who were at that show and/or knew someone who'd died...very VERY emotional experience...ive never experienced a concert like it and doubt i ever will again

Dusseldorf was a party (but with another powerful version of black)
Copenhagen was a spiritual experience...
what an incredible band.

pools of maroon

When my wife went into labour back in 2003 all the usual happened, I was sent home from the hospital because they said it was gonna take a while and i should get some sleep. I slept a few hours then i was awoken by the phone , it was the midwife who told me to get back as soon as possible and that things were moving fast. I jumped into my car and took off and the stereo came on I had been listening to "yeild" earlyier that day and "lowlight" just kicked in. It all seemed like a dream -the lyrics, my excitment and fear at meeting my 1st baby, my exhaustion ... I'll never forget the feeling. Last year after standing from 10.am outside wembley arena at my 1st PJ gig outside Ireland, the first time i'd been away without my family -when they played "lowlight" i was brought right back to that night in 2003 and i admit i shed a tear. I was so happy and excited to be at the gig but even more happy that i was going back home to my wife and babies! great thread!!

olderman

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.

at LA2 2006 when they played MOTH

my father had passed away in sept 2005 and the moment hit me

'goodbye for now...'

sweet release

macgyver06

i cried when pearl jam played my favorite tune... with arms wide open.

Flannel Shirt

Given to Fly...just about every time I hear it. Greatest song ever written, now and forever. I cannot explain why, and its not necessarily the lyrics, its the "soul" of the song that does it to me.

haffajappa

olderman wrote:

at LA2 2006 when they played MOTH

my father had passed away in sept 2005 and the moment hit me

'goodbye for now...'

sweet release

exactly the same for me.
my grandfather passed away in may of 2005... i've been waiting to hear MOTH since i got hooked on the song shortly after his death.

the line 'a snowflake falls in may' always meant a LOT to me.

when the chords started playing at vancouver night 1 i could feel myself tear up!!!

OneLove

I found the whole Ed solo in CA experience pretty emotional. Not in a sobbing kind of way, but in a "thank god, what a gift" sort of uplifting way.

To summarize, lost a BF of 7 years in a bad break up last winter, then my Dad was diagnosed with cancer (again), helped him through chemo, had my car totaled by an uninsured person (still carless), living with my folks at age 29 helping take care of my Dad (who continues to have one health problem after another).....

and then deciding to up and take off cross country (completely unlike me) for an EV show because it is personally meaningful to me. Then, getting to sit back and listen to ED belt out "rise" "far behind" etc etc (the list goes on), yup, I would say that is worthy of some emotional response. It was a gift... and the time away helped me figure more than a few things out.
Thanks, Ed.

Hinny

Copenhagen 07 was a cryfest for the band, pretty much. And lots of us in the crowd too. During the soundcheck, even.

I Believe In Miracles at Buenos Aires 05 had a bit of crying. VA Beach 00 is a no brainer- Long Road and It's Ok especially.

Daughter at Roskilde is surely the most emotionally distressing moment ever. But you know that already.

superdeluxe

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.

I think it was pretty emotional, when they played that song of the guy that died in Roskilde, and his sister was in the audience, and they dedicated it to him.

azwyldcats

Eddie got visibly emotional after No More in Berkeley, night two.

OneLove

OneLove wrote:

I found the whole Ed solo in CA experience pretty emotional. Not in a sobbing kind of way, but in a "thank god, what a gift" sort of uplifting way.

To summarize, lost a BF of 7 years in a bad break up last winter, then my Dad was diagnosed with cancer (again), helped him through chemo, had my car totaled by an uninsured person (still carless), living with my folks at age 29 helping take care of my Dad (who continues to have one health problem after another).....

and then deciding to up and take off cross country (completely unlike me) for an EV show because it is personally meaningful to me. Then, getting to sit back and listen to ED belt out "rise" "far behind" etc etc (the list goes on), yup, I would say that is worthy of some emotional response. It was a gift... and the time away helped me figure more than a few things out.
Thanks, Ed.

OK, so I misread the title of the thread. My bad. I believe Ed may have gotten a bit chocked up when the crowd give his mom a lengthy standing ovation during SD II. Then possibly again when he finshed singing bob dylans "forever young" to her.

12345AGNST1

cleveland 06-Black. I have never heard Eddie sing black that emotionaly that recently. the whole version is filled with emotion, you can just tell.