Local H might have a great Idea Pearl Jam!!

Nixon in Detroit

I just got a email from Local H saying that they were going to play 7 nights at the same venue. Here's where it gets a little crazy. Each night they are going to play a different studio album in its entirety with one night set a side for b-sides and rarities. Can you imagine if Pealr Jam were to do this? I think it would be unreal! I was thinking if they broke the US up into like 6-8 sections it would be pretty amazing. Then they could take it over seas they shouldn't be left out on something like this. We could see the entire catalog that would be UNREAL!!!!!!!! Any way I just wanted to see what everyone else thought.

pjtaper

local H made more than one album?

hey nixon! miss ya buddy...

Nixon in Detroit

pjtaper wrote:

local H made more than one album?

hey nixon! miss ya buddy...

Starting May 7th, Local H will begin a 7-night stand at Chicago's Beat
Kitchen, culminating on May 13th with the release and performance of
their latest studio album, 12 Angry Months (Shout!Factory). Local H
will perform a different studio album, in it's entirety, on each
night with one night dedicated to B-sides and rarities. Each night
will have surprise guests and a different opening act.

Fans may purchase a week-long pass via Musictoday, beginning March
3rd. Week-long pass holders will also receive a commemorative ticket,
discounted price, and a one of a kind T-shirt. These passes will be
available through a pre-sale only. Individual show tickets will be
onsale via Ticketweb.com, starting Saturday, March 8th. Show times
TBA.

Musictoday pre-sale ticket link:

http://flowerbookingpresale.tickets.musictoday.com/moreInfo.aspx?event=109635&outlet=1781

CHICAGO RESIDENCY:

May 7 -- Ham Fisted
May 8 -- As Good As Dead
May 9 -- Pack Up The Cats
May 10 -- Here Comes The Zoo
May 11 -- Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles?
May 12 -- B-sides and Rarities
May 13 -- 12 Angry Months

potnik

Interesting idea, but I don't know if I would like it. If you only play an album a night that is what an hour for each show? That is until they hit the B sides and that would take forever, they could break that up into 2+ nights.

I prefer the not knowing what is going to be played. That way I am surprised.

michaeljamesmccabe

Thais is an interesting and cool idea for Local H. I don't think Pearl Jam should do this kind of thing, but it's a good concept. I think they should more 3 to 4 night stands in general. MAybe pick 5 or 6 venues across the country and just play those for 3 or 4 nights a piece.

As long as Alpine Valley is one of the venues, I'll be happy!

vonnegutnaked2

I don't know about the idea of playing a different album each night, but I love the idea of a week-long run at one venue.

A couple years back, not last summer during Lolla, Eddie was at Wrigley Field to sing the 7th inning stretch. I remember him saying at the time that an appealing idea would be for the band to play "homestands".

In other words, they'd hole up in Seattle, play a bunch of shows and have people come to them rather than touring. I still think it'd be an interesting thing. I know many of us drive multiple hours to see them anyway (and I envy those of you who can do it more than a couple times a tour). But how great would it be just to head out a city and know they were going to be playing a few different shows during one week? You'd have enough time to explore a city and still catch multiple shows.

OmahaJammer

Wow...they didn't steal this idea from Wilco at all.....

Cosmo

OmahaJammer wrote:

Wow...they didn't steal this idea from Wilco at all.....

...
Or Cheap Trick who did the same thing is 1998.
Only difference... since everything after their first 3 albums was crap, they did the first 3 albums in their entirety according to the tracklists on 3 consecutive nights at the House Of Blues.
Then, they played crap from 'Dream Police' and that horrid something fire song.

schmoff

i like that on halloween local h play an entire concert as a different band, act like them, talk like them, everything, its pretty cool

phish used to do it to but not the extent that local h does

Nixon in Detroit

OK what about 2 albums per night?

Evolution6579

I think it would be cool if they did homestands, too. Maybe for their last tour (which wont happen for a while). This is my idea for the states:

They could pick out, say, 8 different cities evenly dispersed across America. They could take a census to determine a certain radius around these stadiums for which members residing in these areas could buy tickets so that EVERYONE could get a chance to see them close to home. No Seattle residents traveling to New York or anything like that. These would have to be fairly good sized venues. They could have a rotating ticket selection for each venue so everyone would get a chance to see one night from good seats. They could play an album each night to open the show and then have a normal setlist afterwards. Then "Lost Dogs" could be a full show itself. They could do all the tracks, i.e. Bugs, Aye Davanita, Push Me Pull Me. And, of course, release bootlegs of each show.

I think it would be a cool idea. Does this make sense to anyone else?

EDIT: I think it would be cool to have a live performance of each full CD!

aspoonfulweighsaton

OmahaJammer wrote:

Wow...they didn't steal this idea from Wilco at all.....

Well, not that I'm excited about trying to defend Local H here, but this is considerably different than what Wilco did. Wilco repeated many songs over the five nights and made no attempt to play any songs in order or any particular album each night.

And they didn't play all the b-sides :mad:


But yeah, Cosmo's right about Cheap Trick doing it and Lucinda Williams actually did this last year as well.

pr4mojo1

A few years ago Local H played "Pack Up The Cats" in it's entirety, unannounced, at a show and all their fans went apeshi* for it. I'm sure this idea has been brewing for a long time based on that.

4Powers20

I saw Primus play Sailing the Seas of Cheese at Roseland, and Frizzle Fry at Radio City. They ruled, especially Sailing... Les rules.

tkepearljamn

Alright! oh yah!

I am a huge local h fan. Scott is a cool dude. He snuck me into my first bar when I was 18. ALong with my 18 pearl jam ames posters I have a local H poster from the rocekt bar show in st. louis. It was the cd release ( invite only ) party for the EP like 6 years ago.

SBC03

mansfield experiment?

UKpearljammer

Biffy Clyro also did this a few years back in Glasgow, wish I'd gone now. Hard to see Pearl Jam doing this and touring it around the world. They'd have to pick a few choice cities I'd think or do it in Seattle. Also playing all their albums and B-sides/rarities, how many shows would that be? What about covers? Sonic Youth recently played Daydream Nation in it's entirety here in Sydney under the All Tomorrows Parties banner I think, a few other bands also played some of their entire classic albums. I think PJ would have to take this approach and they've kinda done it with the Italy 2006 show playing the entire new album, also back in the Ten days they did it too, so it's not an entirely new idea.