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Loverly Tour throw backs and found memories

FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
edited May 2009 in The Porch
..In honor of the most wonderful time of any given year...

Listening to the columbia 08 boot and during "off he goes" you hear the crowd super loud out of nowhere during the "The SURROUNDING BULLSHIT THAT HAS GROWN" part.. ah... i miss all you mo fos :( :):mrgreen:

share your own throw backs and fond memories pwease.. we need some postive vibes in this bish
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  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    edited April 2009
    Berlin 06: me & friend had been walking around Berlin on the night before the gig singing the Dan Band song from Starksy & Hutch...it has loads of "scoop de doop doo" type singing in it. The Black tag at the PJ show the "do do do" bits became "scooopdee dooop dooo doweeoo".... a good number of the crowd around us joined in it. pretty fun way to sing Black as it turns out. The Mexican wave at the stzrt of the show.

    The unholy stink of me after the Dublin 06 show stands out too. The smell of popping my PJ cherry. It smelled horrendous!

    The crowd in Dusseldorf 07.
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  • ScrapeMySkyScrapeMySky Posts: 426
    This reminds me of the horrible stink in my car the morning after the Munich schow when I had the splendid idea to leave my sweat soaked shirt in there to dry. :mrgreen:
  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    JordyWordy wrote:
    Berlin 06: me & friend had been walking around Berlin on the night before the gig singing the Dan Band song from Starksy & Hutch...it has loads of "scoop de doop doo" type singing in it. The Black tag at the PJ show the "do do do" bits became "scooopdee dooop dooo doweeoo".... a good number of the crowd around us joined in it. pretty fun way to sing Black as it turns out. The Mexican wave at the stzrt of the show.

    The unholy stink of me after the Dublin 06 show stands out too. The smell of popping my PJ cherry. It smelled horrendous!

    The crowd in Dusseldorf 07.


    Tee hee.. im always a mess after a show :P Makes for an interesting ride home...
  • OGT92OGT92 Posts: 1,588
    Back in '98 or 2000 at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA, an outdoor venue during "Given to Fly" I looked back out from under the pavilion and saw some lightning flashing and lighting up the whole sky. It had just started to grow dark, so it was an amazing experience. I had goose bumps.....
    "I read about the evils of drinking, so I gave up reading." - Henry Youngman
  • OceansMagnetOceansMagnet Posts: 1,033
    OGT92 wrote:
    Back in '98 or 2000 at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA, an outdoor venue during "Given to Fly" I looked back out from under the pavilion and saw some lightning flashing and lighting up the whole sky. It had just started to grow dark, so it was an amazing experience. I had goose bumps.....
    Eddie feels the same way about this song.. In West Palm in 08 he said "This is what our music sounds like with lightning" before playing Given To Fly..
    I listen to the Tampa 08 boot and nearly cry when we were all singing Betterman.. It was VERY special..
    Back to West Palm.. Did anyone else nearly shit pants when they played Who You Are??
  • YieldToNothingYieldToNothing Posts: 3,667
    bhigh901 wrote:
    OGT92 wrote:
    Back in '98 or 2000 at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA, an outdoor venue during "Given to Fly" I looked back out from under the pavilion and saw some lightning flashing and lighting up the whole sky. It had just started to grow dark, so it was an amazing experience. I had goose bumps.....
    Eddie feels the same way about this song.. In West Palm in 08 he said "This is what our music sounds like with lightning" before playing Given To Fly..
    I listen to the Tampa 08 boot and nearly cry when we were all singing Betterman.. It was VERY special..
    Back to West Palm.. Did anyone else nearly shit pants when they played Who You Are??

    I DID! WPB 08 was my first show since the 06 tour and i was super excited to be seeing them again. an oceans opener and who you are in the set. mind=blown. it was awesome
    i have a paper here that entitles me to fast track status
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Denver, CO '06: First show. The opening notes of WWS, I pulled out my joint and ripped that thing...god what a great concert.

    Tampa '08: I met my girlfriend over two years ago via myspace, we met up in Atlanta to see an Incubus concert together and basically just couldn't stay away from each other since. I remember before we met in person, she would give me hell about my PJ obsession but I swore to her that we'd see a show together one day. We lived together for a bit in Atlanta, but soon after my girlfriend and I separated, and I went home to Utah from Atlanta for complicated reasons...we kept in touch and decided to make the long distance work until we could get back together in person...we were having kind of a tough go with the long distance and all, so we decided to take a trip to Florida together and stay in a friends beach house there and just have a great time. A week later, tour dates for the summer of 2008 were announced, so I said "West Palm, or Tampa...which one?" We went to Tampa. I flew to ATL and we met up and drove to Florida the next morning (day of the show). I remember thinking what a great way to start the vacation, a PJ show! The fifth song played that night was Elderly Woman. We've always loved that song together, so when it started, I grabbed a hold of her and held her tight and I remember the line "My god, it's been so long, never dreamed you'd return" and just thinking..."This is perfect. This is where I want to be, and I'm never giving it up again."
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    bhigh901 wrote:
    OGT92 wrote:
    Back in '98 or 2000 at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA, an outdoor venue during "Given to Fly" I looked back out from under the pavilion and saw some lightning flashing and lighting up the whole sky. It had just started to grow dark, so it was an amazing experience. I had goose bumps.....
    Eddie feels the same way about this song.. In West Palm in 08 he said "This is what our music sounds like with lightning" before playing Given To Fly..
    I listen to the Tampa 08 boot and nearly cry when we were all singing Betterman.. It was VERY special..
    Back to West Palm.. Did anyone else nearly shit pants when they played Who You Are??


    Tampa was FULL of emotion. We all sang our hearts out. What a great show that was. Goign to that show also reminded me of why I love PJ and their fans. I didn't know anyone there except my girlfriend, but when we walked in...I felt comfortable, like I was among friends and family.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • pjbugs007pjbugs007 Posts: 1,291
    First awesome memory was the night I feel in love with Long Road and will always be my fav song...something happened on that night back on 9/29/96..Long Road just throw in towards the end of the show..shit just kinda hit me like nothing else ever has...another was in 04...i meet this girl in boston at the VFC concerts...she was amazing...we were clued at the hips...saw both pj shows in boston..then drove to reading to see pj..then drove all the way out to toledo ohio to see them had second row dead center(thank you uconndave)..and then she flew home back to fl the next day...i was in tears...that weekend i flew down to FL to see pj and her...did see her on and off for the better part of a yr..but the long distance relationship was just to hard....odd thing is over the yrs..i manged to have 2 gfs that were in pj and lived in the state of FL...very odd...

    and off course meeting the amazing..smart...sexy..rockin leathermandi...somewhere...i forget!
  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Mansfield I 08. The crowd ovation for Betterman was far and away the most chilling moment of any concert I have ever been to. I was sitting in the last row center before the lawn so I had a sweeping view of the 19,000 strong. Once Ed finished the first verse before "OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH"
    the crowd absolutely exploded in applause and cheers and you can see Ed looking at everyone in the band with a WTF?? look. The ovation lasted almost 2 min I found out when I heard the boot but being there it felt like 5 minutes. Coolest moment ever.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

    9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
    5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
    8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
    EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
  • finnanniefinnannie Posts: 1,186
    cropduster82 wrote:
    Mansfield I 08. The crowd ovation for Betterman was far and away the most chilling moment of any concert I have ever been to. I was sitting in the last row center before the lawn so I had a sweeping view of the 19,000 strong. Once Ed finished the first verse before "OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH"
    the crowd absolutely exploded in applause and cheers and you can see Ed looking at everyone in the band with a WTF?? look. The ovation lasted almost 2 min I found out when I heard the boot but being there it felt like 5 minutes. Coolest moment ever.

    I was just about to mention this... :D

    This was unforgettable..!!! The amount of noise the crowd produced was insane! Not to mention the sing-a-long before the ovation -- that was really something! :mrgreen:
    Won't let the light escape from me.
    Won't let the darkness swallow me.
  • ponytdponytd Nashville Posts: 661
    March '94 at Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, TN. It was my first PJ concert and just a couple of days before my birthday and during the encore Eddie introduced Steve Cropper as the guy who helped write this song and they broke out into Dock of the Bay. It was an awesome cover and the crowd went nuts. I think it was the only time they've ever played it live. They ended the evening with Indifference with nothing but a couple of faint blue lights on and as Eddie was singing the last verse, a couple of orangeish lights slowly faded up. it was chilling. Everytime I hear both of those songs I always think back to that night.
  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    Tee hee.. im always a mess after a show :P Makes for an interesting ride home...

    My friends walking ten steps behind me with flies buzzing around like i was a garbage heap! :o lol!

    i didnt care, i had bigger things on my mind -i was going to see Radiohead & Beck the following night (my Radiohead cherry popped too)! Ed O'Brien walked onstage with a PJ shirt on.... i knew i was in good company when i saw that! that was some 24 hours...
  • oneforeachdayoneforeachday Posts: 494
    I'd say I have a top 2:

    1) Rochester, April 7, 1994. I had remembered this for years and I just downloaded the boot from this last week which confirmed that I had remembered it correctly, which makes it kinda cool (for me at least). At the end of Jeremy, Ed says "OK, so he spoke, what the fuck did he say? He said, fuck you, and fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you too, and fuck this whole fucking world, I don't care fuck all of you" then he says... "well, you know what... he fucked up. Living is your best revenge". Cobain's body was found the next morning. I know, a coincidence, but kinda eerie anyway.

    2) Vienna, 9/25/06. Tag to black turns out to have more meaning than any other moment in PJ history for me. After a way, way cool "doo dooo doo dooo do do do" for what seems like forever (b.t.w., listening to Pistoria, it sounds like the whole Europe tour had cool black vibes?), Ed breaks out singing "I drink to you.... wherever you are tonight?... the crowd goes fuckin nutz.... but then he repeats it, but he's not really looking at us (crowd)... I turn to my brother at that instant and say "he's not talking to us" (brother nods). Then... Ed continues "I'm havin' a better time than you are tonight yeah, wherever you are, wherever you are"... the crowd goes nuts again, but it's even more clear to me at that point he's not talking to us (oh Ed, you and your double/multiple meanings)... then, the killer... the knife... "You fucked up when you left me, you fucked up when you lost me, coulda been you, coulda been you". A little over a one month later, just after 7 yrs of marriage and 10 yrs together, my wife cheated (and eventually left). It's been a shitty road from then 'til now, divorce, custody bullshit... but that song, with that tag...

    The whole cast of songs came back, without prejudice, to keep me going (RVM, Alive, Once, Footsteps, I got ID, Corduroy, Gone, Dissident, Given to Fly, Release, Indifference, Smile, Hail,Hail, Fatal, Soon Forget, Off He Goes, Alone, Wash and of course Black from Vienna.... I made that playlist a few days after things fell apart.)

    Thanks PJ, for keepin me from curling up in the fetal position and giving up... and to some extent... alive.
  • oneforeachdayoneforeachday Posts: 494
    ponytd wrote:
    March '94 at Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, TN. It was my first PJ concert and just a couple of days before my birthday and during the encore Eddie introduced Steve Cropper as the guy who helped write this song and they broke out into Dock of the Bay. It was an awesome cover and the crowd went nuts. I think it was the only time they've ever played it live. They ended the evening with Indifference with nothing but a couple of faint blue lights on and as Eddie was singing the last verse, a couple of orangeish lights slowly faded up. it was chilling. Everytime I hear both of those songs I always think back to that night.
    Awesome... must be where the version on No Fuckin' Messiah! comes from.
  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    bhigh901 wrote:
    OGT92 wrote:
    Back in '98 or 2000 at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA, an outdoor venue during "Given to Fly" I looked back out from under the pavilion and saw some lightning flashing and lighting up the whole sky. It had just started to grow dark, so it was an amazing experience. I had goose bumps.....
    Eddie feels the same way about this song.. In West Palm in 08 he said "This is what our music sounds like with lightning" before playing Given To Fly..
    I listen to the Tampa 08 boot and nearly cry when we were all singing Betterman.. It was VERY special..
    Back to West Palm.. Did anyone else nearly shit pants when they played Who You Are??


    i did! Didnt think florida would get graced with any no code... but a great show none the less! My favorite thing from that show was when vedward was talking about the stars over the lawn.. so everyone looks up and then before everyone looked back down again, they started into "Low Light" i get chills just thinking about it .. :D
  • OceansMagnetOceansMagnet Posts: 1,033
    LeatherMandi wrote:
    bhigh901 wrote:
    OGT92 wrote:
    Back in '98 or 2000 at Great Woods in Mansfield, MA, an outdoor venue during "Given to Fly" I looked back out from under the pavilion and saw some lightning flashing and lighting up the whole sky. It had just started to grow dark, so it was an amazing experience. I had goose bumps.....
    Eddie feels the same way about this song.. In West Palm in 08 he said "This is what our music sounds like with lightning" before playing Given To Fly..
    I listen to the Tampa 08 boot and nearly cry when we were all singing Betterman.. It was VERY special..
    Back to West Palm.. Did anyone else nearly shit pants when they played Who You Are??


    i did! Didnt think florida would get graced with any no code... but a great show none the less! My favorite thing from that show was when vedward was talking about the stars over the lawn.. so everyone looks up and then before everyone looked back down again, they started into "Low Light" i get chills just thinking about it .. :D
    I couldn't believe how much YIELD we got that night.. Faithful!! I also have to give a shout out to Cinci 06!! How awesome that night was.. Long Road and Love Boat Captain for the victims from The Who's tragedy in that very building.. Heavy..
  • ChazzChazz Posts: 1,141
    Queing outside The Point in Dublin, hearing the band soundcheck The Boys Are Back In Town :D, just before I popped my PJ cherry.....still makes me smile when I think on it now.

    Hearing the opening notes of Release at MSG II.....only word to describe it is ...... RELIGIOUS :D
    Dublin, Reading 06
    London, Copenhagen 07
    MSG 08
    SBE, Manchester, London 09
    Dublin, Belfast, London 10
    Manchester, Berlin 12
    Amsterdam, Milton Keynes 14
    London 18
    London 22
  • oneforeachdayoneforeachday Posts: 494
    my_small_self wrote:
    ...
    Hearing the opening notes of Release at MSG II.....only word to describe it is ...... RELIGIOUS :D
    +1
  • dirty_mikedirty_mike Posts: 131
    4-28-03, @ the Spectrum in Philly. Eddie was talking about how it was such an honor to take a piss in a place with so much history. He didnt want to disrespect the place by taking a shit. Anyways, that might have been the loudest "Betterman" sing along Ive heard in 12 show. I remember Pieere Robert (WMMR) saying that next day that it was the most pumped crowd hes ever seen on a Monday night.

    7-5-03 Tweeter Center in Camden. They shot the fireworks off from Penns Landing right over the Venue. It lit the whole lawn up. The band automatically went into RITFW.

    7-7-06 Cox Arena, San Diego. During Eddies story about how "Long Road" was written, everyone around me decided to take a seat. I continued to stand up. During his story, he looked over in my direction, when he did I put my arm up, threw up some devil horns. Inbetween strums in the begenning of the song, he waved back. Might sound kinda childish, but he waved at ME!!!! LOL :mrgreen:
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    springfield, ma 94. got tix that day and took my college girlfriend. 1st show, and an amazing show. it was also the last great thing we did together before she ripped my heart out like that dude in indiana jones. incredibly bittersweet.

    hartford 06. took my lil sis. she practically had an out of body experience when 'betterman' was played.

    4 shows in '08. all unique in their own special way.
    I love to turn you on
  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    Let's see...

    Hamilton 05, when Ed played throw your arms. I looked around in disbelief: really?!
    I also loved the whole show. The crowd chanting "eddie" and eddie replying: I wish I knew all of you by name as well :), all the toasts, and the Harvest Moon debut.

    Verona 06, when I finally got to hear them open with Release. Same look around in disbelief and same sheer happiness :)

    I also have a special place in my heart for all the Immortalities I have witnessed: Cleveland 06, Verona 06 from outside the arena, and London 07.

    And then there's this:

    th_PJ056MOV.jpg

    too much excitement to keep holding the camera and filming :mrgreen:
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
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