Lost 9 friends they'll never know 8 years ago today...

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  • Lost Dog 1977
    Lost Dog 1977 Posts: 37
    say hello to heaven friends
    FREE THE WEST MEMPHIS 3
  • FrankieJ
    FrankieJ Posts: 602
    R.I.P.

    You will always be remembered.

    (LBC just came on my shuffle too.)
    GO GIANTS
    GO DEVILS
    7/14/03-PNC NJ ~ 6/1/06-CAA1 NJ ~ 6/3/06-CAA2 NJ ~ 8/5/07-Lolla IL ~ 6/24/08-MSG1 ~ 6/25/08-MSG2 ~ 8/7/08-NJPAC (eV Solo)

    "I'm feeling kinda righteous right now...with my Bad@$$-M0therf*ck!n'-Ukulele!"
    -eV 8/7
  • UKpearljammer
    UKpearljammer Bath, UK Posts: 910
    Rest In Peace fellow Jammers
    My PJ shows:
    London 28/10/96, Las Vegas 11/7/98, London 29/5/00, Nurnburg 11/6/00, Prague 14/6/00, Salzburg 18/6/00, Verona 20/6/00, Milan 22/6/00, Zurich 23/6/00, New York 8-9/7/03, Boston 11/7/03, Reading Festival 27/8/06, Shepards Bush 11/8/09, Berlin 15/8/09, Manchester 17/8/09, London 18/8/09, Dublin 22/6/10, Belfast 23/6/10, London (HRC) 25/6/10, Alpine Valley (PJ20) 3-4/9/11, Manchester 20-21/6/12, Leeds 8/7/14, Milton Keynes 11/7/14 To be continued....
  • dreamsinred
    dreamsinred Posts: 90
    Wow, I hadn't realized. Can't believe it's been 8 years. Gonna listen to LBC in remembrance now. Rest In Peace.

    Love is all you need, All you need is love..
    "Music for me is one of the more healing art forms. I think anybody can put on a pair of headphones and put in a disk or play a record and have it change them." - Jeff

    Viva la vinyl.

    PJ - 10/4/96, 9/4/98, 8/4/00, 8/6/00, 4/15/03, 4/16/03, 10/6/04, 6/17/08, 6/22/08, 10/31/09, 9/3/11, 9/4/11, 10/29/13, 10/30/13

    Ed Solo - 7/8/11 (shook Eddie's hand!)
  • NOCODE#1
    NOCODE#1 Posts: 1,477
    puertopaco wrote:
    Does anyone realize today is 8 years? I have chills running up and down my spine and body all day. I can't believe I get to be there today. Oh wow it will be a truly special night. I'll be the guy in row A section 8 with the 'Love is all you need sign.' Please say a prayer today for the 9 precious lives that were lost that day. Love you all.
    -Paco

    'I know it's already been sung. Can't be said enough. Love is all you need. All you need is love...love...love...love...love...love...love...love...love.
    yea i get all teary about people i never met :rolleyes: like when celebs die, ya didnt know them get over it.
    Let's not be negative now. Thumper has spoken
  • Jeremys Spoken
    Jeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    NOCODE#1 wrote:
    yea i get all teary about people i never met :rolleyes: like when celebs die, ya didnt know them get over it.
    I gotta say that I agree with this. No reason to get all depressed over this. It really doesn't hit home, I think you are exaggerating a little bit.

    Trying to the the "Ultimate" PJ fan..
    2008 - MSG 6/24-6/25
    2010 - Newark 5/18 MSG 5/21
    2011 - PJ20 9/3-9/4
    2012 - MIA Festival 9/2
    2013 - Wrigley Field 7/19 Brooklyn 10/18-10/19 Philly 10/22
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  • scpjfan
    scpjfan Posts: 131
    I tried doing a search for the nine jamily members who left us, but I couldn't find it. If anyone knows their names, it would be nice if we could get LukinFan to post some sort of dedication in the first post of tonight's concert.

    I hope they have a great view from up above tonight, this show is for them.
    Hail, hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love.
  • nocode23
    nocode23 Posts: 411
    Nice to see that compassion is alive and well in the Pit.;)
  • kcherub
    kcherub Posts: 961
    nocode23 wrote:
    Nice to see that compassion is alive and well in the Pit.;)

    Very touching.

    Rest in peace. With music. :)

    Take care,
    I still want you all to "take care"--I am just damn tired of typing it.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/kcherub#p/a/u/0/N-UQprRqSwo
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    think ed will do 'arc' tonight?
  • spearhead
    spearhead Posts: 600
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by NOCODE#1
    yea i get all teary about people i never met like when celebs die, ya didnt know them get over it.

    I gotta say that I agree with this. No reason to get all depressed over this. It really doesn't hit home, I think you are exaggerating a little bit.
    >>>>>>>>>>>

    I figured that sooner or later somebody would say something like this ...
    Here's why it matters ... have YOU ever been to a Pearl Jam concert?
    Then we could possibly be remembering YOU today, or ME.
    These were people, real people just like you and me who loved Pearl Jam.
    They were probably having the time of their life, and suddenly they're dead.
    Tell their family to get over it. Tell them they're exaggerating a little bit.
    I was alone and far away when I heard the band start playing!

    ...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    I gotta say that I agree with this. No reason to get all depressed over this. It really doesn't hit home, I think you are exaggerating a little bit.

    Trying to the the "Ultimate" PJ fan..

    uhm, respecting 9 innocent lives lost at a concert is not "getting all depressed". they went to a show and died. its happened before in history at gigs/sports events/entertainment shows of all sorts....and will eventually happen again.

    whos to say it wont be you or someone you know? or that it wasnt someone any of us knew? or that i knew? mind you manners

    RIP
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    this was sad to hear the time it happened and it's still a bummer today

    going to see PJ is such an ultimate high and makes me feel so great to be living life, to think that the complete opposite could happen is hard to wrap my mind around
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • filthy_frank
    filthy_frank Posts: 35
    cutback wrote:
    think ed will do 'arc' tonight?

    I actually think Off He Goes will be played as a tribute.
  • emperor penguin
    emperor penguin Posts: 197
    i can't believe it's been 8 years. I remember I was going to the racetrack with my dad and he told me about it, and I was so upset he thought we should go home. What a terrible waste. In tororonto '03, it was around the anniversary and ed added "anthony can you see us now" to release. I almost lost it. I cry at everything. I cried at Wall E last night.
    I like bands.
  • you are
    you are Posts: 1,651
    JordyWordy wrote:
    uhm, respecting 9 innocent lives lost at a concert is not "getting all depressed". they went to a show and died. its happened before in history at gigs/sports events/entertainment shows of all sorts....and will eventually happen again.

    whos to say it wont be you or someone you know? or that it wasnt someone any of us knew? or that i knew? mind you manners

    RIP

    exactly! i didn't know them, but just saying that we remember the tragedy is not 'getting all depressed.' if you don't like it, then don't read the thread. that's not asking too much is it?

    R.I.P.
    No need to be void, or save up on life...
    You got to spend it all
  • mnpjgrrl
    mnpjgrrl Posts: 38
    I think of this date every year even though I wasn't there... I have some weird connections with dates related to the tragedy.

    June 30th, 1998 was my first PJ concert, exactly 2 years before PJ's concert at Roskilde.

    After the tragedy, Pearl Jam got support from Pete Townshend because of 11 people who died at The Who's December 3rd, 1979 concert. December 3rd, 1979??? That was the day of my birth.

    So... thinking of all of them and hope they are resting in peace.
  • JeffAment's-Floor
    JeffAment's-Floor Posts: 88
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    I gotta say that I agree with this. No reason to get all depressed over this. It really doesn't hit home, I think you are exaggerating a little bit.

    Trying to the the "Ultimate" PJ fan..

    Come on, man.

    First of all, you're telling people how to feel. Don't do that. Never do that. You don't have to get teary eyed about something, but you're in no position to call someone's emotion forced because you don't share it. Your "trying to be the 'ultimate' fan" really irks me though. What does that even me? People are faking sadness over fellow Pearl Jam fans dying at a Pearl Jam concert because it gives them Pearl Jam fandom credibility points? Do you realize how absurd that sounds? I can see no possible way that you were around back then to go through this event and make a comment like this, so I'll chalk it up to you just not understanding it.

    And these aren't celebrities. These are real people. These were people with lives who died at the one place that all of us consider our comfort-zone, our sanctuary, the one place where our problems are supposed to be left elsewhere. Shit...
  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    there is some solace in knowing/hoping they are all in a wayyy better place right now
  • bowl_of_soup
    bowl_of_soup Posts: 28
    Rest in Peace.
    "...Never take it seriously. You never take it seriously, you never get hurt; you never get hurt, you always fun; and if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store, and visit your friends."

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