The band doesn't seem hyper any more

Plokoon111
Plokoon111 Posts: 9
edited August 2008 in The Porch
When ever I see them live on you tube or for real, they're always laid back, and when you compare it to the 1991-1994 live videos they ust to jump around, stage dive, go crazy. Now they just stand and play.
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  • smile05
    smile05 Posts: 600
    1994 was 14 years ago,it could be worse
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-7MyOUeVd0

    Happy? Skip to 1:50 if your lazy.
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  • Given to...
    Given to... Wyoming Posts: 5,007
    They cant all be like Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler. Did Keith Richards ever move much, or do you think he invented the Stone swagger?

    I know I dont move like I did 15 years ago.
    "...would you like some forks?" EV 12-02-06
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I'm willing to guess that since 2000, the band have been heavily into playing live shows that are worth selling as official boots. They've scrapped a lot of the stage acrobatics that make for visually exciting spectacles but sloppy play, in favour of streamlined musical quality. That might mean there's a nervous edge missing from their performances, but let's face it, you're not going to be so pumped up and using adrenalin, nearly eighteen years after first playing to sizeable audiences. Also, they have a lot more material now to get through in a show, and three minutes of playing hard takes it out of a person, let alone three hours. They're pacing themselves.

    Plus, Mick Jagger is the son of a fitness expert. He's an exceptional human being, even if he does have a neck like a dead snake. And Keef has been in undead pickled suspension since 1973. So they don't count. PJ are middle-aged fellas. They need to take it easier, these days. ;)
  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    My only complaint is that they don't rehearse enough anymore. The 2008 tour was a sloppy mess.
  • Rjonesrm20
    Rjonesrm20 Posts: 380
    JWBusher wrote:
    My only complaint is that they don't rehearse enough anymore. The 2008 tour was a sloppy mess.


    what?
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  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    Let's see between 1991 and 1995 I:

    Jumped out of an airplane
    Jumped off of bridges as high as 60 feet (EDIT: Into Water)
    Jumped off of cliffs on ski's with the highest jump being about 30 feet
    Climbed everything in site, including to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest (EDIT: Did this in 2001)
    Played Soccer, Wrestled, and other sports


    Now at age 34, much younger than the members of Pearl Jam, I:

    Can't do any of those things now.


    Damn this getting older shit. PJ Brings it much harder than I could, but the days of Eddie climbing the rafters, and jumping into the crowd are pretty much over.
  • Given to...
    Given to... Wyoming Posts: 5,007
    Wilds, thats some bad ass entertainment!

    I fathered and raised two kids and did lots of those same exact things!


    OK that was a lie, but the two kids are real!
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Plokoon111 wrote:
    When ever I see them live on you tube or for real, they're always laid back, and when you compare it to the 1991-1994 live videos they ust to jump around, stage dive, go crazy. Now they just stand and play.
    I used to miss those days, but I grew up and those old videos of them acting like little sugar-crazed kids just look silly and retarded now.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Wilds wrote:
    Let's see between 1991 and 1995 I:

    Jumped out of an airplane
    Jumped off of bridges as high as 60 feet (EDIT: Into Water)
    Jumped off of cliffs on ski's with the highest jump being about 30 feet
    Climbed everything in site, including to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest (EDIT: Did this in 2001)
    Played Soccer, Wrestled, and other sports


    Now at age 34, much younger than the members of Pearl Jam, I:

    Can't do any of those things now.


    Damn this getting older shit. PJ Brings it much harder than I could, but the days of Eddie climbing the rafters, and jumping into the crowd are pretty much over.
    Are you serious? Only 34? Did you have an accident? I turn 30 in less than two months and I'm in better shape now than I was in my early 20s.
  • brokenarrow
    brokenarrow Posts: 478
    Wilds wrote:
    Let's see between 1991 and 1995 I:

    Jumped out of an airplane
    Jumped off of bridges as high as 60 feet (EDIT: Into Water)
    Jumped off of cliffs on ski's with the highest jump being about 30 feet
    Climbed everything in site, including to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest (EDIT: Did this in 2001)
    Played Soccer, Wrestled, and other sports


    Now at age 34, much younger than the members of Pearl Jam, I:

    Can't do any of those things now.


    Damn this getting older shit. PJ Brings it much harder than I could, but the days of Eddie climbing the rafters, and jumping into the crowd are pretty much over.


    holy crap! you were busy! ;)

    34? wait 'til you hit 45! :D
  • WeBelongTogether
    WeBelongTogether Posts: 340
    JWBusher wrote:
    My only complaint is that they don't rehearse enough anymore. The 2008 tour was a sloppy mess.

    LOL. give me a break.
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  • Mrs.Vedder78
    Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    jaamfaan wrote:

    I know I dont move like I did 15 years ago.

    Shit I know for sure I dont move like I did 15 years ago and if I did my husband probably wouldnt let me leave the house - LOL

    EDIT: I still have pretty good moves though (just not like I did when I was 16 ;))
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  • Mrs.Vedder78
    Mrs.Vedder78 Posts: 4,585
    JWBusher wrote:
    My only complaint is that they don't rehearse enough anymore. The 2008 tour was a sloppy mess.

    :confused:
    "Without the album covers, where do you clean your pot?" - EV
  • Hopper
    Hopper Posts: 216
    Va Beach...during RITFW i think....Eddie..runs....Eddie plants on a speaker....springs off of it...and reaches for a tambourine being thrown like a frisbee..he was flying through the air....the throw was leading him to what looked to be a miss...but at the last second..just like LEZAK...Ed stretches his hand out and ...ALAS!!!!...he snatches it and proceeds to beat the shit out of the tambourine with great madness and skills!!!


    i thought they were on fire this tour...saw them in Tampa...Va Beach...DC...
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  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Are you serious? Only 34? Did you have an accident? I turn 30 in less than two months and I'm in better shape now than I was in my early 20s.


    Yup, got married and had two kids. lol.

    My lifestyle has just changed. I need constant exercise to be in shape, and with the job and wife and kids, I don't have any time for that.

    Sure it is somewhat of an excuse, but I don't have the desire either.

    AND when I'm 45 I'll probably be half in the grave.

    I jest a bit, and with work I could be in great shape, but I'm never jumping off anything ever again.

    I do have plans to hike to the top of Kilimanjaro. Even had the wife sign off on my trip in 2007, but my daughter was born in Dec 2006 and those plans were scrapped.

    Hopefully will still happen.

    Nate
  • Jeremys Spoken
    Jeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    Dude both MSG's Ed and the band were going nuts.
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  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    I didn't say the '08 shows sucked or weren't good shows. I'm just saying that they were very rusty on this tour. Train wrecks all over the place. People don't seem to be noticing and that's fine. Every show has it's faults. I just wish they would practice more. It isn't like their music is super-complicated...they're not playing Frank Zappa compositions.
  • U R A Crazy Breed
    U R A Crazy Breed Posts: 8,370
    Stage dive?! you want Someone to break a hip?! :D

    seriously though,the boys still put out MAD ENERGY!!!

    the energizer bunny don't have shit on Mr.McCready!
  • evenflow82
    evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    Wilds wrote:
    Let's see between 1991 and 1995 I:

    Jumped out of an airplane
    Jumped off of bridges as high as 60 feet (EDIT: Into Water)
    Jumped off of cliffs on ski's with the highest jump being about 30 feet
    Climbed everything in site, including to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest (EDIT: Did this in 2001)
    Played Soccer, Wrestled, and other sports


    Now at age 34, much younger than the members of Pearl Jam, I:

    Can't do any of those things now.


    Damn this getting older shit. PJ Brings it much harder than I could, but the days of Eddie climbing the rafters, and jumping into the crowd are pretty much over.

    I didn't know Bill Brasky was on the PJ message board. :-D
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