***Official New Zealand Fans Thread***

cajunkiwi wrote:

Random question... but does anyone who was at the Mt. Smart show back in 95 (started with "Throw Your Arms Around Me" and ended with "I Got You" and "History Never Repeats" remember the set list?

I have it somewhere - PM me if you want a copy (if I can find it).

Nevermind... found one :-)

bazzer wrote:

Can you let me know where you found it? I think there was meant to be a remaster coming out at some stage, maybe it's been done?

I've got both nights - I think I got them off Zomb. Both are audience recordings. Any kiwi's got DVDs they wanna trade

I'll have to get a list together, I don't have a very extensive collection but maybe we can work something out.

http://lifewasted.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1372
i hope its real,,and all u there be happy!!!!!!!!!

Things are looking good for a tour, right? Some big announcement on The Rock tomorrow at 7.15, can it be Pearl Jam? I haven't heard any real rumours locally so far...

bazzer wrote:

Things are looking good for a tour, right? Some big announcement on The Rock tomorrow at 7.15, can it be Pearl Jam? I haven't heard any real rumours locally so far...

OK, I guess I was reaching. Announcement was for The Rock's 18th birthday Legal Tender tour with Luger Boa, Airbourne, Living End and Shihad in October. If there's going to be an announcement on Wednesday, how is it that there's no local rumours? Does no one care anymore? It's been 11 long years, have people forgotton? PJ is still pretty popular on The Rock at least I thought...

.........feels like I'm dreaming a bit.....or am I?

Will they come here? Or only Australia? The tweet only mentions vegemite.....but still my hopes are up

Lets look at the cold hard facts: one of Ed's early musical influences is Split Enz. Not to mention that Liam has been opening for his last 2 solo tours. How many more kiwi connections do they need I wonder

It's not as if it's much more of a mish to skip over the tasman. eleven years! come on!

would it be vector? I guess it would have to be. Dunno if the TSB in wellington would hold enough, only 5000 there (and not the best sound quality either at times). I can't think of anywhere else in welly they could play - so if it was welly, and the tsb, it would be a nice, intimate gig (sigh). I've never been to vector but imagine it's huge. anyone know the capacity?

and do tenclub ticketing rules apply here? see how ahead of myself I'm getting, can't help it.

Have decided if it's only australia then it will be me making the little skip over the tasman. But i'd much rather see those boys here on my turangawaewae, 14 years after I saw them play their first ever NZ concert. Any one else there, mt smart supertop, 1995? I still have my ticket, and often recall how I nearly died in the mosh pit at the front (not exagerating, was 15 and waaaaay ignorant and too stubborn to listen to the security guys telling me to get out) now I'm 30 and think it's pretty amazing that the band and I seem to have grown up together, one would expect to outgrow the music of their adolescence. I'm really grateful for the help I've gotten through PJ's music. trying my best not to be too corny!

have joined 10c for the ticketing mission - whether aus or not i'm gonna fight for my right to pearl jam

getting sick of checking to see if any news so thought i'd see what other kiwi jammers i can find

you'll hear my excited yelling if they do anounce NZ gigs

dunno how much more patience i can draw upon...still dreaming....

topaz wrote:

Any one else there, mt smart supertop, 1995?

Sure was - first concert I ever attended. Me and my mates from high school stayed down the back because we were too chicken to go anywhere near the mosh pit, then spent the whole night wishing we were up the front (which we were when they came back in '98). The whole night was a blast - from Ed opening with "Throw Your Arms Around Me" to the band closing with "I Got You" it kicked arse... even if Ed forgot the lyrics to Rats halfway through (thank god Stone remembered and could remind him). I still have a photo from that night - my old guitar teacher's sister was a photographer covering the gig, so he hooked us up with one of her photos taken from the photo pit. Good times... I got a bootleg of the show last month, and didn't even realize they'd played "Lukin" that night... I'd forgotten all about that 50 seconds of insane yelling by the time No Code came out lol

Did you catch the Ericsson Stadium show too?

topaz wrote:

There is a bootleg of our Mt Smart concert??!!

Sure is - do a Google search, or PM me if you want to know where to find it. The sound quality is crap though, so be warned. It was recorded by a fan in the crowd, so it's all muffled and you can barely make out the words... and on top of that it sounds like the tape gets chewed up during the first half of Last Exit. That being said, it's our show, and sound quality be damned it's still an awesome trip down memory lane (I actually kinda like the bad quality - 1995, baby!).

Sorry to hear you missed Ericsson... don't know if you remember or not, but Ed almost died the day before the Supertop show because he got caught in a rip while surfing at Piha. At the Ericsson show, they brought the lifeguards who saved him on stage so he could thank them in front of everyone... they presented him with a life jacket, and he wore it during "Yellow Ledbetter." Awesome.

I hope NZ gets at least one show in this announcement - 11 years is a long wait between drinks. Though that being said, I live in the States now and I still haven't seen them since Ericsson - fat lot of good moving out here did, eh?

Have you been to any Vector shows? Is the sound quality as bad as I keep hearing it is?