***Official Please Play The South Petition***

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  • Ted Porkfoot
    Ted Porkfoot Posts: 7
    Case for my city:

    Augusta, GA - they can play on the 18th green at the Augusta National with Augusta native James Brown opening (with special guests Jack Nicklaus & Tiger Woods)

    Case for where I used to live:

    Athens, GA - they can play on the 50-yard line at Sanford Stadium with REM, Drive By Truckers, Widespread Panic, B-52 and Herschel Walker opening. Athens (at least to Georgians) is the rock'n'roll capital of the World.
  • THE LOOK
    THE LOOK Posts: 324
    nighty night BUMP
    Bigfoot is blurry.
    - Mitch Hedberg
  • gardenlover
    gardenlover Posts: 185
    bump for the night!

    "They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."

    Goodnight to you PJ nation.
    “It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”

    Daniel Quinn
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    bump.

    peace.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    gardenlover wrote:
    Just try. Try to name a part of the country -- or the world, for that matter -- that's done more for music in the last 150 years than these Southern United States.

    You cain't, child. There ain't none.

    We birthed the blues. We launched rock 'n' roll. We've been the seat of gospel, the bastion of bluegrass, the home to the world's hottest hip-hop. We've dug deep down to our Nappy Roots, fostered Stephen Foster, screamed "Sweet Home Alabama" and gotten straight-up Ludacris, from Memphis to Mobile to Uncle Tupelo.
    Southern music encompasses all kinds of styles, yet it hangs together as a coherent genre. Nobody's ever heard of New England music or Midwestern music, but down here we know that rock can have soul and rap can be country, and even wimpy folk can count so long as it's got Carolina in its mind. Southern music's more of a sensibility than a sound.
    The South is about big ideas (like pain and redemption) and small pleasures (like the look of grandma's hands). The South is also increasingly diverse -- racially, economically and politically.
    If our music has a common thread, it's the thread of hope -- hope that this mystical land won't lose all that's made it special and that it's not too proud to admit when it's wrong. Those are some big challenges. But they're nothing the music can't handle.
    I love this band and i hope they do travel to the south and enjoy this great part of the country-Take care of each other out there where ever you are.
    love and peace to the PJ nation.

    ..
  • mikerules
    mikerules Posts: 1
    Not mad at them for not, but wish they were. :(
    "We haven't got as much attention from good-old Music Television so we hired a fashion consultant for Mike."
    ---Eddie speaking on Mike wearing an orthopedic sandal for a foot injury, Raleigh 4/15/03.
  • jimlast
    jimlast Posts: 4
    (signs petition eagerly)
  • Vinyl Girl
    Vinyl Girl Posts: 5
    I didn't get DC tix thinking that they would play closer to me....now looks like I'll be visiting a scalper site looking for good seats...

    bump in hopes that they come this way in winter
    Spinnin the black circle....
  • cookie5798
    cookie5798 Posts: 396
    We Need Pj In The South This Tour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Please Don't Leave Us Out!
    We need Pearl Jam in Atlanta!!! 2006-2007

    The dirty south needs a fix.
  • moegossard
    moegossard Posts: 75
    :( Puhweeeeeeeeessssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!???? :(
  • robeaux
    robeaux Posts: 1
    I know the guys would never set foot in Mississippi, but what about somewhere close, perhaps New Orleans.

    BTW, Florida is not the only state in the south.
  • tazww
    tazww Posts: 22
    official bump
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    Yeah, we're not asking for much. Just 10 - 12 extra shows.

    Dallas
    Houston
    Austin
    New Orleans
    Nashville
    Atlanta
    Miami
    Orlando
    Charlotte
    St. Louis
    Phoenix

    Oh, and Indianapolis and KC, too.

    By the way, I just pulled those out of the air. Feel free to mix and match as you so choose!
    DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
    BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
    PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
    OKC-11/16/13
    SEA-12/6/13
    TUL-10/8/14
  • White Discussion
    White Discussion Melissa Texas Posts: 2,818
    Poor school teacher, looking for PJ more than any other show imaginable.

    Dallas
    Houston
    OKC
  • White Discussion
    White Discussion Melissa Texas Posts: 2,818
    Poor school teacher, looking for PJ more than any other show imaginable. I've been in the fanclub since 95 fanclub # 131XXX have seen them at least once every tour this may be a low point. Please come to

    Dallas
    Houston
    OKC

    and anywhere else in a thousand mile radius
  • behindtheeyes
    behindtheeyes Posts: 158
    Ledbetterdays wrote:
    Let's make our case for our cities.....

    SAVANNAH:
    Home to Savannah College of Art and Design, (7,300 young, impressionable minds, Eddie, and they're artists, to boot- can you say 'liberals'???),

    Also home to:
    huge live oaks that filter the sunlight through draping spanish moss
    front porches with swings perfect for sitting with an icy drink on a hot day
    best example of historic preservation on the East Coast (I'm biased..)
    beaches within 1/2 hour- ok, so there's no surfing, but its still a beach
    1 hour away from some of the best golfing in the country
    Jacksonville, Charleston, Columbia all within a 2 1/2 hour radius


    Ok, so it might not appeal to PJ, but I love The South!!!!! Please come play!

    (just in case- see ya in Pitt. and Cinci!) :)
    We're all different behind the eyes.

    You are U, who you are.
  • SPALMA
    SPALMA Posts: 2,279
    Good Af(BUMP)ternoon!
    "I don't want to hear any splatty tongues!"
    J.M., Jr. High Band Teacher

    I raise my Freak Flag High!!
  • gardenlover
    gardenlover Posts: 185
    bumpin...............

    i'll say again~

    Just try. Try to name a part of the country -- or the world, for that matter -- that's done more for music in the last 150 years than these Southern United States.

    You cain't, child. There ain't none.

    We birthed the blues. We launched rock 'n' roll. We've been the seat of gospel, the bastion of bluegrass, the home to the world's hottest hip-hop. We've dug deep down to our Nappy Roots, fostered Stephen Foster, screamed "Sweet Home Alabama" and gotten straight-up Ludacris, from Memphis to Mobile to Uncle Tupelo.
    Southern music encompasses all kinds of styles, yet it hangs together as a coherent genre. Nobody's ever heard of New England music or Midwestern music, but down here we know that rock can have soul and rap can be country, and even wimpy folk can count so long as it's got Carolina in its mind. Southern music's more of a sensibility than a sound.
    The South is about big ideas (like pain and redemption) and small pleasures (like the look of grandma's hands). The South is also increasingly diverse -- racially, economically and politically.
    If our music has a common thread, it's the thread of hope -- hope that this mystical land won't lose all that's made it special and that it's not too proud to admit when it's wrong. Those are some big challenges. But they're nothing the music can't handle.
    I love this band and i hope they do travel to the south and enjoy this great part of the country-Take care of each other out there where ever you are.
    love and peace to the PJ nation.
    “It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”

    Daniel Quinn
  • Doug Smith
    Doug Smith Posts: 1
    You can add me to the list of those calling for an Atlanta show (or two)...specifically, the Arena At Gwinnett Center, where I work.
  • THE LOOK
    THE LOOK Posts: 324
    bobcats arena is calling from charlotte. BUMP
    Bigfoot is blurry.
    - Mitch Hedberg

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