Hard or Soft???????

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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,726
    My favorite list starts with "GO"..hard for sure(but release is really the best opener ever)
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  • Brain of the Brain
    Brain of the Brain Posts: 89
    I would like a Brain of J to start!
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    skyeriverwinter wrote:
    How do you like your shows to start?????

    I've been thinking and typically...being a female...I like to start slow and tender like with "Hard to Imagine" but lately I'm feeling angsty and want to be hit hard...and have it keep coming!!!!

    I know it should be like waves building gently then breaking....but I think I want to be hit with a sudden hurricane... find it's eye...then fight your way out the other side.

    How do you like to start a show...soft or hard?

    I have no idea, all i know is for some reason this post turned me on. :lol:
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  • cannotstaylong
    cannotstaylong Posts: 668
    StoneCat wrote:
    I would like a Brain of J to start!

    I generally prefer the soft start. As someone else said, Wash is an incredible opener, one of my favorites along with Long Road.

    BUT, when I saw Brain of J suggested, I couldn't resist. One of my favorite opening tracks on any PJ album, and it would tear your face off at just about any show.

    This is a fast/hard song I could get very pumped for.
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  • Yellow Bedwetter
    Yellow Bedwetter NYC Posts: 2,832
    MrSmith wrote:
    dpends on the mood. Severed Hand is a cool opener though.

    please no more severed hand openers...im sick of that after '06 tour

    i like mix of soft/hard like present tense or wash
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  • skyeriverwinter
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    U R A Crazy Breed wrote:
    so i was thinking a good show is like good sex....start off slow/easy/gentle/....then as it progresses it gets faster and ruffer....then you slow back down a little in the middle....then toward the end you pick the pace back up and go for broke!!..........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...i just busted a Yellow Ledbetter! :mrgreen::mrgreen:
    I can understand this mentality...Sometimes hard all the way through with a little slow down in the middle suits me just fine. Like a lover you will never see again...except in this case it's Pearl Jam...and you want them to ROCK YOU SO HARD....you have trouble getting up the next day. THAT'S WHAT I WANT!!!!! PLEASE!!!! :lol: :oops: :shock:
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Lizard wrote:
    Hard

    ;)



    i do love release or oceans as a start....but damn go or hail, hail.....mmmm, hard is good too. i'll take what ever the boys want to dish out. ;)
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  • SoonForgotten2
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    Here are my openers...

    Long Road: 5
    Go: 4
    Release: 3
    Sometimes: 2
    Severed Hand: 1
    WWS: 1
    RVM: 1
    Wasted Reprise: 1

    Almost an even split between hard and soft. I have to say I prefer the soft one. Go as an
    opener really doesn't work for me. I'd rather have the build up. I'd love to hear Of The Girl open a show, but I doubt I'll ever get that one. Wash would be pretty amazing as well. I love HTI, but I think that one would be a bit too slow.
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    ummm
    I guess Acr is soft ?? I want Arc with the lights off
    then
    Alone & Wash
  • mrvedderson
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    skyeriverwinter wrote:
    U R A Crazy Breed wrote:
    so i was thinking a good show is like good sex....start off slow/easy/gentle/....then as it progresses it gets faster and ruffer....then you slow back down a little in the middle....then toward the end you pick the pace back up and go for broke!!..........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...i just busted a Yellow Ledbetter! :mrgreen::mrgreen:
    I can understand this mentality...Sometimes hard all the way through with a little slow down in the middle suits me just fine. Like a lover you will never see again...except in this case it's Pearl Jam...and you want them to ROCK YOU SO HARD....you have trouble getting up the next day. THAT'S WHAT I WANT!!!!! PLEASE!!!! :lol: :oops: :shock:


    your still talking about a show right? :lol:
  • U R A Crazy Breed
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    pandora wrote:
    ummm
    I guess Acr is soft ?? I want Arc with the lights off
    then
    Alone & Wash


    so....lights off.....alone...then wash.

    not getting much action these days huh? at least you wash up when your done! :lol::lol::lol:
  • mrvedderson
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    U R A Crazy Breed wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    ummm
    I guess Acr is soft ?? I want Arc with the lights off
    then
    Alone & Wash


    so....lights off.....alone...then wash.

    not getting much action these days huh? at least you wash up when your done! :lol::lol::lol:

    :lol::D
  • weenie
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    I tend to view the shows as fucking revivals - you know? All of the faithful show up to testify to the magic and greatness that is this band and what they mean to us all.

    So I like it when they start off with an emotional slow song like Release and I imagine Ed gathering us all together emotionally for a the great ride we're about to head out on.

    Plus, the slow ones build up anticipation for the ass-rockin, harder song which you KNOW will follow immediately. :D
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    demetrios wrote:
    not for me? wrote:
    I like it hard from start to finish.

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    LOL.


    sometimes = best opener.
  • youngster
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    For once I'd love to see a show start with Blood, Comatose, then Leash. Really fuckin kick the crowds ass right out of the gate.
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  • skyeriverwinter
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    U R A Crazy Breed wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    ummm
    I guess Acr is soft ?? I want Arc with the lights off
    then
    Alone & Wash


    so....lights off.....alone...then wash.

    not getting much action these days huh? at least you wash up when your done! :lol::lol::lol:
    Ok...this was FUNNY :lol::lol: I laughed so hard I cried!!!!
  • skyeriverwinter
    skyeriverwinter Posts: 1,906
    mrvedderson wrote:
    skyeriverwinter wrote:
    U R A Crazy Breed wrote:
    so i was thinking a good show is like good sex....start off slow/easy/gentle/....then as it progresses it gets faster and ruffer....then you slow back down a little in the middle....then toward the end you pick the pace back up and go for broke!!..........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...i just busted a Yellow Ledbetter! :mrgreen::mrgreen:
    I can understand this mentality...Sometimes hard all the way through with a little slow down in the middle suits me just fine. Like a lover you will never see again...except in this case it's Pearl Jam...and you want them to ROCK YOU SO HARD....you have trouble getting up the next day. THAT'S WHAT I WANT!!!!! PLEASE!!!! :lol: :oops: :shock:


    your still talking about a show right? :lol:
    yes...still about the show... :?
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    edited July 2009
    U R A Crazy Breed wrote:
    so i was thinking a good show is like good sex....start off slow/easy/gentle/....then as it progresses it gets faster and ruffer....then you slow back down a little in the middle....then toward the end you pick the pace back up and go for broke!!..........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...i just busted a Yellow Ledbetter! :mrgreen::mrgreen:


    LOL!!!!!!! who doesn't like their shows that way?

    my favorite openers are Of A Girl, Release and Why Go.
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  • Rossum20
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    I tend to dig the hard hitters right off the bat straight through the first encore...then ease off the second encore with some variation...the end the night with a bang!

    anyway, I was reflecting on some shows I have seen and I'll have to say, this was my 2nd or 3rd favorite show I've ever seen and here is how the show started...

    Wash
    Go
    Hail, Hail
    Animal
    Brain of J
    Corduroy
    Immortality


    probably couldn't imagine much of a better start to a show....any guess what show this was :?:
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,726
    decides2dream wrote:
    Lizard wrote:
    Hard

    ;)



    i do love release or oceans as a start....but damn go or hail, hail.....mmmm, hard is good too. i'll take what ever the boys want to dish out. ;)
    more close to mine so far ;)
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