*** ACL Festival Fanviews Here 10/04/09 **

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  • hookem
    hookem Posts: 245
    mfc2006 wrote:
    MEGATRON wrote:
    i dont shoot videos but i wanted to get somethin on tape.

    this is just a short clip and you cant see the band perfect. i just really like it cause you can see the crowd really get into it.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrnWArcyn8

    nice!! it was cool to stand a bit further back and watch the crowd....what a fucking awesome night!!!!

    You were wearing the Astros cap? I saw you. Dang, I was standing next to Urs but had no idea she was talking to you! Wish I could have said hello.
  • mr.dude
    mr.dude Posts: 5
    I don't care if it was a "greatest hits" set. It didn't feel that way live. I finally got to see my favorite band live, 9 years in the making from when they came to Lubbock in 2000 (30 miles from where I used to live) and didn't get to see them, due to my youth and parents being parents, ha. It was almost a religious experience. I finally saw my heroes do their thing and it was more than I ever imagined. What was already an outstanding weekend of music was capped off by the best show of my life. I called Ben coming out at sometime during the set, but never dreamed of Perry Farrell making an appearance. Everything about the show was amazing: intro music, backdrops, Ed banter, Iraqi disabled vets in attendance, Ed signing along w/ the lady signing for the deaf audience and the lady and Ed doing the middle finger during the appropriate part of Given to Fly, Ed's UT stool :), Ed getting down and dirty in the mud, every song, every solo, the light show, all the emotion from the band members and all the fans pumping their fists to the songs! Incredible, incredible experience!

    I'll add one amendment to the setlist, unless someone has already mentioned, but there was definitely two encores for the show. First one ended after Alive, and then Perry came on for Mountain Song at the beginning of the second. There was a backdrop change and everything. Just didn't want those viewing in the forum to think PJ short changed us or anything. Yeah, it was a shorter second encore by comparison of other shows, I guess ACL's time constraints were pretty firm, but I don't care. It's a show I'll never forget :)
  • WashMyLove
    WashMyLove Posts: 804
    edited October 2009
    What a crazy weekend!
    Flew from NYC to Texas to see one of my favorite bands. It was so cool to see Eddie on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday at KOL's set for their last song, SNSL, Eddie joined them on vocals and tamborines. It was nuts seeing him go crazy. Then Saturday we got lucky to see them at the Austin City Limit Simulcast. Seeing some of their new songs were awesome. Seeing Eddie sign postetic legs and giving the Veterans guitar pics was very emotional to see. He def cares for our troops. Eddie was funny with the audience even with Mike...When he was asking Mike about tight pants. Mike's face was like huh?saying why is Ed asking me... :lol:
    Hope PBS shows it November 21 so you guys can understand what I am talking about.

    And then comes Sunday at the festival...We got there before they opened up the doors. We claimed our spot by the center rail on Stones side. With the heat, and the mud this show was def worth all that.
    PJ def showed why they are awesome live. They kicked ass! Eddie made a mistake on one of the new songs with the lyrics...but it was all good.
    Jeff was on FIRE!!! It was so hot when he came back for the encore he was wearing a bandana.lol
    Mike's shirt stayed on upto the third song(I think) ;)
    Stone was dancing his duck dance and his long hair was bouncing around. He was having so much fun.
    Eddie just stayed with his sweaty shirt which was sticking to his skin.

    My highlights: Hearing the new songs live.
    see Perry sing The Mountain Song with PJ. Too bad Eddie's mic wasn't working properly during this song. I couldn't hear what he was singing. But the band played the song and they didn't even sound like PJ but more like Janes' addiction. Perry has so much energy on that stage it was a blast seeing them all get into it.
    As Eddie said at the beginning of the show that he was going to get muddy...Well he sure did at the end.
    This show should come out on bootleg and video. It was Classic!

    Wish I didn't forget my battery at the hotel, brought the camera without it.:(
    I would have def. taken good pictures of Eddie running & sliding in the mud.

    If anyone has picture please share them. :)
    Post edited by WashMyLove on
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    hookem wrote:
    mfc2006 wrote:
    MEGATRON wrote:
    i dont shoot videos but i wanted to get somethin on tape.

    this is just a short clip and you cant see the band perfect. i just really like it cause you can see the crowd really get into it.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrnWArcyn8

    nice!! it was cool to stand a bit further back and watch the crowd....what a fucking awesome night!!!!

    You were wearing the Astros cap? I saw you. Dang, I was standing next to Urs but had no idea she was talking to you! Wish I could have said hello.

    damn!! yup---that was me, man! were you wearing the UT hat?
    I LOVE MUSIC.
    www.cluthelee.com
    www.cluthe.com
  • TheLostSoul
    TheLostSoul Posts: 773
    i never knew this thread existed. i need to start reading.
    I miss you hippiemom.
  • TheLostSoul
    TheLostSoul Posts: 773
    when eddie showed off his texas longhorns stool, the dude next to me yelled "Texas!", and we all went "Fight!". back and forth it went.
    I miss you hippiemom.
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i got the impression he was kidding about the stool :)
  • mnegler
    mnegler Posts: 1
    This show was fantastic. I was about 30 back in front of Stone. Waited in the same spot for over 4 hours, it was packed up there. I was in the second row for the last 3 times I saw Pearl Jam, but this may have been better?! I was in pain after the long weekend, but my buddy kept me going and wouldn't let me leave. Thanks Rich! Loved Red Mosquito and Present Tense. Before Perry came on, Eddie said he would "give him the keys to the band and let him drive it as fast as he could" - or something like that. And he took it for a wild spin. I didn't think I would be blown away by PJ at this festival, but I was.
    mneg
  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,087
    Opening Band For The Sun wrote:
    i got the impression he was kidding about the stool :)

    me too. I'm a massive UT fan and would think I would have noticed that. I even mentioned to my wife at the simulcast that it was cool he was using a different stool for the night.
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,064
    Just fantastic
  • hookem
    hookem Posts: 245
    ComeToTX wrote:
    Opening Band For The Sun wrote:
    i got the impression he was kidding about the stool :)

    me too. I'm a massive UT fan and would think I would have noticed that. I even mentioned to my wife at the simulcast that it was cool he was using a different stool for the night.

    He was definitely not joking about the stool. We were up front at Toronto earlier this year and I noticed it as Rick brought it out and set it up. I follow the Longhorn Football team like I follow Pearl Jam and at that moment my two seemingly unconnected worlds collided in a big F'in way. I kinda freaked out for awhile.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Ed signing along w/ the lady signing for the deaf audience and the lady and Ed doing the middle finger during the appropriate part of Given to Fly

    Yeah, I forgot about that. Priceless!
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    hookem wrote:
    ComeToTX wrote:
    Opening Band For The Sun wrote:
    i got the impression he was kidding about the stool :)

    me too. I'm a massive UT fan and would think I would have noticed that. I even mentioned to my wife at the simulcast that it was cool he was using a different stool for the night.

    He was definitely not joking about the stool. We were up front at Toronto earlier this year and I noticed it as Rick brought it out and set it up. I follow the Longhorn Football team like I follow Pearl Jam and at that moment my two seemingly unconnected worlds collided in a big F'in way. I kinda freaked out for awhile.

    Absolutely not kidding re: the stool. He was using it on his solo tour, as well.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,087
    Wow. That's awesome. My 2 hobbies intersect.
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • Evergreen
    Evergreen Posts: 492
    hookem wrote:
    ComeToTX wrote:
    Opening Band For The Sun wrote:
    i got the impression he was kidding about the stool :)

    me too. I'm a massive UT fan and would think I would have noticed that. I even mentioned to my wife at the simulcast that it was cool he was using a different stool for the night.

    He was definitely not joking about the stool. We were up front at Toronto earlier this year and I noticed it as Rick brought it out and set it up. I follow the Longhorn Football team like I follow Pearl Jam and at that moment my two seemingly unconnected worlds collided in a big F'in way. I kinda freaked out for awhile.
    I had no idea either and was shocked! I went to college at UT and thought it was way cool that my favorite singer was plopping his ass on my alma mater!
  • megatron
    megatron Posts: 3,420
    mud just fell out of my wallet onto my desk. awesome
  • TheLostSoul
    TheLostSoul Posts: 773
    MEGATRON wrote:
    mud just fell out of my wallet onto my desk. awesome

    do you eat lunch at your desk?
    I miss you hippiemom.
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    slightofjeff wrote:
    hookem wrote:
    Opening Band For The Sun wrote:
    i got the impression he was kidding about the stool :)



    He was definitely not joking about the stool. We were up front at Toronto earlier this year and I noticed it as Rick brought it out and set it up. I follow the Longhorn Football team like I follow Pearl Jam and at that moment my two seemingly unconnected worlds collided in a big F'in way. I kinda freaked out for awhile.

    Absolutely not kidding re: the stool. He was using it on his solo tour, as well.
    heh well i'll be damned.
  • FLESH GORDON
    FLESH GORDON Posts: 24
    Heading out of the ACL Festival Saturday night walking down this dark trail to the pickup- I said to the girl that that morning threw a great ACL party, "I think Pearl Jam is gonna turn it up and turn the fucking lights out on this place tomorrow night." She said, "I think they are too."

    And damn. From the piano intro to the end. Fucking Awesome!

    The moon was shining behind the stage and I think the man on the moon was smiling from ear to ear. I know I was.

    Thanks.!!!
    Dolor es.....?
  • FLESH GORDON
    FLESH GORDON Posts: 24
    The soldiers they had off stage.
    Ben Harper ripping it up with the band after helping solve the world's problems the night/morning before.
    Perry Farrell
    Eddie screaming from his knees over and over "don't you want me" on Go was one of the best moments I've ever seen in a concert.
    Not For You yeah!

    Based on everyone I spoke to, everyone in Austin loves Pearl Jam. Even people that didn't get to go to the show because of the cash situation said they love the band and were so pissed they didn't get to go after hearing how great it was.
    Dolor es.....?

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