Your favorite part of a live show?

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  • thunderlips
    thunderlips Posts: 58
    Yeah, that 10 minutes or so before they take the satge and the seats start to fill and the energy starts to build leading up tp the lights dimming. The anticipation is too much.
  • t0mMye
    t0mMye Posts: 821
    Absolutely right before the show starts, energy in the air..place went from half full to packed in 5 minutes...love that angst..
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  • MG79478
    MG79478 Posts: 1,727
    Tone wrote:
    locked wrote:
    MG79478 wrote:
    Or will you get stuck with Wash Again.

    .

    WTF????

    As John McEnroe would say "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!"

    :shock:

    :o :shock: :o :shock:

    No friggin kidding! WTF, "stuck"!? "Stuck with Wash"!!!!!!?????? That's my fucking dream!!! I dream of hearing Wash live! *mutters to self*

    I've heard Wash 5 times, that is 1 out of every 8 shows. Yet never heard Oceans. I can deal with good songs to open like Release, just not Wash.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,748
    Brisk. wrote:
    Pure randomness of not knowing what they are gonna play.
    + 1
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,748
    and when they are going to get on stage,the lights turn off and the music of walking getting louder...my hair is up..and when Eddie during porch searching where to climb
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Dr Chrono wrote:
    When the entrance music hits, the lights dim then BOOM the band hit the stage and the crowd roars =D

    With you there! :)
  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    MG79478 wrote:
    Tone wrote:
    MG79478 wrote:
    Or will you get stuck with Wash Again.

    :o :shock: :o :shock:

    No friggin kidding! WTF, "stuck"!? "Stuck with Wash"!!!!!!?????? That's my fucking dream!!! I dream of hearing Wash live! *mutters to self*

    I've heard Wash 5 times, that is 1 out of every 8 shows. Yet never heard Oceans. I can deal with good songs to open like Release, just not Wash.


    Well, I'm 0 for 18. I'm currently dying that they just played Oceans in Melbourne, so I am totally there with you wanting to hear Oceans. I'm still going to follow you... you're a Wash magnet ;)
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  • acutejam
    acutejam Posts: 1,433
    Neat topic! All good responses ...yeah the moment the lights dim, the piano intro music kicks in, energy and buzz starts to build, you see them heading out on stage ... fantastic feeling. Anything could happen!

    My favorite part though is when they play that song I had totally forgotten about, one of many favorite songs that kinda got lost in all the buildup -- a song I wouldn't nesc say was my fav song or even top 3-5, wasn't even on my wishlist, a song I'd probably given up on ever hearing live ... but for some reason, it's the right song at the right time.

    It's that karmic "you can't always get what you want, but you get what you need!"

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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Wow I'd give anything to hear Wash or Alone- 2 all time faves
    someday
  • peacegirl
    peacegirl Posts: 841
    Right before/when the show starts...the lights go down, the band comes out, the roar of the crowd and the energy...it's my favorite part of every live show not just PJ
  • sox4life5676
    sox4life5676 Posts: 17
    loadedgun wrote:
    sox4life5676 wrote:
    Rubberbandman wrote:
    i would have to say besides the whole show
    The audience signing along and the band noticing what is going on and then having the audience singing along

    i will never forget last year me and my brother went to MSG night 1 i believe, it was his first Pearl jam show ( he has been to a ton of concerts) and whatever song was playing the audience was participating and he was like " i have never seen anything like that before" and for me that is what it is all about :)

    the beginning of the show is always cool and the end they also do something special

    I had a similar experience at the last Boston show, brought one of my best friends who had always liked PJ but had never seen them live, about 5 songs in when they played Animal and the place was on fire he turned to me and said a line that i really think sums it up best "this isn't a concert, it's an event"

    Your friend has never been the same, has he?

    I say it's not just an event, but a total experience.

    nope he can't wait to go again.

    I have to agree with others in the you never know what you are going to get. That makes it exciting that at the end of every song you aren't sure what's coming up.
  • Hinn
    Hinn Posts: 1,517
    Scanning around, whether it's from the seats or doing my customary couple of laps of the arenas before the shows, looking for where my friends are. Generally much easier in GA than in seated shows, since GA means they're all around right there. And generally it's more about the others spotting me and waving hi :)

    Climbing over seats, assuring the venue staff that i have no intention on staying in the spots but just wanting to have a quick pre-show yarn, being called out by people who I didn't even know were going to be there, the look on others faces of this mad bond that we share with one another, it's just magical.

    I love this as much as the show itself.
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  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    pandora wrote:
    Wow I'd give anything to hear Wash or Alone- 2 all time faves
    someday

    Oh, you and I both! I maintain the faith ;)
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  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    Hinn wrote:
    Scanning around, whether it's from the seats or doing my customary couple of laps of the arenas before the shows, looking for where my friends are. Generally much easier in GA than in seated shows, since GA means they're all around right there. And generally it's more about the others spotting me and waving hi :)

    Climbing over seats, assuring the venue staff that i have no intention on staying in the spots but just wanting to have a quick pre-show yarn, being called out by people who I didn't even know were going to be there, the look on others faces of this mad bond that we share with one another, it's just magical.

    I love this as much as the show itself.

    :wave: you're not exactly difficult to spot in your Warwick Capper wig and Aussie flag cape :lol:
    Glaciers melting in the dead of night and the superstars sucked into the supermassive.
  • MG79478
    MG79478 Posts: 1,727
    So a twist on the topic, I've decided the most disappointing points of a show is when the following things happen:

    1) I get shut out of the lottery for 54,846th time
    2) They don't open with Oceans
    3) The tool that does win the lottery get's a rarity scratched from the setlist because they have a "last kiss" sign.

    I've just comes to terms with the fact that I will never hear Oceans, and I will never win the lottery. At least the mid-set oceans in Australia gave me some hope that it will appear randomly some day.
  • Sir. PJ
    Sir. PJ Posts: 149
    the "Hallelujah" during DTE
  • belfast1
    belfast1 Posts: 789
    the big jump in the middle of Even Flow
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  • Chazz
    Chazz Posts: 1,160
    Brisk. wrote:
    Pure randomness of not knowing what they are gonna play.

    what he said :D

    and the lovely goosebumpy feeling you get when you recognise the opening notes of a song you've been longing to hear (for me Footsteps at the O2 and Release at MSG 2, and about 20 others)

    and when the intro music comes on and the lights go out........this thread is making me yearn for more shows :)
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  • whiteside
    whiteside Posts: 85
    If there was one moment I had to choose it's when the band walk on stage - the huge cheer goes up - then the opening notes of whatever they're opening with kicks off and the whole place goes nuts. I almost don't think it matters so much if it's you're favourite song, it's more just that that's when it hits you what an unbelievable 2 or 3 hours you're in for.

    I still get chills thinking about the roar that went up in the Point in 2000 when the opening riff of Sometimes kicked in.
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  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    I have to admit I'm not a big fan of the song, but I get chills every time I hear the very first opening chords to Alive.

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