No Grateful Dead comparisons!

Come Back in Black wrote:

Wow... everyone is all the sudden so righteous and against unfair stereotyping of other bands and their fans all the sudden on this forum. Thats new. I am looking forward to similar scathing posts when terms like "frat fucks", "cock rock", "jocks" and such come out. Because thats ok. But if you stereotype dead heads as some dirty chick with furry armpits and an old curtain for a shirt everyone gets real upset. Stereotyping is messed up when people use different stereotypes then you isn't it?

Get_Right wrote:

I was thinking an EV acoustic version of ripple

DischordVision wrote:

I think we all need, as PJ fans, attempt to lose or disassociate w/ the Grateful Dead comparisons that have been written & talked about over the past 5-6 years.
First off, the Grateful Dead are dead, have been since Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Second, we are not nor am I by any means burnt out druggie hippies trying to revive the 1960's & 70's on a daily basis. Third, the music is huge parallels apart from each other. The Grateful Dead were just a dope/LSD laced jam band that happened to form in a city(San Francisco) that accepted that sort of birth at the time. We however, are not druggies (I hope) & have more intelligence & intrigue than most fans of rock bands. Pearl Jam's soul & identity gives way to the freedom of punk rock & the all out integrity of 70's arena rock. Ok, so the Dead & PJ had a lot of music out in a short length of time at their peak & the Ten Club members/die hards know the songs like their short n' curlys, so what? Pearl Jam's still alive, always have been & we know they're not going anywhere anytime soon.
So what makes us survive? The band's topics such as politics, evolution & faith? you decide...not some critic who sees us & the band as new age jam heads...no thank you at all...

momofglynn wrote:

I think my 2nd or 3rd show I went to was a Shakedown opener.

Now could you imagine if you would EV doing Stella Blue.... Now that's some serious tears pouring down my face!!!!!

Stone Is God wrote:

"I don't think we should play another note until we thank the Grateful Dead for letting us use their stage. They left it for us. There were still joints left on it from Saturday. So, ah, we think it's only right that we play as long as they do."

Eddie Vedder-Soldier Field 7/11/95

My all time favorite bootleg.

EdVedHed wrote:

Saw the Grateful Dead 76 times (86-95) - and Pearl Jam 24 times (91-present). I love them both.

This bright, memorabilia-filled building isn't just Pearl Jam's home--it's also the center of the Jamily universe. Right off the warehouse's common room is the office of the Ten Club (or 10C), the band's unusually vibrant fan organization. 10C members enjoy all sorts of perks (like an exclusive Christmas single), and they get first crack at the best concert tickets; the result is a remarkably close connection between Pearl Jam and their most passionate fans. If that brings to mind a certain other fan-friendly band, well, that's not a coincidence. "We were studying the Grateful Dead model," says the band's longtime manager, Kelly Curtis. "We just went and hung out in their offices and looked at how they did things. It was so grassroots and so great." The club was mail-based and somewhat chaotic until 1998, when they hired Tim Bierman (an old friend of bassist Jeff Ament) to oversee the operation, transforming 10C into a Web-fueled powerhouse. While Curtis and Bierman will not disclose the number of current 10C members, they claim it is larger than it's ever been.

Pearl Jam fans obsessively collect show posters; they dissect set lists on the fan club's Internet Message Pit; they get together and sometimes even marry each other. Many have separate bank accounts set aside to support their touring habit, and some have time off for Pearl Jam shows written into their contracts at work. They amass scores of concert recordings (in 2000, Pearl Jam started releasing official "bootlegs" of almost all their shows). Most remarkably, the Jamily pays attention to the band's charitable causes. In an echo of the Grateful Dead's Rex Foundation, Pearl Jam operates the nonprofit Vitalogy Foundation, and members of the Jamily often set up fund- raisers to support the band's pet causes (like the Surfrider Foundation).

The faithful were out in force during a brief North American tour last fall. Outside the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, 26-year-old Sarah Moskowitz was hanging out with her fellow 10C members, who had arranged a preshow parking-lot meet-up via the Message Pit. "I know it sounds crazy to love a band this much," she said. "It touches me." At the Vancouver show, a 44-year-old fan named Rob Bleetstein was wearing a Grateful Dead T-shirt. "I consider myself extremely fortunate that I can have another musical experience like this," said Bleetstein, who'd seen the Dead 264 times and was on his 77th Pearl Jam show. "Because I have a lot of Deadhead friends who can't find it anywhere else."

And while Pearl Jam may not sound like the Dead, their shows have a similar feel--the same intimacy, the same anything-can-happen vibe, the same curfew-challenging running time. "They're super- loose musicians, and they have a really joyous approach to the show," says Janet Weiss, the drummer for Sleater-Kinney, one of Pearl Jam's regular opening bands. "These guys want to have a good time, and they want to share it."