How do you do a whole tour?

I try to just do like 4 or 5 shows that are close to each other so i can drive to all of them ..

1. Live on the East Coast, preferably Pennsylvania, the best state to see the band. (PA=PJ)
2. Buy wife flowers
3. Go to College
3a. Make enough money to support your habit
3b. Make friends who you can go visit and crash in various cities.
4. Save vacation for the tour
5. Buy wife flowers
6. Go to all shows on week nights within a ~3 hour drive
7. Go to all weekend shows within ~5 hour drive or short flight, stay with college friends
8. Buy wife flowers
9. Have decent 10c number to attract friends to make week night trips with you
10. Fast internet connection for scoring 10C or TM tickets.

Great thread topic! I've been wondering this myself. Although, I suppose that living in Columbus, it would have been possible for me to hit at least the Noblesville and Cleveland shows in addition to the Columbus show I went to. If, you know, I had actually planned ahead or something.

My dream would be to win the lottery and follow them to attend every single show around the world.

Satans Red Mosquito wrote:

I have wondered how some ppl follow them from sea to shining sea? Even people that follow a 5 or 6 show stretch, do you all fly from town to town, fly into one place rent a car and fly home from the last city? I'm curious, because I'd like to try to 5 or 6 shows next time, and wanna see what's the cheapest way to do and logical way.

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it depends on where they play, I live in DC/VA now, so i did Bristow , I am from NY , i could only do MSG II, could of done 1 & Newark, Hartford was a Sat so that was doable

2008 -I did both MSG, Hartford & Mansfield II

it helps i have good friends in Boston, Philly also & a ton in NY so i have places to stay,

Myself and my boyfriend are doing 5 shows, in 5 different countries: Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen and Berlin.

For Dublin we booked UBER cheap (as in £11 return for both of us) flights to Belfast. We were due to book the train down to Dublin for the following Belfast show but instead a very generous friend has offered us a lift (We will be paying petrol money). We're staying at a hotel in Dublin that we got cheap through searching t'interwebs. The deal includes breakfast so we don't have to eat much during the day, thus saving valuable cash.

We have a lift back up to Belfast and a cheap, basic hotel for one night.

We fly back to England and then spend our free night at home, eating our own food and sleeping in our own bed.

London is a £10 each train down to Euston station on the day of the show. We're staying in a very cheap Easy hotel (minus the window, that costs extra) for one night.

The following day we fly to Amsterdam on a cheap sale flight. The same generous friend as before has offered us his spare room at his house in Amsterdam so accomodation is sorted.

To get to Berlin we're taking the train to Dusseldorf and then a flight to Berlin from there. This was considerably cheaper.

In Berlin we have a nice hotel (another online bargain) for 3 nights. We then fly back to East Midlands airport in the dead of night on 2nd July as flights were dirt cheap for that time and that airport...


Myself and my boyfriend both work full time and are both current members of Tenclub. We have no children.

Both our lift and accomodation were offered to us by a generous friend and not asked for.

I get 26 days holiday a year and he gets 20... the tour has used 10 each.

We have saved like crazy for these past few months and told various friends 'no' when invited to events as we know we have the tour to pay for.

The show tickets at the time were put on a credit card as the tour was announced just before Christmas and we were skint. That has since been paid off.

I have sold of the possessions I don't need, on Ebay.

We have had no financial help.



...And that, my dear, is how we do a 5 date stint on a PJ European tour. 8-)

East Coast - yes - we're in upstate, and within a 500 mile drive, the following cities are available: New York,Albany, Hartford, Newark, Boston, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal,Quebec C., London, Kitchener, Philly, Pittsburgh, which pretty much covers it. If you want to stretch a bit more, Cleveland, though I've never seen PJ in Cleveland. Just got our own little hub and spoke system up here. I don't spend for flying - I've I lived elsewhere I'd have to. If there's a 20th anniversary show however, wherever it is, I'll try to go.

I don't do a whole tour, but I save and go to as many as possible (4-6 usually). I eat cheap (my whole NYC trip last weekend, we ate in a restaurant once; the rest was stuff off carts and corner shops, eaten in places like Bryant Park). I'm not a drinker, so I don't spend money on booze (yeah I know the majority doesn't think thats a waste of $$ heh). I park cheap. I stay in cheap hotels whenever possible. (In NYC I paid under $100 per night - hostel type places offer this if you don't mind a shared bathroom for example). Not only for Pearl Jam, but its a whole life philosophy - its not about being a miser on everything but its about saving when possible, not wasting money on things that aren't that meaningful to you, so you have the funds for the things that are important.

Flowers - my husband doesn't care about them heh, but he does like Indian sweets/snacks, so I always bring some back from wherever I've been! (He's not that into western music so not interested in going to shows)

Did a big run back in 2000. 8 shows in 10 days. Starting in Cincy and all the way through to Mansfield.

My buddy and I left Maine in the middle of the night and drove to Cincy. We met some guys from Detroit at the show. They agreed to let us stay with them, and in return, we let them stay with us in Columbus the next night.

We spent 2 nights total in his van (or driving through the night, at least). The other nights were either crashing at friends houses or splitting hotels with friends (we crammed 6 of us in a hotel room after Jones Beach 1-2).

We stopped along the way at supermarkets and bought bread and sandwich meat,and beer/soda/water. Never really went to any bars, every show was tailgating.

Remarkably, we got through it pretty cheap (the biggest expense was tickets to 8 shows). Considering we partied like rock stars for 11 straight days, I can't believe we made it home alive.

It's hard now (with tickets and gas even more expensive). Plus, I was 24 back then. 33 now......I just did Hartford and Boston this tour and was exhausted.

im doing Dublin,Belfast,London,Nijmegen,Berlin,Arras,Werchter,Venice,Bilbao,Lisbon...

starting at 20-6-2010,go back home at 11-7-2010

Here we go:
Volos - Athens /train
Athens - London /flight
London - Dublin /flight
Dublin - Belfast /train
Belfast - London/ flight
London - Amsterdam /Flight
Amsterdam - Leiden /train
Leiden Nijmegen /train
Nijmegen - Vlaardingen /car
Vlaardingen - Leiden /train
Leiden - Amsterdam /train
Amsterdam - Berlin /train
Berlin - Paris /flight
Paris - Arras /train
Arras - Werchter /train
Werchter - Brussels /train
Brussels - Venice /flight
Venice - Barcelona /flight
Barcelona - Bilbao /flight
Bilbao - Madrid /bus
Madrid - Lisbon /flight
Lisbon - Barcelona /flights
Barcelona - Athens /flight
Athens Volos /train

i dont really know whats it gonna cost but the moto is
First PEARL JAM and after the BANK

all i need is this

I've wondered this myself. I've been to 18 shows, all of them in New England. Always wanted to travel, never really had the means.