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  • BH198990BH198990 Posts: 174
    Oops, what i meant to say tho....

    Been listening to a boot of the Toledo show a ton lately, and it's really great. If i HAD been there at the time, i have no doubt it would still be my favorite ever. Perfect setlist for me, great performance.

    cheers
  • letsongsprotestletsongsprotest Novi, MI Posts: 552
    BH198990 wrote:
    My first show wasnt until Toledo 1996. But, that felt like winning the lottery when i got tickets as they still werent using ticketmaster. And it was f-ing incredible.

    Very exciting time. Memories........................

    I'm same age as you, and also a Detroiter, and missed out on this show, was only barely aware at the time that it happened. I had tried the "newspaper lottery" for the '94 Masonic show, missed on that and the AnnArbor show of the same year. Tickets were selling out in literally like 3 minutes. The Toledo show, i don't know, i think i just sort of let it go out of my awareness so as not to torture myself further. Funny, because that's when i was really really at the peak of my fandom too (athough i'm still sort of their i guess). No Code was easily my favorite album of theirs, and remains so. I had taped the Self Pollution broadcast off the radio, had taped the Atlanta concert off the radio, started buying some of those same boots....And was starting to believe i would never see 'em live.....When i finally did, detroit 98, i was the very last seat to the top on Mike's side of the stage, like the last seat stuffed halfway behind the stage all the way at the top.....And it was worth it.

    cheers
    aaron

    Ah, fellow Detroiter!!!

    I got lucky with Toledo. I was shut out when i tried calling for tickets. The line was busy and never got through. The day of the show, my buddy called me and asked if i wanted his brothers ticket, because his bro was hungover and didnt want to go. SCORE! I remember going to class the next day (a Monday) and paying no attention to any of my professors because I couldnt stop thinking about the show.

    And yeah, i went to both the Detroit and East Lansing 98 shows and they were even better than Toledo
    There's a trapdoor in the sun.
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  • stratmadstratmad Posts: 211
    First show for me was 1995 also - Melbourne, 18/3 the night after the Triple J broadcast, which had everyone chomping at the bit to see them play. They played outdoors at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl which was an interesting choice for a venue as it's set in one of the nice gardens in Melbourne. There were 2 sections - the front section which would have had a great view of the stage and the rest of the park virtually (well just the hill section leading down to the amphitheater).

    So many memories - opening with Corduroy instead of say Release, which was probably more common back then, fireworks from the nearby Moomba parade could be seen overhead, timed perfectly as they went into the Daughter tag, which of all things had Ed singing bits of Stupid Mop (probably the only time or one of the only times they touched on this live), streams of people kicking down the fences nearby and coming into the gardens to watch the gig (the police, to their credit, let people in instead of trying to keep them out), a ferocious version of Go which had the whole place pogoing as far as the eye can see, Link Meanie from the Meanies getting up with Ed to sing Throw Your Arms Around Me, rarities like Footsteps and YL (back then it was a rarity). In fact they actually ended up playing the Mamasan trilogy that night and in the right order - save for the fact that Satan's Bed was inserted between Once and Footsteps. Stormed home with show closer Baba O'Riley.

    The only audio of this show is pretty ordinary but like another poster said in reference to the Soldier Field show, all I need to do is to strap on some headphones and I am right back there.
  • acutejamacutejam Posts: 1,433
    Sacto '95 -- the show just prior to the SF gig. At the Cal Expo open air amphitheater, so much stuff thrown up on the stage, mountains of clothes, shoes, backpacks, hilarious! And on a somber note, Eddie saying "Folks up here on the rail are risking their lives for this...." It was a crush, mosh pits breaking out 3-4 different places all night. Monster of a show!

    The Alt Jeremy will always be my main memory, all of us sitting there wondering what the heck they were playing til the first few words came out. Tremor Christ. Dissident. This will always be the benchmark against which I measure shows, after hundreds of concerts in my life, this one still in my Top 10! And it's a pretty good quality boot for '95, one that will never be deleted from the iPod....

    Seems a while later, finding that music files were floating around on that there internet thingy, first song i ever downloaded ... Sonic Reducer!

    Release; Last Exit; Spin The Black Circle; Animal; Tremor Christ; Jeremy; Corduroy; Lukin; Not For You; Dissident; Go; Even Flow; Daughter (Another Brick In The Wall); Rearviewmirror; Habit; Immortality; Whipping; Black; Alive; Blood; Better Man; Sonic Reducer; Porch (Steppin' Stone); Yellow Ledbetter

    And yeah, was my first Pearl Jam show.
    [sic] happens
  • Dirty MosquitoDirty Mosquito Chicago Posts: 621
    I really wish I could have seen them back then! I don't know what was wrong with me! I have been a fan since day one, but for some reason didn't see them live until 2000. Although I did see Ed solo prior to that.

    At least I can say my first show was the "Icebowl"! What a night! So freakin cold! They put on an amazing show too despite the 26 degree temperature!
    Alpine Valley 06-13-99 [EV-Solo]
    Alpine Valley 10-8-00 (The Icebowl)
    Chicago 05-16-06, 05-17-06
    Lollapalooza 08-05-07
    Chicago 08-22-08 [EV Solo]
    Chicago 08-23-09, 08-24-09
    Chicago 06-28-11, 06-29-11 [EV Solo]
    PJ20 Alpine Valley 09-03-11, 09-04-11
    Wrigley Field 07-19-13
    Wrigley Field 08-20-16, 08-22-16
  • so many shows and your memory does go as you get older

    Highlights for me that I can think of right now...

    First show - Springfield MA 1994. 17 still wet behind the ears and weighed probably 120. very easily learned how to crowd surf
    Orpheum
    Old Garden shows
    Augusta ME with Rodman and GA
    Randalls Island with John Popper and Ben Harper
    VA Beach opening show of 2000 tour (after rockslide)
    MSG
    The experiment show Mansfield
    Vedder Solo at Opera house

    all shows below...
    4/6/94, 4/10/94, 4/11/94
    9/26/96, 9/28/96, 10/2/96
    6/14/98, 9/13/98, 9/15/98, 9/16/98
    8/3/00, 8/29/00, 8/30/00
    7/2/03, 7/3/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03
    9/28/04, 9/29/04
    5/24/06, 5/25/06
    6/28/08, 6/30/08, 8/1/08, 8/2/08
    4/6/94, 4/10/94, 4/11/94
    9/26/96, 9/28/96, 10/2/96
    6/14/98, 9/13/98, 9/15/98, 9/16/98
    8/3/00, 8/29/00, 8/30/00
    7/2/03, 7/3/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03
    9/28/04, 9/29/04
    5/24/06, 5/25/06
    6/28/08, 6/30/08, 8/1/08, 8/2/08
    5/17/10
    10/15/13, 10/16/13
    8/5/16, 8/7/16
    9/4/18, 9/4/18
  • BALLBOYBALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,035
    Easties wrote:
    liamdog7 wrote:
    Hell yeah. My first PJ show was Sydney March 10, 1995. Camped out for over 2 days and got awesome tickets. Flea guested for Jeff's bday. Overall was truly amazing show. I only wish that I'd been able to see them with Dave A.

    My first was Eastern Creek. Man, the old days of camping out for tickets. What a cool period of my life. Things never stay the same of course but I loved the intensity back in the mid 90's. I didn't need to hear Ed talk and make me laugh between songs. I didn't care to see Mike with a big smile on his face. Both things I love about the shows these days. All I cared about was hearing some intense tunes. Burning off energy. Being energised by their energy. Watching Mike smash his guitar. Eddie with a constant frown. I fucking loved those times, and super grateful for having witnessed them. '95 was a hell of a year. You could just sense that may things were bottling up inside and whenever they came out on stage - BAM! They were lethal. Dave A is my fav as well but Jack was super cool. Just pure rock at it's 90's best. They were getting into a serious groove by the time '95 came around.
    Yeah i was there as well & it was the most amazing thing ever just to see everyone jumping to Last Exit to lying on the hill listening to Black staring at the stars with a beautiful moon behind the stage to having to throw my shoes out cause of the mud. Hoping there is some footage in PJ20 from that show or tour. Good to see people back from the early days are still around. Still have my Vitalogy shirt it is a bit ragged around the edges but that is how it should be.
    Eastern Creek 95,Syd 1 98,Bris 2 98, Syd 1&2 03, Reading Fest 06, Bris 1 06, London 09, Hyde Park 10, Gold Coast BDO 14 Budapest 22 Krakow 22 Amsterdam 22 St Paul 1&2 23 Chicago 1&2 23 Chicago 1&2 24 New York 1 24 Philly 1&2 24 Boston 1&2 24 Gold Coast 24 Melbourne 1 24 Sydney 1&2 24
  • Save WhoSave Who Posts: 297
    BH198990 wrote:
    My first show wasnt until Toledo 1996. But, that felt like winning the lottery when i got tickets as they still werent using ticketmaster. And it was f-ing incredible.

    Very exciting time. Memories........................

    I'm same age as you, and also a Detroiter, and missed out on this show, was only barely aware at the time that it happened. I had tried the "newspaper lottery" for the '94 Masonic show, missed on that and the AnnArbor show of the same year. Tickets were selling out in literally like 3 minutes. The Toledo show, i don't know, i think i just sort of let it go out of my awareness so as not to torture myself further. Funny, because that's when i was really really at the peak of my fandom too (athough i'm still sort of their i guess). No Code was easily my favorite album of theirs, and remains so. I had taped the Self Pollution broadcast off the radio, had taped the Atlanta concert off the radio, started buying some of those same boots....And was starting to believe i would never see 'em live.....When i finally did, detroit 98, i was the very last seat to the top on Mike's side of the stage, like the last seat stuffed halfway behind the stage all the way at the top.....And it was worth it.

    cheers
    aaron

    Ah, fellow Detroiter!!!

    I got lucky with Toledo. I was shut out when i tried calling for tickets. The line was busy and never got through. The day of the show, my buddy called me and asked if i wanted his brothers ticket, because his bro was hungover and didnt want to go. SCORE! I remember going to class the next day (a Monday) and paying no attention to any of my professors because I couldnt stop thinking about the show.

    And yeah, i went to both the Detroit and East Lansing 98 shows and they were even better than Toledo

    I remember trying to get tickets to the Toledo show. Never could get through and got shut out. I was only 15 at the time, so I didn't know how I was going to get there but I would've found a way ;)

    My first show was '98 East Lansing. Had pretty decent seats in the lower bowl. My girlfriend at the time and I were walking up to the Breslin and some great 10 club member said that he didn't want to take his daughter down on the floor and if we would swtich seats with him. They ended up being 4th row and best seats I have had at any of the 15 shows I've been too! I don't know if you're on this board buddy, but thanks for making that show one to remember!
  • I was at the Phoenix show in '95. It was my second PJ show (saw them in '93). We took the trip from Vegas to see them in Phoenix. I remember the show was posponed, so I actually have 2 ticket stubs one from the original date (the bug ticket) and then the actual used ticket (they yellow man drawing). The show was intense. It was all GA and so it was first come first serve. Me and my friend got there about 10 minutes before the Ramones came on, so there was no way we'd get to the floor or a good seat. We were young high school teens so when the lights went out we ran down the aisle and jumped down to the floor. Intense performance from the Ramones and then Pearl Jam. We were moving the whole time. It was packed on the floor, but it was fun. Still have an old shirt from that show (the simple black with the white target logo).

    What I remember most is how intense the performance and crowd in the pit area was.

    Good memories.
  • max8700 wrote:
    ive seen them many many times through this 20 year ride i do agree with the energy in the early 90's its something that could never be replaced i remember seeing them at csu in cleveland in 92 awesome but if i had to pick one tour i think they hit there highest peak with the 2000 tour the band was at its best and the band's energy still was similar to what it was in the 90's. I think they still sound great live but I dont see that intense energy as we did in past years. But with that said out 30 plus shows my two favorites will always be Montreal 05 and Grand rapids in 06. There was something strange going on that night in Grand rapids it was almost like it was 1996 rather than 2006 ;) The montreal show the energy in that crowd was something that hasnt been topped yet (to me) and thats even with having the worst ten club seats i had yet.

    That Grand Rapids 2006 show was the one where they "screwed up" the fan club seats and all the good numbers were in the back and the normally bad numbers were up front. Tons of people had great seats that never usually got a sniff of the stage....and the band responded to all the new faces. At one point near the end of the show, Vedder says "Grand Rapids, huh? Who knew?"

    Besides Soldier Field 1995, may favorite show I've ever been to.
    yes they did screw the seats up that night but i do remember alot of people complaining on this fourm about the lack of energy in the crowds before that show. so who knows maybe they did it on purpose but it worked out for me that night. i used to have a number in the 125's i was severly injured in a bad work accident and took along time to get back on my feet. in that time i let my membership expire and then renewed it several years later now im in the 280's. so that night it was like a blast from the past and i sat 7th row center stage. not that 280's get me bad seats anyway. aslong as im in the building i'm happy. but i do remember jeff throwing it up to my beat up 1980's seahwak hat several times and i know this may be wishfull thinking but at one point during the encore eddie was sitting on stage right after off he goes i yelled as loud as i could "play around the bend" eddie stopped and said"i have another idea to fuck with you some more would you like to hear around the bend. we havent played it or practiced it so at this time we would be fucking with ourselves" even though he did mess the words up a little it is still my favorite pj moment in 20 years. i have two kids and spent many many hours rocking them to sleep singing that song
    Brooklyn 1,2 13
    Chicago EV 08 11 13
    Cleveland 94 98 03 06 10
    Cincinatti 06
    Columbus 00 03 10
    Detroit 06 EV 11 14
    Grand Rapids 06
    Hershey 03
    Jacksonville EV 12
    Moline 14
    Montreal 05
    Milwaukee EV 08
    Nobelsville 03
    Ottawa 05
    Pittsburgh 06 13
    Toledo 96 04

    WRIGLEY 13
  • MW3384MW3384 Posts: 122
    New Orleans make up show at Tad Gormley Stadium Ramones opened and came back to play with Pearl Jam need I say more. Worth the wait
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