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Concern after last Binaural Show?

realmgeorgerealmgeorge Posts: 309
edited May 2011 in The Porch
Just listened to the last show of the Binaural tour in Seattle. Ed made numerous mentions that "This is it" "Goodbye" "we are done" type talk like it was their last show. I've been to multiple tour ending shows, and listened to may others but never heard that many, or that many focused goodbyes...

So my question, was the general fanbase concerned after that show was over? Looking for some info from some people who were active then?
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  • BeerBaronBeerBaron Toronto-ish Posts: 4,100
    That tour was the end of a very rough year for the band. The Riskilde tragedy happened on 6/30/00 and the band canceled the two subsequent European shows and nearly canceled the entire American tour that followed. There was a lot of talk that the band nearly called it quits after that tragedy, so Ed was certainly not in the best place at the end of the tour.

    The band also didn't play Alive on that entire American tour until that very last show in Seattle.
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  • evenflow82evenflow82 Posts: 3,892
    I think the band has had some close calls with breaking up.

    Spring 1994 after Cobain's death, fame, the tension between Ed and Dave A. (who I stil believe was in the wrong place at the wrong time with Ed and his attitude). Mike's drug and alcohol problems were also hurting the band.

    Spring of 96 while making No Code I've read Jeff walked out on the band for a while because material he thought was being recorded wasn't.

    Fall of 2000 After the long Binaural tour and death of the fans. Ed's marriage falling apart didn't help much either.

    Out of all the times I've read about, I think the band was probably closest to breaking up in 1994. Listening to some of the March and April 94 shows from the Vs. tour it sounds like the band is not holding back at all...Ed's vocals expecially.
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  • tremorstremors Posts: 8,051
    realmgeorge wrote:

    So my question, was the general fanbase concerned after that show was over? Looking for some info from some people who were active then?


    I was active on the boards during that time, and what I remember most was absolutely nothing during that period was taken for granted. We just took each day at a time, and hoped that the band would feel able to continue.
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  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Nancy Wilson on that show:

    WILSON: I saw them in Seattle, the last show of their whole [Binaural] tour. It was incredible. All these incredible versions, different versions of songs, different grooves on songs, big long jams. Pretty much every person during the whole show sang every lyric to every song. And every time Eddie would glance over or look over to our section, every arm went up. Afterwards, I went backstage and Eddie came up to me and was having a million feelings you could tell, cause it was the end of the whole tour, the 'life and death tour.' I said, "I just got so emotional during your show. That was maybe the best show I've ever seen." I saw tears come into his eyes and he was like, "Yeah, I know," and gave me this big hug. It meant so much to him that the night was so good.
  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Ed has made a lot of comments like this over the past 10 years. I don't know if he really thinks it might be their last tour, last tour to that area, or if what he says just comes out the wrong way. He made a few comments during the Riot Act Tour that were along the same lines.

    And I remember in either '09 or '10 at one of their European shows Ed made some comment that several websites were actually reporting on as the "break up of Pearl Jam". But that one seemed pretty silly to me, because when I read the story the quote seemed innocent.

    In all honesty, for the last 10 years I have been living under the assumption that the most recent album was their last album. Then they would announce a return to the studio and I would think, "hope they make it good, because it's probably the last". I never dreamed they would carry on this long.
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  • PapPap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,626
    SatansFuton wrote:
    In all honesty, for the last 10 years I have been living under the assumption that the most recent album was their last album. Then they would announce a return to the studio and I would think, "hope they make it good, because it's probably the last". I never dreamed they would carry on this long.
    That's the secret of their longevity. ;)
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