Pj20 if you werent there, you just dont get it.

slightofjeff wrote:

boothead wrote:

Trust me, alot of people who could not go "get it" and im sure tons who did go dont get it. so na i think youe OP is BS

I usually think the same, when people say something like this ... but having been there, this was different. This time they're right. The boots are not going to do this thing justice. Just the communal vibe of being there with "each other," from the parking lot tailgates at 3 o'clock, to screaming and singing along with the rest of the Ten Club during the show, to the joyful clusterfuck to get out of the parking lot afterward -- that's what made this weekend.

Not the songs the band played, or how they played them, or the guests they brought along. A lot of what made these shows special, and irreplaceable, was being there with "family."

If you weren't there, you didn't get to feel that love, between the band and the fans and the music and back again. It really was an amazing couple of nights, and a feeling to behold. Trying to explain that to someone who was not there is like trying to explain the sensation of great sex to a virgin.

I know when you miss out on something cool, there's a tendency to try to poo-poo it. "Oh, it wasn't that great anyway." There's a whole Aesop fable written around the concept (The Fox and the Grapes). I suppose those of us who were there should just let those who weren't rationalize it however they want.

We know the truth. It was the experience of a lifetime.

WeBelongTogether wrote:

Again, no disrespect - but you come off as a douche.

WeBelongTogether wrote:

slightofjeff wrote:

I usually think the same, when people say something like this ... but having been there, this was different. This time they're right. The boots are not going to do this thing justice. Just the communal vibe of being there with "each other," from the parking lot tailgates at 3 o'clock, to screaming and singing along with the rest of the Ten Club during the show, to the joyful clusterfuck to get out of the parking lot afterward -- that's what made this weekend.

Not the songs the band played, or how they played them, or the guests they brought along. A lot of what made these shows special, and irreplaceable, was being there with "family."

If you weren't there, you didn't get to feel that love, between the band and the fans and the music and back again. It really was an amazing couple of nights, and a feeling to behold. Trying to explain that to someone who was not there is like trying to explain the sensation of great sex to a virgin.

I know when you miss out on something cool, there's a tendency to try to poo-poo it. "Oh, it wasn't that great anyway." There's a whole Aesop fable written around the concept (The Fox and the Grapes). I suppose those of us who were there should just let those who weren't rationalize it however they want.

We know the truth. It was the experience of a lifetime.

I say this respectuflly: give me a f*cking break.

I am glad you had an incredible time. But posting in dozens of threads about how "no one can understand" is so over-the-top and nauseating. It is like you are trying to publicly justify why you went. Tell us you had an amzing time. Don't tell the hundreds of thousands of other 10C members that they can "never understand". Again, no disrespect - but you come off as a douche.

rebornFixer wrote:

dte421 wrote:

For the people complaining about the second night's setlist, let me just say this. During the more rare songs on the first night (Push Me Pull Me, Education, In The Moonlight and Help Help most specifically) the crowd was ABSOLUTELY DEAD. Not just on the lawn, but in the first 10 rows even - I had a great view of both sec 102 and the lawn from my spot in 203, and it the songs just fell flat on their faces. If the band's own fan club can't get into the songs, why should they bother playing them? The message was made clear on Friday.

Must respectfully disagree. Maybe I am a selfish prick, but I don't give two hoots if someone doesn't start gyrating on the lawn to In The Moonlight. Their boredom is their own loss. I don't see the problem here. They play all the "hits", every single tune from Ten and Versus and Vitalogy that the casual rock fan knows still shows up in setlists on a regular basis. They can also play some obscure tunes. Some of us love this stuff. PJ keeps both camps happy, assuming you collapse across both nights: Night 2 was full of the classics. This is the sort of comment people mean when they say the negativity is getting crazy. You're unimpressed that they played some rare songs?

dte421 wrote:

Yeah, see I didn't see this before when we were talking in the other thread. I am the same dude who wrote a 2000 word article last week explaining what the rarest songs in the PJ catalog are - I LOVE that shit. What I'm saying is that when there's 37,000 people at a show, and 35,000 of them aren't into the song, it sends the message to the band that the song is TOO obscure, especially when I'm looking at the fan club sections and there's just not a lot of rockin going on. That's what I meant by that. I'm still pissed they didn't play Girl personally. :evil: