**** Toronto 2 Fanviews Here 9/12/11 ****

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  • noahm
    noahm Posts: 19
    quentin0 wrote:
    as a side note, did anyone else notice that eddie cut his thumb open pretty bad during baba but played through it?

    It was bleeding pretty bad.
    It happened on the tambourine toss.
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    oh yeah, how about Ed wearing that Mexican wrestling mask lol

    why would someone bring that to a show lol
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
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    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
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  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    from a philly guy thats been to a bunch of shows since 1994, im so glad i came to toronto, great city, great people and an overall great experience. im so grateful to everyone i met here, simply awesome. im definitely leaving with the fondest memories.
    thank you toronto (and pj)
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    PK1115 wrote:
    Ok im gunna say it, Ole fkn rocked live!!!
    Wow.... Forget tv performance forget mp3. Live is where its at!

    Thought so too :D
    Please, Pearl Jam, consider a Benaroya Hall vinyl reissue! http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/148993/please-pearl-jam-consider-a-vinyl-benaroya-hall-re-issue


  • Torontonian
    Torontonian Posts: 562
    I missed this show but had Ten Club tickets. Thanks to the best fan club in the world for allowing me an exception to give my 18th row seats to my good friends. She loves Pearl Jam and have never seen them live. She and her husband love the show.

    I can rarely say I would rather be anywhere other than a Pearl Jam concert in my hometown of Toronto but last night I had the pleasure of welcoming my first child, Emily, into this world at 8:22 pm just before Pearl Jam took the stage :-)

    My daughter waited so I could see Toronto Night 1 and Uncle Neil.

    Thanks Ten Club :-)
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    last night felt more like part 2 of one concert ... a continuation of sorts ...

    i was never a big fan of just breathe live until last nite for some reason ... i guess the lyrics hit me more last nite especially with eds banter the last couple of nites and the sentimentality of having his loved ones there and mike's dad being there, etc ... it really is a beautiful song ...

    highlights for me were light years, sad and rats ... also, liked eds tag for wishlist too ...

    comments from other posts:

    * kudos to the pick guy ... sometimes it is way better to give than receive
    * ed cut his hand catching a tambourine at the end during alive
    * fuck me - oceans is the one song i am desperate to hear live which i haven't ... i'm hoping they play it in the hammer
    * those security guards were definitely being dicks ... they should really put the experienced ones at the front where they are most needed ... i have a loathing for mlse and this shit just makes me loathe them more ...

    edit:

    i'm pretty sure the fuckers who bitched about totd and chris at PJ20 had an influence on him not coming on stage in toronto ...
  • ragejoe
    ragejoe Agawam Mass Posts: 1,419
    Indifference71 wrote:
    ragejoe wrote:
    foodboy wrote:
    i agree the repeats did kill the vibe. whats with the fixation with the the fixer, alive, and the three others that were repeated. surely they could have done others,its not like a new album is out.


    why are they obligated to not repeat songs? Most bands repeat EVERY SONG... you complain about a few repeats out of 30? WHy do they repeat ALIVE? Its one of the greatest rock songs of all time and the feeling of 20,000 people chanting in unison during the jam probably gives them a feeling of euphoria that most people wont have the chance to experie nce... ive been to 30 shows , i hope i never go to a show where they dont Play Alive... Is it also lame to hear the whole crowd sing the first verse of betterman to if they played it the night before? Not to mention songs like alive and porch and betterman and daughter always have some sort of twist or unique jam or the tag or what not... in my experiences i never feel like a hear a carbon copy version of any of those songs...

    we are one spoiled group of music fans...

    haha thanks for havin my back on that... i hate to post anything negative on here but sometimes it really drives me nuts when i hear people complaining...


    Great post. Unbeleivable that people complain about a few repeats when a majority of bands play the same exact set every night. I couldn't agree w/ you mroe on Alive...I get mad if they don't play it at a show!
    1998 Tour- Hartford 9/13
    2000 Tour- Saratoga 8/27 Boston 8/29, 8/30
    2003 Tour- Albany 4/29 Boston 7/2,7/3,7/11 Philadelphia 7/5,7/6 MSG 7/8,7/9
    2004 Tour-     Boston 9/28,9/29
    2006 Tour-     Albany 5/12 Hartford 5/13 Boston 5/24,5/25
    2008 Tour-     MSG 6/24,6/25 Hartford 6/27 Boston 6/28,6/30 Eddie- Boston 8/1
    2009 Tour-     Eddie- Albany 6/9 Philly Spectrum- 10/30, 10/31
    2010 Tour-     Hartford 5/15 MSG 5/20,5/21
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    2016 Tour- MSG 5/1,5/2 FENWAY 8/5,8/7
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  • Dead Man Walking
    Dead Man Walking Toronto-ish Posts: 2,762
    What a show, what a show...To come out with that intensity and maintain it throughout the entire show (saufe Last Kiss and Just Breathe) was phenomenal. I am really looking forward to Hamilton...it's going to be fantastic.

    Here are my videos from last night (8 Songs total): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFA6ABE5C7FFD84D3
  • PJammin'
    PJammin' Posts: 1,913
    polaris_x wrote:

    i'm pretty sure the fuckers who bitched about totd and chris at PJ20 had an influence on him not coming on stage in toronto ...

    you're probably right and that is just a bummer to me. :thumbdown:
    I died. I died and you just stood there. I died and you watched. I died and you walked by and said no. I'm dead.
  • themessenger
    themessenger Dallas Posts: 1,320
    I'm jealous...great opening 6 songs and overall an awesome setlist! I can't wait to hear Olé live...

    01. Go
    02. Animal
    03. Olé
    04. Hail Hail
    05. In My Tree
    06. Sad
  • pineapplesandwaves.
    pineapplesandwaves. GTA Posts: 1,808
    smarchee wrote:
    100 Pacer wrote:
    When the 2nd mic was brought up everyone around me was sold on Cornell walking on stage, and it was actually funny to hear a collective sigh of disappointment when Mark Arm and Steve Turner took the stage to help out on Kick Out The Jams.

    I was one of the ones letting out a sign of disappointment lol

    :lol:

    I was one of those fans, too. I turned to my friend and said, "Well, that's not Chris Cornell or Bono." :lol:
    Blgarden wrote:
    Just for me I would have taken out a repeat (Alive, Porch...) and replaced it with Life Wasted.

    They could play Porch every night and I'd be happy. I didn't hear it my first four concerts and have now heard it 4 of my last 5 and it pumps me up every time!
  • Kevin Wilson
    Kevin Wilson Posts: 333
    PJammin' wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:

    i'm pretty sure the fuckers who bitched about totd and chris at PJ20 had an influence on him not coming on stage in toronto ...

    you're probably right and that is just a bummer to me. :thumbdown:

    Likewise was hoping for that as well :cry:
    Makes much more sense.................
    To Live......................
    In the present tense.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    there needs to be a night 3!!!!
  • Blgarden
    Blgarden Posts: 22
    pineapplesandwaves. wrote:
    smarchee wrote:
    100 Pacer wrote:
    When the 2nd mic was brought up everyone around me was sold on Cornell walking on stage, and it was actually funny to hear a collective sigh of disappointment when Mark Arm and Steve Turner took the stage to help out on Kick Out The Jams.

    I was one of the ones letting out a sign of disappointment lol

    :lol:

    I was one of those fans, too. I turned to my friend and said, "Well, that's not Chris Cornell or Bono." :lol:
    Blgarden wrote:
    Just for me I would have taken out a repeat (Alive, Porch...) and replaced it with Life Wasted.

    They could play Porch every night and I'd be happy. I didn't hear it my first four concerts and have now heard it 4 of my last 5 and it pumps me up every time!

    I should really take that Porch comment back because it was really one of the highlights... even on the second night where they had already performed it the night before it was awesome. One of the best moments that my wife and I immediately talked about after the show was how Jeff, Stone and Mike just jammed with each other during the solo section of Porch as if they were the only three guys in the room just having fun playing with each other. Magical moment.

    I disagree with everyone about Kick out the Jams! Way better than a Chris Cornell or Bono cameo (but not better than Neil...)! It was awesome. I'm also biased because back in the early nineties when Grunge was at it's peak I was in a band that closed a lot of show with Kick out the Jams.
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    there is only one other time that I felt an overwhelming feeling of sadness at a PJ show, and that was in 2006 when I heard the opening bar of Man of The Hour and I realized how beautifully sad that song was, all of a sudden I just got choked up and felt my eyes get all misty. It was uncontrollable, really overwhelming.

    Well shit, if that didn't happen last night during Light Years. I was fine until the chorus and then boom, I thought of my friend who passed away in July and I just stood there with that overwhelming sense of sadness, my eyes welling up, wow, couldn't move had to look away from the band, such a powerful feeling. Felt better in the second chrous but still couldn't sign the chorus or rock out.

    Listening to Light Years from Buffalo this morning and it reminded me of this.

    Those are some strong lyrics Ed wrote
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  • lednuke
    lednuke Posts: 48
    Have they been going on stage at their usual just before 9:00pm?
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    lednuke wrote:
    Have they been going on stage at their usual just before 9:00pm?

    yeah between 8:45 and 8:50
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • brunobell
    brunobell Posts: 72
    lednuke wrote:
    Have they been going on stage at their usual just before 9:00pm?

    Montreal: 8:53pm
    TO1: 8:53pm
    TO2: 8:47pm
    2006 Toronto II
    2008 Toronto II (EV)
    2009 Toronto
    2010 Cleveland, Buffalo,
    2011 Detroit (EV), East Troy I and II, Montreal, Toronto I and II, Hamilton
    2012 Philadelphia
  • Mamasan80
    Mamasan80 Posts: 298
    PJammin' wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:

    i'm pretty sure the fuckers who bitched about totd and chris at PJ20 had an influence on him not coming on stage in toronto ...

    you're probably right and that is just a bummer to me. :thumbdown:

    That is almost definitely NOT true. You guys can't actually believe the band reads the message board closely enough, especially while on tour, for this stuff to have an impact.
  • Mamasan80
    Mamasan80 Posts: 298
    Blgarden wrote:

    I should really take that Porch comment back because it was really one of the highlights... even on the second night where they had already performed it the night before it was awesome. One of the best moments that my wife and I immediately talked about after the show was how Jeff, Stone and Mike just jammed with each other during the solo section of Porch as if they were the only three guys in the room just having fun playing with each other. Magical moment.

    I disagree with everyone about Kick out the Jams! Way better than a Chris Cornell or Bono cameo (but not better than Neil...)! It was awesome. I'm also biased because back in the early nineties when Grunge was at it's peak I was in a band that closed a lot of show with Kick out the Jams.

    The thing about Mark Arm is that he's got a great voice for singing fast, thrash punk songs. EV, Bono, and CC do not. Hence why Kick Out the Jams with Arm is BADASS.

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