*** El Festival Mas Grande Fanviews Here 4/3/13 ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiD0CKSAU8c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rMnDb-FUds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YZGVVdMwqo

Hey guys, have you checked what the April's newsletter says?

"PJ has returned from their 3-show tour of South America. The energy from the fans in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago made for some exciting moments. Be sure to check out the bootlegs from these shows. More information about their release will be coming soon"

We'll have bootlegs for sure!! :corn:

broloco wrote:

anyone know if there are any postings of pics of the merch booth from the SA shows?

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I am a new member to this forum and wanted to share something about this amazing Pearl Jam show with the best crowd. I know it's been some time, the show is on youtube already but I only recently got through my jetlag since I returned home from SA tour.

First of all, Buenos Aires is a great, beautiful city and the show venue Costanera Sur was also impressive, a big garden right next to the ocean. I read that some people mentioned about the mud but at least did not smell like horse shit like the Jockey Club venue of Sao Paulo.:) The organization and the festival itself were great.

I preferably stood a bit away from the stage, little bit behind the second line of monitors and speakers. From where I stood, the sound of the band was very good. At the Europe concerts in 2012, probably because I was at the sitting area, I didnot experience to hear the band very well as speakers were a bit far and everybody around was shouting, as expected naturally. Before this show, I was thinking that they really engineer the sound a lot in bootlegs but this time, I felt that there was not much need to engineer, actually.

The show started very late, around 22:30 local time, unlike Brazil, which started around 21:00. As someone said, start with Release in BA is a spiritual experience. After that, when second song started, it took me a while to understand that it was Evenflow, as everyone started to jump like crazy around me. Being a 40-year old, I cannot jump like those kids certainly and last time this kind of thing happened to me many years ago in a Metallica concert in Nurburgring in Germany, I retreated back like 100 meters but this time I told myself, "You wanted this. You flied all the way from Moscow for this so you better stand it." Luckily, the crowd calmed down a bit and as everybody shuffled during this jumping outbreak, I found myself with a much better vision of the stage as some of the taller guys in front of me were not there anymore.

From then on, it got better and better. I was afraid that it would be a shorter show since it started late but we still got like 25 songs with tags here and there. I was very glad that the show and the crowd met my expectations because I should say I had very high expectations, coming to this show. Eddie was in a very good mode and could not praise the crowd enough. I watched the copy in youtube and I should say that from what I was hearing, his voice was felt much stronger than that at the concert venue, especially during Esta bien, and his voice literally shook up the crowd and everyone around me started jumping with it.

As you know, there is always some novelty with the way the band plays its most-played songs like Betterman, Black and Alive and this time was no different. The band seemed to put its heart and soul at every moment with the energy they take from the crowd and the crowd realizes this as well and they get even crazier and it seemed like the crowd could chant till the morning. One caveat with the large crowds; it is easy to hear each other and unite with a small crowd at a closed place; but there, I was hearing that people at different places were chanting different things at the same time.

Next time, I will keep in mind to book a hotel closer to concert venue because I experienced both in brazil and BA, that there is no way you can find a taxi when 50-60 thousand people leave the place at the same time. It took me 2 hours to walk back to my hotel, in both places, something that I never thought I could stand, especially after standing up 8 hours straight. But it was all worth it.

I just wanted to share as these are like high moments in our lives and I do not have anyone around me except this forum to understand what it feels like.

jumbojet wrote:

I am a new member to this forum and wanted to share something about this amazing Pearl Jam show with the best crowd. I know it's been some time, the show is on youtube already but I only recently got through my jetlag since I returned home from SA tour.

First of all, Buenos Aires is a great, beautiful city and the show venue Costanera Sur was also impressive, a big garden right next to the ocean. I read that some people mentioned about the mud but at least did not smell like horse shit like the Jockey Club venue of Sao Paulo.:) The organization and the festival itself were great.

I preferably stood a bit away from the stage, little bit behind the second line of monitors and speakers. From where I stood, the sound of the band was very good. At the Europe concerts in 2012, probably because I was at the sitting area, I didnot experience to hear the band very well as speakers were a bit far and everybody around was shouting, as expected naturally. Before this show, I was thinking that they really engineer the sound a lot in bootlegs but this time, I felt that there was not much need to engineer, actually.

The show started very late, around 22:30 local time, unlike Brazil, which started around 21:00. As someone said, start with Release in BA is a spiritual experience. After that, when second song started, it took me a while to understand that it was Evenflow, as everyone started to jump like crazy around me. Being a 40-year old, I cannot jump like those kids certainly and last time this kind of thing happened to me many years ago in a Metallica concert in Nurburgring in Germany, I retreated back like 100 meters but this time I told myself, "You wanted this. You flied all the way from Moscow for this so you better stand it." Luckily, the crowd calmed down a bit and as everybody shuffled during this jumping outbreak, I found myself with a much better vision of the stage as some of the taller guys in front of me were not there anymore.

From then on, it got better and better. I was afraid that it would be a shorter show since it started late but we still got like 25 songs with tags here and there. I was very glad that the show and the crowd met my expectations because I should say I had very high expectations, coming to this show. Eddie was in a very good mode and could not praise the crowd enough. I watched the copy in youtube and I should say that from what I was hearing, his voice was felt much stronger than that at the concert venue, especially during Esta bien, and his voice literally shook up the crowd and everyone around me started jumping with it.

As you know, there is always some novelty with the way the band plays its most-played songs like Betterman, Black and Alive and this time was no different. The band seemed to put its heart and soul at every moment with the energy they take from the crowd and the crowd realizes this as well and they get even crazier and it seemed like the crowd could chant till the morning. One caveat with the large crowds; it is easy to hear each other and unite with a small crowd at a closed place; but there, I was hearing that people at different places were chanting different things at the same time.

Next time, I will keep in mind to book a hotel closer to concert venue because I experienced both in brazil and BA, that there is no way you can find a taxi when 50-60 thousand people leave the place at the same time. It took me 2 hours to walk back to my hotel, in both places, something that I never thought I could stand, especially after standing up 8 hours straight. But it was all worth it.

I just wanted to share as these are like high moments in our lives and I do not have anyone around me except this forum to understand what it feels like.

thank you for sharing!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

THank you for encouraging words. I think you should have come much earlier to be close to the stage; which means more time standing and then pushing and pulling. I myself, do not complain about the walk home, it was interesting to see Buenos Aires at night-time. It is very lively and it felt safe. Enjoy your city. I hope to revisit again, for a longer period of time.

What a great first post, jumbojet. I am glad you enjoyed the show in Buenos Aires (and Sao Paulo too). I was at the Buenos Aires show (my hometown), close to the stage, and it was a fantastic experience. Like you, I also ended up walking home (to a friend's) a little over an hour or so. But all was worth it.[/quote]

What a show it was to be the first PJ show, blood91. Glad for you. (for myself as well, for being there)
Like you, I also have been coming to the forum for a long time and reading hundreds of pages, before becoming a member. I remember getting worried about losing my eyesight from all this reading.

Thanks for the link, always reminds unforgettable memories.

Blood1991 wrote:

This was my first Pearl Jam show ever. Been a fan for years but couldn't manage to attend...until


By the way, this is also my first post (been coming to the forum almost everyday for a couple of years, but now, I'm a full member!) so, as an introduction, THIS IS HOW ARGENTINIANS SAY 'HELLO':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjK9s8H36Lw

I am a brazilian girl incredibly dissapointed with argentinians education.

I was on the 4th row since one o'clock in the afternoon.

When the concert began, three guys (that weren't there since early) appeared behind me and were punching my back, KICKING me, punching my head and from this to worse things. I asked both to stop it 'coz they were really hurting me but no one gave a shit. Besides that, the argentinian crowd really pull whoever is in your front, not carrying at all to your nexts. So in Just Breath I had to ask the fireman to take me out of there because I couldn't hold no more these guys punching me.

I am 24 years old and I am used to be in the first rows of a lot of big rock concerts and festivals. Or course we get like a fish in a can on the first rows, but here in Brazil we do not disrespect the space of our neighbour, neither punch your next. Here in Brazil even if you never saw who is beside you, we ask "Am I hurting you? Are you ok? Do you need something?".

Man, really... Argentinians are the most unpolite and disrespectful people I have ever saw in my life (and I was in the VIP area, immagine the normal crowd...).

But, speaking about the festival: the organization for foreigners to withdraw the tickets was really good, the crew was really helpful.
In Pepsi festival the just had the best stage position I ever saw in my life: it seems like even if you were in the entrance you could see the stage performance! Congratulations to the stage installation. But the sound... tsc, tsc, tsc. While I was on the firsts rows it was perfect. But when I got a little backwards I could hear every instrument and Eddie's voice not twice, but THREE time echo.
And me, also had to go back from Constanera Sur to my hostel in the Obelisc by foot due the lack of cabs. It's a 4km distance.
The surprise for me was In Hiding.

nane wrote:

I am a brazilian girl incredibly dissapointed with argentinians education.

I was on the 4th row since one o'clock in the afternoon.

When the concert began, three guys (that weren't there since early) appeared behind me and were punching my back, KICKING me, punching my head and from this to worse things. I asked both to stop it 'coz they were really hurting me but no one gave a shit. Besides that, the argentinian crowd really pull whoever is in your front, not carrying at all to your nexts. So in Just Breath I had to ask the fireman to take me out of there because I couldn't hold no more these guys punching me.

I am 24 years old and I am used to be in the first rows of a lot of big rock concerts and festivals. Or course we get like a fish in a can on the first rows, but here in Brazil we do not disrespect the space of our neighbour, neither punch your next. Here in Brazil even if you never saw who is beside you, we ask "Am I hurting you? Are you ok? Do you need something?".

Man, really... Argentinians are the most unpolite and disrespectful people I have ever saw in my life (and I was in the VIP area, immagine the normal crowd...).

But, speaking about the festival: the organization for foreigners to withdraw the tickets was really good, the crew was really helpful.
In Pepsi festival the just had the best stage position I ever saw in my life: it seems like even if you were in the entrance you could see the stage performance! Congratulations to the stage installation. But the sound... tsc, tsc, tsc. While I was on the firsts rows it was perfect. But when I got a little backwards I could hear every instrument and Eddie's voice not twice, but THREE time echo.
And me, also had to go back from Constanera Sur to my hostel in the Obelisc by foot due the lack of cabs. It's a 4km distance.
The surprise for me was In Hiding.

I am sorry you had to live through that. There will be assholes in the crowd, I have come across them both in Argentina and Brazil (have not seen Pearl Jam in Chile yet). I had a great experience from where I was, and pushing was not too bad. And no one was punching me!! But I had a friend live through that in 2005, and she was incredibly frustrated too. But just so you know, we are not all assholes and disrespectful. And some people actually do take care of their neighbors. You will always have some people pushing for the front, it seems like you got the worst kind, and I am sorry for that.

Love this! ESTA BIEN!!!