Thoughts on New Stage Design..the bird thing

helplessdancer
helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
edited October 2013 in Given To Fly (live)
At one point I thought:

OMG what is that thing up there?

Is this PJ's Spinal Tap version of the Stonehenge props?

OMG it goes up and down!!!!!

OMG that thing is flapping it's arms while Given To Fly was playing. Am I seeing things right??!!!

Where the hell did all these lighted colored globes come from?

etc etc

and btw if you were wondering I think the new stage set up/design is their best yet :clap::clap::clap:
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  • ShimmyMommy
    ShimmyMommy Posts: 7,505
    I love it...I would love to see it closer...to see the details in it...it transforms... :mrgreen:

    I could see the bird flying, how it was the beach hut when the acoustic set was played...it was very cool :mrgreen:
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    this thread needs pics...if anyone can help!

    I never thought about the beach hut thing. cool on that!
  • OctopuS27
    OctopuS27 Portugal Posts: 569
    reminds me of that song...''That bird is following you all the time'' :)
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    pics pics pics plz
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,248
    I was at both London and Wrigley and never noticed it flapping...
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  • Truth Machine
    Truth Machine Posts: 113
    I honestly thought it looked like a tree sans trunk.
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  • Dead Man Walking
    Dead Man Walking Toronto-ish Posts: 2,762
    I love the bird. It very much reminded me of that red and yellow bird shirt from the 98 tour (Amongst other Merch, too). Very cool stage set up.

    I said to my wife during the London show that the big globes were going to get tangled as soon as mike and Jeff started hitting them and sure enough Jeff whacked one and tangled if and had to go up and untangle them before the situation got worse. It was pretty funny.
  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    it's a bird... it's a plane...

    i can't find any pics
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    Gern Blansten wrote:
    I was at both London and Wrigley and never noticed it flapping...

    it was only during given to fly that i saw this happen(london)
    can anyone else confirm?
  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    helplessdancer wrote:
    Gern Blansten wrote:
    I was at both London and Wrigley and never noticed it flapping...

    it was only during given to fly that i saw this happen(london)
    can anyone else confirm?

    i only noticed that it was lowered a bit, but i had side view seats
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I can't wait to see it. I think it looks very interesting! :D

    The lights look like a circle of stars when they are up high.
    When they are down low, they look like lightbulbs hanging from a ceiling.

    It's nice that they give Ed something to swing on too! :mrgreen:
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  • IcemanDorval
    IcemanDorval Posts: 494
    I was at level 300 for the London show. The bird thing looked a bit strange from a distance although it gave a good impression for the mainly acoustic part of the set during encore 1.

    I really appreciated the screens on both sides of the stage. I hope they keep those for their future shows.
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    Gern Blansten wrote:
    I was at both London and Wrigley and never noticed it flapping...

    congratulations on being at both shows and not noticing it! :lol::lol::lol::lol:
    but, um, ya, whatever dude!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDFWC9CXSsQ
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,248
    If you call that flapping then yes I didn't notice

    that's not flapping
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    helplessdancer wrote:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDFWC9CXSsQ

    Thanks for putting that up!
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  • shortstack
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    Stephen Flow wrote:
    pics pics pics plz


    http://pearljam.com/photogallery/21897/ ... _london_on
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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,007
    That bird is so random :lol:

    I'm looking forward to seeing it in person. I absolutely loved the PJ20 behind their set in WI.
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  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    That bird is so random :lol:

    i hope it's not random but has some type of symbolism that ties in with lightning bolt and the rest of the album.
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  • PJ212
    PJ212 Posts: 827
    I love that the bird sculpture is animatronic. That is amazing. I'd like to know who designed it actually. Will google search. Love the lightbulbs Ed was swinging on too.
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  • nominal
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    Liked the bird, thing came out of nowhere.

    The lights were by far the best part, wonder if they planned on pushing them around or if it was just off the cuff.
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