Pearl Jam Secret "Town Hall" Q&A with Fans!

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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    dmbolp wrote:
    Winners' original entry questions are being reviewed/revised and will be given back to us at the event. Duplicate/inappropriate questions will be eliminated, so a chance that you don't get to ask a question

    Congrats on winning! Have fun!
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  • Natashapearljamfan
    Natashapearljamfan Australia Posts: 3,777
    dmbolp wrote:
    Winners' original entry questions are being reviewed/revised and will be given back to us at the event. Duplicate/inappropriate questions will be eliminated, so a chance that you don't get to ask a question

    Congratulations you lucky thing, we all know you will have an awesome time, please tell us all about it when you come home :D
  • dmbolp
    dmbolp ATL Posts: 1,513
    Meet point was the Croc, there was no sneaking into this event, but the Croc bar was always open to anyone. Your name had to already be on the list. At about 5:30 they walked us (about 40 of us) over to Studio X. Best described as awkward/awesome. Pizza/salad/cookies/soft drinks served. 40 chairs facing 7 empty chairs on a slightly raised stage. At about 6:15 they played the album over an audio system. At the end we all applauded...no band in sight. Then a game of musical chairs where the winners were sent to assigned seats in the first two rows, and guests were sent toe the back rows. We were handed cards with our questions printed on them. Band walks in at 7:15 and the first winner asks his question. All 16 winners ask their questions; some neat insights from the band. 8:15 and questions are done. Groups of 10 are brought up to take a photo in front of the band. We get to interact with them for a few seconds. I ask Eddie where they are playimg tonight, "Ummmm, uhhhh, we have a big day tomorrow, have to go to the dentist". We are all ushered out by 8:35, Eddie pulls away in his car. Cool to see them in that environment, but would have been better had they play a song.
  • pjsteelerfan
    pjsteelerfan Maryland Posts: 9,905
    dmbolp wrote:
    Meet point was the Croc, there was no sneaking into this event, but the Croc bar was always open to anyone. Your name had to already be on the list. At about 5:30 they walked us (about 40 of us) over to Studio X. Best described as awkward/awesome. Pizza/salad/cookies/soft drinks served. 40 chairs facing 7 empty chairs on a slightly raised stage. At about 6:15 they played the album over an audio system. At the end we all applauded...no band in sight. Then a game of musical chairs where the winners were sent to assigned seats in the first two rows, and guests were sent toe the back rows. We were handed cards with our questions printed on them. Band walks in at 7:15 and the first winner asks his question. All 16 winners ask their questions; some neat insights from the band. 8:15 and questions are done. Groups of 10 are brought up to take a photo in front of the band. We get to interact with them for a few seconds. I ask Eddie where they are playimg tonight, "Ummmm, uhhhh, we have a big day tomorrow, have to go to the dentist". We are all ushered out by 8:35, Eddie pulls away in his car. Cool to see them in that environment, but would have been better had they play a song.

    What did you think of the songs? What did you get to ask the band?
    ...got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul...
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    what he said ^^

    whole experience was pretty surreal...the band (with boom) sitting a few feet in front of you, forced to listen to your question..except, at least in my case, it wasn't the question i submitted...instead, i got probaly the lamest question of the night...and a pooly written question at that..."if you knew now what you knew before ten came out, what would you have done differently during the first few albums and why?"...i must've read that question 30 times and it never got better or coherent...i thought about editing it but i said fuck it and asked....well ive never seen six guys stare at me like i was speaking in tongues...so i shrug my shoulders and give them a kinda "sorry" look and ed comes to my rescue...he asks me to repeat it and instead i just hand it to him (he was directly in front of me)...and ed try's to decipher it and stone trys to give an answer but they knew it was a shitty question :lol:

    a little while later, ed gave me a corona...so it's all good :mrgreen:

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  • jtr101
    jtr101 Posts: 270
    Any new insights into the new tunes or are you sworn to secrecy?
    Enjoy difference. Without it we're all boring!

  • High Fidelity 2000
    High Fidelity 2000 New Mexico USA Posts: 4,439
    norm wrote:
    what he said ^^

    whole experience was pretty surreal...the band (with boom) sitting a few feet in front of you, forced to listen to your question..except, at least in my case, it wasn't the question i submitted...instead, i got probaly the lamest question of the night...and a pooly written question at that..."if you knew now what you knew before ten came out, what would you have done differently during the first few albums and why?"...i must've read that question 30 times and it never got better or coherent...i thought about editing it but i said fuck it and asked....well ive never seen six guys stare at me like i was speaking in tongues...so i shrug my shoulders and give them a kinda "sorry" look and ed comes to my rescue...he asks me to repeat it and instead i just hand it to him (he was directly in front of me)...and ed try's to decipher it and stone trys to give an answer but they knew it was a shitty question :lol:

    a little while later, ed gave me a corona...so it's all good :mrgreen:

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    Dude! That is hilarious!! You should have said it wasn't your question and seen what kind of conspiracy theories they came up with! That's almost more fun than asking your own question, just for their reactions! Too funny. Sounds like a once in a lifetime experience though. How exciting.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    i'm shitty at reviews...especially after only one listen...but in my opinion, this album is a beast...lots of stuff going on, i think it's tracked really well...my only criticism is sleeping by myself shouldn't be on this album and i'm not a fan of future days...i also thing of the earth would have fit really well on the album
  • jtr101
    jtr101 Posts: 270
    norm wrote:
    i'm shitty at reviews...especially after only one listen...but in my opinion, this album is a beast...lots of stuff going on, i think it's tracked really well...my only criticism is sleeping by myself shouldn't be on this album and i'm not a fan of future days...i also thing of the earth would have fit really well on the album

    Cheers... sounds positive overall and about right for SBM and Future days!
    Enjoy difference. Without it we're all boring!

  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,535
    norm wrote:
    what he said ^^

    whole experience was pretty surreal...the band (with boom) sitting a few feet in front of you, forced to listen to your question..except, at least in my case, it wasn't the question i submitted...instead, i got probaly the lamest question of the night...and a pooly written question at that..."if you knew now what you knew before ten came out, what would you have done differently during the first few albums and why?"...i must've read that question 30 times and it never got better or coherent...i thought about editing it but i said fuck it and asked....well ive never seen six guys stare at me like i was speaking in tongues...so i shrug my shoulders and give them a kinda "sorry" look and ed comes to my rescue...he asks me to repeat it and instead i just hand it to him (he was directly in front of me)...and ed try's to decipher it and stone trys to give an answer but they knew it was a shitty question :lol:

    a little while later, ed gave me a corona...so it's all good :mrgreen:

    You do realize that the Corona was punishment for asking that question, right?
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,251
    norm wrote:
    what he said ^^

    whole experience was pretty surreal...the band (with boom) sitting a few feet in front of you, forced to listen to your question..except, at least in my case, it wasn't the question i submitted...instead, i got probaly the lamest question of the night...and a pooly written question at that..."if you knew now what you knew before ten came out, what would you have done differently during the first few albums and why?"...i must've read that question 30 times and it never got better or coherent...i thought about editing it but i said fuck it and asked....well ive never seen six guys stare at me like i was speaking in tongues...so i shrug my shoulders and give them a kinda "sorry" look and ed comes to my rescue...he asks me to repeat it and instead i just hand it to him (he was directly in front of me)...and ed try's to decipher it and stone trys to give an answer but they knew it was a shitty question :lol:

    a little while later, ed gave me a corona...so it's all good :mrgreen:

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    You should have said, "Ed, you sang in Red Mosquito "I I had Known Then, What I know Now", what did you mean by it?"

    I think your question made sense, just a little wordy. I would expect they look at records differently knowing that 1,000,000 people will listen the week it is released versus 10,000 people.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,724
    norm wrote:
    what he said ^^

    whole experience was pretty surreal...the band (with boom) sitting a few feet in front of you, forced to listen to your question..except, at least in my case, it wasn't the question i submitted...instead, i got probaly the lamest question of the night...and a pooly written question at that..."if you knew now what you knew before ten came out, what would you have done differently during the first few albums and why?"...i must've read that question 30 times and it never got better or coherent...i thought about editing it but i said fuck it and asked....well ive never seen six guys stare at me like i was speaking in tongues...so i shrug my shoulders and give them a kinda "sorry" look and ed comes to my rescue...he asks me to repeat it and instead i just hand it to him (he was directly in front of me)...and ed try's to decipher it and stone trys to give an answer but they knew it was a shitty question :lol:

    a little while later, ed gave me a corona...so it's all good :mrgreen:

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  • jason_94
    jason_94 Toledo, OH Posts: 1,872
    Were there any video cameras around in there. This would be cool to see on the website (After it has aired on Sirius, of course). With what has been said about the evening, it would be cool to see some of the reactions of what was going on.
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  • jross
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    Don't suppose anybody asked them who the opening act will be for Leg 1, huh? Pitt is a week away.
  • tribejammer05
    tribejammer05 W'Ville, OH Posts: 696
    So cool!
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  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    jross wrote:
    Don't suppose anybody asked them who the opening act will be for Leg 1, huh? Pitt is a week away.

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  • norm
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    Go Beavers wrote:
    norm wrote:
    what he said ^^

    whole experience was pretty surreal...the band (with boom) sitting a few feet in front of you, forced to listen to your question..except, at least in my case, it wasn't the question i submitted...instead, i got probaly the lamest question of the night...and a pooly written question at that..."if you knew now what you knew before ten came out, what would you have done differently during the first few albums and why?"...i must've read that question 30 times and it never got better or coherent...i thought about editing it but i said fuck it and asked....well ive never seen six guys stare at me like i was speaking in tongues...so i shrug my shoulders and give them a kinda "sorry" look and ed comes to my rescue...he asks me to repeat it and instead i just hand it to him (he was directly in front of me)...and ed try's to decipher it and stone trys to give an answer but they knew it was a shitty question :lol:

    a little while later, ed gave me a corona...so it's all good :mrgreen:

    You do realize that the Corona was punishment for asking that question, right?

    yes i believe it was :lol:

    how ed can drink that swill (even though i drank the entire thing before the event ended :lol: )
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    jason_94 wrote:
    Were there any video cameras around in there. This would be cool to see on the website (After it has aired on Sirius, of course). With what has been said about the evening, it would be cool to see some of the reactions of what was going on.

    yeah there were a couple cameras...i hope none of it will ever be seen cause i was right nest to them :P :lol:
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
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  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    norm wrote:
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    Awesome. Damn is that you BD? Ed is really close to your nipple! :P
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