Dear Pearl Jam, let's re-think this whole GA thing..

backseatLover12 wrote:

belfast1 wrote:

I remember going to see Bob Dylan in London a few years ago and when I arrived I thought hey its 'General admission' so lets see if I can squeeze up a bit closer for a closer look at the old man and no-one would move an inch for me. Not an inch. And they were so fuckin grumpy with it too. I mean what if I was at the bar or had gone out for a piss?

At every other concert for any other band there's always a bit of give and take when it comes to the movement of the crowd - there has to be right? otherwise how can anyone enjoy it? If you get all uppity and mean in your head? How can you smell the flowers when inside your head you are counting little lumps of black coal?

All these old geezers standing around and you could just tell they'd been to every show on the tour and that their 'position' was SO important to them.

You'd see them phoning people right after the gig had ended to record the setlist and such like!

In their spare time I could just imagine them down at clapham junction recording serial numbers of passing trains into little black books


I wonder if some Pearl Jam fans becoming like grumpy Dylanologists?

Then they should get rid of GA because too many people take it way too seriously. Seriously.

QuestionAuthority wrote:

Now that the tour is over and I have read many things about GA and experienced it myself ~ let's call it the experiment of 2013 and go back to rows of seats.

My own experience and have read the same situations over and over.. you get there early, you line up.. there is BS about a "list" ~ people get pissed that you have to have some number on your hand.. so you go along with it because hell you want to get in at number 113 and not 183! You are told we will all line up in one single line and enter this way and then when they call for the doors to be open and there is actually going to be three lines and all hell breaks loose and your number on your hand did not mean crap.. the only people whose numbers seemed to matter were like the first 30 or so.

So you get in the doors and it is a mad scramble to the floor and then you stand for an hour and half ~ waiting for the opening act.. you are already packed in like sardines in a little tin can.. and you know it will only get worst. Standing for 1.5 hours with no entertainment you can start to feel your back or feet saying "yeah ~ right this is going to happen for three more hours.."

Finally the music begans and you realize hey Mudhoney is ok.. and then some asshole decides to push his way into the crowd.. elblowing your neighbor in the face.. hitting the person you came with in the back of the head.. and then it begins.. you are dealing with assholes for the rest of the night trying to push their way up.. they are usually heavily intoxicated and usually some of the biggest jerks you have ever encountered. It makes one wonder what we both see in this band that we both apparently like because these guys are prime jackasses.. they consistantly try getting up closer.. one yells "this is not a reserved concert, this is GA motherfuckers ~ DEAL with it"! This goes on until he decides he needs another beer.. but we all now he will be back during Even Flow!

So, you are doing your best to try enjoy this band you love.. but it is getting hotter and hotter and the oxygen level is less and less and you find you are having kind of a hard time breathing in the packed sardine can because you are packed in so tight to the stage.. You are skin to skin on all for sides of you.. personal space goes out the window.. is this really fun? is this really what adults do?

PLEASE PEARL JAM GIVE US BACK OUR ROWED SEATS! It worked well for years and years.. you could spend the morning in line and meet other fans while you waited for your tickets, you could then go experience some of the town you were in or at least get some dinner.. there was none of this other crap that I experienced at this last show.

I know I am one person, with one opinion but I know I have read other peoples posts that have been similar to mine.. let our voices be heard!

NO TO GA!!!!!

fortyshades wrote:

That said, I like it the way the handle it in Amsterdam: that you have a GA section for the fans only. Out of safety reasons alone, I am not sure why don't have this in every venue. Maybe the venue decides, but PJ could probably pull some demands...