**9/30 Borgata Fanviews Here**

wow, i better get down there then. do you know if there was an early line in anticipation of this?

MylipsRshaking wrote:

Ed also mentioned that he expected a different crowd more of a high roller type and was surprised to see so many hardcore fans.

thats what i figured too.. they were probably thinking a greatest hits type set list would fit the crowd best and when they got out there they were like " holy shit these people are hardcore".. tonight im sure they will go all out, it will be crazy too bad i can't go

After driving 2.5 hours, we were a little disappointed about not being able to get in, but I kind of expected it to go down that way. I did meet some other cool people from the 10 club though who also did not get in. I have to say that the most annoying part of the whole ordeal was watching numerous people going into the show from the bar area well after the show had already begun; and other people coming out of the show during this same time frame. I mean, do these people really want to be at the show or what? I guess it doesn't matter; you just need to have enough $ that you can pony up $600 for a ticket. I observed one very touching random act of kindness, however, when a gentleman offered up 2 tickets to someone in need, asking for no money at all in return. These are the kind of people I want rocking out next to me, not some preppy, fake fools who don't belong at the show to begin with. To quote Chris Cornell, "I'll be glad when they get the f*ck out of here. We don't need that sh*t!" -Keep rockin'

kaluss wrote:

it might've been fun, but setlist doesn't really look too spectacular. Evenflow and Alive? Anyone out there have buyers remorse?

Tonight might be the night?

One thing i can't stand more is when people judge a show by looking at the setlist. For fuck sakes you weren't even in the room.

Wes, I mean Volition,

you kick ass!

Sparks

anybody win big at the craps tables? that's a dangerous thing to do after coming off a pearl jam high lol

My buddy had a comp'd room Thursday and Friday so we went down and decided to have a few drinks in the B bar. Inside there was a bunch of people in PJ's crew and security, so we knew the band had come in. We ran into another fan clubber who mentioned meeting Mike and Boom earlier that night. We walked around the floor a few times, didn't see anyone. Around 2am, we were walking past the poker room escalator and there's Mike Fucking McCready standing right there with a friend of his. I walked up to him, said his name once or twice and just thanked him for everything and asked for a photo. He kindly obliged. He seemed to be in a rush because he was with his friends and we let him go after maybe a minute of interaction. Later that night we were sitting at a slot machine and he fucking walked up to US!!! He said "hey guys, where are you from?" It totally caught us off guard. So there we stood by the Wheel of Fortune dollar slots talking to McCready for 20 minutes. He said that the new album had 8 songs completely finished and they had 10 to go and that Ed is doing shit he's never heard before. It has the same vibe as the Vs record when they were working on that, so that's awesome. He said that he tried to convince Ed to play some of the completed songs in concert, but Ed didn't want to because he didn't want to fuck them up before they were on the streets. He also said they didn't want to release unfinished tracks onto the bootlegs before the studio versions came out. Mike said his reasoning for wanting to play the tracks was for fan feedback, they could see if they needed to send a song in a different direction. Among other things he talked about gambling, the fan club, how they left St. Johns early not because of the hockey team, but because of the 11 hour ferry ride. He didn't care too much for playing that far away, but said the city was beautiful. It was an awesome conversation, and he was so down to earth, it was really cool. It was like I was talking to a long time friend. We asked for Footsteps and he said he'd talk to Ed and then he went on his way. Well, we didn't get Footsteps, but we got a great show.

People were in the area by the Event Center at 9am. I put my name on Oscar's list, which didn't end up getting used. They formed a real line at 2:30 or so I'd say. I was 15 people into the line. They let us upstairs at 5:45, but doors didn't open until 6:30. It was plenty of time to get posters, etc...luckily I had a friend who took it back to our room since I was 2nd in line to get into the venue at our security checkpoint. The people I was with in line were awesome...the truly dedicated. These people had been to almost all of the Canadian shows, there were mother's and their daughters and just a bunch of people I had met up in Canada too. When they let us in, security was really cool...I got up front on the rail by Ed and there I stood the whole show. The security guys in front of us were really awesome, they kept giving us water and were very social. Nice guys. The people around us weren't trying to beat the shit out of each other either. You all know the setlist, so I won't go into it too much, but for my first front row experience, it was totally worth standing up for almost 12 hours straight. Fucking amazing. Ed was looking out for the crowd the whole show saying it wasn't 1992, so no crowd surfing and to watch out for your neighbor as they've had really good memories at that type of show and also really bad ones.

Oh...they released 40 tix at 6pm. They were band extras. Good luck tonight everyone and be safe!

PJ2k3 wrote:

He said that the new album had 8 songs completely finished and they had 10 to go and that Ed is doing shit he's never heard before.

18 tracks... that's crazy, i wonder how many will make the final cut

What were Once and Sad like, played live in such an intimate setting?

Did once have any of it's old lustre back?
maybe a little screamy-yell-y-eddie ?

& sad?

kaluss wrote:

it might've been fun, but setlist doesn't really look too spectacular. Evenflow and Alive? Anyone out there have buyers remorse?

Tonight might be the night?

any show that gets blood, long road as an opener, state of love and trust, low light and whipping all in the same show is a pretty damn good setlist and to the see that in a small venue, i can't even imagine the energy in that place.