What was the first PJ song you heard LIVE and how did you feel?

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  • this is not for you
    this is not for you Posts: 240
    standing there in the dark at reading with my bro and 2 mates.. to hear the opening music of ten being played (you kno the crazy stuff before once and after release)

    we just looked at each other with a look of "here we go"
  • mrkeyrock
    mrkeyrock Posts: 2
    taking my best friend from college to Chi 03 and seeing his face for opener of release was unforgettable from behind the stage!
  • JP2026766
    JP2026766 Posts: 1,125
    Present Tense at Borgata 2... I literally flipped OUT! It was surreal..so much emotion going through me...and it was a real surprise, i think they've only opened with it 2 other times. It was truly at treat, getting to scream that chorus with everyone.

    Mansfield II '08

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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    My first show ever....travelled all the way to Berlin in 00. Opened with Sometimes....the first time I saw them walk out, time felt like it stopped, as if I knew I missed something all those years.......I never had a chance to see them and I really didnt have friends that were into concerts...I kinda floated by with all my friends in college saying "you've never been to see them"/....

    I answered...I have only been to one concert....

    anyway....

    the first notes blew me away, then Eddie started singing Sometimes...hard song to get right and he fricking nailed it...great set, great crowd....and I truly walked out of that concert a different person. I tell people now (I have met soooo many people before shows that say "I love PJ, but have never seen them...are they good?" All I can say is something that sounds lame, but is oh so frickin true.

    You walk out with a different emotion as if you finally UNDERSTAND the music or feel more connected to it. That first song sticks with me and that emotion of feeling in tune with the crowd and the history of the band is unexplainable....that is why I pay for any and everyone to go see our band.

    short answer...Sometimes, Berlin

    Last song I saw, YellowLedbetter hawaii.......

    Next song I will see: either Baseless or Split Decision, off the new b-side Album that is being released in early July. Cant wait.....22 unheard songs they recorded from Avocado and the High Definition DVD of 4 full shows (undecided so far) for the upcoming West Coast Blitz tour. I cant believe they plan on doing 30 shows in 31 days in California, Vegas and Washington state in August. They are even doing three shows in one day - short sets, but at awesome places. August 14 they are playing the Greek Theatre in LA, the Greek Theatre in Berkely and the GOrge!!!! All in a day.

    Those crazy guys.....
  • GarrettSocling
    GarrettSocling Posts: 27
    Release...9/11/98...I had tears in my eyes...fucking 19 year old guy, I didn't care...

    I felt affirmed that they were who I suspected them to be...

    We were behind and to the left of the band, above them...looking down, listening to Black, when Ed started singing walk in me...most spiritual moment of my life...until about 30 seconds later when Mike shredded my soul with his solo...
    9/11/98 5/3/03 9/28/04 10/3/05 05/27/06 6/22/08 6/25/08
  • cfield05
    cfield05 Posts: 93
    Mine was Release 5/3/03 in State College, PA. I got the chills. Never saw/heard anything like PJ live. Pretty awesome feeling.
    State College 5/3/03, Hershey 7/12/03, Reading 10/1/04, Kitchener 9/11/05, Ottawa 9/16/05, Pittsburgh 9/28/05, Hartford 5/13/06, Camden 5/27/06, Camden II 5/28/06, E. Rutherford 6/1/06, E. Rutherford II 6/3/06, Munich 6/12/07, Katowice 6/13/07, London 6/18/07, DC 6/22/08 - EV DC 8/16/08
  • Bella
    Bella Posts: 120
    Mine was Release in Arnhem. Eddies voice was so powerful. then they went straight into Why go.
    Arnhem'06 Paris'06 Wembley'07 Manchester'09 Dublin'10 Belfast '10 Manchester1 '12 Manchester2 '12 Stockholm '12 Vancouver '13
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    Padova Rome Prague Kraków Berlin '18
  • danleri
    danleri Posts: 497
    Long Road Verona 2000... need I say more?
    Verona '00 | Dublin '06 | Barcelona '06 | London '07 | Copenhagen '07 | Berlin '09 | Dublin '10 | Belfast '10 | Berlin '10 | Toronto1 '11 | Toronto2 '11 | Amsterdam1 '12 | Stockholm '12 | Oslo '12 | Copenhagen '12 | Brooklyn1 '13 | Brooklyn2 '13 | Amsterdam1 '14 | Amsterdam2 '14 | Vienna '14 | Berlin '14
  • Kermit O'Leary
    Kermit O'Leary Posts: 240
    Sometimes - Wembley 2000

    Amazing feeling, atmosphere was full of excitment, hairs standing up on neck!
    'Life comes from within your heart and desire'

    ~~Wembley 2000, Reading 2006, Paris 2006, Wembley 2007~~
  • trammeus
    trammeus Posts: 124
    Why Go, Verona 1993

    Eddie came in with a mask on his face.
    I remember a lot of sun...and beer. A nice unforgettable day.
    Verona 93 - Milan 96 - Barcelona 96 - Verona 00 - Milan 00 - Turin 06 - Berlin 06 - Lisbon 07 - Madrid 07 - Katowice 07 - London 07 - Werchter 07
  • viviflu
    viviflu Posts: 122
    parel jam wrote:
    You should consider getting to bed...


    Oh, I sound like an old man...

    :)

    Nevermind, I heard the boot of Bern, which is amazing...they played GARDEN! Wow!

    Tell my boss that! :'( No more fever today,yipi!
    Fighting fire with fire since world's birth, bumping into the same stone over and over again... and we call this evolution?
  • jrd
    jrd Posts: 3,060
    Of The Girl - Wembley, London, May 29, 2000.

    being bitter and mean-spirited, immediately after the "wow! i can't believe i'm finally seeing Pearl Jam", i have to confess that i did fleetingly think something along the lines of "damn, it's not Release or Long Road"...! :o
    Oh yeah? Well, I've had about enough of morons and halfwits, dolts, dunces, dullards and dumbbells - and you chowderhead yokel, you blithering hayseed, you - you've had enough of me?
  • yoyo
    yoyo France Posts: 316
    Wash from paris 96 at the zenith .... awesome !!!!
    1996-PARIS
    2000-PARIS
    2006-ANVERS-MARSEILLE-PARIS
    2007-LONDRES-NIJMEGEN-WERCHTER
    2008-ED SOLO-LOS ANGELES1-LOS ANGELES2
    2009-LONDRES
    2010-DUBLIN-ARRAS
    2012-AMSTERDAM1-ARRAS-STOCKHOLM-OSLO-COPENHAGUE
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  • jrd
    jrd Posts: 3,060
    parel jam wrote:
    I wish I had seem PJ back in the early 90s...damn, I was born a bit too late...

    Damn... I could have seen them in 1992 in London, just down the road from my University... and for some unknown reason I DIDN'T GO!!!!!!!! What a twat... opening song would have been Wash... :(

    02/28/92 - Union of London University: London, England [80m]
    attendance: 600
    set: Wash, Once, Even Flow/(All Right Now improv), Alone, Alive, Black, Deep, Jeremy, Why Go, Porch/Improv
    enc: Leash, I've Got a Feeling

    missed the next couple of tours and didn't get to see them until 2000. sigh.
    Oh yeah? Well, I've had about enough of morons and halfwits, dolts, dunces, dullards and dumbbells - and you chowderhead yokel, you blithering hayseed, you - you've had enough of me?
  • PJSAUCE
    PJSAUCE Posts: 4
    My first song was Animal in New Orleans '95. I was soaking wet from the rain, half wasted, adrenaline pumping, and they kicked ass with so much energy from the first note played.
    -New Orleans '95
    -Knoxville '98
    -Memphis, Nashville '00
    -Birmingham, Nashville '03
    -East Rutherford II, SF II, Honolulu '06
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    "Hello, to the rest of Tennessee. Three degrees hotter we'd think it was hell" - EV
  • Merkyjamm
    Merkyjamm Posts: 272
    Better Man, in Madrid, Thursday 9th September, 2006. I needed to pee as soon as MMJ left the stage, but me and my Dad (yeah, 19 at the time and my Dad took me to Madrid to see Pearl Jam. Lucky bugger, eh? I did pay for the tix mind. Best gig buddy ever, my old man, so all's fair for the amount he's bought me) are about 12 rows back, so we'll be damned if we're moving.

    So, on they come, everyone is *slightly* excited. And Ed starts with that familiar, gorgeous sound... Better Man.

    A massive hug with my Dad as the guitars crash in, and then we're away, me, Dad, every Spaniard, European, American, Australian, whoever, in the joint, and it's magical. Me and my Dad got separated, which tempered it a little bit, but I've never jumped and vaulted so much in a crowd before or since. First time I've really seen absolutely everyone around me going INSANE for a band. And it ruled.

    That and Another Brick In The Wall, Little Wing, a storming RvM, a rockin' Grievance (one of my all time faves) and a sumptuous Severed Hand... Safe to say my little mind was blown.

    Wembley will struggle to top it.

    Peace and love :)
    Too many cowboys, not enough indians, so just go ape shit!

    I may be boring but at least I'm not Jack fucking Johnson.

    TV is such shit; let's go outside and ride bicycles, right now!

    Madrid 07/09/06 - Little mofo'ing Wing!!!
    Wembley 06/18/07 - Speechless

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  • Pearl Jam_ie
    Pearl Jam_ie Posts: 821
    "Act of Love" @ '95 Summerfest night 2 show was the first from the band that I heard, but the first time I heard Eddie was when he sang "I Only Play for Money" with The Frogs during the opener.
    "In certain trying circumstances...profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer." - Mark Twain
  • Antreaper
    Antreaper Posts: 256
    Wash. Philly 05.


    Oooooh please let it rain today, this city's so filthy, like my mind in ways..
    "It's as comfortable as can be. But when you're on stage playing with Neil, well -- it's one thing to be at the zoo and watch an animal pace around its cage. It's another to be in the cage with him." -Eddie Vedder
  • IlovveePJ
    IlovveePJ Posts: 145
    Sometimes in Cincy....

    I got tears in my eyes... haha
    Cincinnati. 6.24.06 Portland. 7.20.06 Gorge I. 7.22.06 London. 6.18.07
    Lollapalooza. 8.5.07 West Palm Beach. 6.11.08 Bonnaroo. 6.14.08
    Hartford. Mansfield.

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  • faithful227
    faithful227 Posts: 352
    "sometimes" october '96. i don't know that i can describe the feeling. more than i could've ever expected.
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