Your favourite thing about the 1998 tour?

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  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    Last-12-Exit said:

    I was in noblesville.

    Who cares. =))
  • foodboy
    foodboy Posts: 988
    i was in maui for 2 shows and one in montreal. maui was surreal. small venue ,outdoors and you are in freakin maui.
  • Dr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh
    Dr.Teeth and the Electric Mayh Posts: 1,180
    I think I still have my bugs fanzine that covered the east coast swing....that's what got me hooked.
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  • dot30
    dot30 The Great Midwest Posts: 83
    badbrains said:

    Last-12-Exit said:

    I was in noblesville.

    Me too!! Seen em there 3 times.

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  • High Fidelity 2000
    High Fidelity 2000 New Mexico USA Posts: 4,439
    edited October 2014
    Best thing was that was when they still made tour stops in New Mexico. 4 times 93-2000. None since.
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  • EBowie
    EBowie Posts: 532
    1998 was my first time seeing them---September 16th, Mansfield.
    To say that the show was a life-changer for me is completely honest and true. Matt Cameron's jaw-dropping drumming inspired me to start playing and I am drumming to this day. Thanks, Matt.
  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    badbrains said:

    Last-12-Exit said:

    I was in noblesville.

    Who cares. =))
    Everybody cares! The OP obviously cares. He asked! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it
  • mateo45
    mateo45 the Central Coast of California Posts: 91
    Went to the sacramento show. My only show i hit on the tour. The crowd was pretty rude to X, PJ started out blistering with Spin the Black Circle, Hail Hail and Brain of J, or something close to that... And I remember just being blown away. Also, for whatever reason they hadn't played Porch in quite some time, and they busted it out and i remember just being so pumped. The other thing that really sticks out to me was i think it was the first time they played In My Tree with Matt. And it was good. Not that version they started playing all the time, but the regular version.... Really great show. Also, seeing the Setlist after with Baba O'Riley not played was a heart breaker..... at the time i wondered if I would ever get to see that song covered by them..... ha..
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  • 100 Pacer
    100 Pacer Toronto, ON Posts: 9,336
    My favorite thing about the '98 tour was the fact one of the Upstaging truck drivers thought it would be cool to pick up a poster at each of the concerts during a single leg of the tour as a keepsake. Fast forward 10 years or so later, he's retired in Nevada and decides to sell them for the extra cash and I pick them up for $75 each.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,461
    100 Pacer said:

    My favorite thing about the '98 tour was the fact one of the Upstaging truck drivers thought it would be cool to pick up a poster at each of the concerts during a single leg of the tour as a keepsake. Fast forward 10 years or so later, he's retired in Nevada and decides to sell them for the extra cash and I pick them up for $75 each.

    Whoa...
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  • High Fidelity 2000
    High Fidelity 2000 New Mexico USA Posts: 4,439
    100 Pacer said:

    My favorite thing about the '98 tour was the fact one of the Upstaging truck drivers thought it would be cool to pick up a poster at each of the concerts during a single leg of the tour as a keepsake. Fast forward 10 years or so later, he's retired in Nevada and decides to sell them for the extra cash and I pick them up for $75 each.

    No wuhhhhh... awesome
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,982
    100 Pacer said:

    My favorite thing about the '98 tour was the fact one of the Upstaging truck drivers thought it would be cool to pick up a poster at each of the concerts during a single leg of the tour as a keepsake. Fast forward 10 years or so later, he's retired in Nevada and decides to sell them for the extra cash and I pick them up for $75 each.

    It's crazy. I'm not sure if other people remember the posters weren't (or didn't seem to be) a big deal on that tour. Every show had one, and the supplies were very limited (only 300 to 500 per show) but they didn't sell out too quickly. My first enounter was at Missoula and I bought it because I thought it would be a cool memento of the show (having no idea how rare and collectible it would become). I passed on Vancouver which still had copies for sale after the show ended becauae I thought it was a small poster (I'm not going to say how much I paid for one years down the road.. lol). I only missed out on Seattle because it was one poster for both shows and I only showed up 5 minutes for PJ took the stage on night 2.

    It's crazy how the poster thing has taken off.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,770
    my favorite thing bout the tour was that it was my first.
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    edited October 2014
    Yep. Merch was easy to get and the posters are still the nicest of any tour. Bought a Camden one but none of the others. There was no poster craze then.

    Lets be the honest. The first 5 albums are killer. The setlists all pulled up from those. Every setlist was ridiculously good.
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  • lolobugg
    lolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,195
    No poster craze and no vinyl craze back then.
    funny how two things I love have been driven so high on the secondary market that they are unattainable for most working class folks.
    BTW I bought a poster for every show I attended on that tour.
    all of them are good.... all of them have pin holes in the them too. :((

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  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    Yield. Enough said.
  • cropdustdair
    cropdustdair Lakewood, CO / Earth Posts: 2,006
    So many things. The show at Fiddler's Green Amphitheater in Denver was amazing.
    Also front row center with my friend in San Diego at Cox Arena. Getting to shake hands with Ed and having him toss one of his local Karl Strauss beer bottles to me at that show was especially memorable.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,461
    Crunchy tunes on that tour. Everybody was dialed to 11.
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  • nooram
    nooram Posts: 392
    Driving my motorcycle to Missoula and meeting my buddy from Colorado and my brother from Seattle for the show. Cool town and cool show. Tooling around western Montana for a week before getting back to Minneapolis for the show at the Target Center. Driving through the Bighorns in Wyoming on motorcycle is awesome.
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  • T-Bone 82
    T-Bone 82 Posts: 421
    Seeing them for the very fist time as a 16 year-old. Half a lifetime ago (literally - I am 32 now). 8/29/98 is a date that I will never, ever forget. Totally blew my mind and I was locked-in forever.
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