Audience Sing-a-long..

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  • Scratchin a Letter
    Scratchin a Letter Posts: 2,303
    Nothingman from Milan 2000... now that's audience participation!
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    I like it in small doses

    better man sing alongs CAN be magical
    philly 4/28/03

    but thats about it
  • fluttergirlie
    fluttergirlie Posts: 217
    black in dublin last year
    faithfull in wembley this year

    both still give me shivers thinking about it :)
    Dublin - August 23rd 2006
    Wembley - June 18th 2007
    Hopefully many more to come...
  • crazymerrie
    crazymerrie Posts: 64
    I really like the sing-a-long.
    Ed does a great job of knowing when its appropriate.
    It makes the being at a show far more intense
    And its cool to know that everyone around you is a huge fan of PJ too.

    I prefer listening to bootlegs instead of studio versions most of the time for that very reason. The sing-a-longs, crowds cheering, Eds funny ramblings, etc. all make a show what it is… that’s why we want to see the band live instead of just listening to the studio versions at home by ourselves.
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  • thelowlightargentina
    thelowlightargentina Posts: 592
    jdub3001 wrote:
    I was reminded of this issue while watching clips of the Live Earth concerts and saw Lenny Kravitz trying to get the crowd to sing one of his songs, and all he got was a sea of blank stares. Which is kinda funny because I saw him a couple years ago w/ Aerosmith, and he did the same thing. Kept trying to get the crowd into the show, but no one in the crowd knew the words to the song (me included)

    That´s exactly the difference between Lenny Kravitz and Pearl Jam...almost every PJ fan knows the lyrics, even outside the US...it´s all about passion :D
    ...can´t wear my mask, your first my last...
  • thelowlightargentina
    thelowlightargentina Posts: 592
    Juberoo wrote:
    Do you like it when Eddie (or any other frontman/band) lets the audience sing the song?

    I don't! I didn't pay for tickets to hear a choir concert...I came to hear the band.

    WTF!!! I can´t believe it! you don´t like to sing in a Pearl Jam concert???
    ...can´t wear my mask, your first my last...
  • thelowlightargentina
    thelowlightargentina Posts: 592
    Hinny wrote:
    All time favourite singalong highlight has to be I Believe In Miracles at Buenos Aires 2 in '05. Jesus. That's just friggin unbelievable.

    I think you are talking about Buenos Aires 1 version...
    ...can´t wear my mask, your first my last...
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    fluttergirlie wrote:
    black in dublin last year
    faithfull in wembley this year

    both still give me shivers thinking about it :)
    ahhh... excellent choices... add indifference in Dublin last year also.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    thelowlightargentina wrote:
    I think you are talking about Buenos Aires 1 version...
    And you'd be correct
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  • thelowlightargentina
    thelowlightargentina Posts: 592
    Hinny wrote:
    And you'd be correct

    well, Ed broke up in tears in that moment...I think there was a Thread talking about that...so, we just took the mic :D
    ...can´t wear my mask, your first my last...
  • bgivens33
    bgivens33 Posts: 290
    i believe in miracles.... this one?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2dq79JHpQ

    also, I think the single best throw back to the crowd that pearl jam does is baba o'reilly. I get chills every time I hear it.
  • ScottandPearlJam
    ScottandPearlJam Posts: 1,126
    I personally love it....Hell yea, I am here to see pj, but the crowd just takes the concert tot he next level. I believe PJ likes it too...you always see Ed, getting the crowd involved. I was at Jones Beach, this past weekend GOO GOO DOLLS/LIFEHOUSE (it was my Girlfriend who wanted to go) place wasn't even full, crowd was dead, the only time you heard the crowd was during IRIS. People left during the encore and concert ended at 10:40. What a waste....other then looking at the hot girls it was the worse concert night of my life. I am not just talking about the band but getting scalped, losing a 400 phone, getting into a fight....the list goes on

    scott
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  • Juberoo
    Juberoo Posts: 472
    thelowlightargentina wrote:
    WTF!!! I can´t believe it! you don´t like to sing in a Pearl Jam concert???

    I DO! I just don't like it when theres TOO MUCH audience participation. A spot here and there is fine...but whole songs and such....or every other song given to the audience is unappealing to me.
    Makes much more sense, to live in the present tense.

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  • thelowlightargentina
    thelowlightargentina Posts: 592
    bgivens33 wrote:
    i believe in miracles.... this one?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2dq79JHpQ

    No, that version is from the second night...The one where are talking about is from the first night. There´s no way to find any videos from this concert yet
    ...can´t wear my mask, your first my last...
  • E.Bloom
    E.Bloom Posts: 188
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    ahhh... excellent choices... add indifference in Dublin last year also.

    Yeah! Indifference was beautiful in Dublin last year.. This year too, when Ed had just teld everyone that Indifference was one of his better lyrics.. And what did he do? He forgot it after one sentence, but the 15 000 other people in the crow remembered it perfectly.. Pearl jam magic:D
    we were but stones,your light made us stars

    Dublin 06
    London 07
  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    Juberoo wrote:
    Do you like it when Eddie (or any other frontman/band) lets the audience sing the song?

    I don't! I didn't pay for tickets to hear a choir concert...I came to hear the band.

    Personally i love it but i think with the bootlegs it has become mandatory to sing at certain parts and certain songs it has become less spontanious (did i spell that right?)
    Dublin 2006
    Katowice 2007
    London 2007
  • thelowlightargentina
    thelowlightargentina Posts: 592
    Juberoo wrote:
    I DO! I just don't like it when theres TOO MUCH audience participation. A spot here and there is fine...but whole songs and such....or every other song given to the audience is unappealing to me.

    Well, I´m agree with that...TOO MUCH audience participation may turn a song into something too boring or too difficult to understand the lyrics
    ...can´t wear my mask, your first my last...
  • jrd
    jrd Posts: 3,060
    mole1985 wrote:
    Personally i love it but i think with the bootlegs it has become mandatory to sing at certain parts and certain songs it has become less spontanious (did i spell that right?)

    no.

    so fuck off and don't come back.... only joking ! :D

    "I before E except in 'spontaneous' when it's just E"
    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?
  • bovy_j
    bovy_j Posts: 1,008
    einatshaul wrote:
    If I wanted to just hear the band with no interference I'd turn on a DVD and not bother traveling to see them.

    The interference is what it's all about. The magic that happens during the show. The people around me experiencing PJ both together and alone, and the communication with the band.

    Worded perfectly IMO.
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    i love the audience participation :)

    cool to get the boot and go 'sweet, i'm in there'

    maybe it's 'cos i'm from a small town...
    wah

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