Dear Pearl Jam, Why don’t you guys play more Seattle concerts?

my2hands · April 2016

OceansMagnet said:
I feel pissed at bonnaroo for stealing my home town show away. That's the honest truth. I used to work as a photojournalist and covered it a couple of times and saw all I needed to see. Not my scene. Glad the folks that go have a good time and I don't want to stand in your way. However, blocking a local show is absolutely ridiculous. Most locals over the age of 25 don't go to the Roo. Is it too much for me to want to go see Pearl jam and then sleep in my own bed afterward at least once every 4-5 years? It's been 13 years since PJ have played Nashville. It's not like we are some culturally devoid dot on the map that no one wants to visit. It's frustrating to love a band and love where you live and want to see those two converge and have it yanked away from you because some hippie fest that doesn't accommodate day visitors but rather requires assimilation into conditions that most grown folks feel are less than desirable blacks out your market for half a year. Now get off of my lawn!!!! End of rant... For now..

Honestly, I can feel this... I would probably feel the same if I lived in the Nashville area

mwplum · April 2016

OceansMagnet said:
No offense, but Zac Brown is from Georgia. True he lives here now but didn't start here. The better comparison to Nashville would be Kings of Leon who played their first ever show at Slowbar and the lack of shows they play here would be similar. Sure they played NYE this year for all the tourists down on Broadway in freezing temps but they have limited Nashville to a single tour stop for the last two records yet play the Northeast relentlessly. And NO Bonnaroo doesn't count. If you have to camp and stay for three days in a field an hour and a half away from the city surrounded by a bunch of drug addicts that can not be considered a Nashville tour stop.

Y'know, that's really funny because the first example I was going to use was KoL, but just felt like Zac more typified the Nashville town scene than them (even though as you rightly point out, he's from Georgia).

I totally respect your take, especially as the Pemberton Festival is kind of "stealing" my Vancouver show...but what totally mystifies us west coasters, is the distances between the cities. For example, I grew up in Vancouver, but consider Seattle a home show (2.5 -3 hours away by car) and even Portland for that matter (5 hours by car!).

When we see people in (say just completely for example) Pittsburgh saying "come play Pittsburgh" when they're already playing Lexington or Philly (5 hours by car each way)...we are perplexed as it just seems like a rational distance to travel by car to see a show.

The distances between larger cities are just so much shorter on the East Coast! Like over the summer there will be 6 PJ shows all within 2-3 hour drive of Philly-NYC-Boston.

I really respect Nashville as a cultural and historic city. Shit, I wish I lived there as I might actually be able to afford somewhere to live (Vancouver sucks, like even a 1bdr condo costs $500,000). But at the same time, you should totally just hop in a car and go to Lexington! (I'll buy you a beer!).

Cheers,
Matt

PJ_Soul · April 2016

my2hands said:

OceansMagnet said:
I feel pissed at bonnaroo for stealing my home town show away. That's the honest truth. I used to work as a photojournalist and covered it a couple of times and saw all I needed to see. Not my scene. Glad the folks that go have a good time and I don't want to stand in your way. However, blocking a local show is absolutely ridiculous. Most locals over the age of 25 don't go to the Roo. Is it too much for me to want to go see Pearl jam and then sleep in my own bed afterward at least once every 4-5 years? It's been 13 years since PJ have played Nashville. It's not like we are some culturally devoid dot on the map that no one wants to visit. It's frustrating to love a band and love where you live and want to see those two converge and have it yanked away from you because some hippie fest that doesn't accommodate day visitors but rather requires assimilation into conditions that most grown folks feel are less than desirable blacks out your market for half a year. Now get off of my lawn!!!! End of rant... For now..
Honestly, I can feel this... I would probably feel the same if I lived in the Nashville area

Yeah, I get this too. I would also be pissed if a thing like Bonnaroo was in my hometown.

PJ_Soul · April 2016

mwplum said:

OceansMagnet said:
No offense, but Zac Brown is from Georgia. True he lives here now but didn't start here. The better comparison to Nashville would be Kings of Leon who played their first ever show at Slowbar and the lack of shows they play here would be similar. Sure they played NYE this year for all the tourists down on Broadway in freezing temps but they have limited Nashville to a single tour stop for the last two records yet play the Northeast relentlessly. And NO Bonnaroo doesn't count. If you have to camp and stay for three days in a field an hour and a half away from the city surrounded by a bunch of drug addicts that can not be considered a Nashville tour stop.
Y'know, that's really funny because the first example I was going to use was KoL, but just felt like Zac more typified the Nashville town scene than them (even though as you rightly point out, he's from Georgia).

I totally respect your take, especially as the Pemberton Festival is kind of "stealing" my Vancouver show...but what totally mystifies us west coasters, is the distances between the cities. For example, I grew up in Vancouver, but consider Seattle a home show (2.5 -3 hours away by car) and even Portland for that matter (5 hours by car!).

When we see people in (say just completely for example) Pittsburgh saying "come play Pittsburgh" when they're already playing Lexington or Philly (5 hours by car each way)...we are perplexed as it just seems like a rational distance to travel by car to see a show.

The distances between larger cities are just so much shorter on the East Coast! Like over the summer there will be 6 PJ shows all within 2-3 hour drive of Philly-NYC-Boston.

I really respect Nashville as a cultural and historic city. Shit, I wish I lived there as I might actually be able to afford somewhere to live (Vancouver sucks, like even a 1bdr condo costs $500,000). But at the same time, you should totally just hop in a car and go to Lexington! (I'll buy you a beer!).

Cheers,
Matt

You think that the Pemberton fest is stealing your Vancouver show? How so? Do you think that this performance will make PJ skip Vancouver on their next west coast tour??
Totally agree about the frustration with how far apart cities are out here. It sucks. It really makes me wish I lived on the northeast coast!!

OceansMagnet · April 2016

I am going to Lexington. I travel all the time for this band. 2008 West Palm and Tampa 2009 Salt Lake City and Philadelphia 2010 Columbus and Indianapolis 2011 Alpine Valley 2012 Atlanta and Missoula 2013 Wrigley, Dallas, OKC, and Phoenix. 2014 Cincinnati, St. Louis, Memphis, and Denver. This year Tampa, Jacksonville, and Lexington. But goddamn it. I live in Music City. We have tons of great venues and plenty of hotel space. Ed seemed to have a great time when he played the Ryman. I just don't get it.

mwplum · April 2016

PJ_Soul said:

mwplum said:

OceansMagnet said:
No offense, but Zac Brown is from Georgia. True he lives here now but didn't start here. The better comparison to Nashville would be Kings of Leon who played their first ever show at Slowbar and the lack of shows they play here would be similar. Sure they played NYE this year for all the tourists down on Broadway in freezing temps but they have limited Nashville to a single tour stop for the last two records yet play the Northeast relentlessly. And NO Bonnaroo doesn't count. If you have to camp and stay for three days in a field an hour and a half away from the city surrounded by a bunch of drug addicts that can not be considered a Nashville tour stop.
Y'know, that's really funny because the first example I was going to use was KoL, but just felt like Zac more typified the Nashville town scene than them (even though as you rightly point out, he's from Georgia).

I totally respect your take, especially as the Pemberton Festival is kind of "stealing" my Vancouver show...but what totally mystifies us west coasters, is the distances between the cities. For example, I grew up in Vancouver, but consider Seattle a home show (2.5 -3 hours away by car) and even Portland for that matter (5 hours by car!).

When we see people in (say just completely for example) Pittsburgh saying "come play Pittsburgh" when they're already playing Lexington or Philly (5 hours by car each way)...we are perplexed as it just seems like a rational distance to travel by car to see a show.

The distances between larger cities are just so much shorter on the East Coast! Like over the summer there will be 6 PJ shows all within 2-3 hour drive of Philly-NYC-Boston.

I really respect Nashville as a cultural and historic city. Shit, I wish I lived there as I might actually be able to afford somewhere to live (Vancouver sucks, like even a 1bdr condo costs $500,000). But at the same time, you should totally just hop in a car and go to Lexington! (I'll buy you a beer!).

Cheers,
Matt
You think that the Pemberton fest is stealing your Vancouver show? How so? Do you think that this performance will make PJ skip Vancouver on their next west coast tour??
Totally agree about the frustration with how far apart cities are out here. It sucks. It really makes me wish I lived on the northeast coast!!

No not at all (about stealing a Vancouver show)...I really wasn't expecting any west coast dates, save potentially a PJ25 in Seattle or the Gorge. This is like icing on the cake! A free desert, completely unexpected!

To be honest I just feel so fortunate they're playing in my backyard! I booked an Air BNB in January hopping that the lineup would be okay (didn't have high hopes) but after the announcement, I'm ecstatic!!!! I know many people feel ambivalent about it, but if they billed it as "Pearl Jam, Oasis, the Killers, and JCole (whoever that is?), and the return of Wolf Parade" that would be incredible (and that's essentially what it is!!!!). I never got to see Wolf Parade back in the day, and for those of you in that boat, please listen to "Apologies to the Queen Mary"...as it might be one of the top 10 albums that came out between 2000-2010....Can't wait for Pemberton!!!

mwplum · April 2016

PS OceansMagnet, I too was at Memphis/Denver 2014...Great shows! (first time I got to see Come Back and Ghost!!!) think it's so rad you're able to tour as much as you do while living in such a great city. Much love.

OceansMagnet · April 2016

@mwplum thanks for the kind words. Hoping we can meet up in Lexington. This may be my last time to be able to travel for a while so I'm making the most of it but trying to be responsible. It would be so easy to hit the Carolinas in a week but I've got Alabama Shakes and Ben Harper back to back here that week so it does take the sting out a bit. My former job paid well but I was unhappy with my quality of life. I'm scraping by. When I left that job I said that money can't buy happiness.. Now I realize that is true but it can buy Pearl Jam tickets and that's basically the same thing right? Haha.

Dear Pearl Jam, Why don’t you guys play more Seattle concerts?

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