*** Fenway 2 Boston, MA Fanviews Here 8/7/16 ***

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  • EFFORT
    they make an effort to get us the merch
    they think about the setlists, carefully. these things aren't just thrown together. that takes effort.
    they perform every show with 100% effort, energy, sincerity. they leave it all out there. for three hours.

    to anyone who complains about anything they do:
    what you think that the band owes you? its called gratitude, and that's right.

    Sunday August 7th 2016 at Fenway Park was spectacular
    Thank you Pearl Jam
  • charles.
    charles. Posts: 26
    at show 18 i finally got to belt out I MISS YOU ALLLLLLL RRRREEAAAADDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYY at the top of my lungs. this is how i feel...
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  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,390
    charles. said:

    at show 18 i finally got to belt out I MISS YOU ALLLLLLL RRRREEAAAADDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYY at the top of my lungs. this is how i feel...

    This song always eludes me! It was scratched in Philly and I was heartbroken. I was ecstatic when I saw stone on bass!! Encore 2 was one of the best that I can remember.
  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    nicknyr15 said:

    charles. said:

    at show 18 i finally got to belt out I MISS YOU ALLLLLLL RRRREEAAAADDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYY at the top of my lungs. this is how i feel...

    This song always eludes me! It was scratched in Philly and I was heartbroken. I was ecstatic when I saw stone on bass!! Encore 2 was one of the best that I can remember.
    It stuff like this that I want to start picking up with the band. I have seen Smile twice now (one from a good distance away lol) and I have yet to notice that.
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,818
    nicknyr15 said:

    charles. said:

    at show 18 i finally got to belt out I MISS YOU ALLLLLLL RRRREEAAAADDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYY at the top of my lungs. this is how i feel...

    This song always eludes me! It was scratched in Philly and I was heartbroken. I was ecstatic when I saw stone on bass!! Encore 2 was one of the best that I can remember.
    Same, I saw Jeff picking up a guitar & I knew...... Such a great, underplayed song.
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,016
    World broadcast premiere of the bootleg at 2 pm

    Especially looking forward to reliving NAIS and Angel
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  • CantKeepmedown
    CantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 3,125

    nicknyr15 said:

    charles. said:

    at show 18 i finally got to belt out I MISS YOU ALLLLLLL RRRREEAAAADDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYY at the top of my lungs. this is how i feel...

    This song always eludes me! It was scratched in Philly and I was heartbroken. I was ecstatic when I saw stone on bass!! Encore 2 was one of the best that I can remember.
    Same, I saw Jeff picking up a guitar & I knew...... Such a great, underplayed song.
    Smile has always been a favorite of mine. I saw the guitar switch, and grabbed my wife and said, It's SMILE!" The girl in front of me looked over her shoulder, kind of annoyed. I said, "What!? Stone and Jeff switched guitars!" She smiled and gave me a thumbs up.
  • nothinasitseems
    nothinasitseems New Jersey Posts: 1,516

    jkalman said:



    Yeah. Feeling post partum show depression myself.

    Us fans help with the show. We feed on each other and the band feeds on us. I spent much of my show actively engaging the people around my seating area, or wherever I went during the show, to sing. We shook that stadium.

    The post show depression is real. In recent years, I'm either one or the other:

    "I have tickets for an upcoming Pearl Jam Show" or
    "I don't have any Pearl Jam tickets right now"

    Currently I'm in the latter category. The depression hasn't set in yet, because I'm still riding the high from the weekend, but I'll come down soon. (TOTD in Philly will help stave off that depression, but come mid-November I'll be scouring the 2017 Tour Rumors thread looking for any glimmer of hope)

    RE: Crowd & Band energy:

    Sunday night was a night where you can't tell who's feeding off of whom more. The only other time I saw something comparable was Hartford '13. In that bootleg you can hear Eddie say "This isn't normal" and he wasn't just paying lip service...... Something special happened that night between the band & the audience, and it happened again at Fenway on Sunday. It's hard to describe, but anyone who was at either of those shows knows what I'm talking about.
    yes! this so much! both nights were absolutely incredible. best fans ever, best band ever.
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  • CantKeepmedown
    CantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 3,125
    My wife has been going to shows with me for the past 15 years. And she's seen some doozies (all 3 Mansfields in 03, MSG 03, Hartford 13). For the most part, she is just happy to be there. She knows most of the songs, but really just enjoys the atmosphere and seeing friends that we haven't seen in a long time. She rarely, if ever, will singalong or move/dance in place during a show.

    Sunday night, she was swaying back and forth, hopping up and down, and even singing (yelling even)! Fist pumping and all that. She nearly tackled me when Footsteps started. I said to her on the ride home that I had never seen her act like that at a show. And I loved it! She said she didn't quite know what it was, but the whole feeling of being there, in that stadium, surrounded by thousands of people feeling the same, just made her so happy that she couldn't help but get into it.

    I want do to it again so bad next summer
  • SimmZ
    SimmZ Posts: 41

    My wife has been going to shows with me for the past 15 years. And she's seen some doozies (all 3 Mansfields in 03, MSG 03, Hartford 13). For the most part, she is just happy to be there. She knows most of the songs, but really just enjoys the atmosphere and seeing friends that we haven't seen in a long time. She rarely, if ever, will singalong or move/dance in place during a show.

    Sunday night, she was swaying back and forth, hopping up and down, and even singing (yelling even)! Fist pumping and all that. She nearly tackled me when Footsteps started. I said to her on the ride home that I had never seen her act like that at a show. And I loved it! She said she didn't quite know what it was, but the whole feeling of being there, in that stadium, surrounded by thousands of people feeling the same, just made her so happy that she couldn't help but get into it.

    I want do to it again so bad next summer

    Awesome! We were front row and the energy flowing thru the park came like tidal waves to the stage, it was unreal! My wife probably punched and slapped me from excitement about 389 times! It was so great!
    SimmZ
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,390
    SimmZ said:

    My wife has been going to shows with me for the past 15 years. And she's seen some doozies (all 3 Mansfields in 03, MSG 03, Hartford 13). For the most part, she is just happy to be there. She knows most of the songs, but really just enjoys the atmosphere and seeing friends that we haven't seen in a long time. She rarely, if ever, will singalong or move/dance in place during a show.

    Sunday night, she was swaying back and forth, hopping up and down, and even singing (yelling even)! Fist pumping and all that. She nearly tackled me when Footsteps started. I said to her on the ride home that I had never seen her act like that at a show. And I loved it! She said she didn't quite know what it was, but the whole feeling of being there, in that stadium, surrounded by thousands of people feeling the same, just made her so happy that she couldn't help but get into it.

    I want do to it again so bad next summer

    Awesome! We were front row and the energy flowing thru the park came like tidal waves to the stage, it was unreal! My wife probably punched and slapped me from excitement about 389 times! It was so great!
    What section?
  • ski-bum
    ski-bum Boston Posts: 1,024

    My wife has been going to shows with me for the past 15 years. And she's seen some doozies (all 3 Mansfields in 03, MSG 03, Hartford 13). For the most part, she is just happy to be there. She knows most of the songs, but really just enjoys the atmosphere and seeing friends that we haven't seen in a long time. She rarely, if ever, will singalong or move/dance in place during a show.

    Sunday night, she was swaying back and forth, hopping up and down, and even singing (yelling even)! Fist pumping and all that. She nearly tackled me when Footsteps started. I said to her on the ride home that I had never seen her act like that at a show. And I loved it! She said she didn't quite know what it was, but the whole feeling of being there, in that stadium, surrounded by thousands of people feeling the same, just made her so happy that she couldn't help but get into it.

    I want do to it again so bad next summer

    Wish there was a "like" button. Something special when you see someone you care a lot about, having so much fun.
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  • jkalman said:



    Yeah. Feeling post partum show depression myself.

    Us fans help with the show. We feed on each other and the band feeds on us. I spent much of my show actively engaging the people around my seating area, or wherever I went during the show, to sing. We shook that stadium.

    The post show depression is real. In recent years, I'm either one or the other:

    "I have tickets for an upcoming Pearl Jam Show" or
    "I don't have any Pearl Jam tickets right now"

    Currently I'm in the latter category. The depression hasn't set in yet, because I'm still riding the high from the weekend, but I'll come down soon. (TOTD in Philly will help stave off that depression, but come mid-November I'll be scouring the 2017 Tour Rumors thread looking for any glimmer of hope)

    RE: Crowd & Band energy:

    Sunday night was a night where you can't tell who's feeding off of whom more. The only other time I saw something comparable was Hartford '13. In that bootleg you can hear Eddie say "This isn't normal" and he wasn't just paying lip service...... Something special happened that night between the band & the audience, and it happened again at Fenway on Sunday. It's hard to describe, but anyone who was at either of those shows knows what I'm talking about.
    Yes!! It still makes me smile and gives little chills when I hear him say that and "like fucking south america" on that bootleg. Felt the same at Fenway 2!
  • SimmZ
    SimmZ Posts: 41
    nicknyr15 said:

    SimmZ said:

    My wife has been going to shows with me for the past 15 years. And she's seen some doozies (all 3 Mansfields in 03, MSG 03, Hartford 13). For the most part, she is just happy to be there. She knows most of the songs, but really just enjoys the atmosphere and seeing friends that we haven't seen in a long time. She rarely, if ever, will singalong or move/dance in place during a show.

    Sunday night, she was swaying back and forth, hopping up and down, and even singing (yelling even)! Fist pumping and all that. She nearly tackled me when Footsteps started. I said to her on the ride home that I had never seen her act like that at a show. And I loved it! She said she didn't quite know what it was, but the whole feeling of being there, in that stadium, surrounded by thousands of people feeling the same, just made her so happy that she couldn't help but get into it.

    I want do to it again so bad next summer

    Awesome! We were front row and the energy flowing thru the park came like tidal waves to the stage, it was unreal! My wife probably punched and slapped me from excitement about 389 times! It was so great!
    What section?
    We were section A3 front row, right on the aisle closer to center stage. Pretty much right in front of Stone. Where were you?
    SimmZ
  • The Camaros Hood
    The Camaros Hood Boston, MA Posts: 482
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    RE: Crowd & Band energy:

    Sunday night was a night where you can't tell who's feeding off of whom more. The only other time I saw something comparable was Hartford '13. In that bootleg you can hear Eddie say "This isn't normal" and he wasn't just paying lip service...... Something special happened that night between the band & the audience, and it happened again at Fenway on Sunday. It's hard to describe, but anyone who was at either of those shows knows what I'm talking about.


    Couldn't agree more. I was Sitting 2nd row, dead center, (THANKS again 10C!!!) and I could see the reaction on EVs face all night. He was totally in awe of the crowd and I think he was feeding off of it. He knew it was a special night and weekend overall!! I hope we are all talking about this weekend and specifically Night 2, for years to come.

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  • ikiT
    ikiT USA Posts: 11,059
    I know how to pick the shows. You're welcome.
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,818

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    RE: Crowd & Band energy:

    Sunday night was a night where you can't tell who's feeding off of whom more. The only other time I saw something comparable was Hartford '13. In that bootleg you can hear Eddie say "This isn't normal" and he wasn't just paying lip service...... Something special happened that night between the band & the audience, and it happened again at Fenway on Sunday. It's hard to describe, but anyone who was at either of those shows knows what I'm talking about.

    Couldn't agree more. I was Sitting 2nd row, dead center, (THANKS again 10C!!!) and I could see the reaction on EVs face all night. He was totally in awe of the crowd and I think he was feeding off of it. He knew it was a special night and weekend overall!! I hope we are all talking about this weekend and specifically Night 2, for years to come.



    I get chills thinking about it.
    Tiki said:

    I know how to pick the shows. You're welcome.

    Yeah you do, job well done sir. : )
  • Tremorman
    Tremorman Posts: 391
    edited August 2016

    jkalman said:





    Yes!! It still makes me smile and gives little chills when I hear him say that and "like fucking south america" on that bootleg. Felt the same at Fenway 2!



    Love that part of the Hartford '13 show too! I was lucky enough to be at that one and at Fenway night 2. Wasn't on the field, but had great seats right behind 3rd base dugout camera pit. Energy was fantastic in our section (70) and was really, really impressed with the sound. Big props to the sound/stage crew! Any consensus on how the broadcast sounded? I don't have Sirius.
    Post edited by Tremorman on
  • JM55546
    JM55546 Posts: 135
    Echo the quotes about Hartford in 13. That was the loudest I've heard a crowd be ever. At Fenway was different due to my seats where you couldn't hear anything but the speakers but it was the same way. The Hartford show's crowd was nuts.
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