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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,460
    Ryan said:

    ledvedderman said:

    fl4tdriven said:

    Hopefully this doesn't mark the beginning of the end. I still have a lot of songs I've yet to hear live.

    This post easily could have come 17 years prior from the Synergy board when the Binaural track list came out and "Parting Ways" was last.
    You mean when Pearl Jam was actually a band that was concerned with creating new music on a regular basis instead of just relying on their past catalogue to continue touring sporadically and to sell a bunch of merch?
    Recording contract pushed that some I'm sure. Perhaps they've said all they care to say new music wise.
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  • riley540
    riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
    This thread is funny. Been a band for over a quarter century. They decide to take a year off... and it's all of a sudden the beginning of the end! I feel like that are for more active than a lot of older bands, and for that. I'm thankful!
  • drakeheuer14
    drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,619
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  • riley540
    riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
    Maybe this gives them time to hang out with family and write some music alone. Then late in the year they will bring all the new music together and record an album that will hit the shelves in march of next year. And April - July will be a massive US tour supporting it
  • PJNB
    PJNB Posts: 13,890
    riley540 said:

    This thread is funny. Been a band for over a quarter century. They decide to take a year off... and it's all of a sudden the beginning of the end! I feel like that are for more active than a lot of older bands, and for that. I'm thankful!

    Read for a good laugh.
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  • riley540
    riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
    PJNB said:

    riley540 said:

    This thread is funny. Been a band for over a quarter century. They decide to take a year off... and it's all of a sudden the beginning of the end! I feel like that are for more active than a lot of older bands, and for that. I'm thankful!

    Read for a good laugh.
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  • vaggar99
    vaggar99 San Diego USA Posts: 3,431
    edited March 2017
    their collective hearts were not in the last album and it was reflected in the final product.
  • stratmad
    stratmad Posts: 211
    If this news is true, maybe this will be a opportune time for them to clear out the closet, say, dropping the PJ20 and Wrigley shows from last year in some form. Or maybe they can do a 2 Vault issues, or do a Vault issue with a companion video, etc etc. At a guess, touring is probably their biggest source of income that they have most control over these days and artists still have to put food on the table. If they are taking time off, getting some of this overdue stuff out to the masses will help bring in some income which they will miss from not touring. It will be a nice way to close the loop on those events and clear the decks for new music and it will keep them in the public's eye after the RNRHOF without them needing to get out and tour behind the releases. Makes perfect sense if you ask me.
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,895
    stratmad said:

    If this news is true, maybe this will be a opportune time for them to clear out the closet, say, dropping the PJ20 and Wrigley shows from last year in some form. Or maybe they can do a 2 Vault issues, or do a Vault issue with a companion video, etc etc. At a guess, touring is probably their biggest source of income that they have most control over these days and artists still have to put food on the table. If they are taking time off, getting some of this overdue stuff out to the masses will help bring in some income which they will miss from not touring. It will be a nice way to close the loop on those events and clear the decks for new music and it will keep them in the public's eye after the RNRHOF without them needing to get out and tour behind the releases. Makes perfect sense if you ask me.

    I'm ok with that. Would love to see stuff like pj20, wrigley and some live blurays :)

    I understand everyone else in the thread though. Sometimes PJ prioritizes things that aren't PJ. The upside is that it's probably why they never broke up. It keeps them sane, and keeps them from imploding. The downside is that albums and tour dates aren't quite as frequent as yesteryear. There are in their 50s and I'm not sure what that's like. I supposed like most of us, there's alot of things they want to do, but only so much time.
  • jason_94
    jason_94 Toledo, OH Posts: 1,872
    Maybe, as someone mentioned earlier, Chris is just putting up a smokescreen.

    Perhaps they can still "close out the Joe" in 2018. I don't know for sure but I don't think it's being taken down within the next 9 months.

    If the band is taking the next 9-12 months off, then that's great news. That could then mean that the special Wrigley bootleg/blu ray is right around the corner. It would be a good source of revenue since there is no tour. Heck, maybe we'll even get a PJ20 box set or a No Code or Yield box set. :wink:
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    vaggar99 said:

    their collective hearts were not in the last album and it was reflected in the final product.

    That's not true at all. If you paid attention to the interviews and promotional work they did, they were really excited. They aren't good enough actors or liars to fake that.

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  • chriszee
    chriszee Posts: 108
    What are they taking a break from? I take it as they aren't even going to pretend to want to do something together and straight up said let's leave each other alone entirely for at least a year
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    chriszee said:

    What are they taking a break from? I take it as they aren't even going to pretend to want to do something together and straight up said let's leave each other alone entirely for at least a year

    That's reading awfully deep into a comment made on a radio interview with a friend of the band.
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,769

    Maybe they're taking a break from presumptuous fans.
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,598
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  • CantKeepmedown
    CantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 3,119
    Merkin Baller said:


    Maybe they're taking a break from presumptuous fans.

    Amen. Pearl Jam fans are the worst sometimes. They did like 25 shows last year, which for them, is pretty big. It's been noted that they are not crazy about touring too much. 3/5 of the band has young(ish) kids. And their drummer has commitments to another band (and he has prioritized PJ first before too).

    They'll get through the HOF stuff and I would bet they will tour again Spring/Summer of 2018
  • crookedcross
    crookedcross Right Near Da Beach, Boiii Posts: 1,545
    For some reason, Pat Benatar's heartbreaker started playing in my head after reading the title of this thread
  • elvistheking44
    elvistheking44 Posts: 4,540
    I'm so glad that the band decided to hire Chelios as their official spokesman.
  • RunIntoTheRain
    RunIntoTheRain Texas Posts: 1,032
    Merkin Baller said:


    Maybe they're taking a break from presumptuous fans.

    Exactly
  • wndowpayne
    wndowpayne Posts: 1,469
    I smell a new lp before the next tour..
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