Happy 9/28/1996 Day

Dr. Delight
Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
in The Porch
If you were there you know.
First of two riwangulous shows.
21 years ago. Wow
And so you see, I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you.
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  • elwayvedder
    elwayvedder South Jersey Posts: 9,195
    Randall's Island. What a mess. What a memory. John Popper on the harmonica!
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  • RS65573
    RS65573 Posts: 2,506
    We arrived early and sat indian style in the sun all day with no water to hold our spots. We ended up right under the overhang of the stage, and when the rain started, it was like a waterfall onto our heads, and it was glorious.
  • THEBIBLEISTEN
    THEBIBLEISTEN Posts: 2,026
    Hartford a few days later was incredible too. 
  • surforia
    surforia SoCal Posts: 352
    I was there at the first Randall's show.  Incredible mud pit! 
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  • rustneversleeps
    rustneversleeps The Motel of Lost Companions Posts: 2,209
    HUUURRRNNT  HUUURRNNNTTT
  • ricks10pj
    ricks10pj Posts: 6
    40+ shows since,,yet nothing beats the 1st high of a PJ concert!!
  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    elwayvedder said:
    Randall's Island. What a mess. What a memory. John Popper on the harmonica!
    With Ed on his back!
    And so you see, I have come to doubt
    All that I once held as true
    I stand alone without beliefs
    The only truth I know is you.
  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    surforia said:
    I was there at the first Randall's show.  Incredible mud pit! 
    Incredible crowd in size. It took me 15 minutes to get from the back to about 15 feet in front of the stage.
    And so you see, I have come to doubt
    All that I once held as true
    I stand alone without beliefs
    The only truth I know is you.
  • RS65573
    RS65573 Posts: 2,506
    Up close you either had your arms up, or down, and once up or down, you sometimes couldn't get them back the other way thats how tight it was. The crowd was like an ocean where you were literally lifted off your feet at times when the flow changed. I remember seeing my buddy surf right over us. At 19 it was amazing, when I think back its terrifying. 
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,386
    "I know there is a mental hospital close by here... is that where you people came from?"   Ed to the surging crowd night 2 =)
    1996: Randall's Island 2  1998: East Rutherford | MSG 1 & 2  2000: Cincinnati | Columbus | Jones Beach 1, 2, & 3 | Boston 1 | Camden 1 & 2 2003: Philadelphia | Uniondale | MSG 1 & 2 | Holmdel  2005: Atlantic City 1  2006: Camden 1 | East Rutherford 1 & 2 2008: Camden 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 (#25) | Newark (EV)  2009: Philadelphia 1, 2 & 4  2010: Newark | MSG 1 & 2  2011: Toronto 1  2013: Wrigley Field | Brooklyn 2 | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2015: Central Park  2016: Philadelphia 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 | Fenway Park 2 | MSG (TOTD)  2017: Brooklyn (RnR HOF)  2020: MSG | Asbury Park  2021: Asbury Park  2022: MSG | Camden | Nashville  2024: MSG 1 & 2 (#50) | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2025: Raleigh 2


  • RoleModelsinBlood31
    RoleModelsinBlood31 Austin TX Posts: 6,258
    Crowd surfed a dozen or so times.  Sorry to the girl I knocked out when I landed on her head, the big dude threw me up a bit high.
    I'm like an opening band for your mom.
  • PB11041
    PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,845
    I always have a much different recollection of this show because we were back near the soundboard tower and I didn't have any clue that it was so cramped upfront until a few years later.  I knew night 2 was berserk from the band stopping several times.
    I still maintain, note for note, 9.28 was a better show.  The setlist for 9.29 was outrageous and long, for that era, but 9.28 was just insane, the rain came down harder when the band jammed harder, it was bizarre.  It was like they controlled it.

    Amazing.
    His eminence has yet to show. 
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  • wndowpayne
    wndowpayne Posts: 1,469
    The 9/29 version of Jeremy is wicked..
    Charlottesville 2013
    Hampton 2016

  • RS65573
    RS65573 Posts: 2,506
    The second night I went with my girlfriend, now wife and told her "lets go up where I was last night, it was amazing".
    So I grab her hand, and we start making our way to the middle center area, I look at her and shes like green....we turn around, head right back out, and she puked in the first garbage can we saw. Simply too tight to even breath up there.

    I watched night 2 from the last row in the back bleachers, and man that was amazing too. You knew you were seeing music history at these shows.
  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    I was just thinking about the poster for this show. I have one framed but there couldn't have been too many that survived that first night in the driving rain and that pit.  They would have gotten destroyed for sure.
    And so you see, I have come to doubt
    All that I once held as true
    I stand alone without beliefs
    The only truth I know is you.
  • RS65573
    RS65573 Posts: 2,506
    I think your probably right...I scored this poster about 15 years ago for $100, which was a lot then.
    I never framed it because the wife deemed it too weird, lol.
  • Dr. Delight
    Dr. Delight Posts: 11,210
    RS65573 said:
    I think your probably right...I scored this poster about 15 years ago for $100, which was a lot then.
    I never framed it because the wife deemed it too weird, lol.
    Haha
    Yeah, I was able to find one framed in the late 90s on eBay. Only paid like $130 with shipping. 
    And so you see, I have come to doubt
    All that I once held as true
    I stand alone without beliefs
    The only truth I know is you.
  • PB11041
    PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,845
    for those interested, videos for both shows have surfaced, the quality is not tremendous, but the sound for 9.28 is better than most of what I have come across over the years...video for 9.28 has some goofiness to it

    9.28
    http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=135292&highlight=pearl
    9.29
    http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=135293&highlight=pearl


    His eminence has yet to show. 
    http://www.hi5sports.org/ (Sports Program for Kids with Disabilities)
    http://www.livefootsteps.org/user/?usr=3652

  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,878
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,386
    PB11041 said:
    for those interested, videos for both shows have surfaced, the quality is not tremendous, but the sound for 9.28 is better than most of what I have come across over the years...video for 9.28 has some goofiness to it

    9.28
    http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=135292&highlight=pearl
    9.29
    http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=135293&highlight=pearl


    Is it different than what's on YouTube?
    1996: Randall's Island 2  1998: East Rutherford | MSG 1 & 2  2000: Cincinnati | Columbus | Jones Beach 1, 2, & 3 | Boston 1 | Camden 1 & 2 2003: Philadelphia | Uniondale | MSG 1 & 2 | Holmdel  2005: Atlantic City 1  2006: Camden 1 | East Rutherford 1 & 2 2008: Camden 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 (#25) | Newark (EV)  2009: Philadelphia 1, 2 & 4  2010: Newark | MSG 1 & 2  2011: Toronto 1  2013: Wrigley Field | Brooklyn 2 | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2015: Central Park  2016: Philadelphia 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 | Fenway Park 2 | MSG (TOTD)  2017: Brooklyn (RnR HOF)  2020: MSG | Asbury Park  2021: Asbury Park  2022: MSG | Camden | Nashville  2024: MSG 1 & 2 (#50) | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2025: Raleigh 2


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