What was the first PJ song you heard LIVE and how did you feel?

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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    long road...uniondale 2003. it was most fitting as it was truly the song that made me fall in love with pearl jam. yes, very late bloomer. after 09/11 there was the tribute to hereos thing on tv, wasn't watching it and just happened to turn on the tv and catch a bit and hubby and i started watching. believe it or not, i didn't even know what ed looked like before then - no cable/mtv....so yea. it was beyond touching to watch him, mike and neil young play that gorgeous tune after such a tragedy right in my backyard.....absolute chills. so then, for my first concert hearing THAT song open...perfection.


    faithful227...what a fucking first song!!! you lucky guy/gal. :) i would looooooooooovvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeee that!
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    viviflu wrote:
    Tell my boss that! :'( No more fever today,yipi!
    Did you pass the virus on me? Now I got the flu...
    ♪♫♪♫♫

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  • viviflu
    viviflu Posts: 122
    parel jam wrote:
    Did you pass the virus on me? Now I got the flu...

    jajajaja we should make a thread "who has the flu?" Hope we dont all get sick again for the concert jajajaja "cof cof I'm still cof cof alive cof cof" :D
    Fighting fire with fire since world's birth, bumping into the same stone over and over again... and we call this evolution?
  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    viviflu wrote:
    jajajaja we should make a thread "who has the flu?" Hope we dont all get sick again for the concert jajajaja "cof cof I'm still cof cof alive cof cof" :D
    Hehe cof hehe...you cof cof COOOFFF wanna be cof cof the thread-cof-cof-starter?


    COFF...
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    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

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  • viviflu
    viviflu Posts: 122
    parel jam wrote:
    Hehe cof hehe...you cof cof COOOFFF wanna be cof cof the thread-cof-cof-starter?


    COFF...

    gotta a seminar now.. coooof cof cof COOOOOOFF!!... please do the honors ;)
    Fighting fire with fire since world's birth, bumping into the same stone over and over again... and we call this evolution?
  • pjfan31
    pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    My 1st pearl jam song was the long road in Sydney 2003. Ive been a big fan of pj since i was about 10 so this was my 1st concert, i think i was 17, and it was great. Saw them a few days later, they opened with cant keep. But then in their 1st Sydney show in November 06 they opened with release which was mind blowing, And their 3rd sydney show they opened with betterman. The 1st song of every concert is something special. My favourite would probably have to be release, followed close behind by betterman.

    Ps 4 yrs 2day since i saw them in their 3rd sydney show in 03. Valentines day, couldnt of spent it a better way.

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  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    viviflu wrote:
    gotta a seminar now.. coooof cof cof COOOOOOFF!!... please do the honors ;)
    COFF???
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫
  • Schoki
    Schoki Posts: 5,072
    Sometimes at the Forum in Inglewood 07/13/98. Still get chicken skin each time i think of that show and the first song i heard them play it live. One of the best moments in my life even so i had really bad seats.
  • Hippyvik
    Hippyvik Posts: 281
    Mine was Wash at Finsbury Park, London on 6th June 1992 and I cried, I think for most of the set actually. It was one of the most emotional moments in my life:) Good times:D
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Release.
    09/16/98.
    Perfect alcohol buzz (sixer of Labatt Ice).
    Right amount of THC (thanks to random couple I met in the parking lot for that).
    The opening chords begin to play. Heart skips a beat.
    EVERYBODY SINGS ALONG.... "OOOOOHHHHH...."
    "I'll RIDE THE WAVE, WHERE IT TAKES MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
    I'LL HOLD THE PAIN, RELEASE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
    Heaven.
    I'm still not sure it was real.
  • black_geo
    black_geo Posts: 31
    Mine was Go , as the title says...and what I felt was bodies hitting my back,pushing me in the pit!PJ, that's it!
    If I would, would you?
  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    black_geo wrote:
    Mine was Go , as the title says...and what I felt was bodies hitting my back,pushing me in the pit!PJ, that's it!
    I hope I'll get GO too at either Nijmegen or Werchter...haven't heard that tune live...
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫
  • shootenany!
    shootenany! Posts: 122
    Whatever they played first at the Astoria...may have been Worldwide Suicide. I just remember getting tugged under the crowd and swaying lots. Fun stuff. May or may not have been due to the many beers I drank in nervous excitement. It was ARGH amazing nontheless.
  • grizaham
    grizaham Nashville, TN Posts: 341
    My first opener was RVM, Murfreesboro TN in 1994 When i was 15. They turned off the lights and played the first minute in the dark. That was pretty sweet. They closed with Release that day so i still think its a better closer than an opener but anytime is good time if you think about it. :)
    Seen PJ 21 times live from 1994-2019

  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    grizaham wrote:
    They closed with Release that day so i still think its a better closer than an opener but anytime is good time if you think about it. :)
    Everybody their opinion but Release is sweet to start with. Have you listened to some boots, f.i. Arnhem 2006? I was dying...
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

    ♪♫♪♫♫
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    release chicago 03...it was a sprititual moment for me...amazingly powerfull first song.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    when Go start at Athens show..i couldnt believe i actually see pearl jam live..a dream came true...when Animal start as second song,then i get crazy...
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • davidtrios
    davidtrios Posts: 9,732
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    when Go start at Athens show..i couldnt believe i actually see pearl jam live..a dream came true...when Animal start as second song,then i get crazy...

    go and animal? that's insane!!! they just threw you right into the fire!!!!
  • dottles
    dottles Posts: 9,209
    Long Road, I was at the gig with three guys all called Richard and I remember looking around at them in a state of bliss and amazement at being there, hearing the song, seeing the band and saying 'Rich, this is it, this is me' it didn't matter which one heard seems they were all called the same thing. I am not sure if any of them heard, they all had the same look on their faces.
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Davidtrios wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    when Go start at Athens show..i couldnt believe i actually see pearl jam live..a dream came true...when Animal start as second song,then i get crazy...

    go and animal? that's insane!!! they just threw you right into the fire!!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wIBkc4SEk4
    indeed :D
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”

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