Memories,Meetings,Memorabilia and the story and pictures behind them.

Looks like Celery Dune. 

Poncier said:

Looks like Celery Dune. 

Oh man, I had a mint Celery Dune rookie card that my mother threw away.  Would be worth thousands now!

Ok I have another fun one to add.  I'll make it long.
Philadelphia 4/29.
Snagged cheessteaks before the show found a spot to park and ate, careful not to get grease on my hands because I hoped to get a poster..didn't know anything about it because I like to be surprised. We lined up to go in and these two fans cut in line behind us. I laid into them but no one else cared so eventually I just shut up and they just stood there...
Doors open and we all scurry in and find a merch table. 
Great emek! I had enough cash literally down to the change and lint in my pockets to get a poster sticker and pin. We found our seats, side stage kind of behind. As I settled in, I enjoyed the unique perspecive... especially MC's drum kit. 
Show kicked off and we get pummeled by TEN. Then a whole fat show that is likely one of the best I've seen. If you were lucky to be there you may agree.

Show ends, we chill for the crowds to thin out and it's always fun to see the stage get taken apart. 
One of the stagehands walked to the edge of the stage and hurled something slow motion into the air. Me and another fan watched as it slowly split apart in the air and gently landed in an empty row. 
The race was on. I fumbled over there as fast as I could. Other fan bolted like lightning. Luckily I was closer so we arrived at the same time. Each taking home one of these.
maybe I can get Celine Dion to sign it someday.

In 2013 in London, Ont the band was here prepping for their Lightning bolt tour. The Bud-gardens had allowed the band to have the venue for 5 days to practise. On the Saturday July 13 now known as Eddie Vedder day with my friends, we waited outside the venue with some friends and the kids hoping the band would come out. Some of the band members left, so we didn’t think he was gonna come out. We were just getting ready to leave when his security came out and said Ed was gonna come out and to put cameras away. I’ve been a huge fan since day 1 and this was like a dream. He came out and chatted with all the kids. He gave them guitar picks and signed a picture for my daughter. I couldn’t hardly talked. My wife and her friends were in tears. My daughter 5 at the time made a card for the band. He had a 5 min conversation around his kids and baseball with her. He asked what her name was and she said Kalei. He said Ally what a beautiful name. He then read her card and told her he was sorry for getting her name wrong and said to her that Kalei was an even more beautiful name then Ally. He made his way down the line and freeze high fives my nephew telling him a story about how he did that with his kid. He talked to my friend and asked the named of his daughter. He told her Ella. He said he loved that name and that he wanted to name his daughter that, but didn’t want her to get made fun of (Ella Vedder / Elevator -Haha). He got to my wife who had our youngest child. He gave her a guitar pick and she threw it back at him. He picked it up and pulled another one out and held her hands and made a comment that she was already practising to be on stage. He gave her 2 picks one for each hand. A Pretty amazing experience. We were lucky to have experienced it, as so many people don’t get an opportunity to. Made us love him and the band that much more. Definitely a once in a life time experience. Check out the picture above. This is the picture he signed. We handed out the EV picks from his 2012 tour. 

Ive definitely been spoiled many times over with this band and I’ve mentioned this here before. It’s just stuff at the end of the day but the story still makes me smile:

‘06 Grand Rapids and my brother and I were front row and my brother was easily the youngest/shortest one. We were just loving the setlist and the show and having a great time...at some point early on between songs Ed wandered over and wanted to toss a pick to someone so I raised my arm then pointed to my brother and Ed did the rest. When the band walked off after the main set Ed looked over mid stride at us with a look on his face as if to ask what we wanted to hear and I said Big Wave...the look on his face said it all: apologetic but wasn’t going to happen (remember reading later on Ed was saving it for the ocean/beach shows). And then during the encores we were just outright losing our minds with the songs played (as was everyone). And then this happened:

https://youtu.be/qxYM-E1sy3k

Shaky beginning but starts at the 0:56 mark. Didn’t do anything to get Ed’s attention, he just turned and looked and gestured. And what was great about everyone around us is that no one reached out. So I caught it and without thinking just handed it to my brother. The next and final song of the night was YL and while Mike is soloing Ed is kneeling down in front of us and looks over to spot my brother holding the tambourine. I’m watching Mike and don’t notice Ed asking my brother if we’re at the show together to which my brother gives Ed a thumbs up. Ed stands up and motions for another tambourine and walks to the edge of the stage and without hesitating my brother quickly hands the tambourine back to me before Ed tosses my brother his very own. At this point I clue in to what’s going on when Ed strides back then turns around quickly and asks my brother to toss the tambourine back up. Ed then uses it to wipe the sweat off his entire face and tosses it once again to my brother. Everything lined up at the show for those memories to happen but then the following year at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of the Thomas Young documentary we arrived early for Ed’s soundcheck and I had a gut feeling about each of us bringing along the tambourines:

elwayvedder said:

 said:

In 2013 in London, Ont the band was here prepping for their Lightning bolt tour. The Bud-gardens had allowed the band to have the venue for 5 days to practise. On the Saturday July 13 now known as Eddie Vedder day with my friends, we waited outside the venue with some friends and the kids hoping the band would come out. Some of the band members left, so we didn’t think he was gonna come out. We were just getting ready to leave when his security came out and said Ed was gonna come out and to put cameras away. I’ve been a huge fan since day 1 and this was like a dream. He came out and chatted with all the kids. He gave them guitar picks and signed a picture for my daughter. I couldn’t hardly talked. My wife and her friends were in tears. My daughter 5 at the time made a card for the band. He had a 5 min conversation around his kids and baseball with her. He asked what her name was and she said Kalei. He said Ally what a beautiful name. He then read her card and told her he was sorry for getting her name wrong and said to her that Kalei was an even more beautiful name then Ally. He made his way down the line and freeze high fives my nephew telling him a story about how he did that with his kid. He talked to my friend and asked the named of his daughter. He told her Ella. He said he loved that name and that he wanted to name his daughter that, but didn’t want her to get made fun of (Ella Vedder / Elevator -Haha). He got to my wife who had our youngest child. He gave her a guitar pick and she threw it back at him. He picked it up and pulled another one out and held her hands and made a comment that she was already practising to be on stage. He gave her 2 picks one for each hand. A Pretty amazing experience. We were lucky to have experienced it, as so many people don’t get an opportunity to. Made us love him and the band that much more. Definitely a once in a life time experience. Check out the picture above. This is the picture he signed. We handed out the EV picks from his 2012 tour. 

amazing thank u for sharing. what's the pick between the orange ED and the black sparky pick?

It’s a McCready pick. I believe it has an E on the Back. There 4 in total that spell Mike. I believe they  Earth, wind, fire, water. 

100 Pacer said:

Ive definitely been spoiled many times over with this band and I’ve mentioned this here before. It’s just stuff at the end of the day but the story still makes me smile:

‘06 Grand Rapids and my brother and I were front row and my brother was easily the youngest/shortest one. We were just loving the setlist and the show and having a great time...at some point early on between songs Ed wandered over and wanted to toss a pick to someone so I raised my arm then pointed to my brother and Ed did the rest. When the band walked off after the main set Ed looked over mid stride at us with a look on his face as if to ask what we wanted to hear and I said Big Wave...the look on his face said it all: apologetic but wasn’t going to happen (remember reading later on Ed was saving it for the ocean/beach shows). And then during the encores we were just outright losing our minds with the songs played (as was everyone). And then this happened:

https://youtu.be/qxYM-E1sy3k

Shaky beginning but starts at the 0:56 mark. Didn’t do anything to get Ed’s attention, he just turned and looked and gestured. And what was great about everyone around us is that no one reached out. So I caught it and without thinking just handed it to my brother. The next and final song of the night was YL and while Mike is soloing Ed is kneeling down in front of us and looks over to spot my brother holding the tambourine. I’m watching Mike and don’t notice Ed asking my brother if we’re at the show together to which my brother gives Ed a thumbs up. Ed stands up and motions for another tambourine and walks to the edge of the stage and without hesitating my brother quickly hands the tambourine back to me before Ed tosses my brother his very own. At this point I clue in to what’s going on when Ed strides back then turns around quickly and asks my brother to toss the tambourine back up. Ed then uses it to wipe the sweat off his entire face and tosses it once again to my brother. Everything lined up at the show for those memories to happen but then the following year at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of the Thomas Young documentary we arrived early for Ed’s soundcheck and I had a gut feeling about each of us bringing along the tambourines:

That’s a sweet story. 

mrezooc said:

elwayvedder said:

 said:

In 2013 in London, Ont the band was here prepping for their Lightning bolt tour. The Bud-gardens had allowed the band to have the venue for 5 days to practise. On the Saturday July 13 now known as Eddie Vedder day with my friends, we waited outside the venue with some friends and the kids hoping the band would come out. Some of the band members left, so we didn’t think he was gonna come out. We were just getting ready to leave when his security came out and said Ed was gonna come out and to put cameras away. I’ve been a huge fan since day 1 and this was like a dream. He came out and chatted with all the kids. He gave them guitar picks and signed a picture for my daughter. I couldn’t hardly talked. My wife and her friends were in tears. My daughter 5 at the time made a card for the band. He had a 5 min conversation around his kids and baseball with her. He asked what her name was and she said Kalei. He said Ally what a beautiful name. He then read her card and told her he was sorry for getting her name wrong and said to her that Kalei was an even more beautiful name then Ally. He made his way down the line and freeze high fives my nephew telling him a story about how he did that with his kid. He talked to my friend and asked the named of his daughter. He told her Ella. He said he loved that name and that he wanted to name his daughter that, but didn’t want her to get made fun of (Ella Vedder / Elevator -Haha). He got to my wife who had our youngest child. He gave her a guitar pick and she threw it back at him. He picked it up and pulled another one out and held her hands and made a comment that she was already practising to be on stage. He gave her 2 picks one for each hand. A Pretty amazing experience. We were lucky to have experienced it, as so many people don’t get an opportunity to. Made us love him and the band that much more. Definitely a once in a life time experience. Check out the picture above. This is the picture he signed. We handed out the EV picks from his 2012 tour. 

amazing thank u for sharing. what's the pick between the orange ED and the black sparky pick?

It’s a McCready pick. I believe it has an E on the Back. There 4 in total that spell Mike. I believe they  Earth, wind, fire, water. 

ah i see it now, thank you.