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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    I love  hearing  stories.  Its a buzz  to relive for sure


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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    Great storytelling. I was at that nj 92 show! The only thing I remember about pj was jumping in the pit for RITFW.  I still drive by that field and remember all the great bands that played. 
  • mrezooc
    mrezooc Posts: 233
    Great stories!! Can’t wait to connect with the PJ family again. Hopefully it’s sooner than later. 
  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    edited May 2021
    Great retelling @fgalpern! Glad things worked out well each time!
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    lastexitlondon said:
    The story behind this is...
    I went to see soundgarden with my good friends  mick and marta, 1st night was either Manchester  or Birmingham  cant recall. Anyway we were in the rail it was epic. Half way through  chris pointed at me and said give me your  shirt. So i took off my shirt  and threw him it. (Marta has a picture of him holding  it up to the crowd. I alas do not, i miss marta and mick. )
    Anyhow i was 16 stone and shirtless. Now i realised this. But c.c was holding my shirt so i was in a daze. 
    He threw it back and we all were happy.
    Next show me and marta were there early and we heard sound check and wondered nearer to the  sound. Then it stopped and we chatted with a French  friend.  Before we knew it the  stage doors flung open and out came matt and kim. Marta was selfless enough  to speak out to matt and say xan my friend  have a photo . He said sure and signed my shirt  . Marta then said could he have your sweatband. He gave it to me amd a drum stick. 
    I was floored then kim came and i asked and he signed  it too.
    It was surreal.  
    When s.g  played london marta wasn't  there and matts roadie  came found me in the queue  and said matt wants your shirt to put in his tour case (i had a few. So retired the signed one of course). I had no other  shirt  so he gave me a road crew tour shirt. We swapped. 
    Long story short. He gave me a sweatband. 
    I sent  it in the post to marta and gave mick the  crew shirt. 
    Friends for life although i lost contact with marta that saddens me.
    But to give is better than to recieve.
    Big love
    I found the  picture 


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895



    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    Sooooo cool!
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    Awesome Rob. What a treasured experience. 
  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    edited May 2021
    No pic, just a Jack Drumstick with green grip, but the story was great.  95 Milwaukeefest , show is over.  My best bud and I drunkish and waiting for the crowd to thin.  Had 5th row fan club seats, just us and a couple about 3 seats down in our section.  Just talking, waiting and the crew chucks one of Jack's sticks in the two rows in front of us in the aisle.  My bud books it hopping rows the couple was closer, and the woman of the pair and my bud grab an opposite end of it at the same exact time.  They sort of wiggle into a row again, I get there, boyfriend too,  and we basically establish a 4 person tug of war on a drumstick.

    All of us pulling she yells out "let's just break it in half and share it"   my bud and I look at each other as we grunt and say FUCK NO.  He does a full 180 while holding it, and ass bumps it out.  I grab it and run like hell for the lot with my pal.  She chases us yelling cmon guys lets share it.

    Victorious and escaped we decide to rotate who gets it each year.  After 1 year he just says you keep it, so I have a stick from my favorite PJ drummer.

    Story 2- Ed give my sister his pick.  Front Row center from cancelled Toldeo show make up tickets at Alpine Valley 98.  My sister a huge Ed Mark, does her girl shit, cant recall after what song, Ed looks right at us, points at us (total Katyan/Ferrel SNL brothers thing me?  You? Me?)  He gets right up in front of us takes her hand, puts his guitar pick in it, closes her fingers around it with his hands, on to the next song.  My mind blown
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    This thread brings me joy in a time  of very little. Im going to look at my atuff again today and see what i can remember. 
    Nobody is that interested  in my life. But here we all feel it.  Nice to share with people that FEEL it.


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    edited May 2021
    hrd2imgn said:
    No pic, just a Jack Drumstick with green grip, but the story was great.  95 Milwaukeefest , show is over.  My best bud and I drunkish and waiting for the crowd to thin.  Had 5th row fan club seats, just us and a couple about 3 seats down in our section.  Just talking, waiting and the crew chucks one of Jack's sticks in the two rows in front of us in the aisle.  My bud books it hopping rows the couple was closer, and the woman of the pair and my bud grab an opposite end of it at the same exact time.  They sort of wiggle into a row again, I get there, boyfriend too,  and we basically establish a 4 person tug of war on a drumstick.

    All of us pulling she yells out "let's just break it in half and share it"   my bud and I look at each other as we grunt and say FUCK NO.  He does a full 180 while holding it, and ass bumps it out.  I grab it and run like hell for the lot with my pal.  She chases us yelling cmon guys lets share it.

    Victorious and escaped we decide to rotate who gets it each year.  After 1 year he just says you keep it, so I have a stick from my favorite PJ drummer.

    Story 2- Ed give my sister his pick.  Front Row center from cancelled Toldeo show make up tickets at Alpine Valley 98.  My sister a huge Ed Mark, does her girl shit, cant recall after what song, Ed looks right at us, points at us (total Katyan/Ferrel SNL brothers thing me?  You? Me?)  He gets right up in front of us takes her hand, puts his guitar pick in it, closes her fingers around it with his hands, on to the next song.  My mind blown
    Wow. Tug of war sounds intense! 

    I had a Stone pick fly to me and a dude after evenflow.  we both snagged it in the air. He let go. I felt a little bad, but he didn't seem to care and I got a 'lucky Lucas'. Only stone pick I ever got. They are hard to get in the wild. I'm pretty sure he recycles all his old picks!

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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    edited May 2021
    Ok i have  some more. My profile pic on here is at London  last tour.  Long story. Long night sleeping outside the 02. Great night  with all my dear friends old and new. And The rob . Pj radio. 
    I have chronic health anxiety  and as the years have gone on gigs have become unbearable but such is my love for the love i feel for the togetherness it kept me going. Leeds was so hard but  london was a new level of terror. Anyhow. I spent all day before at the 02 with close friends i had made  all through  Europe  then night came. Felt alone  so got drunk. Next day met a new friend  Richard.  Queued  all.day . As it got near afternoon we all got moved into the venue. I could  not  cope at all. I wanted to go home. Im an honest guy.  I was a mess in tears. A guy  who was dying of blood cancer  offered me a valium i declined and thought 
     Come on rob sort your shit out you prick.
    Anyhow my dear friends ewa elder and keith her husband  cradled me. We got in. And ed said "good evening " i said to myself if i die now  . Its where i want to be......
    It all took me over.... i cried and cried (oh i forgot to say i was at this  time rail in front of ED.)
    When porch played  ed came to the crowd  and stood on the barricade  in front  of us 
     It was so out  of this world. I have been rail a few times but this time  ed came right up to me and held my hand . I had been crying.  It was whilst he sang the words... i just  wanna live.i knew that  i would never  touch you . Hold you .Feel you in my arms again . We had a moment that was 30 seconds. That felt like he knew i was in pain. I cant describe it.  
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    Any glen hansard fans  here? Had some cool moments at his gig s.


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    edited May 2021
    Oh one time when brad played the u.k i was thinking of going to london. But they played Birmingham a couple nights  before and my best friends  were going . On the day  i looked up hotels and tickets.  All available 
     My friend  marta said come  with us. So on the morning of the show i booked it all online and told my wife (at the time) im going  to leave now. 
     I did .... jumped in my van and rang my tour buddy simon, i told him "im going to Birmingham to meet stone".
    And thats what i did. With great  fear i startrd driving  into the unknown.  Late plans are great for anxiety.  You have no weeks months days to start making catastrophic situations.  I felt alive and free.  For  a short time. 
    Anyway great small gig . I had  been a 17 year old listening  amd feeling the  album  "shame".  A real soundtrack  to my youth. That  gig.
    It was soooo good.  Jumping  jack flash was a profound  memory and stone playing bongo  to 20th century.  After  the gig we waited  and spoke with  shawn for  a long time..what a guy 
     Such a kind real humble soul. A true gentleman.  
    Stone  came out
     There was only 10 of us. He spoke briefly and had pictures  but  he was worried  as his wife was in a snow storm back home and he was visibly  unsettled.  I have  a great photo where his  eyes where Opposite  direction s which  my friends found  funny. (I will find  it).

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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    edited May 2021
    All in all its the  people  that you meet that make the occasion.  
    Not  the meetings.  It's  the day..the  build  up and mutual love. I love  the people  i met more  than the band.  I truly  do..some are now the  only people  in my life that  i call family
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    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    edited May 2021
    I have a tambo story.  Its like  the  tussle above but its captured on you tube.  Be back with the vid soon . Its night here  im up late dreaming 
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    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • OceansJenny
    OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,409
    Love these! Keep em coming!
    DC '03 - Reading '04 - Philly '05 - Camden 1 '06 - DC '06 - E. Rutherford '06 - The Vic '07 - Lollapalooza '07 - DC '08 - EV DC 1 & 2 '08 (Met Ed!!) - EV Baltimore 1 & 2 '09 - EV NYC 1 '11 (Met Ed!) - Hartford '13 - GCF '15 - MSG 2 '16 - TOTD MSG '16 - Boston 1 & 2 '18 - SHN '21 - EV NYC 1 & 2 '22 - MSG '22
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    I feel like  im showing off.  I dont want that  to be the  case. Im sitting  here with the new bootlegs on spotify  reminiscing..


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    lastexitlondon said:
    Ok i have  some more. My profile pic on here is at London  last tour.  Long story. Long night sleeping outside the 02. Great night  with all my dear friends old and new. And The rob . Pj radio. 
    I have chronic health anxiety  and as the years have gone on gigs have become unbearable but such is my love for the love i feel for the togetherness it kept me going. Leeds was so hard but  london was a new level of terror. Anyhow. I spent all day before at the 02 with close friends i had made  all through  Europe  then night came. Felt alone  so got drunk. Next day met a new friend  Richard.  Queued  all.day . As it got near afternoon we all got moved into the venue. I could  not  cope at all. I wanted to go home. Im an honest guy.  I was a mess in tears. A guy  who was dying of blood cancer  offered me a valium i declined and thought 
     Come on rob sort your shit out you prick.
    Anyhow my dear friends ewa elder and keith her husband  cradled me. We got in. And ed said "good evening " i said to myself if i die now  . Its where i want to be......
    It all took me over.... i cried and cried (oh i forgot to say i was at this  time rail in front of ED.)
    When porch played  ed came to the crowd  and stood on the barricade  in front  of us 
     It was so out  of this world. I have been rail a few times but this time  ed came right up to me and held my hand . I had been crying.  It was whilst he sang the words... i just  wanna live.i knew that  i would never  touch you . Hold you .Feel you in my arms again . We had a moment that was 30 seconds. That felt like he knew i was in pain. I cant describe it.  
    Chills...good one out of something bad. You can't get those moments without being way down. Sweet buddy!!
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    edited May 2021
    I'll tell a tambo story (im not too proud of) I  told elsewhere before. 2000 before ev had boxes to toss to the crowd. Phoenix az. Right up front maybe a row back. Ed's handing a tambo down to a woman in front of me...YOINGK...I grab it before it reaches her. (What a jerk I know!!) I was caught in the moment and was gonna give it to my girl. my girl was like what are you doing. Ed looked like he was going to jump on my head for a beat down!. I went to hand back to the intended target...realizing my jerk move...someone else grabbed it. It was passed around and finally made it back to who it was for. Looking back...it was the end of the show...I shoulda took off with it! Honestly I'm happy she got it. Was the longest 30 seconds of my life!!!
     Picked up this poster last year. Hot!
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