Memories,Meetings,Memorabilia and the story and pictures behind them.
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Sorry @JC29866. I was going to give it to my girl!tempo_n_groove said:
@Loujoe Were you at this show?JC29866 said:This is a memorabilia story, sorry no pics. In 1998, my friend who worked at a record store gave me a cool promotional item for Yield, a life-sized 3-D cardboard Yield sign that said Pearl Jam on it. I took this sign to several '98 shows for fun. After the Cleveland Blossom Music Center show, my friend and I were in my car trying, very slowly, to get out of the parking lot. I was holding the Yield sign out of my car window when two a**holes ran up and grabbed it and tried to wrench it from my hands to steal it. Luckily I had a tight grip and fought them off, but this moment in PJ history always left me feeling disappointed in humanity.
I kid I kid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!0 -
Remember it like it was last night. I told you before I think. The Ritz nyc. I had brought my girlfriend to that show and she was horrified! Skatenigs (singer had a huge item he kept displaying and shooting stuff everywhere) Mentors (yelled at my gf who was just standing there!) Revolting cocks and Ministry. I was lost in that pit. Loved that heavy industrialish stuff. Not as much anymore. Too much for my brain to digest at once. STIGMATAAAAAAAA. May be time to try it again!tempo_n_groove said:I have zero PJ meetings, cool things given to me. Other bands I do though.
These are great.
@Loujoe that Jorgenen story is awesome!0 -
The Mentorz were legendary. Misogynistic rock, lol.Loujoe said:
Remember it like it was last night. I told you before I think. The Ritz nyc. I had brought my girlfriend to that show and she was horrified! Skatenigs (singer had a huge item he kept displaying and shooting stuff everywhere) Mentors (yelled at my gf who was just standing there!) Revolting cocks and Ministry. I was lost in that pit. Loved that heavy industrialish stuff. Not as much anymore. Too much for my brain to digest at once. STIGMATAAAAAAAA. May be time to try it again!tempo_n_groove said:I have zero PJ meetings, cool things given to me. Other bands I do though.
These are great.
@Loujoe that Jorgenen story is awesome!
This was a few years after GG Allin's death I would guess?0 -
I don't know. 88 or 89 maybe 90. don't know much about gg or mentors. From the little I know about gg makes me nauseous. Somehow I think that I'm better off!! @tempo_n_groove0
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Oh that was in the thick of his hijinks! You may have just missed him. He was alive during that time!!!Loujoe said:I don't know. 88 or 89 maybe 90. don't know much about gg or mentors. From the little I know about gg makes me nauseous. Somehow I think that I'm better off!! @tempo_n_groove0 -
They all wore executioner masks chains and I think topless. Nothing too shocking that I recall. May have to hunt for footage.
Someone tell a story please.
Don't want to derail OPs thread with horror stories!!
May tell some GWAR ones after things get too nice again.0 -
Yes, they were legendary. They had some other colorful stage antics too. All a big show.Loujoe said:They all wore executioner masks chains and I think topless. Nothing too shocking that I recall. May have to hunt for footage.
Someone tell a story please.
Don't want to derail OPs thread with horror stories!!
May tell some GWAR ones after things get too nice again.0 -
I love that we're still also talking about other bands. I feel like I've said way too much already, but because I saw another discussion today on another site that included talk of the Violent Femmes, another crazy experience I had was the time my friend was visiting NYC from London and we were supposed to connect, but she said she'd agreed to help another friend of hers run errands since she doesn't get to see him so did I want to go with them on their NYC errands, I said sure. Get there, and her friend was Gordon Gano (singer of Violent Femmes), so the 3 of us rode around Manhattan in a white van for a couple of hours and that was cool.
And at Lollapalooza '93 at Shoreline near SF, because a friend was working there I got to watch a backstage basketball game between members of Alice In Chains and at different times members of Fishbone and I think Primus. But definitely Alice in Chains (not Layne, I didn't see him play but saw the rest of them jump in and out). I've seen a few bands' backstage ping pong, basketball, skateboard and soccer games. For any of y'all old enough to remember the 80s, as a teen in NYC in the late 80s I watched a Central Park soccer game between UB-40 and Simply Red (bands & each of their crews), which was super fun to watch. They weren't messing around either, it got seriously competitive!0 -
I also remember at that '93 Lollapalooza Babes In Toyland played, and I loved them so I made sure to see their set. Afterwards I was talking to their drummer and I asked her if people ever treat them weirdly being an all-female band. She said there were times when they'd actually play a set, and walk offstage, and a guy who had just watched them play would say something like "You were great! But who was really playing your instruments?" As in, pretty much saying "I just watched you play and sing with my own eyes, but it's so hard for me to believe an all-female band could be that good, I actually believe there's a hidden band playing somewhere and you guys are just lip syncing". They said it happened several times.
This is a good time to mention that if you haven't been turned onto the new awesome punk band The Linda Lindas, go watch their "Live from the Los Angeles Public Library" set. Seriously, they are the present and the future!
Ok my plug for the Linda Lindas is done; back to meetings, memorabilia, and encounter stories!0 -
Saw babes in toyland with screaming trees at the continental nyc. Anyone else there? Something watching Lanegan stand there singing ghostly at the mic stand while the guitarists jumped around the stage belly bumping. Great time to be at shows. Did I know it then? No. But thankfully I went to many.
Looking back is crazy! Almost as fun as being there...Post edited by Loujoe on0 -
Stuffs opening up again. When it's safe I'm getting out again. Chasing the dragon. The old dude at the show that refuses to cash in his chips.0
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Ah. The Continental. Did you know Trigger?Loujoe said:Saw babes in toyland with screaming trees at the continental nyc. Anyone else there? Something watching Lanegan stand there singing ghostly at the mic stand while the guitarists jumped around the stage belly bumping. Great time to be at shows. Did I know it then? No. But thankfully I went to many.
Looking back is crazy! Almost as fun as being there...0 -
No. I only went there a couple of times to see shows.
Your turn to lay a few stories down if you like.
I'm running out!0 -
I'll join you, be the old lady singing every word at the top of my lungs.Loujoe said:Stuffs opening up again. When it's safe I'm getting out again. Chasing the dragon. The old dude at the show that refuses to cash in his chips.
But Lou, I will NOT join you in uninvited moshing or knocking over musicians drinks, ok? Just gotta be clear on that.
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Is Trigger Trigger Thompson? I don't know Trigger but I am on a group that talks about closed NYC clubs, I think that same Trigger is active there. Cool person!GlowGirl said:
Ah. The Continental. Did you know Trigger?Loujoe said:Saw babes in toyland with screaming trees at the continental nyc. Anyone else there? Something watching Lanegan stand there singing ghostly at the mic stand while the guitarists jumped around the stage belly bumping. Great time to be at shows. Did I know it then? No. But thankfully I went to many.
Looking back is crazy! Almost as fun as being there...0 -
I don’t know his last name. But he was the owner.JH6056 said:
Is Trigger Trigger Thompson? I don't know Trigger but I am on a group that talks about closed NYC clubs, I think that same Trigger is active there. Cool person!GlowGirl said:
Ah. The Continental. Did you know Trigger?Loujoe said:Saw babes in toyland with screaming trees at the continental nyc. Anyone else there? Something watching Lanegan stand there singing ghostly at the mic stand while the guitarists jumped around the stage belly bumping. Great time to be at shows. Did I know it then? No. But thankfully I went to many.
Looking back is crazy! Almost as fun as being there...0 -
https://youtu.be/3YTxyFTADBc
@7.33
I know i would never touch you. Feel you
Im my arms
Never again. Ed was holding my hand. Green wristband on.
Im in tears watching it knowing that was indeed the last time. God ive had the time of my life
this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -0 -
Well before that he held my hand as he pulled up onto the rail. Mind blown looking back.
this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -0 -
Awesome Rob! Really who knows where life will take us. What a memory to have in your pocket.0
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Aaaaaww, I'm crying for you, that is SO cool to have on video! Lucky you, and even luckier that you know how lucky you are!0
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