Want do you think is the best and worst decision the band has made over their career?

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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Go Beavers said:
    Mike's Stevie Ray Vaughn hat phase was a bad idea.
    Iconic IMO. I'll always love those early years and the hodge podge of styles. 
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,322
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    pbultimate said:
    Best: fan club tickets tied with varying setlists. Finishing Wrigley 2013. 

    Worst:  maybe I’m a homer, but there’s not much I can criticize. Most decisions don’t effect me and the ones that have, have been positive. (Raleigh cancelled resulting in travel hiccups, but I ended up with band signed tickets). 
    cool. do tell! 

    Pretty much everyone who had 10club tickets to the Raleigh show received their tickets shipped by 10club in the mail signed by the whole band. Both pair of 10club tickets were signed.
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Go Beavers said:
    Mike's Stevie Ray Vaughn hat phase was a bad idea.
    Iconic IMO. I'll always love those early years and the hodge podge of styles. 
    100%
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,129
    demetrios said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    pbultimate said:
    Best: fan club tickets tied with varying setlists. Finishing Wrigley 2013. 

    Worst:  maybe I’m a homer, but there’s not much I can criticize. Most decisions don’t effect me and the ones that have, have been positive. (Raleigh cancelled resulting in travel hiccups, but I ended up with band signed tickets). 
    cool. do tell! 

    Pretty much everyone who had 10club tickets to the Raleigh show received their tickets shipped by 10club in the mail signed by the whole band. Both pair of 10club tickets were signed.
    wicked! 
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    bmurray06 said:
    I'm going to switch it up and give my most under appreciated decision in the history of the band.... Eddie taking a break and going on tour backing up Mike Watts along with Dave Grohl. After all the craziness with Kurt dying and the attention getting too overwhelming on Eddie and co., we ended up with a more relaxed Eddie, an amazing start to one of my favorites 'Habit', and obviously the start of the Foo Fighters during that Mike Watts Van Tour. Also, if anyone hasn't listened to Ball-Hog of Tugboat? just yet, do it now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVroZFSYP00

    wow. thanks for posting that. killer
  • pbultimate
    pbultimate Posts: 621
    demetrios said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    pbultimate said:
    Best: fan club tickets tied with varying setlists. Finishing Wrigley 2013. 

    Worst:  maybe I’m a homer, but there’s not much I can criticize. Most decisions don’t effect me and the ones that have, have been positive. (Raleigh cancelled resulting in travel hiccups, but I ended up with band signed tickets). 
    cool. do tell! 

    Pretty much everyone who had 10club tickets to the Raleigh show received their tickets shipped by 10club in the mail signed by the whole band. Both pair of 10club tickets were signed.
    You sure?  I’m aware of 1 other person that received them signed. 
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,129
    mike watt is legendary, and i'd love to see these 3 play, but man, as a bass player, his bass tone just pains me. it sounds like a giant fart coming out of an amp. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,689
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Go Beavers said:
    Mike's Stevie Ray Vaughn hat phase was a bad idea.
    Iconic IMO. I'll always love those early years and the hodge podge of styles. 

    I was sort of kidding because I think Mike has made some comment that he went a little far there. Being 21 in 1991, I do like seeing the old photos and remembering the don't give a shit style that contrasted with the 80s. I even grew my hair out for a bit of an attempt at Chris Cornell hair. I figured I should grow it while I have it!
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,104
    pbultimate said:
    demetrios said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    pbultimate said:
    Best: fan club tickets tied with varying setlists. Finishing Wrigley 2013. 

    Worst:  maybe I’m a homer, but there’s not much I can criticize. Most decisions don’t effect me and the ones that have, have been positive. (Raleigh cancelled resulting in travel hiccups, but I ended up with band signed tickets). 
    cool. do tell! 

    Pretty much everyone who had 10club tickets to the Raleigh show received their tickets shipped by 10club in the mail signed by the whole band. Both pair of 10club tickets were signed.
    You sure?  I’m aware of 1 other person that received them signed. 
    The signed tickets were randomly inserted for people who requested the stubs to be mailed.  They also included the sticker from the cancelled show. 


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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,322
    on2legs said:
    pbultimate said:
    demetrios said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    pbultimate said:
    Best: fan club tickets tied with varying setlists. Finishing Wrigley 2013. 

    Worst:  maybe I’m a homer, but there’s not much I can criticize. Most decisions don’t effect me and the ones that have, have been positive. (Raleigh cancelled resulting in travel hiccups, but I ended up with band signed tickets). 
    cool. do tell! 

    Pretty much everyone who had 10club tickets to the Raleigh show received their tickets shipped by 10club in the mail signed by the whole band. Both pair of 10club tickets were signed.
    You sure?  I’m aware of 1 other person that received them signed. 
    The signed tickets were randomly inserted for people who requested the stubs to be mailed.  They also included the sticker from the cancelled show. 



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  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,292
    It would have been really cool if they signed for a $X donation to Vitalogy Foundation with money donated to a equality/equity organization.

    They probably could have raised a ton of money.
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  • WishfulThinking
    WishfulThinking Posts: 96
    Best-Attempting to play their entire catalogue over a four night run in Philly ‘09. Together as a whole those shows are legendary.

    Worst-Playing large Stadiums. Intimacy was lost.
  • bmurray06
    bmurray06 Austin, Texas Posts: 173
    edited January 2022
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    mike watt is legendary, and i'd love to see these 3 play, but man, as a bass player, his bass tone just pains me. it sounds like a giant fart coming out of an amp. 
    Calling Mike Watt out on his bass flatulence? Now you just sound like a Jackass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aDIud_1hH4
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,129
    meh. i've been called worse. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • fall by the wayside
    fall by the wayside Jericho, VT Posts: 759
    edited January 2022
    Best decision: getting as many tickets as they can for the Ten Club

    Worst decision: sticking with Brendan O’Brien for too long. I don’t think we get an album like Gigaton without mixing it up and using a guy like Josh Evans. I’d love to know what they could have made had they done that 10 years earlier.
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  • DM282158
    DM282158 Beverly, MA Posts: 666
    fall by the wayside said:
    Best decision: getting as many tickets as they can for the Ten Club

    Worst decision: sticking with Brendan O’Brien for too long. I don’t think we get an album like Gigaton without mixing it up and using a guy like Josh Evans. I’d love to know what they could have made had they done that 10 years earlier.
    My biggest “fly on the wall” situation in my life is what happened with the Can’t Deny Me/Brendan O’Brien/Forthcoming Album. Even above the Belichick/Brady/Malcolm Butler/2017 fallout. (New England fans will know what in alluding to.) 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Posts: 40,129
    fall by the wayside said:
    Best decision: getting as many tickets as they can for the Ten Club

    Worst decision: sticking with Brendan O’Brien for too long. I don’t think we get an album like Gigaton without mixing it up and using a guy like Josh Evans. I’d love to know what they could have made had they done that 10 years earlier.
    i was actually going to say the same thing about BOB. then i looked back and realized, while he produced the albums at the bottom of my favourite lists, he also produced some of the top ones. 
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,817
    fall by the wayside said:
    Best decision: getting as many tickets as they can for the Ten Club

    Worst decision: sticking with Brendan O’Brien for too long. I don’t think we get an album like Gigaton without mixing it up and using a guy like Josh Evans. I’d love to know what they could have made had they done that 10 years earlier.
    We had Binaural, Riot Act, and Pearl Jam even though he was involved somewhat on those records. He also was involved in Gigaton 
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  • OceansJenny
    OceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,411
    fall by the wayside said:
    Best decision: getting as many tickets as they can for the Ten Club

    Worst decision: sticking with Brendan O’Brien for too long. I don’t think we get an album like Gigaton without mixing it up and using a guy like Josh Evans. I’d love to know what they could have made had they done that 10 years earlier.
    I agree re: BoB but they needed a producer to help them push themselves out of their comfort zone? Really after 30 yrs they couldn’t see it for themselves? Or maybe they did and made the call.
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  • bmurray06
    bmurray06 Austin, Texas Posts: 173
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    meh. i've been called worse. 
    Just went through a Mike Watt youtube rabbit hole last night, and now I hear the noise fluctuance....in a surprising good way.

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