2022 North American rumour thread take 2

NFL, NHL, NBA have all played or are playing indoor seasons. It’s ridiculous they’ve waited this long. I get waiting for Ed’s album but anyone going to his shows knows about them. 

verceman said:

kaw753 said:

I think you really just have an Occam's Razor situation in that the obvious answer is the correct one. They are just waiting for the Earthlings tour to end before announcing as they want to keep the focus on that and not impact ticket sales. Why go see his solo tour if you know they are playing The Forum in 2 months? Not saying it is the correct thing to do, just saying that it is likely what they are thinking.

I would also bet on California being first because the arenas involved (Oakland, LA, San Diego, PHX) are wide open due to no NHL/NBA playoffs. They might also want to delay Canada until the fall just to let the new and improved Covid rules settle in. Again, it seems like this is the obvious solution to a complicated problem of rescheduling. Let's hope they add a Vegas date or two or anything else that makes sense.

I think it is related to the Earthlings Tour but more because we don't realize how much work is going on behind the scenes with the tour, and the same people who are doing those things will be the same people who will do things related to a Pearl Jam tour announcement. Is the tour over this weekend? Then I think we will hear about the dates Monday or Tuesday.

This is my thinking as well. It's going to be nuts when they finally announce the dates, and I don't think they want to deal with that on top of whatever they're dealing with for the EV shows 

vedpunk said:

verceman said:

kaw753 said:

I think you really just have an Occam's Razor situation in that the obvious answer is the correct one. They are just waiting for the Earthlings tour to end before announcing as they want to keep the focus on that and not impact ticket sales. Why go see his solo tour if you know they are playing The Forum in 2 months? Not saying it is the correct thing to do, just saying that it is likely what they are thinking.

I would also bet on California being first because the arenas involved (Oakland, LA, San Diego, PHX) are wide open due to no NHL/NBA playoffs. They might also want to delay Canada until the fall just to let the new and improved Covid rules settle in. Again, it seems like this is the obvious solution to a complicated problem of rescheduling. Let's hope they add a Vegas date or two or anything else that makes sense.

I think it is related to the Earthlings Tour but more because we don't realize how much work is going on behind the scenes with the tour, and the same people who are doing those things will be the same people who will do things related to a Pearl Jam tour announcement. Is the tour over this weekend? Then I think we will hear about the dates Monday or Tuesday.

Nail on head. 

You think we will know in the next 4 days?

What do we think?   One more Eartthlings date.  1 day after?  2 days after.   Or do we need to wait until March 10th?  Can’t be later than that, right!!!

2/28

bootlegger10 said:

KL159781 said:

I think another issue in them announcing the tour relates to the California and New York shows and vaccine status. Until last week Los Angeles County required vaccine cards for concerts. Now they have gone back to allowing unvaccinated in with negative tests. I believe the negative test requirement may affect the other CA shows and NYC. 

If LA County hadn’t gone back to allowing negative tests, it would have been a nightmare to tell fans who bought tickets 2 years ago that they couldn’t attend if they are unvaccinated. Remember that Jeff said he doesn’t like the idea of people having to show vaccination cards. As it stands now, they still will have to at the 7 shows in CA and NY and perhaps others. That’s a high percentage of the dates on the tour.

There are no reasons other than PJ likes to wait as long as possible.  Always have.  Tons of other large bands have announced tours and done tours.  PJ is not on an island.

So you seem to be implying that Pearl Jam are taking their time for no other reason than they like to. You don’t think that there are any actual concerns by members of the band on how and when to procede with the tour? None of these things play into their decision making? If not, then why didn’t they just reschedule these arena shows last fall when they played Ohana and Sea Hear Now? Why are any of us offering speculation on the band’s reasoning on rescheduling if your belief is the magic answer to it all?

RatherStarved said:

I would love the news on 2/28 but am still thinking it will be 3/7.  This aligns with my theory about placeholder dates on TM and gives them a week to assess any final changes based on how the Earthlings tour went.

MakeUSmile said:

PJNB said:

RatherStarved said:

I would love the news on 2/28 but am still thinking it will be 3/7.  This aligns with my theory about placeholder dates on TM and gives them a week to assess any final changes based on how the Earthlings tour went.

I agree.  I think a teaser next week with actual info on Monday 3/7. 

Someone commented on a few pages ago with a post having 7 “U” s in it.   It fed off Dimi’s post saying U will be happy soon...  Was random and prob nothing, but I always count things in groups (strange, I know) and counted 7.  So I’ve been thinking either 7 more days or 3/7 for announcement.  Lol

There is NO need for teasers. This isn't a new tour announcement that needs to be hyped up, this is a rescheduled tour for which most people already have their tickets. Just release the dates. Any new dates will just be a bonus.

RatherStarved said:

I would love the news on 2/28 but am still thinking it will be 3/7.  This aligns with my theory about placeholder dates on TM and gives them a week to assess any final changes based on how the Earthlings tour went.

Yeah I think 3/7 is more likely than than 2/28. It will be about a week after the earthlings tour. That week will also be the two year anniversary of when the dates were originally postponed.

This is the timeline for 2020. Now if they drop multiple legs and ballparks next month things get interesting. 

https://pearljam.com/ten-club/event/pearl-jam-2020-north-america-tour-presale-timeline
https://pearljam.com/news/public-ticket-sale-info
https://pearljam.com/news/ten-club-ticket-presale-info


10C Lotto Jan 13 - 15th
4 city winners a day Jan 16-19th
Verified Fan sign up Jan 13-15th
Verified Fan sale Jan 23rd
Public sale Jan 24th 


Also it should be noted in 2020 that we did get that huge easter egg hunt and info on Jan 10th. This was for a new album and tour though. The next couple of days some members that were premium seat holders to Scotiabank Arena in Toronto were getting emails with no info on it of ticket pick up dates of Jan 13th. Also other cities had radio hosts hyping something big was coming. 

For those that think they do not need to hint that is fine maybe they just drop the date when it is with nothing but I can not remember NA tour that did not at least have a wink before it.