The Official 2023 Tour Rumor Thread

Hoagie Breath said:

Called me a week before the show to see if I was going and I said of course, me and my daughter are, he said, so am I with my wife, well meet up in the parking lot. Cool as fuck I thought to myself, hes a true fan now. So were in the parking lot drinking before the show bbq'ing all that good shit and Asbury Park comes up and he is telling stories to everyone about that show in detail and how awesome it was and he joined the fan club right after and bought the new album because tho he didnt know any of those songs but he liked them on his first listen live at he show and how he over the past year pretty much dove into every album PJ had released because he now had all this time on his hands from at first being laid up in the hospital for a month to never being to return to work and doing physical therapy for the last year and how the music just helped him thru it all. I was totally and completley blown away by this. How could my thoughts of this show been so fucking negative? I felt like a complete and total asshole. 

But I was also so fucking happy that for once in my life that I kept these opinions to myself. Its been a slow process, but a steady one of learning to , if you aint going nothing nice to say, dont say anything. Unless its about NYC. Lol.

The fear of my daughter having a bad show because of the bands current touring practices and me hyping them over the years was now gone. She was so excited and I almost fucked it up by telling her about  what I thought about  the Asbury Park ishow in the parking lot before going inside. Then I drifted off in thought what if me and my buddy from work had talked about my true feelings of the show afterwards on the way home. Then he gets hurt at work and my opinion of his first show is ruined by my selfish and entitled opinions on the way home and then isnt brought up again because we were not seeing each other on a daily basis? Does he dive in PJ the way he did with all that unexpected time he now had on his hands? Is he at the Camden show talking about Asbury Park that made me in turn not saying anything to my daughter? 

Well, all that being said, we end up seeing the best fucking show PJ put on the entire tour. Length, awesome set list, incredible passionate fucking corwd that sang along in unison loudly with every fucking song they played that night, even the new ones and the obscure ones, as is par for the course in Philly. And me not expecting any of it. And it had two extra peoiple that night , had a tear in my eye after me my daughter and my buddy sang every word to Hard To Imagine and on top of it my daughter pointing out how she loved the new ending to song. Get the fuck outta here I thought to myself, she knows the songs just as well, if nit better than I do.And my buddies wife is now sold on PJ and has dove in head first. We will all be together for as many shows as the boys decide to do in the future when they play Philly. Njumbers 56, 3, 2 and 2 for us. Cant fucking wait.

Moral of this story? I lied, there isnt one. Just wanted to get this off my chest for a while now, lol. Dont want to tell my new concert buddies a story they dont need to hear. Theyre at that point where we all once were,Feeling the crest of that wave breaking just right and just knowing that you got a fucking good one, and its going to take you al,l the way back to shore one way or the other. I need to be reminded of that. 

Oh, for future rumor threads, let’s just say it’s safe to say it and a rumor thread until our own version of Jimmy The Greek, otherwise known as DIMI stops in and says hello lol. Hope to hear from you soon buddy. I think we will.

DM282158 said:

Somebody please go get an ice cream cone at 31 Flavors tonight, and see about spotting Matt, Ed, Stone, Jeff, or Mike. Or even Boom. To save this thread. 

myoung321 said:

JimmyV said:

It's SoCal that has seen the most shows since 2013.

SoCal 9 (2 San Diego, 4 LA, 3 Ohana)
New England 7 (1 Hartford, 2 Worcester, 4 Fenway)
PNW 6 (3 in Seattle, 1 each in Portland, Vancouver and Spokane)
Chicago 6 (5 at Wrigley, 1 in Moline)
New York 6 (3 at MSG, 2 in Brooklyn, 1 in Central Park - more if you count New Jersey)

Of these five regions, only SoCal and New York have had a Pearl Jam show since 2018. 

The Northeast wins the cake.. between Philly, NY, NE and surrounding areas... etc etc... all very drivable between them..   

PJNB said:

Is tomorrow the day?

Go Animal said:

PJNB said:

Is tomorrow the day?

The next 48 hrs, is my guess.