Please Pearl Jam, consider a VINYL Benaroya Hall re-issue!

demetrios said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

I’d buy it, and go see the Bruins 

mfc2006 said:

Standard black LP's so those complaining about their $10,000 sealed LP boxset losing value will hold its value. Doesn't even have be a boxset. Mind boggling why this hasn't been rereleased.

mfc2006 said:

Standard black LP's so those complaining about their $10,000 sealed LP boxset losing value will hold its value. Doesn't even have be a boxset. Mind boggling why this hasn't been rereleased.

demetrios said:

How about a light green Benny variant vinyl release this year?

mace1229 said:

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BF25394 said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

anakin_pdx said:

BF25394 said:

anakin_pdx said:

PJammer4life said:

After 20 years, even owners of the OG would want another to spin , right?

Yep.  Have it, and I was at the show, so when I spin it, it's an experience for me and it takes me back.  I only spin it on very rare occasions now and when I do, I'm always afraid I'll mess it up.  It never happens, but the thought is still there.  As long a a reissue sounded as good I'd spin that much more frequently and would be glad to have it.

Listening to the cd works of coarse, but for me when I listen to a record that's all I'm doing and I'm in the moment.  A cd I easily get distracted and do other things.

I don't understand this. Why would the format make a difference? How is a CD more distracting than a record?

It's not more distracting, but it's easier to get distracted.  When I listen to a record for me personally, I sit down and that's what I'm doing because I have to be there to change sides.  I don't listen to records every day, so when I do, I make sure I'm more in the moment and focused on it.  Listening to something as a cd or digitally I do all the time, it's easier to just start doing other stuff at the same time because I don't have to focus on it as much, or I want something in the background.  I don't put records on for background music.  But that's just me.  

Exactly. It’s simple math. You can throw on a 70 min cd and leave the house if you want. The cd will stop playing when it’s done. 

Vinyl takes special care and attention, it’s kind of a pain in the ass, and it’s why I love it.

But this is entirely a self-created thing. Music takes special care and attention, not the format it's on. You either choose to actively listen or you don't, whether it's a CD or an LP. I sit down and listen to CDs and records from start to finish literally every day. Just because you have to turn a record over after 20 minutes, it's a bit of a stretch to call that "special care and attention." It's a bug, not a feature. It's one of the reasons why records became obsolete in the first place.

It's funny that for 30 years after vinyl was phased out, people didn't seem to have this problem with CDs. Records were obsolete for the vast majority of the listening public. Then they became fashionable for some reason* and a bunch of people convinced themselves that they can't do without this technology that they did perfectly well without for decades. I guess I shouldn't complain about this since it means that the Lost Dogs record I bought for $20.00 when it came out in 2003 because hardly anybody cared about records anymore is now worth $500.00 (and something similar for every other Pearl Jam record I own from that interregnum between the phaseout and resurgence of vinyl).

Another thing about this phenomenon that I find funny is that I have a flip phone that I bought new in 2019. I am regularly mocked (in a friendly way) for using this "20th-century technology" by people who swear by a technology that Thomas Edison pioneered in the 19th century. Is there any other example of an outdated technology coming back around into vogue like this? Are people going to start bringing back the VCR? The brick-sized cell phone? Car windows that you have to roll down manually?

* It actually makes more sense to me that Generation Z would gravitate to records because they don't really have any experience with physical media, including CDs, and the novelty and tangibility of a record would have a certain appeal to them as a totem. It makes less sense to me that Generation X, which grew up with records and willingly abandoned them in favor of CDs, now turns around and pretends like none of it ever happened. If the average 50-year-old vinyl enthusiast had been a little more loyal to the format in the mid-1980s, maybe they could have sustained a market for it instead of allowing it to be phased out.

Special care and attention -way more than flipping the wax. 

Lots of people own Lost Dogs. Great sounding record. Love to spin it. Priceless. 

The flip phone probably isn’t old enough to be cool again and that’s probably why you are mocked. Rather enigmatic for someone arguing so vehemently against old technology to buy one.  

 Some things never become cool again, some things do. It seems pretty irrelevant to lump all consumer goods under one umbrella. 

A great vinyl record isn’t a flip phone or automatic windows. Nether of those things have ever elicited an emotional response from me. I never got shivers opening up a flip phone or brought to tears by how special it was to roll down a car window manually. 

I have a Jeep Patriot with a manual transmission, roll up windows and manually locked doors. My kids call it the Amish Jeep.

My Wrangler is the same. Power steering and brakes is about all I need.
When I drive my wife's car, I find myself pressing the invisible clutch every time.