I Have Never Listened To The Avocado Album

[Sgt. Crackpot]

mostly i just like to go to shows to

Spoiler: show

RAISE HELL!

That's some nice giffing there, Burt.

[BurtReynolds]

mostly i just like to go to shows to

Spoiler: show

RAISE HELL!

That's some nice giffing there, Burt.

i knew you'd appreciate it, unlike some other people.

[Lament]

Bottom line is this: you may have the time of your life seeing Pearl Jam at cavernous Madison Square Garden. And I am sure thousands upon thousands do. But in the back of your head there will be a voice saying, "Had I seen this exact same show at a club, it would have been 10,000 times better." That voice would be 100% correct.

I hope you apply this logic to everything in your life. I'd like to think that one day after sleeping with your wife you thought "Had I just had that exact experience with a ten-years-younger version of her, it would have been 10,000 times better" and then just stopped sleeping with her.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Bottom line is this: you may have the time of your life seeing Pearl Jam at cavernous Madison Square Garden. And I am sure thousands upon thousands do. But in the back of your head there will be a voice saying, "Had I seen this exact same show at a club, it would have been 10,000 times better." That voice would be 100% correct.

I hope you apply this logic to everything in your life. I'd like to think that one day after sleeping with your wife you thought "Had I just had that exact experience with a ten-years-younger version of her, it would have been 10,000 times better" and then just stopped sleeping with her.

[Lament]

That girl in the white and pink looks like she may be cute.

[LetMeSleep]

I was reading a Springsteen article and part of it belongs here. I've included the whole section.

NPR:Do you have concerns? Some musicians are concerned about piracy or issues around that with the Internet but you seem to be very eager.

I knew that when the smartest man in the music business that I knew was selling headsets, I knew that you were going to have to stop worrying about that completely. It's like my buddy, "Jimmy [Iovine], what are you gonna do about music?" "I'm gonna sell headsets." You're always concerned about it. And look, I think for somebody like me, it's a lot less of an issue. I have a friend who didn't have their own label, put their records out and if they sold 50,000 of those records it kept them in breakfast cereal for a couple of years. And so I think, you know, those were the guys that got hurt by the decrease in record sales from Internet piracy. And I remain being one of those guys that believes you should get paid for your work so I'm old-fashioned in that. And but at the same time, it's there and it has many benefits and the idea of, I think we live more in a Grateful Dead touring idea that everything you do is recorded now. And that's OK with me, you know. As a matter of fact, I believe on this tour, we're starting to do something like you can come in, you can buy a [wrist]band, you can get a copy of the night's show. So hopefully we're gonna do that at a really nice-quality level.

We came from the polar opposite. We started out as being very, very controlling. Now it's just a different playing field and so it's exciting: We have our little website and we've been throwing some things from the last tour. If there was a great performance that night, somebody can mix it quickly. We got a guy who directs the show great. And suddenly, we caught a version of "New York City Serenade" from Rome that I was just so glad we had, you know? It was one of those things like it was just a perfect night; we had a string section and the guys played it beautifully. And when I saw it, I said, "I'm so glad this exists." And it wouldn't exist if we weren't thinking about getting it out that way and doing those things. So I'm looking forward to expanding and using more of that in the future and hopefully our fans will enjoy it and it'll give us another canvas to paint on.

NPR: But there's still nothing like being in the room with you, Bruce Springsteen.

Well, you know, the nice thing about that is that is something that you know any film performance and a recorded performance, there's something about a live performance that like when I asked someone, I wanted to go see Bob Dylan at Monmouth College in Long Branch, my old neighborhood, I just was enjoying being in the room with him. You know, it was just fun. I just enjoyed being there. And that's something that's not replicable. It's recordable, but not replicable.

NPR: I agree. I feel that way about Aretha. If I can be in the room with Aretha, I'm happy.

It's nice. I saw Elvis in his very last days when he wasn't doing so well. I saw Elvis twice. Once when he was doing great at Madison Square Garden, the first time he played in New York and very close, a few weeks from the end when he played in Philly. And there were moments of brilliance and moments where he wasn't doing that well but occasionally something would happen where you'd go, "That's Elvis Presley," you know, "and I'm sitting here." And I still remember it, so.

[@SkitchP]

That girl in the white and pink looks like she may be cute.

too old

[Lament]

too old

Mecca is gonna be upset that you stole his line.

[@SkitchP]

too old

Mecca is gonna be upset that you stole his line.

[dimejinky99]

its about a communal experience more than a musical one.

The communal experience of a live show is of almost no value at all to me.

Me neither in a lot of cases but if you're at a show in an arena, or worse again, a stadium, it's not like you're going to have a religious musical experience. And those experiences aren't limited to clubs either. I've seen Pj in a small theatre with 1500 people and it really didn't work at all.

[Wishlist]

I hope you apply this logic to everything in your life. I'd like to think that one day after sleeping with your wife you thought "Had I just had that exact experience with a ten-years-younger version of her, it would have been 10,000 times better" and then just stopped sleeping with her.

Boy, that's odd what you wrote. You're not taking into account the fact that me (and many others) were with our wives when they were ten years younger.

[Lament]

Boy, that's odd what you wrote. You're not taking into account the fact that me (and many others) were with our wives when they were ten years younger.

Why is that odd? Some of the people who are with Pearl Jam in arenas were with Pearl Jam in theatres and clubs too.

[Heathen]

I hope you apply this logic to everything in your life. I'd like to think that one day after sleeping with your wife you thought "Had I just had that exact experience with a ten-years-younger version of her, it would have been 10,000 times better" and then just stopped sleeping with her.

Boy, that's odd what you wrote. You're not taking into account the fact that me (and many others) were with our wives when they were ten years younger.

Or with Lament's wives.

[Lament]

Boy, that's odd what you wrote. You're not taking into account the fact that me (and many others) were with our wives when they were ten years younger.

Or with Lament's wives.

My wives were barely teenagers ten years ago.

[Lament]

Where was the really small Lollapalooza show you saw in 1992? It's weird to me that a tour that was taking place in ampitheatres and fairgrounds and places that generally held 18,000-30,000 people had a really intimate stop in the middle of it, but I suppose it could have stopped in a small town somewhere along the way.

[McParadigm]

Where was the really small Lollapalooza show you saw in 1992? It's weird to me that a tour that was taking place in ampitheatres and fairgrounds and places that generally held 18,000-30,000 people had a really intimate stop in the middle of it, but I suppose it could have stopped in a small town somewhere along the way.

Made me think of

"We were playing Lollapalooza, and-" (crowd cheering) "AH, SHUT UP! NONE OF YOU SAW US!" (muted laughter) "I swear, it was so lonely up there sometimes, man. These big, huge fields...and you're playing to, like, eight kids in Nine Inch Nails shirts who are smoking cigarettes and smirking at your ass."

- Henry Rollins

[Lament]

"After seeing Pearl Jam play for 45 minutes to 30,000 people who may or may not have been there to see them in the middle of the afternoon at the New World in Tinley Park, I knew I'd never be satisfied with seeing them play for a few hours to 18,000 people who came just to see them at Chicago Stadium two years later..."

[Anders]

That girl in the white and pink looks like she may be cute.

too old

http://straightsets.blogs.nytimes.com/2 ... blogs&_r=0

Agnieszka Radwańska

[bada]

I hope you apply this logic to everything in your life. I'd like to think that one day after sleeping with your wife you thought "Had I just had that exact experience with a ten-years-younger version of her, it would have been 10,000 times better" and then just stopped sleeping with her.

Boy, that's odd what you wrote. You're not taking into account the fact that me (and many others) were with our wives when they were ten years younger.

I will say certain doors were open to me ten years ago that are not now.

Spoiler: show

[surfndestroy]

Bottom line is this: you may have the time of your life seeing Pearl Jam at cavernous Madison Square Garden. And I am sure thousands upon thousands do. But in the back of your head there will be a voice saying, "Had I seen this exact same show at a club, it would have been 10,000 times better." That voice would be 100% correct.

I hope you apply this logic to everything in your life. I'd like to think that one day after sleeping with your wife you thought "Had I just had that exact experience with a ten-years-younger version of her, it would have been 10,000 times better" and then just stopped sleeping with her.

I think with sex, the 10,000 time better version involves more participants. Of course that's not for me, my ego can only handle not pleasing one lady at a time.