Quarterfinals: Do the Evolution vs. Tremor Christ

[LetMeSleep]

I sure hope they break out TC on the upcoming tour.

For you, friend.

<Walk on stage> Go - Last Exit - Get Right - Tremor Christ (enter paramedics for a fallen mod)

[Strat]

I sure hope they break out TC on the upcoming tour.

For you, friend.

<Walk on stage> Go - Last Exit - Get Right - Tremor Christ (enter paramedics for a fallen mod)

great now im horny

[LetMeSleep]

I sure hope they break out TC on the upcoming tour.

For you, friend.

<Walk on stage> Go - Last Exit - Get Right - Tremor Christ (enter paramedics for a fallen mod)

great now im horny

There really wouldn't be much better than those 4 into Nothing As It Seems then they could play fucking anything and I wouldn't care.

[Strat]

I sure hope they break out TC on the upcoming tour.

For you, friend.

<Walk on stage> Go - Last Exit - Get Right - Tremor Christ (enter paramedics for a fallen mod)

great now im horny

There really wouldn't be much better than those 4 into Nothing As It Seems then they could play fucking anything and I wouldn't care.

2 hours of Future Days and id still be happy with an into run like that. Forget about it.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I sure hope they break out TC on the upcoming tour.

For you, friend.

<Walk on stage> Go - Last Exit - Get Right - Tremor Christ (enter paramedics for a fallen mod)

If they did that I'd leave right after those 4 songs. No way the concert gets anything but worse from that point on.

[E.H. Ruddock]

And it would be the best PJ show I had ever been to.

[Birds in Hell]

Both among the band's best songs but Tremor Christ has become something I have to be in the mood for over the last few years while Do the Evolution never fails to hit the spot.

[LetMeSleep]

If you'd been at the Sydney BDO you'd say otherwise.

[Birds in Hell]

Nothing hit the spot for me at the Adelaide BDO.

Fingers crossed we get another tour that isn't outside, at a festival, in 40 degree heat, preceded by having to sit through an interminable performance by Arcade Fire.

[LetMeSleep]

Nothing hit the spot for me at the Adelaide BDO.

Fingers crossed we get another tour that isn't outside, at a festival, in 40 degree heat, preceded by having to sit through an interminable performance by Arcade Fire.

It would be the logical extension of this years tour.

And Insignificance really hit the spot that day.

[Birds in Hell]

I should also have mentioned the Pearl Jam fans at the Adelaide BDO - the awful, awful fans.

A bunch of these idiots, wearing t-shirts and hats they had printed up especially for the occasion, had printed up a huge sign demanding the band play 'It's OK' at the show - never mind that it's: not their song; only something tagged onto one of their existing songs; something that once held some degree of significance and not the kind of thing the band pulled out to please a bunch of random oddballs in the audience. Anyway, these people had pushed their way to the front row (they'd probably waited there since 10am) and hung this giant fucking banner across the front barrier so the band couldn't not see it...and they played it! They actually fucking played it! If the day wasn't already terrible enough, that was the final nail in the coffin. Though I'm willing to acknowledge I'm not the most impartial witness, the band didn't seem terribly enthusiastic about it to me, as though they were going to grit their teeth and get through playing it just so they don't look like jerks to a bunch of fans (and so they don't have to look at that goddamn banner for the rest of the show).

I had so much of a better time once we left to get some ice cream and came back and stood at the back of the oval with a bunch of people who simply were enjoying the show, not attending "the church of Pearl Jam". The last two Pearl Jam shows here have really soured me on elements of their fanbase, they attract some seriously weird people.

[Birds in Hell]

Why can't all fans just be this guy?

[LetMeSleep]

Or this chap

[Birds in Hell]

Is that RMs own Lament?

If so, yes.

[Birds in Hell]

This is dead-on exactly what the first few rows of the last couple of Pearl Jam shows I've been to felt like:

[Strat]

2003 is where it started getting weird for me. People talking about what pants eddie wore the night before, or what he said in between songs....

noooooooooooo thank you.

[chewm]

Tremor Christ, but both are great

[Birds in Hell]

I haven't even started on the two dudes intently studying the guitar changes and loudly exclaiming what song would be coming up next ("Mike's got the 12 string, it's gonna be Sirens!"), celebrating with each other when they got it right. They would also complain at volume and length whenever the band played the same songs they'd already seen at the previous show. Insufferable.

[EJ]

Bogans. All of 'em.

[Birds in Hell]

2003 is where it started getting weird for me. People talking about what pants eddie wore the night before, or what he said in between songs....

noooooooooooo thank you.

It really does feel comparable to something like Twilight or Harry Potter fandom - these people aren't music fans who are also into Pearl Jam, they're exclusively Pearl Jam fans.

It doesn't get Eddie Vedder than this!