Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:mostly i just like to go to shows to

Spoiler: show

RAISE HELL!

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:mostly i just like to go to shows to

Spoiler: show

RAISE HELL!

That's some nice giffing there, Burt.

Wishlist wrote: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.

Lament wrote:

Wishlist wrote: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.

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.

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

@SkitchP wrote:too old

Lament wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:too old

Mecca is gonna be upset that you stole his line.

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote: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.

Lament wrote: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.

Wishlist wrote: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.

Wishlist wrote:

Lament wrote: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.

Heathen wrote:

Wishlist wrote: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 wrote: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.

@SkitchP wrote:

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

too old

Wishlist wrote:

Lament wrote: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.

Spoiler: show

Lament wrote:

Wishlist wrote: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.