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Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 12:07 pm
by Simple Torture
Hartford '08 was also great, better than the 2 Mansfield shows.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 12:18 pm
by warehouse
washing machine wrote:
rick malone wrote:The one Philly show in '09 they were drunk and kept checking a baseball game score.
Something about this recap... It's everything you need to know about PRAMG PJ.
i always thought this was a weird complaint considering the world series was happening directly across the street. should they have ignored it?

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 12:41 pm
by Jorge
Why not?

Is it really such an outlandish concept to ignore it?

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 1:14 pm
by warehouse
Jorge wrote:Why not?

Is it really such an outlandish concept to ignore it?
given the circumstances, yes, it would have been super weird and awkward

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 1:40 pm
by Jorge
I don't understand why, but I'll chalk it up to cultural differences

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 1:46 pm
by dad
Jorge wrote:I don't understand why, but I'll chalk it up to cultural differences
it is pretty funny it's called the world series, yet one continent is truly invested.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 3:34 pm
by 96583UP
spike wrote:Large chunks of PJ20 were trash.
poll updated!

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 3:35 pm
by 96583UP
Jorge wrote:I don't understand why, but I'll chalk it up to cultural differences
it would be like a 2-game series in the champions league final, where one of the games is occurring across the street for the home team of that city

only for a sport no one cares about anymore

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 3:49 pm
by Wendy Carlos's Twin
The Philly '09 #2 performance itself was one long embarrassing train wreck. The setlist had great potential, but many songs were the worst performances of all time.

The score card girls thing was merely the cherry on top of the shit sandwich.

Maybe for folks who attended all four shows and were completely intoxicated, it was fine. But having paid an outlandish sum of money for my ticket and driven for 3 hours to get there, I wasn't particularly thrilled.

Reading endless posts about how the Philly shows were brilliant and taking abuse for voicing my opinion wasn't a good experience either. It definitely changed my view of the PJ fanbase and the band's dedication to putting on a good show.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 3:58 pm
by warehouse
Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:The Philly '09 #2 performance itself was one long embarrassing train wreck. The setlist had great potential, but many songs were the worst performances of all time.

The score card girls thing was merely the cherry on top of the shit sandwich.

Maybe for folks who attended all four shows and were completely intoxicated, it was fine. But having paid an outlandish sum of money for my ticket and driven for 3 hours to get there, I wasn't particularly thrilled.

Reading endless posts about how the Philly shows were brilliant and taking abuse for voicing my opinion wasn't a good experience either. It definitely changed my view of the PJ fanbase and the band's dedication to putting on a good show.
lol jesus get off your high horse. they were playing 4 shows in philly and the phillies were playing in the world series at the exact same time directly across the street. no wonder people gave you shit for your opinion, you sound like a cry baby.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 4:18 pm
by Wendy Carlos's Twin
warehouse wrote: lol jesus get off your high horse. they were playing 4 shows in philly and the phillies were playing in the world series at the exact same time directly across the street. no wonder people gave you shit for your opinion, you sound like a cry baby.
Thanks for proving my point, dipshit.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 4:28 pm
by warehouse
Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:
warehouse wrote: lol jesus get off your high horse. they were playing 4 shows in philly and the phillies were playing in the world series at the exact same time directly across the street. no wonder people gave you shit for your opinion, you sound like a cry baby.
Thanks for proving my point, dipshit.
:haha: i'm just pointing out how out of touch and dumb you sound. 99% of the crowd was into everything you are bitching and moaning about.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 4:46 pm
by McParadigm
warehouse wrote:
Jorge wrote:Why not?

Is it really such an outlandish concept to ignore it?
given the circumstances, yes, it would have been super weird and awkward
lmao

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 4:51 pm
by McParadigm
Anyways, stay on topic. There’s absolutely no way it was the worst show of all time…sounds like it was just an event that the band made super weird and awkward by talking about somebody else’s event and playing mediocrely.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 4:59 pm
by emanon
Noblesville 2010, I was seated next to a group of four. Dude at the far end of the group was drunk and obnoxious, and pissed off the guy on the other side of him...so they switched him to the opposite end of their group to separate them - putting him right next to me. He proceeded to be obnoxious for the remainder of the show. So that made it my worst PJ show of all time. Even worse than the drunk guy behind us at PJ20 night 2, who chose to use the opening as a piss break (appropriately, "Wash"), but didn't leave his seat to do so.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 5:13 pm
by warehouse
McParadigm wrote:Anyways, stay on topic. There’s absolutely no way it was the worst show of all time…sounds like it was just an event that the band made super weird and awkward by talking about somebody else’s event and playing mediocrely.
no, all of this is wrong. except playing mediocrely

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 5:42 pm
by CopperTom
liebzz wrote:
daft twat wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:The 2008-2009 shows weren't anything to write home about either.
Not if you were there. NYC 08 and Chicago 09 are some of my favorite shows.
Definitely the MSG 08 shows were great and get a bad rep from the backup singers…but as an experiment I thought it worked better than people give credit.
They are the worst MSG shows. Yuck. No More > Last Kiss > Why Go > Black Diamond was just a brutal stretch.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Tue September 13, 2022 5:53 pm
by CopperTom
Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:
warehouse wrote: lol jesus get off your high horse. they were playing 4 shows in philly and the phillies were playing in the world series at the exact same time directly across the street. no wonder people gave you shit for your opinion, you sound like a cry baby.
Thanks for proving my point, dipshit.
Criticizing the scorecard girls is kinda wierd. She was on stage less than 2 minutes total. Got a big cheer each time. Ed's given score updates to fans throughout the band's career so this is not a new concept. I'm not a Phillies fan, but I thought that part was thoughtful and well done. If he had to verbalize the score update, he would have rambled on for a longer amount of time than she was on stage for.

Night 2 was bad. Towards the bottom, if not the very bottom, of shows I've been to. MSG 2 2008 is down there too.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Wed September 14, 2022 2:36 am
by tyweed
Missoula 2005

Absolute garbage performance. Such a bummer given Jeff's connection.

Re: What was the worst Pearl Jam show of all time?

Posted: Wed September 14, 2022 2:51 am
by 96583UP
emanon wrote:Noblesville 2010, I was seated next to a group of four. Dude at the far end of the group was drunk and obnoxious, and pissed off the guy on the other side of him...so they switched him to the opposite end of their group to separate them - putting him right next to me. He proceeded to be obnoxious for the remainder of the show. So that made it my worst PJ show of all time. Even worse than the drunk guy behind us at PJ20 night 2, who chose to use the opening as a piss break (appropriately, "Wash"), but didn't leave his seat to do so.
lol

on a more serious note, i don't think this meets the criteria for addition to the poll

but i value your contribution