Red Mosquito

darth_vedder wrote:I've mentioned this in some other thread, but I think it would be cool, to focus on a particular album for show.

Tons of bands have been doing that. Steely Dan just recently played four nights in New York and each night was a complete, different album. I suppose you bought your tickets depending upon which album you love the most.

Pearl Jam could do that, but the idea has now become so common and trite, I don't think they would.

So you want them to just be a nostalgia act?

Avocado Album is pretty neat for my tastes '-'

cutuphalfdead wrote:So you want them to just be a nostalgia act?

Here's the point I've been making for this whole thread:

I choose not to see the band playing weaker new material in a 20,000 seat cavern surrounded by "fans" shouting for "Even Flow."

You may enjoy that experience, others may, too; but I do not. I saw Pearl Jam live at a very good time in their career and I am happy I did. This is really not a controversial position I am taking.

Wishlist wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:So you want them to just be a nostalgia act?

Here's the point I've been making for this whole thread:

I choose not to see the band playing weaker new material in a 20,000 seat cavern surrounded by "fans" shouting for "Even Flow."

You may enjoy that experience, others may, too; but I do not. I saw Pearl Jam live at a very good time in their career and I am happy I did. This is really not a controversial position I am taking.

cutuphalfdead wrote:So you want them to just be a nostalgia act?

I'm not going to sit here and defend modern day Pearl Jam, and I get that the band's peak has long since passed. But if you saw them in 1991 with a few thousand people, and then refused to see them ever again because it could never top that, you've completely missed out on the best periods of Pearl Jam as a live act. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't think their live performance peak happened sometime between 1994 and 2000.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I'm not going to sit here and defend modern day Pearl Jam, and I get that the band's peak has long since passed. But if you saw them in 1991 with a few thousand people, and then refused to see them ever again because it could never top that, you've completely missed out on the best periods of Pearl Jam as a live act. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't think their live performance peak happened sometime between 1994 and 2000.

Plus 2003-2006 still had more than a handful of shows that could stand up with this peak period

basically what we as a forum are saying, Wishlist, is that in a misguided attempt to not have your Pearl Jam live experience diluted, you actually missed the best part. you were, in the end, foolish and impetuous.

2005 was pretty damm good. At least here in Brazil...

You are kind of like the female character Eddie sings about in Dissident. You couldn't hold on. You folded.

KurtLeon wrote:2005 was pretty damm good. At least here in Brazil...

in Canada too

DeLima wrote:

KurtLeon wrote:2005 was pretty damm good. At least here in Brazil...

in Canada too

but of course, how would Wishlist know that. He wouldn't.

DeLima wrote:basically what we as a forum are saying, Wishlist, is that in a misguided attempt to not have your Pearl Jam live experience diluted, you actually missed the best part. you were, in the end, foolish and impetuous.

fortunately, it was just a live show, so who cares

McParadigm wrote:

DeLima wrote:basically what we as a forum are saying, Wishlist, is that in a misguided attempt to not have your Pearl Jam live experience diluted, you actually missed the best part. you were, in the end, foolish and impetuous.

fortunately, it was just a live show, so who cares

right, we're not talking about a mortgage here, or maltreating an infant

Wishlist wrote:

Lament wrote:The variety in the setlists was much greater in 1992.

Ladies and gentlemen, here's a person who thinks "variety" in a set list is what makes a great show.

Yep. That's exactly what I said.

right, we're not talking about a mortgage here, or maltreating an infant

or new musical creative output.

McParadigm would like you to know that he doesn't care about concerts.

theplatypus wrote:

Wishlist wrote:I, and everybody else, would take a set list of "Ten" in 1992 over a 2014 variety set list of "Backspacer" and "Lightning Bolt" tunes.

Ah yes, the only two possible options.

Man, were those infamous "Only Backspacer and Lightning Bolt songs" shows they did in 2014 controversial. Almost as controversial as the shows at Giants Stadium to 80,000 people that Wishlist keeps complaining about.

Lament wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

Wishlist wrote:I, and everybody else, would take a set list of "Ten" in 1992 over a 2014 variety set list of "Backspacer" and "Lightning Bolt" tunes.

Ah yes, the only two possible options.

Man, were those infamous "Only Backspacer and Lightning Bolt songs" shows they did in 2014 controversial. Almost as controversial as the shows at Giants Stadium to 80,000 people that Wishlist keeps complaining about.

if Pearl Jam played giants stadium and did only LB and BS songs, that'd be pretty ballsy

Spenno would be happy.