2014-10-20: Milwaukee, WI

[BigRedLedbetter]

Fun fact: Wrigley Field was the first time someone singled me out for being "From RM" and treated me with disdain on account of it. I was still relatively unknown on here at the time. I guess that's where the line in the sand was drawn.

Ha. Almost the same thing happened to me with the couple I got my ticket from. They were all cool-nice-to-meet-you until they asked about my username on the pit and I said "oh, I usually don't post there. I'm more on RM..." and that was the end of that budding friendship. Still got that ticket though.

Is there some rivalry with the 10c board and RM that I'm not aware of?

[15showsandcounting]

Fun fact: Wrigley Field was the first time someone singled me out for being "From RM" and treated me with disdain on account of it. I was still relatively unknown on here at the time. I guess that's where the line in the sand was drawn.

Ha. Almost the same thing happened to me with the couple I got my ticket from. They were all cool-nice-to-meet-you until they asked about my username on the pit and I said "oh, I usually don't post there. I'm more on RM..." and that was the end of that budding friendship. Still got that ticket though.

Is there some rivalry with the 10c board and RM that I'm not aware of?

I'd like to hear more. And, if there is, well than I'm happy to be an RM poster. The Pit is like a tool shed.

[BigRedLedbetter]

Fun fact: Wrigley Field was the first time someone singled me out for being "From RM" and treated me with disdain on account of it. I was still relatively unknown on here at the time. I guess that's where the line in the sand was drawn.

Ha. Almost the same thing happened to me with the couple I got my ticket from. They were all cool-nice-to-meet-you until they asked about my username on the pit and I said "oh, I usually don't post there. I'm more on RM..." and that was the end of that budding friendship. Still got that ticket though.

Is there some rivalry with the 10c board and RM that I'm not aware of?

I'd like to hear more. And, if there is, well than I'm happy to be an RM poster. The Pit is like a tool shed.

The Pit is the 10C board right? My buddy who is a 10C member hates the forum on there.

[15showsandcounting]

Fun fact: Wrigley Field was the first time someone singled me out for being "From RM" and treated me with disdain on account of it. I was still relatively unknown on here at the time. I guess that's where the line in the sand was drawn.

Ha. Almost the same thing happened to me with the couple I got my ticket from. They were all cool-nice-to-meet-you until they asked about my username on the pit and I said "oh, I usually don't post there. I'm more on RM..." and that was the end of that budding friendship. Still got that ticket though.

Is there some rivalry with the 10c board and RM that I'm not aware of?

I'd like to hear more. And, if there is, well than I'm happy to be an RM poster. The Pit is like a tool shed.

The Pit is the 10C board right? My buddy who is a 10C member hates the forum on there.

Last I knew. At least that's what they used to call it.

[Lament]

I went to the show by myself and met up in GA with a girl I know (who wasn't really a fan) and her friend who had recently become a die-hard. I had met said new die-hard a few years earlier (before she was a Pearl Jam fan) and we got along very well. She had invited me once to a party of Pit people the previous year (not realizing I wasn't living in Chicago at the time), so I thought we were cool. At a certain point during the rain delay my friend pulled me aside and told me I was really upsetting her friend. This took me by surprise, cause I was really trying to be polite and had kept all of my cynicism to myself. I asked what I had done that had made her friend so mad.

"She's really pissed off that when she asked you what your favorite Pearl Jam shows were you named a bunch of shows from the 90s. She says you're on some other message board now for Pearl Jam losers and you guys are all assholes."

The irony is that when we met up, the friend is the one who spent all of the time before the show started complaining, and then spent the entire rain delay complaining.

"I couldn't get here from another state after work in time to get in line for a poster."

"No one I knew in Chicago would come here yesterday and wait in line 4 hours in the hot sun to buy a poster for me."

"How am I supposed to enjoy this knowing how much I could have scalped my tickets for?"

"It's not even raining that hard. I know Pearl Jam wants to get out and play, but the Cubs people just won't let them."

"The merch stands aren't gonna be open after the show if it runs too late."

"I bet all of the good merch is gonna be gone."

"I'll never get a poster from this show."

I haven't spoken to either of those people since that night.

And for the record, my answers that angered her were to the questions "What was your first Pearl Jam show?" and "What was your favorite one?" I guess "Soldier Field" and "United Center 98" were bullshit answers.



But yeah, I didn't realize there was a Pit/RM thing until then, really.

[Strat]

lol at message board powerstruggles

[BigRedLedbetter]

Oh FFS. FWIW the Solider Field boot is awesome.

Some people just love to complain. There is a word for chicks like this. It rhymes with what you do when you go 3 and out in football.

As someone who tried to get Wrigley tickets and was shut out and devastated this quote pisses me off.....

"How am I supposed to enjoy this knowing how much I could have scalped my tickets for?"

[BigRedLedbetter]

lol at message board powerstruggles

Seriously. That is Junior High shit right there.

[broken iris]

But yeah, I didn't realize there was a Pit/RM thing until then, really.

It's not really, they don't like the more "objective" approach people here take to Pearl Jam. Wrigley was kinda a hostile environment anyway between the heat, long lines, rain delay, and unrealistic expectations.


I did catch this awesome response there yesterday in the "Am I the Only One that Prefers Reserved to GA?" thread:

Nope...now it's not all who get GA, but GA seems to be for the fans who think they are part of the band.

I LOL'd.

[EJ]

Good stuff, Lament. Jeezus.

[BigRedLedbetter]

But yeah, I didn't realize there was a Pit/RM thing until then, really.

It's not really, they don't like the more "objective" approach people here take to Pearl Jam. Wrigley was kinda a hostile environment anyway between the heat, long lines, rain delay, and unrealistic expectations.


I did catch this awesome response there yesterday in the "Am I the Only One that Prefers Reserved to GA?" thread:

Nope...now it's not all who get GA, but GA seems to be for the fans who think they are part of the band.

I LOL'd.

The older I get the more I like reserved over GA. I use to rock it GA all the time but now days it's nice to relax and enjoy the show. That being said I'd love to do GA once for PJ or Springsteen (reserved when I saw him)

Also, fuuuuuuuuuuuck outdoor concerts in the summer most of the time. Too hot.

[Birds in Hell]

Also, fuuuuuuuuuuuck outdoor concerts in the summer most of the time. Too hot.

This has been every Australian show since the 2006 tour, it's a bummer.

[BigRedLedbetter]

Also, fuuuuuuuuuuuck outdoor concerts in the summer most of the time. Too hot.

This has been every Australian show since the 2006 tour, it's a bummer.

My buddy lived in Sydney for a year but help me with your weather there. Like was it hot as fuck these shows or nice out?

[CopperTom]

I went to the show by myself and met up in GA with a girl I know (who wasn't really a fan) and her friend who had recently become a die-hard. I had met said new die-hard a few years earlier (before she was a Pearl Jam fan) and we got along very well. She had invited me once to a party of Pit people the previous year (not realizing I wasn't living in Chicago at the time), so I thought we were cool. At a certain point during the rain delay my friend pulled me aside and told me I was really upsetting her friend. This took me by surprise, cause I was really trying to be polite and had kept all of my cynicism to myself. I asked what I had done that had made her friend so mad.

"She's really pissed off that when she asked you what your favorite Pearl Jam shows were you named a bunch of shows from the 90s. She says you're on some other message board now for Pearl Jam losers and you guys are all assholes."

The irony is that when we met up, the friend is the one who spent all of the time before the show started complaining, and then spent the entire rain delay complaining.

"I couldn't get here from another state after work in time to get in line for a poster."

"No one I knew in Chicago would come here yesterday and wait in line 4 hours in the hot sun to buy a poster for me."

"How am I supposed to enjoy this knowing how much I could have scalped my tickets for?"

"It's not even raining that hard. I know Pearl Jam wants to get out and play, but the Cubs people just won't let them."

"The merch stands aren't gonna be open after the show if it runs too late."

"I bet all of the good merch is gonna be gone."

"I'll never get a poster from this show."

I haven't spoken to either of those people since that night.

And for the record, my answers that angered her were to the questions "What was your first Pearl Jam show?" and "What was your favorite one?" I guess "Soldier Field" and "United Center 98" were bullshit answers.



But yeah, I didn't realize there was a Pit/RM thing until then, really.

I was talking to a fan in Seattle last year once I said I was on RM instead of The Pit, he turned his back to me a ceased talking to me. In Vienna a fan called RM where the jokesters go to post. He didn't appreciate WWS.

[BigRedLedbetter]

I went to the show by myself and met up in GA with a girl I know (who wasn't really a fan) and her friend who had recently become a die-hard. I had met said new die-hard a few years earlier (before she was a Pearl Jam fan) and we got along very well. She had invited me once to a party of Pit people the previous year (not realizing I wasn't living in Chicago at the time), so I thought we were cool. At a certain point during the rain delay my friend pulled me aside and told me I was really upsetting her friend. This took me by surprise, cause I was really trying to be polite and had kept all of my cynicism to myself. I asked what I had done that had made her friend so mad.

"She's really pissed off that when she asked you what your favorite Pearl Jam shows were you named a bunch of shows from the 90s. She says you're on some other message board now for Pearl Jam losers and you guys are all assholes."

The irony is that when we met up, the friend is the one who spent all of the time before the show started complaining, and then spent the entire rain delay complaining.

"I couldn't get here from another state after work in time to get in line for a poster."

"No one I knew in Chicago would come here yesterday and wait in line 4 hours in the hot sun to buy a poster for me."

"How am I supposed to enjoy this knowing how much I could have scalped my tickets for?"

"It's not even raining that hard. I know Pearl Jam wants to get out and play, but the Cubs people just won't let them."

"The merch stands aren't gonna be open after the show if it runs too late."

"I bet all of the good merch is gonna be gone."

"I'll never get a poster from this show."

I haven't spoken to either of those people since that night.

And for the record, my answers that angered her were to the questions "What was your first Pearl Jam show?" and "What was your favorite one?" I guess "Soldier Field" and "United Center 98" were bullshit answers.



But yeah, I didn't realize there was a Pit/RM thing until then, really.

I was talking to a fan in Seattle last year once I said I was on RM instead of The Pit, he turned his back to me a ceased talking to me. In Vienna a fan called RM where the jokesters go to post. He didn't appreciate WWS.

he turned his back to me a ceased talking to me Good lord what a bunch of idiot fan boys/girls.

As for WWS it's about Pat Tillman who I have a shit ton of respect for. How can you not appreciate that song? I dig it.

[CopperTom]

I went to the show by myself and met up in GA with a girl I know (who wasn't really a fan) and her friend who had recently become a die-hard. I had met said new die-hard a few years earlier (before she was a Pearl Jam fan) and we got along very well. She had invited me once to a party of Pit people the previous year (not realizing I wasn't living in Chicago at the time), so I thought we were cool. At a certain point during the rain delay my friend pulled me aside and told me I was really upsetting her friend. This took me by surprise, cause I was really trying to be polite and had kept all of my cynicism to myself. I asked what I had done that had made her friend so mad.

"She's really pissed off that when she asked you what your favorite Pearl Jam shows were you named a bunch of shows from the 90s. She says you're on some other message board now for Pearl Jam losers and you guys are all assholes."

The irony is that when we met up, the friend is the one who spent all of the time before the show started complaining, and then spent the entire rain delay complaining.

"I couldn't get here from another state after work in time to get in line for a poster."

"No one I knew in Chicago would come here yesterday and wait in line 4 hours in the hot sun to buy a poster for me."

"How am I supposed to enjoy this knowing how much I could have scalped my tickets for?"

"It's not even raining that hard. I know Pearl Jam wants to get out and play, but the Cubs people just won't let them."

"The merch stands aren't gonna be open after the show if it runs too late."

"I bet all of the good merch is gonna be gone."

"I'll never get a poster from this show."

I haven't spoken to either of those people since that night.

And for the record, my answers that angered her were to the questions "What was your first Pearl Jam show?" and "What was your favorite one?" I guess "Soldier Field" and "United Center 98" were bullshit answers.



But yeah, I didn't realize there was a Pit/RM thing until then, really.

I was talking to a fan in Seattle last year once I said I was on RM instead of The Pit, he turned his back to me a ceased talking to me. In Vienna a fan called RM where the jokesters go to post. He didn't appreciate WWS.

he turned his back to me a ceased talking to me Good lord what a bunch of idiot fan boys/girls.

As for WWS it's about Pat Tillman who I have a shit ton of respect for. How can you not appreciate that song? I dig it.

I mean the RM WWS April Fool's leak. Buggy did that, right?

[BigRedLedbetter]

I went to the show by myself and met up in GA with a girl I know (who wasn't really a fan) and her friend who had recently become a die-hard. I had met said new die-hard a few years earlier (before she was a Pearl Jam fan) and we got along very well. She had invited me once to a party of Pit people the previous year (not realizing I wasn't living in Chicago at the time), so I thought we were cool. At a certain point during the rain delay my friend pulled me aside and told me I was really upsetting her friend. This took me by surprise, cause I was really trying to be polite and had kept all of my cynicism to myself. I asked what I had done that had made her friend so mad.

"She's really pissed off that when she asked you what your favorite Pearl Jam shows were you named a bunch of shows from the 90s. She says you're on some other message board now for Pearl Jam losers and you guys are all assholes."

The irony is that when we met up, the friend is the one who spent all of the time before the show started complaining, and then spent the entire rain delay complaining.

"I couldn't get here from another state after work in time to get in line for a poster."

"No one I knew in Chicago would come here yesterday and wait in line 4 hours in the hot sun to buy a poster for me."

"How am I supposed to enjoy this knowing how much I could have scalped my tickets for?"

"It's not even raining that hard. I know Pearl Jam wants to get out and play, but the Cubs people just won't let them."

"The merch stands aren't gonna be open after the show if it runs too late."

"I bet all of the good merch is gonna be gone."

"I'll never get a poster from this show."

I haven't spoken to either of those people since that night.

And for the record, my answers that angered her were to the questions "What was your first Pearl Jam show?" and "What was your favorite one?" I guess "Soldier Field" and "United Center 98" were bullshit answers.



But yeah, I didn't realize there was a Pit/RM thing until then, really.

I was talking to a fan in Seattle last year once I said I was on RM instead of The Pit, he turned his back to me a ceased talking to me. In Vienna a fan called RM where the jokesters go to post. He didn't appreciate WWS.

he turned his back to me a ceased talking to me Good lord what a bunch of idiot fan boys/girls.

As for WWS it's about Pat Tillman who I have a shit ton of respect for. How can you not appreciate that song? I dig it.

I mean the RM WWS April Fool's leak. Buggy did that, right?

My bad. Thought you were talking about something else.

[Birds in Hell]

Also, fuuuuuuuuuuuck outdoor concerts in the summer most of the time. Too hot.

This has been every Australian show since the 2006 tour, it's a bummer.

My buddy lived in Sydney for a year but help me with your weather there. Like was it hot as fuck these shows or nice out?

40 degrees in the baking sun at Adelaide earlier this year, that's 104 for you guys (I think).

[barefeet222]

I remember Chicago 98 was like a 2.5 hour show and that was considered epic then, now it would be a standard show.

Chicago 98 wasn't epic because it was long (and it wasn't even as long as their previous Chicago show), it was epic because they played out of their collective minds. I saw these guys probably 30 times from 1995-2013, and it's very possible Chicago 98 was the single best performance I've even seen them put forth. They were just on fire that whole night.

They were on fire that night. As I recall that was the return of Baba O'Riley too.

My point wasn't that length makes a show epic, but '98 Chicago was one of their longer shows to that point and now it would be considered short. It might help that this is a 3 week tour whereas '98 they had to "pace themselves". That was a long tour.

[CopperTom]

Also, fuuuuuuuuuuuck outdoor concerts in the summer most of the time. Too hot.

This has been every Australian show since the 2006 tour, it's a bummer.

My buddy lived in Sydney for a year but help me with your weather there. Like was it hot as fuck these shows or nice out?

40 degrees in the baking sun at Adelaide earlier this year, that's 104 for you guys (I think).

Damn. I endured 95+ twice. I can't imagine 104.