Red Mosquito

"I spent an entire day hitting F5 when I was supposed to be running a war!"

This thread has really helped me shake the post tour blues. Thanks y'all

I will say I was at the show. When Ed dropped the guitar my first thought was "what a dick" but from my view it didn't seem as much of a deal. It was kind of funny in the heat of the moment

gardenparty wrote:This thread has really helped me shake the post tour blues. Thanks y'all

I will say I was at the show. When Ed dropped the guitar my first thought was "what a dick" but from my view it didn't seem as much of a deal. It was kind of funny in the heat of the moment

Yeah nice try but wrong response. VEDDER = HITLER (you only have to change 4 letters!!!!) and all acts of seeming "kindness" are subterfuge and people are one thing 1 THING (that one thing usually being hating women and/or ordering a hit on their bassist outside an otherwise cozy Atlanta studio and/or DAVE ABBRUZZESE who let's face it we all know is clearly unimpeachable wait does anyone here actually know this guy? and/or there is no such thing as a continuum all rock singers are just Axl Rose the minute they do something dumb and/or... uh... Goebbels?).

But thanks for playing!

Spoiler: show

At least Ricky didn't leave the lights on like that bellend Josh.

keely always knows what to do.

gardenparty wrote:This thread has really helped me shake the post tour blues. Thanks y'all

I will say I was at the show. When Ed dropped the guitar my first thought was "what a dick" but from my view it didn't seem as much of a deal. It was kind of funny in the heat of the moment

I still haven't heard the audio. Seeing the gif I thought 'that's kind of a dick move' and that's it. I doubt I would have noticed it at a show, but the techs are kind of invisible to me. The 'human beings simply don't treat each other like this!!!'/he was HUMILIATED' response that helped catapult this to a 30 page thread seems more than a little overblown (based on the video, at least).

As an aside, I find the 'guitarists smashing their guitars' behavior far more obnoxious. Or forgetting your bassist.

can someone link the bit where he is yelling at the guy? Now that I've posted an opinion I should probably know what I'm talking about.

All the audio shows is that the guitar was out of tune, he didnt berate him or anything lol. The other thread has other instances of ed being annoyed at him which makes me assume this was a straw that broke the camels back kinda thing.

Its probably just me but I find the bassist 'storming' off stage because the singer forgot to introduce him more douchey/obnoxious. As if this was his one time to shine and the singer not mentioning his name would mean the entire crowd forgot he was even there or something? Man up bro. If ed had clearly listed everyone's name but jeffs and then said 'thank you goodnight', that would have been a dick move, but he just pulled an ed and started talking about someother shit half way.

So far we've had jeff and ed being varying degrees of jackass and stone flashing us. I have my fingers crossed mike and matt step up during the remaining shows

stip wrote:the techs are kind of invisible to me. The 'human beings simply don't treat each other like this!!!'/he was HUMILIATED' response that helped catapult this to a 30 page thread seems more than a little overblown (based on the video, at least).

We should have known it would take defending Ed to finally unlock stip's inner Caesar.

N&D will never be the same again.

I'm very excited to see the new stip's journey unfold. Some predictions:

1. Will shortly start N&D's most enduring thread: "do any of these poor people care about what they're doing to Ed's economy"

2. Will coin the phrase "Power corrupts. Absolute power totally gets me off." This will make him a minor celebrity in his field.

3. Celebrity turn will backfire when he begins opening his sessions with reminders to students that "I don't see color, by which I mean I don't see black people." This will turn out to be a devastating thing to acknowledge at a community college.

4. Years of substance abuse will follow…non-diet sodas, Pearl Jam bootlegs, toothpastes not recommended by dentists, etc. one day he will wake up to find that he has fallen so far that he is now Ed's guitar tech. The idea that he can stand in front of a massive audience and nobody out there will "see" him or care how he is treated will forever change him. He will subsequently become the biggest troll in PJ chat history. And I will be jealous.

McParadigm wrote:

stip wrote:the techs are kind of invisible to me. The 'human beings simply don't treat each other like this!!!'/he was HUMILIATED' response that helped catapult this to a 30 page thread seems more than a little overblown (based on the video, at least).

We should have known it would take defending Ed to finally unlock stip's inner Caesar.

N&D will never be the same again.

Look, if they can find a robot to tune ed's guitar and chuck tambourines at him I don't see why we even need a human being in that position.

As is, they should just pick up some day laborers outside of a guitar world in whatever city they're playing in. They'd be grateful for the work, and you don't need to pay benefits.

McParadigm wrote:I'm very excited to see the new stip's journey unfold. Some predictions:

1. Will shortly start N&D's most enduring thread: "do any of these poor people care about what they're doing to Ed's economy"

2. Will coin the phrase "Power corrupts. Absolute power totally gets me off." This will make him a minor celebrity in his field.

3. Celebrity turn will backfire when he begins opening his sessions with reminders to students that "I don't see color, by which I mean I don't see black people." This will turn out to be a devastating thing to acknowledge at a community college.

4. Years of substance abuse will follow…non-diet sodas, Pearl Jam bootlegs, toothpastes not recommended by dentists, etc. one day he will wake up to find that he has fallen so far that he is now Ed's guitar tech. The idea that he can stand in front of a massive audience and nobody out there will "see" him or care how he is treated will forever change him. He will subsequently become the biggest troll in PJ chat history. And I will be jealous.

I will try and cram this journey into 4 years, since I'll need to be back to my cheerleader weight to make sure harmless survives the buildup to album 11.

stip wrote:As is, they should just pick up some day laborers outside of a guitar world in whatever city they're playing in. They'd be grateful for the work, and you don't need to pay benefits.

It's like my dad always used to say: "You have to pay top dollar if you want to get top talent, and it's a terrible mistake to do less than...oh, we're not talking about upper management? Then nevermind. Pay them scraps."

stip wrote:

gardenparty wrote:This thread has really helped me shake the post tour blues. Thanks y'all

I will say I was at the show. When Ed dropped the guitar my first thought was "what a dick" but from my view it didn't seem as much of a deal. It was kind of funny in the heat of the moment

I still haven't heard the audio. Seeing the gif I thought 'that's kind of a dick move' and that's it. I doubt I would have noticed it at a show, but the techs are kind of invisible to me. The 'human beings simply don't treat each other like this!!!'/he was HUMILIATED' response that helped catapult this to a 30 page thread seems more than a little overblown (based on the video, at least).

As an aside, I find the 'guitarists smashing their guitars' behavior far more obnoxious. Or forgetting your bassist.

Stip: The Epitome of a Eddie Vedder fanboi

McParadigm wrote:

stip wrote:As is, they should just pick up some day laborers outside of a guitar world in whatever city they're playing in. They'd be grateful for the work, and you don't need to pay benefits.

It's like my dad always used to say: "You have to pay top dollar if you want to get top talent, and it's a terrible mistake to do less than...oh, we're not talking about upper management? Then nevermind. Pay them scraps."

Your Dad was a good, good man.

surfndestroy wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

stip wrote:As is, they should just pick up some day laborers outside of a guitar world in whatever city they're playing in. They'd be grateful for the work, and you don't need to pay benefits.

It's like my dad always used to say: "You have to pay top dollar if you want to get top talent, and it's a terrible mistake to do less than...oh, we're not talking about upper management? Then nevermind. Pay them scraps."

Your Dad was a good, good man.

Although clearly not written about McP's dad, I've always liked this lyric from Dan Bern's Hannibal:

'You see everything I know I learned from my dad
And he learned it all from his
And his dad just happened to be
Wrong about everything'

stip wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

stip wrote:the techs are kind of invisible to me. The 'human beings simply don't treat each other like this!!!'/he was HUMILIATED' response that helped catapult this to a 30 page thread seems more than a little overblown (based on the video, at least).

We should have known it would take defending Ed to finally unlock stip's inner Caesar.

N&D will never be the same again.

Look, if they can find a robot to tune ed's guitar and chuck tambourines at him I don't see why we even need a human being in that position.

As is, they should just pick up some day laborers outside of a guitar world in whatever city they're playing in. They'd be grateful for the work, and you don't need to pay benefits.

another use for amazon's failed drone fleet

Its nice to see Stip's unwillingness to criticize the band even overcomes his whole socialist/unionist facade. He will go completely Ayn Rand just to defend Eddie Vedder.

Ed-las Shrugged.

BurtReynolds wrote:Its nice to see Stip's unwillingness to criticize the band even overcomes his whole socialist/unionist facade. He will go completely Ayn Rand just to defend Eddie Vedder.

but only pre-95 or post-2006 Vedder. Pay close attention. It's astounding.