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Iholdthepain · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 4:27 am

PHATJ wrote:

I like this cover. Fuck you.

+1

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15099

numbers wrote:

I like the covers most of the time. I think sometimes we forget that the purpose of the shows is not the bootleg but the experience for the people in attendance. I’d say a majority of the crowd in the building would rather hear C Numb than any PJ deep cuts.

I find this very hard to believe. Last Kiss aside, which was a significant hit for the band, most of the other covers I’ve seen the band play have gone down like a lead balloon, particularly Mother. Nobody cares, and I wager they’d much prefer to hear less-played album tracks from Ten or Vs (e.g. Garden, Deep, Rats) than FM radio staples from 30-40 years ago.

Iholdthepain · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 5:11 am

I think they just want to play whatever the fuck they want to play... and they think CN is fun to play... Is that such a difficult concept?

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15099

No, but here’s another non-difficult concept: it sucks.

Iholdthepain · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 5:17 am

Yeah, well that's just your opinion, man...

I love hearing it, playing it, and hearing pj play it.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47218

numbers wrote:

I like the covers most of the time. I think sometimes we forget that the purpose of the shows is not the bootleg but the experience for the people in attendance. I’d say a majority of the crowd in the building would rather hear C Numb than any PJ deep cuts.

Why do they have to substitute a cover for a deep cut? Why can't they just play another one of their good songs?

Jeez · **Joined:** Fri August 04, 2017 11:00 am **Posts:** 101

It’s dreadfully laboured and a bollock hair short of woeful.

I get they might enjoy playing it and that’s cool, but it’s probably only cool to suckers who are in Pearl Jam or have never listened to the original.

Retire the covers by numbers approach, or if they can’t, then cover something within your range.

Fucking shameful turn this band has taken. Vedder inc.

numbers · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 3:54 pm

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

numbers wrote:

I like the covers most of the time. I think sometimes we forget that the purpose of the shows is not the bootleg but the experience for the people in attendance. I’d say a majority of the crowd in the building would rather hear C Numb than any PJ deep cuts.

Why do they have to substitute a cover for a deep cut? Why can't they just play another one of their good songs?

I was just trying to make the point that a lot of the people in attendance are not PJ diehards like we are, they are there to hear Alive and Even Flow and would rather hear C Numb than anything off Binaural.

Strat · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 3:54 pm

numbers wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

numbers wrote:

I like the covers most of the time. I think sometimes we forget that the purpose of the shows is not the bootleg but the experience for the people in attendance. I’d say a majority of the crowd in the building would rather hear C Numb than any PJ deep cuts.

Why do they have to substitute a cover for a deep cut? Why can't they just play another one of their good songs?

I was just trying to make the point that a lot of the people in attendance are not PJ diehards like we are, they are there to hear Alive and Even Flow and would rather hear C Numb than anything off Binaural.

I should have these people killed

EJ · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:15 pm **Posts:** 7011

numbers wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

numbers wrote:

I like the covers most of the time. I think sometimes we forget that the purpose of the shows is not the bootleg but the experience for the people in attendance. I’d say a majority of the crowd in the building would rather hear C Numb than any PJ deep cuts.

Why do they have to substitute a cover for a deep cut? Why can't they just play another one of their good songs?

I was just trying to make the point that a lot of the people in attendance are not PJ diehards like we are, they are there to hear Alive and Even Flow and would rather hear C Numb than anything off Binaural.

Only PJ diehards want to hear PJ songs at a PJ concert?

Strat · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 4:00 pm

EJ wrote:

numbers wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

numbers wrote:

I like the covers most of the time. I think sometimes we forget that the purpose of the shows is not the bootleg but the experience for the people in attendance. I’d say a majority of the crowd in the building would rather hear C Numb than any PJ deep cuts.

Why do they have to substitute a cover for a deep cut? Why can't they just play another one of their good songs?

I was just trying to make the point that a lot of the people in attendance are not PJ diehards like we are, they are there to hear Alive and Even Flow and would rather hear C Numb than anything off Binaural.

Only PJ diehards want to hear PJ songs at a PJ concert?

Only pj diehards want to hear deeper pj cuts at a pj concert

Captain Termite · **Joined:** Mon July 29, 2013 3:44 pm **Posts:** 504

Quote:

most of the other covers I’ve seen the band play have gone down like a lead balloon, particularly Mother.

How can you tell? I'd guess that if someone was excited to hear a song like Mother, they wouldn't be yelling and jumping up and down like for Baba or something. It's not that type of song.

--- · **Joined:** Tue February 12, 2013 5:03 pm **Posts:** 2401

no band should ever aim higher than catering to the whims of the softheaded, tasteless boors that encourage their indulgence in the particular brand of disposable schlock so appealing to middle-aged idlers with a waning interest in their craft

numbers · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 4:15 pm

For example, I’ve been to a few DMB shows with friends. I don’t really like DMB, I don’t hate them, but I only know the hit songs. One of those shows they played Petty- Running Down a Dream and I remember and enjoyed that a lot more than any of the songs I didn’t know. It doesn’t mean I’m angry they didn’t play more covers, or angry that they played songs I didn’t know.

numbers · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 4:16 pm

--- wrote:

no band should ever aim higher than catering to the whims of the softheaded, tasteless boors that encourage their indulgence in the particular brand of disposable schlock so appealing to middle-aged idlers with a waning interest in their craft

A crowd full of people with the above sentiment surely wouldn’t be an awful group to be around.

Biff Pocoroba · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 4:27 pm

I don't mind them playing couple covers but 7-8 in a 30 song concert is too many. And some certainly work better than others, I don't even think about it when I hear Baba or Free World at the end anymore and personally I wouldn't mind seeing Timeless Melody return from time to time.

numbers · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 4:32 pm

I’d like to see them start doing Harvest Moon again.

mikejasond · **Joined:** Mon July 08, 2013 11:12 pm **Posts:** 3234

I have to agree with those who brought up you shouldn't cover Pink Floyd. This song is so quirky and distinctive that it's just a strange choice to me besides that mike is good on it. I do think Mother is worse as it's just a weird song to sing as a cover. If they're gonna do classic rock staples I'd rather they pick something different.

PHATJ · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 4:50 pm

mikejasond wrote:

I have to agree with those who brought up you shouldn't cover Pink Floyd. This song is so quirky and distinctive that it's just a strange choice to me besides that mike is good on it. I do think Mother is worse as it's just a weird song to sing as a cover. If they're gonna do classic rock staples I'd rather they pick something different.

Great insight

run2death · **Posted:** Fri August 24, 2018 5:12 pm

bodysnatcher wrote:

Everyday in Lubbock

This was fucking great.

Cover of the Moment: Comfortably Numb

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