Post subject: Pearl Jam Won't Tour "For a Long Time"??
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:00 am
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I'm stealing this from the Wishlist Foundation FB page. They posed the question "How long is a long time"? After Ed said at the Portugal show that they wouldn't be touring again for a long time.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
I'm stealing this from the Wishlist Foundation FB page. They posed the question "How long is a long time"? After Ed said at the Portugal show that they wouldn't be touring again for a long time.
At the end of the Greensboro NC 2000 bootleg Ed says "see you in 10 years". I'm too lazy to look it up but how accurate did that end up being?
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Pearl Jam ended their European 2010 tour in Lisbon, Portugal last week. There are no scheduled concerts for 2010 or 2011. If you were the press, what would you do? That’s right … blast over the internet that Pearl Jam just played their last gig (complete with a picture of Ed with a concerned expression) and get fans panicked everywhere.
Impassioned Pearl Jam fans have already been debating what Ed said, meant to say, and even tried to say.
Ed likes to talk communicate with his audience at shows. It’s an element that is integral to the Pearl Jam concert experience. In front of non-English audiences, he will prepare a speech in that language before performing, then read the speech in-between songs or often during an encore break.
In 2007’s Immagine in Cornice DVD, we got a glimpse into this process where Ed is shown backstage with an Italian translator. The process is as follows
Ed communicates in English what he wants to say The translator provides the translation in that language Ed writes it down phonetically
Ed’s native language is English, not Portuguese … du-duh. Regardless, his speech could be misinterpreted. In this case, though, it seems he his being misunderstood, not lost in translation.
Check out the video in question below:
0:00 Pearl Jam finish “In Hiding” 0:40 Addressing the crowd for the first time, Ed comes to the mic with a piece of paper 0:45 “Ola Lisbon” = “Hello Lisbon” (yes, we know, it’s techically in Oeiras) 1:00 “O português é uma língua difícil” (roughly), meaning “Portuguese is a difficult language” 1:34 “Obrigado”, i.e. “Thank You” is followed by a laugh and “You wait”, hinting at the upcoming speaking difficulties 2:00 The money line: “Obrigado por virem ao nosso último concerto – não o último de sempre, mas o último em muito tempo”. Roughly translated: “This is the end of our last show of the tour … not last forever but last for a long time“. 2:10 To gasps and whistling (for Americans, that’s “booing”) and sensing he was misinterpreted, Ed makes a motion with both hands seemingly saying “no, no … right now” 2:18 Clarifying, he says “It’s good … so we have fun tonight ’cause we don’t know when else we have fun”
As quickly as Ed went into “Unthought Known”, fans shouldn’t spend that much time dwelling on it. He did not come out and say “We will not play a show for X months, XX days“, but if you’d like to play with some options, here they are:
- “a long time” – in “Pearl Jam” time, possibly just a few months or less than a year, but nobody knows for sure
- “a long time (until we return to Europe)” – this has been misinterpreted before, with previous European gaps being 3 years: 1993 – 1996) 4 years: 1996 – 2000 6 years: 2000 – 2006 1 year: 2006 – 2007 2 years: 2007-2009 1 year: 2009 – 2010
-“a long time (in Guns ‘N’ Roses years)” – this would be about 5 years
-“a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”, roughly 23 parcecs. Star Wars geek unite!
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it could be any length of time. im used to waiting 3 or so years to see them so it doesnt make much difference to me if they tour or not. So for me im more interested to see what comes out of this break release wise eg a movie, EP or LP, or even the next series of reissues. However, if they did come back down this way again before some more European and US love, i wont complain
hope they do decide to play a 20th anniversary show. wonder where they will do that one?
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Like I said in the Portugal thread, I'm thinking we'll see the next year (or two, even) set aside for the guys to explore their own interests.
I'm expecting a lot of touring (and possibly a new record) for Soundgarden, more EV solo shows, the new Brad record's coming out soon and Mike's probably working on some solo stuff too (good luck with that).
I'm thinking the release of the retrospective film will be the only Pearl Jam activity over the next 18 months, I'm hoping we get some extra audio to along with that - whether that be some unreleased stuff on an accompanying soundtrack (Of The Earth, anyone?) or possibly even some archival boots to tie in with the accompanying nostalgia.
I'm expecting nothing for the 20th anniversary at this point, to be honest.
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I'm kinda hoping for a long break as well to be honest. I've seen them now live in 05-06-07-09-10. In between they released my two least favourite records, so let them have a good break, like they used to do between albums and like most others do, no? It can only do them good.
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Angus wrote:
I'm kinda hoping for a long break as well to be honest. I've seen them now live in 05-06-07-09-10. In between they released my two least favourite records, so let them have a good break, like they used to do between albums and like most others do, no? It can only do them good.
Yeah - they've really been pretty busy from 2003 onwards, I think a break will do them good. As you said, they've made my least two favourite Pearl Jam albums in that time so I can only hope a break would recharge their creative juices a bit.
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Pearl Jam's publicist, Nicole Vandenburg, wrote:
(It's) nothing serious. He says that at the end of all tours, meaning that the tour is over. I think the remarks got a bit lost in translation.
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mick7184 wrote:
I dont want the band to take a long break, because I really think if they did that would be the end of Pearl Jam.
At this point, I wouldn't be too sad about that. They've been together twenty years, that's a long time for any band. Nobody could deny that they had a very good run.
If they went out now, they'd be going out "on top", in a way - their last record went to number one, The Fixer was a very respectable success as a single and the tour seemed very successful.
Seeing as Matt's about to get stuck into Soundgarden again, Vedder's about to get hitched, etc. it really wouldn't surprise me, regardless of what their publicist says.
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spenno wrote:
mick7184 wrote:
I dont want the band to take a long break, because I really think if they did that would be the end of Pearl Jam.
At this point, I wouldn't be too sad about that. They've been together twenty years, that's a long time for any band. Nobody could deny that they had a very good run.
If they went out now, they'd be going out "on top", in a way - their last record went to number one, The Fixer was a very respectable success as a single and the tour seemed very successful.
Seeing as Matt's about to get stuck into Soundgarden again, Vedder's about to get hitched, etc. it really wouldn't surprise me, regardless of what their publicist says.
I want the band to continue on until someone dies or they cant put on a good show anymore. If they take a long break, all of a sudden were a year into that break and Soundgarden has decided to make a new album, Eddie is loving the solo life(not that he hasnt had a taste of it in recent years) and Pearl Jam is on indefinite leave forever.
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