Does anyone else think they should sell Pearl Jam score cards with a Pearl Jam pencil like at baseball games? That way you can keep the setlist during the concert and keep it as a momento. I'm working on creating one on Microsoft publisher complete with original artwork for the next show I attend.

I can't decide if that is either really stupid or really neat. So I guess I'm not sure

if they weren't too expensive I'd go with neat

the only way it could be neat is if by "score card" he meant "bong"

I'm thinking like at a baseball game where it's $1 for the score card and $.50 for the pencil.

Ridiculous idea.

Me and a bunch of my friends used to go see a lot of DMB shows in the 90s. By the early 2000s we started getting highly critical of the setlists and kinda stopped enjoying the shows as much.

A friend of mine started making song checklists and coming up with a scoring system as to the minimum amount of his personal favorites he would need to see in order for the show to meet his standards as a "good" performance.

It was really a ridiculous sight to behold. The band would start playing Two Step and he would pull out his little song list and start making check marks and assigning points in a side column. Minus points were assigned if the band played I Did It or something like that. I'm sure the people around him thought he was nuts.

I think you are describing something different but thats what it reminds me of.

That's pretty funny...do you guys still go to DMB shows? And more importantly, does your friend still tally up the points?

Doesn't the boot do all this for you?

The last show full show that the points guy attended was, I believe 7/31/02 at Nissan Pavillion in Virginia. That is one of my all time favorite DMB shows and scored very high on my friend's system (even despite the I did It opener!!). He sort of retired from DMB after that night - wanted to end on a high note

I see DMB approx once every 2-3 years now only if it is very convenient for me (example Bridge School 2006). I have another friend who still tours with them regularly and has seen over 100 shows. He keeps me updated on the scene.

My initial thought was a PJ song scorecard would be a cool idea, but after further consideration I'm changing my mind. When I'm at a show I try to enjoy all the songs they play. I wouldn't want to be studying a scorecard for all the gaps in the setlist ("They haven't played any No Code songs yet!"). I mean I already do that stuff, but a scorecard would really hammer home those kind of points.

Ha, that is so sad to here. I think there are people on this board who are critical to a point where their enjoyment is reduced. I think it's important to love a band to a certain point, but then to just take a couple of steps back.

i have no idea for the first time in a long time what they've played so far this tour and when i see them at msg and in hartford this will be the first time in a long time (98 maybe?) i'll be surprised by at least a few and will enjoy every single song...unless stone plays mankind dont gimme no lip if you have to stone but please not mankind...please for the love of god no!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah dude that was a really awesome idea you came up with about the scorecard for PJ shows. Keep the good ideas coming.

I just take in my own little spiral notebook and a pen

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There was something pretty much exactly like this on the last page of the Riot Act tour program. I didn't write in it though...that would have decreased it's value on Ebay.