{"id":4923,"date":"2014-01-06T07:16:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4923"},"modified":"2013-12-22T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T23:56:22","slug":"concert-flashback-pearl-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/concert-flashback-pearl-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert Flashback: Pearl Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/95pearljam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5238 alignleft\" alt=\"95pearljam\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/95pearljam.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/95pearljam.jpg 461w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/95pearljam-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a>When Pearl Jam announced that they would try to put on a tour without using Ticketmaster, they had a lottery for tickets, and, thanks to my sister, I found myself with 2 tickets to the show. \u00a0With my friend Joe along for the ride, we headed out towards Soldier Field, taking the Orange Line from Midway to avoid the traffic.<\/p>\n<p>If my memory holds, the opening acts for the show were The Frogs and Bad Religion. \u00a0I don&#8217;t really remember anything about The Frogs other than Jim DeRogatis tearing them apart on an episode of <em>Sound Opinions<\/em>. \u00a0Bad Religion put on a full-on set, performing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/bad-religion\/1995\/soldier-field-chicago-il-33d68489.html\" target=\"_blank\">17 songs<\/a>, 2 of which I&#8217;ve even heard of. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure if I did at the time, though.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl Jam came out and performed an astounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/pearl-jam\/1995\/soldier-field-chicago-il-4bd66332.html\" target=\"_blank\">29 song<\/a> set, including 2 encores. \u00a0My favorite memory of the night was during the performance of <em>Better Man<\/em>, when my friend Joe, not understanding the meaning of the song, said that all of the girls sang it about him, that they couldn&#8217;t find a better man.<\/p>\n<p>After the show, we had missed the last Orange Line train back to Midway, so we had to take the Archer bus down to Cicero and then walk back to the parking lot by the train station.<\/p>\n<p>The local alternative radio station, Q101, recorded the show and put it out on CD as a station giveaway, which put the concert out in the world to live forever. \u00a0I had a copy on cassette back when that was a thing and now have an MP3 version of the show. \u00a0Ironically, this was my last visit to old Soldier Field, which would be &#8220;renovated&#8221; in 2001 and 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Pearl Jam announced that they would try to put on a tour without using Ticketmaster, they had a lottery for tickets, and, thanks to my sister, I found myself with 2 tickets to the show. \u00a0With my friend Joe along for the ride, we headed out towards Soldier Field, taking the Orange Line from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[464,4229,4225,4226,4227,176,2084,2432,4230,4228,4224],"class_list":["post-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-bad-religion","tag-jim-derogatis","tag-joe","tag-midway-airport","tag-orange-line","tag-pearl-jam","tag-q101","tag-soldier-field","tag-sound-opinions","tag-the-frogs","tag-ticketmaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}