Jason
Location: Vancouver
Hometown: Vancouver
Connections in the Van: Whole Tour
# of Shows attended this tour: 17
Favorite Pearl Jam Album?
Yield, Live at Benaroya Hall
Favorite Bands beside Pearl Jam?
Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Led Zeppelin, Jack Johnson
What are some of your highlights from the shows you attended this tour?
Gorge: Hard To Imagine, Sad, Crown Of Thorns, Lowlight as the sun was setting
Vancouver: Release, Bee Girl, Footsteps, Alive
Saskatoon: I Got Shit, Porch with Ed in the 2nd row right infront of us
Winnipeg: Fuckin Up with Ed reading our sign
London: Doing the wave before the show and during the encores
Ottawa: Don't Give Me No Lip
Halifax: Breath, Down with a can of Keiths on top of Ed for the whole song
St Johns: Ed apparently giving us a shout out at the end
What are some of your favorite moments from this tour?
Vancouver show: everything before, during, and after
Partying in Edmonton starting from 2pm pre show, then rolling into the van parked across from the bar for the night at 3:30am post show
Waitress at Ricky's asking if we were the band
Saskatoon show
Swimming in Lake Superior
Ottawa jail hostel: Pearl Jam Sept 16
Montreal
Surfing in Halifax
Signing autographs and taking photo request from ladies at a hair salon convention in St John's
Jeff coming up to the Van and saying "Hey, the dodge ram made it" then signing it "St Johns or bust"
Meeting and speaking with Mike for a good chunk of time
Newfoundland
CCFC fundraisers
Meeting and partying with tons of new people and the same people along the way.
What are some of your favorite moments from riding in the van?
Seeing people try to read the van with a puzzled look, then going crazy and screaming afterwards
Sleeping in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn express, then using their shower and eating their breakfast in the morning, and them believing we're driving across the country to stay at every Holliday Inn express
Night drive through the prairies after saskatoon. What a night. (I'm still alive...)
Tailgating, especially in Kitchener and London
Drive to Ottawa on the way to Montreal (Vodka Rocks)
Travelling with all of the crew
Check mark ceremonies
All the honks from passing cars, and tour trucks
Additional Comments (by Stefan)
Jason is probably the main reason we ended up with the van we did. Through constant harassing Jason was able convinced his friend to sell us the van, and at a great deal. Jason took care of making sure the van was in proper driving condition, was the one who setup the TV and the Xbox, and came up with the brilliant idea to use hockey tape to decorate the van. So it was fitting that with everything Jason had done to the van he was also the one who drove it into the ditch!
Jason partied hard all tour but worked even harder. Jason always pushed for us to check out the different sights along the trip and by doing so made this a better trip for everyone.
