This article is translated from Eko Prabowo’s Facebook Note
Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, which could accommodate 56 thousand people, roaring with Gonna See My Friend when a black T-shirt rolled freely from the front row of spectators. The T-shirt was eventually fell on the lip of the stage, right between the legs of two most hunted men in Indonesia today, Eddie Vedder and Stone Gossard. T-shirts were printed in a line of prayer that have been uttered a dozen years: “Bring Pearl Jam to Indonesia!”
After traveling as far as 5200 km from Jakarta, eventually the black T-shirts came to the end of the road, meets its destiny.
So full of twists the road taken. Beginning in the form of an idea in PJ-Id, T-shirts were transformed through Egha, after previously crystallized in Iroel hand strokes. It was then flown to Melbourne through Nitto’s freight-forwarder aide, landed in the hands of Pheps who was waiting for a historic moment in his life, and ends at the toss of a big caucasian guy that Reza ask the favor to in Bugs.
Time will tell, if the black T-shirts will it be a sweet spot in history, or as an attempt in vain …
3-hour duration of the concert opens with Eldery Woman. It was a sweet greeting, since it’s been 3 years Pearl Jam last played in Melbourne.
- Elderly Woman
That’s Eddie. Living rock legend is to understand the emotional audience. Such an iconic figure, but it was very close to our heart, because it seems he’s always able to read what we feel.
Oh, when yes, I could shout the same message to them. I just want to scream, HELLLOOO!
I believe that night Pheps is flying in joy when Given to Fly was played, as well as our dreams of flying thousands of miles away to the Etihad Stadium, in the form of a black T-shirts.
He must also feel so alive, when along with tens of thousands of others jamily screaming Alive in front of the real Pearl Jam!
But little, tucked in his heart, perhaps as pangs of sadness of the pain in Black reminded him, that to this day, almost twenty years after the Pearl Jam exploded and became a worldwide phenomenon, have yet to visited Indonesia.
Professor Yohanes Surya, Ph.D, currently known as the founding father of Indonesian physics, explained the concept of “Mestakung” in a book: “When we have such a great desire, trying his best to achieve that desire, and always nurture a desire to discuss it in many parties, then the universe will make it happen for us. The Universe supports. Semesta mendukung. Mestakung. ”
Hilman and Reza had never imagined that the mailing lists they started separately will unite and grow in the future. Nothing in their minds that this pack will roll and drag thousands of people into it. They spill their deepest desires only to find friends with same faith. The pack of Lost Dogs.
We never expected that the mass media would be so kind to PJ-Id and exposed them to a broader audience. Tabloid, newspaper, radio, websites, to television.
We also certainly never thought that one day we will get an opportunity to convey the message “Bring Pearl Jam to Indonesia!”, directly to the party involved first-hand.
All flows as if it was a series of coincidence. Because the universe allows us. Because the universe supports.
So, keep moving friends, because the T-shirts’ dream, however ridiculous, maybe one day actually comes true.
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