This is a great band. Both their music and lyrics are awesome, plus all the band members are cool and intelligent people.
They're my favourite band, I think they deserve their own topic.
I actually don't care that much for Ten (which is generally considered their best, right?) but anyway, I like them a lot.
pearl jam and neil young was my first concert when i was 14, january 14th, 1995. it was on the vitalogy tour. also, i cant stand listening to ten ever, just like nevermind and core and anything else that has been so fucking overplayed on the radio for the past 10 years.
I think versus and yield are their best work (all of it is great anyway).
Yeah, mogwai, but thats about bootlegs... anyway I might as well share: I downloaded a cool bootleg: London 2.28.1992 It's kind of the same as the dissident albums but it has this cool dusty bootleg feeling and some very cool and funny interactions with the public. I also downloaded this year's Melbourne bootleg, its good as well.
Quote from: themodernage02pearl jam and neil young was my first concert when i was 14, january 14th, 1995. it was on the vitalogy tour. also, i cant stand listening to ten ever, just like nevermind and core and anything else that has been so fucking overplayed on the radio for the past 10 years.
I saw a show on this tour too...I was never a huge fan of them, but after seeing them, I have much more respect.....they put on a hell of a show and till this day probably one of the better concerts I have seen....
i really havent listened to them since yield came out. but they are a pretty good group. i saw them again at the tibetan freedom concert a few years later in wash dc. (i think that was the yield tour).
I'd say VS is probably my favorite PJ album, as it's just as good, or even better than Ten, which as has been said before, is massively overplayed.
I think Vitalogy is severly underrated as besides a few songs such as Rats, or Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me (cool title, bad song), the entire album is gold, especially Better Man, Nothingman and Immortality, which all rank up just as good as anything on Ten.
As for everything after Vitalogy, it's hit and miss. You could probably take the best songs of each of their later releases and put out maybe one, one and a half solid album.
I think Vitalogy is my favorite... but after they did that retarded shit with releasing all those "bootlegs" I lost almost all respect for them.
Nick
Quote from: TheVoiceOfNickI think Vitalogy is my favorite... but after they did that retarded shit with releasing all those "bootlegs" I lost almost all respect for them.
Nick
why?, I would get them anyway. This way they get the money instead of some bootlegger with a mini disk. The bootlegs are awesome, by the way.
Quote from: rustinglasswhy?, I would get them anyway. This way they get the money instead of some bootlegger with a mini disk. The bootlegs are awesome, by the way.
Kinda takes away the definition of "bootleg" though, people should not charge nor make money off live music.....hey, at least they tired to tell Ticketmaster to go fuck themselves....too bad it didn't work.
Man... I'm the only person who likes "No Code" the best. "Hail Hail", "Present Tense", "Smile"... great songs. I think this is the album that best combines their straight-forward punkish side with their experimental rock side.
no code is brilliant! I like in my tree very much, it emphasizes how great a drummer jack irons is. Also, in touring band 2000, there is a feature called matt cameron camera or something, and you can see only the drummer through the entire in my tree. it's excellent.
clockwork:
The bootleg releasing made possible for a lot of people to hear the concerts they missed, including me, I sadly could not go to Lisbon at the time.
I honestly don't think it was a big marketing scheme (well of course it was). I heard that they opened the doors of some concerts in europe half-way trough the show, for people who couldn't get tickets. Also, I didn't see any other than the portuguese bootleg for sale around here.
mogwai:
YES, 20 years more!
Hands down Pearl Jam is my favorite band. Every single album they have made is quality stuff. People tend too shrug them of b/c the later albums do not sound like "ten". They should be given more praise for what they do.
Examples:
1.They never sell-out in trerms of hearing their songs in commercials (unlike Moby)
2. They play straight up "rock n' roll" ...this genre is a dying trend now mainly b/c of limb bizkit ushering the horrid rap metal era which still exist today..Pearl Jam never went to this style even at its peak and tried to experiment w/ rap metal..They play muusic that is true to the once-popular rock n' roll
3.They don't over exspose themselves..they are hardly on the covers of mass media magazines (rollingstone and spin e.g.)..And when you see them on the cover or find out that hav e done an interview in one...It is like a breath of freash air from all the media hog bands out there..And when they are interviewed only intelligent and insightfull ideas and words come out of their mouths.
4. regardless of what you think about eddie vedder(in terms of politcal beliefs et al) he at least speaks out for his feelings and cares for his fans ..here are two reasons for this..4a)he tried his best to fight the whole ticketmaster mogul too keep fans from paying exspensive tickets prices...4b)all of those bootleg shows theykeep releasing are fan mail from the band You don't see korn or others doing that do you?!!!!
5.enough said!
my personel bests:
1. ten-
best song:PORCH(great lyrics and love the way the song builds up after the solo)
2. vs.-
best song-ANIMAL(an all out rocker)
3. vitalogy-
best song-IMMORTALITY(beautiful song....and haunting..the best of the last songs on their albums IMO..on all of their albums the last song is usually a slower paced song and this one is the best)
4. no code-
best song:PRESENT TENSE(once again the phreak'n lyrics great stuff. and the ending jam is funky man)
5.yield
best song:IN HIDING(this song demostrates his range in the vocal department from low to high ...and wwhen he reaches the high notes you are dead if it doesnot give you the chills)
6. binural
best song:NOTHING AS IT SEEMS(the guitar is awesome such a great song it has cool vibe about ..definately should check this out)
7. riot act
best song:YOU ARE(this song has a trippy vibe about very cool stuff the line which he says..."love is a tower ......" he singing it in such a ghostly maner that hammers down the haunting lements in this song ...highly recommended song-i think it has replaced porch as my sall time favorite!)
So...also i think that PJ got pushed under the rug when nirvana
:roll: rolled into the scene..and EVERYone jumped on the bandwagon leaving Pearl Jam alone making their own music which..if you compare the two bands PJ beats them out in every way for example:
a. cobain is not a great singer his voice is not as good as vedders(comepare the song smells like teen spirit to PJ's black)...check one for PJ under vocals
b.the drummer and bass player are not the god either in terms of playing music and don't even think about cobain as a guitar player :roll: McCready had shades of Jimi and Ament is simply badass and they are even stronger b/c of ex-Soungarden drummer Matt Cameron..the musician talent level is much higher on PJ...check two for musician talent
c.this is the ONLY level that Nirvana has reached(get it :lol: )..by that i mean both eddie and cobain write awesome lyrics...check one for nirvana and three for PJ under lyrics.
I am not hating on Nirvana i like them and i feel sorry for the suicide of Cobain :( it is VERY sad. I miss him and hearing that un-released song "you know you're right" only makes me feel sadder. Nirvana is/was a great band..It is just i hated the fact that b/c of nirvana and the media hype a very underrated pearl jam band were left cold ..and it is not fair (but..life is like that and i can accept it)...the good thing about the fans jumping of pearl jam and flocking to nirvana is that the ones that remain w/Pearl Jam form a stronger bond w/the band and know that the band is not a media whore and just plays great rock'n roll like it has/is/was/needs/will and always be ..If you made a mixed tape/cd of the "best songs" you will become a fan for life....TURN it UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
edit:the band deserves TWO TOPICS so please don't lock this Thank You
YEAH! That's it, Mercury! Fans for life! Pearl Jam fans unite! make bonds!
(cannot give car)
I'm sorry, I don't know how to use the quote thing that Xixax has, but someone said:
:2. They play straight up "rock n' roll" ...this genre is a dying trend now mainly b/c of limb bizkit ushering the horrid rap metal era which still exist today..Pearl Jam never went to this style even at its peak and tried to experiment w/ rap metal..They play muusic that is true to the once-popular rock n' roll "
That isn't entirely true. On the Judgement Night soundtrack, Pearl Jam does a song with Cypress Hill called Real Thing that is pretty much rap metal (I'm can't remember if Eddie is on the track, but everyone else in the band is.)
yeah, that's true. I have this soundtrack. I never really liked Cypress Hill, I don't particularly like that track, but there is one with Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth alled I Love You Mary Jane, it's kind of a psychedelic Bob Marley-ish experimental rock rap, That's my favourite track.
I never saw the movie, is it any good?
Just depends on your preference. I've heard people say they liked it. I thought it sucked, but the soundtrack is decent if you're into that type of music.
My favorite song on the soundtrack is the Mudhoney, Sir Mix-A-Lot song.
As for songs with Mary Jane in the title, the one on the soundtrack isn't bad, but Rick James has a song called Mary Jane that is awesome (if you like his style)
I like I love you Mary Jane because that kind of crossing of musical styles rarely works and it works pretty good in that track
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a. cobain is not a great singer his voice is not as good as vedders(comepare the song smells like teen spirit to PJ's black)...check one for PJ under vocals
You're right, Eddie is a better singer. But you know who's even better? Celine Dion. She should sing for Pearl Jam. Forget about what actually works with the music style, just get the best singer you can
Quote from: tremoloslothQuote from: NEON MERCURY
a. cobain is not a great singer his voice is not as good as vedders(comepare the song smells like teen spirit to PJ's black)...check one for PJ under vocals
You're right, Eddie is a better singer. But you know who's even better? Celine Dion. She should sing for Pearl Jam. Forget about what actually works with the music style, just get the best singer you can
Haha! I totally agree... it all depends on the style... I can't imagine anyone but Kurt singing his songs... Each style is different and each has its virtues.
Nick
Quote from: m©gwaiQuote from: TheVoiceOfNickI can't imagine anyone but Kurt singing his songs.
i can, tori amos did a good job out of "smells like teen spirit".
I didn't know about that, that's my next download. thanks.
Quote from: m©gwaisome dude sings (it ain't tricky) "something in the way" on this brilliant album:
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That's Hawkman singing...and I agree; that is a great album.
thanks mogwai :-D
And thank god for edonkey2000 :wink:
Man...on the "(c)rap-metal" thing i mentioned earlier .I was purely stating that
PEARL JAM HAS NEVER CHANGED THEIR SOUND FOR A ALBUM TO SELL RECORDS AND KEEP UP W/THE CURRENT SOUND(or noise i.e. rap-metal)
the judgement night thing was just ONE song for a soundtrack nothing more.
I would have been comepletely wrong if an entire album sounded in the same vein as that song in question....but i don't think that making one COLLABORATED (key word) song is deemed saying "gee... Pearl Jam has changed their sound to rap-metal"...
TREMOLOSLOTH:...whats up by-the-way....... 8) ..I was just comparing those two bands in terms of head to head talent...but i know what you mean :wink:
Quote from: TheVoiceOfNickI think Vitalogy is my favorite... but after they did that retarded shit with releasing all those "bootlegs" I lost almost all respect for them.
Nick
i'm confused...you'd rather pay $40 for a crappy sounding unofficial bootleg that some dude taped from the 26th row than pay $12 for an official bootleg recorded off the soundboard?
that penn state show might be the best pj show ever. i have the boots for melbourne, champaign, st. lou, chicago, boston 3 (47 songs including an acoustic pre set before the opening band!), and a few others.
about the boston shows...they played three nights (i believe upwards of 95 songs) w/ NO repeats. name another band that could do that!
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about the boston shows...they played three nights (i believe upwards of 95 songs) w/ NO repeats. name another band that could do that!
Not to be a smartass, but I could probably name at least ten right off hand.
What I find to be more impressive is that they played around 90 songs, averaging to about 30 songs a night, which is probably about a 2 hour show (at least) when you add in talk time between songs, which I've heard Eddie loves to do, and when you add "guitar jam" time into the songs, which Stone Gossard loves to do.
What's really awesome about Pearl Jam live is that you never know what song they're going to in corporate into one of their sons.
I've heard Daughter played lived with bits and pieces of American Pie, Neil Young's Hey Hey My My and the Wall thrown in all at different times. That's always a cool bonus.
I'll probably catch major hell for bringing his name up, buit Kid Rock is pretty cool in that regard too in concert.
Quote from: OmegaSlackerI'll probably catch major hell for bringing his name up, buit Kid Rock is pretty cool in that regard too in concert.
MAJOR HELL!! :twisted: (you've officially caught it)
aw
Quote from: OmegaSlackerI'll probably catch major hell for bringing his name up, buit Kid Rock is pretty cool in that regard too in concert.
HELL, Slacker! what's wrong with you?!
I knew it! I knew hell "would strike down upon me with great vengeance and furios anger" for mentioning Kid Rock. I'm not saying you have to appreciate his music, but he's a good showman at least. Oh well, can't win 'em all.
Quote from: NEON MERCURYSo...also i think that PJ got pushed under the rug when nirvana
:roll: rolled into the scene..and EVERYone jumped on the bandwagon leaving Pearl Jam alone making their own music which..if you compare the two bands PJ beats them out in every way for example:
I'm not going to argue who's the better band, Pearl Jam or Nirvana, because it is Pearl Jam (had Nirvana had a longer career, maybe an arguement could be made), but Pearl Jam did not get pushed under a rug when Nirvana arrived. Nirvana kicked the door down for Pearl Jam to be noticed. Not to say that Pearl Jam was riding Nirvana's coattails, not a by a long shot. Pearl Jam has the talent to be noticed on their own, but Smells Like Teen Spirit is what got the wave of early 90s rock started in the mainstream.
One "knock" that I have against Pearl Jam is that a couple of their better songs Yellow Ledbetter and Footsteps aren't widely available. Granted, in this age of any song being fairly easy to get due to P2P software, it's not that bad, but you'd think two of the best songs a band has released would be easier for someone without internet connection to get.
Eddie does a damn good cover of Jackson Browne's "I am a patriot" as well. Then again, all of Eddie's covers are great. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, and then Masters of War with Mike McCready at Dylan's 30th anniversary show. Good stuff.
Quote from: OmegaSlackerOne "knock" that I have against Pearl Jam is that a couple of their better songs Yellow Ledbetter and Footsteps aren't widely available. Granted, in this age of any song being fairly easy to get due to P2P software, it's not that bad, but you'd think two of the best songs a band has released would be easier for someone without internet connection to get.
you can find them both on this single
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Quote from: rustinglassyou can find them both on this single
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Yeah, I actually own that single, but that single still isn't in wide release (not anymore anyway). I've had the single for a long time (I also have the songs in a Pearl Jam box set I bought), but it took a bit of hunting down to find.
The PJ box set I have is awesome. It's called Hallucinogenic Recipe and it features a ton of shit over five discs. Anyone have it/heard of it? If you can find it, it's worth picking up.
CD#1 - Mother Love Bone: Studio Master Demos
Tru Fade Away/Savoy Fare Slide/Waiting For You/Stardog Champion/Chloe Dancer/Half Ass Monkey/Dream Come True/Gentle Groove/Greasy(She's So)/Heartshine/Untitled/ Ever Kissed A Lady/Holly Roller/These R No Blues/ Playground/Savoy Fare Slide/Country Shmoe & The Fist/Rhapsody In Chartreuse
CD#2 - Green River 1st demos
New God/Tunnel Of Love/Untitled/Leech/Twist/Fear/Baby Help Me../33 rps
Stone Gossard demos
New God/Wierd A (Animal)/Richard E/E Ballad (Black)/Wreck/Pushin Forward Back/The King (Evenflow)
CD#3 - Eddie Vedder solo demos
Just Wanted You To Know/What Do You Want/Believe/Live/ Stand By
(A very early recording of Better Man)/It's Just A Book/Just Wanted You To Know (2nd version)/What The Fuck Is Up/I'm Alive, How's That/Broken Down/What The Fuck Is Up (2nd version)/Believe (2nd version)/I'm Alive, How's That (2nd version)/I Don't Know
Eddie with the Doors at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Roadhouse Blues/Break On Through/Light My Fire
With Stone at the Bob Dylan Tribute
Master Of War (Bob Dylan tribute)
CD#4 - Outtakes
Let Me Sleep/Rambling 1
Ten Outtakes
Wash (remix)/Dirty Frank/Oceans (1st mix)/Footsteps/Yellow Ledbetter/Release/Alive/ Breath/State Of Love And Trust
VS. Outtakes
The Whipping/Don't Need/Hard To Imagine/Girl/Alone/Mystery
CD#5 - Live at The Aladdin, Las Vegas 01/12/93
Animal/Why Go/Jeremy/Glorified G/Daughter/Evenflow (with Urge Overkill & Mudhoney)/Garden/Blood/State Of Love And Trust/Porch/Rearview Mirror/Alone/Rockin In A Free World/Indifference.
BONUS
Leach (San Francisco 28/10/93)/Crazy Mary (New Orleans 17/11/93 - with Victoria Williams)
damn....omega that box set looks sweet
I didn't know that girl was a VS outtake. I think that they were playing that one back when they were called mookie blaylock
Quote from: rustinglassI didn't know that girl was a VS outtake. I think that they were playing that one back when they were called mookie blaylock
I'm not sure when they wrote that song. I just copied the songs the were they were listed on the CDs in the set and the CD those songs were on were called Outtakes and split into Ten and VS
Man...of all Pearl Jam's studio albums rate them 1-7 (one being your fav. of them all...7 being your least fav. even though all of them kick ass!)...pick five highlights also...
7. binural-i think this is still a solid album... but not by fav.
highlights-grievance, rival, light years, nothing as it seems,insignificance
6.vs.-a great second effort-.....highlights-daughter, animal, indifference,go,w.m.a.
5.vitalogy-this is an album of 1/2(classics) and 1/2(obscures)...highlights-last exit, immortality, betterman, nothingman, corduroy
4.yield-what i like about this album is that it is varied musically...highlights-in hiding, no way,mfc, all those yesterdays, do the evolution
3.no code-very aptly titled...very strange album...highlights...present tense, hail hail, sometimes, habit , in my tree
2.riot act-then one blew me away upon first hearing very solid..they just keep on going man...highlights-you are, all or none, ghost, save you, love boat captian
1.TEN-the one that started it all...if it wasn't for the impact of this one then there would be no vs., vitalogy, no code, yield, binural, riot act......highlights-porch, black, garden, even flow, alive
man that was hard
When I was in high school, one of my best friends used to listen to "Garden" from TEN to pump himself up before a football game.
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Content
Main footage ?
Love Boat Captain 7.8.03 New York, NY
Evolution 4.23.03 Champaign, IL
Spin The Black Circle 4.28.03 Philadelphia, PA
*Save You 3.3.03 Tokyo, JAP
Ghost 5.28.03 Missoula, MT
Gimme Some Truth 6.7.03 Phoenix, AZ
*Green Disease>Not For You 2.16.03 Adelaide, AUS
Light Years 6.18.03 Chicago, IL
Present Tense 4.30.03 Uniondale, NY
*1/2 Full 2.8.03 Brisbane, AUS
Insignificance 2.20.03 Melbourne, AUS
*Blood 7.5.03 Camden, NJ
Thumbing My Way 5.30.03 Vancouver, BC
*Immortality 2.11.03 Sydney, AUS
Indifference 7.8.03 New York, NY**
Baba O?Riley 5.2.03 Buffalo, NY
........ :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: .i hope this turns out to be legit........THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO ARONOFSKY'S THE FOUNTAIN.to me......the songs i qouted would be so freaking sweet to see live......especially indifference that song is brilliant................thanks mogwai..........
Check this out.... 8)
..I went into best buy just brows'n and in the Pearl jam section I saw and immediately purchased this:
Pearl Jam live: New York, New York July 8th and July 9th 2003 5 disc Set....for ONLY $24.99
disc. 1
love boat captian
last exit
save you
green disease
in my tree
cropduster
even flow
gimme some truth
i am mine
low light
faithful
wishlist
disc. 2
lukin
grievance
1/2 full
black
spin the black circle
rvm
encore break
you are
thumbing my way
daughter *
disc. 3
CROWN OF THORNS
breath
betterman
do the evolution
encore break
crazy mary
indifference *
SONIC REDUCER
baba o'riley
yellow ledbetter
...ends july 8th show
disc. 4
crazy mary
save you
hail hail
whipping
corduroy
red mosquito
dissident
i am mine
get right
given to fly
evacuation
even flow
i believe in miracles
untitled
mfc
deep
PRESENT TENSE
disc. 5
nothingman
STATE OF LOVE AND TRUST
porch
encore break
you've got to hide your love away
small town
glorified g
all or none
do the evolution
alive
encore break
go
know your rightd
rockin' in the free world
yellow ledbetter
...ends july 9th show
* w/ ben harper
..As you can see this is freak'n amazing... ..pick it up!
I envy you, my friend.
I've got an mp3 of eddie telling a guy in the audience who threw a coin at him to go fuck himself :P
JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER FOR US....pearl Jam fans ...
thanks for the info......
watch the trailer (http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/chords/framex.html) for the upcoming release of the pearl jam live dvd "live at the garden". enjoy!
excellent!
will the release be worldwide?
I've only liked a handful of Pearl Jam songs, but the one at the end of Big Fish is great...especially in context with the movie.
Quote from: GhostboyI've only liked a handful of Pearl Jam songs.
Evenflow (yes, the song) was the erection and orgasm for their entire career IMO. And one of the guitar players even admitted he distinctly tried to imitate Stevie Ray Vaughn's style on that song. Pearl Jam made a mark but w/o any substantial longevity. Their niche was the time it came about. I saw them on SNL twice and they really couldn't do it live....it was embarrassingly bad.
And Rolling Stone was quoted as claiming they would be the next Led Zep.......same as what they said about Guns N Roses. R&R burnout bands is what they became and they went up in a flash.
Quote from: freakerdudeEvenflow (yes, the song) was the erection and orgasm for their entire career IMO. And one of the guitar players even admitted he distinctly tried to imitate Stevie Ray Vaughn's style on that song. Pearl Jam made a mark but w/o any substantial longevity. Their niche was the time it came about. I saw them on SNL twice and they really couldn't do it live....it was embarrassingly bad.
And Rolling Stone was quoted as claiming they would be the next Led Zep.......same as what they said about Guns N Roses. R&R burnout bands is what they became and they went up in a flash.
since their breakthrough they've moved on from being a in your face 24 7 to a normal rock n roll band. you should never trust what a corporate rock magazine writes. if they predicted in 91 that pearl jam would be the next led zeppelin.. then nirvana would be the next black sabbath. it doesn't make any sense. burnout bands are the once who continue making shit records and do everything to squeeze out the last dollars. pearl jam is not one of those, rent 'touring band 2000' and 'live at the garden" and watch a band who's in top form. pearl jam has survived all the nasty fuck up bands and those who thought they could make more than one album. i hate when people who dismiss music that they listened to years ago. and that they would never give it a chance. they're too afraid to penetrate the surface to see what's in store. to experience pearl jam you had to be there from the start. on every album there songs who's as orgasmic as even flow. is stevie ray vaughn the best guitarist ever? from which guitarist do you think he borrowed his own style? and in which way could steve prevent mike mccready (the excellent lead guitarist) from stealing his licks? try digging up his grave and make the corpse of the former guitarist play the guitar again. good luck. thank you. keep on rockin in the free world.
some of your friends are already this fucked. (http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/problemwithmusic.html)
Quote from: freakerdudeQuote from: GhostboyI've only liked a handful of Pearl Jam songs.
Evenflow (yes, the song) was the erection and orgasm for their entire career IMO. And one of the guitar players even admitted he distinctly tried to imitate Stevie Ray Vaughn's style on that song. Pearl Jam made a mark but w/o any substantial longevity. Their niche was the time it came about. I saw them on SNL twice and they really couldn't do it live....it was embarrassingly bad.
And Rolling Stone was quoted as claiming they would be the next Led Zep.......same as what they said about Guns N Roses. R&R burnout bands is what they became and they went up in a flash.
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mogwai is right on and would likek to add:
1.0 how can you consider PJ A BURN OUT BAND???
--because most burn out bands cannot play at MSG......and other huge venues....or contiue go on and make quality music.....
2.0 while evenflow was/is a great song their catalog has much to offer..youi might be the type of guy that listen to ten and maybe vs. and thought the rest sucked b/c you never bothered to keep on list'ning
3.0 stevie ray vaughn was not the main influence overe mccready's style..its hendrix.....
4.0 WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER 'SUBSTANTIAL LONGEVITY'????
5.0 what do you mean they really couldn't do it live....??
of you want borrow/buy touring band 2000 or live at the garden....
you can even listen to the one song you only know..(even flow)..buy i suggest for that song the live at the garden has a nasty solo by mccready..best i have ever heard in that song....
Quote from: NEON MERCURY3.0 stevie ray vaughn was not the main influence overe mccready's style..its hendrix.....
5.0 what do you mean they really couldn't do it live....??
of you want borrow/buy touring band 2000 or live at the garden....
you can even listen to the one song you only know..(even flow)..buy i suggest for that song the live at the garden has a nasty solo by mccready..best i have ever heard in that song....
I only meant he said Evenflow's style was dedicated to SRV's....only that song and not his careers style.
I just thought the two SNL performances weren't up to par for them. I can't say I have heard them on any DVD or audio CD during a live show.
Pearl Jam started out great and have continued to occasionally release good songs.
I don't hate them, I just think that they took an avenue that wasn't my flavor (pseudo-pretentious vibe-rock)... I haven't really followed them that much to remark on thier career post-Morrison wannabe era, does Vedder continue to use the word "windowsill" in the later albums?
damn! I can't find lost dogs nor live at the garden anywhere!
:cry: :cry:
Quote from: rustinglassdamn! I can't find lost dogs nor live at the garden anywhere!
:cry: :cry:
don't you have amazon or something? like a decent cd or dvd store on the net?
:( I don't have a credit card....
I'm gonna ask my brother...
Quote from: rustinglass:( I don't have a credit card....
I'm gonna ask my brother...
no, don't do that! i advice you to only buy shit at amazon.com that you can't find in portugal. what i mean was that if you had a 'netshop in portugal?
Quote from: mogwaiyou should never trust what a corporate rock magazine writes. if they predicted in 91 that pearl jam would be the next led zeppelin.. then nirvana would be the next black sabbath. it doesn't make any sense.
is stevie ray vaughn the best guitarist ever? from which guitarist do you think he borrowed his own style? and in which way could steve prevent mike mccready (the excellent lead guitarist) from stealing his licks? try digging up his grave and make the corpse of the former guitarist play the guitar again. good luck. thank you. keep on rockin in the free world.
I actually thought PJ and GNR could have turned out to be much more than what they became.
I never said SRV was the best and never said MM "stole" the licks. He said he loved SRV's style so much that it was his form of an SRV dedication. SRV's main influence was Albert King and not Jimi Hendrix like everyone thinks. To even say something like digging up a man's grave is fucking ridiculous. Voodoo Chile baby!
QuoteI just thought the two SNL performances weren't up to par for them. I can't say I have heard them on any DVD or audio CD during a live show
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two words...sample size.
there's an exciting easter egg on the "live at the garden" dvd:
1. Hunger Strike live in Mexico
On DVD remote choose TITLE SEARCH
Select "Title 2"
yeah, I saw that, who the hell is that chick? She CANNOT sing a single note right. Was eddie drunk or high or what?
Quote from: rustinglassyeah, I saw that, who the hell is that chick? She CANNOT sing a single note right.
that's corin tucker from sleater-kinney, they opened for pearl jam throughout the whole tour. i think they're a punk band or something. i guess she can sing a little but eddie had to sing chris cornell's parts. go figure.
Quote from: rustinglassWas eddie drunk or high or what?
high? no. drunk? it's possible, at every gig there's a bottle of wine beside his mikestand. i guess it's a way of letting go of stage fright. you've seen the show on the dvd, he takes a sip now and then. it's not like he's shitfaced and ruins every song. erm, actually, that has happened. not every song though. :yabbse-grin:
Pearl Jam rules. Simple as that.
Sure that is only my opinion, but MY opinion is right. 8)
They are my favorite band. I love them to death.
(This is my first post. This calls for a celebration)
just a small update on how the band looks today. this photo was taken at an award ceremony where pearl jam was given a 2004 impact award.
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from left to right: jeff ament, stone gossard, mike mccready, matt cameron, unknown, unknown, eddie vedder, unknown.
Quote from: mogwaifrom left to right: jeff ament, stone gossard, mike mccready, matt cameron, unknown, unknown, eddie vedder, unknown angelo badalamenti.
Quote from: Pubrickangelo badalamenti
really? nah... is it really him? weird.
haha, i don't know. his fat twin possibly.
haha...... i just got pubrick'd.
It looks like matt is grabbing mike's ass
Quote from: rustinglassIt looks like matt is grabbing mike's ass
okay, it looks like the angelo badalamenti clone is groping eddie's ass.
Quote from: mogwai
okay, it looks like the angelo badalamenti clone is groping eddie's ass.
yeah, and jeff is getting ready to punch him in the face
So what. I'd grab all their asses.
me and eddie= in love 8)
The new live album is great.
Quote from: rustinglassThe new live album is great.
you mean this one, right?
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how does "lukin" sound acoustic?
Hopefully I'll be seeing them in Reading, PA on the Vote For Change Tour. I got an email from the Ten Club a few days ago, tickets are $50. I'd pay anything to see my lovely Pearl Jam though.
Tickets best not sell out before I get my hands on one or this bitch will be pissed ~!
Quote from: mogwai
how does "lukin" sound acoustic?
oops, I didn't see this question untill now. Well, lukin sounds pretty crazy, but it's a mere joke, it's like 30 seconds long.
Quote from: BethieHopefully I'll be seeing them in Reading, PA on the Vote For Change Tour. I got an email from the Ten Club a few days ago, tickets are $50. I'd pay anything to see my lovely Pearl Jam though.
Tickets best not sell out before I get my hands on one or this bitch will be pissed ~!
I'm psyched! My friend, who is also in the Ten Club, just called to let me know we have tickets for that show.
Quote from: hacksparrowQuote from: BethieHopefully I'll be seeing them in Reading, PA on the Vote For Change Tour. I got an email from the Ten Club a few days ago, tickets are $50. I'd pay anything to see my lovely Pearl Jam though.
Tickets best not sell out before I get my hands on one or this bitch will be pissed ~!
I'm psyched! My friend, who is also in the Ten Club, just called to let me know we have tickets for that show.
Yay! Me too!
Where are your seats?
Quote from: BethieQuote from: hacksparrowQuote from: BethieHopefully I'll be seeing them in Reading, PA on the Vote For Change Tour. I got an email from the Ten Club a few days ago, tickets are $50. I'd pay anything to see my lovely Pearl Jam though.
Tickets best not sell out before I get my hands on one or this bitch will be pissed ~!
I'm psyched! My friend, who is also in the Ten Club, just called to let me know we have tickets for that show.
Yay! Me too!
Where are your seats?
Don't know yet. I think my friend said they're kind of far back but this place is supposed to hold only 7000 people so the seats can't be THAT bad. I saw them at Madison Square Garden in July of 2003 (not the show on the DVD, the next night... I'd have been upset but it was the only time they played Alive, Free World, and Know Your Rights that night so I can't complain) and our seats were decent but I don't imagine that crappy seats at the Sovereign Center would be any worse than having mediocre seats at a big stadium show.
Rumor has it that Senator Bob Roberts is going to warm up the audience before Death Cab goes on.
last year, pearl jam played at the mellon arena in the pa state. and they could've played there again to attract more people due to the cause. but i guess they want more of a intimate show and i'm guessing the show will be semi unplugged. just guessing. have a great night!
My friend's unbelievable luck (skill?) with tickets continues! I don't know how he did it but he did it. We're on the floor now for the Reading show!
Where are your seats, Bethie? (Sorry if I'm pre-emptively rubbing it in.)
And Bob Roberts is definitely opening before Death Cab for Cutie. I have to keep an eye out for Jack Black in a trenchcoat in the audience. :wink:
Quote from: hacksparrowWhere are your seats, Bethie? (Sorry if I'm pre-emptively rubbing it in.)
She's delusional, actually. She didn't get tickets.
^Shut up you.
Hacksparrow- I'm on the floor. Section 7. Row 00. Seat 10.
:!:
:arrow: Pearl Jam will be performing on Letterman THIS THURSDAY NIGHT.
Pearl Jam sends a very convincing message
By Tom Kielty, Globe Correspondent | September 29, 2004
Let it never be said that Pearl Jam is not a band of the people.
Their performance at the FleetCenter last night, the first of two in Boston in anticipation of a seven-date "Vote for Change" tour that will lead into the presidential election, was quite simply a show of force. This is a band without a record label, operating on their own terms, and they continue to deliver powerful and thoughtful ideas.
From the first strains of "Release," which was the first massive sing-a-long of the set, it was obvious the band had the capacity crowd on its side. Crashing without comment into "Last Exit," from the group's punkiest effort, "Vitalogy," it was immediately clear that they planned on taking no prisoners in advance of their most political tour.
Singer Eddie Vedder set an early tone with solo renditions of Cat Stevens's "Don't Be Shy" and the Beatles' "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away," but the band's set took off with a punchy rendition of Steve Forbert's "The American In Me." Following with their own, "Insignificance," with the refrain of "Bombs, dropping down" echoed by the partisan audience, Pearl Jam managed to incorporate their antiwar ideology without brow beating, a truly rare feat.
Print deadlines resulted in an early departure, but the energy of guitarist Mike McCready on the pulsing "Do the Evolution" spoke highly for what was to come. Prior to the song, Vedder spoke about the pleasure of playing "Boston proper" again (as opposed to the suburban confines of Mansfield's Tweeter Center, which has hosted the band as of late) as well as congratulating the Red Sox on securing a playoff berth. Sox general manager Theo Epstein could be seen good-naturedly accepting congratulations from the side of the stage before the set.
The band had already thrashed through a version of "Dissident" that found the crowd easily as loud as Vedder. This was one of the showcases for drummer Matt Cameron, whose athleticism on the skins when locked in with bassist Jeff Ament truly demonstrates why this is a band that continues to mature.
When speaking of maturation, one need look no further than opening act Death Cab For Cutie, who might possibly be the best band that mainstream American audiences have yet to embrace. The Seattle-based outfit has escaped the indie rock ghetto as a result of high exposure on the television series "The O.C." and their set was outstanding. Highlights included "The New Year" (ironically the first song played this year on local alternative station WFNX) and the gorgeous "Transatlanticism" with the sentiment "She is beautiful, but she don't mean a thing to me."
Actor/activist Tim Robbins followed Vedder's introductory solo performance with his act, Gob Roberts, an extenuation of the folkie politican he played in the film "Bob Roberts." If nothing else, he earned smiles by dedicating "Drugs Suck" to those in attendance who might have been artificially enhanced.
I love that band so much.
QuoteThe band had already thrashed through a version of "Dissident" that found the crowd easily as loud as Vedder.
us Pearl Jam fans rule. 8) haha, one of my silly dreams is to see PJ play Jeremy live just so I can be in the crowd when he says, "Arms raised in a V" and the whole audience raises their arms. yeah. I want to be part of that. someday.
Quote from: mogwaiWhen speaking of maturation, one need look no further than opening act Death Cab For Cutie, who might possibly be the best band that mainstream American audiences have yet to embrace
gross. death cab's boring...
Quote from: BethieI love that band so much. us Pearl Jam fans rule. 8) haha, one of my silly dreams is to see PJ play Jeremy live just so I can be in the crowd when he says, "Arms raised in a V" and the whole audience raises their arms. yeah. I want to be part of that. someday.
or:
wishlist: "i wish i was the grounds for fifty million hands up raised and opened toward the sky", the crowd raises both their hands in the sky.
small town: "i just want to scream...hello...", the crowd sings HELLO!!!
bugs: when the crowd just stands there puzzled.
Quote from: BethieI love that band so much.
QuoteThe band had already thrashed through a version of "Dissident" that found the crowd easily as loud as Vedder.
us Pearl Jam fans rule. 8) haha, one of my silly dreams is to see PJ play Jeremy live just so I can be in the crowd when he says, "Arms raised in a V" and the whole audience raises their arms. yeah. I want to be part of that. someday.
Have you never seen them live before? You might get your wish tomorrow night. You
are still going to the Reading show, right? (dumb question)
Quote from: Pedro the Alpaca
gross. death cab's boring...
can't agree more. why does everybody love this group so much?
I'm old... so I like boring music.
Pearl Jam needs to stop doing stuff or change thier name and start over... I can't bring myself to give them another chance... they're so inconsistant...it's not worth my time.
Quotesmall town: "i just want to scream...hello...", the crowd sings HELLO!!!
I was part of that before.
Quote from: hacksparrowQuote from: BethieI love that band so much.
QuoteThe band had already thrashed through a version of "Dissident" that found the crowd easily as loud as Vedder.
us Pearl Jam fans rule. 8) haha, one of my silly dreams is to see PJ play Jeremy live just so I can be in the crowd when he says, "Arms raised in a V" and the whole audience raises their arms. yeah. I want to be part of that. someday.
Have you never seen them live before? You might get your wish tomorrow night. You are still going to the Reading show, right? (dumb question)
I saw them in Buffalo, NY. May 03.
about the Reading show... I don't have a way of transportation. and no one seems to care.
:cry: :cry: :cry:
:(
did anyone see them at letterman?
Quote from: mogwaidid anyone see them at letterman?
yes. they played masters of war. it was good.
on a semi-related note, what the FUCj was up with john goodman the other nite? disturbing stuff.
Quote from: Pubrickwhat the FUCj was up with john goodman the other nite? disturbing stuff.
what happened?
i saw them play Masters of War. i thought they played well and Vedder sounded great. is this song off of the Farenheit 9/11 soundtrack (Letterman mentioned it before they played)?
is this a direct stab at Bush. i mean, i'm all for people liking or disliking political figures and having the right to speak out about it (isn't this what is great about the USA?), but to wish death on them........that's a bit extreme.
but then again, maybe i misunderstood the lyrics.
if someone could link me to the lyrics or give their interpretation i would be thankful.
big ideas (is having trouble getting one)
lyrics for masters of war, dylan:
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're deadi think the death referred to in the last part is a figurative one in this case. if it was directed at bush (obviously), then his death would be the end of his political career, not getting elected.
on the other hand, if it is taken literally along with everything else, in the context of the song it's just a character being justifiably angry. from the liner notes of the original release:
Quote from: Whoever wrote the liner notes on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"Masters of War" startles Dylan himself. "I've never really written anything like that before," he recalls. "I don't sing songs which hope people will die, but I couldn't help it in this one. The song is a sort of striking out, a reaction to the last straw, a feeling of what can you do?" The rage (which is as much anguish as it is anger) is a away of catharsis, a way of getting temporary relief from the heavy feeling of impotence that affects many who cannot understand a civilization which juggles it's own means for oblivion and calls that performance an act toward peace.
besides, hoping sumthing never did anything except for the person hoping.
Quote from: meatwadQuote from: Pubrickwhat the FUCj was up with john goodman the other nite? disturbing stuff.
what happened?
one of the worst interviews ever. they alotted two guests spots just for him, as they do when a reasonably interesting person comes along. but it all went horribly wrong.
my guess is that he's going through sum sort of Jerry Lewis disease treatment, and if he is then it's all good. otherwise.. well, letterman had to cut the interview short and bring Tom Waits (musical guest) to talk for a segment. so at least sum good came out of it.
i'm avoiding explaining what happened, the less said about it the better.
i didn't know it was a Dylan song, so thanks. it makes much more sense now. my conclusion wasn't from leftfield though. i have read of Vedder stomping on a Bush mask while singing Bushleaguer.
did you have to belittle me by using my username against me?
that's already been done several times. its actually a reference to a famous unreleased Radiohead song.
........and somewhere water trickles under a bridge
Quote from: bigideasdid you have to belittle me by using my username against me?
that's already been done several times. its actually a reference to a famous unreleased Radiohead song.
i know, that was the reference i was making by changing the bracket part.
i considered using a wink icon. now i know to use them with u :wink:
Masters of war may be my favorite Dylan song... just because of it's unpredicted, highly emotional anger... odd coming from Dylan and that's what makes it great.
I would like to have seen it performed by PJ... just because I like it when I like Pearl Jam.
what kind of instrumentation does Dylan's version have?
is it just him and an acoustic?
the only Dylan i have is Hwy 61.
Quote from: Bethieabout the Reading show... I don't have a way of transportation. and no one seems to care.
:cry: :cry: :cry:
:(
REALLY sorry to hear that. :(
Not to rub it in but it was a phenomenal show. They did a version of Animal which was insane. It was like 1993 all over again. And they tore the roof off with Baba O'Riley.
If I can find a bootleg of the show, I'll let you know.
Quote from: Pedro the Alpacagross. death cab's boring...
I wasn't too impressed with them. About 10 seconds into their set, I thought to myself, "Oh, they're
that kind of band." I didn't hate them but they didn't really interest me in the slightest.
ALL THE PEARLS!
PEARL JAM have confirmed details of their greatest hits compilation 'REARVIEWMIRROR'.
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Released on November 15, the 2CD album spans the band's entire career, with three songs, 'Once', 'Alive' and 'Black' remixed for this collection by longtime collaborator Brendan O'Brien.
The tracklisting runs:
CD1
Once
Alive
Even Flow
Jeremy
State of Love and Trust
Animal
Go
Dissident
Rearviewmirror
Spin the Black Circle
Corduroy
Not for You
I Got ID
Hail Hail
Do the Evolution
Save You
CD2
Black
Breath
Daughter
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Immortality
Betterman
Nothingman
Who You Are
Off He Goes
Given to Fly
Wishlist
Last Kiss
Nothing As It Seems
Light Years
I Am Mine
Man of the Hour
Yellow Ledbetter
Quote from: mogwai
PEARL JAM have confirmed details of their greatest hits compilation 'REARVIEWMIRROR'.
Released on November 15, the 2CD album spans the band's entire career, with three songs, 'Once', 'Alive' and 'Black' remixed for this collection by longtime collaborator Brendan O'Brien.
Yipeee....It's being released on my birthday.
i'm downloading a pearl jam concert, on the 1st of september (this year) they played at the gorge amphitheatre in washington.
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it's of course not for free, it costs $9,99 for each gig over at http://bootlegs.pearljam.com. you get the songs, you get printable cd covers and backgrounds, and a bunch of pics from the show. here's some of the pics i got:
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eddie looking buffed up and sporting longer hair again.
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stone is growing a beard.
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jeff is the only bassist in the world who can sleep and play the bass at the same time.
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matt at calmer moments.
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mike with his buddy holly tribute.
the setlist for this show is:
Acoustic Set List: I Believe In Miracles (Ramones), Small Town, Off He Goes, Low Light, Man Of The Hour, I Am Mine, Crazy Mary, Black, Hard To Imagine,
Set list: Given To Fly, Last Exit, Save You, Do The Evolution, Alone, Sad, Even Flow, Not For You, Corduroy, Dissident, MFC, Undone, Daughter, In My Tree, State Of Love And Trust, Alive, Porch,
1st encore: Love Boat Captain, Insignificance, Better Man, Rearviewmirror,
2nd encore: I Won't Back Down (Tom Petty), Last Kiss, Crown of Thorns, Blood,
3rd encore: Yellow Ledbetter, Baba O'Riley (The Who)
the venue:
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edit: this is just crazy, $9,99 for a concert that lasts a little under three hours? i'm in heaven right now. seriously.
why are pearl jam fans hostile when you tell them you don't like the band?
do you people get this too?
eek !! hehe. I'm all giggly right now. hehe I'm seeing them this Tuesday. yay. I'm getting more excited each day.
thanks for sharing the pics, mogwai. 8)
Quote from: cronopiowhy are pearl jam fans hostile when you tell them you don't like the band?
do you people get this too?
i have no problem with people not liking one of your favorite bands. it's when they say the band is overrated or overexposed. because pearl jam isn't a band that's on mtv 24-7. maybe once or twice a week on mtv and some network shows their saturday night live performance from 1994. i hope that answers your question. :yabbse-wink:
bethie, i hope you'll have a great time at the concert. i will probably buy it as well.
i also bought the vancouver show (http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/fanscene/2005/902vanbc1.html).
Quote from: cronopiowhy are pearl jam fans hostile when you tell them you don't like the band?
because its ignorant to not like pearl jam.
Quote from: NEON MERCURYQuote from: cronopiowhy are pearl jam fans hostile when you tell them you don't like the band?
because its ignorant to not like pearl jam.
I didn't see "Elderly Woman Behind a Counter..." on that setlist tho. I love that song!
..and shame on them for setting up chairs at the Gorge. How lame.
myxo,
check again. look after the ramones cover....."elderly woman sitting behind _ _______ __ _ small town"..
mog, from that setlist....i love state of love and trust........and that cover of that badasss mother love bone song, crown of thorns
that's quite a deal they got going on over there at the ten club. anybody a member? i have been for quite some time now, and it translates into some great seats for the shows.
they showed pj's 'given to fly' tonight during that mtv thing for the hurricane. can't remember where it was from, but it was good. not as good as trent reznor however...
Quote from: abuck1220they showed pj's 'given to fly' tonight during that mtv thing for the hurricane. can't remember where it was from, but it was good. not as good as trent reznor however...
it was from the credit union centre, saskatoon, sk, canada. trent's performance was really good.
Quote from: cronopiowhy are pearl jam fans hostile when you tell them you don't like the band?
do you people get this too?
Some guy once told me that kusturica films are like pearl jam records, in the sence that they never really evolved after TEN and just repeat themselves. I hate that guy so very very much.
so the hamilton show kicked our asses pretty good. the setlist:
Porch
Save You
Spin The Black Circle
Animal
Given To Fly
Sad
U
Corduroy
Half Full
Daughter
I Believe In Miracles
Lukin
Insignificant
Present Tense
Untitled
MFC
Jeremy
Betterman
Rearviewmirror
Encore Break 1
Thumbing My Way
I Am Mine
Harvest Moon
Black
Alive
Encore Break 2
Last Exit
Go
In My Tree
Small Town
Indifference
Rockin' in the Free World
Yellow Ledbetter
eddie did about a million toasts throughout the night.. i think he was staring at bethie during "U".. i don't know what happened there. someone threw a belt at him near the end of the show that said "VEDDER" on it. nice gift i guess but it almost BELTED him in the head. :yabbse-undecided:
one highlight of my life is seeing somebody ask bethie if she has rolling papers.
anyway, great show and congrats to newlyweds jack and jen. :yabbse-thumbup:
Quote from: mogwaiQuote from: abuck1220they showed pj's 'given to fly' tonight during that mtv thing for the hurricane. can't remember where it was from, but it was good. not as good as trent reznor however...
it was from the credit union centre, saskatoon, sk, canada.
man. I wish I caught that!
what show is your avatar picture from? it makes me envious of those audience members/ten clubers. I renewed my Ten Club membership tonight. Next concert, I'll be upfront. ..like that one time I had Floor, Row 7..and couldn't go. oh, life. next time. next time.
I had a great time Tuesday night though. Given To Fly got me pumped. I was overly excited to hear Jeremy. How cliche of me to want them to perform Jeremy. I love how the audience can overpower the band like when Eddie lets us sing the lyrics to Daughter, Small Town, and Betterman.
I propose a toast...
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notice how proud Matt is. He's like, "look at me. this is the second band I've been in where the lead singer has long hair..and is attractive! what are you going to do about" Eddie's like "matt shut up. look at my Vedder belt" and Jeff is feeling ashamed.
all in all, that Vedder belt is priceless. and the show was good. I've already listened to the bootleg twice.
i'm listening to the show right now. it sounds great so far and i'm currently listening on given to fly. here's the origin of my avatar:
from twofeetthick.com:
"Last Kiss" is played to the fans in the back, with the lights on. Before it starts, Ed climbs into the stands and makes his way up about ten rows, tailed closely by security. People are high-fiving him and patting him on the back. People from the sections around are all running over to be closer. They start "Last Kiss" once he has picked his new spot in the seats. Security try to leave an open path for him to get back down."
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i think it's great that they play songs from lost dogs too.
edit: oh, the show is from the 9th of september show in fort william gardens, thunder bay.
man. wow. unbelievable.
I love Pearl Jam.
God i never got to see them live yet, I'm so jealous!
Pearl Jam have revealed that they are moving in a new "aggressive" direction for the follow-up to 2002's 'Riot Act'.
The band are also saying that the material being written for the album is "easily the best stuff" the band have ever produced.
"It's been a difficult record and it's like sometimes the harder something is, then the more valuable it becomes," singer Eddie Vedder said.
During an interview with a Brazilian radio station, he added: "It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again,
it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud."
Pearl Jam are preparing to kick off a tour of South America on November 22 in Santiago after working on the new album for most of 2005.
Vedder explained: "It's not quite done. I'm hoping to finish the last of the songs while I'm down (in South America). I'm bringing my tape machines and all that down. If
I can come back and finish the last few songs in January, then it will be out in April or something."
However, the tour will not see the group debut any new material with the singer explaining: "We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out."
The band's upcoming album is currently untitled, but Vedder said that he is thinking of a name which plays on Soundgarden's 'Superunknown'.
"I was thinking of the word 'un-owned' -- not owned by anybody," he revealed. "The sky is un-owned. The moon is un-owned. We're un-owned. We want to remain un-owned. The title was 'Superun-owned'."
My friend Mike sent me this in an e-mail this morning with the following caption:
Eddie Vedder left pearl jam this week. Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, who once was a roadie for metallica, will be the new singer.
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Pearl Jam is my favorite band. And from the looks of that picture, their next album will sound like My Morning Jacket.
I've been waiting ever so patiently for their Christmas single.
Quote from: hacksparrow on January 31, 2006, 11:18:38 AM
My friend Mike sent me this in an e-mail this morning with the following caption:
Eddie Vedder left pearl jam this week. Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, who once was a roadie for metallica, will be the new singer.
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Geez...he does look like The Dude. I grew up on Pearl Jam and was fortunate enough to be at The Gorge last year with my best friend from college. We're both Pearl Jam maniacs. Eagerly anticipating the new album. Magician, ironically my same friend just turned me onto My Morning Jacket.
mike mccready smashing his guitar (http://www.giventowail.com/107/downloads/video/mikeseattle.ram) (realplayer format)
How about the guy how got the leftovers in the front row!!!! Amazing!
ohmg, you guys. I got the Christmas single in the mail today! It's beautiful!
Pearl Jam announced today that they will release their highly anticipated, self-titled, eighth studio album on May 2nd through J Records. Pearl Jam's new album marks the band's first studio release in nearly four years and their first in partnership with J Records.
The album was produced and mixed by Adam Kasper and Pearl Jam at Studio X in Seattle.
Beginning March 8th, at 6:00 A.M. Eastern time, you can download the first single "World Wide Suicide" at http://www.tenclub.net/ This MP3 version of the song contains no Digital Rights Management, so it can be shared. You can hear a snippet of the new track here: http://www.fmqbproductions.com/epks/2006/pearljam/
The upcoming world tour is expected to be announced on Tuesday, March 7.
Check out http://www.tenclub.net/ for the more information, as well as the new layout (featuring art by Brad Klausen) and massive songs/setlists addition.
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I am ridiculously excited.
That news just turned an otherwise mundane evening into something special. It's great to finally get a solid release date to look forward to on the new album. I share in your ridiculous excitement.
Consider me
more than ridiculousy excited.
QuoteThe upcoming world tour is expected to be announced on Tuesday, March 7.
I'm gonna pee my pants.
So what is the more familiar name for this album going to be? Like The Beatles' White Album and The Black Album for both Metallica and Prince (not counting Jay-Z as the title "The Black Album" is actually on the cover). Can we all agree on calling this the Brown Wrapper Album or something?
new press photos for bethie to drool over:
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Tee hee... Eddie Vedder has big feet... :bravo:
ohh, forgot about the new song:
http://bootlegs.pearljam.com/
sounds like a playful version of "do the evolution".
Based on Worldwide Suicide, this could be a punkish album. I am making plans to be in D.C. on May 30th for Pearl Jam and My Morning Jacket. Let the countdown begin!
fuck yeah!
QuotePearl Jam's new label, J Records, has reported that the band will appear on Saturday Night Live on April 15th. This will be the first time that the band has visited the show since their legendary 1994 performance
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Quote from: mogwai on March 06, 2006, 11:42:10 PM
sounds like a playful version of "do the evolution".
I thought so too.
QuotePearl Jam's new label, J Records, has reported that the band will appear on Saturday Night Live on April 15th. This will be the first time that the band has visited the show since their legendary 1994 performance
oh feckin a. and I swore that they wouldn't be. I probably owe someone money now.
how ya like my new avatar? 8)
Quote from: Bethie on March 13, 2006, 12:20:22 AM
I probably owe someone money now.
never bet against me, woman. :shock:
Quote from: Bethie on March 13, 2006, 12:20:22 AMhow ya like my new avatar? 8)
nice, but it's wee bit 1998. if you saw the recent pics on the this page, eddie's more like 1991 at the moment.
hey kids, here's the cover of the new album:
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It's an avocado. Don't know why.
Quote from: mogwai on March 13, 2006, 09:40:32 AM
Quote from: Bethie on March 13, 2006, 12:20:22 AMhow ya like my new avatar? 8)
nice, but it's wee bit 1998. if you saw the recent pics on the this page, eddie's more like 1991 at the moment.
that's okay. I like Eddie at all moments. wink.
Quote from: Bethie on March 14, 2006, 02:41:50 AM
It's an avocado. Don't know why.
it goes with everything. it's nature's butter.
woo hoo! due to the big fan club reaction to the 5/16 chicago show, they added a second chicago show on 5/17. got my fan club tickets yesterday!
PRE-ORDER "PEARL JAM", GET EXTRAS
03.20.06 Pre-order "Pearl Jam" from pearljam.com here (http://pearljam.com/goods) and receive a free bonus disc of the classic 1992 New Year's Eve Pearl Jam show from The Academy Theatre in NYC (http://pearljam.com/tour/setlist.php?date=199212310000) in NYC plus a digital download of "Pearl Jam" delivered May 2nd at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time.
eddie singing a snippet of "black" on letterman (1996) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OgRtR_lFOU&search=pearl%20jam)
Apparently the new album has leaked but is shit quality.
four new songs leaked back in March.
link to torrent featuring "Severed Hand," "Life Wasted," "Comatose," and "Parachutes." (http://www.mininova.org/tor/263162) not sure if it works.
link to site hosting "Parachutes" download. (http://analoggiant.blogspot.com/2006/04/new-pearl-jam.html) it works. and the song is beautiful. :yabbse-thumbup:
I can't find a link to the lowquality full album leak [i know it can be found on soulseek though.] (https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmessenger.msn.com%2FMMM2005-10-25_17.33%2FResource%2Femoticons%2Fwhat_smile.gif&hash=1ea6725dad9f29567e96d75dca5bb7f98c83a7c3)
I think this is it, but I'm not sure (haven't downloaded it myself): http://ts.searching.com/torrent/696529/2_6_Pearl_Jam_Pearl_Jam_www_malomania_com_ar_rar
Quote from: Ginger on April 12, 2006, 08:08:28 PM
I think this is it, but I'm not sure (haven't downloaded it myself):
oh cool, thanks. the soulseek download was driving me bonkers anyway. fucking files kept failing and re-initializing. :yabbse-angry:
for those too lazy to figure it out themselves, it's compressed in a RAR file, which means you might have to download one of the easily accessible rar programs to extract the files if you don't have one already. easy. oh and the password is
malomania.
PJ will be the musical guest on Sat. Night Live.
Quote from: MacGuffin on April 13, 2006, 05:27:16 PM
PJ will be the musical guest on Sat. Night Live.
But then, we knew that already.
Quote from: abuck1220 on March 13, 2006, 12:06:35 AM
fuck yeah!
QuotePearl Jam's new label, J Records, has reported that the band will appear on Saturday Night Live on April 15th. This will be the first time that the band has visited the show since their legendary 1994 performance
Revitalized Pearl Jam rocks out on 8th album
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Eddie Vedder chuckles when he looks back on the early years of Pearl Jam and how the group balanced the pressures of success: "You get growing pains when you get taller, but we got them when we were trying to shrink."
The Seattle quintet's 1991 Epic debut, "Ten," remains a modern-rock touchstone, having sold 9.4 million copies in the United States. But Pearl Jam grew famously uneasy with its sudden success, refusing to compromise its integrity in exchange for enduring mass popularity. No videos. No endorsements. A bare minimum of media interaction.
Instead, the band released a series of increasingly experimental albums that shook off nearly all but its most devoted fans. At Pearl Jam's no-two-the-same concerts, 10-minute jams, obscure B-sides and covers were given the same importance as the hits. As guitarist Stone Gossard notes, "We've gone through a period of rejecting what comes the most easy for us and trying for something beyond that."
But on the band's new self-titled eighth album, Pearl Jam sounds more at home in its skin than ever. The 13-track set probes the human toll of the post-September 11 world via a rich tapestry of characters and narrators. The album arrives May 2 via J Records, Pearl Jam's first for the label after ending its career-long association with Epic in 2003.
TELLING STORIES
Stepping back from the unvarnished, anti-President Bush sentiments of 2002's "Riot Act" and the 2004 Vote for Change tour, the new set finds Vedder re-embracing the storytelling of classics like "Alive" and "Black." For a time, the artist considered using segues and narration to tie the project together under a single concept, but ultimately he says a less-structured theme "just fell right into place without even thinking about it."
"Through telling stories, you may be able to transmit an emotion or a feeling or an observation of modern reality rather than editorializing, which we've seen plenty of these days," Vedder says, adding that writing from perspectives other than his own was "a right that I'd forgotten that I had."
Gossard, guitarist Mike McCready, bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Matt Cameron also have upped the musical ante on the breathless punk of "Comatose," the gripping rocker "Life Wasted," the brooding, psychedelic closer "Inside Job" and "Come Back," an R&B-drenched love song that builds to an anthemic finish. "This record feels like a coming together again in terms of accepting our natural strengths and also incorporating the best of our experiments," Gossard says.
That recipe has revitalized Pearl Jam on modern-rock radio, a format it dominated in the early 1990s alongside Seattle brethren Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. First single "World Wide Suicide" became the fastest-charting song of the group's career, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart in just two weeks.
In another unusual move, the song was made available for free download a week ahead of its radio date via Pearl Jam's Web site and its myspace.com page. Several stations also began spinning album track "Unemployable," the B-side to the "World Wide Suicide" single on iTunes.
Asked why he thinks the track has exploded out of the gate, Gossard replies, "It sounds very raw. The hook is really immediate. Plus, everybody can relate to the concept of the world seeming very out of control."
NEW BEGINNINGS
By all accounts, Pearl Jam needed a fresh start after the expiration of its Epic deal.
"I don't know if any label could have kept up with us because of the way things evolved," Vedder admits. "If right at the outset we were selling 10 million records, and years down the road we were selling 1 million, and we were fine with it, I can understand why they'd feel a little crazy when they wanted to achieve past successes."
According to J Records vice president of marketing/A&R Matt Shay, who spent four years helping run Gossard's now-defunct Loosegroove imprint, the label began inquiring about Pearl Jam's availability as far back as 2001.
Once a formal agreement was in place (band and label declined to reveal specifics of the deal), J executives left Pearl Jam alone for more than a year while the band finished the album. "J was open to our style from the get-go," Gossard says. "They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us."
It was also paramount that J continue working with the band's Ten Club fan organization, which oversees Pearl Jam's official bootleg program. Since 2000, the band has sold 1.8 million copies of physical bootleg CDs in the United States; thousands more have been downloaded since the initiative went all-digital last year.
Ten Club head Tim Bierman says fans who pre-order the new set through pearljam.com will receive a bonus disc of the band's January 31, 1992, opening set for Keith Richards in New York as well as a special code that allows for a full download of "Pearl Jam" at 12:01 a.m. EDT on street date. Additional pre-order campaigns are rolling out with iTunes, amazon.com and Best Buy.
In a move aimed to strengthen its ties with the independent retail community, the band will release the seven-song EP "Live at Easy Street" exclusively through the Coalition of Independent Music Stores' Junket Boy imprint on June 20. As a teaser, fans who purchase "Pearl Jam" at CIMS outlets will receive a free download card for a cover of X's "The New World" with John Doe taken from the EP, CIMS president Don Van Cleave says.
ROADSHOW ROYALTIES
Even as its record sales eroded, Pearl Jam remained a concert juggernaut, grossing $36 million from 68 shows reported to Billboard Boxscore since 2003. Ament is particularly excited about spotlighting the new songs on the band's world tour, which begins May 9 in Toronto and features a series of co-headlining dates with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in July. Opening acts include My Morning Jacket, Sonic Youth and Robert Pollard.
"We've actually rehearsed more for this tour than we've ever rehearsed in our lives," he says. "Matt is singing a lot of the vocal harmonies, and he's just killing it. The benefit of playing in a Kiss cover band when you're 12 is that you learn to sing!"
Following a one-off April 20 show in London, Pearl Jam's first European tour in six years will get under way in August. It encompasses the group's maiden festival gigs since June 30, 2000, when nine fans were killed during a crowd surge at the beginning of its set at Denmark's Roskilde Festival. Gossard says, "We have a heightened awareness of what needs to happen every night so people are as safe as they can possibly be."
Once the itinerary wraps in November in Australia, the band will choose between additional roadwork in 2007 or starting a new album. From Pearl Jam's perspective, emerging from a period of uncertainty with an album its members love was the best of all possible outcomes.
"We're going to make better and better records as we get older, especially considering this one kind of rocks harder," Gossard says with a tinge of bemusement. "Why should we be rocking harder now? Isn't this when we're supposed to ease into the whole Pink Floyd groove?"
thank you mac for posting that! :yabbse-smiley:
Quote from: mogwai on April 15, 2006, 03:32:12 AM
thank you mac for posting that! :yabbse-smiley:
I second that. :bravo:
I didn't like them on SNL all that much.
i did! i was certainly impressed with their song "severed hands".
here it is! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To6G2taQSnM&search=pearl%20jam)
and
world wide suicide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqLyllPuGvM&search=pearl%20jam)
edit: the videos have been taken down.
I haven't been digging "World Wide Suicide" too much, but I loved the live version. And "Severed Hands" was fantastic. I have high hopes for the new album now.
Pearl Jam play first European show in six years
And it's a rare intimate affair for the Seattle band
Pearl Jam marked their first return European in over half a decade, with a rare club show in London tonight (April 20 ).
Playing the Astoria, the group used the sold out show to preview tracks from their new album - out on May 1- their first since 2002's 'Riot Act'.
With the band not having played Britain since their Wembley Arena in 2000 - a tour also included their ill-fated Roskilde Festival set during which nine people were crushed to death - anticipation was high amongst fans and tickets changed hands outside the venue for in excess of £300.
Acknowledging the wait for fans this side of the Atlantic, frontman Eddie Vedder told the crowd "It's been a while. About six years," before launching into a set that mixed old and new.
The band played:
'World Wide Suicide'
'Life Wasted'
'Severed Hand'
'Unemployable'
'Gone'
'Even Flow'
'Sad'
'I Am Mine'
'Insignificance'
'Army Reserve'
'Present Tense'
'Better Man'
'Marker In The Sand'
'Do The Evolution'
'Why Go'
'Man Of The Hour'
'Given To Fly'
'Small Town'
'Porch'
'Comatose'
'Leavin' Here'
'Yellow Ledbetter'
'Alive'
The band are now set to return to the UK in August to headline at the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds festivals.
holy fucking shit, they are coming to Lisbon in september!
must not fuck this up. must get tickets.
edit: and Lisbon is the only city entitled to two shows, and there's only one show in the whole of spain. damn, we are "in" now.
Quote from: rustinglass on April 23, 2006, 05:03:18 AM
holy fucking shit, they are coming to Lisbon in september!
must not fuck this up. must get tickets.
they're playing two nights there, i'm sure you'll grab a ticket!
this is the venue:
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these are the european dates so far. more dates will be announced shortly:
DATE CITY VENUE
Aug 23 Dublin, Ireland The Point
Aug 25* Leeds, UK Leeds Festival
Aug 27* Reading, UK Reading Festival
Aug 29 Arnhem, Netherlands Geldredome
Aug 30 Antwerp, Belgium Sportpaleis
Sept 2 Vitoria, Spain Azkena Rock Festival
Sept 4 Lisbon, Portugal Atlantico Pavillion
Sept 5 Lisbon, Portugal Atlantico Pavillion
Sept 9 Marseille, France Le Dome
Sept 11 Paris, France Bercy
Sept 13 Bern, Switzerland Arena
Sept 14 Bologna, Italy Palamalaguti
Sept 16 Verona, Italy Arena
Sept 17 Milan, Italy Forum
Sept 19 Torino, Italy Palaisozaki
Sept 20 Pistoia, Italy Duomo Square
Sept 23 Berlin, Germany Wuhlheide
Sept 25 Vienna, Austria Stadthalle
*Tickets currently on sale for these festivals.
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crono, you'd really love this place.
It's near that Calatrava train station you like so much.
amazon exclusive: in-studio performance of "Life Wasted" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ETQRCM/ref=pearljam-vid_header/104-3537179-5624744)
I wore my Pearl Jam shirt today. Bought it back in September at the show, never worn it until today. Felt right to wear it today.
I can't find a picture but its blue and its girly and has a tiny little gold canadian leaf.
"leatherman" (http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1608KT0HUFTHE06QN37SVYJBWJ)
one of the best b-sides!
QuoteLive On Letterman: Pearl Jam Exclusive Concert To Be Webcast Live From Ed Sullivan Theater
Eddie Vedder meets Ed Sullivan when Pearl Jam takes over the theater on Thursday, May 4th to perform a live mini-concert exclusively for visitors to the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN website.
It all begins with Pearl Jam taping their performance on LATE SHOW for broadcast later that evening. Then, immediately following the show taping, Pearl Jam will take the stage again to perform a special concert featuring some of the group's best-known hits as well as never-before heard cuts from their new CD, "Pearl Jam" (released May 2nd).
To watch the live concert, log on to www.cbs.com/lateshow at approximately 5:45pm EDT on Thursday, May 4th. Then be sure to tune in to the LATE SHOW at 11:30pm to catch their regularly scheduled appearance with Dave (along with Julia Roberts).
Two of my friends are going to this. Bastard.
Funny side note: I think he has Bethie's shirt as well.
For those of you that pre-ordered the avocado through the ten club, it will be a nice weekend. my two cds (the new record and the 92 live performance) came in the mail today. just listening to the new album for the first time right now. damn, it's been too long.
I got mine in the mail today too. I love you, Ten Club. I'm listening to new Pearl Jam and it's amazing.
I got my ticket today too. I'm so happy!
Parachutes is my favourite new song. The Wasted Reprise is wonderful.
there's so many great songs in this album, but if i had to chose one it'd be "come back". i've never heard such a soulful song by pearl jam before.
Ready for a storm
Pearl Jam slashed through the '90s status quo, often sabotaging its own ambition. Now, after a decade on the fringe, the band is stoked, polished — and raging again. Source: Los Angeles Times
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SEATTLE — On a typically blustery spring Seattle afternoon, Eddie Vedder sits in a blue vinyl booth at West Seattle's Easy Street Records and Café, catching up with the owner. The small shop is a favorite hangout, and Vedder is barely noticed. In this beachy district where many of the city's rockers — including the 41-year-old Pearl Jam singer — have settled and started families, everyone's equal. "It gives us protection from being swallowed up by the world," Vedder says of my hometown.
Vedder's been here for 16 years, and I was born here, but we're part of a generation that has benefited from the city's shift from isolated industrial port to New Economy hub. At times, rock 'n' roll has taken both of us from these gray-blue environs, but no matter where we live, we'll always call it home. Like Pearl Jam, Seattle has grown with care, its Uptown condos and upscale urban malls never overwhelming the no-nonsense pioneers who own its soul. The sound I first heard at punk clubs like the Gorilla Room circa 1980 developed into the paradigm for the quality rock that Pearl Jam represents, and Microsoft millionaires belly up to its tavern bars next to the skippers who still fish its harbors. For all its 21st century largesse, Seattle remains unpresumptuous. Like Vedder himself, it wants to be just folks.
It's been a while since Vedder has left this comfort zone. Fifteen years ago, Pearl Jam ruled rock, but its zealous high-mindedness — which led the band to abstain from music videos, to favor experimental jams over Top 40 fare and to take on big targets of the left, including Ticketmaster and the Bush administration — put the band in a strange category: celebrated, yet obscure. Its last four albums have gotten little radio attention and led to a sound that Vedder complained was too cerebral.
By keeping to itself and its subculture of fans, Pearl Jam lost momentum. Over the years, band members began bringing into the mix distinctive influences, reflected in outside projects, in a way that didn't always lend itself to coherence. Guitarist Mike McCready, whom I first got to know when we were in our teens and he was in the metal band Shadow, continued to play with some of his old bandmates in side groups such as the Rockford. Along the way, he fought, and overcame, various addictions. Now McCready battles Crohn's disease, and he has become focused on charity work to fight the intestinal disorder.
Bassist Jeff Ament, a bearded Montana native, went off to record with the world-music-tinged Three Fish and to check out skateboard parks nationwide. Guitarist Stone Gossard, whom you could easily picture working at a Seattle Internet start-up, co-led the soulful, Seattle-based band Brad. Drummer Matt Cameron became active in his son's grade school. Vedder, meanwhile, stumped for Ralph Nader and other causes. At best, the band was a cozy, slightly frayed home.
Then, after 15 years with Epic, Pearl Jam signed to Clive Davis' J Records label, though before he sealed the deal, Davis insisted on seeing the band. "I wanted to see their hunger, their freshness, their magic again," he says. "To see if in their songwriting they would come up with a vintage Pearl Jam album with its great storytelling that could put them on top again." The band passed the audition.
Known for creating comebacks for such stars as Carlos Santana and Rod Stewart, Davis saw those possibilities in Pearl Jam.
"I thought we could focus a laser beam on the band consistent with their artistic integrity," he says. Vedder and his mates have answered with a self-titled J debut that's focused, furious and outward-looking. Like U2, Pearl Jam has made a conservative choice with liberating results — an act of remembering that's pushed them into a new phase. The proof is in the first single, the antiwar cry "World Wide Suicide," the fastest-charting of the band's career. "Pearl Jam" will be called a return to form — indeed, contrarians such as the reviewer at hipster website Pitchfork are yawning at "the group's efforts to quote rock unquote" — but what's poured into that mold is very different than what the band produced in 1992.
Even before the album's release Tuesday, a fiery "Saturday Night Live" performance earlier this month — the band's first in a decade — kicked off a media blitz. This year's tour will include headlining spots at England's huge Reading and Leeds festivals, a co-headlining American jaunt with Tom Petty and arena dates throughout the Western world.
Some of what's changed is the band itself, especially Vedder. The elusive, long-haired boy who captured the pain of youth in such hits as "Jeremy" has matured into a citizen activist who embraces his classic rock heritage. His politics have given purpose to the fame he once shunned, and the mentorship of his idols, including Pete Townshend and Neil Young, has helped him escape insecurity. Just as Gen-X has grown up to become the Sustainable Lifestyle Generation — especially in the eco-friendly, tech-savvy Northwest — Vedder and his bandmates have hit their 40s seemingly uncompromised.
"They're all complex people, but they're grounded." says RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a close friend of the band. "Seattle has enough feedback loops to keep you that way. It's amazingly tolerant without being infused or polluted by trendiness. Elsewhere, open-mindedness gets transmuted into marketing hype, but there's no artifice or market research going into writing a song like 'World Wide Suicide.' "
"If someone says this new album is returning to the energy of the first couple of records, that's great for me because those are the records people know, and it may make them more interested to hear it," says Vedder. "Whether it's true or not, I don't know. I feel our whole recording lifespan is really one long album."
Doing their homework
Ament is having a morning snack at an espresso bar close enough to his West Seattle house that his wife pops by to say she's taking their dogs for a walk. The bassist is worried about the loss of the relative calm that had come with being a band that attracted minimal attention.
"People in this neighborhood who haven't said jack to me for years, now they're saying, 'Oh, you have a hit record,' " says Ament, who also maintains a home in his native Montana. "There's a part of me that thinks, 'God, it would be great if a song or two got played on the radio.' But part of me worries, especially for Ed. We're going to head into this storm; we have to be together and all be ready for it."
The years leading to "Pearl Jam," Ament says, required more patience than caution. "All I wanted was to be out of our contract and have a big party to say we made it," Ament says of the final years on Epic, which concluded with 2002's "Riot Act."
Industry watchers wondered if Pearl Jam would become completely independent after leaving Epic. The band had released hundreds of "bootleg" live recordings through its fan service, Ten Club, and developed a thriving online music distribution system. The band has been quick to adjust to a changing pop landscape, in which singles-producing hip-hop, R&B and country stars dominate the mainstream while rock artists have had to invent new ways to reach listeners beyond the realm of "American Idol."
The deal with J, says Davis, takes advantage of Pearl Jam's understanding of the Web and the touring circuit while providing the worldwide distribution and promotional muscle a major label can invest. Most important, the label offered the band artistic immunity. "We can make an art record if we want to next year, we can make a punk record," says Ament. "We wanted this record to be a tight, concise thing."
This time, instead of going their separate ways, the members of Pearl Jam began work on the album right after 2004's politically charged Vote for Change tour. "We hadn't done that in 15 years — come off the road and tried to capture something," says Ament. Bush's presidential victory, which the band opposed, heightened the mood. But the sprint soon became a marathon.
"We thought we'd take some time on this record. Let's get together and write some songs, then go off and analyze them, rerecord a bit, and then take more time," says guitarist McCready. "Even wanting it to go quicker, we still held back and let Ed go where he wanted to go." Vedder, who co-writes separately with each of his bandmates, soon fell into a creative maze as he tried to satisfy both the band and his new family. The sessions came at a time when, like many aging Gen-Xers, Vedder was contemplating slowing down.
"Making this album was the first time I wanted a 9-to-5 routine," says the singer, whose daughter with girlfriend Jill McCormick, Olivia, is nearly 2. "I felt that if my mind was occupied with melodies and lyric construction, my daughter was somehow getting ripped off. But I also had to stop fighting to get back into my pre-child life, where I could go to certain dark places and just live in my own head. I surrendered to the fact that things have changed.
"I had 12 or 13 drafts of some songs on this record," he continues. "I just basically put in a request, saying if we spent this much time on the music, I'm going to need almost equal time."
It was tough on the rest of the group. "His pace drives me crazy sometimes," says Ament. "But we've learned to trust his process. As hard as it is for him, he's the guy who's going to finish the best songs.
"There were a lot of tough moments making this record," he adds. "And that's probably what makes it feel good."
Unconventional synergy
Over dinner at Il Bistro, a duskily lighted date restaurant tucked into the lower levels of Pike Place Market, Gossard and McCready argue over the importance of lead versus rhythm guitar. "Riffs versus leads, 10 seconds!" McCready shouts, racing into a monologue about his own fireworks approach — "Color! Intensity!"
"Riffs! Find one little thing and do it over and over and over again. Driving it in, making it work!" Gossard yells.
They're still having the fun that generated their rule-breaking collaboration, when McCready was a teenage metalhead and Gossard was a baby punk.
McCready and Gossard's relationship epitomizes Pearl Jam's aesthetic. The group has developed a complex working process not unlike the "no collar" approach Internet moguls and snowboard designers employ.
Within the swirl of songs such as the new album's "Marker in the Sand," McCready's lyrical leads and Gossard's insurgent licks form something distinctive. Ament brings in world-music rhythms; drummer Cameron, who joined in 1998 after his former band, Soundgarden, dissolved, adds an art-metal edge. It's Vedder, the others say, who makes sure none of this gets lost in the final product.
"If a song I write turns into a Pearl Jam song, it's because Ed's interested," says McCready, who, like his bandmates, pursues several side projects. "I'll bring something in, Stone might help arrange it, and when Ed gets behind it, it has the potential of happening. You have to let your ego down, be willing to take criticism, and explore different ways of writing a song."
"The fact that all of us write is really powerful," Gossard adds. "There's so much variety, so many different rhythmic and melodic impulses, it could get really scattered. Everybody's influences compete in a very subtle way, with Ed as the gatekeeper."
"Eddie knows where his strengths are, and they're in this band," says Cameron. "He could easily go do a solo career ... but his music will be more powerful played by Pearl Jam." Vedder agrees, and not only for artistic reasons. For him, Pearl Jam is political.
"Fifteen thousand young people come to the concerts, so a socially conscious musician like Ed can reach a much larger audience than Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger ever did," notes Vedder's mentor, the radical historian Howard Zinn. "Eddie represents millions of the young by what he is, by what he has become."
What has Vedder become? Less alienated, for one thing. Refusing to leave Pearl Jam has taught him what real equality demands.
"We're fighting for the health of democracy here, yet we realize that just within our group it's very difficult," says Vedder. "I'm sure I was stepping on toes all over the place making this record. And we're just making music, we're not trying to make sure there's money for highways and healthcare." That struggle for mutual respect defines the sound and the image of Pearl Jam. They're facing the central question for the fortysomething Gen-X — how to adapt without losing yourself — and it's led the band to a new place of strength.
"Thank God we remained friends and kept trying to do the same thing," says guitarist Gossard, who co-founded the group with McCready and Ament in 1990. "We made some records that were frustrating, but we were still working out what we're capable of."
Gossard said, "I've looked at this whole thing as a huge experiment. What did my favorite bands do? Let's do that, but not break up."
QuoteEddie Vedder sits in a blue vinyl booth at West Seattle's Easy Street Records and Café, catching up with the owner. The small shop is a favorite hangout, and Vedder is barely noticed.
one ticket to seattle please.
Quote from: Bethie on May 01, 2006, 02:47:33 AM
QuoteEddie Vedder sits in a blue vinyl booth at West Seattle's Easy Street Records and Café, catching up with the owner. The small shop is a favorite hangout, and Vedder is barely noticed.
one ticket to seattle please.
I used to hang out at this guitar store in Everett, WA that all the guys in Pearl Jam used to buy their guitars at. They were good friends with the owner, and he had all sorts of signed photos and gold records and shit hanging on the walls. Sadly, I never ran into any of them there, and the shop closed down about five years ago. But I did get the chance to play a Gibson Les Paul that Mike McCready had used on tour in the mid-nineties, then sold back to the store. So, like, if Mike McCready had finger herpes, I could have caught Mike McCready's finger herpes. Awesome.
This album is boring. The lyrics are bad, the music isn't catchy or all that rockin', and it just doesn't sound very good. It's supposed to be this really aggressive album or whatever but it's so fucking tame sounding. I guess that's why the only songs I like are Parachutes, Gone, and Come Back. Life Wasted, Comatose, Big Wave, and Umemployable are OK songs, but I know if they weren't Pearl Jam songs I'd never give them a second listen.
And the album art, holy fucking shit. The cover is this horrible photo of an avocado against a blue gradient and it's the best part of it all. The picture behind the CD is just laughable. Pearl Jam covered in meat or some ridiculous shit like that. And the booklet's got all these "dark" pictures that are vaguely Tool-ish.
Pearl Jam's my favorite band and all, but god damn. Big disappointment, especially with all the hype and good reviews.
Quote from: I Love a Magician on May 02, 2006, 04:36:45 PM
This album is boring. The lyrics are bad, the music isn't catchy or all that rockin', and it just doesn't sound very good. It's supposed to be this really aggressive album or whatever but it's so fucking tame sounding. I guess that's why the only songs I like are Parachutes, Gone, and Come Back. Life Wasted, Comatose, Big Wave, and Umemployable are OK songs, but I know if they weren't Pearl Jam songs I'd never give them a second listen.
Did we get the same record? Pearl Jam has been lyrically better at times, but Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Marker in the Sand, Parachutes, Unemployable, Gone and Come Back are wonderfully catchy and rockin' tracks. I guess I didn't have any preconceptions (that should've been burned) about the album's aggressiveness and am therefore not disappointed to any degree.
Quote from: I Love a Magician on May 02, 2006, 04:36:45 PM
And the album art, holy fucking shit. The cover is this horrible photo of an avocado against a blue gradient and it's the best part of it all. The picture behind the CD is just laughable. Pearl Jam covered in meat or some ridiculous shit like that. And the booklet's got all these "dark" pictures that are vaguely Tool-ish.
I love the cover art...but the booklet leaves much to be desired. I'm still trying to figure out how the interior photos mesh with the avocado. I may never figure that one out. As a fan, I hope your overall feelings on the album mellow over time.
Quote from: Sunrise on May 02, 2006, 05:13:13 PM
Quote from: I Love a Magician on May 02, 2006, 04:36:45 PM
This album is boring. The lyrics are bad, the music isn't catchy or all that rockin', and it just doesn't sound very good. It's supposed to be this really aggressive album or whatever but it's so fucking tame sounding. I guess that's why the only songs I like are Parachutes, Gone, and Come Back. Life Wasted, Comatose, Big Wave, and Umemployable are OK songs, but I know if they weren't Pearl Jam songs I'd never give them a second listen.
Did we get the same record? Pearl Jam has been lyrically better at times, but Life Wasted, Severed Hand, Marker in the Sand, Parachutes, Unemployable, Gone and Come Back are wonderfully catchy and rockin' tracks. I guess I didn't have any preconceptions (that should've been burned) about the album's aggressiveness and am therefore not disappointed to any degree.
Quote from: I Love a Magician on May 02, 2006, 04:36:45 PM
And the album art, holy fucking shit. The cover is this horrible photo of an avocado against a blue gradient and it's the best part of it all. The picture behind the CD is just laughable. Pearl Jam covered in meat or some ridiculous shit like that. And the booklet's got all these "dark" pictures that are vaguely Tool-ish.
I love the cover art...but the booklet leaves much to be desired. I'm still trying to figure out how the interior photos mesh with the avocado. I may never figure that one out. As a fan, I hope your overall feelings on the album mellow over time.
I hope so too. But, as I said, I do like Gone, Parachutes, and Come Back. Come Back is probably in my top twenty Pearl Jam songs.
And the songs are catchy enough, I suppose. They just seem catchy in a somewhat generic way to me. Like, the riff to Life Wasted is catchy, but I don't think it's a great riff or anything. I do like that main riff in Severed Hand though.
i think we did this before, time for an update:
a lá best songs and stuff:
album number:
#1. "black" (ten, 1991)
#2. "indifference" (vs, 1993)
#3. "tremor christ" (vitalogy, 1994)
#4. "off he goes" (no code, 1996)
#5. "given to fly" (yield, 1998)
#6. "light years" (binaural, 2000)
#7. "bushleaguer" (riot act, 2002)
#8. "down" (disc 1) "let me sleep" (disc 2) (lost dogs, 2003)
#9. "inside job" (pearl jam, 2006)
Quote from: mogwai on May 03, 2006, 01:28:01 PM
i think we did this before, time for an update:
a lá best songs and stuff:
album number:
1. "Black" from Ten.
2. "Elderly Woman" from Vs.
3. "Immortality" from Vitalogy.
4. "Smile" from No Code.
5. "Do the Evolution" from Yield.
6. "Untitled" from Live on Two Legs.
7. "Nothing as It Seems" from Binaural.
8. "Thumbing My Way" from Riot Act.
9. "Drifting" from Lost Dogs.
10. "Come Back" from Pearl Jam.
Release (Ten)
Daughter (Vs.)
Not for You (Vitalogy)
Off He Goes (No Code)
Given to Fly (Yield)
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town (Live on Two Legs)
Insignificance (Binaural)
Thumbing My Way (Riot Act)
Black, Red, Yellow (Lost Dogs)
Come Back (Pearl Jam)
My list only considers the version of the song found on the album. Alternate and live versions of the songs would change several of the selections above.
my cd case is different from my friends cd case. mine is like a book and doesn't have a spot for the cd to pop into to. his case has a place for the cd to pop into and has a booklet inserted. get what i'm saying?
and my vcr is broken so i can't tape pj on letterman tomorrow night. i'm depressed. tape it for me. thanx
Quote from: Bethie on May 04, 2006, 12:18:41 AM
my cd case is different from my friends cd case. mine is like a book and doesn't have a spot for the cd to pop into to. his case has a place for the cd to pop into and has a booklet inserted. get what i'm saying?
i have no idea what you're talking about, my friend. :yabbse-smiley:
I get it. her case is like the vitalogy case
setlist from the letterman webcast...
worldwide suicide
comatose
severed hand
marker in the sand
gone
unemployable
present tense
do the evolution
why go
porch (w/ weird intro and 'i wanna hold your hand' tag)
and here it is... (http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/live_on_letterman)
...and here's "aol sessions" (http://music.aol.com/videos/sessions/sessions_flash.adp?defaultCovers=553,563,560&defaultID=553&ncid=AOLMUS00050000000019)
Thanks, mogwai. Both links are great! I couldn't wait up long enough last night for the webcast encore. Just watched it. Incredible. I loved Vedder's clarification of the lyrics of Unemployable.
Also, youtube has about a thousand pearl jam videos from the past 15 years. Well worth a look. The Life Wasted clip from last night is already up as well.
Are people fucking booing?
Quote from: I Love a Magician on May 06, 2006, 12:06:13 AM
Are people fucking booing?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!
the keyboard player.
Ha. Of course. Thought they were booing the new songs or something.
Present Tense is fucking awesome.
i tell you what i'd have booed...the douchebags with the leash signs.
boom "fucking" gasper
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BOOM! that's him alright.
In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly there is an article that talks about Pearl Jam's obsessive devoted fans. I might know what they're talking about.
Their performance on Letterman the other night made me sweat. They're wonderful.
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=20729 (http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=20729)
it's spectacular
purchased another bootleg over at pearl jam bootlegs (https://bootlegs2.pearljam.com). this time it's the toronto 10th of may 2006 show.
this is cover:
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this is what they played:
release
world wide suicide
life wasted
severed hand
hail hail
unemployable
dissident
even flow
corduroy
i am mine
low light
whipping
you are
i got shit
better man
jeremy
marker in the sand
black
rearviewmirror
1st encore
wasted reprise
man of the hour
small town
state of love and trust
do the evolution
alive
2nd encore
go
crazy mary
fuckin' up
indifference
yellow ledbetter
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they've busted out some rarities at the last few shows...satan's bed, rats, and, for the first time ever i'm open. can't wait for wednesday at the united center.
and eddie signing the 7th inning stretch today was the most entertaining that a cubs broadcast has been in weeks...
Quotethis time it's the toronto 10th of may 2006 show
so cine and I were THERE. We were on the floor. we also saw them on the 9th. oh yeah oh yeah.
so I bought both boots. 8)
I flipped over hearing State of Love and Trust live.
Quote from: abuck1220 on May 14, 2006, 11:26:47 PM
they've busted out some rarities at the last few shows...satan's bed, rats, and, for the first time ever i'm open.
Yeah, my friend went to the Friday show in Hartford and the Saturday show in Albany. Apparently, this was the first time they played Satan's Bed live since the State College show in '03 (which my friend went to as well), which was the first time they played it since 1996 and the first time they played Rats live since 1998.
If I ever see them play Mankind, I won't need to go to another Pearl Jam show; outside of stuff on the new album, that's the only song I have yet to hear live that I'm really dying for.
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Pearl Jam's leader on the difference between surfing and crowd surfing, and the best advice Bob Dylan gave him. "There's so much information in the songs and the lyrics that it felt like one more title was almost pretentious," says Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. That's just one explanation for why the band's eighth studio album is simply called Pearl Jam. Another would be that it is the group's most democratic effort since its massive 1991 debut, Ten. On songs like the laid-back acoustic beauty "Parachutes" (music written by Stone Gossard), the eight-minute trip "Inside Job" (lyrics by Mike McCready) and the first single, "World Wide Suicide" (which is killing at radio), PJ brought a live feel to the studio, laying down tracks that showcase tasty guitar interplay and a heavy backbeat. "When you collaborate, you still have this urge to stay in the studio after everybody's left and do things the way you want to," says a chilled-out Vedder on a cold, dark day in Seattle. "But you can't do that."
What was your first musical memory as a kid?
There was a group home of sorts in Chicago, and they had a turntable in the basement. Because it was kids without parents there was a large range of ages, and some of the older kids had more mature tastes. So I was listening to Jackson 5; they were listening to James Brown and Sly Stone. I remember everything on the Motown label seemed to be great. Little basement, that's what I remember. I can still smell it, too.
What did it smell like?
Like a basement in Chicago. Dank. One of those basements that never gets dry. And maybe some Afro-Sheen that some of the kids -- a kid called Maurice -- had in his hair. I think it was called the Lake Home for Boys. It was just on the wrong side of the tracks. The tracks were right there, we were just on the wrong side.
Speaking of smells and stuff like that, what does Pearl Jam taste like?
I don't . . . uhhh . . . I have no idea. That's like saying, "What does Pink Floyd taste like?"
No, no, no, dude. I mean your grandma Pearl's jam.
I never had it. It was apparently a recipe that was handed down. It's mythological now. I never saw the recipe, I just kind of heard about it.
What was it?
I imagine it was regular preserves with a bit of mushrooms in it . . . a peyote kind of deal. It's the whole Mary Poppins theory of tripping out -- a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. It's so typical that an American woman in love with an Indian has to add sugar to something to keep herself totally culturally intact.
So did you have a piano growing up in your house in San Diego?
Well, my brother got the guitar and we got a stand-up piano, and then I got a Les Paul copy guitar. He excelled immediately. He was playing blindfolded, and I still couldn't get my fingers to push down a chord. I was very disturbed by that. It took about a year, and then one day, all of a sudden, it felt like a friend. I'll never forget it.
Was there a moment?
Yeah. It was "Cat Scratch Fever." All of a sudden, the guitar felt right underneath my hands. My hands had finally gotten strong enough.
What were the circumstances of you getting the guitar?
My birthday was on December 23rd, and the one time I used it to my advantage was to beg and plead to put the two presents together to afford the $100 guitar. And it worked.
Was it from a Sears catalog?
No, I remember it was a Memphis Les Paul copy. It kind of looked like the guitar that Ace [Frehley] really played.
That's what you were going for, I'm sure.
It's interesting, because I had only had a few lessons. The guy was great, his name was Bud Whitcomb, and I'd do weeding in his backyard to get a few free lessons here and there. At the time he was teaching me bar chords, he wouldn't let me do anything but bar chords, and I hated him for it. It was a lot to ask twelve-year-old hands to do at that point, it was very frustrating. He went on vacation, and I went to church and they had this little booklet of songs that had little charts with open chords in it. And I stole it!
Oh man!
They had a lot of them. They were hymnals, there were a lot. It had songs like "Black and White." So he left, he went on vacation and I learned these open chords and all of a sudden these open chords made me feel like writing. Early on, I didn't see becoming a lead player. I just wanted to write, I just wanted to have patterns that I could write on top of. So once I got those open chords, I started writing pretty quick.
Since I've always had so much respect for your songwriting, I want to know what is the deal with the instrumentation in the band. Only recently, you've added B3 keyboard stuff. Why have you never used horns, or strings, or girls?
I think we're always trying to find new ways to play within the group. I know that Stone Gossard just picks up the guitar and refuses to play something he's played before. It can be frustrating to collaborate with him, because he wants to do something different at all times. I think that the band is made up of a certain number of colors, and we need to see how many variations we can come up with. The keyboards come up in some of the records. "Black" might even have some piano on it, but it felt like that was the next shade to add. Horns and strings and background singers are things I might reserve the right to do in the future. But we're still plugging away with the ingredients we have and trying to be as progressive with our thinking within those boundaries. Do you hear room for horns?
Perhaps. I was just wondering if you had ruled it out?
I think you go into a record thinking that you can try anything, and that you will. That's before the sessions over; by the end, even when you take a long time, it's time to finish and you're working with what you got. Just like making film clips or arrangements, working with horns and stuff is just time consuming stuff. And I think we've used up all our time on the clock working within our own groove. The communication in our own group is fairly exhaustive, at least with songs.
Jeff [Ament] had mentioned that you guys were thinking of doing a video for this record?
I think it's a great art form if it's approached the right way. But it's time consuming...just like interviews! [laughs] It seems like the time spent playing live and organizing shows and putting the record and the artwork together seems to take up all the time we have. Until we can do it right...we'll see. I found a guy I'd like to do it with, but we'll see.
Is it a secret who that is?
A young guy called Fernando Apodaca who's an artist. He's all-around, refuses to be pigeonholed, works with every medium there is. Line drawings with hair to stitching up leather bodices . . . everything is very organic. I think the only reason he hasn't made a name for himself in the art world is that he holds the art world in contention. I've talked to him, and I think the fact he has a high respect for us is a high complement.
Do you have a favorite obscure Dylan song?
He did a record of covers.
Good As I Been to You!
Yeah. They're not his songs, but I was listening to that record on a tape recorder that had only one speaker working. A tiny little thing . . . and it worked so well with the music -- it sounded like a Bessie Smith or Robert Johnson record. I just can't think of the names.
"Frankie and Albert" . . . "Jim Jones" . . .. "Sittin' on Top of the World" . . .
That's it. "Sittin' on Top of the World."
Also, at that Nader benefit in 2000, you came out and you did "The Times, They Are A-Changin'" and you said you had permission from the author. How did that channel open up to you? Was it at his thirtieth anniversary at Madison Square Garden?
After that show at the Garden, everyone congregated in a corner of this Irish Bar in New York that's no longer there. I tried to find it, and it's gone. Some real history took place that night at the table. The oldest Clancy brother was reciting these long Irish poems about war, and they were eight minutes long, and he knew every word. Then a guitar came out, and it was getting passed around. Ronnie Wood was there with George Harrison. It was a great night. When I went up to introduce Chrissie Hynde, which I was there to do, for some reason this really large guy who looked like he walked out of a Spiderman cartoon -concrete-bald head and shoulders like a shipping crate -- he lifted me off my feet by this ski jacket I had. He said, "You don't belong here." That was still at the beginning of our recording career, so I couldn't really argue that fact with him! I was like, "Alright, my friend!" I was standing next to Willie Nelson's guitar. Someone saw him dragging me off the stage, and they stopped him just before I had to go on. Later on that night, he turned out to be a great English guy. We were good friends by four in the morning -- he was Bob's security guy.
We were about to record our second record, and Bob passed on a few lessons to me in the corner, one of which was, "Don't read anything in the paper. Don't watch TV. Get away." I felt that same thing at the time, overly inundated and somewhat like a commodity -- you'd watch TV or open the paper and our band was there as some kind of commodity. Our band had become part of the pollution.
You bootlegged concerts growing up. Still have the tapes?
I've still got them. I listened to them a lot. In a way, music for me was fucking heroin. It was something I needed. And to see a live show was something I needed, it gave me strength through adolescence and through this young adult life -- to feel like there was a purpose to get through this whole thing. After a live show, the high could wear off in a day or two. The bootleg recordings and listening back at them with your eyes closed and headphones seemed to make a crappy recording actually sound pretty good. It was like getting high again. I was a user.
Was there one you played a lot?
An earlier X show I listened to an infinite number of times. The early Who shows, at Golden Hall. The Pretenders. Bands like the Tubes. I'd record everybody but there are certainly ones that lasted forever.
Where'd you position the recorder?
It depends what kind of machine. A lot of them were early Walkmans. I had a CostClub-ten-percent deal. This was when they first came out, the first stereo recorders, so they were rather cumbersome compared to a whatchamacallit -- an iPod. You'd have to hold the whole cassette player up, but 4 or 5 years later you could plug a mic in and sneak it on your lapel. For every good bootleg I got, I probably got caught half the other times, because I was usually close to the stage. That's why I just wanted people to record a show and not be hassled by The Man.
So you got kicked out?
They'd take my recorder and rough me up. A lot of times, they'd take the tapes, which is a little nicer. Some guys were overly aggressive. I never once sold a tape. On very few occasions, if someone was very into it, I'd make them a copy.
Is there any comparison between surfing and crowd surfing?
The crowds are much more dangerous, because of the germs and bacteria in a sweaty mosh pit circa 1992. Now that the ocean has become fairly polluted, they might be about even.
As far as the feeling?
It's hard to get momentum standing up in a crowd, because people grab your shoes. That's one of the exciting things about a wave -- you're standing up and you have real good peripheral vision. There's something about surfing...these waves come from 2,000 miles away sometimes. These swells, they crack in a kind of firework, and you ride the firework and give it meaning, and you're connected to nature. It's like no other thing I've felt except for maybe music. And holding your newborn.
How much fun did you have getting onstage with the Kings of Leon?
It's a great record, and the song "Slow Night, So Long" -- I had disappeared onto some little island to write and surf and the only record I had besides the Pearl Jam stuff I was working on was that [Aha Shake Heartbreak]. I played it for some of the locals, who didn't know anything outside of their local traditional music, and they had such strong positive reactions to the record. It was a clean slate to bounce it off of. I was excited, and when they opened up for U2, I hadn't met them, but I wanted to tell them that story -- that their record transmits really well to unbiased ears. We started hanging out, and the second night we bashed some tambourines and it felt exciting.
Are they the cream of the crop as far as younger bands?
They certainly hit a reflex in me, and the new Strokes record is just a great piece of work. The sounds, and his vocal delivery is really great. Both those guys...
Caleb and Julian.
Yea, Caleb's vocal delivery is so unique and his phrasing; it's like what they used to say about Sinatra -- his phrasing is what really made it. I'm not into Sinatra, but I get that. George Jones is another thing, and even McCartney and Lennon. You listen to these songs, but it's unconscious the way they phrase things. Joey Ramone as well.
What kind of wine do you like onstage? As long as it's red?
As long as it's red and there's a spare in the back. There's this homemade stuff some friends have been making for me for the past few years, and I can't do without it now.
What kind of grapes?
I can't tell you; there's a bit of variation there. On the first leg of our last tour, I had been drinking regular wine, but I got the good stuff for our last show, and I don't know what kind of grapes they are but it's twice as potent. I realized this about halfway through the show. It was a political fundraiser, so I was like, "Damn I really gotta sober up!"
Why do you think the musical community has been so quiet recently about the war, about the president? Or maybe you don't think that?
I'm not sure what's out there. People like Steve Earle are a great example. He goes on Bill O'Reilly. It's beyond commendable. It's gutsy and I think a lot of it, it doesn't get heard. Or maybe people don't like to mess up a good time. I mean, we could talk about it in this interview, and it might not be the part that gets in. We could talk about Democrats and why they aren't leading an anti-war movement. Are they waiting for a shift in the polls? We could talk about our country in ways outside the war, like why they refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, in regard to environment. Why aren't we agreeing to strengthen the conventions on biological weapons? Why haven't we signed the ban on landmines? Why haven't we banned the use of napalm? They refuse to be subject to the jurisdictions of the International Criminal Court. They can get away with anything. If you highlighted the classic aspects of this war, find out who's fighting and who's dying, and why are there billions of dollars being spent on this war and schools are crumbling and 45 million people in the US don't have health insurance? This is all stuff I've been reading in a book on Iraq called The Logic of Withdrawal by Anthony Arnove. It seems like it's a class issue, because there are things going on underneath this spectacle of war, and the Bush administration is using it as a distraction for the ills of this country that are being not only ignored but exacerbated. But, is anybody else saying that in interviews, and are they being edited? I'm not sure. Right now, we are in a situation where the "Worldwide Suicide" song is getting airplay, and three years ago that might not have happened. After 9/11, they took "Imagine" off the air! It's interesting...I'm not sure why.
Do you have a favorite self-titled record out there?
Ha ha. The first three Zeppelin records were untitled. Those are great.
Cool. But, your self-titling was the biggest group effort as a record.
It was meant to be. It was similar to how the first ones were: absolute democracy. When you collaborate, you still have this urge to stay in the studio after everyone's left and do it the way you want to. But you can't do that. Going back to what we were talking about, the Bush administration, they think they're making a solo record, leading our government and representing us to the rest of the world. And they're not allowed to do that, it's actually criminal.
They're the new Presidents of the United States of America.
Yeah! Where no one else is allowed to contribute. You had 15 million people in February 2003 come out to the largest global protest that the world has ever seen, and they were treated as a special interest group. That's the lack of respect we have to fight against. Going back to the record, in a way it feels like our first record, and also there's so much information in the songs and the lyrics, and it felt like one more title to sum it up was almost pretentious.
Do you feel better listening back at this album more than the others?
There's a grace period after you make a record, and you know what went into all the songs. And I don't think we've ever made a record where it didn't feel like our first record. Looking back, you can say, "that record is a little mid tempo" or "why was that the single?" I can't necessarily answer objectively, but I think, melodically speaking, the songs are pretty strong. I think the drumming on it is impeccable. Some of the players in the band like Mike and Matt, we figured out a way to create space for them to get to that level of energy that they have when we play live. I'm not sure how that happened -- it could have been released even more, but I think it's a step in the right direction.
Were you ever secretly pissed about Billy Ray Cyrus' Achy Breaky Heart keeping Ten out of the Number One spot?
No. I never even realized that. I'm sure there were other things to worry about at the time. I might even have been thankful that it wasn't Number One. I might reject the idea now. I'm mature enough to handle it, but at the time I couldn't handle it.
What do you remember about your first gig, as Mookie Blaylock?
The very first show we played was after my first trip to Seattle. On the 6th day we played a show, and on the 7th day we recorded. I know we were supposed to rest, but we recorded. What I remember is the sound check, because we were opening for two other bands on the bill, and they opened the doors during sound check, and I had my eyes closed and it was an empty club -- called the Off Ramp -- and I opened my eyes for the last chorus and the place was full. I had played for a number of bands, but I never played for a full house before. It's a good analogy, it happened kind of quick for us.
Do you remember who headlined?
No. No idea.
What's the most amazing thing you've seen from the stage?
I probably have an answer for each tour, if not each show. I remember a gig in Florida, it was a big baseball stadium, maybe towards the end of our second album tour. You always saw people get passed around the pit, it was the Norelco Razor with three pits going in the middle of one mass. That was the beginning of my lifeguard career -- I never felt like I looked up past the front, I was memorizing the faces and making sure you didn't lose anybody. I remember this wheelchair was being carried to the front. We got him up onstage...
There was somebody in it?!
Yeah. We got him up onstage during "Rockin' in the Free World." And I heard last year that that was one of the guys in the movie Murderball.
No way!
I feel like I have a Polaroid of him in my archives somewhere.
What was the first record you bought?
I remember how much it cost -- $5. It was probably a Jackson 5 record. It might have been Got To Be There -- the Michael Jackson solo record...at like a liquor store.
In Illinois?
Yeah, in Chicago.
What about the last?
The Joe Strummer and the 101ers -- his early stuff. I got a batch though. I got the new Crosby record, which is genius. I bought another copy of the Evens record for my friend. When I finally get down to the store, I buy a lot. They know me down there. It's called Easy Street, which we played recently.
You played a benefit there, right?
All the independent record store owners were in town in Seattle, of which the owner of Easy Street is part of that organization. So we thought it would make him look good and he'd be proud if we played his shop.
Do you get ten percent off now?
He sent me a gift certificate, which I still haven't used. I feel like I need to be paying for music.
What about the record you've spun the most times or listened to the most?
It would've been a Who record until I discovered Fugazi, and now they've caught up. All the time through my adolescence I spun Who records, but Fugazi caught up.
Which one? 13 Songs, Steady Diet...?
13 Songs. But I think of their whole body of work as one record.
You've seen the documentary?
Instrument. Yeah.
Isn't it great?
If you go see the Evens play, it's one of the highest examples I can think of. Of course, Neil Young does it, and Pete Townsend does it, but the level of communication that takes place and the amount of respect Ian has for his audience -- even the guaranteed four knuckleheads in the audience. He really cares for their opinion. And at this point, he's mixing himself from the stage -- there's no house mixing guy. He and this woman, Amy, do it from the stage as a two-piece and it sounds full. And he asks, "Should the vocals be louder?" and he turns it up! The amount of communication that takes place...it's certainly not fucking Storytellers or something, but it's a reminder of how powerful the stage is and what responsibility comes with the mic. And this is from a guy who is a punk rock legend. It's evolved into a different form of communication, which is as deep as anything I've ever seen.
Cool. You mentioned Neil Young, have you played with his model trains?
Yes.
Is that exciting?
That's Neil's private thing, I'm not going to say anything about it.
What's the best song you've ever written?
Matt Cameron thought that "Thumbing My Way" was the nicest chord progression I had ever devised.
What about you personally, and lyrically?
I have a few on ukulele that I like. For me, I judge it by melodic substance these days. It's something Johnny Ramone drilled in my head. I think it's where we came from with the first few records, you took a piece of music and added your throat to be part of the noise -- if there was any melody there, it was unconscious.
A song like "Black", for instance?
I imagine that has some melody to it. I think being conscious about it, really focusing to make something beautiful...there's a difference between a song and music. I think it's the melodic structure. I think the songs that connect are the melodic ones, they are the really musical ones. I haven't figured the theory out yet, but there's a difference and music is the goal.
Was there something unique about the "elderlywomanbehindacounter" song?
I remember it only because it was so quick. We were recording the second record, and we stayed in this house in San Francisco, and I was outside the house in my own world and the little outhouse had a small room. I'm talking the size of a bathroom. I was able to fit a Shure Vocal Master, which is a 1960's PA, and two big towers of PA and a little amp and a 4 track. I slept in there too. I remember waking up one morning and playing pretty normal chords that sounded good, and I put on the vocal master to hear myself and it came out right quick. I don't even think I scribbled the lyrics down. It took 20 minutes. Stone was sitting outside reading the paper, and he was like "I really like that." So we recorded it that day.
Did it spring from a dream?
It's funny you say that, because in my head I was going back to where I lived in San Diego but picturing myself older. Exactly right. It was bizarre...I forgot that.
For some reason, right now, I'm thinking it's the greatest Pearl Jam song ever.
The thing is, the dream was still alive...sorry. I had just woken up and started playing it, so the content was still in my brain.
Jack Johnson's dad told me some story of you almost dying on some outrigger adventure?
At no point did I think we were going to die while it was happening. About 2 weeks later I took a boat out to the scene of the crime, quite a ways off shore with some pretty heavy current, and the swells were pretty big and we got knocked off a sailing canoe, and it was only then, seeing where we were and the conditions, that I felt the need to vomit. Survival instincts kicked in, though, and I knew we might be out in the water for maybe 8 hours, but I knew for sure we'd get in. I might have been wrong, because the currents were going one way and the wind another. I didn't know that at the time, so instead of hitting the spot in the island where it juts out with a little port there, we were probably headed to Tahiti. After what seemed like a pretty long spell, the sole fishing boat in the water that day -- a guy and his 8-year-old daughter were out, and she saw us waving paddles. She couldn't have seen our heads, they were like coconuts. It was a good night on land that night.
You tied one on?
It was interesting hearing everyone's experience. We went around the campfire and talked about what everyone was thinking. And the two girls I was with in the water, they said they actually saw the headline in their minds...
Right? On MTV. "Eddie Vedder and two others die in canoe!"
What's-his-name dies with...
Yeah! Eddie Vedder -- what's-his-name -- dies along with two others.
So I'm glad for everyone's sake that that didn't happen.
QuoteWhat's the most amazing thing you've seen from the stage?
I probably have an answer for each tour, if not each show. I remember a gig in Florida, it was a big baseball stadium, maybe towards the end of our second album tour. You always saw people get passed around the pit, it was the Norelco Razor with three pits going in the middle of one mass. That was the beginning of my lifeguard career -- I never felt like I looked up past the front, I was memorizing the faces and making sure you didn't lose anybody. I remember this wheelchair was being carried to the front. We got him up onstage...
There was somebody in it?!
Yeah. We got him up onstage during "Rockin' in the Free World." And I heard last year that that was one of the guys in the movie Murderball.
beyond awesome.
"pearl jam"-marker in the sand
"lost dogs"-footsteps
"riot act"-you are
"binural"-nothing as it seems
"yield"-in hiding
"no code"-present tense
"vitalogy"-immortality
"vs"-animal
"ten"-porch
"life wasted" (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6187666924357770983) (official music video)
this is a strange video.
Straight up bad. Expected Kane to have a cameo in that shit.
Quote from: I Love a Magician on May 20, 2006, 11:11:20 PM
Straight up bad.
Yep. I'm excited about Life Wasted but the non-cover album art did not need to resurface like this...ouch.
Quote from: abuck1220 on May 06, 2006, 01:37:05 AM
i tell you what i'd have booed...the douchebags with the leash signs.
Apparently, they dropped the Leash this past weekend!
Pearl Jam tells its "Story" at VH1 taping
NEW YORK (Billboard) - A few hundred lucky fans packed a New York club to watch Pearl Jam tape an episode of the VH1 series "Storytellers," which will premiere July 1 on the music channel.
Frontman Eddie Vedder was in a political mood throughout the 10-song set at the Avalon Wednesday, noting that although "truth seems to be a vanishing commodity" under President Bush's leadership, the band was keeping in mind the old saying, "don't let the truth get in the way of a good story."
Filling in background and inspiration for songs old and new, Vedder riffed on the abusive relationship at the heart of "Better Man" ("it's much more tricky to end them than I would have thought," he said) and explained how the audience response to "Alive" forever changed the song's meaning for him.
"In the original story, a teenager is being made aware of a shocking truth that leaves him plenty confused," he said of the tale, based on his own teenage discovery that the man he believed to be his biological father was actually not. "It was a curse -- 'I'm still alive."'
But as fans quickly turned the title phrase into a self-empowering anthem, particularly at Pearl Jam concerts, Vedder said, "they lifted the curse. The audience changed the meaning for me."
Earlier, he pointed out how many Pearl Jam songs find the subject "sitting behind the wheel of a moving vehicle" before joking, " Bruce Springsteen is still the boss of car songs but we're working our way up to assistant manager."
Vedder saved his strongest anti-Bush venom for a solo acoustic reworking of late folk singer Phil Ochs' "Here's to the State of Mississippi," with new lyrical references to vice president Dick Cheney, evangelist Jerry Falwell, attorney general Alberto Gonzalez and, of course, President Bush.
During a brief Q&A session with fans, guitarist Stone Gossard ribbed Vedder for not playing the rest of the band his "Better Man" demo until it was time to make the third Pearl Jam album. "Just think of the other songs he has hidden away," he said.
Vedder acknowledged Pearl Jam may have lost some fans due to its political leanings, but said, "When you take a stand you have to be very committed to ideals. I respect everyone's opinion. At least we've taken part in creating some discussion."
The show ended with an aggressive run through new single "Life Wasted," the top debut at No. 25 on Billboard's latest airplay-based Modern Rock chart.
The band last played the Avalon back in 1992, when it was known as Limelight.
The Storytellers setlist (from The Sky I Scrape)
Set: Betterman, Unemployable, Worldwide Suicide, Gone, Sleight of Hand, Army Reserve, Insignificance, Alive
Encore 1: Here's To The State Of Mississippi, Q&A period, Life Wasted
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Fuck the new songs, but I'm glad they played Sleight of Hand.
Pretty good set and of course, they're going to have to pimp the new album, but they should have a couple of new songs for B-sides or something off No Code or Yield. But then again, at least there's no Riot Act.
new interview with rolling stone.
interview excerpt, about kurt cobain:
"I miss him," Vedder says. "There are a lot of times when we're passing around a guitar, around a campfire or something, and I just think like he'd be right there with us. I think about him all the time."
read the entire interview here (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10533095/the_second_coming_of_pearl_jam/1).
pearl jam - second coming (rolling stone interview, extended interview)
Do you agree when people say your new album is your strongest in years? It's one of those weird compliments where there's an implied put-down of previous stuff.
We've heard a lot of that. And, you know, if that needs to be said in order to prick up someone's ears and say, "I'll have to revisit this band," then I don't think we can complain about it....I think this record is stronger. I'm thankful that it turned out to be a more aggressive record.
Was there a particular song that set the template for everything else?
We played music for about five days with all these discussions about all these arrangements and whatever. And at the end of the five days we had probably like ten pieces of music. And then on the sixth day I asked for the room to myself and just like belted it out over the ten pieces of music. In, literally, a day and a half or something I pretty much had most of the melodies down for the first ten songs. And we ended up writing forty other pieces of music. And it all kept getting [pared down]. That's another reason why it ended up being aggressive. It wasn't that we tried to write all aggressive songs -- it's just the ones that were kind of mid-tempo, we left them behind.
Yeah. And you worked hard on the lyrics? Unusually hard, from what I understand.
Well, it wasn't that I set out to work hard on them. Because it's not always hard. And it should be easy. If you connect with the idea and the light hits you in the forehead, you get it on the typewriter, you get it on the eight-track machine in front of you -- your little portable machine -- then sometimes it can go quick. The hard part was just sticking at it for, you know, it could be eight days for one song until the fucking beam hits you between the eyes and then you're ready. You're ready to capture it. You need the patience of like a National Geographic photographer sitting underneath the bush in a tent, trying to get a picture of zebras fucking or something for the first time. [Laughs] For some reason, a lot of the songs I wrote eight versions until I got the right one, or until it was like up to the standards of what the Earth's atmosphere is demanding for music. And it needed that, or I'd figure out after eight, nine or eleven drafts that the first one was actually the one.
When I think of you at fifty, I still can imagine Pearl Jam being together. Can you?
Yeah, yeah. That's not hard to do.
You've never even temporarily broken up, not that you've told anyone at least.
Right. I mean, at the end of every tour you basically break up. You just keep it to yourself. Then you can relieve yourself of the pressure, and right about the time you feel like playing music again, you think, "Well, there's not a better bunch of guys to do it with."
After all this time, you still haven't done your own solo project.
I think it's just because...I am so fucking beat at the end of...the amount of communication it takes to be on the road and the amount of physical...I don't know who said it...someone said like, "I play the shows for free; they pay me to travel." And Flea and I were talking about that the other day. We started laughing about it hysterically, because we were just in that mode, you know. I've recorded a bunch of stuff just for myself, and I've done a number of benefits for kids by myself because it's easier for me to get there than the whole group and kind of make a bit of a difference. Also, I've had some real genuine offers to collaborate with a few people here and there in our off time. That's kept me pretty busy. And I think too, during that time when you're not functioning as one of the limbs of the group and having to be in motion with each other at all times, that off time, that's when you kind of get away from everything and refill everything that you've emptied out and kind of get your soul back. You remind yourself what's it's like to be a regular human being and not be part of the band. Any one of our guys will tell you that. We're proud to be in it and we're proud to come together. But you're talking about five extremely different individuals who don't define themselves by being in this group. It's what it will say in the paper when we die, but it's not how we define ourselves.
During your period of unhappiness with fame and everything that was happening with the band, are there things that you did that you regret?
Yeah, I'm sure there were, but I'm not going to think about them now because it just doesn't matter. It's hard for us to watch early performances, even though that's when people think we were on fire and young. Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy. And I find it kind of hard to watch those early performances because it's so just fucking, semi-testosterone-fueled or whatever. But it didn't come from jock mentality. It came from just being let out of the gates. And Jeff and Stone, their horse was just about to be put down when it was put in the race. And I was coming from the same place. So when they finally let us out of the gates, we didn't have a smooth, galvanized, streamlined gate. We were just rocking all over the place.
I saw a clip on the Jools Holland show where they made you watch an old performance and you looked like you were going to die.
Could you see us watching the performance?
Yeah, I mean you were laughing, but you were also were starting to get really uncomfortable.
I was thinking, "OK, I've had enough. That's enough. OK." And it's not even that bad. It's like looking at pictures from high school or something. But outside of that, we made it through. So we shouldn't have too many regrets. I can listen to the early records [except] the first record, which is strange because it's the one that, in a way, we've been defined by, or people know those songs most. But, it's just the sound of the record. It was kind of mixed in a way that was...it was kind of produced.
I understand that the guys would present riffs and you'd pick the weird one instead of the one that sounded like Pearl Jam. And also, I wonder if there were other songs that were as catchy or as poppy as "Betterman" but we never heard them because they weren't what you wanted.
Yeah. We were all trying to tame the beast. I was the guy who got [stalkers] or whatever, it just happened. And so it probably seemed more life-threatening to me to tame the beast. And you know, we're talking about melodies and hooks in a song, and could that be life-threatening? But, I've just explained it. I felt that with any more popularity we were going to be crushed, or our heads were going to pop like grapes. I went through this fucking yearlong period where I wore helmets all the time. It was like army helmets that I'd find, or just like whatever. It was this kind of analogy, like I need a helmet...I felt like...it's just funny looking...sleeping in a fucking army helmet. I remember one day after a Lollapalooza gig, I woke up in a hotel in an army helmet and a T-shirt. And, I heard a live band playing. I thought it was a live band. So I went out the door to see if it was live. I had to know -- was that a real stand-up bass? Or were they just playing music in the atrium or whatever? So I pushed the door open, went to look, you know, and I looked back and the door just went [makes a clicking sound]. So I'm standing in the hotel, in this atrium thing and I've got an army helmet on and a T-shirt.
In like your underwear? Nothing?
Nothing; army helmet and a T-shirt. I was thinking, "Aww, this is really bad." And so I go down to the maids, but they won't let me in. I don't know anybody else's room number. Everyone's got a pseudonym. I don't know who's what. And, so I take the T-shirt off, wrap it around the back, put the army helmet over the front, go down in this glass elevator, it's Easter Sunday -- this all starts to hit me -- it's Easter Sunday, there's all these people in their Easter [best]. It was somewhere in the Midwest like Milwaukee or something. I had to walk through the people, and parents were hiding their kids from this freaky guy. It must have been like a real apparition. Then -- sorry I got into this story; I'll just finish it -- but the funny thing is that I actually waited in line. There was a line at the front desk. I actually waited in line behind two other people. It was kind of a Tarzan goes to Vietnam look or something. And then of course you get to the lady, tell her your problem, locked out of your room and, of course, she asks for an ID. That's when I lost it.
Your helmet period was like in '92 when you were playing Lollapalooza?
Yeah, yeah. It's a joke. I mean, it happened, but it probably wasn't a year; it was a couple of months. If you look back, you'll see pictures of me wearing it.
Do you ever wish that you'd embraced the machine more? If you had even more of the spotlight on you, if you had completely gone for it and embraced it, then maybe you'd have more power to speak out politically. Do you ever think about that kind of thing?
I tell ya. I had the chance. I just didn't take the bait. Believe me, we put ourselves out there, with Nader, and whatever it is, as much as we can. But as a band we know our limits and as a human I certainly know my limits. I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up...I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could. The physicality of what Bono does, the physicality of like, meeting with Mitterrand and then going and playing Sweden that night, and then more shows after that... I've told him that I was in awe of what he did, not only what he accomplished, but how he fuckin' did it, from the point of taxing his body. I told him this, and he kind of raised his eyebrows and asked for another drink. [Laughs]
Roger Daltrey once said to me that he felt rock music can speak to the concerns of adulthood and middle-age as well as it does to adolescence. What do you think?
I think you could do both. We're probably in a position to do that. I look around the audience, and there's so many faces, and I've looked into the eyes of at least the ones I could see -- there's at least 1,000 faces -- and I've communicated directly to them and seen where they're coming from. Those faces range from like twelve-year-olds, to tonight probably fifty-year-olds, and it seems like we are connected. They knew what was going on, singing along, not to the old songs but the new songs. They know how old I am, they know where I'm coming from. One thing I don't feel is separation from the crowd. I don't feel like we're speaking from a platform, I feel like we are communicating on the same level.
I mentioned before as a joke, why not go all the way? Why not go on TRL, for instance, and play on TRL and reach out to the masses of teens. What would be so bad?
I haven't even thought about it. It might be a great idea
There might be a horrifying encounter with a host and stuff. But if you could just play...
If you could play a song...I would like to play on Ellen DeGeneres' show.
Nice, nice. So do it.
I think she's tremendous.
Yeah, she's cool.
But, you know what? I wouldn't do it based on know what her -- what's the word...?
Demographic?
Demographic. It wouldn't be based on that. It would be based on that I think Ellen DeGeneres has done. Tremendous things. Who hosts TRL? What have they done?
The real point is, that's what kids watch.
I'm sure the kids would have a good time watching our band play, I mean, I don't know. I think, to be honest, no one's approached the subject.
I think maybe, people think it's unthinkable, for some reason.
Could be.
Were you uncomfortable at all on Saturday Night Live this time?
No...I mean, we were still learning the songs, you know...
You seemed restrained, especially compared with how you are in a real concert.
Well, I'm aware that it's TV, too, you know? We don't do that much TV. We did some TV in London, and then we came back, and we did Letterman. So I mean we do it once every few years, but what I think is interesting is other people do this stuff, and they do it all the time and they do it really good, and they're kind of our peers, and I respect them and I admire them. I see things that are absolutely great.
Like the Chili Peppers? Is that who you're thinking of?
...or Tim Robbins, interviewing on Letterman. He gets his point across. Maybe the more you do it, the better you get at it. We were coming from a standpoint where, it was like the Native Americans, where if they took your picture, part of your soul got sucked out of you.
I was just thinking that that's how you guys have been acting, literally, today. Did something make you start thinking that way?
TV made us feel that way. I mean the fact that it's transmitted to -- I'm just guessing -- millions, it's tangible, that it actually sucks it out of you. But that's when you don't do it. I think you can kind of callus yourself to it and be more giving with it and free and say like, "Hey, here it is." It's so psychological in a way. To grasp it, especially when you feel proud of the information that you're disseminating, and your beats and rhythms and lyrical content, then how could this be bad? We stand behind what we're saying and playing so let's let it fly. I'm sure you can get pretty professional at it, which will suck all the life out of it and then you'll just be show business. But we're far from that. For us it's probably a good time to realize this is not a bad way to transmit information.
How did you get into yoga?
I made some changes... like we talked about earlier, when I found a place to get away. I met the few people who were around on this kind of deserted existence. I realized that these people were not impressed by what you had and what you were. They were impressed with how old you could live to be and how little you could live with. And we're talking about guys who are like eighty-five years old, looking like their bodies were in their 30s or 40s. Their faces showed it a little bit, doing yoga poses I still can't do, and living under a lean-to next to a river, and they usually have some artistic bent -- they drew these incredible maps or something. This was the most respectable way to live. And I was down with that.
When did all this change for you? Was it when you found this place to go away, when you found a meditation, that your attitude changed?
I just disappeared. The world is bigger than the world I was living in. That's all there is to it. You know, we were in a band, we played and promoted ourselves and then we complained about it. It just got to where it was beyond the beyond. We thought we were keeping up with each other. We all thought we were doing the right thing, and then we realized pretty quickly it was kind of out of our hands, and that's when we wanted to get some control back of our lives and our own destiny.
There was a time when you seemed reluctant to play your hits. But now you sound as if you're really into playing "Alive," I mean really into it. What changed?
I don't know if it changed, I don't think it was ever a problem. I mean I dare you to sing "Black" and not feel it. I dare you. That's why, like, I think about someone singing karaoke to our songs. You gotta feel it -- it's gotta be the real deal. That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in "Jeremy" a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
Don't know if anyone caught the VH1 Storytellers episode that just aired...but even as a rabid fan I was taken aback. Ed revealed that the Alive "curse" has been lifted by audiences that have interpreted the track in a positive and inspiring way as well as performing great new songs like Gone and Life Wasted. If nothing else, I think this premiere has created the framework for a potentially watchable show (something I wouldn't have thought possible) on VH1 in the coming weeks.
Any other thoughts?
I forgot about it.
Me too. I'm not too worried though, I don't like most of the songs they aired.
Quote from: Sunrise on July 01, 2006, 10:09:33 PMAny other thoughts?
did they say anything else worth knowing during the q&a session? i have vh1 but it's the european (or uk) version. i don't know if the show will air here. i've checked the website (eu/uk) for information but couldn't find anything.
Quote from: mogwai on July 02, 2006, 04:54:30 AM
Quote from: Sunrise on July 01, 2006, 10:09:33 PMAny other thoughts?
did they say anything else worth knowing during the q&a session? i have vh1 but it's the european (or uk) version. i don't know if the show will air here. i've checked the website (eu/uk) for information but couldn't find anything.
The q & a was pretty worthless...more humorous than anything else. The best stuff, as usual, came from Vedder's verbal interludes between songs.
yay. I just watched it. I'm in love with this band, as if ya didn't know. I liked when Eddie talked about Alive. He talked about the song being about somoene that he didn't know very well. Then he said that someone was him, but he was at a point where he didn't know himself that well so when his mother told him the truth about his father he was even more confused.
ps- I want to be one of those fans that follows the band, going to every show. I'm saving my money for the next tour. 8)
Pearl Jam donates green for environment
SEATTLE (AP) — Pearl Jam has promised to donate $100,000 to several groups that focus on climate change, renewable energy and other environmental causes as part of an effort to offset carbon emissions the band churns out on tour.
"Our Carbon Portfolio Strategy is the newest component of our ongoing efforts to advance clean renewable energy and carbon mitigation," the Seattle-based band said in a statement posted on its website Tuesday.
Guitarist Stone Gossard said the group has been tracking its carbon emissions from vehicles used on tour and energy used in concert venues and hotels to estimate the band's contribution to global warming.
"We can get a really relatively accurate picture of what that looks like over a year, and it's a considerable amount of carbon," Gossard told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a backstage interview at a concert in Los Angeles. "We emitted about 5,000 tons of carbon on our last tour."
Cascade Land Conservancy and EarthCorps, which work to protect and replenish Puget Sound-area forests, are among nine organizations Pearl Jam picked to receive donations.
One of the donations, to IslandWood, an environmental education center, will provide scholarships for children who can't afford tuition, spokeswoman Marla Saperstein said.
The largest share of the group's donations will go to Conservation International, which does work does work in more than 40 countries.
Pearl Jam has aided other green causes in the past, including donating money to preserve a Madagascar rain forest to atone for environmental damage wrought by its last tour.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press.
not pearl jam related, but if you are down w/the grunge scene and you know where those words came from under Bethie's avatar, then this shit is for you ...this is a fucking treasure...
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24380
Here is a quote from the Five Horizons website written by Jo-Anne Green:
"The first night, Dogs D'Amour, obviously fed up with Wood's onstage antics, positioned their equipment to ensure that he would be unable to move around as much as he normally did. Wood took his revenge the following evening. Using a wireless mike, not only did he take over the stage, he now had the entire club at his disposal. A bootleg of an excellent show at Providence, Rhode Island on March 31 captures the excitement of Mother Love Bone live."
must register...[free]
So I went to both shows, it was so happy dudes.... I didn't realize it till after but i cried during black last night.
Lisbon I
Set List: Wasted Reprise, Life Wasted, Animal, Corduroy, Severed Hand, World Wide Suicide, Even Flow, I Am Mine, God's Dice, Given To Fly, Do The Evolution, Wish List, Lukin, Not For You / (Modern Girl), Comatose, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Jeremy, Why Go
1st Encore: Last Kiss, Inside Job, Black, Crazy Mary , Alive
2nd Encore: Big Wave, Better Man, Leash, Baba O'Riley, Yellow Ledbetter
Lisbon II
Set List: Severd Hand, Corduroy, Hail Hail, Save You, World Wide Suicide, Dissident, Even Flow, Army Reserve, Whipping, State of Love and Trust, I Got Shit, Garden, Do The Evolution, Sad, Daughter/(It's Ok by Dead Moon), Insignificance, Black, Rearviewmirror
1st Encore: Improv (Portugal Jam), Come Back, I Believe In Miracles, Big Wave, Once, Footsteps, Alive
2nd Encore: Wasted Reprise, Betterman, Smile, Why Go, Rocking In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter
An email from the ten club this past Wednesday:
QuoteHello Fellow PJ Fans,
Here at the Ten Club, we are very excited to announce the release of "5
x1: Pearl Jam Through the Eye of Lance Mercer". "5 x 1" is a killer photo
book featuring over 180 previously-unreleased photos taken by renowned
Seattle photographer and long-time Pearl Jam friend, Lance Mercer.
Lance Mercer had been shooting the Seattle music scene for over 10 years
when he was invited to travel with Pearl Jam in 1992 as their official
tour photographer. As a long-time friend of the band members, Lance was
granted unprecedented access to capture Pearl Jam at their most
introspective, creative, and personal moments. The best of these photos
have been immortalized in "5x1."
"For five years, I focused on photographing Pearl Jam, shooting as close
to the action as possible," explains Mercer. "Pearl Jam was a moving
target. I learned to adjust to the surroundings and never went anywhere
without my camera."
In addition to dozens of behind-the-scenes snapshots, "5x1" features
writings from a number of the band's peers, mentors, and heroes. Ben
Harper, Gloria Steinem, Bruce Springsteen, Cameron Crowe, Tim Robbins,
Michael Stipe, Pete Townshend, Kelly Slater, Theo Epstein, Howard Zinn and
more have contributed written narratives on Pearl Jam, which are used
throughout the book to complement Mercer's photos.
For a closer look and information on how to buy, go to
http://pearljam.com/pjlm/5x1.htm.
I know you're excited. I ordered mine. I'll let you know how it is. 8)
Quote from: Bethie on October 16, 2006, 01:26:02 AM
An email from the ten club this past Wednesday: QuoteHello Fellow PJ Fans,
Here at the Ten Club, we are very excited to announce the release of "5
x1: Pearl Jam Through the Eye of Lance Mercer". "5 x 1" is a killer photo
book featuring over 180 previously-unreleased photos taken by renowned
Seattle photographer and long-time Pearl Jam friend, Lance Mercer.
Lance Mercer had been shooting the Seattle music scene for over 10 years
when he was invited to travel with Pearl Jam in 1992 as their official
tour photographer. As a long-time friend of the band members, Lance was
granted unprecedented access to capture Pearl Jam at their most
introspective, creative, and personal moments. The best of these photos
have been immortalized in "5x1."
"For five years, I focused on photographing Pearl Jam, shooting as close
to the action as possible," explains Mercer. "Pearl Jam was a moving
target. I learned to adjust to the surroundings and never went anywhere
without my camera."
In addition to dozens of behind-the-scenes snapshots, "5x1" features
writings from a number of the band's peers, mentors, and heroes. Ben
Harper, Gloria Steinem, Bruce Springsteen, Cameron Crowe, Tim Robbins,
Michael Stipe, Pete Townshend, Kelly Slater, Theo Epstein, Howard Zinn and
more have contributed written narratives on Pearl Jam, which are used
throughout the book to complement Mercer's photos.
For a closer look and information on how to buy, go to
http://pearljam.com/pjlm/5x1.htm.
I know you're excited. I ordered mine. I'll let you know how it is. 8)
Holy shit...Theo Epstein?!? As if that guy doesn't have enough going for him...he's a buddy of the band as well. Geez.
This does look pretty interesting, though.
Bono is the lamest motherfucker.
haha. so tonight I saw a Pearl Jam tribute band, Ten. I had such a fun time. haha. They broke out State of fucking Love and Trust. Even ended with Baba O Riliey! My friend thought I would never be interested in a 'fake' Pearl Jam, but oh, I am. His brother scored us some free tickets. I asked my manager if I could leave early from work haha.
I went up front when they started Given To Fly, and I saw two other ladies singing all the lyrics and having a good time. I kept watching b/c I knew they must be big fans. Later on, they were right in front, so I went up to them and tapped the one woman on the shoulder and said, "make room for me." She asked if I was a big fan, so I hold up my fingers that I've seen them 4 times. (haha, I should have been like, I've seen Ten 4 times, not Pearl Jam) We all sang along and had a good time. The band wound up dedicating Rearviewmirror "to the ladies in the front" They played over 2 hours!
After the show I find out this woman-the fellow fan- is from my town! I was shocked. She asked me if people think I'm weird for liking the band so much, cause her husband finds her love for them weird. Actually the first thing she asked me was my name then how old I was. She said she's been a fan since she was my age(now shes 35). haha and what a small town I live in, she worked at the restaurant I work at before it was the restaurant it is now. So we know a lot of the same people. yay I made a new friend! I'm up to 3 now. 8)
now State of Love and Trust will not leave my head
-also got the Deep magizine in the mail the other day. I actually never read all the last one. too many words.
Christmas single soon :!:
i'm finally going to see them live when they play in copenhagen on the 26th of june. i think this will be an emotional night due to what happened when they last played in denmark. and i was a bit surprised the thing wasn't sold out because the public tickets were released this monday. the ten club tickets was already sold out though. yay!
Quote from: mogwai on January 31, 2007, 09:59:34 AM
i think this will be an emotional night due to what happened when they last played in denmark.
what happened when they last played in denmark?
i think someone(s) in the audience were killed/crushed at the rokslide festival, no?
Nine people were killed that were very close to the stage. Pretty sure they suffocated from getting trapped under the crowd. Scary.
Back in 2003, one of my good friends painstakingly cobbled together the best performances of each song Pearl Jam played during their tour to make a giant 100+ song set.
He just finished doing the same thing for the 2006 tour and I think he's outdone himself. 172 songs this time!
So if you're on youkanland, grab it.
http://www.youkanland.com/torrents-details.php?id=1040
http://www.youkanland.com/torrents-details.php?id=1038
http://www.youkanland.com/torrents-details.php?id=1029
ever heard of the movie about pearl jam in 1995 that never was released?
here it is to download (low quality, mind you)
http://pearljamweb.blogspot.com/2006/11/pearl-jam-official-movie-1995.html
scroll down a wee bit and there's three links (three parts) to the movie.
Quote from: mogwai on May 01, 2007, 04:34:23 PM
ever heard of the movie about pearl jam in 1995 that never was released?
here it is to download (low quality, mind you)
http://pearljamweb.blogspot.com/2006/11/pearl-jam-official-movie-1995.html
scroll down a wee bit and there's three links (three parts) to the movie.
here's an excerpt from the movie i posted above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX7ulO-gr-0
i was just wondering if anyone recognizes the music in the clip? it's obviously not pearl jam but has it featured in movies before this? cheers.
setlist from copenhagen 26/6:
Preset: Throw Your Arms Around Me
Main Set List: Long Road, Corduroy, Why Go, Do the Evolution, In Hiding, LOVE BOAT CAPTAIN, Love Reign O'er Me, Severed Hand, Light Years, Marker in the Sand, Given to Fly, Breath, I Am Mine, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Hard to Imagine, Life Wasted, Porch
1st Encore: No More (Ed Solo), World Wide Suicide, Down, Once, Black, Alive
2nd Encore: *Ed speech about coming back to Denmark,* Betterman, Rockin' in the Free World, Yellow Ledbetter
well, where should i start? i was suspecting eddie would come out before the support band and play some songs. and right, he did, he sang "throw your arms around me" and it was beautiful. after that the futurheads came out and played about 10 songs. they were alright but got boring because it sounded repetitive. then after maybe 30 minutes pearl jam came out. with the sound of master/slave blaring out in the p.a.'s 10,000 people screamed and cheered. the opening song felt predictable because of what had happened in roskilde 2000. "long road" was a perfect start. then they played various songs that are a part of their live act. then they belted out "love reign o'er me". i don't know if it had been performed before. but it was perfect, had a lump in my throat because of eddie's perfect screaming in the song. well, to cut a long story short the second encore was emotional. eddie had a long speech about how long it'd been since roskilde. and that the return was not a closure, it wasn't the end of the track etc... and that relatives and close ones to the victims of roskilde 2000 sat in an enclosed balcony. they were watching the whole show and we applauded them. i think it was a pj crew member who filmed the show from the same balcony. i think it was going to be a gift for the relatives and close ones.
i dunno, a lot of positive things happened. one little ugly thing happened right next to me. there was a guy who fainted, i think. a lot of people saw this and was concerned if he was okay. he gave us the okay sign but fainted again. one guy, who probably was his mate took care of him and walked him out for a fresh breath of air or something. that was a relief because i think a lot of people were concerned about this sort of stuff happening. it was very hot in the venue and people had been pulled out in the front. something was a little bit of unnerving for pearl jam. but nothing serious, thankfully, happened.
so, i will hunt down a live bootleg of this show because there's no official bootlegs of this tour. :yabbse-sad: anyway, this was great show and even better setlist. this will be a night that i will remember for a long time.
"love reign o'er me" live from copenhagen
http://download.yousendit.com/C509D3B57BC0EA33
Awesome. Thank you for sharing your experience. I love when Ed comes out before the opening band. I get so antsy during the opening band. I've been listening to Live at The Gorge. Sometimes when I'm listening to their bootlegs I get overly excited and want to see them right away. I decided a long time ago that next time they tour, I'm going to see them in Seattle.
Quote from: Bethie on June 28, 2007, 01:33:04 AM
Awesome. Thank you for sharing your experience. I love when Ed comes out before the opening band. I get so antsy during the opening band. I've been listening to Live at The Gorge. Sometimes when I'm listening to their bootlegs I get overly excited and want to see them right away. I decided a long time ago that next time they tour, I'm going to see them in Seattle.
i think i will be more excited when i'm listening to live bootlegs of their shows. especially when i saw some live clips from the copenhagen show at youtube. you remember exactly what they played or how eddie sang. i'd also like to see a show at seattle too or anywhere in the u.s. or some obscure place in greenland... :yabbse-smiley:
i should buy the live box set too, and hopefully the copenhagen gig will available to download. or even better, released on cd in the near future.
edit:
the end of "black" from copenhagen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr7AQ1k0J0I
"love reign o'er me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JspHEtTfqfw
AT&T errs in edit of anti-Bush lyrics
Lyrics performed by Pearl Jam criticizing President Bush should not have been censored from a webcast by AT&T Inc., a company spokesman acknowledged Thursday.
AT&T, through its Blue Room entertainment site, offered a webcast of the band's headlining performance Sunday at Lollapalooza in Chicago. The event was shown with a brief delay so the company could bleep out excessive profanity or nudity.
But monitors hired by AT&T through a vendor went further and cut two lines from a song to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall." One was "George Bush, leave this world alone" the second time it was sung, and the other was "George Bush find yourself another home," according to the band's Web site.
AT&T spokesman Michael Coe said that the silencing was a mistake and that the company was working with the vendor that produces the webcasts to avoid future misunderstandings. He said AT&T was working to secure the rights to post the entire song — part of a sing-along with the audience — on the Blue Room site.
Blue Room offers live concerts, sports interviews, video game advice and other entertainment content that requires a high-speed Internet connection. Although viewing the content is free, San Antonio-based AT&T uses the site as a way to promote its DSL broadband services.
Besides Pearl Jam's show, AT&T showed 21 other performances ranging from Pete Yorn to G. Love and Special Sauce during the three-day Lollapalooza music festival. Coe said no other complaints have been made about censoring.
Pearl Jam said in a posting on its Web site that in the future, it would work harder to ensure live broadcasts or webcasts are "free from arbitrary edits."
"If a company that is controlling a webcast is cutting out bits of our performance — not based on laws, but on their own preferences and interpretations — fans have little choice but to watch the censored version," they said.
The alternative rock band and Internet advocates were also using the incident to try to draw attention to the prospects of Internet service providers like AT&T deciding to give preferential treatment to content they favor or have deals with, leaving the rest on slower-moving Internet bandwidths.
Jenny Toomey, executive director of the Future of Music Coalition, said that although net neutrality wasn't being violated in this case, it still raises questions about whether AT&T and other service providers can be trusted not to hurt artists.
Internet speeds that depend only on the size of files, not the kind of content that's in them, is a democratizing force, she said.
"We've got to protect that, and artists get that," Toomey said.
AT&T and other providers would like the ability to charge more for transmitting certain kinds of data, like live video, faster or more reliably than other data but have insisted such premium services would help, not hurt, consumers.
Coe said, regardless, the issue of net neutrality is entirely separate from the mistake during the Pearl Jam show.
"This was our own Web site," he noted.
I'm going to see Eddie Vedder solo.
Less than a month.
beth did you watch the vh1 rock honors the who tribute last night?
i'd say pj tied with flaming lips for best of the night. good stuff.
Quote from: Bethie on July 18, 2008, 01:17:42 AM
I'm going to see Eddie Vedder solo.
Less than a month.
have a good time, bethie. i bought two bootlegs from the recent tour. west palm beach and the 2nd show at madison square garden. msg is better because it features mike mccready singing the intro to "black diamond" feat. ace frehley.
if there's any completists or someone who wants a show of their 2000 tour then there's this one:
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=286658
all 72 shows from the world tour.
Quote from: mogwai on July 19, 2008, 01:10:31 AM
i bought two bootlegs from the recent tour. west palm beach
ooh i want that bootleg. i was at that show.
Quote from: Hedwig on July 18, 2008, 10:53:32 AM
beth did you watch the vh1 rock honors the who tribute last night?
i'd say pj tied with flaming lips for best of the night. good stuff.
Of course. When I got to work the day it was going to be on, my friend came up to me and is like "I know you're late and have a lot to do but I just wanted to tell you.. if you didn't know..." and I stopped him, "I know. pearl jam is on the who tribute tonight." I was at the gym when the show started and thought maybe I'd make it home before Pearl Jam were due to perform. I decided not to take the chance and walked on the treadmill and extra 30 minutes. haha.
I'm going to check out some of those boots. Thanks. Everytime I go into a music store I always scan the PJ section to see what boots they have. I've found quite a few used for cheap.
PJ Boots sounds like a good name for a A)band B)Detective C)Kitty Cat
http://www.nodata.tv/2008/08/pearl-jam-live-at-tweeter-center.html
:yabbse-smiley: one more day.
Pearl Jam to reissue 'Ten'
Pearl Jam are reissuing their 1991 album 'Ten'.
The new expanded edition of the record is available to pre-order from Pearljam.com before it hits the shops on March 23, 2009.
The album is the first in a series of reissues set to be released to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary in 2011.
Four different versions of 'Ten' will be released, with each edition featuring the original and remastered version, plus a remix of the album by producer Brendan O'Brien.
The following features can be found across the editions:
DVD of previously unreleased 1992 Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged performance
LP of the band's 1992 'Drop In The Park' concert
Replica of Pearl Jam three-song demo cassette with Eddie Vedder's original vocal dubs
Bonus tracks including 'Brother', 'Just A Girl', 'State Of Love', 'Breath And A Scream', '2,000 Mile Blues' and 'Evil Little Goat'
Replica Eddie Vedder composition notebook filled with personal notes and images from the collections of Vedder and Jeff Ament
ah boy
Nowadays, couldn't care less. Gotta get going and play that Seeds record.
hey, go here to introduce yourself. (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=2.735)
also what the hell are you talking about?
For Bethie; and early valentine:
Pearl Jam Head to the Studio for 2009 Album
Source: Rolling Stone
In May, Rolling Stone first reported that Pearl Jam were sketching out songs for their ninth studio album — their first with producer Brendan O'Brien since 1998's Yield. Now those plans are more concrete: Eddie Vedder and Co. are close to hitting the studio to lay down an album they plan to self-release in the U.S. without a label. "The new record feels good so far — really strong and uptempo, stuff we can sink our teeth into," Vedder told RS' Brian Hiatt when visited the band in Seattle for an in-depth look at the upcoming record — read the full story in the new issue, on newsstands now.
Pearl Jam are also busy readying the deluxe reissue of their 1991 debut, Ten, which his stores March 24th in four editions. When the album came out, David Fricke directed listeners to focus on Vedder's voice: "a ragged, enraged mongrel blend of Robert Plant and James Hetfield — and the Pearls' surprising, and refreshing, melodic restraint."
Looking back at Pearl Jam's beginnings made us think of the awesome 1993 profile of the band Cameron Crowe wrote for this magazine. Crowe grabbed the band while they were prepping to record their second album, as they casually discussed releasing "Daughter" as a single, and mused on the prospect of blowing up. "If somebody wants to say, 'You guys used to be my favorite band, but you got too big' — to me, the problem with getting too big is not, innately, you get too big and all of a sudden you stop playing good music," Stone Gossard said. "The problem is, when you get too big, you stop doing the things you used to do."
Thank you! Looks like I'm going to have to steal my friend's issue of Rolling Stone! I'm disappointed in myself that I haven't pre-ordered the reissue of Ten yet. I actually made a list of things that I have to put money towards and the list went something like:
Pearl Jam reissue of Ten
Eye Doctor
Electric Bill
Cable Bill
Phone Bill
Dentist Appt
my priorities are in order.
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i settled for the double cd version feat. the unplugged dvd. i'm sure bethie bought the expensive version, yeah? i thought the expensive version wasn't my bag. i don't own a vinyl player and if i had to buy one then it'd be very expensive. i think the remix versions are a bit better then the normal master. the extra tracks are good especially "evil little goat" which is basically a rehearsal of pure nonsense. i'm really looking forward to "vs" and "vitalogy". i'm interested to what extra stuff they have in bag for those albums.
Quotei'm sure bethie bought the expensive version, yeah?
Worth every penny. I actually just got it today. I opened the envelope that had a poster and lots of pictures and all these little things fell out, a sticker, a ticket stub, a backstage pass, postcards, even a Mookie Blaylock trading card! All these little goodies that I didn't know were included. The composition book it came with, I've already looked through a few times. It has a sticker on the back that reads "I saw Pearl Jam" ha. love it.
Next up...a Pearl Jam tattoo! I don't have any tats and never cared for them. Never thought I'd get one.. but this band is a huge part of my life and I feel like it's something that has to be done. Not the stickman either.
reflecting back to the mtv unplugged thingie... it's very weird seeing all the guys long haired, young and filled with aggression. one thing is for sure, success came too early for them, not like it altered them forever but they've been touring the first album for two years and bending over for any possible moment they could get hold onto. i'm just rambling here (as always...) but i felt i wanted to air some views about these re-releases. it's kind of interesting seeing the flower full blooming.
I watched the unplugged twice last night! I kept thinking the same thing, look how YOUNG they look, all that long hair! Kids.
Today another Eddie Vedder solo tour was announced. I want the entire band to tour. Just have to be patient I guess. It'll probably be announced that they're touring before and/or after Ed's solo dates.
Ed Vedder Solo Tour Dates:
* Indicates unconfirmed, possible "rollover" dates.
** No kama'aina discount
Jun 8 - Albany, NY - Palace Theatre
Jun 9* - Albany, NY - Palace Theatre
Jun 11 - Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theatre
Jun 12 - Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theatre
Jun 14 - Baltimore, MD - Lyric Opera House
Jun 15 - Baltimore, MD - Lyric Opera House
Jun 18 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
Jun 20 - Memphis, TN - Orpheum
Jun 21* - Memphis, TN - Orpheum
Jun 23 - Atlanta, GA - Cobb Energy Performing Arts Ctr
Jun 24* - Atlanta, GA - Cobb Energy Performing Arts Ctr
Jun 29** - Maui, HI - Arts & Cultural Ctr - Castle Theatre
Jul 1** - Honolulu, HI - Hawaii Theatre Ctr
Jul 2** - Honolulu, HI - Hawaii Theatre Ctr
I don't plan on going to any.
cinephile told me the unplugged dvd features deleted scenes from State of Play. was he lying to me (again)?
Pearl Jam album, film, tour in the works
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Pearl Jam is lining up U.S. concert dates for the second half of the year, including the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco.
Along with Dave Matthews Band and the Beastie Boys, the group will headline the festival's second edition, scheduled for August 28-30 at Golden Gate Park.
M.I.A., Modest Mouse, the Mars Volta, Black Eyed Peas, Ween, Thievery Corporation, Incubus and Jason Mraz also are in the lineup, which was announced Monday.
Pearl Jam also has completed 14 songs for a new album and is working on a film with director Cameron Crowe, guitarist Mike McCready said in a recent radio interview.
McCready told Seattle's "Ron & Don Show" that the band is about halfway finished with its next album. McCready said the band expects to have the album out before the end of this year. Pearl Jam will self-release the album, its ninth.
As for touring, the band is doing a "little thing in the States," and aims to play South America in 2010, McCready said.
Pearl Jam is widely expected to be one of the headliners of this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The event's promoter, C3 Presents, declined to comment to Billboard about the lineup, but the Austin Chronicle is calling the band's involvement "the worst-kept secret since Metallica's SXSW (South by Southwest) showcase."
Dave Matthews Band, Beastie Boys and Kings of Leon also are expected to be announced as headliners on April 28.
Pearl Jam has long been courted by C3 Presents for the Austin festival, especially after the promoter convinced the band to play Lollapalooza in 2007, its first large festival show in the U.S. since the mid-1990s. Pearl Jam played the Bonnaroo festival, in Tennessee, in 2008.
Quote from: MacGuffin on April 14, 2009, 12:30:35 AMPearl Jam also has completed 14 songs for a new album and is working on a film with director Cameron Crowe, guitarist Mike McCready said in a recent radio interview.
yeah, "singles 2"... yawn...
i was reading somewhere that they edited out some things Vedder said at the time of Unplugged - maybe about a girlfriend or something?
Quote from: bigideas on April 14, 2009, 11:57:29 AM
i was reading somewhere that they edited out some things Vedder said at the time of Unplugged - maybe about a girlfriend or something?
yes!! I noticed right away! Before singing State of Love and Trust he talked about how it was about his girlfriend Beth and that he hopes to get to see her later. pft
QuotePearl Jam also has completed 14 songs for a new album and is working on a film with director Cameron Crowe, guitarist Mike McCready said in a recent radio interview.
McCready told Seattle's "Ron & Don Show" that the band is about halfway finished with its next album. McCready said the band expects to have the album out before the end of this year. Pearl Jam will self-release the album, its ninth.
As for touring, the band is doing a "little thing in the States," and aims to play South America in 2010, McCready said.
I'm peeing.
It's pretty-much confirmed Pearl Jam will headline Austin City Limits festival this summer (fall).
Sonic Youth and Beastie Boys might be playing too.
'Cold Case' to feature 16 Pearl Jam songs
Since its breakthrough in the early 1990s, Pearl Jam has played by its own rules -- selectively making music videos and generally avoiding other staples of star-making machinery.
But this Sunday, Eddie Vedder and his bandmates are singing a different tune in the most unlikely of showcases -- an aging CBS crime procedural that is widely acknowledged to be fighting for its life.
The earthy grunge of Pearl Jam, including several songs from its newly reissued debut album "Ten," is featured in the season finale of " Cold Case." The episode -- the second of a two-part installment that started last week -- marks the first time the band has allowed any of its original music to be used in a TV show.
Although "Cold Case," which revolves around Philadelphia detectives who investigate unsolved murders, has previously showcased other top artists, including Bruce Springsteen, U2, Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra as soundtrack music that reflects the time period of the crime, the participation of Pearl Jam represents a coup for the series.
"They had never granted the use of their library to anyone," said executive producer Jennifer Johnson. But "they opened up their whole catalog to us. We wanted to make sure every song matched what was going on."
The season finale of "Cold Case" centers on the 2005 murder of a local military academy's first female cadet. The case resonates for the show's lead detective, Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris), who was the first female homicide detective in the department.
In all, 16 of Pearl Jam's songs will play across the two episodes and enable the band to reach not only the show's younger fans, but also older viewers of the series.
But the band is handling its prime-time debut with its typical evasiveness and would not return phone calls seeking comment.
The producers are hoping the mash-up will give a boost to their show, now in its sixth season and on the bubble for renewal. Last week's episode drew almost 13 million viewers, its largest audience in six weeks.
Even though Pearl Jam is not as radio-friendly as other artists featured on "Cold Case," executive producer Greg Plageman believes the band meshes with the drama.
"They've been an enduring band since 1990, and that's saying something these days," Plageman said. "They're also a band of integrity. When you hear Pearl Jam, you know it's important music."
Pearl Jam bass player mugged
Jeff Ament suffers head injury in Atlanta attack
Associated Press
ATLANTA -- Police say Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament was mugged outside an Atlanta recording studio.
A Dekalb County police report says three people with knives attacked Ament and a band employee as they arrived at the Southern Tracks recording studio late last month.
Police say the attackers smashed three car windows and grabbed a Blackberry and two computers and demanded money. They stole $3,000 in cash and more than $4,000 worth of items.
The report says Ament tried to get away, but one of the assailants chased him down and knocked him to the ground. Ament suffered a head wound and his passport was stolen.
Surveillance cameras caught the incident but no arrests have been made.
Pearl Jam management had no comment Thursday.
how people say "crazier things have happened" this is that crazier thing ^^^^^
I got the Christmas single in the mail last week. It says, "Happy Holidays, no matter what time of year"
and i still cant get over them performing on conan's first show. what a gig
Spin the red circle: Pearl Jam partners with Target
Source: Los Angeles Times
A band that long shirked doing music videos, and once took a stand against Ticketmaster, has now linked with big box retailer Target for its upcoming album, according to reports. Target is said to be just one of Pearl Jam's multiple partners on the album, as the band goes without a label after working inside the Sony system for nearly 20 years.
The news hit the Web on antiquet.com last week, and Billboard's Bill Werde posted details today.
But fans, relax! Unlike some other artist-retail partnerships, Pearl Jam's linking with Target won't be an out-and-out exclusive, which should lessen the sting for those upset at the corporate pairing.
Werde quotes Pearl Jam's long-time manager Kelly Curtis as saying, "Target ended up allowing us to have other partners." He also quoted Curtis as saying that the big-box retailer was "cool enough to realize that little independent record stores are not their competition."
Specific details aren't outlined, but hopefully that means the CD, tentatively titled "Backspacer," will be available at key independent retailers such as Seattle's Easy Street, where Pearl Jam once recorded a live EP. Additionally, the album will be for sale via Pearl Jam's Ten Club.
It will be interesting to gauge how Pearl Jam fans react to the news. The band has long been protective of its namesake, forgoing traditional music biz promotional tactics such as music videos. Additionally, the group has earned the deep admiration of fans for a commitment to social causes, and for taking a stand against Ticketmaster in the mid-'90s.
The band has a tight relationship with its audience — check Pearl Jam's official bootleg releases — and its fan base is a protective lot. In 2007, when frontman Eddie Vedder, who Pop & Hiss is proud to note is a Chicago Cubs fan, performed at a private Hollywood concert to generate Oscar hype for the music of "Into the Wild, I covered the event, and received numerous e-mails from fans dismayed that Vedder would perform a concert that was closed to the public.
Seeing veteran artists link with mass retailers is nothing new. The Eagles and AC/DC have had great success doing so, and Prince recently partnered with Target for the release of his three-disc set. Yet it sounds like Pearl Jam's relationship is one that will grant the band more freedom, as the aforementioned artists did not allow other North American outlets to sell the album.
I got so excited to see them performing at Conan's, but then saw the new album does not come out til September. Damnit.
so pearl jam was alright tonight then. Steve Earle woulda been more fun.
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Sorry, non-U.S. residents, I've got nothing for you.
Alright, so here's the situation. There was once a time, when i thought of pearl jam, and could only hear the radio singles. I have never sat through a full album listen while chillin w/ lyrics, and have never gave them the time to assume they actually have a message or something cool to do/say etc.
This is sort of directed at Bethie, i believe you're the PJ fan? At any rate, i have got my hands on the full length versions of 'ten' and 'vs'
i'm just sort of looking for a good exposition to really hear the view point of a true fan. I am obviously going to listen and ya know, let it exist and fit in my life where it belongs, but I need someone who knows what they are talking about to sort of bring me up to date. I really was a nay sayin sob towards this band for a while. The recluse thing after jeremy kinda pissed me off, "We had a message and MTV exploited that!!!" get in fucking line fellas. but again, i'm holding them mostly to limelight behavior. I need to look past that immediately
edit; anyone who is not bethie that holds an opinion sincere or not, please share. i just have to make sure and be really specific, try and leave zero room for misinterpretation
What? Just listen to the fucking music. If your ability to enjoy it is that dependent on someone being able to justify their place in music history to you, then it's time to just stop listening to music entirely, you're doing it wrong.
spoken like a true xixax member, well done tool.
What a wise thing to say "YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE MUSIC, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!" get over yourself. I enjoy talking and listening to music. For fuck sake you elitist prick, let's use the language we've all agreed upon
Quote from: Neil on June 02, 2009, 10:26:47 PM
I am obviously going to listen and ya know, let it exist and fit in my life where it belongs,
This full post can also mean; hey, i like to discuss things, and if you like something and i do, let's discuss it. Pretty fucking wrong isn't it, that's not very artsy!!!!
Maybe one day i can listen to music and enjoy it to the fullest extent just like YOU!!!! Yay
You might have meant "let's have a discussion about Pearl Jam," but that's not at all what you said. How I interpreted your post was "someone justify liking Pearl Jam to me before I even bother listening to them." I don't think it's elitist to think that's retarded. If that wasn't what you meant, fine, my bad, but that's exactly how it read.
blaming me for a misinterpretation? Good idea, it's my fault you decided to get defensive about me asking to talk about two albums which i have finally attained to LISTEN TO. Pretty fucking difficult concept.
Quote from: polkablues on June 03, 2009, 10:38:47 AM
You might have meant "let's have a discussion about Pearl Jam," but that's not at all what you said. How I interpreted your post was "someone justify liking Pearl Jam to me before I even bother listening to them." I don't think it's elitist to think that's retarded. If that wasn't what you meant, fine, my bad, but that's exactly howit I read it.
there you go, all better, i never said "please tell me what is to like about pearl jam. I admitted to not liking them for no good reason, and that media stereotypes backed up those opinions, so there i go becoming a puppet, and swallowing what everyone feeds me. so where does me asking bethie about a band transform into "I need reasons to like this band" I'm not a fucking idiot, the point of music is to listen, i was fairly confident in the fact that we could look past the obvious way to consume art or a given artist, and talk about the art....maybe i should make a forum dedicated to this idea. or maybe people will just call my statements "retarded" and make them lose all value. :yabbse-sad:
Did you and pete wake up on the same side of the bed or what?
Neil, while Polka's reply was a little over-angry, I read your initial post in almost the same way so it's not necessarily him that is to blame for the misinterpretation.
Also "you're doing it wrong" is funny... so chill out.
That being said, I still love Ten and VS, but I Vitalogy made me sick and the rest blurs together in my memory. When do they get better after that? I mildly enjoyed the song on Conan, but really the best thing that's come out of PJ since VS (that I've heard) is Vedder's solo stuff.
See, was that so difficult, just keep your interpretations of text to yourself, unless you have something to comment on in regards to the subject matter. I can't really comment on what you add to what i say, that's your prerogative. If one wants to cling these common music snob knee jerk reactions. so be it, but i can't allow putting words into my mouth. Basically what seemed to happen was picking out a few pieces of my post that doesn't work without the rest. When i say i want to give something a chance, generally speaking, that is what it means...shocking i know, but anyone who wants to sit down and listen to an album in its entirety with the lyrics, must be the type of child that needs to be told why he or she should like something
I've started with Vs. so, i can't wait to talk about it, what a rocker.
my favorite album throughout is No Code.
when i was younger i probably preferred it least to the prior 3 albums though.
I liked most of Yield, tuned out during the Binuaral years. when Riot Act came out i was interested by the single so i bought it, but wasn't blown away by it. didn't get the self titled.
btw - did anyone hear that limited Ament album that came out last year?
Life is good at this moment.
Pearl Jam Announces North American Tour
In support of their anticipated new release, Backspacer, in stores September 20th, Pearl Jam will be spending some time back on the road, with a series of select North American tour dates. The tour kicks off in the band's hometown of Seattle, WA with two shows at the Key Arena on September 21st and 22nd, and closes with two shows at Philadelphia's historic Spectrum on October 28th and 30th. Ben Harper and Relentless 7 will open all dates, except for the Spectrum Theater shows. All dates are subject to change.
DATE CITY VENUE PRE-SALE DATE/TIME
Sep-21 Seattle, WA Key Arena
Sep-22 Seattle, WA Key Arena
Sep-30 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amp.
Oct-1 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amp.
Oct-6 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amp.
Oct-7 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amp.
Oct-9 San Diego, CA Viejas Arena
Oct-28 Philadelphia, PA Spectrum
Oct-30 Philadelphia, PA Spectrum
ahh love. this is love to me.
Why write an essay making points on why to listen to and like Pearl Jam. It doesn't matter. Like what you like. I like Pearl Jam because I have a connection with their music. Often I refer to the line in Almost Famous, "They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts." I know what it's like. If I'm listening to the radio and a Pearl Jam song comes on, I know it may sound silly, but I equate that with having a good day. When I'm having a bad day or having a hard time coping with something, I NEED to hear Pearl Jam.
A best friend of mine was talking to a girlfriend of mine and asked her if she knew what it was like to hear music so good it's like a sexual experience, he said "I'm sure MB knows." yeah, I know. one of my teachers was chatting with me last week and he stopped me and said "I've never met anyone so passionate about movies and music."
give me a Terry Malick film and a Pearl Jam album and I'm set for life.
what would you do if:
a. there was a Pearl Jam song in a Malick film
or
b. Malick directed a Pearl Jam video
?
The latter is more plausible.
Anyone want to join me for my first pearl jam concert in LA?
This is fricking awesome moving to LA was the best decision ever.
For Bethie:
Watch This: Pearl Jam's 'The Fixer' Video, Directed by Cameron Crowe
by Jessica Barnes; Cinematical
If ever there was a director who truly loved rock and roll it's Cameron Crowe. The man started his illustrious career as a rock journalist and as a film maker, and he also made one of the greatest rock movies of all time, Almost Famous. Grunge legends Pearl Jam and Crowe go way back; the band appeared in his film Singles, and Crowe helped put together Pearl Jam's Single Video Theory back in 2000. Now, Crowe has made music videos in the past, but this has to be the perfect combination of band and director because nobody respects rock and roll more than Crowe ... and nobody takes it more seriously than Pearl Jam.
Back in May, the band showed up at Seattle's Showbox for a surprise concert with Crowe behind the camera shooting a commercial for a deal between the band and the discount retailer, Target -- and yes, you just read that right. I guess everyone involved was happy enough with the footage -- so happy that it became the basis for the music video for their new song, "The Fixer", included on their upcoming album Backspacer, which will debut via iTunes and Target on September 20.
Pearl Jam had infamously refused to make music videos back in 1992, and other than an animated creation for Do the Evolution (courtesy of Todd McFarlane) they have stuck to their word. I have to admit, as much as I admired their principles, I kind of missed seeing the band in action. Maybe I've been out of the Pearl Jam loop for a while, but dang if this isn't a happening little track and a pretty cool looking video -- and the coffee-drinking, flannel wearing gal who still lives somewhere inside me couldn't be happier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj-sFIHQWLY
New single :yabbse-thumbup:
well damn. thank you. cameron + pj = bethie approved. 8) i bought tickets to see them on halloween in philly. sweet treats and pj in one day? i couldn't ask for more. im sort of not sure what to dress up as though. last year my girlfriend and i went as wayne and garth. i think that'd be perfect for a pj show. i'll have to find my wayne's world hat, i think it's underneath my couch.
go as this chick
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ps. i'm not too crazy about this new single/video. my love for the PJ is still strong, so i'm gonna pull an Avatar and blame it on the fact that i''ve only heard the song in youtube quality.
No in depth Bethie album review?
I'm kinda interested in this one since I like The Fixer.
From what I've read it's one of their shorter albums, which makes me wonder if it will get the same reaction as REM did with Accelerate.
alright, no more silent treatment. it's time for us to talk about this..
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my favorite part is the album cover. the title's interesting too.
the music: a handful of decent tracks, the rest is kinda tepid. first thing i noticed: no more guitar solos ever. is pearl jam trying to become one of those bands that is only GREAT when they perform live?
i love the first 4 tracks. eddie should do more solo stuff, though. some of this sounds like it could be leftover from the Into the Wild soundtrack. overall, it's a decent album that leaves me feeling like i should just listen to some other pearl jam album..
i don't regret buying it. Pearl Jam is what it is - i don't see them coming out with an electronic trip hop record anytime soon.
all of it is listenable, whereas, i don't remember that being the case with Riot Act - though it's been a long time since i've revisited it.
i dig the 2 free show downloads. i would have liked some 'in the know' PJ fan's help on what to get, but i ended up getting the shows that had more of my favorite songs.
so it goes like this, im seeing pj in less than 72 hours. and im not sure what to do with myself. i have been reading up on their recent shows. theyre playing the last 4 events at the wachovia spectrum in philly. its a big deal. saturday is the last time an event will be held there. word on the street is they will be playing until 2am. if they do, i may weep.
as for talk on the new album, i havent listened to it many times. its not on my ipod. i listen while im wandering around the house. what hedwig said, i also thought a few of the songs could have been left over from ed's solo record. i like the slower tunes. always have.
you guys. i heard crown of thorns live. life is complete. 3.5 hours. 40+ songs.
more on this later.
sounds great.
i finally listened to most of the 6/28/08 Mansfield show i got with the free download.
i was really surprised at how heavy it was on Yield era and older (and that i was actually familiar with most of the songs).
http://pearljam.com/show/tweeter-center-jun-28-2008
THE SHOW:
Set List: Why Go, Last Exit, Corduroy, Severed Hand, The Fixer, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, You Are, Amongst The Waves, Even Flow, Pilate, Unthought Known, Daughter/Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 (Waters), Johnny Guitar, Rats, I'm Open, I Got Shit, Glorified G, Out Of My Mind, Black, Insignificance, Life Wasted
1st encore: Just Breathe w/string quartet, The End w/string quartet, Low Light, Speed Of Sound, Jeremy w/string quartet, Inside Job, Bugs w/string quartet, Spin The Black Circle, Porch
2nd encore: Whip It (Devo), Got Some, Crown Of Thorns (Mother Love Bone), Satan's Bed, Sweet Lew, Do the Evolution, Better Man/Save It For Later (English Beat), Smile, Alive, Rockin' In The Free World (Young), Yellow Ledbetter/Star Spangled Banner
The best show I've been to. Easily. I told my friend, "this is going to be a show to write home about." It was her first time seeing Pearl Jam. I kept doing a minute countdown until 9pm. They're a prompt band, always out by 9 or 9 on the dot. Like at 8:45 this guy comes to the girls next to us and is like, "I got the set list!!!!" and he told us the first song! ohh, I have a nasty look. The girl next to me asked "are you mad you know the first song?" I'm like, "no, but I better not find out anymore."
I mentioned to my friend earlier, "if eddie talks about the band pacing themselves or the audience pacing themselves, thats the tell they're playing a long time" At 10:38, the first break, eddie says, "we may not even be half over yet, so we're just all going to pace ourselves" my friend looks at me, as if I have seen this show before.
I also knew the band would do something for Halloween. DEVO. NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED. seeing the band dressed as devo had to put a smile on all faces.
I knew closing the Spectrum was a special night and I knew they only play Crown of Thorns at special times, but I wasn't holding my breath. Eddie talked about the sound at the spectrum and the sound in other places and hes like, "we're going to take it back now.." and then I heard the first 2 chords of Crown of Thorns. I didn't know who to shout it to, that this is MY ONE SONG. THE SONG. I ran over to this chick near me b/c throughout the night I could tell she was a huge fan. We high fived. My friend was like, "so I really thought that girl was going to ask you for your number." I thought so as well! HA!
During Rockin' in The Free World confetti and balloons fell from the ceiling. What a site. A huge party, only thing missing was ice cream! Of course tons of confetti fell into my purse, along with my boots. I kept it. Its already tacked up on my cork board. Ticket stub is on my fridge. Balloon is floating around my apartment. Tshirt being worn. The one thing I can't stop thinking after seeing such a fun show, "I picked a good band to have as a favorite."
saw them last night in kc. they were awesome, as usual.
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! details?
i'm seeing them in Buff in 6 days. already having dreams about it.
nothing too crazy in the setlist. good to hear the stuff from the new album though. mike played a full star spangled banner after yellow ledbetter to end the show...a gold medal winning bobsled guy played bass with the band for the last song. they sang happy birthday to some tour manager guy and a cake fight ensued...eddie played the last six songs or so with blue cake frosting in his beard.
my fan club seats were 15th row, pretty much dead center. i was hoping for a closer row, but can't argue with being right in the middle, i guess.
Cat Power guests on Eddie Vedder's ukulele album
Cat Power's Chan Marshall guests on the new solo album from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, 'Ukulele Songs'.
The singer features on the song 'Tonight You Belong To Me', reports Pitchfork.
'Ukulele Songs' features Vedder performing original and cover songs on the ukulele. It will be released on May 30 on Pearl Jam's own label, Monkeywrench Records.
It features versions of the Mamas & The Papas 'Dream A Little Dream Of Me' and Pearl Jam's own 'Can't Keep'.
Vedder guested on Cat Power's 'You Are Free' album in 2003.
The tracklisting of Vedder's new album is:
'Can't Keep'
'Sleeping By Myself'
'Without You'
'More Than You Know'
'Goodbye'
'Broken Heart'
'Satellite'
'Longing To Belong'
'Hey Fahkah'
'You're True'
'Lights Today'
'Sleepless Nights'
'Once In Awhile'
'Waving Palms'
'Tonight You Belong To Me'
'Dream A Little Dream'
Vedder's guest spot on REM's latest album is barely recognizable. I kept forgetting he was on it and then finally made myself pay attention and definitely caught his voice in the mix. It's funny how he is listed in the credits. Most people say "blah blah appears courtesty of Blah Blah Records," but Vedder's says something like "Eddie Vedder appears courtesy of himself."
scored fan club tickets to EV's solo show in minneapolis on july 2nd!
meow
after reading through this last night, i had a pearl jam dream. they were playing to a lame crowd and i was the only one screaming. eddie gave me the set list.
SOUNDS LIKE A NIGHTMARE.
I cannot say with certitude that this is not part of my body
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How do you feel about Ukulele?
They have been using Small Town in the ads for Rescue Me.
Honestly I haven't even listened to the whole thing
It's sometimes a hard cookie to listen because it gets a bit monotone. It's basically him and a ukele and you shouldn't underrate that kind of instrument. But I think you should listen to it during a road trip to a cabin in the woods, or during a campfire setting. I've learned that he's that kind of dude that gather friends to share songs around a campfire. Erm, so that's my 20 cents about that.
Pearl Jam Twenty trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzI8OhR0IVY&feature=player_embedded