2010 Covers Live

The 2010 tour produced 5 new covers, 2 of them have been played one time only ("OTO" songs). Jersey Girl and Goin Back To Indiana have been played one time before in 1998. And let this MSG performance of Hunger Strike be there until we finally get that famous 2003 Temple Of The Dog set with Chris Cornell in soundboard quality! Note, that Walk With Me from the second Bridge School show is a bit different to the first one, used in 2010 European tour compilation.

1. Public Image (Public Image Limited cover)
2. Arms Aloft (Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros cover)
3. Walk With Me* -with Neil Young (Neil Young cover)
4. Dancing Barefoot* (Patti Smith cover)
5. Jersey Girl (Tom Waits cover)
6. (Brain Damage) (Pink Floyd cover)
7. Goin' Back To Indiana (Jackson 5 cover)
8. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Van Halen cover)
9. Hunger Strike -with Ben Bridwell from Band Of Horses (Temple Of The Dog song)

* - taken from audience recordings of 2010 Bridge School Benefit shows. Dancing Barefoot is heavily enhanced from original source.

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2010 European Tour Compilation

European part of 2010 tour was mainly a festival run with shortened and pretty similar set lists, except only couple of "normal" shows. Also Ed's vocal form was nothing in comparison to previous fantastic US leg. But we cannot rate European tour as a heap of garbage. The first highlight was the debut of brand new song - Of The Earth, maybe the heaviest and most agressive song musically after the Ten era. And this is the first song with improv jam inside after Rearviewmirror! The second highlight was very touching Moment of silence during Berlin show dedicated to "nine friends we'll never know" - the victims of Roskilde tragedy 10 years ago. Next song performed was Come Back and Eddie could not hold his tears during singing. This is why this Come Back is definitely not the best live Come Back, but I strongly believe that this touching performance must not be omitted from this compilation.

As the European tour did not provide too many special songs, I also used songs from 2010 Bridge School Benefit (I had to use these beautiful songs somewhere!). Debut of Santa Cruz, two new great covers, "lullaby" version of Better Man (Ed played it before in his solo shows) are the real pearls for this compilation. And finally I've found a good modern Release not disrupted by Boom Gaspar's piano "playing". :)

My personal favorite show for this tour is Portugal. Also Irish shows were interesting to listen. And, in opposition to fan's reviews, French gig was loud and good.

1. Release
2. (Brain Damage)
3. Corduroy
4. No Way
5. (falstart improv) Comatose
6. Arms Aloft
7. Even Flow
8. Improv (Portugal, Portugal)
9. Of The Earth (with very early lyrics)
10. Just Breathe
11. Santa Cruz* (acoustic)
12. Dancing Barefoot* (acoustic)
13. Better Man* (re-arranged "lullaby" version; acoustic)
14. Walk With Me* (with Neil Young; acoustic)
15. Black* (piano and strings version; acoustic)
16. (Moment of silence) (dedicated to Roskilde tragedy 10 years ago that day)
17. Come Back
18. Yellow Ledbetter

* - Audience recordings from Bridge School Benefit shows.

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2010 US Tour Compilation

2010 US Tour started off in New Orleans and ended up with two Madison Square Garden shows. The band was fantastic, Ed showed his peak vocal form and audience support was terrific. Even in Kansas City it was surprisingly loud audience and in Hartford, Boston and New York people completely screamed their lungs out. So I think it was the one of the best Pearl Jam tours ever. Every show of the tour was great, but the very best was Madison Square Garden 2 and maybe MSG1 and Boston. Hartford was extremely loud and my favorite set-list show is Newarc.
This tour provided so many special performances that I had nothing to do but to create a long show-emulating compilation with three peaks and two sections to drop off some pressure. Check for completely re-arranged slow version of Lukin, altered tags for Better Man and Black, alternative ending riffs for Daughter, Alive and Porch (for the last two songs it was the same riff played). As always, some great covers including legendary Hunger Strike (from MSG2) with Ben Bridwell from Band Of Horses.

1. Of The Girl
2. Why Go
3. Once
4. Jeremy (altered chorus)
5. Better Man (altered version of Save It For Later tag)
6. Daughter (Blitzkrieg Bop) (W.M.A.)
7. (improv from Kansas City)
8. Rearviewmirror
9. Fatal
10. Nothingman
11. Lukin II (completely re-arranged; slow tempo; acoustic; with strings)
12. Black ("Isolation" version of We Belong Together tag)
13. Alive
14. Porch
15. Jersey Girl
16. Hunger Strike (with Ben Bridwell from Band Of Horses)
17. (improv from St. Louis)
18. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
19. Fuckin' Up
20. Indifference

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