2006 World Tour US Leg 2 Compilation

The second part of 2006 World Tour started in Pittsburgh and then Pearl Jam travelled West, opening 6 shows for Tom Petty among other dates, and finished at gorgeous Gorge Amphitheatre not far from Seattle. Every show was fantastic, the band was in absolutely perfect shape, crowds were great, and even warming up for Tom Petty the band enjoyed loud support and singalongs.

In this compilation Corduroy and Better Man from Denver represent different approach for keys as Boom Gaspar was absent and replaced by Benmont Tench from Tom Petty's band. Bu$hleaguer is with "Georgie-boy" vocal intro. In Little Sister Ed's mistake was rectified with additional solo by Mike. Present Tense is one of the slightly alternated extended outro solo versions, as well as Big Wave. Leash "fox-news-fuck-you" is just a powerful pinnacle of the set, leading to a Yellow Ledbetter "good-bye".

1. Corduroy
2. Better Man (Save It For Later)
3. Bu$hleaguer
4. Daughter (It's Ok)
5. Rearviewmirror
6. Little Sister
7. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
8. American In Me (with members of Avengers)
9. Big Wave
10. Porch
11. I Won't Back Down
12. Waiting On A Friend
13. Little Wing
14. Present Tense
15. Crown Of Thorns
16. Leash
17. Yellow Ledbetter (Star-Spangled Banner)

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2006 World Tour US Leg 1 Compilation

The first leg of self-titled Pearl Jam album promotion tour (Avocado tour, as Ed mentioned) focused on the North-East of the USA. This leg included shows in large cities such as New-York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. The band was in very good energetic mood, Ed's voice was great from the start and in the final shows was absolutely fantastic. After a long break and endless fans requests, Leash had returned to set-lists rotation. Also this tour provided us with many interesting improvs and alterations, some new covers. In my opinion, the most interesting show of this leg was Toronto, night 2 (and night 1 was very good too). The loudest crowd was in Boston, but overall audience singing was nothing in comparison to, for example, US tour in the same cities in 2010.

For this compilation I've selected some improvs, Alive with much longer final solo (Leash with longer solo went to Vs. Live compilation). After playing I Got Id Eddie revealed a secret that the core of this song had been taken from Neil Young's Cinnamon Girl and played it as a snippet. During Long Road's solo Mike played very unusual U2-like riffs. Daughter and Rearviewmirror feature new tags. Before Rats Matt played drum intro. Very good version of Immortality also includes intro (Ed plays it from time to time) and gorgeous extended outro. And the grand-finale for this compilation is Yellow Ledbetter. After very passionate and energetic Crazy Mary (slow tempo version) and Alive it takes easy and relaxed as Eddie couldn't hold his laughter at something during the first verse and then finished the song with the snippet of Rolling Stones' Beast Of Burden. Also check reworked Garden and more alterations in other songs.

1. Long Road
2. Comatose
3. I Got Id (Cinnamon Girl)  -Ed reveals the secret of these songs
4. (Toronto Improv 1) Whipping
5. Daughter (To Come)
6. Rats  (-with drum intro)
7. Garden  (-reworked hardened version-2006)
8. Porch
9. (Toronto Improv 2)
10. Wishlist (improv tag "I wish I was the president")
11. Rearviewmirror
12. Forever Young
13. Immortality
14. Crazy Mary
15. Alive
16. Yellow Ledbetter (Beast Of Burden)

Updated to ver. 1.02: Thumbing My Way removed, for better version is taken for European part.
Updated to ver. 1.03: Embedded mp3 album picture.

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Plenty Of Time - Lost Eddie Vedder's song

"I purchased this demo tape off of ebay 12 years ago. There was limited information from the seller, other than that he purchased it at a yard sale in Montana. One side of the cassette contains three tracks I cannot identify as Bad Radio Songs. The fourth track is the acoustic version of Homeless. The other side of the cassette contains 4 recognized Bad Radio Songs.
The cassette holder is visible in the video. There is writing in white-out on the cassette, which labels one side "Bad Radio", and the other side "The Butts". A written note inside the cassette says "this is the butts first demo. must see live. keep in touch. eddie (phone #)"
If these three tracks are indeed The Butts and not Bad Radio, then I believe it will be the earliest known recordings from Eddie Vedder."

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2008 ITW US Tour leg 2 Compilation

As soon as the 2008 Pearl Jam US tour had been accomplished, Eddie Vedder continued with the second part of his own tour. This time he focused on the East Coast, visiting New York, Boston, Chicago, Toronto and other famous cities. Ed was joined by Liam Finn and Eliza Jane Barnes for back vocals. Set-lists for this tour featured more interesting covers, a lot of Neil Young's songs and some re-arranged Pearl Jam items, such as lullaby version of Better Man. This compilation is more of a romantic selection. Check also rare Ed's song All The Way, which he wrote in 2007 for Chicago Cubs, his favorite baseball team.

1. (Small Town intro)
2. I Can't Explain
3. I'm One
4. (Walk Hard)
5. Society  -with Liam Finn
6. Blackbird
7. Better Man  -lullaby acoustic
8. Long May You Run
9. Old Man  -with L.Finn and E.J.Barnes
10. Hurt
11. Ship Song
12. Helpless  -with E.J.Barnes
13. Here's To The State Of... George W.
14. Improv(East Coast)
15. Small Town
16. All The Way
17. All Along The Watchtower

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2008 ITW US Tour Leg 1 Compilation

In the year of 2008 Eddie Vedder embarked on his first ever solo tour supporting his album Into The Wild. The first leg of the tour started in April and was focused around the West coast of the USA. It was called "April Fools Tour" and this compilation is all around funny moments, such as an interactive Let My Love Open The Door performance, Dirty Frank riffs on mandolin, or a joky song for Sean Penn, an author of Into The Wild film and Ed's friend. Also Eddie played lots of new covers never heard at Pearl Jam concerts, and some rarities like a snippet of his old Bad Radio song "Believe You Me".

1. Walking The Cow
2. Her Majesty
3. Growin' Up
4. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out
5. Rise
6. (Dirty Frank)   -on mandolin
7. I Used To Work In Chicago
8. Sean Penn (Bad Acting Hack)
9. Improv (Barry White)   -mellow pop improv
10. Improv (God Is In Control / Limit Yourself)
11. Let My Love Open The Door
12. Don't Be Shy
13. I Am Mine
14. Millworker
15. Santa Cruz
16. (Believe You Me) No More
17. Arc
18. Yellow Ledbetter   -with Mike McCready

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2009 Covers Live

Another chapter of endless Pearl Jam covers. In 2009 the band was restless introducing more and more new songs. Six covers were played for the first time and never again, so it was really special year of touring. And, as always, there are some more great cover performances.

1. Leaving Here (composed by Holland-Dozier)
2. (Interstellar Overdrive) (Pink Floyd cover)
3. Whip It (Devo cover) -played once and never again
4. The Needle And The Damage Done (Neil Young cover)
5. Golden State -with Corin Tucker (John Doe cover) -played once and never again
6. Walking The Cow (Daniel Johnston cover)
7. (Angie) (Rolling Stones cover)
8. Not Given Lightly -with Neil and Liam Finn (Chris Knox cover) -played once and never again
9. Better Be Home Soon -with Neil and Liam Finn (Crowded House cover) -played once and never again
10. Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran cover)
11. If You Want Blood /You Got It + Blood -with Mike McCready on back vocals (AC/DC cover) -played once and never again
12. Mountain Song -with Perry Farrell from Jane's Addiction (Jane's Addiction cover) -played once and never again
13. So You Wanna Be A Rock And Roll Star (with Ed's story: This job I got now I'm never gonna fuckin' quit) (The Byrds cover)

Updated to ver 2.00 (2012-12-14): Serious upgrade: removed "Throw Your Arms Around Me", "Throw Your Hatred Down", "I Got You" - better versions of these songs are now in 2006 Covers; changed song's order and more work done to polish this compilation.

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Avocado Live

You can find Avocado on the front cover, and on the back cover, and on the inside cover of Self-titled Pearl Jam album. Its release was followed by the strong solid long 2006 World Tour. Band was on fire, Ed's voice was in top form and songs from Pearl Jam are not too difficult to play. Live songs are very similar to their album versions, but "Come Back" got some alterations in final solo, and "Army Reserve" and "Big Wave" were often played with longer and a bit different outros.

1. Inside Job
2. World Wide Suicide
3. Severed Hand
4. Comatose
5. Marker In The Sand
6. Gone
7. Parachutes
8. Life Wasted
9. Wasted Reprise
10. Unemployable
11. Big Wave
12. (Jeff & Stone rehearsal intro) Come Back
13. Army Reserve
14. Guaranteed
15. No More

Updated (2012-12-09) to ver. 2.02: "Severed Hand" is now from 2006 Toronto, "Wasted Reprise" is from 2006 Chicago, "Big Wave" with 3-guitar outro is from 2006 LA.

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Dedicated to R.E.M.

"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening."  R.E.M.

Sorry, this post is not about Pearl Jam, but I'm really sad and disappointed about R.E.M. break-up and would like to thank and wish all the best to Michael, Mike and Peter for their wonderful music they shared with us.

You know, that 1997 Christmas single Pearl Jam and R.E.M. released together. R.E.M. also released Christmas singles with the artists like Radiohead or Neil Young. There is a collection of R.E.M. Christmas singles from 1988 up to the final year of 2011 (52 songs).
UPDATE (2012-11-02): Singles from 1988 up to 1994 had been replaced with re-encoded tracks from recently found CD

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2005 Canadian Tour Compilation

Eddie started this tour at not his best vocal form, but improved show by show. So, vocally the best songs are to be found at the end of the tour. Also mark Winnipeg - it was the really nice show. Highlights for this tour are some funny band-audience interactions like "Let Stone sing!", or many other kinds of 'pearls', such as "sitar-like" jam on "Even Flow", 2005-only tag "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", Ed's solo presentation of "Gone" and more. Also this was a Ramones-tribute tour with some songs to remember, and don't forget that Canada is Neil Young's home land.

1. I Believe In Miracles (slow tempo)
2. Wishlist (tag: you've got to hear the truth)
3. Daughter (Another Brick In The Wall)
4. Immortality
5. Hard To Imagine
6. Better Man (I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend)
7. Even Flow
8. Long Road
9. Black (improv tag: "still I wonder")
10. Rearviewmirror
11. Improv (Let Stone sing!)
12. Harvest Moon
13. Gone  (Ed solo)
14. Crazy Mary
15. Porch
16. Improv (Drop the Leash!)
17. Rockin' In The Free World
18. Yellow Ledbetter

Updated to ver. 1.01 (20-11-2010): Added Black with "still I wonder" improv. tag from Ottawa; removed Off He Goes;
Updated to ver. 1.02 (2012-12-18): added "Hard To Imagine", removed "Not For You" and "Given To Fly", lots of minor tweaks concerning improving sound quality.

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2005 Latin American Tour Compilation

2005 Latin American tour is the first and the last one so far to visit Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Spanish and Portugeese speaking crowds are maybe the loudest singers in the world so this tour on stadiums is very special. No surprise that my compilation is full of chants and great singalongs - this was the main focus in song selection. The real pearls are It's Ok tag in Spanish (called Esta Bien) performed in Mexico and fantastic stadium crowd singing after Yellow Ledbetter in Buenos Aires.
As for the shows, my favorites are the ones in Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires. Brazilian shows were even more intense, but plagued with Ed's vocal problems. After all South American madness Monterrey show was not the one to remember, but Mexico city audience performed as always well.

1. Given To Fly
2. Jeremy
3. Improv (Santiago ole-ole)
4. Better Man (Modern Girl)
5. Black (We Belong Together)
6. (Improv) Save You
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. Not For You (Mexico chant)
9. Daughter (Esta Bien)
10. Untitled + MFC
11. Kick Out The Jams (with Mudhoney)
12. Rockin' In The Free World
13. Yellow Ledbetter (Buenos Aires chant)

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1995 Mirrorball Tour Compilation

In 1995 Pearl Jam had an interesting experience to serve as a backup band for Neil Young's album "Mirrorball". In summer Neil Young embarked on 11-date tour in Europe and Israel to promote this record, and his touring band consisted of Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Jack Irons and Brendan O'Brien on keyboard (producer of many Pearl Jam albums). Only Eddie Vedder was not present.
Set-lists for this tour were pretty much the same. Only audience records exist. Making this compilation, I tried to avoid performances with a long exhausting 15-20 min jams and focused on achieving nice easy listenig. Of course, the great "Cortez The Killer" is on the list.

1. Mr. Soul
2. Peace And Love
3. Scenery
4. Don't Let It Bring You Down
5. Mother Earth
6. Cortez The Killer
7. (band presentation)
8. Powderfinger

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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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Riot Act Live

Riot Act is very dark depressive album. Songs from Can't Keep to Thumbing My Way (plus All Or None) are strongly bound together lyrically with Eddie failing to find the way out of problems around him and around the world. Some songs are nothing but the enraged political attacks. Maybe this is why so many cool and positive outtakes from Riot Act sessions were omitted from the album.

Down, Undone, Last Soldier - this compilation has got very strong bonus. There's no Arc in set-list because the band erased all it's live performances from 2003-tour official bootlegs. But you could hear this song in Eddie Vedder's solo bootlegs from 2008 and 2009. And there's no Help Help because it was performed only in 2003, but my work on this year still has not been started.

1. Can't Keep
2. Save You
3. Love Boat Captain
4. Cropduster
5. Ghost
6. I Am Mine
7. Thumbing My Way
8. You Are
9. Get Right
10. Green Disease
11. Bu$hleaguer
12. 1/2 Full
13. All Or None
14. You're True
15. Other Side
16. Man Of The Hour
17. Undone
18. Down (acoustic)
19. Last Soldier

Updated to ver. 1.01 (2011-03-01). Many changes to bonus section: added Other Side from 2010 Bridge School Benefit 2; You're True is now from 2006 Honolulu; Undone is now from 2006 Newcastle; excluded "electric" version of Down; changed song's order in bonus section; some files rewaved.

Updated to ver 1.02 (2015-07-14): mp3 tags changed

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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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Vitalogy Live

Vitalogy sounds great live. Many songs differ from their album sisters quite significantly. Nowdays Better Man has got very long outtro, Mike likes to improvise playing Immortality. Nothingman has become a campfire song with damn loud audience singalongs, Better Man is even louder, Corduroy and Not For You also greatly evolved.
I was always unsure about songs order for this compilation, changed it couple of times and now this is a new, almost perfect version. But I still haven't found my favorite performance of Better Man (as criteria of the "best" version evolves in my mind), so the song with the full tag of Save It For Later would be here for some time. Same for both versions of Not For You with different tags (the last one is a proper one to close this compilation).

1. Whipping
2. Last Exit
3. Spin The Black Circle
4. Corduroy
5. Tremor Christ
6. Better Man (Save It For Later)
7. Not For You (Modern Girl)
8. Nothingman
9. Immortality (acoustic)
10. Bugs
11. Satan's Bed
12. Out Of My Mind
13. Not For You (improv tag: love that remains)

Updated to ver. 1.03 (2012-12-13): Replaced "Better Man".

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2009 Backspacer Tour US Leg Compilation

Backspacer Tour started in Seattle, focusing on the West Coast of USA, and ended with four incredible shows in Philadelphia Spectrum. The final one lasted approx. 3,5 hours and is one of the longest ever Pearl Jam gigs. Philadelphia shows are also famous because the band decided to perform something like their 2003 Boston experiment. Of course, they couldn't play the entire Pearl Jam catalog, but they did almost 100 different songs including some really obscure rarities like the debut of Bugs from Vitalogy. Another pearls for this tour were: the introduction of string quartet to perform The End, Just Breathe, Parting Ways and... Lukin, first time horns on stage for The Real Me and Ben Harper on lap steel guitar on Red Mosquito.
So it was really interesting and special. Maybe some people were alienated by Eddie's usual vocal problems - ACL taping video translation showed how terribly worn Ed's voice was. But both ACL shows were the bottom of his fall. Other shows are better and at Philadelphia 4 Ed was absolutely alright, so together with long and very special set-list it makes this show a true "must have" for everyone. Some more shows were great: Los Angeles 4 and Philadelphia 3.
All songs in "Backspacer section" are different from the ones in Backspacer Live: there is no or almost no Boom Gaspar on The Fixer, Amongst The Waves and Force Of Nature (also with altered solo), Supersonic from Seattle was played with completely different lyrics (only once). Also look for Bugs (full song with falstart first attempt), acoustic Lukin with strings and best version of Jazz Odyssey improv. Red Mosquito with Ben Harper is with longer solo than the one I selected for No Code Live. Daughter with crappy Ed's vocals was taken for very interesting Mike's riff at the end on the song (altered version was then often played in 2010).

1. Life Wasted
2. Daughter (Sympathy For The Devil) (W.M.A.)
3. Supersonic (completely different lyrics)
4. The Fixer
5. Amongst The Waves
6. Force Of Nature
7. Just Breathe (with strings)
8. The End (Ed solo)
9. Golden State
10. Rearviewmirror
11. Bugs (full version)
12. Lukin (acoustic with strings)
13. Improv (Jazz Odyssey) (version 1)
14. Red Mosquito (with Ben Harper on lap steel guitar)
15. Out Of My Mind
16. All Those Yesterdays
17. Parting Ways (with strings)
18. So You Wanna Be A Rock And Roll Star (contains Ed's story: This job I got now I'm never gonna fuckin' quit!)

Updated to ver. 1.01 (24-11-2010): Porch removed; Just Breathe is now from LA4; Bugs is now full performance (with falstart); changed songs order.

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Pearl Jam: 20-years anniversary

As all the fans head to celebrate 20-th anniversary of Pearl Jam, Jessica Letkemann prepared a very nice book. This is her note:

There is so much more to the story of how Pearl Jam formed than has ever been shared. To uncover it, I interviewed Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Chris Cornell and other key players, I dug up original 1990 Pearl Jam artifacts and hunted down rare audio, I triangulated dates and gathered every fact.
To celebrate Pearl Jam’s 20th Birthday, I’m proud to present the fruits of over 10 years of exhaustive original research.
Brew a pot of coffee, fire up your printer, and prepare for a long, engrossing read in unprecedented detail about the events of 1990, the year that a series of magically wild coincidences brought together the unlikely group of people that became Pearl Jam.
 
Highlights
Discover the amazing events of 1990
* Ed’s long-lost band with a member of Rage Against The Machine
* The Mother Love Bone riffs that survived to become Pearl Jam classics
* Eddie explains making “Momma-Son”
* The true story of Ed’s TWO “first weeks” in Seattle with Mookie Blaylock in October 1990
* Cornell talks Temple of the Dog, and Stone divulges the Pearl Jam fan-favorite that almost had lyrics by Cornell
* Stone, Jeff, and Eddie recalling the first show, first song, and first weeks
* Much, much more

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2009 Backspacer Tour Australasian Leg Compilation

Although Backspacer tour in Australia and New Zealand consisted only of seven dates, Pearl Jam tried hard to make it special. The band introduced some covers to local band's songs, including If You Want Blood by AC/DC (Mike McCready helped on back vocals) and couple of Neil Finn's songs with Neil himself on stage. And his son Liam performed with Pearl Jam at six shows out of seven. Three all-new covers were presented at three last gigs. Also Eddie's friend Ben Harper continued to tour with Pearl Jam and together they performed Red Mosquito at every show with Ben on lap steel guitar (another interesting version with altered solos included) and sometimes on vocals on Indifference.
As for the band, Mike once again completely changed solos for Off He Goes and Boom Gaspar finally learned how to play piano right on Love Reign O'er Me. Also I selected very solid classic version of In My Tree with slightly altered solo.
Ed's voice was constantly improving through the tour, it was much better than in States and in final shows it was almost perfect. Unfortunately, in Sydney Eddie has got terrible flue and his singing was hopeless fight against pain and heat. Fortunately, Sydney people gave Ed all support they could give and with all the band on fire saved that great show.

1. Small Town
2. Not For You (Ed's story of the local word "schoolie") (Modern Girl)
3. In My Tree
4. Off He Goes
5. Red Mosquito (with Ben Harper on lap steel guitar)
6. Indifference (with Ben Harper on vocals)
7. Love, Reign O'er Me
8. Throw Your Arms Around Me (with Liam Finn)
9. Better Be Home Soon (with Neil Finn & Liam Finn)
10. I Got You (with Neil Finn & Liam Finn)
11. If You Want Blood / You Got It + Blood
12. (band presentation: call me Eddie-ask-me-for-a-drink!)
13. Yellow Ledbetter (AC/DC riffs)

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2009 Pre-Backspacer Warm-up Tour Compilation

This small tour was a warm-up prior to the release of Backspacer album and consisted of 9 dates in Europe and North America. The band played some songs from new album: The Fixer, Got Some, The End and Supersonic (live debut). Another debut at this tour was Brother - it was performed just one time in 1991 as a instrumental track and now it returned as a full song (after release on Ten Reissue). Rats was played many times with Ben intro, probably to the memory of Michael Jackson suddenly died that year.
2009 was another disastrous year for Eddie's voice and the first show of the tour - Virgin Festival at Olympic park in Calgary - was one of the worst ever shows vocally for Pearl Jam (Eddie was not prepared for the hight of that place and found himself completely out of breath). However the reception was warm and the whole tour was definitely successful. Some vocal problems continued, but later shows (especially European) were almost good in terms of Ed's voice and absolutely fantastic in terms of audience support. My favorite show from this tour is Rotterdam - fire in band's guitars and extremely loud crowd made pretty simple set-list sound great! Also I think that other European shows were better, at least in terms of audience singing.
This tour's compilation is short so it would not take too much time to listen. Ed changed some lyrics in Lukin, there are some alterations in In Hiding usual solo, Supersonic is slightly different early version. Nothingman from Rotterdam is powered by very intense audience support, Rolling Stones' Angie was played as a snippet. And, as always, look for some cool jams on Porch and Even Flow.

1. Supersonic
2. Brother
3. Even Flow
4. Lukin
5. In Hiding
6. Nothingman
7. (Ben) Rats
8. (Angie)
9. Alive
10. Black (We Belong Together)
11. Porch

Updated to ver. 1.01 on 2010-09-02: Removed In My Tree, because more special classic-like version with altered Mike's ending solo added to 2009 Australasian tour compilation.

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