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It was twenty years ago today...
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Happy birthday!

and if any of you are Sirius / SiriusXM subscribers, Pearl jam will be getting their own channel starting at 6:00pm EST tonight. Sirius 17 or XM 39 .... they will be broadcasting concerts, rare stuff and solo stuff. the first thing on the air tonight is their 10th anniversary concert from 2000.

For Canadian PJ fans...
Running Back To Saskatoon

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Back in 1992 Seattle,Washington became the epicenter for a musical revolution. What the world thought the Seattle scene was like was really very different from what was happening in the clubs and garages in Seattle. The world knew of Alice and Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, The Screeming Trees etc., but they were not around. The real Seattle scene consisted of unknown bands like FnD,Tad,The Piss Drunks, Sore Jackson,The Gits and dozens of other small "grunge" bands.

Except for Pearl Jam.

People in Settle LOVE Pearl Jam and Pearl Jam loved Seattle. When 10 hit the band decided to throw a free show for the fans in Seattle. The show was set to take place at the Seattle landmark Gasworks Park but the city pulled the permit. The free show was rescheduled at a big park outside of town called Magnuson Park and retitled "A Drop In The Park". The t-shirt and poster was of a dude squatting down and taking a dump on the grass. The city decided to close the park to automobile traffic and forced the fans ride free public buses in from the city. It was crazy. 30,000 ecstatic fans packed those buses and turned the trip into a massive traveling party.

The show was epic.

Live at Magnusson Park, September 20, 1992

01. Even Flow
02. Once
03. State Of Love And Trust
04. Why Go
05. Deep
06. Jeremy
07. Black
08. Alive
09. Garden
10. Porch






That was the day I witnessed my single greatest live Rock and Roll moment ever. It happened as the band was playing the closing song "Porch".



Eddie was singing and he started to swing his mic around "windmill" style. It got higher and higher until it looped up over the rafters into the stage rigging. He started to pull on it but it was stuck. The band keep on jamming as Eddie ran over to side of the stage. He climbed up the rigging and hand over hand climbed out over the stage.



He held onto the rigging dangling over the stage and sang into the microphone.




Eddie slid down the cable and started to swing back and forth. He worked up so much momentum that he began to swing out over the audience.



I have wondered if it was a set up. The truth is I don't care because in that moment the energy was so powerful that it does not really matter.

Long Live Pearl Jam!

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Deep
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Black
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Their show in Calgary in September of '05 was one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. It was only the 2nd time I'd ever seen them, the last being their previous visit to our city back in '93. So the '05 show was a long time coming. The band was terrific and the crowd was absolutely insane. To quote the Rheostatics' Dave Bidini from his excellent book, On A Cold Road: "In Toronto, fans applaud. In Vancouver, they cheer. But in Calgary they howl hair-raising, guttural paroxysms of zeal." I was also lucky enough to be in town when they played the Virgin Festial last year at Canada Olympic Park, which was yet another mind-blowing show. For me these guys are one of the greatest bands of all time, and I'm thankful that they're still making records and touring. Long may they run. And I hope that one day I can finally see that Tragically Hip/Pearl Jam double bill I've been imagining in my head for the last 20 years.

I just ran across this article, lots to look forward to:
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"There's so much going on between this Tres Mts. project and Pearl Jam stuff for the rest of the year that I'm going to be plenty busy," bassist Jeff Ament says. That, Pearl Jam fans, is a huge understatement.

Ament's first trip to SXSW later this week with his new side band, Tres Mts., is just the tip of the iceberg of a hectic 2011 for Pearl Jam and its members -- one which Ament tells Billboard.com will hopefully include a brand new Pearl Jam album and a solo tour by frontman Eddie Vedder, in addition to the already announced the Cameron Crowe-directed Pearl Jam documentary, official book and weekend festival, all celebrating the band's 20th anniversary. Throw in a new Eddie Vedder solo album, a Soundgarden record in the works (which includes drummer Matt Cameron, who plays in both bands), and Ament putting the finishing touches on his own second solo album, and you've got a very full docket for the veteran Seattle quintet.

Jeff Ament Talks Tres Mts.

All of the new action starts in April, Ament explains, when Pearl Jam convenes not only to begin recording the follow up to 2009's "Backspacer," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, but also to announce the location and other details for the Pearl Jam Twenty festival, which Ament says will likely take place on or around Labor Day weekend.

"We did a whole bunch of demos and everybody's got a disc of 25 [songs] right now," Ament says of Pearl Jam's plans to hit the studio next month. "April will be the time where we get together and learn to play all these demos and figure out which 12-15 of them float to the top. Hopefully we can get something done this year."

"There's been so much focus on the past that I think all of us are really excited to make a new record and have something to look forward to because we've been digging in the boxes in our basement a lot the last year or so," Ament says.

That digging, of course, has been in the service of creating the Pearl Jam Twenty documentary, which tells the story of the band's career, and an accompanying book, both due in late summer/early fall around the exact 20th anniversary of the band's blockbuster debut album, August 1991's "Ten."

The group also unearthed a raft of archival goodies for the special edition box set of reissues due on March 29 -- which includes expanded versions of 1993's Vs. and 1994's Vitalogy.

As far as the Pearl Jam festival goes, Ament says that the band is looking to finalize the location and the other bands on the bill by the end of March and announce everything in April. "We've reached out to a few [other bands]. It's mostly people that we're friends with. I don't think that anybody's fully signed on yet. We're not 100% where we're going to have it yet, so it's a little bit tricky... If it's Labor Day, that's three or four months; that should be plenty of time for people to make reservations."

Frontman Eddie Vedder, who is currently on tour on his own in Australia, will probably be hitting the road solo again this year, according to Ament. Vedder, meanwhile, has also made a new solo album likely due in the coming months. He recently told Austin, Texas radio station AM 1300 that the songs were written on the ukulele, which has been a staple of his non-Pearl Jam work for a decade. It hasn't yet been confirmed whether any of the many ukulele songs Vedder debuted at solo shows in early 2002 -- but never released -- will be on the new album, but a version of one of them, "Longing To Belong," was posted by the website Antiquiet yesterday.

Ament, for his part, also has a his own new solo album "pretty much in the can." Recorded "a few months ago," Ament says he's "just waiting for a little bit of airspace to finish it up" and that it probably won't see release until 2012.

As previously reported, Soundgarden -- drummer Cameron's other band -- has also been in the studio making its first studio album in 15 years. No release date has yet been set.

Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam Twenty premiers on PBS on Friday, October 21
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Tthip Wrote:Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam Twenty premiers on PBS on Friday, October 21
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so pumped to finally see this, i missed the screening here due to my new jobs work schedule, actually going to finish the book this morning, don't want it to end...

the soundtrack is also very good, beautiful clean version of black from unplugged (compared to my bootlegged tdk cassette ripped from vhs!)

kleh Wrote:

Tthip Wrote:Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam Twenty premiers on PBS on Friday, October 21
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so pumped to finally see this, i missed the screening here due to my new jobs work schedule, actually going to finish the book this morning, don't want it to end...

the soundtrack is also very good, beautiful clean version of black from unplugged (compared to my bootlegged tdk cassette ripped from vhs!)

It was GREAT on the big screen! I'm excited to see it again in HD on PBS tomorrow nite.

ikky99 Wrote:

kleh Wrote:

Tthip Wrote:Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam Twenty premiers on PBS on Friday, October 21
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so pumped to finally see this, i missed the screening here due to my new jobs work schedule, actually going to finish the book this morning, don't want it to end...

the soundtrack is also very good, beautiful clean version of black from unplugged (compared to my bootlegged tdk cassette ripped from vhs!)

It was GREAT on the big screen! I'm excited to see it again in HD on PBS tomorrow nite.

The footage of 'Release' sent shivers down my spine.

Great movie! A true "warts and all" account, and one of the best music docs I've ever seen. The Roskilde and Andy Wood stuff is particularly heartbreaking, but it's nicely balanced with equal doses of humor and interesting anecdotes from all involved. Pretty amazing that these guys are still together after everything they've been through. I have nothing but respect and admiration for them.

PJ20 is a 10/10. Loved it. I thought they spent a bit much time on 10, and glossed over their later stuff, but I guess there's no market for a 6 hour documentary for the most part. I can't believe the footage they had access to, and how much they just really like making music.

seen pj 32 times. i was in the pj20 documentary if you can believe it. 4 whole seconds!

PJ rules. :jump

restlesssoul Wrote:seen pj 32 times. i was in the pj20 documentary if you can believe it. 4 whole seconds!

PJ rules. :jump

Very cool. Which scene?

direwolf74 Wrote:

restlesssoul Wrote:seen pj 32 times. i was in the pj20 documentary if you can believe it. 4 whole seconds!

PJ rules. :jump

Very cool. Which scene?

the very end Alive montage, front row Vancouver 2009. I raise my arms in front of Ed and my wife is there too!
we freaked out in the theater.