Pearl Jam

[The Sheck]

I know the tour hits Columbus Thursday, so I just wanted to say have fun to those who are going. I saw them in MN on Monday, and they were on fire! Chicago tonight! Woo-hoo!

[euro60]

Eddie Vedder did a short tour of solo-shows last year (on the West Coast only, I believe) in the wake of his great "Into the Wild" soundtrack, and is finally doing some more of that. The reviews of those solo-gigs were across the board positive. Would love to catch this, but not sure that it's in the cards... Here the tour dates:


June 8: Albany, N.Y. (Palace Theatre)
June 9: Albany, N.Y. (Palace Theatre)*
June 11: Philadelphia (Tower Theatre)
June 12: Philadelphia (Tower Theatre)
June 14: Baltimore (Lyric Opera House)
June 15: Baltimore (Lyric Opera House)
June 18: Nashville, Tenn. (Ryman Auditorium)
June 20: Memphis, Tenn. (Orpheum)
June 21: Memphis, Tenn. (Orpheum)*
June 23: Atlanta (Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center)
June 24: Atlanta (Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center)*
June 29: Maui, HI (Arts & Cultural Center, Castle Theatre)
July 1: Honolulu (Hawaii Theatre)
July 2: Honolulu (Hawaii Theatre)

* indicates "unconfirmed, possible 'rollover'" date

[silentpaul]

Three shows in Hawaii... It's a rough life.

I'm interested, but I bet the money's prohibitive.

[govols4420]

Three shows in Hawaii... It's a rough life.

I'm interested, but I bet the money's prohibitive.

Tickets for the Ryman in Nashville are $75 and $55 they go on sale Sat April 18th

[bmxer43]

Man, I would love to see Pearl Jam at the Ryman.

[euro60]

Man, I would love to see Pearl Jam at the Ryman.

urrr... this is for Eddie Vedder solo... sorry

[euro60]

Tickets for the Ryman in Nashville are $75 and $55 they go on sale Sat April 18th

holy cow,,, that is damn expensive :eek:

[silentpaul]

holy cow,,, that is damn expensive :eek:

I thought as much. Good for him -- he's earned it. But I'll spend my money to support newer musicians.

[euro60]

It looks like Pearl Jam is playing some amazing/awe-inducing sets on their current (but regretfully short) US tour. 29 songs the other night in Chicago, and not just any songs. Wow.

From Spin:


Pearl Jam Tour, Night 3: Brilliant Set

During their second Chicago date, PJ showed the difference between being very good and truly great.

By Josh Modell
08.25.09 10:14 AM

Let's start with the stats: On their second of two nights at Chicago's United Center Monday, Pearl Jam played 29 songs versus the previous night's 27, and repeated just eight. They played one Who cover instead of two ("The Real Me"), a different Neil Young song than the night before ("Fuckin' Up" instead of "The Needle and the Damage Done"), and ended the show in exactly the same way, with a medley of "Yellow Ledbetter" and a guitar-shredding "Star-Spangled Banner" delivered by Mike McCready channeling Jimi Hendrix.

But it's not facts and figures that separate a very, very good show like Sunday night's from a truly great one like Monday's: It's partly song selection, partly the energy of band and audience, and partly that intangible chemistry that happens when those things synthesize. It's in the surprise of remembering what shockingly good songs "Whipping" and "Present Tense" are -- and remembering that they exist at all. It's in the realization that a track as ubiquitous and overplayed as "Alive" has survived for a reason.

More than anything, though, separating good from great comes down to how much fun Pearl Jam is having, and Monday seemed like the time of the bandmember's lives -- no small feat considering they should be at the stage in their careers where they have assistants deliver messages between them. ("Eddie asks that you keep the solos under three minutes tonight, Mike, and in return he promises not to dance too close to your amp.") But the band that nearly tore itself apart after suffering from fame-itis now loves the stage more than anyone. If playing has in any way become work, they're great at hiding it.

So when drummer Matt Cameron took what seemed like an unplanned solo during "Evenflow," it made bassist Jeff Ament giggle. When "Do the Evolution" got heated, Vedder and Ament staged a playful shoving match.

The band dropped bits of Pink Floyd and Sleater-Kinney songs into their own. Vedder took a fright wig from an audience member and carefully placed it on his head for half of a song.

And when the family of Iraq War veteran Tomas Young -- subject of the documentary Body of War, for which Vedder wrote some music -- showed up, there was plenty of room in the set for their request: a powerfully spare reading of "No More." "When a soldier asks you to play this song, you play the fucking song," laughed Vedder -- then apologized to Young's little brother for swearing.

The show was all celebration.

Before second-encore starter "Life Wasted," Vedder big-upped his former hometown and its current most- famous son (that'd be President Obama). He left the entire first verse of "Betterman" to the crowd, who delivered it with relish. He carefully passed his wine bottle to the first couple of rows during a cover of Victoria Williams' "Crazy Mary," whose chorus goes, "Take a bottle / drink it down / Pass it around." And he dedicated "Fuckin' Up" to his pal, former Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman, saying with what seemed like genuine awe: "A lot of amazing shit happened in this room."

That's true -- this night included.


Chicago Night 2 Setlist:

Hard to Imagine
Corduroy
In My Tree
Last Exit
All Night
Nothingman
Fixer
Evenflow
Present Tense
Whipping
Not For You
Daughter
Brother
Gone
Got Some
Do the Evolution
Alive

No More
Comatose
Grievance
Black
The Real Me
Porch

Life Wasted
Betterman
Crazy Mary
State of Love and Trust
Fuckin' up
Yellow Ledbetter/The Star-Spangled Banner

[euro60]

Pearl Jam is hitting the road for a short Spring tour before heading over to Europe for all the big summer festivals there. The Indy date is a Friday evening...

2010 Spring US dates:

May 1: New Orleans Jazz Festival
May 3: Kansas City, Mo. (Sprint Center)
May 4: St. Louis, Mo. (Scottrade Center)
May 6: Columbus, Ohio (Nationwide Arena)
May 7: Noblesville, Ind. (Verizon Wireless Music Center)
May 9: Cleveland, Ohio (Quicken Loans Arena)
May 10: Buffalo, N.Y. (HSBC Arena)
May 13: Bristow, Virginia (Jiffy Lube Live)
May 15: Hartford, CT (XL Center)
May 17: Boston (TD Garden)
May 18: TBA
May 20: New York (Madison Square Garden)
May 21: New York (Madison Square Garden)

[govols4420]

Pearl Jam is hitting the road for a short Spring tour before heading over to Europe for all the big summer festivals there. The Indy date is a Friday evening...

2010 Spring US dates:

May 1: New Orleans Jazz Festival
May 3: Kansas City, Mo. (Sprint Center)
May 4: St. Louis, Mo. (Scottrade Center)
May 6: Columbus, Ohio (Nationwide Arena)
May 7: Noblesville, Ind. (Verizon Wireless Music Center)
May 9: Cleveland, Ohio (Quicken Loans Arena)
May 10: Buffalo, N.Y. (HSBC Arena)
May 13: Bristow, Virginia (Jiffy Lube Live)
May 15: Hartford, CT (XL Center)
May 17: Boston (TD Garden)
May 18: TBA
May 20: New York (Madison Square Garden)
May 21: New York (Madison Square Garden)

I saw on pollstar that Band of Horses is opening the Indy show. :cool:

[The Sheck]

BoH is opening all shows except for the first MSG one, where Black Keys opens.