Has your band ever covered a Pearl Jam Song?

skinney

I was just curious as to what song(s) your band may have covered while playing a show. I used to play in a band called "GodHead" (before there was a famous band called ``godhead''), and we covered "Spin the Black Circle" and "Corduroy". I can only hope that we came within 1/10th of doing these songs justice. I loved playing the songs live, made me feel like I was somehow close to the band.

-Shane

WiLL75

I love Pearl Jam, so every band I've been in has done a pearl jam song or two.
Alive, Even Flow, Black, Betterman(with full version of Save It For Later tagged onto the end), Daughter(with full version of Another Brick In The Wall tagged onto the end), Corduroy, Nothingman, Garden. I think that's all.

pariah

We do Do The Evolution whenever there's a second guitar player around.. Also, whe fuck around with Not For You every now and then; it's such a nice riff to jam to

HeavyMetalNyge

My band does Alive, Dissident, Black, Yellow Ledbetter, and coming soon, RVM. We've actually talked about doing an all Pearl Jam show.

exhausted

i used to play elderly woman and wishlist once in a while. those were solo acoustic things though.


i actually tended to learn the songs that pj covered more than actual pj songs.

StuffnJunk

band- alive, yellow ledbetter, corduroy, i am mine

me solo at open mic - black, long road, yellow led, i am mine, i got id

and when i was playing PJ some guy ran up and requested red mosquito, which proved he knows his PJ shit......i would have done it but my time was up

HailHailVitalogy

yes

save you
spin the black circle
rockin in the free world (if u wanna count that)
lukin
wma

DigMeOut

one band has done do the evolution, porch, and alive
my current one did state of love and trust

Pappas

i did the intro to corduroy (its all i can play i am just starting and my 'audience' was my cat)

armanHammer

Once my drummer friend and I get together, and maybe another guitarist, we will do PJ covers nonstop!

dontgimmenolip

I was told I needed to pick a few songs for myself to sing. I'm thinking of Better Man and Thin Air. I have done Small Town between sets in the past.

My band does a lot of Springsteen and Temptations tunes, and I usually only get to sing either Werewolves of London or Train in Vain. I don't think the PJ tunes I'm picking are much of a stretch.

Eddie_Vedder_83

not with a band but solo:

mostly:

I Am Mine
Sometimes
Man Of The Hour
RVM
Small Town
Long Road
Immortality
Parting Ways

skinney

I was thinkin about it, and I really wish I would have gotten around to playing: Not For You, I got Id, In Hiding, In My Tree, Lukin, Leash, Rats and Sonic Reducer. And haha, a whole bunch more probably. I love the idea of an entire set of PJ covers. It'd be hard to go wrong with that! I wish I could have like 1 private guitar lesson from each Mike & Stone and a vocal lesson from Ed.

Pearl Jam and toast

me and a friend known as my bass player (the person i play with the most by far) play these songs very well:

sometimes
hail hail
who you are
in my tree
smile
red mosquito
mankind
elderly women... small town
rocking in the free world (by neil young of course)
wishlist

and are working on several others at the moment

we also do a bunch from other bands... but we like to focus on pearl jam.

upina2001

"People Tree", a college band from Bloomington, were good friends of mine. I used to sing with them all the time and we did Even Flow, Yellow Ledbetter, Betterman, Black & Rearview.
That is fun as hell.

Oh, and anyone near Indy that is looking for a singer for a rock band...pm me.

pogsmogs

A band i was in back in 2002 played rocking in the free world at a couple of gigs.

jeff's_the_man

ok where do i start??

we play evenflow, alive, black, betterman, SOTAT, lukin and we are starting work on RVM, daughter, grievance and breath.

its kinda good being in a band where each member is obsessed with Pear Jam.

ps r name is Breakerfall aswell!

Pappas

jeff's_the_man wrote:

ok where do i start??

we play evenflow, alive, black, betterman, SOTAT, lukin and we are starting work on RVM, daughter, grievance and breath.

its kinda good being in a band where each member is obsessed with Pear Jam.

ps r name is Breakerfall aswell!

great band name!

jeff's_the_man

Pappas wrote:

great band name!

oh ull be hearing from us soon, we will be hitting the adelaide scene hopefully once two of r band menbers come back from Croatia!

oh and i forgot that we play jeremy as well.

freedomboy

Present Tense, Rearviewmirror, Insignificance, Smile, Indifferance, I Am Mine, Oceans, Bugs, Wishlist, and... Elderly Woman (just for fun)

I do few covers... this is how important Pearl Jam is to me...

Vacant

When my band first started out we did Betterman and Immortality. I think I'm going to convince them to do RVM, Insignificance...and EVENFLOW. Too bad our bass player NEVER shows up and our drummer connections fell through. So now, it's just 2 pathetically hopeful guitar players.

gimmesometruth27

we have done at one time or another the following:

black
last kiss
small town
betterman
blood
release
hunger strike (i get to do ed's part )
can't help falling in love (from vegas 2000)

and we usually close our final set with this combo:

rockin in the free world (i get to sing that one)
baba o reily (if you can count that one)
yellow ledbetter

if i play solo acousticly i play:
low light
long road
throw your arms around me
wishlist
off he goes
last soldier

House53

Solo acoustic gigs:

Long Road
Elderly Woman
Black
Throw Your Arms Around Me (I know it isn't a PJ song, but I sure identify it with EV)
Hide Your Love Away (I don't identify this with EV, but still they have played it)

With my old band:
I Got Shit
Yellow Ledbetter
Black
Betterman (w/ Why Can't I Touch it tag)
Immortality
And of course,

Rockin' in the Free World (featuring my best NY impression on the bridge solo, and my lead guitar players, MM tribute on the outro solo \m/)


Pearl Jam is great. I need a new band.

tmud91087

having been in a band yet but in solo acoustic shows ive played

black
yellow led
elderly women....etc
i am mine
off he goes
nothingman
betterman
hide your love away
in my tree
smile
wishlist
all those yesterdays

Duck Lake

our band name originally was red mosquito.
we now consistently play neil young and pj songs when we do covers, we also play some guess who and are throwing in hindu times by oasis next show. but we consistently play (depending on time)
go
animal
hail hail
sad

Anthropoid76

My old band played Not For You, and my curernt band's first song we played together was Even Flow. We tried to play Brain of J but the vocals are just too damn hard to emulate.

Tom-Joad

After screwing up with I am mine because I can't sing that low, after realising that I couldn't play guitar and sing on Do the Evolution, we settled for Corduroy. That's a really nice song to play!

And I'm not counting Rockin in the free world and Fortunate Son as Pearl Jam covers because... well, they're not!

MetalGod75

This is our setlist so far:)

State Of Love And Trust
Hail, Hail
Last Exit
God's Dice
Alive
Even Flow
Breath
Daughter
Animal
Save You
Release
Tremor Christ
Corduroy
Nothing As It Seems
Porch
Black
Rearviewmirror
Jeremy
Given To Fly
Elderly Woman...
Do The Evolution
Yellow Ledbetter
Hunger Strike (Temple Of The Dog)
Dissident
Oceans
Lukin
Satan's Bed
Not For You
Go

Heatherj43

My bf's band, who do mostly covers, some old obscure stuff too, has added Black to their set lists. My bf is the drummer, but sings for Black, as well as some Stones stuff and Eric Clapton. In my opinion...and I'm glad he doesn't read thse boards, they do it too slow, similar to how Stain'd does it. I hate Stain'd's...LOL, that was weird how to pluralize that...anyway...I hate their version very much. I have heard versions where Pearl Jam does it slow, but I like it when it is a bit faster.
Its funny cuz most of my bf's band audience aren't what i would think of as Pearl Jam fans, or even know Pearl Jam songs, except the ones that got overplayed on the radio, but old people will slow dance to Black everytime!!

I am betting the band wiill slowly add more PJ songs as we are really turning the rest of the band members onto PJ. We even took them, at our expense, to the concert in 2003 at Pine Knob, (DTE for those who don't know the old name). They loved it and have been buying PJ music ever since.
Now, I have written some songs for them to do as originals. They seem to practice them and like them, yet I haven't heard them in public yet. I beg them to just let me hear one of my songs publically so I can get the audience reaction. I worked hard with the lead guitarist to get it all right and we came out with two great songs so far. I want to hear them, dammit, live. I have them on tape and my kids, who don't know its my song, have listened to this tape a lot and I will catch them sometimes just singing it as they are going about the day. So, they are young and know ggod music. This one has got into their heads enough to make them just thoughtlessly sing it. It must be good.
But, our bass player is a dick and won't get involved enough to add his part to the thing to finish it off.

kenny olav

exhausted wrote:

i used to play elderly woman and wishlist once in a while. those were solo acoustic things though.

i did a solo acoustic performance of Elderly Woman at a bar once. everyone in the bar was singing along - loudly. it was really cool. plus, it drowned out my no-where-near-eddie-soundng voice.

dark_crystalis

We've never played a Pearl Jam song because I'm the only PJ fan and "grunge" fan except maybe for Nirvana which everyone in the band appreciates atleast a little.

We have the two guitars so its ok, but I think we should fire one of them, he sucks and lives far away. Also he hates jammin' and is never ready/concentrated or focused.