-Dancing In The Dark
-If I Should Fall Behind( w/ Patti)
-Dream Baby Dream ( alla 2005 Devils and Dust with the pump organ )
i knew it was gonna be a bad one when i saw them carrying out the pump organ.
oh well.
The veteran who sang 'A Change is Going to Come' stole the show right from under Bruce.
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I was praying I'd get this one in Rochester last Halloween but alas... big time holy grail song that Bruce almost never plays anymore -- maybe once per tour. Last time was 11/7/2009.
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The infamous MSG show where he played "The Wild, the Innocent..." straight through.
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The infamous MSG show where he played "The Wild, the Innocent..." straight through.
Ah okay it was MSG. I was there.
Thanks Newch.
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I am jealous of both of you, especially Lantern for seeing The River live.
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I love how they're putting out official pro-shot performances of rarely played songs from the WB tour every week. So far, we have This Hard Land, Local Hero, NYC Serenade and just posted today, You Never Can Tell. At the rate they're going, I'll be less disappointed if Bruce decides not to release a new album early next year.
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After laying low for much of the ’90s, Bruce Springsteen has spent the past decade recording at a relatively torrid pace, releasing six albums between 2002 and 2012. And while touring commitments kept him out of the studio for much of 2013, recent rumors suggest we could be getting another new album sometime in the next few months.
The details are admittedly sketchy at this point, but the story got started courtesy of the Danish music site Wimp, where a listing for a new Springsteen single titled ‘High Hopes’ showed up on the release schedule for Nov. 19.
As many Springsteen fans are already aware, ‘High Hopes’ isn’t a new addition to the Boss’s catalog; in fact, it’s been kicking around at least since the mid-’90s, when it first surfaced on his 1996 ‘Blood Brothers’ EP. But Springsteen’s clearly not averse to re-recording older material, as he’s done on a couple of occasions with recent records, and given that ‘High Hopes’ made its live debut on his most recent tour, it stands to reason that he might have felt the urge to give the song another go in the studio.
Whether or not the ‘High Hopes’ rumor turns out to be true, we do know Springsteen’s been in the studio recently. “We’ve never had a recording session during a tour in our lives,” he admitted earlier this year, but added that the addition of Tom Morello to the band lineup added a new layer of excitement. “We did a couple of things that I wanted to put down. So that was very exciting. And being with Tommy was exciting. The band — Steven, Nils, all those guys — continues to be a source of inspiration for me.”
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The new Bruce Springsteen single "High Hopes," which will officially be released next week, was leaked online on Tuesday. The single includes Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello and is described by Rolling Stone as "an unexpected mix of the Seeger Sessions Band, Rage, the E Street Band and the Meters."
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Bruce officially inducting Eddie and PJ into the Ministry of Rock and Roll at his Wrigley show in 2012.
It's definitely showed after the two PJ shows I went to this year.
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Bruce officially inducting Eddie and PJ into the Ministry of Rock and Roll at his Wrigley show in 2012.
It's definitely showed after the two PJ shows I went to this year.
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Taken from BTX, the alleged song titles from the upcoming album, which is rumored to be a compilation of covers and outtakes:
DREAM BABY DREAM
HIGH HOPES
HARRY'S PLACE
HEAVEN'S WALL
THIS IS YOUR SWORD
JUST LIKE FIRE WOULD
AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS)
HUNTER OF INVISIBLE GAME
FRANKIE FELL IN LOVE
DOWN IN THE HOLE
GHOST OF TOM JOAD
THE WALL
Taken from BTX, the alleged song titles from the upcoming album, which is rumored to be a compilation of covers and outtakes:
DREAM BABY DREAM
HIGH HOPES
HARRY'S PLACE
HEAVEN'S WALL
THIS IS YOUR SWORD
JUST LIKE FIRE WOULD
AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS)
HUNTER OF INVISIBLE GAME
FRANKIE FELL IN LOVE
DOWN IN THE HOLE
GHOST OF TOM JOAD
THE WALL
1 ) Harrys Place ? Is this Marys husband?
2 ) 41 Shots is always good live. " We need some quiet here ,..."
3 ) Is " Down In The Hole " a cover song ? Thats sounds familiar to me for some reason ?
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Got #HighHopes for a new Springsteen album in 2014? Bruce Springsteen to release new album HIGH HOPES on January 14th.
1. High Hopes
2. Harry's Place
3. American Skin (41 Shots)
4. Just Like Fire Would
5. Down In The Hole
6. Heaven's Wall
7. Frankie Fell In Love
8. This Is Your Sword
9. Hunter Of Invisible Game
10. The Ghost of Tom Joad
11.The Wall
12. Dream Baby Dream
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I was working on a record of some of our best unreleased material from the past decade when Tom Morello (sitting in for Steve during the Australian leg of our tour) suggested we ought to add “High Hopes” to our live set. I had cut “High Hopes,” a song by Tim Scott McConnell of the LA based Havalinas, in the 90′s. We worked it up in our Aussie rehearsals and Tom then proceeded to burn the house down with it. We re-cut it mid tour at Studios 301 in Sydney along with “Just Like Fire Would,” a song from one of my favorite early Australian punk bands, The Saints (check out “I’m Stranded”). Tom and his guitar became my muse, pushing the rest of this project to another level. Thanks for the inspiration Tom.
Some of these songs, “American Skin” and “Ghost of Tom Joad,” you’ll be familiar with from our live versions. I felt they were among the best of my writing and deserved a proper studio recording. ”The Wall” is something I’d played on stage a few times and remains very close to my heart. The title and idea were Joe Grushecky’s, then the song appeared after Patti and I made a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. It was inspired by my memories of Walter Cichon. Walter was one of the great early Jersey Shore rockers, who along with his brother Ray (one of my early guitar mentors) led the ”Motifs”. The Motifs were a local rock band who were always a head above everybody else. Raw, sexy and rebellious, they were the heroes you aspired to be. But these were heroes you could touch, speak to, and go to with your musical inquiries. Cool, but always accessible, they were an inspiration to me, and many young working musicians in 1960′s central New Jersey. Though my character in “The Wall” is a Marine, Walter was actually in the Army, A Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry. He was the first person I ever stood in the presence of who was filled with the mystique of the true rock star. Walter went missing in action in Vietnam in March 1968. He still performs somewhat regularly in my mind, the way he stood, dressed, held the tambourine, the casual cool, the freeness. The man who by his attitude, his walk said “you can defy all this, all of what’s here, all of what you’ve been taught, taught to fear, to love and you’ll still be alright.” His was a terrible loss to us, his loved ones and the local music scene. I still miss him.
This is music I always felt needed to be released. From the gangsters of “Harry’s Place,” the ill-prepared roomies on “Frankie Fell In Love” (shades of Steve and I bumming together in our Asbury Park apartment) the travelers in the wasteland of “Hunter Of Invisible Game,” to the soldier and his visiting friend in “The Wall”, I felt they all deserved a home and a hearing.
Hope you enjoy it,
Bruce Springsteen
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Just heard the news, can't believe The Boss has another record out so soon after Wrecking Ball. Does this guy ever stop?!?!?
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Just heard the news, can't believe The Boss has another record out so soon after Wrecking Ball. Does this guy ever stop?!?!?
Never!
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Looking forward to this new stuff. Cant believe so fast after WB .
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Bruce officially inducting Eddie and PJ into the Ministry of Rock and Roll at his Wrigley show in 2012.
It's definitely showed after the two PJ shows I went to this year.
This is awesome! My 2 favorite music men together in one shot. Springsteen & Pearl Jam are the only 2 bands that I've been a dedicated fan of for decades and still love enough to go to see them play live.
… before the Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball & Pearl Jam’s Lightning Bolt tours, the last concert I went to was in 1992. Today’s new music doesn't do much for me, but I’m always ready to hear Springsteen & Vedder’s voices in new song releases.
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No one, least of all Pearl Jam, could have dreamt back at the tail-end of 1991 – when the venerable band first played Los Angeles Sports Arena – that nearly a quarter-century later they would return not only as the most successful survivors of the grunge boom but also as standby inheritors of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s live torch.
Set list: Pearl Jam at Los Angeles Sports Arena
Back then they were merely another new sensation out of Seattle, opening for a more fast-breaking one, Nirvana, which in turn was warming up for a Red Hot Chili Peppers homecoming performance. Indeed, Pearl Jam had only formed little more than a year earlier, when a gas station attendant named Eddie Vedder auditioned by tape from San Diego and soon moved north.
Their eventual era-defining debut, Ten – certified diamond status this past February for more than 10 million copies sold – had only just begun to register with fans and critics bored by Guns N’ Roses and hair metal. The Zeppelin-infused track “Alive” plunked onto playlists well before Christmas ’91, but MTV-driven enthusiasm for “Even Flow” and “Jeremy” was still a summer away. The quintet was so new – and already wrongly chided for bandwagon-hopping – that they barely merited a mention in a review of that Sports Arena triple bill by veteran L.A. critic Robert Hilburn, who noted only that Vedder “bemoan(ed) the setting” in an “annoying manner.”
The singer had no such misgivings Saturday night when Pearl Jam finally returned to the shabby but significant venue 22 years later (not 23, as Vedder miscalculated). “It was our friend Bruce Springsteen who told us to come to this place,” he mentioned between chant-along renditions of “Why Go” and “Dissident,” not too long into the group’s epic three-hour set, the first of two shows at the arena this past weekend on PJ’s first local tour stop since 2009. “So far you are proving him right.”
Certainly this outfit’s devotees, particularly its millions of Ten Club members who rush to snatch up floor access, are ardent like few other armies outside of jam-band circles. Only Phish phollowers and Dave Matthews junkies are as rabid about chasing their faves across the West just to hear what rare gems might get dusted off in San Francisco or Phoenix or further.
So it was no surprise that this crowd roared approval with palpable fervency, resurrecting an electrifying spirit not felt much here since the ’70s and ’80s – for despite its concrete drabness and lack of accommodations, the Sports Arena still retains an intimacy that behemoths like Staples Center can never capture.
Maybe that was the fundamental reason Saturday’s show seemed so positively Springsteenian, although evidence of the master’s approach was everywhere.
There was social commentary beyond the songs: gun-control advocacy and a cautionary George Zimmerman zinger before a potent retelling of “Jeremy,” for instance, ending with Vedder noting how unchanged the topic has been since they performed that school-shooting tale here decades ago. There was also rousing swagger, not just from Vedder (fiercely prowling the edge of the stage during “Got Some”) but also guitarist Mike McCready, whose soaring solo bursts were capped by a spot-on rip through Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” late in the main set.
One fairly rare occurrence – opting to play “All or None” for a woman asking via an upheld sign – seemed a direct homage to the Boss, who makes a habit of doing likewise at virtually every show these days. And when the house lights came up halfway into “Alive,” during a remarkable second encore that included another blast through the Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” it was hard not to think of how the same thing happens whenever the E Street Band kicks off “Born to Run.”
Pearl Jam
Make no mistake: Pearl Jam is Pearl Jam, steeped in influences much heavier and edgier than Springsteen. Note what I think is a winking nod to one of their metal sources, as McCready sported a tee parodying Black Sabbath’s purple Master of Reality logo, while bassist Jeff Ament’s shirt simply commanded “Listen to Volume Four,” perhaps a reference to that band’s next album.
Thematic similarities between Springsteen’s precision songwriting and Vedder’s increasingly varied observations have been aligning for years, born out of both writers’ desire to chronicle the human condition, from the private to the political. Sonically, however, as Saturday’s crushing takes on “Do the Evolution” and “Spin the Black Circle” attested, these titans from different generations are as divergent as they are equally anthemic.
That intensity carries over into Pearl Jam’s still-explosive stage presence. The Boss used to be a bigger ball of energy, too, hopping atop pianos and sliding across the stage, but he’d never dare anything as reckless (and awesome) as what Vedder did when climbed atop a plastic lantern attached to a long cable – one of several bug-zapper lighting props – and swung himself Tarzan-like toward the audience while still singing “Porch” to close the first encore. Nor would he have firmly demanded that a disruptive fan pressed near the floor barrier be moved out; Springsteen like would just motion to security.
That’s an indication of how hands-on Pearl Jam remains with regard to satisfying its base, the result of which is an uncommon communal atmosphere they have fostered practically from the launch of their career. One or two Southern California shows from outings in 2009 or 2006 might have hit higher peaks than this return, yet the vibrant warmth of people here rocking in unison felt so much broader and more inviting than ever before.
It was unquestionably a diehard’s show, a 32-song set (not counting the Van Halen homage) drawn from all corners of their catalog and thick with unexpected picks, just like the best Springsteen gigs. Yet anyone could have walked into that arena, heard several staples they knew (including all but three cuts from Ten) alongside plenty of obscurities they didn’t (strays like a Townshend-esque “I Got Id” and B-sides like “Footsteps” and “Leatherman”) – plus a hearty helping of complementary material from yet another underrated new album, Lightning Bolt, much of which rises to their punchiest level – and that neophyte would have come away converted.
It’s hard not to get swept up in the tight ferocity of their playing, the gale-force strength of Vedder’s voice and the overall open-armed vibe; all of that overwhelms in giant waves. Everything about Pearl Jam that has become glorious in the richest classic-rock tradition was on full display this time. Combined with Sunday’s inevitable powerhouse performance, it’s a gracious and generous triumph – one for the books from a tour that may stand as a mid-career turning point.
If it wasn’t already, their legend has been solidified.
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Eddie Vedder obviously didn't look at the calendar before taking the stage on Tuesday at Oracle Arena.
"I don't even know what the (expletive) day it is," the Pearl Jam vocalist said to the capacity crowd in Oakland. "We're not supposed to -- we're a rock band."
That description, as generic as it may sound, sums up the Seattle group as well as anything. It may have started out in the early '90s as the great grunge-rock hope, before quickly morphing into the leader of alt-rock nation, but Pearl Jam now defines plain old rock 'n' roll as well as any act in the business.
Pearl Jam, of course, will be forever linked with Nirvana due to the grunge-rock movement. Yet, the comparison that really works best -- at least in 2013 -- is to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
Lead singer Eddie Vedder of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam performs in concert at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) ( RAY CHAVEZ )
Vedder more closely resembles the Boss with each passing year, from his haircut to his wardrobe to his mannerisms onstage. It's getting so I half expect him to show up for a concert with a red baseball hat stuck in the back pocket of his jeans, a la the cover of Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A."
Most significant, Vedder knows how to lead his band in Springsteen-like musical marathons — and then some. It's been a long time since I saw the Boss charge through a 3 1/2 —hour show like Pearl Jam did in Oakland.
The future Rock and Roll Hall of Famers -- who will most likely get inducted in 2016, which is Pearl Jam's first year of eligibility -- came to town in support of its 10th studio album, "Lightning Bolt." There hasn't been a lot of hype surrounding the record, but that hasn't hurt Pearl Jam at the gate. Oracle was packed to the rafters, with some 16,000 enthusiastic fans turning out to see the group rock through a nearly 40-song set.
The appearance was long overdue. Pearl Jam's last full-length concerts in the Bay Area came way back in 2006, when the group played three nights at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. It might not feel that long, since the group has performed at the annual Bridge School Benefit concerts at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View almost as often as founder Neil Young (or, at least, it seems that way). Pearl Jam also headlined one night at the 2009 Outside Lands festival at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Vedder and crew made up for lost time by delivering an epic night of music, which served as a sampler of a recording career that dates back to 1991's seminal debut "Ten." Opening the show with "Pendulum," Pearl Jam was initially quite generous with the fan favorites, performing "Nothingman" (from 1994's "Vitalogy"), "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" (from 1993's "Vs.") and "Why Go" (from "Ten") in rapid succession.
Vedder was in fine spirits throughout the night, drinking from a bottle and sharing his beverage with fans near the front of the stage. His voice is just as powerful as ever, yet he did forget some lyrics toward the end of the night. The rest of the band was an absolute juggernaut, powering through the big hits ("Alive," "Given to Fly," "Better Man"), some nice rarities ("Big Wave," "Thin Air") and other material.
The vocalist even paid tribute to the great Lou Reed, who died in late October, by playing a version of the Velvet Underground's "After Hours" (from VU's eponymous third album). Vedder also invited John Doe onstage to do a cover of X's "The New World."
In all, fans certainly got their money's worth from the concert. Let's just hope that Pearl Jam doesn't wait so long to bring its full-fledged rock show back to the Bay Area next time.
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-If I Should Fall Behind( w/ Patti)
-Dream Baby Dream ( alla 2005 Devils and Dust with the pump organ )
i knew it was gonna be a bad one when i saw them carrying out the pump organ.
oh well.
The veteran who sang 'A Change is Going to Come' stole the show right from under Bruce.
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Wowww!
I was praying I'd get this one in Rochester last Halloween but alas... big time holy grail song that Bruce almost never plays anymore -- maybe once per tour. Last time was 11/7/2009.
where was this show dude?
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Ah okay it was MSG. I was there.
Thanks Newch.
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
http://wimp.dk/wweb/album/?album=23649047
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Cats out of the bag now !
Look what you started Newch ! !
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After laying low for much of the ’90s, Bruce Springsteen has spent the past decade recording at a relatively torrid pace, releasing six albums between 2002 and 2012. And while touring commitments kept him out of the studio for much of 2013, recent rumors suggest we could be getting another new album sometime in the next few months.
The details are admittedly sketchy at this point, but the story got started courtesy of the Danish music site Wimp, where a listing for a new Springsteen single titled ‘High Hopes’ showed up on the release schedule for Nov. 19.
As many Springsteen fans are already aware, ‘High Hopes’ isn’t a new addition to the Boss’s catalog; in fact, it’s been kicking around at least since the mid-’90s, when it first surfaced on his 1996 ‘Blood Brothers’ EP. But Springsteen’s clearly not averse to re-recording older material, as he’s done on a couple of occasions with recent records, and given that ‘High Hopes’ made its live debut on his most recent tour, it stands to reason that he might have felt the urge to give the song another go in the studio.
Whether or not the ‘High Hopes’ rumor turns out to be true, we do know Springsteen’s been in the studio recently. “We’ve never had a recording session during a tour in our lives,” he admitted earlier this year, but added that the addition of Tom Morello to the band lineup added a new layer of excitement. “We did a couple of things that I wanted to put down. So that was very exciting. And being with Tommy was exciting. The band — Steven, Nils, all those guys — continues to be a source of inspiration for me.”
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when tom morello filled in for stevie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvOF2FTd5N4#t=35
i like the constant guitar rift throughout.
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guys must be getting their funk on !
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It's definitely showed after the two PJ shows I went to this year.
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This sounded really good!
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Great performance. Only the second time played live, the first being at MSG during the Reunion Tour.
DREAM BABY DREAM
HIGH HOPES
HARRY'S PLACE
HEAVEN'S WALL
THIS IS YOUR SWORD
JUST LIKE FIRE WOULD
AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS)
HUNTER OF INVISIBLE GAME
FRANKIE FELL IN LOVE
DOWN IN THE HOLE
GHOST OF TOM JOAD
THE WALL
1 ) Harrys Place ? Is this Marys husband?
2 ) 41 Shots is always good live. " We need some quiet here ,..."
3 ) Is " Down In The Hole " a cover song ? Thats sounds familiar to me for some reason ?
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1. High Hopes
2. Harry's Place
3. American Skin (41 Shots)
4. Just Like Fire Would
5. Down In The Hole
6. Heaven's Wall
7. Frankie Fell In Love
8. This Is Your Sword
9. Hunter Of Invisible Game
10. The Ghost of Tom Joad
11.The Wall
12. Dream Baby Dream
High Hopes video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOPDhoZH91g
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
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I know! I can't wait!
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
This is awesome! My 2 favorite music men together in one shot. Springsteen & Pearl Jam are the only 2 bands that I've been a dedicated fan of for decades and still love enough to go to see them play live.
… before the Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball & Pearl Jam’s Lightning Bolt tours, the last concert I went to was in 1992. Today’s new music doesn't do much for me, but I’m always ready to hear Springsteen & Vedder’s voices in new song releases.
Oct. 15, 2013 - Worcester, Massachusetts
Ben Wener's OC Register Review with Springsteen comparisons (passing of the torch):
http://www.ocregister.com/soundcheck/ja ... edder.html
No one, least of all Pearl Jam, could have dreamt back at the tail-end of 1991 – when the venerable band first played Los Angeles Sports Arena – that nearly a quarter-century later they would return not only as the most successful survivors of the grunge boom but also as standby inheritors of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s live torch.
Set list: Pearl Jam at Los Angeles Sports Arena
Back then they were merely another new sensation out of Seattle, opening for a more fast-breaking one, Nirvana, which in turn was warming up for a Red Hot Chili Peppers homecoming performance. Indeed, Pearl Jam had only formed little more than a year earlier, when a gas station attendant named Eddie Vedder auditioned by tape from San Diego and soon moved north.
Their eventual era-defining debut, Ten – certified diamond status this past February for more than 10 million copies sold – had only just begun to register with fans and critics bored by Guns N’ Roses and hair metal. The Zeppelin-infused track “Alive” plunked onto playlists well before Christmas ’91, but MTV-driven enthusiasm for “Even Flow” and “Jeremy” was still a summer away. The quintet was so new – and already wrongly chided for bandwagon-hopping – that they barely merited a mention in a review of that Sports Arena triple bill by veteran L.A. critic Robert Hilburn, who noted only that Vedder “bemoan(ed) the setting” in an “annoying manner.”
The singer had no such misgivings Saturday night when Pearl Jam finally returned to the shabby but significant venue 22 years later (not 23, as Vedder miscalculated). “It was our friend Bruce Springsteen who told us to come to this place,” he mentioned between chant-along renditions of “Why Go” and “Dissident,” not too long into the group’s epic three-hour set, the first of two shows at the arena this past weekend on PJ’s first local tour stop since 2009. “So far you are proving him right.”
Certainly this outfit’s devotees, particularly its millions of Ten Club members who rush to snatch up floor access, are ardent like few other armies outside of jam-band circles. Only Phish phollowers and Dave Matthews junkies are as rabid about chasing their faves across the West just to hear what rare gems might get dusted off in San Francisco or Phoenix or further.
So it was no surprise that this crowd roared approval with palpable fervency, resurrecting an electrifying spirit not felt much here since the ’70s and ’80s – for despite its concrete drabness and lack of accommodations, the Sports Arena still retains an intimacy that behemoths like Staples Center can never capture.
Maybe that was the fundamental reason Saturday’s show seemed so positively Springsteenian, although evidence of the master’s approach was everywhere.
There was social commentary beyond the songs: gun-control advocacy and a cautionary George Zimmerman zinger before a potent retelling of “Jeremy,” for instance, ending with Vedder noting how unchanged the topic has been since they performed that school-shooting tale here decades ago. There was also rousing swagger, not just from Vedder (fiercely prowling the edge of the stage during “Got Some”) but also guitarist Mike McCready, whose soaring solo bursts were capped by a spot-on rip through Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” late in the main set.
One fairly rare occurrence – opting to play “All or None” for a woman asking via an upheld sign – seemed a direct homage to the Boss, who makes a habit of doing likewise at virtually every show these days. And when the house lights came up halfway into “Alive,” during a remarkable second encore that included another blast through the Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” it was hard not to think of how the same thing happens whenever the E Street Band kicks off “Born to Run.”
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Make no mistake: Pearl Jam is Pearl Jam, steeped in influences much heavier and edgier than Springsteen. Note what I think is a winking nod to one of their metal sources, as McCready sported a tee parodying Black Sabbath’s purple Master of Reality logo, while bassist Jeff Ament’s shirt simply commanded “Listen to Volume Four,” perhaps a reference to that band’s next album.
Thematic similarities between Springsteen’s precision songwriting and Vedder’s increasingly varied observations have been aligning for years, born out of both writers’ desire to chronicle the human condition, from the private to the political. Sonically, however, as Saturday’s crushing takes on “Do the Evolution” and “Spin the Black Circle” attested, these titans from different generations are as divergent as they are equally anthemic.
That intensity carries over into Pearl Jam’s still-explosive stage presence. The Boss used to be a bigger ball of energy, too, hopping atop pianos and sliding across the stage, but he’d never dare anything as reckless (and awesome) as what Vedder did when climbed atop a plastic lantern attached to a long cable – one of several bug-zapper lighting props – and swung himself Tarzan-like toward the audience while still singing “Porch” to close the first encore. Nor would he have firmly demanded that a disruptive fan pressed near the floor barrier be moved out; Springsteen like would just motion to security.
That’s an indication of how hands-on Pearl Jam remains with regard to satisfying its base, the result of which is an uncommon communal atmosphere they have fostered practically from the launch of their career. One or two Southern California shows from outings in 2009 or 2006 might have hit higher peaks than this return, yet the vibrant warmth of people here rocking in unison felt so much broader and more inviting than ever before.
It was unquestionably a diehard’s show, a 32-song set (not counting the Van Halen homage) drawn from all corners of their catalog and thick with unexpected picks, just like the best Springsteen gigs. Yet anyone could have walked into that arena, heard several staples they knew (including all but three cuts from Ten) alongside plenty of obscurities they didn’t (strays like a Townshend-esque “I Got Id” and B-sides like “Footsteps” and “Leatherman”) – plus a hearty helping of complementary material from yet another underrated new album, Lightning Bolt, much of which rises to their punchiest level – and that neophyte would have come away converted.
It’s hard not to get swept up in the tight ferocity of their playing, the gale-force strength of Vedder’s voice and the overall open-armed vibe; all of that overwhelms in giant waves. Everything about Pearl Jam that has become glorious in the richest classic-rock tradition was on full display this time. Combined with Sunday’s inevitable powerhouse performance, it’s a gracious and generous triumph – one for the books from a tour that may stand as a mid-career turning point.
If it wasn’t already, their legend has been solidified.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_246 ... ks-oakland
Eddie Vedder obviously didn't look at the calendar before taking the stage on Tuesday at Oracle Arena.
"I don't even know what the (expletive) day it is," the Pearl Jam vocalist said to the capacity crowd in Oakland. "We're not supposed to -- we're a rock band."
That description, as generic as it may sound, sums up the Seattle group as well as anything. It may have started out in the early '90s as the great grunge-rock hope, before quickly morphing into the leader of alt-rock nation, but Pearl Jam now defines plain old rock 'n' roll as well as any act in the business.
Pearl Jam, of course, will be forever linked with Nirvana due to the grunge-rock movement. Yet, the comparison that really works best -- at least in 2013 -- is to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
Lead singer Eddie Vedder of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam performs in concert at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) ( RAY CHAVEZ )
Vedder more closely resembles the Boss with each passing year, from his haircut to his wardrobe to his mannerisms onstage. It's getting so I half expect him to show up for a concert with a red baseball hat stuck in the back pocket of his jeans, a la the cover of Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A."
Most significant, Vedder knows how to lead his band in Springsteen-like musical marathons — and then some. It's been a long time since I saw the Boss charge through a 3 1/2 —hour show like Pearl Jam did in Oakland.
The future Rock and Roll Hall of Famers -- who will most likely get inducted in 2016, which is Pearl Jam's first year of eligibility -- came to town in support of its 10th studio album, "Lightning Bolt." There hasn't been a lot of hype surrounding the record, but that hasn't hurt Pearl Jam at the gate. Oracle was packed to the rafters, with some 16,000 enthusiastic fans turning out to see the group rock through a nearly 40-song set.
The appearance was long overdue. Pearl Jam's last full-length concerts in the Bay Area came way back in 2006, when the group played three nights at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. It might not feel that long, since the group has performed at the annual Bridge School Benefit concerts at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View almost as often as founder Neil Young (or, at least, it seems that way). Pearl Jam also headlined one night at the 2009 Outside Lands festival at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
Vedder and crew made up for lost time by delivering an epic night of music, which served as a sampler of a recording career that dates back to 1991's seminal debut "Ten." Opening the show with "Pendulum," Pearl Jam was initially quite generous with the fan favorites, performing "Nothingman" (from 1994's "Vitalogy"), "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" (from 1993's "Vs.") and "Why Go" (from "Ten") in rapid succession.
Vedder was in fine spirits throughout the night, drinking from a bottle and sharing his beverage with fans near the front of the stage. His voice is just as powerful as ever, yet he did forget some lyrics toward the end of the night. The rest of the band was an absolute juggernaut, powering through the big hits ("Alive," "Given to Fly," "Better Man"), some nice rarities ("Big Wave," "Thin Air") and other material.
The vocalist even paid tribute to the great Lou Reed, who died in late October, by playing a version of the Velvet Underground's "After Hours" (from VU's eponymous third album). Vedder also invited John Doe onstage to do a cover of X's "The New World."
In all, fans certainly got their money's worth from the concert. Let's just hope that Pearl Jam doesn't wait so long to bring its full-fledged rock show back to the Bay Area next time.
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Isn't that an Alice in Chains song title?