green river vids

marker2727

I would like to have a bootleg of this show . . . it was great!

First song in set "Come On Down":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeQ6WtR3jSw

Third song in set “P.C.C.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-o0aCXVz_Q

"Leech":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOFO6U0jbto

Second to last song “This Town”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7FW1Yosn2o

The audio for the video does not do the performance justice. In person the sound was perfect! The wall of guitars was fierce.

LukinFan

Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mark arm

right on!

Yielded

Love it. This is amazing. Thanks for posting!

This Town is such a great tune!

Surf Rider

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10909155@N08/sets/72157606169845537/show/

DiRtyFranK38

wow! those tunes are fierce! maybe this will pop ideas in stone and jeff's heads and have an influence on them for the next pj album. maybe we'll get some slow sluggy grimy grungy heavy mushy squeaky ferocious crazy tunes ..

Stephen Flow

I have the secret show they played before this show... it's great.

WindyCityFlyer

Dude, they should record a new album.


And Stone rocks out hard for his solo in the first song.

marker2727

PJAMEDVED wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10909155@N08/sets/72157606169845537/show/

nice pics . . . thanks!

marker2727

DiRtyFranK38 wrote:

wow! those tunes are fierce! maybe this will pop ideas in stone and jeff's heads and have an influence on them for the next pj album. maybe we'll get some slow sluggy grimy grungy heavy mushy squeaky ferocious crazy tunes ..

you got that right . . . they are fierce! they also sounded 10 times better than the original recordings.

MattyJoe

I wonder what it feels like for Stone or Jeff, as people who have become so successful with Pearl Jam, to return to the old band, playing the old songs. I hope we get a post-show recap interview with those guys to get their feelings.

Dillsnufus

http://picasaweb.google.com/spiraltap180/SubPOP2

marker2727

Dillsnufus wrote:

http://picasaweb.google.com/spiraltap180/SubPOP2

very nice pics!

mookeywrench

there will most likely be a DVD of the festival coming out.

There was a camera crew as well as signs warning us that we were being filmed for a motion picture.

marker2727

mookeywrench wrote:

there will most likely be a DVD of the festival coming out.

There was a camera crew as well as signs warning us that we were being filmed for a motion picture.

I think so . . . I noticed no less that seven pro video people filming the performance.

Stephen Flow

marker2727 wrote:

you got that right . . . they are fierce!

http://tcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/fierce.jpg

Stephen Flow

http://lh3.ggpht.com/spiraltap180/SHvg3WC2uiI/AAAAAAAABNM/7JEdRXuU1iY/P1000936.JPG?imgmax=640

FUCKING BADASS.

Anon

Green River reunion powers Sub Pop party
Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:43pm EDT

By Jason Cohen

SEATTLE (Billboard) - It was the birthday present everybody wanted from the start.

Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam and Mother Love Bone. Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Steve Turner. Mother Love Bone/Love Battery guitarist Bruce Fairweather. Drummer Alex Shumway: The original members of grunge band Green River performed together for the first time in two decades during Sub Pop Records' 20th anniversary fest at Seattle's Marymoor Park on Sunday.

Some rock 'n' roll reunions fall flat when musicians can't regain the spark of youthful energy and DIY not-quite-incompetence. But Green River's anthems sounded better with a touch of polish and precision. The 1985 classic "Swallow My Pride" (re-cut by the band in 1988, and also covered by Soundgarden, Fastbacks and Pearl Jam) sounded almost pop.

Freed from the guitar he plays in Mudhoney, Arm could indulge his outer Iggy, stalking the stage in a white ringer t-shirt from something called "Green River Summer Camp." Turner and Gossard were almost twins -- similarly cool glasses, shaggy hair and groomed full beards -- and faced each other the entire set, bonding a la Bruce Springsteen and Little Steven Van Zandt, while Ament grinned ear-to-ear each time he joined Fairweather on backing vocals.

Other highlights of the set included "P.C.C.," the Dead Boys cover "Ain't Nothin' To Do" and "Leech" an unreleased track that was later borrowed by the Melvins (as "Leeech"). Or was it? "We wrote this song in 1984," Arm said from the stage. "It was just a demo tape we passed along. The Melvins later, in Led Zeppelin-like fashion, recorded the song and credited it to themselves -- making us the Willie Dixon of grunge." As if they weren't already.

Beyond the closing set from adored indie rockers Wolf Parade, Sunday was a day for cultists and the cognoscenti, with a roster made up of another band from Sub Pop's infancy (Les Thugs), a pair of mid-to-late '90s favorites (Red Red Meat, Beachwood Sparks) and eight current artists, including Kiwi combo the Ruby Suns, space-rock heavies Kinski and pop classicists Grand Archives.

Reuters/Billboard

Dillsnufus

Stephen Flow wrote:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/spiraltap180/SHvg3WC2uiI/AAAAAAAABNM/7JEdRXuU1iY/P1000936.JPG?imgmax=640

FUCKING BADASS.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/subpop20/2663852595/sizes/o/

yea i had a good spot

mark arm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMoYsTFrjNI

Fuckin' A!

Dillsnufus

mark arm wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMoYsTFrjNI

Fuckin' A!

indeed.

einatshaul

Stone is headbanging! I LOVE THIS!!!

They better have a 21st reunion too...