*** LA 3 Fanviews Here 10/06/09 ***

facepollution wrote:

Cornell and Cantrell as special guests?! You lucky, lucky fuckers!

OMG you lucky ass mother fuckers! Cornell, Cantrell with PJ!!! I saw the youtube videos... just amazing. Words can not do it justice. Yes this will be a very popular boot indeed!

LA3 and 4 are up for sale!!!!! Got em and they are already in heavy rotation on the iphone. Well worth the wait. Go get 'em guys and gals and enjoy the memories.

dharma69 wrote:

MEGATRON wrote:

jim rome just had jerry and mike on from aic.
they killed it.
jerry told the story about being at the LA show the other night and being blown away by hunger strike and watching alive and havin mccready run over to him during the second solo with a guitar screaming, "just solo in E...SOLO IN E!!"

one of my favorite interviews on rome ever

I need to find that interview.

McCready: "just solo in E...SOLO IN E!!"

Cantrell: :shock:

That's amazing!

Did anyone tape that?

dharma69 wrote:

U2 Pulled The Plug…Through Pearl Jam I Reconnect

Pearl Jam @ Universal Ampitheatre, Universal City, CA 10/6/09
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 10:12am

Prior to this show, I had an amazing week back East in New York City, my biological and emotional home. That week, the people who I spent it with, the music we enjoyed, the food that we ate, and the moments that we shared officially became my cumulative best music-related experience. A complete package of sight, sound, company, solitude, new friends and old. Once I returned home to the beautiful land of the Gods, Goddesses, and avocados I took a very long nap and settled in, went about the normal business of the days and damned if it didn’t feel as blunt as a dull knife. WTH? I listened to music, watched the news, went shopping, blah, blah, blah, oh, and I even went to a couple of shows in my normal mode to get my live music jones…but it kind of felt like blunt knife. I enjoyed the shows, sure, but not with the same heady recognition that sounds were entering my body. Not with the same energy, not with the same hunger. It practically took a “Hunger Strike” to identify the problem: I had blown a fuse.

Somehow, some way the massive combination of U2 x 2, Muse x 2, White Lies, Greg Laswell, cupcakes, a British invasion and a white trash engagement party had tripped my switch. So much so that I’ve felt a disconnect emulating depression when all it comes down to the fact that I was suddenly undone and unplugged by so much that was above and beyond my expectations.



Pearl Jam are my American contemporary to the global U2, as the band and their music have sung for, championed for, protested for, and rocked for generations in various stages of their lives only to still ring significant and germane while others end up with starring roles on “Where Are They Now?” This isn’t so much a review of Wednesday night’s Pearl Jam show at Gibson Ampitheatre (their third in a sold-out line of four) as much as it is an emotional analysis of its heft. Passion and good will are two traits synonymous with the spirit of Pearl Jam and those two things become ever clear as they continually manifest themselves in another quality: unpredictability.


The softer side of Pearl Jam

From the unusual opening song “Sometimes” to the abstract fuck-up-edness of their “Jazz Odyssey” (aka transition time to reset the stage) to the fresh and heart swelling “Unthought Unknown” to the likely and unlikely placement of a string quartet to the moment I was reduced to the likes of an adoring, screaming groupie whipped by the band, their performance ferocity, and moments they created just for me...and 5,999 of my closest friends.


"Red Mosquito" w/ Ben Harper

Pearl Jam doesn’t need special guests or helping hands in order to thrash out a proper rock show but the music is a family- a brotherhood, if you will- and Pearl Jam’s family has deep and healthy roots . Couple that with the fact that they’re not averse to being party to one of a kind events or random acts of music with friends. (See them back in December 2006 when they said, “Hell yeah, U2, we’ll be your opening band in Hawaii. Good times!”) Friend and opening act Ben Harper had Stone Gossard on his knees when he sat in with his slide guitar on “Red Mosquito”. Harper’s presence is never a surprise but a pleasure, nonetheless. What wound up happening on the Universal Ampitheatre stage was not only a typically balls to the wall high energy PJ show (Even Flow, Do The Evolution, Breakerfall, Save You, Got Some, Johnny Guitar) bolstered by waves of gentle beauty and sing-a-longs (The End, Breathe, Elderly Woman, Faithfull, Off He Goes), but it was one of those shows where you walked (or stumbled depending on how much beer you had) away with a shaking head full of “Did that really just happen?”. Or, if you’re like me, once Eddie Vedder pronounced, “I think sometimes the presence of one man can really change the energy of a show and make it special” and Chris Cornell waltzed out on the stage you completely lost your mind and lapsed into groupie scream. So much so that I announced to my companion for the eve that I totally forgave Cornell for his “Scream”...and I think I meant it. That’s how visceral this was to me and probably to my other 5,999 friends.


Temple of the Dog 2009....complete with rock & roll hands

And once we saw Cornell’s curly mop we knew “it” was going to happen. “It” hasn’t happened since a one-off performance in Santa Barbara in 2003. “It” was the resurrection of Temple of the Dog (all of its members present and accounted for on that fucking stage) as Cornell and Vedder went back to the basics of rock blues to perform the most precious “Hunger Strike”. Vedder on low with his rich timbre, Cornell on high reaching and crushing those frightening notes. It only got worse (better) as during the anthemic song of survival “Alive” Mike McCready was handling his business like a pro until he disappeared from the stage. A weird series of guitar chords or two later and out came Alice In Chains guitarist, Jerry Cantrell, strapped with Mike’s guitar and he proceeded to shred the rest of “Alive” into a wonderfully dark and dirty place. The room exploded, brothers in musical arms stood with those arms wrapped around one another and, once again (and finally) I felt that thing inside me swell to the point that it threatened to overflow.


Jerry Cantrell & Jeff Ament post-guitar handoff-"Alive"


Brothers in arms

Leave it to Pearl Jam to plug me back in. And for that, I thank them very much.



Wait...did I mention that in addition to Chris Cornell, the whole of Soundgarden was in the house (and the backstage)? No lie, I'm not the only one who saw it (paging Firecloud). New Alice in Chains singer William Duvall and his hair....present. Oh, this could mean great things to come...

this is the best concert review i've ever seen on here.

SOLAT319 wrote:

dharma69 wrote:

MEGATRON wrote:

jim rome just had jerry and mike on from aic.
they killed it.
jerry told the story about being at the LA show the other night and being blown away by hunger strike and watching alive and havin mccready run over to him during the second solo with a guitar screaming, "just solo in E...SOLO IN E!!"

one of my favorite interviews on rome ever

I need to find that interview.

McCready: "just solo in E...SOLO IN E!!"

Cantrell: :shock:

That's amazing!

Did anyone tape that?

try jimrome.com or search for it on espn.com

amazing fotos!!

dharma69 wrote:

Thanks Metsfan, I appreciate that. If it's good it's because I really meant it. That evening lit me up so much that it almost hurt and I was with someone who was digging it just as much as I was which makes for a complete package.

Wow...I just listened to McCready's solo in Corduroy and DAMN.

i need to hear this. chicago 2 was the greatest corduroy solo i've ever heard. i'm trying to beat it

I can remember turning to my friend after the Even Flow solo and saying "They are on FIRE tonight!" And this was long before Chirs and Jerry joined them. They were in the zone that night, to be sure. Eddie was so into it he ignored his wine bottle through the whole first set!!

So glad I was at this show, was so tyred at the start of the evening because of all the travelling then staying up stupidly late that I was falling asleep during Ben Harper.

As soon as Pearl Jam hit the stage I was wide awake and ready to go, such an awesome show and I had great seats with an excellent view. Loved hearing all the backspacer songs and then to get chris and Jerry was just the cherry on top.

Haha---I went right to Hunger Strike yesterday too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A couple quetions to my fellow PJ fans about the LA3 boot. Am I right when I hear Jerry Cantrell start soloing arounf the 5 minute mark in Alive? Yes I was there...but I can't hear the transition between him and Mike on the boot...except for a 2 second note sustain around the 5 minute mark into a JC sounding solo (I'm confident that I know a Mike solo when I hear one). There really wasn't much of a pause if that was the case.

Also who is the dude in the left ear saying Jerry Cantrell before Ed does? The sound board guy?

Thanks ahead of time for your input.