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StoneAment
StoneAment Posts: 393
edited July 2010 in The Porch
The point of making "unplugged" versions of songs is to make stripped back, more intimate versions of your songs not to make them rock out harder then the original ... but it seems no one told Pearl Jam that :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWaOO3rMWUk
Mike McCready makes the energizer bunny look tired.
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  • Degi
    Degi Posts: 1,007
    argh "this video is not available"
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    I love the unplugged.
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,386
    Mike should start rocking that leather hat again - that's bad ass :twisted:
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  • joe2468
    joe2468 Posts: 3,049
    whats really ironic about that Unplugged was the MTv people hated it ... they never wanted to air it again .. it went down as the worst one in history .... but to us it was the greatest moment of our lives and we fought and fought to getit . 15+ years later we did....(KINDA)
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  • CJMST3K
    CJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    I miss the way the band plays this stuff.
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    I have seen this countless times. And it just gave me chills. AGAIN. Thanks for posting.
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  • StoneAment
    StoneAment Posts: 393
    joe2468 wrote:
    whats really ironic about that Unplugged was the MTv people hated it ... they never wanted to air it again .. it went down as the worst one in history (KINDA)

    Well it wasn't the best (that honor goes to AiC) it cannot be the worst. Those are pearl jam songs dammit.
    That is the best performance of Porch and one of the best performances of Black. I will admit that State of Love, Alive, Even Flow, Jeremy do not really differ from the originals to make the unplugged versions something special and those arrangements sound better in electric, perhaps that is where the criticism comes from ... but still not the worst, in fact the only one I listen to more is AiC (which got reissued on vinyl this year wohooooo).
    CJMST3K wrote:
    I miss the way the band plays this stuff.

    You miss Dave A. (that statement will attract some anger but I never said Dave was the best only his drumming was key to this era of Pearl Jam performances and if you like this era of PJ you like Dave)
    Mike McCready makes the energizer bunny look tired.
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    I could listen to that version of SOLAT forever....!
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  • gecko
    gecko Posts: 1,712
    I didn't watch then, I am a late fan, but how can you not love them?
    Ditto to everything said here. Eddie singing his little heart out, Dave being joy to watch, and everyone else.
    So much heart.
  • Thierry Henry
    Thierry Henry Posts: 2,657
    Watching unplugged right now.

    Good times!
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Fuck Ya That's the Shit!!!
  • Thierry Henry
    Thierry Henry Posts: 2,657
    Now I'm on to Touring band.

    Haven't watched this in ages!
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  • Marco PJ 4 Life
    Marco PJ 4 Life Posts: 91
    tremors wrote:
    I could listen to that version of SOLAT forever....!

    I will...
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  • mcameronrocks
    mcameronrocks Posts: 321
    joe2468 wrote:
    whats really ironic about that Unplugged was the MTv people hated it ... they never wanted to air it again .. it went down as the worst one in history .... but to us it was the greatest moment of our lives and we fought and fought to getit . 15+ years later we did....(KINDA)

    What do you mean it went down as the "worst one in history"? In terms of ratings? Obviously, I don't agree with that, but wanted to know how you/they determined that.
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,386
    joe2468 wrote:
    whats really ironic about that Unplugged was the MTv people hated it ... they never wanted to air it again .. it went down as the worst one in history .... but to us it was the greatest moment of our lives and we fought and fought to getit . 15+ years later we did....(KINDA)

    Source?
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,890
    Ah .. the day's watching Pearl Jam's MTV Unplugged on Much Music. Their set was also played on YTV a lot every Saturday nights.

    My first CD copy was on the unofficial bootleg CD Black And White.

    http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp31 ... teback.jpg
    http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp31 ... hitecd.jpg
    http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp31 ... efront.jpg

    Kinda hoped on the '08 release of the DVD they included more footage behind the scenes rehearsing & behind the scenes. Oh well!
  • JimNastics
    JimNastics Posts: 679
    I do like it purely because it's just a Pearl Jam acoustic show, but it could have been anywhere / anything, not MTV Unplugged... it's a pretty run-of-the-mill Pearl Jam acoustic gig. I personally think they missed a massive oppurtunity to do something really special at such an early stage in their career. It's cool, but it's absolutely nowhere near the greatness of Nirvana's Unplugged session.
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,386
    demetrios wrote:
    Ah .. the day's watching Pearl Jam's MTV Unplugged on Much Music. Their set was also played on YTV a lot every Saturday nights.

    My first CD copy was on the unofficial bootleg CD Black And White.

    http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp31 ... teback.jpg
    http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp31 ... hitecd.jpg
    http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp31 ... efront.jpg

    Kinda hoped on the '08 release of the DVD they included more footage behind the scenes rehearsing & behind the scenes. Oh well!

    I had that bootleg in the early 90s too. I loved on the back where it says "full thrown magic." I always thought that was a great way to describe a Pearl Jam live performance :D
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  • StoneAment
    StoneAment Posts: 393
    Just noticed that at 5:30 in this video Ed picks up one of Stone's guitar to smash and Stone tells him to put it down :lol:
    Mike McCready makes the energizer bunny look tired.
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    StoneAment wrote:
    Just noticed that at 5:30 in this video Ed picks up one of Stone's guitar to smash and Stone tells him to put it down :lol:

    lol - they always were better behaved. I bet stone's still got that guitar!!
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