Intro music

Jeremy's Spokesman · July 2012

I've always wanted to compile a playlist of the different pieces of music Pearl Jam has used as their intro music, at shows.

I know they used a cool instrumental version of Baba O'Riley, in 2000. They use Philip Glass's Metamorphosis 2, now. And, I think they used Master/Slave in the old days.

Do you guys know any other songs they've used?

boyo79 · July 2012

Didnt they play the Rocky theme for the intros at Philly?

SVRDhand13 · July 2012

Jeremy's Spokesman wrote:

I think they used Master/Slave in the old days.

They did, and I was really hoping they would use it again at PJ20.

Digital Twilight · July 2012

They have used the little guitar outro after Inside Job.

SVRDhand13 · July 2012

Digital Twilight wrote:

They have used the little guitar outro after Inside Job.

The sitar outro? I never knew that.

Jason78 · July 2012

I know in '98 it was Red Bar at least when I saw them.

AndySlash · July 2012

aye davanita's been used.

LeatherMosquitoMan · July 2012

Jason78 wrote:

I know in '98 it was Red Bar at least when I saw them.

Correct. The red dot track from Yield. At my Brisbane show in 1998.

veddertown · July 2012

There was a very orchestral piece of music they used back in 92' certainly in Europe from time to time. I think you can hear it clearly on the Utrecht boot maybe? I think they should do a live Aye Davanita intro, it's a great little jam that could easily slip into Go or Last Exit....

jason_94 · July 2012

They used a drumming intro before the 1996 Toronto show. You can hear it and download it from gremmie.net.
It was pretty good but short.

And same as someone already said, red dot was used also. I heard that in Cleveland 1998,

Jeremy's Spokesman · October 2012

Thanks for the info guys!
I very much appreciate it. Since I posted this thread, I've been looking around for their '00 intro song, Instrumental Baba O'Riley, and I'm really struggling.

It's weird. I was young when they did that tour, and I swear I had the exact mp3 cut that they used then, but I've since lost it.

Do any of you uber fans know where I might find this bad boy?

Glen · October 2012

In the early 2000's they also used Sigur Ros "untitled" a lot. It's off the album where all songs are "untitled" which is a great album, sorry i cant recall the number of the song they were actually taking the stage to. Worth checking out.

WhyNotSweden · October 2012

Jeremy's Spokesman wrote:

I think they used Master/Slave in the old days.

They used Master/Slave in Copenhagen 2007, so it's not that long ago

nigel · October 2012

One of my favourite bootlegs is a show in Berlin from 1996, where they use John F Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech as an intro tape, which I always thought was super cool.

i_lov_it · October 2012

Anyone know what was used for the Aussie 2003 Shows?...Always sticks in my Mind that...:)

boyo79 · October 2012

WhyNotSweden wrote:

Jeremy's Spokesman wrote:

I think they used Master/Slave in the old days.

They used Master/Slave in Copenhagen 2007, so it's not that long ago

In 2006 and 2007 they regularly changed the intro music between shows. I think one night I got the outro music for Inside Job like Digital Twilight mentions and then another night they came out to Master/Slave.

on2legs · October 2012

Jeremy's Spokesman wrote:

Thanks for the info guys!
I very much appreciate it. Since I posted this thread, I've been looking around for their '00 intro song, Instrumental Baba O'Riley, and I'm really struggling.

It's weird. I was young when they did that tour, and I swear I had the exact mp3 cut that they used then, but I've since lost it.

Do any of you uber fans know where I might find this bad boy?

Its an orchestral version of Baba. Its on Pete Townshend's Lifehouse album. You can get a used copy on Amazon for like 7 bucks.

http://www.amazon.com/Lifehouse-Element ... e+Elements

Kearn5y · October 2012

Brian Eno "An Ending (Ascent)"

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

Think it was used in the 1995 tour

YLed2 · October 2012

I've always thought it would be pretty sweet if they came out with the Master/Slave intro for one show and then played Ten in order of the track listing. Make this a shorter than usual main set, then have two longer "encores" and play other songs.

broloco · October 2012

Kearn5y wrote:

Brian Eno "An Ending (Ascent)"

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

Think it was used in the 1995 tour

thanks for posting link. it was also used in 1994 shows. you can hear it on the infamous atlanta '94 boot.

as a side note listening to the beginning of the brian eno song reminds me of the begining of Where The Streets Have No Name by U2. which Brian Eno produced..

broloco · October 2012

also the 2nd Gorge '06 show opened with an extended, looping instrumental intro to Severed Hand (the first song of the set). pretty cool.
have they done this elsewhere?

chriszee · October 2012

Jeremy's Spokesman wrote:

Thanks for the info guys!
I very much appreciate it. Since I posted this thread, I've been looking around for their '00 intro song, Instrumental Baba O'Riley, and I'm really struggling.

It's weird. I was young when they did that tour, and I swear I had the exact mp3 cut that they used then, but I've since lost it.

Do any of you uber fans know where I might find this bad boy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bzHDhuHG8A

fall by the wayside · October 2012

broloco wrote:

also the 2nd Gorge '06 show opened with an extended, looping instrumental intro to Severed Hand (the first song of the set). pretty cool.
have they done this elsewhere?

fairly certain they did this at Hartford 06 as well.

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