Pearl Jam Anthology - The Complete Scores Book

My charge went through today so I'm hoping for a shipping notification soon to follow!

WhatYouTaughtMe said:

wwsuicide said:

My charge went through today so I'm hoping for a shipping notification soon to follow!

I ordered Mike's book as well, my charge for that went through as well as shipping email. Still waiting on the anthology.

I jumped the gun. Same here. 

Received my book today from Amazon Canada. I can confirm there are NO guitar solos. The songs are in alphabetical order and looking at the first song Alive the solos which include the whole end of the song is not included. Just says "Ad lib solo". 
A couple other things to point out... notes/tab are quite small and harder to read compared to say "Guitar Magazine" ... also another thing that bugs me a bit is the bars aren't numbered anywhere on the pages and the song titles are only at the beginning so its quite a bit of work to pick up where you left off visually when you're learning. I own the Pearl jam 15 Years Guitar legends magazine which has full notes/tab solos and lyrics for Yellow Ledbetter, Alive, Not for You, Animal, Daughter and Black. When comparing the two the issues are clear.
I'm not afraid to go marking up my nice new book with a high lighter or pencil but for those of you starting out this might be a little frustrating.
I paid $63.49 Canadian so I'm sure not complaining. There is still heaps to work on and learn but Mike fans might feel a bit ripped off. My 2 cents. 

I am surprised the solos aren't included. Clearly this was done by a third party – and if it wasn't..again, surprised.

I've gone through quite a many tab-books in the past 25 years or so. Local library has an excellent collection. Never ever have I seen one for a guitar-driven rock band that omitted all the guitar solos. Seriously, WTF?

David Brooks said:

Received my book today from Amazon Canada. I can confirm there are NO guitar solos. The songs are in alphabetical order and looking at the first song Alive the solos which include the whole end of the song is not included. Just says "Ad lib solo". 
A couple other things to point out... notes/tab are quite small and harder to read compared to say "Guitar Magazine" ... also another thing that bugs me a bit is the bars aren't numbered anywhere on the pages and the song titles are only at the beginning so its quite a bit of work to pick up where you left off visually when you're learning. I own the Pearl jam 15 Years Guitar legends magazine which has full notes/tab solos and lyrics for Yellow Ledbetter, Alive, Not for You, Animal, Daughter and Black. When comparing the two the issues are clear.
I'm not afraid to go marking up my nice new book with a high lighter or pencil but for those of you starting out this might be a little frustrating.
I paid $63.49 Canadian so I'm sure not complaining. There is still heaps to work on and learn but Mike fans might feel a bit ripped off. My 2 cents. 

Thanks for the review and info.  I ordered but was on the fence, so your post has helped me decide to cancel my order.  I was mainly interested in this for the guitar tab.  Without solos, it's probably no better than getting tabs online. 

RH1500 said:

David Brooks said:

Received my book today from Amazon Canada. I can confirm there are NO guitar solos. The songs are in alphabetical order and looking at the first song Alive the solos which include the whole end of the song is not included. Just says "Ad lib solo". 
A couple other things to point out... notes/tab are quite small and harder to read compared to say "Guitar Magazine" ... also another thing that bugs me a bit is the bars aren't numbered anywhere on the pages and the song titles are only at the beginning so its quite a bit of work to pick up where you left off visually when you're learning. I own the Pearl jam 15 Years Guitar legends magazine which has full notes/tab solos and lyrics for Yellow Ledbetter, Alive, Not for You, Animal, Daughter and Black. When comparing the two the issues are clear.
I'm not afraid to go marking up my nice new book with a high lighter or pencil but for those of you starting out this might be a little frustrating.
I paid $63.49 Canadian so I'm sure not complaining. There is still heaps to work on and learn but Mike fans might feel a bit ripped off. My 2 cents. 

Thanks for the review and info.  I ordered but was on the fence, so your post has helped me decide to cancel my order.  I was mainly interested in this for the guitar tab.  Without solos, it's probably no better than getting tabs online. 

Agree, I've cancelled too. Not much point for me without the solos. Really don't understand why they've omitted them.

I contacted Hal Leonard about the lack of solos and they indicated that the book would have been too long if they were to include all the solos.  (I pointed out to them that I own the Beatles complete scores book which is also published by Hal Leonard, and that book has 200 songs and is 1,130 pages and it has all the solos.  They didn't respond to that).  They said all the guitar parts are in the book (fills, etc) with the major exception of the solos. 

I am no drummer but do they really benefit from having those parts transcribed? Isnt that something that can be easily picked up by ear? Remove those and put in the solos

Hey deme, I ordered literally after reading your post that it was on Amazon.ca next day price dropped drastically then went up. I'm on the west coast. Guess I got lucky. 
I'm happy with the book at the price I paid... but bring back giventowail!