Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
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Really excited about this book and finally available for pre-order in Australia but not shipping until 31 January 2023!?!
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Chapters still has a September release date too. https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/long-road-pearl-jam-and/9780306826429-item.html0
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Eternally grateful to @victoriagilder_123 and @hachettebooks for sending over one my most anticipated releases of the year, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by @steven_hydenwriter.
Those of you who look at my stories will be zero shocked to know I’m a massive @pearljam fan but also of Steven’s writing - his book Your Favorite Band is Killing Me is a riot and I highly recommend it to any music fan! If you scroll through, you’ll see it somewhere on my feed. My copy is currently making the rounds with my music friends.
Not much has been written about Pearl Jam and their 30-year-old meteoric career. I’ve been craving some new material since I read the only PJ bio in existence, Five Against One, which came out in 1998 so…it was about time we got some new material and it couldn’t have come from a better source but Steven. (unless, you know, the band themselves wrote it…)
Long Road is a celebration of PJ’s music and legacy structured like an 18-track mixtape telling a mix of personal and universal stories along with how PJ got to where they are, what drove them to greatness and why they matter now.
The book is out on 27 October in the UK and 27 September in the US but you can pre-order it now so it shows up on your doorstep as soon as it’s released.
What band/musician would you like to read about?
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Interesting….demetrios said:
”While the band’s decline in popularity in the latter half of the ’90s is usually blamed on its long, well-intentioned, but ultimately fruitless battle with Ticketmaster, it was really the release of 1996’s bloodless No Code and its blandly commercial follow-up Yield that caused many fans, including me, to finally walk away from Vedder’s curiously small table.” https://www.avclub.com/part-3-1992-pearl-jam-the-perils-of-fame-and-the-tr-1798222434(I love Steve Hyden’s writing and am looking forward to this book, which I’ve pre-ordered. If you’ve never read his “Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation” series, do yourself a favor and read the whole thing. But one reason I’m interested in this book is that he did seem pretty ambivalent about PJ back in 2010 when he wrote those pieces - acknowledging the power and impact of Ten throughout but seeming like he had largely put the band behind him personally - and I’m interested to know what changed as he got older.)Post edited by tdawe onCamden 2 2006, Newark 2010, Barclays 2 2013, Central Park 2015, MSG 2 2016, Wrigley 1 2016, Rome 2018, Prague 2018, Asbury Park 2021, EV & Earthlings NYC 1 2022, MSG 2022, Louisville 2022, Dublin 2024, MSG 1 2024, MSG 2 20240 -
If I remember correctly, on his PJ podcast, he copped to that opinion, but also said came back to the record a few years later, got it and became a bigger fan.Post edited by Tim Simmons on0
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I continue to be very excited for this...
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Cool!pjl44 said:I continue to be very excited for this...0 -
Available tomorrow in stores.0
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My copy is supposed to be arriving tomorrow from Amazon.0
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An extract of the book on Jeremy has been published on The Ringer
https://www.theringer.com/music/2022/9/27/23374148/jeremy-pearl-jam-long-road-steven-hyden
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