Off Ramp Café, Seattle ( October 22, 1990) Here are ten more shows they’ll never forget. Given Pearl Jam’s high standards, each one of those concerts could be the kind that fans talk about for years to come. The tour’s first leg begins March 18 at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena and ends with back-to-back shows at the Oakland Arena on April 18 and 19. One of the music world’s most faithful fanbases will get to experience that once again during the band’s North American tour in support of Gigaton, their first album since 2013. Rocks In The Attic #1176: Alexander Taylor – ‘Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street (O.S.T.Even after nearly three decades of live performances, the intensity and energy of a Pearl Jam concert are tough to match.Rocks In The Attic #1177: James Newton Howard – ‘Light & Magic (O.S.T.)’ (2022).Rocks In The Attic #1178: Aerosmith – ‘Gold Disc: Aerosmith’ (1978). It reminds me of ITV’s Stars In Your Eyes when the studio audience would give a complimentary round of applause one line into the first verse of Rocketman when they suddenly realise that yes, that tubby little IT consultant from Walthamstow really does sound like Elton John. I can appreciate the applause when a song ends, but the ‘realisation’ sounds of approval from the crowd, one or two bars into each song really irks me. The one thing I can’t stand about these early ‘90s unplugged releases is the amount of whooping and hollering from the audience. I wonder if the same can be said of Pearl Jam, particularly when we’ve just recently seen a reissue of Nirvana’s unplugged set containing previously unreleased rehearsal takes. I have a bootleg of the full Aerosmith unplugged performance from 1989 which is almost twice the length of the version that was broadcast. Their cover of Neil Young’s Rockin’ In The Free World is omitted, plus any rehearsal and off-screen performances. The seven songs featured are the same as those which were broadcast in the original 60-minute (including commercials) TV special. It’s this earnestness which turned me off Pearl Jam from the start, and which I’ve only been able to look beyond over the last decade or so.Īll the big hits from the band’s debut are covered – Alive, Jeremy, Evenflow – but if anything it feels a bit too short. There isn’t a great deal of communication with the audience, and very little of the surprisingly amusing banter you can hear on Nirvana’s Unplugged performance (‘What are you tuning? A harp?’). ‘A little love-song I wrote about my surfboard,’ Eddie Vedder tells the audience, as the applause dies down. Now, if only they would release Stone Temple Pilot’s performance officially, so I can retire my bootleg copy.Ĭomprised of six songs from their debut album Ten, plus one of their contributions to the Singles soundtrack ( State Of Love And Trust), Pearl Jam’s set starts off slowly with the slow-burning Oceans. R.E.M., Nirvana and Alice In Chain’s respective entries into the Unplugged cannon have slowly crept into each band’s back catalogue as essential releases, and so it seems like this will do the same for Pearl Jam. Strangely, considering the band’s stature during the grunge years of the early ‘90s, this marks the first time that the performance has been officially released on vinyl (several bootleg releases have made it to market in 20, but this one’s the real deal). One of my non-soundtrack purchases from this year’s Black Friday event is this 1992 classic: Pearl Jam’s entry to the MTV Unplugged series. This Black Friday, I was lucky enough to pick up soundtracks to Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado and Bill Conti’s score for 1987’s woeful Masters Of The Universe. Earlier in the year, at the main April event, I picked up soundtracks to the Knight Rider TV series, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Lost In Translation and Howard Stern’s Private Parts: The Album. The continued rise of soundtracks has meant that the last couple of RSD events have seen some interesting releases. Last year, I think my only purchase was a rainbow-coloured vinyl pressing of the B-52s’ Cosmic Thing. Back in 2012, I walked into Real Groovy on the Sunday following Black Friday and picked up their only copy of the super-limited 10” pressing of Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, now highly sought-after but evidently not by Auckland folk at the time. Most years I’ve stumbled into my local stores on the weekend following the Friday and picked up one or two things, and some years I’ve disregarded it completely. These have always been hit or miss for me in the past. Another year, another Record Store Day: Black Friday event.
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