I like the new song. Very different than most of the stuff PJ has been putting out.

question: does Pearl Jam ever perform Mad Season songs ?

no

egads, unemployable might make a great WWC song, but for PJ it stinks. Muscially, the verse might be the most unpleasant thing PJ has ever done. That this song falls into the realm of "easily, some of our best work" concerns me greatly.

unemployable didn't hold my attention very long

With 4.7% unemployment and an all-time high standard of living in this country, the song is really timely and relevant.

unemplyable is a b side, so it's not gonna be the best thing ever. i liked it.

by the time i get backfrom sxsw there better be a houston date!

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by the time i get backfrom sxsw there better be a houston date!

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Don't count on it.

I wonder how I would live my life if I saw everything as half empty?

rudy, who are you talking about?

BTW, I looked on my newsletter, and my number is 119XXX, so I guess I am old school.

You suck. I'd kill for that number.

130,xxx works ok for me

319xxx, not so good, but I'll just sit with Moookie in the Dallas show.

MookieBlaylock - I hate you, too.

wow thanks to the seat locator, I feel a crap load better about my seats- You should hate me

http://www.touringfans.com/10cseats.php?action=home

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189,000

Course many people have dropped off who used to be ahead of me.

Helicopter videos from OIF:
http://www.cimoli.com/videos.htm

yeah, at 220xxxx, joined after the 2000 tour cut off, but was surprised in 2003 that I got what I considered good seats. Row M (I think, it was 10 rows back from the pit, those 5 rows like AA, BB) at the woodlands dead center.

I got fourth row in Houston 2003, and was a good twenty rows up sidestage in Vegas 2003.

I'm curious how bad it will be for the Saturday East Rutherford show this June.

I was 2nd row in the pit in 2003, hoping for 1st row this time round.

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4360034722103203372&q=pearl+jam

Check out 'Down', and what preceeds it, at around the 46 minute mark. Mildly amusing.

Partial leak...

http://keeganology.com/avocado.zip

Four UNMASTERED tracks (so not the best quality):

Severed Hand
Life Wasted
Parachutes
Comatose

July 9th they're playing the Forum in LA.

Still no word on other second leg dates.


I'm really digging Severed Hand - definite Porch-like vibe.

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It is REALLY getting frustrating with no annoucement. May was and easy month to plan for us because getting vacation from work wasn't too bad. July is going to be worse and we are going to try to make it to Europe this time around. the lack of communication from the 10C has always been an issue and now it is just horrible.

By the way....
http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1DG4CGRUFCOIK0WK8R60QGJBGF
this is supposedly a btter re-encode of the 6 song sampler minus WWS and Unemployable. MP3 format.

I'm really liking Parachutes. Very beatlesque?

Yeah, I can't see why there's a big delay in announcing the tour dates. And as it is, the rumor mill makes it sound like West coast will be announced next (July dates), then Euro dates, and my guess is the South in Sept / Oct. I'll be pissed if radiohead announces texas dates before pearl jam. could be an expensive summer!

anyone- what is the website of the orchestra that did a classical music version of PJ music and other bands.

jesus was the hardest google search of my life

http://www.answers.com/tribute%20to%20pearl%20jam?ff=1




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AOL Sessions- 3 songs WWS, Sad Hard to Imagine Live versions

i can't post links for squat on this site

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1URT421C8VKZK39SUVFX8HXA6S

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http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1URT421C8VKZK39SUVFX8HXA6S

FWIW, I'm beginning to expect that the US will be more than two legs.

We should get more tour dates next week.

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But you replace the {} with [].
http://www.texags.com/main/forumcode.asp

It's also under "Your Reply"

If you buy it, make sure you send me the Mp3's of it.

Still no Christmas record.

Sorry...I got mine, and I'm a high high number. Of course, I don't have a turn table, so what the heck does it matter?

EV interview on the album

Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has revealed to Kerrang! that the band's forthcoming eighth studio album is the most aggressive record the band have ever made.

Vedder and his bandmates - guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Goosard, bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Matt Cameron - are preparing to release the as-yet untitled follow up to 2002's 'Riot Act', after spending over a year holed up in their Seattle recording studio making it.

Pearl Jam hooked up with producer Adam Kasper, who colloborated with them on 'Riot Act' and who has also worked with Foo Fighters, Nirvana, and Queens of the Stone Age, and applied a different working approach to what they'd executed on their previous albums.

"It's been a long one," laughs the usually interview-shy Vedder. "I don't think we had any kind of plan to stretch it out, it just kind of happened. This time we didn't come in with any songs. We just got in a room, looked at each other and played our instruments until things started connecting and formed it from there. Right now, I'm feeling like I don't want to do that again! It was a different process for us and in the end it was a good one, but it was tough.

"When we finished, it felt like we were coming up for air after having not seen the surface for a long time," he adds. "We've never spent that long making a record before, so it was a real trip to be finished with something that was such a commitment. On the night we finished I got in my truck and drove into the woods. I found a spot, rolled down the windows down in the rain and cranked it loud. It felt pretty powerful. At one point, the wind was blowing the trees in perfect time with the beat and it was like the forest was dancing. It felt like we'd achieved something."

Vedder admits that, although he hates to compare the band's work and publicly register his satisfaction with it, he's extremely happy with the new tracks, mainly thanks to the fact that they're heavier than songs Pearl Jam have recorded in the past.

"My favourite music has always been music that is a little more aggressive, with a tempo that's like a runway train and I always wanted our band to be on that train," he explains. "We'd get moments where, live, it would happend but not so much on record. But now that train's running and it's moving pretty quick! this one's more aggressive than stuff we've done before and I don't usually like to say that there's something that i'm so pleased with, but in this case, it's true. We'll just see if the people who buy our records agree and if they can keep up with us."

According to the frontman, the list of confirmed tracks include 'Life Wasted', 'World Wide Suicide' 'Comatose', 'Severed Hand', 'Marker in the Sand', 'Parachutes' and 'Unemployable'.

"It's really uplifting," Vedder jokes. "I think we should call the record 'Pearl Jam's Good Time Hour!"

Although relcutant to give too much information away regarding the lyrical content of the album, Vedder, who is known for his biting, disaffected world-view, does confess that US political events and the state of the media were a huge influence.

"It was difficult to write after the last US election," he says. "Not because there wasn't anything to say but how do you temper your moral outrage so as not to be just negative? We're a country that instigated a war under false pretences, thousands of people are dying, we're wasting billions of dollars and yet the media is inundated with stories on teenage pop star's weight loss. It's insane. You've got bling this and bling that and it's polluting the mind's of our youth as to what's important in life.

"I assumed that being a father and seeing the world through your child's eyes was going to make everything brighter, more peacful and balanced," adds Vedder, whose first child, Olivia was born in 2004.

"But because of the state of the world, it made me angrier and I wasn't expecting that. Now it's not just about me beng slefish about our generation, it's about looking into the future. But my work is splattered across the lyric pages like blood. The listener's part of it is figuring out what it means."

The band are getting set to head out on the road in support of the album's release, a trek which will include live apperances in the UK - their first since 2000. It's something that Vedder is looking forward to, but perhaps that has more to do with his dissatisfaction with the state of today's rock scene....

"I'm excited about participating in rock n' roll and doing our bit,"

he admits. "We're not really competitive with other bands but there's new music that I find completly vacuous - music that I should be liking or happy that it's popular - but it feels like a travesty or an erosion of what rock music should be."

Are there any bands in particular that you're talking about?

"You know the ones," Vedder answers, with a laugh. "It's a lack of authenticity or something. That'swhat makes us want to be out there - to keep the art form alive."

Pearl Jam's as-yet-untitled new album will be released on May 1 via Sony.