you are going to 9 pearl jam shows? holy garp!

me gusta Come Back....

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Now I'm hearint SNL will be WWS and Life Wasted.

Regardless, it looks like we're getting two heavier numbers.

the best band of our generation is fixing to announce its official return to popular culture tonight

I must admit that going on SNL is a big mistake. This show is unwatchable

The Digital Shorts and TV Funhouse bits are the only good things SNL has anymore.

holy crap WWS is beyond amazing live- McCready looks amazing after all the crap he has been through

Really liked Matt on the backing vox.

I agree- some complain about Matt's drumming but he easily is the best drummer they have ever had. Cameron completes the band's cycle

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Keegan please post the links to the performances when you get them- you have 7 minutes

Damn...SNL is unwatchable. But Pearl Jam definately shined tonight! Severed Hand live was great. WWS was played a bit faster than on the single but it was great. No Boom tonigt but I guess they didn't need him for those two songs. I can't wait for the Toronto shows!!

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That show is horrible. I got out the newspaper waiting for PJ. Went to bed after WWS and watched it this morning.

here are the links to the SNL performance

http://myfavoritevideoclips.com/potluck/snlpj1a.wmv


http://myfavoritevideoclips.com/potluck/snlpj2a.wmv

The HDTV sourced rips have a MUCH better audio mix (you can actually hear Mike!) than the low-def broadcast last night.

DivX / XVid AVI's:

http://www.keeganology.com/pj_snl/

I'm monitoring server logs, so please don't share outside of usual TexAgs visitors. Thanks.

So I asked a guy at work yesterday if he watched Pearl Jam on SNL Saturday. He says,"I thought there lead singer died." I faked a look of anguish and said, "Holy shat, that's horrible. He was just on SNL 2 nights ago. He died yesterday? What happened!?" I turned around and started to type in yahoo looking for the news.

I thought it was funny.

Nice

BTW, the full album leaked. Sounds great.

I'll get it posted later.

Uploading here:

http://keeganology.com/pearl_jam/

They're doing a festival with Petty in Milwaukee...

When is that festival in Austin?

I'm praying they are coming to Dallas.

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Do you have to buy the tickets in pairs? Thinking about the WI show...but I read the price was quoted in pairs.

If it's through Ten Club, then yes, you have to buy pairs.

FWIW, Rolling Stone gave it four stars and called it PJ's best since Vitalogy.

Where'd you read that?

I've got nothing but love for you Rudy but....

You did see the Rolling Stone part?

I actually think this album is going to do well

Where in Rolling Stone? I looked on the website, but there was an article on Vedder, very nicely done BTW, but didn't see a review of Avocado. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/qa/story/9961927/eddie_vedder

Don't tell me the great Doug Keegan actually soiled his hands reading paper?? Say it Ain't so, Joe!

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It was copied and pasted on a private PJ board I frequent. Not sure if it's on the RS web site.

Thank you...you have my email, right? Hint hint.

Rollingstone Review



4 Stars


Wartime, for everything else that's wrong with it, brings out the best in Pearl Jam: the power-chord brawn, contrary righteousness and metallic-KO songwriting sense. The band's second and third albums, 1993's bluntly titled Vs. and 1994"s Vitalogy are as good as modern rock-in-opposition gets: shotgun guitars, incendiary bass and drums, and Eddie Vedder's scalded-dog howl, all discharged in backs-to-the-wall- fury and union. This album, Pearl Jam's first studio release in four years and their best in ten, is more of that top electric combat.

With a difference. The Pearl Jam on Pearl Jam is not the band that famously responded to overnight platibum by going to war with the world. Vedder, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Matt Cameron are now fully at war in the world, unrepenetant veterans of the campaign trail and right-wing crucifixion who have made the most overtly partisan - and hopeful - record of their lives. For Vedder, the 2004 election was not a total loss. "Why swim the channel just to get this far?/Halfway there why would you turn around? he demands in the first song, Life Wasted, in a ragged, run-on bark. And it's all forward ho from there. As immediate and despairing as breaking news from Baghdad - World Wide Suicide opens with a newspaper casualty report - Pearl Jam is also as big and brash in fuzz and backbone as Led Zeppelin's Presence.

That's not just rock critic shorthand. However you define grunge music, Pearl Jam didn't play it. They were, from jump street, a classic rock band, building their bawl with iron-guitar bones and an arena vocal lust that came right from Zeppelin, early-seventies Who and mid-Eighties U2 (with distortion instead of The Edge's glass-guitar harmonics.) But Pearl Jam have not been this consistently dirty and determined in the studio since they subbed for Crazy Horse on Neil Young's 1995 Mirror Ball. I own two compelte tours worth of Pearl Jam's official bootleg series, and this record's five song blast off (Life Wasted, WWS, Comatose, Severed Hand, Marker In The Sand) is right up there in punch and crust with my favorite nights in that live series (Seattle 11/6/00 and New Orleans 4/8/03, to name two.) And whenever the guitars take over, which is alot - Gossard and McCready's slugging ACDC like intro to Life Wasted, McCready's wild wah-wah ride in Big Wave, the way he cracks Vedder's gloom in Parachutes like heat lighting - it reminds me that Gossard and McCready deserved to be on our 2003 "Greatest Guitarists" list. Permit me to admit it here: I screwed up.

That's more confession than you'll ever hear out of the Bush White House. But the talk-show pit bulls will be dissapointed to find that Vedder doesn't waste his breath naming names here, except for glancing reference to "the president" in WWS. There is blame, but it's spread all around. "Now you got both sides/Claiming Killing In God's name/ But God is nowhere to be found. conveniently" Vedder sings on Marker In The Sand, from inside Gossard and McCready's crossfire saturation bombing of Ament and Cameron. There is dreed too - lots of it. "Army Reserve" is a midtemp elegy for the real Army Reserve, the wives and children who serve in worry, behind the lines. (The dark vocal harmonies crowding Vedder's low, grainy vocal feel like ghosts in waiting.) And "Unemployable" is just half a story, with a soaring-melancholy chorus. The song ends before the guy with the pink slip can find a new job. But Vedder's opening scene - the fist with the big gold ring that saves JESUS SAVES, flying with helpless anger into a metal locker - is lesson enough. In multinational capitialism run riot, the bottom line doesn't care about religion or party line. We're all expendable.

And we're all accountable. The politics on Pearl Jam are not those of right or left but of engagement and responsibility. In Life Wasted Vedder at least partly mocks his old self, the one that wore success and leverage that came with it like sackcloth: "Darkness comes in waves, tell me/Why invite it to stay?" But there is only determined optimism in Pearl Jam's superb finish, "Inside Job." The song starts quietly, then climbs and peaks like a combination of "Stairway To Heaven, and The Who's "The Song Is Over" - a mirror image of Vedder's stumble through each line from night into light. "I will not lose my faith" he promises under thunderclap guitars, with such assurance that even if you don't agree with anything else on the record, you believe him.

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Why does that word remind me of Cameron Crowe?

glad it got a good review, and it won't be the only one, but rolling stone is worthless and has no credibility in reviewing stuff since the late 80s. They gave Mick Jagger's solo album 5 stars. Good grief.

Great pics from tonight's show in London:

http://jeffs-odyssey.livejournal.com/82880.html

KICK OUT THE JAMS

SEATTLE GRUNGE-SURVIVORS REVIVED FOR THEIR EIGHTH ROUND SLUGFEST WITH ‘THE MAN’

PEARL JAM
PEARL JAM
(J Records)

KKKKK (5 out of 5)

ALMOST 15 years after grunge ‘broke’, and, aside from genre kick-starters Mudhnoney and a reconstituted Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam are The Last Men Standing. The truth is they’ve never even flinched. Wrongfully branded sell-outs by their Gen. X peers for being the band they were – experienced musso’s with fiery classic rawk chops, fronted by a poetic ****-up who couldn’t choose between being Ian MacKaye of Bruce Springsteen – Pearl Jam were (and remain) a corporate rock group with a most punk rock sense of ethics, dealing with the industry on their own fiercely defended terms.
Their eponymous eighth record, their first for new label J Records, is very much a late-period Pearl Jam album. Gone are the metallic flourishes of ‘Ten’, the bolshy impetuosity of ‘Vs.’, the artful self-sabotage of ‘Vitalogy’; in their place rages a timeless rock hewn from the classic twin-guitar attacks of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse, of the Rolling Stones, given a very punk rock adrenalisation. But there’s a purpose, a drive to ‘Pearl Jam’ that was lacking in 2000’s ‘Binaural’ or 2002’s ‘Riot Act’, finely troubled albums though they were.
Gossard and McCready’s molten guitars mesh electrifyingly for an opening brace of rockers shot through with air-punch hooks and Eddie Vedder’s valiant howling-into-a-hurricane croon, songs that tap into the insanely-catchy fervour of the 60’s American garage-rock to rouse their revolution rock. The in-the-red rock out’s reach boiling point with ‘Severed Hand’, a wah wah-heavy crush of epic rif***e recalling Screaming Trees, before ‘Parachutes’ – a playful, lilting ballad that sounds centuries old – offers a fleeting pause for breath.
‘Unemployable’, one of Vedder’s trademark songs-for-the-dispossessed, switches the amps back on, deftly rewriting the riff to 60’s super-group Cream’s ‘Badge’ for a blast of pure 70’s radio-rock nostalgia. From here, it’s a breakneck riff-rock dash to ‘Come Back’, an aching gospel-soul lament and ‘Inside Job’, a slow-burning but ultimately uplifting that sits well amongst previous last-sighs ‘Release’, ‘Indifference’ or ‘Immortality’.
'Pearl Jam’ is an album that captures a band who have changed and not changed. Their fire and drive remain, their abilities expanded. But there’s a rediscovered sense of urgency and purpose to these songs, a renewed ambition, a hunger for a place in rock they perhaps withdrew from a couple of albums back: for the ear of the mainstream. Bands rarely sound so alive, so eager to cut-to-the-chase on their eighth album. But doing things by the Rock Industry’s rules have never been a part of Pearl Jam’s game plan, and this album proves both their integrity and desire to kick out some jams remain gloriously intact.

THE REVIEWS: MUSIC
War Stories Pearl Jam's serious-minded new album brings the big guns.
CHRIS WILLMAN

28 April 2006
Entertainment Weekly
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Pearl Jam Pearl Jam (J) Rock

The announcement that Pearl Jam have a new single called "World Wide Suicide" is the sort of thing to inspire both hope and apprehension. Their last stab at topicality, 2002's nose-thumbing "Bushleaguer," didn't exactly establish Eddie Vedder as a go-to guy for geopolitical wisdom. On the other hand, his passionate howl seems more valuable now, pitted against the navel-gazing emo whine that's commandeered the landscape. Tell us about the war, Eddie! we might even nervously ask, knowing that, in a world full of boys sent to do a man's job of rocking, Pearl Jam can still pull off gravitas.

But what we really want--and what they've been stingy with for a decade--is fast, furious, breakneck gravitas. Surprise: They stand and deliver on this belatedly eponymous barnstormer, the seriously hopped-up effort fans have been pining for since Vitalogy. Not that it's a perfect Ten. Vedder's lyrics can still be as clumsy as heartfelt, and the album's probably shorter on band perennials than punky firepower. But a shocking late-career freneticism predominates, married to a seriousness of purpose that is no longer high on pesky moral superiority.

What's got them fired up? War collateral, naturally ("Army Reserve"; the impersonality of big business ("Unemployable"; separation due to divorce or death ("Come Back". But mostly, with apologies to Dylan Thomas, they sound like a band successfully raging against the dying of their own relevance...as well as, you know, the machine. B+

Oh, and I'd be remiss if I didn't mention today's Sports Guy from ESPN.com:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060421

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What does Pearl Jam have to do with the 2006 NBA Playoffs?

Eddie Vedder
Marty Temme/WireImage.com
Mookie Blaylock is no longer in the NBA, but Eddie is still going strong.

More than you think. No successful musical artist has deeper NBA roots, with the possible exception of Toni Braxton. They launched the band in 1991 under the name Mookie Blaylock -- yes, they took the name of the former point guard -- even touring as Mookie Blaylock in the Seattle area before trademark issues forced them to switch names. As a consolation prize, they named their first album "Ten" after Mookie's jersey number. They appeared in the movie "Singles" along with then-Sonics star "Xavier McDaniel. Two of the band members (Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard) regularly attended Sonics games during the glorious Kemp-Payton era, which ended up self-destructing almost as fast as Layne Staley.

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