Wow...good news...

Anyone think it'll go platinum?

On my first listen-thru now. Thanks a lot Keegan.

Pretty impressive stuff.

I'm confused - did I go through a time warp to the early 90s, or did this thread just start up because someone was watching "I love the 90s" and all of a sudden remembered Pearl Jam, Growing Pains, and Bugle Boys.

Staff, can we get a Pearl Jam forum...PLEASE!

time warp? go away grandma

Live On Letterman: Pearl Jam
Exclusive Concert To Be Webcast Live From Ed Sullivan Theater

Eddie Vedder meets Ed Sullivan when Pearl Jam takes over the theater on
Thursday, May 4th to perform a live mini-concert exclusively for
visitors to the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN website.

It all begins with Pearl Jam taping their performance on LATE SHOW for
broadcast later that evening. Then, immediately following the show
taping, Pearl Jam will take the stage again to perform a special concert
featuring some of the group's best-known hits as well as never-before
heard cuts from their new CD, "Pearl Jam" (released May 2nd).

To watch the live concert, log on to www.cbs.com/lateshow at
approximately 5:45pm EDT on Thursday, May 4th. Then be sure to tune in
to the LATE SHOW at 11:30pm to catch their regularly scheduled
appearance with Dave (along with Julia Roberts).

LIVE ON LETTERMAN: PEARL JAM
Thursday, May 4th
Start time: 5:45pm EDT (approximately)
www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow

these guys keep stepping up the ball game

Looks like they really want to sell albums this time around.

Life Wasted performance on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ETQRCM/sr=8-1/qid=1145910189/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1909031-0703225?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Looks like it's fall? And I'll have to re-up my 10 club.

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DATE CITY VENUE

Aug 23 Dublin, Ireland The Point
Aug 29 Arnhem, Netherlands Geldredome
Aug 30 Antwerp, Belgium Sportpaleis
Sept 1 Barcelona, Spain Badalona
Sept 4 Lisbon, Portugal Atlantico Pavillion
Sept 5 Lisbon, Portugal Atlantico Pavillion
Sept 7 Madrid, Spain Arena
Sept 9 Marseille, France Le Dome
Sept 11 Paris, France Bercy
Sept 13* Bern, Switzerland Arena
Sept 14 Bologna, Italy Palamalaguti
Sept 16* Verona, Italy Arena
Sept 17 Milan, Italy Forum
Sept 19 Torino, Italy Palaisozaki
Sept 20 Pistoia, Italy Duomo Square
Sept 22 Prague, Czech Rep. Sazka Arena
Sept 23 Berlin, Germany Wuhlheide
Sept 25 Vienna, Austria Stadthalle
Sept 26 Zagreb, Croatia Dom Sportova
Sept 30 Athens, Greece Oaka Basketball Arena

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Damn....

I am so happy and so sad right now!!

the happy part.....I just got a call from the Late Show and I have won tickets to the Letterman taping on May 4th. I will be in the audience when Pearl Jam performs.

the sad part.....I will have to leave the theatre after the taping and watch all 300 lucky tenclub members file in for the after show fanclub only concert. Damn I want to stay!! Think I will hide in the bathroom!

Will the waiting for a Texas tour date ever cease?

ok, fuses ****ing blew in my head when i heard someone mention people not liking cameron's drums?! wtf?! ahm, he's only one of the best percussionists in the world!

btw, he's not a bad guitarist either. he played guitar when sg & pj played together not too long ago.

World Wide Suicide video

http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1221/2/

review of their London show

http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1221/2/

Newsweek article from May 1st edition

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12441915/site/newsweek/

http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/story/0,20797,18935083-7642,00.html

ED VEDDER'S quest to take himself out of the comfort zone can land him in life-threatening situations.

The Pearl Jam frontman, who is also an avid surfer, has been dramatically rescued twice in rough conditions – once off the New Zealand coast and more recently in Hawaii – pursuing his quest to "stay out there for a while".

"At least in New Zealand there were lifeguards," Vedder chuckles.

"I probably could have got out of that riptide myself but we'd played the night before and drank 'til late and I had another gig in a few hours so I said 'Please help'."

There has been some dispute over whether Vedder was suitably thankful for being rescued.

"I thought I'd thanked them," he says. "But apparently they were pissed off with me. Maybe I was so happy, I just ran off the beach. Of course I was thankful."

To continue the analogy, Vedder says he has taken himself out further than he has ever been before to write the songs on the band's self-titled eighth studio album – although this time there has been no need to call for lifeguards.

"If I swam out a couple of miles on the last few records, this time I was way out in the middle. In a way, I'm at home out there," he says, explaining that songs simply do not spring from his comfort zones.

"Life in general and responsibilities and your daily goings-on, I don't write from that place. I have to go somewhere else and that place is pretty far away. It's not something you can go do for an hour. I just need to stay out there for a while and luckily the ones that I live with and love with, they understand this and they are pretty patient."

Pearl Jam has carved a reputation for being uncompromising when it comes to their art and their fans.

At times during their career, the fans' fierce loyalty has been put to the test, whether it was the band's brave attempt to take on Ticketmaster's control of venues in the US or the wavering form they've shown on their past couple of albums.

The new album Pearl Jam finds the band back to its best; an eclectic collection of songs which straddle the punk attack of new single World Wide Suicide and Comatose and the heartwrenching balladry of Come Back and Parachutes.

Assembled at the band's new warehouse just outside Seattle, the five members – Vedder, guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard, bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Matt Cameron – seem to be quietly confident about the album and eager to take it out on the road.

The state of world politics and its impact on the everyman dominates. But Vedder's newfound happiness with partner Jill McCormick and their daughter Olivia has probably informed the uncharacteristic love songs which pepper the album.

While the band retain a stoic democracy on all decisions related to their career, one senses that the singer probably has the casting vote on what songs are eventually recorded for Pearl Jam albums.

That vote is primarily for practical purposes – he has to write lyrics to the musical ideas and sing them.

Mike McCready wrote the lion's share of music for the album. He and Gossard say the litmus test for a musical idea to be fleshed out is if Vedder can sing something over the top of it instantly.

"You hope Ed latches on to what you've come up with, that he will get excited about it," McCready says.

Gossard adds: "Every time you write a song that gets Ed excited to sing over the top, you feel good about that. We recorded Parachutes in one day and he threw a vocal over it the next day. He has an amazing ability to write lyrics on the fly."

Before talking to the band members, interviewers are shown a short video during which Pearl Jam individually discuss recording the album and their relationship with each other.

More than a few times, the volatility of their communication in the early years comes up. You get the idea they had some epic shouting matches.

Vedder, Gossard and McCready don't want to make too much about it but – older now, wiser and still together – they have obviously found a way to redirect their passionate natures into the music.

"We've gotten better at it, I think. We sit down and have meetings about that. If we have issues we sit down and talk it out. I'm less neurotic and crazy than when I was 26. Now I'm close to 40 – and feel like a preserved moose," McCready laughs.

Gossard continues: "We are all getting close to middle age and looking back you realise how lucky you are to have our friendships intact and our band intact.

"We are very grateful we worked it out with each other, can write songs together and people still care. It keeps us wanting to work it out with each other. What would we be doing individually that would be as much fun as this?"

And it is about the fun, the creative expression and the day job.Even with a new one-off label deal with Clive Davis' esteemed J records, matching the album sales of their monstrous first three albums – Ten, Vs. and Vitalogy – is not a goal.

"I can honestly say I don't give a flying f--- for any kind of commercial success. That has no relevance to my participation in the band whatsoever," Vedder says. "The idea is to maintain relevance and feel like your work is valid so you can play shows with new material that has current emotion, that you can share it all with an audience that continues to grow, not necessarily in numbers but as human beings and you are sharing this experience together."

Vedder and his band mates will have no choice in the matter of success in any case. Relevance seems to be assured as the first single World Wide Suicide and five other tracks have already leaked on the internet, the postmodern indicator to demand for a band. The fans are flooding forums with discussion about the songs and are more keen than ever to see Pearl Jam's name next to a No.1.

But Vedder maintains he doesn't want that.

"The commercial success, if it got out of hand like it did early on, we would be right back in a position we worked really hard to get out of. And survive it. The band that was everywhere and people got sick of it."

Pearl Jam is out on Saturday. The band will announce their November tour of Australia next week, and tickets will go on sale in May

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The band will announce their November tour of Australia next week, and tickets will go on sale in May

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Looks like no Texas???

Looks like it is off the Melbourne to see PJ

http://forums.pearljam.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=3117349

I do not see how they could not fit one show in Texas.

Noticed on the tour schedule there is nothing scheduled between 7/23 and 8/23. Think we have a chance it could get squeezed in there? They could go Texas, Lousiana, Florida, Georgia, etc. in a southern leg before hitting Europe.

[This message has been edited by RayRay99 (edited 4/27/2006 11:35a).]

looking more and more like the spring.

how hard is it to say "tentatively, the tour for this album is US first, then some UK & Europe dates, down to Australia in Aug, and the rest of the US in the spring." What's the big secret?

looking more and more like the spring.

how hard is it to say "tentatively, the tour for this album is US first, then some UK & Europe dates, down to Australia in Aug, and the rest of the US in the spring." What's the big secret?

I think we need to campaign or something. 3 nights in Texas. Houston, Dallas, SA.

A LOT of fans are frustrated at the piecemeal announcement of US dates.

I am so pissed that I just downloaded the album and ain't gonna pay

the album is officially released- just ordered extra guacamole to go with mine tacos

Brent Barry was my favorite Spur player but now he is my frickin hero

If you caught the Pearl Jam Canadian Tour last summer and thought you recognized the tall, gangly white guy packing up the stage, chances are you were right. Last offseason Barry toured Canada with the band as a roadie, a grunt job that entails packing guitars and picking up equipment. Barry has been friends with Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder and bass player Jeff Ament for seven years. It was an enjoyable experience for Barry, though there was one significant drawback. "Those guys are a little past the groupie phase," he said. "So that right there was disappointing." Before the game Barry flashed Pearl Jam's latest self-titled album, which was released this week.

Cool. Where'd you find that?

Essa Express News, I imagine.

In NYC now. I was one of the fools that spent the night at Tower records to get a ticket to the secret show this Friday at Irving Plaza. This guy blogged the happenings on the street over those two days. http://www.gremmie.net/blog/2006/05/01/this-american-dream/

It was rough spending 30 hours on a NYC sidewalk but well worth it. Off to Letterman tomorrow, can't wait!!

blogger for cnnsi.com covering the spurs

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_blogs/nba/playoffs/2006/2006/05/no-8-seed-these-kings-are-no-joke.html

PearlJamHorn is one lucky SOB.