Pearl Jam - C or D?

They were fine last night but not their best. A friend in the know told me that Seattle - the planning, the playing, the organization - took a lot out of them.

really? My FB page was full of friends in all. Was that the show at which he used Tom Petty's guitar or some shit?

Yeah, among other stunts. Dennis Rodman was there babbling, Vedder played a Petty guitar, Cubs World Series trophy on stage, they covered "Rebel Rebel," etc. I've seen them before and they've been better. They just never gathered momentum. Bolstering my position, I know they had permission to blow past the curfew, which was 11pm, but they stopped more or less right there.

I mean, it wasn't bad! They're a good live act. But this was not the keeper among the sets I've seen them play.

And indeed, band was significantly better tonight, rain delay and all.

Looks like a great setlist both nights, with some fun songs thrown in. Got the itch to attack the PJ DVD collection tonight.

2020 European tour announced - got my London tickets and hopefully grab Krakow ones on Saturday. Merry Christmas to me.

those london ticket prices though :-(
might do amsterdam and might be able to blag stockholm lollapalooza... definitely want to catch a few if i can anyway

they havent had a US tour in SIX YEARS wtf are they doing a european tour :( why do they hate me

Warming up for a US tour?

^^ My guess. Rumor has it a new album will be out next year, so it makes sense. Still leaves time for an appearance at Lolla in August, otherwise maybe Summer 2021 for their big North American tour?

Damn, I haven't seen them since the Backspacer tour in 2010!

ok kneejerk reaction set aside...
i just talked to a fanclub friend, scuttlebutt is that they will ~hopefully~ also announce US tour as well
so i am crossing fingers & toes

🚨NEW ALBUM MARCH 27 🚨
🚨🚨🚨🚨US TOUR🚨🚨🚨🚨

https://pearljam.com

Snagged tix for Oakland on April 18 woooop
Excited!!!

Feel free to commence cynically distancing yrself from my excitement since this is ilm after all

single is called "Dance of the Clairvoyants" so I guess they're finally going prog

Vedder is so cute these days.

“these days”

cute in all decades imo

Album cover is very Rush!

it def is

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Pearl_Jam_-_Gigaton.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Rush_Grace_Under_Pressure.jpg

I follow the nature photographer who shot the PJ cover on Instagram. He has a lot of amazing shots of Arctic wildlife.

https://www.instagram.com/paulnicklen/

would be a pretty cool cover without the heartbeat gimmick

Ottawa, Quebec City and fucking Hamilton? but no Montreal date.

Eh, there will be more. I mean, I could have sworn there was no Chicago date, either.

"US Tour"

***skips everyplace between NY and Nashville

>:(

so they've finally done their "Eminence Front"

https://youtu.be/hdietlvGkds

Well, that was unexpected.

Weird, for some reason I thought Brendan O'Brien had produced every PJ album (except "Binaural"), but no, just most of them. But not this one.

I dig it.

Kind of Muse-y, tbh. But I like it, too.

lol i love this

cameron sounds like he's having a blast

I dig the many-Vedders coda

wow this was unexpected to say the least

I dig it

that was fun! they might as well stretch out a bit at this point

this is so good wtf

when does the prins thomas discomiks drop

Weird and exhilarating to hear Vedder imitate David Byrne singing atop a Sleater-Kinney track from the last album.

oh man i loooove this!

You know, that album cover made me think of "Grace Under Pressure," but the red wave at the top is actually reminiscent of "Permanent Waves."

I've already cooled on this song after a handful of listens, but still intrigued by the idea of a curveball PJ album in 2020. I'm not sure I ever listened to Lightning Bolt more than one time, if that.

i liked Lightning Bolt a lot
(not as much as avocado tho)

Backspacer got a lot of plays from me, but even that one I haven't spun in years.

No Code/Yield is their real sweet spot imo.

00’s highlight is def Avocado, there’s literally not a bad song on the whole album

weird to realize Eddie Vedder is older than Mick Jagger was when the Stones released Bridges to Babylon.

I heard “Dance of the Clairvoyants” for the first time last night and it’s surprising and I like it, but my brain keeps drawing a lot of parallels to the Killers “The Man” and insists on melding them into one song on mental replay. Just me?

I'd never heard that, but there are some very loose similarities.

Oh, I see that song was based around a Kool & the Gang sample. Cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8k90kIgG5Q

weird to realize Eddie Vedder is older than Mick Jagger was when the Stones released Bridges to Babylon.

He’s almost as old as Time Out of Mind-era Dylan!

That's a good comparison.

xxxpost