Pearl Jam - C or D?

Even if you click through?

It's the first of the two Oakland gigs without Cameron.

Oh, I was thrown off for a second. Like, Cameron is still out, is he OK? But now I understand.

oh well then i dont need to watch BECUZ I WUZ THERE BABY :D

The channel does a really nice job actually, they locate multiple filmers, edit and sync them up to soundboard recordings, they're really watchable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwOcGqP9xRI

Oakland second night^

oh nice, this is the show I was at.

The show tonight was great, honestly one of the best shows I've seen in a long time, totally celebratory, encored with "Surrender."

i just saw that on the setlist they posted!
lucky dog

Lots of Eddie all over the soundtrack to the Bear, I've noticed, and great use of Animal in the final (or maybe penultimate) episode.

lol he talked about The Bear a bunch on stage. Vedder called it the best use of Pearl Jam in any show or movie he's seen. He also did a solo "Throw Your Arms Around Me," which was also in The Bear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6diDiMVEzbI

Wonderful: https://racketmn.com/pearl-jam-rocked-this-longtime-skeptic-into-submission-last-night

FWIW, I was weighing whether to get the "official bootleg" of the closing show of their 2000 world tour - from what I can tell, it's the closest thing to a consensus pick for their greatest concert recording ever - and it turns out someone videotaped most of the show and synced it up to the audio of said CD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aSY-CBVdpc

Also impressed by how dynamic the audio sounds - even though their studio releases were heavily compressed by that time, it seems like the CD's for the 2000 world tour shows were not subjected to the same brickwalling and sound all the better for it.

Weird. I guess Pearl Jam is okay with watching that video on YouTube but not okay with having it embedded elsewhere?

Yell-no Webembedder

No Code (Specifically, <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aSY-CBVdpc; title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>)

(sorry, that joke didn't quite land, lol)

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

I really love when they cover Crown Of Thorns. The only MLB song I've ever really been able to tolerate it, and Eddie makes it a thing of substance and wonder.

New single “Dark matter” out today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fx8LprPMIU

Album comes out April 19

single is kinda mid imo?

yeah, if it were any other band I wouldn't be listening all the way through

Hopefully the album is a bit more… memorable, I guess

I was hopeful when it first started, I dug the energy, but yeah pretty blah and forgettable, nice guitar solo though. I could see it developing into a ripper on stage.

Wouldn't be the first time a blah PJ studio song gained new life in their live shows.

exactly. and from memory/history the first single is often, sometimes, a song i like less than the album tracks anyway

Yeah, they have a really weird track record with lead singles, still definitely excited for the album.

i've been jamming Vitalogy in the car lately, giving the kid a primer on some crucial albums. it still sounds amazing, and it swings hard on occasion (Not For You locks into a sick groove, for example.) sometimes i'll hear these guys or Soundgarden and i just really miss this type of apex predator rock music, just absolutely professional on all fronts, and seemingly effortless in execution. my kid loves all of it, i've played him a few albums from this era and he'll be in the back seat nodding along happily. when i try to find newer bands along these lines, it's definitely more of a deep search and often a fruitless one.

I thought "Dark Matter" was pretty fucking good.

how bout dem ticket prices tho

Uh, yeah, was thinking about seeing them again this tour but, uh, no. Not quite the same band that fought to keep ticket prices low are they?

we bought tix for the Sacramento show and yeah holy fuck pass the smelling salts
like there was a moment where we almost decided not to go bcz of the cost

Fun semi-humblebrag fact: Vedder was hanging at my friend's house here last week.

nice!!

Just listening to Dark Matter now. Reaffirms my belief that the only good PJ songs since Binaural are the uptempo rockers and anything midtempo/shuffly/swingy/ballady goes in one ear and out the other.

goddamn, $175 for nosebleeds in Sacramento

I WILL NOT BE TAKING QUESTIONS
or leaving my home for a year

why are the tix so expensive? i just don't get it.

also richard ashcroft is supporting in the UK, ugh (tho they are playing the Spurs stadium which is 10 minutes' walk from me)

Tickets everywhere for everything are fucking expensive.

I got a ticket to see Pearl Jam in Dublin this summer. 127 euro, which I've been told is cheap (nowadays maybe). It's the most I've ever spent on a concert ticket

basically the only tix that are affordable anymore are for underground metal shows, and even these are at prices that woulda made people wince like 20 years ago

"$30 for a death metal show?!!!"

I considered going to a jazz show that's happening tonight (Joshua Redman came to Montana!) but tickets were $60. Also it would mean being in a crowded room full of strangers and I'm still not doing that. I haven't been to a live show since February 2020.

seems like a pretty big difference between pearl jam gouging fans and working independent bands trying to survive in an era when playing shows is literally the only way to make any money

otm, yes, ticket prices are up but let's not conflate the two.

I'm somewhat heartened to see Pearl Jam seems to be getting some pretty significant blowback from fans over these prices, if reddit and other forums are anything to go by.

Old enough to remember this lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR8Uook5Cq0

To be clear, there are so many factors right now that I don't think the ticket prices in 2024 are 100% Pearl Jam's fault. It's just jarring to see the costs given how much work they put into fighting the good fight back when.

Even Springsteen finally and unapologetically hiked ticket prices. But don't discount (no pun intended) the impact of scalpers and bots and secondary.

I also just generally don't think these kind of ticket prices are sustainable. I kind of understand the first major tour for big artists/bands since the pandemic, but I just don't see how it's going to hold up at this level long term when every major touring act is $150+ just to get in the door.

xxxxpost was anybody actually comparing the two? nobody I saw actually suggested independent bands were guilty of anything or even that the causality was the same.

The big ticket tours are now astronomically priced to where the average fan can't attend without putting it on a credit card or making monthly payments on it, and that's if they can even get through the flawed Ticketmaster queues. that's the biggest problem and the byproduct of an essential monopoly in the industry that has been allowed to continue unchecked, combined with Ticketmaster intentionally flipping fans the bird after their huge settlement by deliberately making the fees almost half the ticket cost.

my point about underground metal shows is they're affordable in that the average person can go to them, which is awesome, but that even some of these have ballooned in recent years, to where someone who went to 3 a month might be going to 1 a month now. that isn't the band's fault, that's just garden variety inflation, and not the industry-level dickery or outright gouging that some bands are complicit in.