Official Post-Crash Pearl Jam Thread

[Kryptonite]

No Code to me is one of their least appreciated albumns. To me I love songs like Around the Bend, the honesty in Im Open, The story telling of Off Again. The wailing guitar of Red Mosquito, the Hard Hitting rifts of Habit and Hail Hail. The wonderful lyrics of Who You Are. Need I go on...
I guess when it comes to it the only songs I dont enjoy are Smile and ManKind...although Stone does sing on Mankind which is fun.

You mean "Off He Goes." You put "off again." No big deal.

Red Mosquito brings a lot of pain to my mind, since the song was about Ed's food poisoning.

[Crew Chuck35]

You mean "Off He Goes." You put "off again." No big deal.

Red Mosquito brings a lot of pain to my mind, since the song was about Ed's food poisoning.
My bad on Off He Goes...Cant believe I made that goof.
However, Red Mosquito is about Mike's Drug Habit...along with Habit itself.

[Kryptonite]

My bad on Off He Goes...Cant believe I made that goof.
However, Red Mosquito is about Mike's Drug Habit...along with Habit itself.

Oh...really?

Either way, the songs have always been "what the listener wants them to be about."

No big deal, either way. I'm just pleased to have discussion in this thread...it's been a long time.

[Crew Chuck35]

Its always good to discuss Pearl Jam. Almost as good as a Crew victory. Almost.

[ASU55RR]

Did I just see Pearl Jam on Target commercial, or have I finally snapped from the graduate student schedule?

[Kryptonite]

Did I just see Pearl Jam on Target commercial, or have I finally snapped from the graduate student schedule?

Yes you did. I think i also heard a snippet of "The Fixer" (???) during a recent college football game on ESPN, but I could have my sports and TV confused.

You can get the new Pearl Jam white 7" single of The Fixer at Target, iTunes, your local mom-and-pop record store, or PearlJam.com. Target was the only big box retailer that would allow an exclusive deal and also allow the stuff to be sold at mom-and-pop places.

While at Target, you can also pick up the new Backspacer CD.

PearlJam.com also has the CD, the Backspacer vinyl and the 7" white vinyl of The Fixer. I -think- the CD at PearlJam.com is packaged differently than the one at Target. I'm pretty sure the one at Target comes with exclusive live downloads.

There is (was?) a contest at twitter.com/pearljam where the first person to show up at various locations would receive an orange 7" vinyl copy of The Fixer. You do not need to be a registered member of Twitter in order to read their postings.


http://pearljam.com/backspacer/charity

There is information at that link about a special limited-edition T-shirt that can be bought only at certain Target stores.

http://www.pearljam.com/files/pjstores.htm (And there's the list of stores.)

[Kryptonite]

Snippets of the songs at www.pearljam.com on a very cool vinyl format.

[Kryptonite]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherman_%28vagabond%29

I read about a man to whom I may be related, he's Leatherman...

[Stogey23]

Forgot to mention that I saw them in San Diego. Amazing show with a great setlist for the casual Pearl Jam fan (and I still loved it). Eddie's old guitar teacher and Matt Cameron's drum teacher played with them on 'Little Wing', which was very cool.

[Kryptonite]

Forgot to mention that I saw them in San Diego. Amazing show with a great setlist for the casual Pearl Jam fan (and I still loved it). Eddie's old guitar teacher and Matt Cameron's drum teacher played with them on 'Little Wing', which was very cool.

Heh, I always thought Eddie was self-taught, but apparently he had some help.

They need to go back on a full tour again. I think the last one was 2006 and since then, they've done these mini-tours which haven't been much help to me.

[Kryptonite]

So, the Wachovia Spectrum is officially closed.

But not before Pearl Jam played songs like Bugs and Pilate.


Pearl Jam emptied its proverbial vaults for the venue's finale, offering the first-ever live performances of the Tom Waits-style accordion dirge "Bugs" from 1994's "Vitalogy" and the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tribute "Sweet Lew," sung by bassist Jeff Ament while frontman Eddie Vedder dribbled a basketball around the stage.

Also part of the set were just the third airing of the live 1994 improv "Out of My Mind," the first performance of "Pilate" from 1998's "Yield" in nine years and a rare cover of "Crown of Thorns" by the pre-Pearl Jam band Mother Love Bone. Vedder told the audience that a fan had offered a substantial charitable donation if the band would play "Out of My Mind," which was released 15 years ago as a live B-side on the "Not for You" single.

http://www.billboard.com/news/pearl-jam-closes-philly-spectrum-with-epic-1004032358.story#/news/pearl-jam-closes-philly-spectrum-with-epic-1004032358.story