I've given up on pre-1998 bootlegs.

[EJ]

PJ used to create great live atmospheres with their improvs.

2000 tour had some great improvs. My favorite is probably Of The Moon from the Nurnberg show.

There's probably only a handful of post 2000 improvs that really stuck with me. A couple off the top of my head: State College 2003 and "Portugal" improv from Lisbon 2006.

But, for the most part, they didn't seem nearly as inspired after the 2000 tour.

[Angus]

Improving during a song is different. That I'd love to hear more of.

Agreed, Pearl Jam could do with some improving.

[Birds in Hell]

Improving during a song is different. That I'd love to hear more of.

Agreed, Pearl Jam could do with some improving.

You're a good man, Angus.

[jdopj]

PJ used to create great live atmospheres with their improvs.

2000 tour had some great improvs. My favorite is probably Of The Moon from the Nurnberg show.

There's probably only a handful of post 2000 improvs that really stuck with me. A couple off the top of my head: State College 2003 and "Portugal" improv from Lisbon 2006.

But, for the most part, they didn't seem nearly as inspired after the 2000 tour.

There is one from the 2003 HOB show that is pretty great.

[verb_to_trust]

Improvs are things bands do that don't slap together an 8 date east coast tour and then call it quits for 6 or 7 months, sadly

[numbers]

Improvs are things bands do that don't slap together an 8 date east coast tour and then call it quits for 6 or 7 months, sadly

yup

[wtfisaledbetter?]

Loved that pre Habit improv thing they did on the 98 tour.

Me too! When starting my boot collection I used to seek out boots that had Habit just for the improvs. Barrie 98 is one of my favorites.

[Birds in Hell]

Lemonade, Gatorade, Adelaide

[McParadigm]

I still haven't bothered with the remastered Ten/Vs/Vitalogy. Don't know that I'm invested enough to care about early year bootlegs.

[stip]

the remixed ten is worth a listen. Otherwise they are nice for collectors/huge fans of those years, but hardly essential

[southp]

I think it's a pretty fair to say that most of us are holding out for some '98 official boots.

[VinylGuy]

I think it's a pretty fair to say that most of us are holding out for some '98 official boots.

im thinking maybe the vault 3 might be something from 1998 with matt, because they hinted something about it in the deep magazine.
I would like to see some dvd as a vault 3 release.

[southp]

I think it's a pretty fair to say that most of us are holding out for some '98 official boots.

im thinking maybe the vault 3 might be something from 1998 with matt, because they hinted something about it in the deep magazine.
I would like to see some dvd as a vault 3 release.

Yeah some pro-shot footage from the Yield tour is long overdue. I remember being so blown away by TB2000 because we basically had nothing like it at that point.
I'd like to see the 96-98 reissue with something like that with a proper setlist structure but clips taken from many different shows.

[Hatfield]

I think it's a pretty fair to say that most of us are holding out for some '98 official boots.

As much as I love and have worn out 9/5/00, I have a feeling that a quality boot of 8/25/98 would beat it:

08/25/98 – Star Lake Amphitheatre: Pittsburgh, PA [123m]

set: Throw Your Arms Around Me, Release, Brain of J, Last Exit, Corduroy, I Got Shit, Faithfull, Even Flow, Jeremy, MFC, Rearviewmirror, Wishlist, Daughter/(Outshined)/(I Wanna Live), Do the Evolution, Given to Fly, Elderly Woman, Alive
enc 1: No Way, Animal, Hail Hail, Not for You, Nothingman, Black, Rockin’ in the Free World, Yellow Ledbetter

[super nintendo chalmers]

[Gods' Die]

I have at least a hundred bootlegs from their first show to the 2010 Bridge School Benefits. 1998-2003 is definitely the best period with performances, variety, and Ed's capabilities.

There were points even as early as 1992 where Ed sounded pretty ragged and through the 1996 tour there are plenty of songs that can be downright painful to listen to (Corduroy being the glaring example). Then around 2005 or so we started getting some of the weird singing from Ed, which depending on the song is no big deal to really distracting.

All that being said I don't really revisit them all that often (probably will be reinvigorated at some point), but when I was around a sophomore in college (2006-2007) they were pretty much all I listened to when I found that website you could download them directly from.

[Hatfield]

The definitive performance.

That scream after "woo hoo, it's evolution baby" (3:20) is my favorite moment from their entire career.

Damn we need some 1998 shows released!
So many bands are releasing vault recordings on a regular basis. What is the hold up with Pearl Jam?

[Strat]

The definitive performance.

That scream after "woo hoo, it's evolution baby" (3:20) is my favorite moment from their entire career.

Damn we need some 1998 shows released!
So many bands are releasing vault recordings on a regular basis. What is the hold up with Pearl Jam?

Million dollar question. Since 2007 we have gotten 1 studio release :\

[VinylGuy]

The definitive performance.

That scream after "woo hoo, it's evolution baby" (3:20) is my favorite moment from their entire career.

Damn we need some 1998 shows released!
So many bands are releasing vault recordings on a regular basis. What is the hold up with Pearl Jam?

Million dollar question. Since 2007 we have gotten 1 studio release :\

what? 2007?? Backspacer is from 2009.

[Jorge]

The definitive performance.

That scream after "woo hoo, it's evolution baby" (3:20) is my favorite moment from their entire career.

Damn we need some 1998 shows released!
So many bands are releasing vault recordings on a regular basis. What is the hold up with Pearl Jam?

Million dollar question. Since 2007 we have gotten 1 studio release :\

what? 2007?? Backspacer is from 2009.