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Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 7:40 pm
by McParadigm
ha ha, wow that was lazy of me.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 8:37 pm
by Wishlist
Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done....
Jones Beach Lollapalooza Show, 1992
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 8:41 pm
by McParadigm
that's called peaking early, Wish
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 9:28 pm
by Norah
Don't you know, it's impossible to do anything as good in your second year as you did in your first year as a band?
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 9:29 pm
by Lament
The Mamasan cassette, obviously.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 9:29 pm
by Norah
It was all downhill from there.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 9:30 pm
by Norah
Which makes the Wishlist username deliciously ironic.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 9:33 pm
by Lament
I heard there is a tape somewhere of the first Stone-Mike jam session (the where apparently Mike asked him about Jeff and Stone replied "Fuck that guy,"). If this is true, there's a good chance this the best thing they've ever done.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 9:51 pm
by Bob Loblaw
Propitiating this exchange:
BurtReynolds wrote:Mine wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Heathen wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Nah, I think Chalmers got I it right the first time. Longevity doesn't rank very highly on my list.
Not even longevity in giving candid interviews?
maybe if they were also great visual artists.
they're great at selling visual art if it counts
Only if they're being real people at the time.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Mon February 17, 2014 9:52 pm
by Norah
Lament wrote:I heard there is a tape somewhere of the first Stone-Mike jam session (the where apparently Mike asked him about Jeff and Stone replied "Fuck that guy,"). If this is true, there's a good chance this the best thing they've ever done.
Ah yes, the tape from the Cavern Club back in '61.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 12:33 am
by mastaflatch
cutuphalfdead wrote:Lament wrote:I heard there is a tape somewhere of the first Stone-Mike jam session (the where apparently Mike asked him about Jeff and Stone replied "Fuck that guy,"). If this is true, there's a good chance this the best thing they've ever done.
Ah yes, the tape from the Cavern Club back in '61.
those were the days when MLB was still afire though.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 12:41 am
by Lament
If you think of late MLB as early PJ, then the worst MLB shows ever become the best PJ shows ever.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 3:15 am
by 96583UP
Temple of the Dog
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 3:00 pm
by stip
Lament wrote:If you think of late MLB as early PJ, then the worst MLB shows ever become the best PJ shows ever.
they clearly peaked with bad radio
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 3:27 pm
by nah
the improvs/tunes from the 2000 tour
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 7:50 pm
by Lament
If you play the earliest Green River demos and the earliest Bad Radio demos at the same exact time, I heard it's the best thing Pearl Jam has ever done.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 7:55 pm
by McParadigm
March 10, 1963.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 7:55 pm
by McParadigm
Or roughly nine months prior.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 8:33 pm
by EJ
when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show those many years ago.
Re: Best Thing The Band Has Ever Done
Posted: Tue February 18, 2014 9:16 pm
by mastaflatch
When they reconvened to the studio after meeting Nusrat Fateh Ali Mahesh Yogi.