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liebzz wrote:Pearl Jam - Vault #11: Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA 4/3/94

The first of Pearl Jam shows broadcast for free on the radio in the 90s, this was a very widely circulated bootleg for years, and also much of it released as the b-side to a three part Dissident single. This is also the first time I really heard Pearl Jam play live, recording it on my boombox, and straining next to the tiny speakers and trying to scrawl the song titles on the cassette J card. Z100 only played the main set, so I had no idea for years there was a whole other hour to this show.

In any event, despite the immediate need to flout convention given this show’s hype, this one is actually worth the praise. That main set may legit be the perfect main set and I don’t know that I have in my immediate arsenal of memory a single main set that’s ever topped it. Every song is absolutely incredible, from Release to Rearviewmirror to the massive killer echo on that bass on Jeremy, to Daughter, Go Animal, Why Go, down to set closing Alive and Blood. This is pure fire.

The band gets a little looser for the encores, with WMA in its rare full version with Dug Pinnick on backing vocals, an early yet well delivered Better Man, Rats (I had a new appreciation for the baseline on this performance), Satan’s Bed, a torrid Sonic Reducer and epic Porch. Indifference takes us home, but man alive is this a great show.

The Essential Performance: Jeremy

Up Next: Pearl Jam - Live at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA 4/12/94

i got bugs wrote:Essential performance of Orpheum is def the alt Immortality

liebzz wrote:Pearl Jam - Live at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA 4/12/94

Perhaps in order to fit this on a single disc as part of the Vs./Vitalogy deluxe edition, the band chose to release only part of this show, another of the well regarded treasures among fans. As a result, this one is sort of disjointed feeling, even if it may have been the case with the crew creating the set list. That decision though brings us (on the official release) with live versions of Dirty Frank, early Tremor Christ, Not For You, Immortality, and a cover of Neil Young’s F@ckin Up. This version of Sonic Reducer, with Mark Arm, is pretty definitive. It’s too bad we didn’t get the rest of the show, but what we do get is damn good.

This show, along with the show at the Paramount Theater in NYC almost a week later, seem like the final vestiges of this era of Pearl Jam. Battles with Ticketmaster, cancelled tours and shows, stomach flus, and a very special breakfast with Stone are in the near future, so these are shows to savor, even though what’s to come is just as great in totally different ways.

The Essential Performance: Sonic Reducer

Up Next: Primus - Woodstock ‘94

Chris_H_2 wrote:haven't these pearl jam shows been discussed to death?

Chris_H_2 wrote:haven't these pearl jam shows been discussed to death?

oasisfan35 wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:haven't these pearl jam shows been discussed to death?

Apparently not.

Farmer John wrote:How many more until WEEN?

liebzz wrote:

Farmer John wrote:How many more until WEEN?

Approximately 80.

Captain Termite wrote:What was the point of releasing the Atlanta concert as "b-sides" of a "single?" Why was it done that way? Who would ever pick it up and then listen to the studio version of Dissident that starts it?