Red Mosquito

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PEARL JAM
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THE DIVER
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Compiled by Lowlight79
Artwork by ridleybradout
August 2020


FAN-MADE PROJECT - NOT FOR SALE

*Share freely but do not distribute as mp3*


The 2018 tour was an up and down tour. It began in March of 2018 and then picked up in the summer of 2018 in Europe where Ed blew his voice out at Pinkpop. Something happened after that - the band was playing more cohesively than they had in the last 10 years. It lead to some interesting choices and made making this a challenge. But that’s not the only reason this mix exists.

Around the time of that tour was when my life fell apart. I was hospitalized with a condition called diverticulitis. Mine was even worse because I two abcesses and I was subsequently diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. I spent 6 nights in hospital before I was well enough to go home without surgery. I lost 40 pounds in 4 weeks after that hospitalization. At the same time, my Mother's long term illness was reaching its end stage and we were forced to put her in a nursing home.

When the 2018 bootlegs came out, I kept listening to particular song versions to keep myself from losing my mind, and help me deal with what was happening. Taking care of my mom and my own condition left my wife and I in a deep hole. With all this, in the spring of 2019, we moved back home. Two days after I arrived, my father suffered a massive stroke. At this time, I went even further with some of these tracks to help me deal with my situation.

I had laid down rough tracks for this mix a few years back, but never really put it all together until a few weeks ago after relistening to the 2003 tour. Each disc represents a hospital bed, pain, sadness, hate, grief and hope. I think everyone needs hope right now and this mix represents those emotions.

'Diver' is short for diverticulitis. I sought out help for this condition in online support groups and learned of the nickname. But in a way, through that period I always thought of myself as a diver underwater in a diving bell when things went bad. It was the only way I could save myself and keep going moving forward.

So with no tour this year and a live 2018 concert video release around the corner, I present to you my attempt at my own version of a Live on Two/Ten Legs. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you can use music in a time of need too.

-Lowlight79


DISC 1:

1-01 Low Light (Lisbon 2018-07-14)
1-02 Corduroy (Barcelona 2018-07-10)
1-03 Why Go (Boston 2018-09-02)
1-04 Go (Rio de Janeiro 2018-03-21)
1-05 Can't Deny Me (Santiago 2018-03-16)
1-06 Throw Your Hatred Down (Chicago 2018-08-20)
1-07 Pulled Up (Sao Paulo 2018-03-24)
1-08 Love Boat Captain (Santiago 2018-03-16)
1-09 Untitled (Rome 2018-06-26)
1-10 MFC (Rome 2018-06-26)
1-11 Unthought Known (Santiago 2018-03-13)
1-12 Mind Your Manners (Landgraaf 2018-06-15)
1-13 Missing (Chicago 2018-08-18)
1-14 In Hiding (Seattle 2018-08-10)
1-15 Red Mosquito (Padova 2018-06-24)
1-16 I Am Mine (Krakow 2018-07-03)
1-17 Immortality (Rio de Janeiro 2018-03-21)
1-18 Help! (Prague 2018-07-01)
1-19 Help, Help (Prague 2018-07-01)


DISC 2:

2-01 Let Me Sleep (Seattle 2018-08-18)
2-02 Angie (Berlin 2018-07-05)
2-03 Thumbing My Way (Berlin 2018-07-05)
2-04 Fatal (London 2018-07-17)
2-05 Black (Rio de Janeiro 2018-03-21)
2-06 Comfortably Numb (Rome 2018-06-26)
2-07 Severed Hand (Krakow 2018-07-03)
2-08 Not For You (Krakow 2018-07-03)
2-09 Black Diamond (Rome 2018-06-26)
2-10 Wash (Sao Paulo 2018-03-24)
2-11 Release (Boston 2018-09-02)
2-12 Crazy Mary (London 2018-07-17)
2-13 Parting Ways (London 2018-06-18)
2-14 Porch (Lisbon 2018-07-14)
2-15 Indifference (Padova 2018-06-24)


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Something happened after that - the band was playing more cohesively than they had in the last 10 years