About a year ago TMIAJ began a series of reports and articles on Pearl Jam. Why? Because we love Pearl Jam, one of the greatest American rock bands to ever play music, and the past year the band has been celebrating their 20th Anniversary, all accumulating with the Cameron Crowe documentary film Pearl Jam Twenty, in select theaters September 20th. This weekend the band is holding the Pearl Jam Destination Weekend, a series of concerts featuring multiple bands in Alpine Valley, Wisconsin to celebrate the bands 20th Anniversary. The celebration continues in a few weeks with the film's soundtrack release and a book documenting the band. Take a look below at the film's soundtrack listing, as well as a few videos of some noted live perfomances
Pearl Jam Twenty Soundtrack
Track Listing:
Disc One Release Verona, Italy Alive Seattle, WA Garden Zurich, Switzerland Why Go Hamburg, Germany Black MTV Unplugged Blood Auckland, New Zealand Last Exit Taipei, Taiwan Not For You Manilla, Philippines Do The Evolution Monkeywrench Radio Thumbing My Way Seattle, WA Crown of Thorns Las Vegas, NV
Let Me Sleep (Christmas Time) Verona, Italy Walk With Me Mountain View, CA Just Breathe Saturday Night Live Disc Two Say Hello 2 Heaven Demo Times Of Trouble Demo Acoustic #1 Demo It Ain't Like That Demo Need To Know Demo Be Like Wind Demo Given To Fly Instrumental Nothing As It Seems Demo Nothing As It Seems Seattle, WA Indifference Bologna, Italy Of The Girl Instrumental Faithfull Pistoia, Italy Bu$hleaguer Uniondale, NY Betterman New York, NY Rearviewmirror Los Angeles, CA
Since last October of 2010, TMIAJ has been helping to celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the world's greatest rock n' roll bands, Pearl Jam. The celebration comes to full circle this September when the documentary film, Pearl Jam Twenty, has it's world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, then select screenings across the world before being released on DVD/Blu-Ray in October. For more information visit PJ20.com and watch the trailer for the film below!
Pearl Jam continues their 20th Anniversary with the recently announced PJ20 Festival in Alpine Valley Wisconsin on Labor Day Weekend, as well as a Canadian tour. There will also be a film titled Pearl Jam Twenty due in theaters in September, along with a soundtrack and companion book. Here is the official press release for the film:
Pearl Jam Twenty is being released by Abramorama, the distributor who handled the recent Foo Fighters documentary. The movie will release in September, followed by the PBS airing and a DVD release in October. Told in big themes and bold colors with blistering sound, Pearl Jam Twenty chronicles the years leading up to the band’s formation, the chaos that ensued soon-after being catapulted into superstardom, their step back from the spotlight with the instinct of self-preservation, and the creation of a trusted circle that would surround them—giving way to a work culture that would sustain them. The film celebrates the freedom that allows the band to make music without losing themselves, their fans, or the music lovers they’d always been.
“When I set out to make this film, my mission was to assemble the best-of-the best from Pearl Jam’s past and present and give audiences a visceral feeling of what it is to love music and to feel it deeply—to be inside the journey of a band that has carved their own path,” said Cameron Crowe. “There is only one band of their generation for which a film like this could even be made, and I’m honored to be the one given the opportunity to make it.” Lead singer Eddie Vedder has also been busy, as his new solo album titled Ukulele Songs hits stores May 31st, along with a concert film on DVD titled Water On The Road. Check out the trailer below and look for more Pearl Jam 20th Anniversary reports throughout the year at TMIAJ!
TMIAJ continues the celebration of Pearl Jam's 20th Anniversary and in stores today is the re-release editions of their landmark 1993 and 1994 albums, Vs. and Vitalogy. You can find them as separate special editions with three bonus tracks on each or a 3 -CD box set featuring Live At The Orpheum Theater 1994 included in the set. Check out this cool time-lapse video of a mural being done for the re-release!
TMIAJ's recognition of Pearl Jam's 20th Anniversary continues! The band has many special things planned this year to recognize their 20 years and it all started with a new live album back in January. The anniversary continues on March 29th as a deluxe packaged re-release of their landmark albums, Vs. and Vitalogy hit stores. They will be sold in multiple editions available at pearljam.com and this is just the beginning. A documentary film titled Pearl Jam Twenty is due out as well as a book, soundtrack, and more before years end. For now check out this promo video fro the Vs. and Vitaloy re-release!
TMIAJ continues to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Pearl Jam. In 2009 Pearl Jam closed down the Philadelphia Spectrum with four nights of amazing shows to conclude their U.S. Backspacer Tour. The shows featured songs from throughout the band's vast catalog as well as some rare covers. TMIAJ did a story on the shows here, and now a pro-shot video of the song "Got Some" from the Occtober 31, 2009 show has shown up to promote the release of the band's new live album, Live On Ten Legs, possibly for European Markets. Whatever the reason it exists, it is awesome and worth watching!
The celebration of Pearl Jam's 20th anniversary continues here at TMIAJ and will do so throughout the year. This week marks 20 years of a horrible tragedy in which a young man took his own life in front of his classroom in Richardson, Texas. Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder read about this in a newspaper and was inspired to write what would become a Pearl Jam classic, the song "Jeremy". The music video for the song went on to critical acclaim and won many awards. It also caused controversy due to the ending of the video where the kid is shown with the gun in his mouth. “We did five different versions [of the ending],” director Mark Pellington has said. “One where the kid brings the gun up to his mouth and its blurred and then you cut in closer and you see his head sligtly move… [is] the unedited version, which is what I show to people and I have shown in public at screenings. it’s still very subtle but it’s clearer what happens. Right as he puts it in his mouth it cuts to ‘3:30 in the afternoon, an affluent suburb.’” So we present to you the "Jeremy" video below as well as a live version of the song from the 1992 MTV Video Awards.!
TMIAJ's Top 10 Of 2010 continues. The greatest trilogy of them all makes an appearance as well as the greatest band in the world!
#7 Pearl Jam's 20th Anniversary Celebration
This isn't a Pearl Jam site but we do touch on music now and then and Pearl Jam is TMIAJ's favorite band and the band turned 20 this year and the celebration will continue into 2011. We will continue to run feature stories on them as the year continues because we love 'em and they rock!
#6 The Empire Strikes Back 30th Anniversary
The anniversary of Empire could have ranked higher because for obvious reasons at TMIAJ we think Star Wars rules. Look for much more Star Wars features in 2011 including a week or two or a month dedicated to the holy trilogy!
#5 Star Wars Saga Blu-Ray Announcement & Star Wars Trilogy Cutscenes
Lucasfilm announced the Star Wars sage is coming to Blu-Ray in 2011 and with it, they showed a lost scene from Return Of The Jedi that was on the net for a few days before being taken down. It caused a frenzy and got people everywhere extremely excited. We got excited enough that we ran a series of feature articles detailing the lost scenes from the original trilogy and you all loved it. Check out the article here!
Tomorrow we reveal #3 and 4 on the lists and in the future at TMIAJ look for more Star Wars coverage as we get closer tot eh Blu-Ray releases including Star Wars Week coming soon!
TMIAJ continues the 20th Anniversary celebration of the greatest band int he world, Pearl Jam! Today marks the birthday of lead singer Eddie Vedder, so here's a few Ed Ved featured videos!
In 2009 Pearl Jam played the Austin City Limits Festival for the first time. TMIAJ had some coverage of it found here, As TMIAJ continues to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Pearl Jam here is the entire performance from the bands television taping of the Austin City Limits tv series.
TMIAJ continues our coverage of Pearl Jam's 20th anniversary that will span into 2011! Amazing albums, amazing live performances, and a place in rock n' roll history as one of the most prolific rock bands of all time. To survive 20 years especially in an era such as today's music world is, it is quite a feat. They are simply one of the greatest bands in the world. October 22, 1990 marked the bands first concert performance ever and TMIAJ marked that date with the first of many stories over the next year to celebrate the bands 20th anniversary!
The art of the concert rock poster was very popular in the 1960's and 70's but many of today's music artists have gotten away from it and no longer use them to promote shows. Pearl Jam however, has always embraced it and over the years hundreds of posters have been produced to commemorate Pearl Jam's live performances. Various artists have created posters over the years and many have become collector's items for Pearl jam fans and music fans in general. Below take a look at just twelve amazing posters from the Pearl jam concert posters that are out there. We will have more in the future as our celebration of Pearl Jam's 20th anniversary continues here at TMIAJ. Enjoy and admire the art work on these amazing concert posters.
TMIAJ's year long celebration of Pearl Jam's 20th Anniversary continues with one of the coolest live videos of all time. Pearl Jam is known for their prolific and exciting live shows over the years, and in the early days, the video for the song "Even Flow" captured that perfectly Without saying more, we will let the video speak for itself.
On October 22, 1990, five guys would take to the stage and the rest as they say was history. 20 years ago to this day Pearl Jam, one of the most prolific rock bands of the last two decades took the stage for the first time and beginning today, TMIAJ begins a year long celebration of one of the best bands on the planet. We will be bringing you articles, videos, facts, memorabilia, and all sorts of goodies spread out over the next year on TMIAJ, probably on a bi-weekly basis. We hope you enjoy!
"Have I Got A Little Story For You..." The first song many of us heard from Pearl Jam was "Alive". It was the summer anthem in 1991, being jammed out on car stereos and everywhere else just before the album Ten hit stores in August of that same year. The adventure began however over a year before with a cassette, Known as the "Momma-Son" tape, the songs were demos that Stone Gossard had put together and for additional instruments he brought along Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Matt Cameron. Stone and Jeff had played in Mother Love Bone together, while Mike was a friend and Matt was in Soundgarden. Mother Love Bone had just released a recent album but the untimely death of lead singer Andrew Wood, left the band broken, and Jedd and Stone looking to form a new band. The tape made it's way into a young surfer's hands named Eddie Vedder. Eddie's own band Bad Radio had just broken up themselves so Ed was spending his time working at a gas station and surfing. Ed was friends with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons, who knew Stone, and he passed the tape onto Ed. Ed used a four track to record some vocals over the demos and sent them back in September of 1990. The three songs he recorded were, "Alive", "Footsteps", and "Once". Very few people have ever seen the actual cassette with the notes and cover Ed put on it, but the picture above is a reproduction that the band included in the deluxe edition of Ten released last year. Jedd and Stone really dug this young singer's raw emotion and style and they asked him to come out to Seattle to jam. They came up with a few more songs and a month later they were playing their first show calling themselves Mookie Blaylock. On October 22, 1990 they would play their first show at The Off Ramp in Seattle, Washington. About 300 people witnessed history as Ed, Mike, Jeff, Stone, and drummer Matt Chamberlin, who would only be with the band a short time took the stage and rocked. They played eight songs, and it was the beginning of something special.
Set List From The Off Ramp October 22, 1990:
Release, Alone, Alive, Once, Even Flow, Black, Breath, Girl
This video below is footage from the very first show ever of the song "Alive"!
Mookie Blaylock was a basketball figure. Story has it that one of the guys had the player's basketball card in his backpack and they used it as a name until they came up with a more permanent number. They would also name their first album, Ten, after Blaylock's jersey number. They would call themselves this until March of 1991 and toured a lot in the Northwest region with Alice In Chains and other bands. To the left you can check out an early handbill advertising the band as Mookie Blaylock. That same month they would begin recording their debut album in Seattle. "Alive" hit radio that summer and on August 27, 1991, Ten hit record stores. The band would release a video for "Alive" featuring a live performance style video wanting to capture the energy they produced when playing live. This was followed by releasing "Even Flow" as the next single along with another live performance video and the buzz was beginning to build. Their live shows began to become legendary and then they got a spot on a tour with The Smashing Pumpkins and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Part of the tour would be spent with Nirvana after The Smashing Pumpkins finished their leg of the tour. Night after night it was Pearl Jam stealing the show. People were amazed at the energy and power of the band and Eddie Vedder's on stage theatrics would become legend themselves. He would climb rafters, stage dive into crowds, and give it 110 percent every single night on stage. Ten was slowly taking off and as 1992 rolled around, the band would hit Europe for some shows before returning to the United States to take a spot on the stage at Lollapalooza, and the legend would grow even further. The song "Jeremy" would hit radio with an amazing and thought provoking video, and the sales of Ten went through the roof. Pearl Jam was quickly becoming one of the, if not the, biggest band on the planet!
Since the release of Ten, Pearl Jam has released nine studio albums, a collection of b-sides, two official live albums and a live boxed set, hundreds of live "official" bootlegs, five DVD releases, several fan club vinyl singles, soundtrack appearances, eight music videos, and played thousands of shows over the years. They are well respected and their music is as important tot eh land of rock n' roll as it ever was. Today marks the 20th anniversary of their first show, so from now throughout the winter, spring, and summer of the next year, we celebrate Pearl Jam. There will be a few more articles like this, videos for you to check out, and whatever other goodies we can come up with in celebration of one of the best bands on the planet. We welcome your feedback and we hope you enjoy this series of featured articles at TMIAJ. Rock on and enjoy!
Now and then TMIAJ likes to cover some major music news so this week we break away from the norm with our Vid Pick Of The Week. Pearl Jam is one of America's all time great rock bands and starting in October the 20th anniversary of the band kicks off for the next year! TMIAJ will be celebrating this starting in October with several tributes and articles on the band through out the 20th anniversary! For now here is a preview so to speak of whats to come during the celebration with the bands latest music video for "Amongst The Waves" from their outstanding 2009 album Backspacer.
