Pearl Jam Concert 10 Days before Ten was released

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found this on X and ended up watching the whole thing. Love seeing these shows before a band become ubiquitous. They were so good.

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"Sounds of Seattle" 1991, a free festival funded by the city council to promote local talent. Pearl Jam closed the concert three days before releasing their first album "Ten" and a month before Nirvana's "Nevermind" came out, an album that would change the music industry overnight.

"Ten" didn't catch on right away after its release, and it took eight months for the pulling power of "Smells Like Teen Spirit"and the sudden interest from MTV in other grunge bandsto lift the iconic album to number two on the US charts.

This was the last moment when Pearl Jam were nobodies. Playing in their city, for a mix of the band's early fans and locals who happened to be passing by and had nothing better to do.



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Am totally gonna watch, this looks awesome. Thanks for sharing.
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there's some funny parts at the end.

  • some idiot keeps yelling "poser!" at Eddie right before the encore. he just gets ignored
  • a guy walks up to our fearless videographer as he's walking out and asks "did you get that whole thing? can I have your address?"
  • Eddie awkwardly dribbling a basketball around the stage (and never missing a note)
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I had also forgotten that two of my favorite Pearl Jam songs were never on one of their albums.
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This is awesome. He sounds just as good as he does on the album.
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I liked the preview of Outshined he gave. "But it's sung better"
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Love this kind of stuff.
I recently found a ticket stub I kept from when Pearl Jam opened for Soundgarden in 92. And then I found this image of the poster from the show.

https://pearljam.com/tour/history/show/austin-texas-1737670457

The two are now framed together. I believe the ticket price was $15.
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I had also forgotten that two of my favorite Pearl Jam songs were never on one of their albums.

The two that ended up on the soundtrack for Singles?
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yep...in my mind, PJ was just playing the entire Ten album at this show, but they had a couple unreleased songs (at the time) that ended up on the Singles Soundtrack. Could have easily been "Twelve"
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Ed & Co.

Seen them (and him solo) live many, many times. Always a great show.
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Badass


They killed it on black & the Seattle stonies just shoegaze



Thanks for posting this
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I thought this was going to be a Redstone thread...


I remember a buddy turning me on to PJ....before even hearing about Nirvana. It blew me away.
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And just like that memories come flooding back from countless concerts in the early to mid 90's. I don't remember my friends and I being that calm at any concerts back then.

I must have listened to that CD thousands of times since then. A lot of those songs are still on my current playlists.
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The guy in the crowd with the blonde ponytail through the black hat has a terrible tic where he violently swivels his head from side to side. It looks like it would be exhausting.

Music is funny. These people hear these songs and aren't particularly impressed, yet a year later they would be going crazy for the same songs.
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This thread sent me on a Pearl Jam YouTube deep dive


The clips about Letterman being obsessed w the final refrain of black & then Eddie shows up to surprise him & sing it for him


I miss the 90s





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I see this all the time and think, no one knows WTF they are witnessing.
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That was awesome
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Thanks for sharing. I have the audio of that show, but had never seen the video.
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That was awesome. Sounded great even through the recording of a VHS camera so I'm sure it was 100x better actually being there. I saw them in 93 in OKC and can't remember how good they sounded. I partied pretty hard in those days and wasn't too sober at that show. I bought an awesome green long sleeve long john material shirt with Pearl Jam embroidered on the chest at that show. My girlfriend at the time some how ended up with that when we broke up. I actually ran into her at Academy last summer. I should've asked her what she did with my PJ shirt 20 years later.

I see them now every time they go on tour in this part of the country and it's always good.

My sister's boyfriend in the late 80's early 90's was a musician and I remember him telling me way before we were hearing any of these bands that there was a music scene brewing out in Seattle that was going to be big. He talked about wanting to move out there at the time.
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Great find! Thank you

Same with the letterman one.

Ive always wondered if Eddie's back is messed up or not with how bad his posture was and all that he put it through over the years.
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Diggity said:

yep...in my mind, PJ was just playing the entire Ten album at this show, but they had a couple unreleased songs (at the time) that ended up on the Singles Soundtrack. Could have easily been "Twelve"

the album has 11 tracks.. not 10.

10 was mookie blaylocks number, nothing to do with song count.
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Don't know that we will ever have such geographical synergy in sounds anymore. From motown to southern rock to the grunge scene and countless other genre/sub-genre it always seemed that musical tastes kind of centered around a highly dense talent group that created a particular style or sound before. Now it is all so universally available almost instantly that it is hard to see it develop like it used to.
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Seven Costanza said:



Music is funny. These people hear these songs and aren't particularly impressed, yet a year later they would be going crazy for the same songs.

I love a ton of music, but there are very few bands that where the first time I heard a song by that band, I was immediately hooked.

Pearl jam is not even one of them. Only band from that era that did that for me was AIC, and maybe STP.

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Also, this was Abruzzese's first show.

Here is Krusen, playing Ten. PJ should ask him to join, come full circle.


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62strat said:

Also, this was Abruzzese's first show.

Here is Krusen, playing Ten. PJ should ask him to join, come full circle.





They don't like him.
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62strat said:

Diggity said:

yep...in my mind, PJ was just playing the entire Ten album at this show, but they had a couple unreleased songs (at the time) that ended up on the Singles Soundtrack. Could have easily been "Twelve"

the album has 11 tracks.. not 10.

10 was mookie blaylocks number, nothing to do with song count.

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Rudyjax said:

62strat said:

Also, this was Abruzzese's first show.

Here is Krusen, playing Ten. PJ should ask him to join, come full circle.





They don't like him.

they had him fill in for matt cameron when he had covid. (along with others)

Why would you reach out to someone you don't like to play drums for you at MSG?
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62strat said:

Rudyjax said:

62strat said:

Also, this was Abruzzese's first show.

Here is Krusen, playing Ten. PJ should ask him to join, come full circle.





They don't like him.

they had him fill in for matt cameron when he had covid. (along with others)

Why would you reach out to someone you don't like to play drums for you at MSG?



He probably meant Dave A. Krusen was also inducted into the hall of fame as a member of Pearl Jam.
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InnocentBystander99 said:

62strat said:

Rudyjax said:

62strat said:

Also, this was Abruzzese's first show.

Here is Krusen, playing Ten. PJ should ask him to join, come full circle.





They don't like him.

they had him fill in for matt cameron when he had covid. (along with others)

Why would you reach out to someone you don't like to play drums for you at MSG?



He probably meant Dave A. Krusen was also inducted into the hall of fame as a member of Pearl Jam.

he did not read my very short reply very well then!
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ClearIy I can't count.

Guess they could have called it Thirteen then (or Fourteen if we include the hidden track)
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Pssh, these guys are going nowhere.
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62strat said:

InnocentBystander99 said:

62strat said:

Rudyjax said:

62strat said:

Also, this was Abruzzese's first show.

Here is Krusen, playing Ten. PJ should ask him to join, come full circle.





They don't like him.

they had him fill in for matt cameron when he had covid. (along with others)

Why would you reach out to someone you don't like to play drums for you at MSG?



He probably meant Dave A. Krusen was also inducted into the hall of fame as a member of Pearl Jam.

he did not read my very short reply very well then!


Sorry. Don't mention both Dave's in the same post.

Krusen wanted the job but they went in another direction.
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62strat said:

Seven Costanza said:



Music is funny. These people hear these songs and aren't particularly impressed, yet a year later they would be going crazy for the same songs.

I love a ton of music, but there are very few bands that where the first time I heard a song by that band, I was immediately hooked.




Very common for music, but somehow not common for other forms of art. We usually like a movie, book, musical, or comedy act the first time you see it (not always, but usually). But music is different for whatever reason.
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Pretty awesome and also hilarious how none of the crowd knew at that moment just how huge and influential PJ would become
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