Last weekend, Global Citizen uploaded a recording of its Vax Live concert online, featuring an appearance from Eddie Vedder himself.

However, at this point the DEEP web hub carries no video footage, only official bootleg audio recordings.īut there’s more news from the Pearl Jam realm.

It should also be noted that the sprawling collection of live performances also includes two shows from Katowice, which took place on June 15 and 16, 2000. The archive can be browsed by category, including covers and even protest songs. After a simple registration, users are given access to a broad repository they can peruse to find their favorite performance from Pearl Jam’s two-decade-long touring history. The legendary grunge musicians from Seattle have followed a path blazed earlier by Radiohead, which opened its own online archive last year and has been successively uploading new live shows for free. Within a year, 13x platinum-selling debut Ten was stacked high on record store shelves.DEEP, the online hub created by the band, includes a whopping 186 of Pearl Jam’s shows or nearly 5,500 individual live song performances. Andrew’s death from a heroin overdose in early 1990 rattled bonds and drove Stone’s writing into darker, heavier territory, but the introduction of second six-stringer Mike McCready, and an inspired response to their five-track demo from Illinois-born, San Diego-based singer Eddie Vedder (who’d written lyrics for Alive, Once and Footsteps while out surfing) saw the band take shape. Guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament joined proto-grungers Green River in the mid-’80s, before forming Mother Love Bone with vocalist Andrew Wood towards the decade’s close. Perhaps the tribulations and inspirations of their coming-together prepared them for that. Their first three LPs, of course – spanning the pomp of the grunge scene, and full of its revolutionary excitement – still hold a special place in listeners’ hearts, but rather than trying to cling to past glories or fading into irrelevance, their eight albums (and countless other releases) since have solidified one of the most innovative, important reputations in all of rock.

They have always been an outfit interested in everything they do. Compared to the vast majority of their platinum-rated rock contemporaries, Pearl Jam’s back catalogue does not easily stack into a defined hierarchy of hit singles, ‘underrated’ fan-favourites and forgotten album tracks.

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