Live On 4 Legs: Pearl Jam Podcast

Before the episode begins, we'll share our takes on the upcoming weekend where Pearl Jam will play their first show in three years at the Sea. Hear. Now festival! Also! A new album from Eddie! We'll spend time on both before getting to the topic at hand. In this episode, we continue our year long 30th anniversary Seattle hometown series with a tune up show from 2002 that took place shortly before...

This first night of PJ20 weekend was stricken with bad weather that put a bit of a damper on the show, but they followed up with a Sunday night performance that was one for the ages. While the first night had some song inclusions from the deep cuts in their catalog, it was missing a familiar flow that give Pearl Jam setlists balance. Night 2 has more of those setlist staples intertwined while givi...

This episode features a forum of Pearl Jam fans talking about their unique experiences from the PJ20 weekend back in September of 2011! Join us to hear everyone's individual stories on the rain, merch, the Temple reunion, why there's no bootleg and more!

We're sitting here in year 30 of Pearl Jam about to look back at when they celebrated their 20th anniversary, which happened to be 10 years ago. Whatever equation you want to make of it, the massive weekend event at Alpine Valley was one of the biggest events to that point in Pearl Jam's history. It was set to be a celebration of the band's longevity featuring the most loyal group of fans. Friends...

Back in the early days of the internet, communities were starting to evolve and develop all over the world wide web. Some people found them in public chat rooms, some found them on message boards, Pearl Jam fans found a special one in Five Horizons. 5H was the original Pearl Jam archival concert chronology that did remarkable research on the band's history, cataloging details from every show that...

It's the 30th anniversary of Pearl Jam's debut, and most important album, Ten. So we're celebrating by taking a look back at one of the most treasured shows of the past decade, the night where they played the entire album in front of a frenzied Philadelphia crowd. It was the fourth of five full album shows in a two-year span that was fueled by a banner raised to the rafters of the Wells Fargo Cent...

Batting second in our Murderer's Row lineup is this tremendous show out of Boston from 2010. Shows in the Boston or Massachusetts area are usually notable in this band's lineage, but what made this stop on the Backspacer tour important was the myriad of rarities they brought to the table that night. With every album accounted for, the band dug deep into their catalog to pull out songs that some ma...

Kicking off a big stretch in the next month where we'll cover a Murderer's Row of Pearl Jam shows from their pantheon is the legendary Binaural tour ender in 2000. This hometown show is the culmination of a turbulent year for the band where after the Roskilde tragedy, they had to find ways to grieve whilst touring from city to city for 47 dates in the matter of 3 months. During this timeframe they...

We’re off to the West Coast this week to cover a show in sunny Los Angeles for the first time on the podcast, believe it or not. Jason and Paul from State of Love and Trust Podcast were there and they join to co-host this week. We’ll ride the rollercoaster of emotions throughout the show, from a promising beginning, some unique placement of songs from Lightning Bolt, and we’ll talk about a couple...

This week we’re headed back to summer 1992 for a Lollapalooza afternoon set at Alpine Valley. This week we have 2 patrons joining us to break it all down, Patrick Boegel and Dani King. Dani was there and gives us the inside story, and, for the second week in a row, we have an EPIC post-show story that you’ll want to stick around for! We’ll talk about some classic Ten songs that were hitting their...

This week we're going back to those eventful few weeks back in 1994 to cover the show AFTER the iconic Fox Theatre Atlanta show. How would the band follow up that momentous performance? We'll talk about some early versions of Vitalogy classics, and a wild encore that comes out of nowhere! We'll cover it all with guest co-host Anthony Krysiewicz (Touring Fan Live), and we're also joined by Patreon...

George would be upset with us, but today we're opening up the vault to release for the first time on our public accounts an Evolution Series episode that is part of our Patreon subscription series! The plan for this week is to still get a fresh weekly episode in featuring the Springfield 1994 show, but to fulfill our weekly Wednesday episode spot we've decided to present you with something you may...

Fresh off of covering a tour leg closer last week, this week we have a tour leg opener from the first show of the Lightning Bolt tour, Pittsburgh 2013. This week, John is joined by OG pod co-host Matt to cover lots of Lightning Bolt debuts, some curious setlist choices, a loud and exuberant crowd, one very excited Pittsburgh Pirate, and one song that hasn’t resurfaced since this show. Will they di...

We continue our year-long Seattle Series of shows with this West Coast leg-ender from 1998. Randy is out on paternity leave, so John is joined this week by Branden from the Better Band Podcast. Along with the usual end of tour shenanigans, we’ll talk a lot about No Code, as 7 songs from the album are played on this night. Fantastic versions of Brain of J., Not For You, and Do The Evolution are hig...

Pearl Jam has a rich history of playing shows in Italy. Many of their Italian shows have been among some of their best such as Verona 2006 and the entire Immagine In Cornice run. They've also had some not so memorable moments opening up for U2 on the 1993 Zooropa tour where they were not well received. Out of the 21 shows they've played there, there might not be one that beats the last time they'v...

One of the best things about being able to share a Pearl Jam podcast with the world is to specifically hit home on some of the most notable moments in the band's history. This night at Red Rocks in 1995 checks that box and then some. After a raucous first show where the band were clearly feeling the effects of the Colorado altitude, they walked on the stage doing something they had never done in t...

It's been a while since we've done a South American show, so in this episode we're gonna chat about one from the last tour cycle way back in 2018. Of course we know how crazy intense the Brazilian crowds are, and the crowd at this show in Rio de Janeiro would once again control this night. Joining us to talk about it is friend and Patron Dukes Wooters who traveled from Seattle to be there that nig...

2008 was an interesting year for Pearl Jam. Touring in between their Self-Titled and Backspacer releases, they were given the flexibility to experiment in their setlists moreso then they had in the past. On the 13-show east coast tour, there were songs that had been almost unfathomable to hear at a Pearl Jam show prior. Who You Are, All Night, a full version of W.M.A. and a solidified set opening...

We continue our hometown series this month with a show in... Spokane? Yes, you heard that correctly. In relation to the Deep streaming site that was unveiled last month, we decided to pivot to 2013 and call this a hometown show. Yes, they did play Key Arena in 2013, but if we're gonna cheat we might as well go all the way. That show will happen later in the year! Why is Spokane a hometown show? It...

One of our promises this year was more Canadian shows for the Canadian listeners and there's no better time to release a show from the north than during NHL Playoff season! We continue to dig into the Deep streaming catalog tour years featuring this Montreal show that kicked off the final leg of the 2000 tour. In this episode, we'll talk a little bit about how important the retail released bootleg...

We continue our month covering the years offered through the Deep project and Spotify with this absolute gem from the Riot Act tour. Buffalo was the second to last show from the first leg ands it took place during a notable run. The night prior on Long Island, they were getting quarters hurled at them for mocking the President and the following night in State College, this tour ender is one of the...

**This episode is dedicated to the life of our friend Frank Stolli who was taken away from us way too soon. Miss you already...** One of the most revered live albums in the history of music is The Who's Live At Leeds record. The album cover itself was an inspiration to Pearl Jam's Vault collection cover art, but even more than that, the entire performance from the record can be traced back to elem...

Actual live music? You don't say! The Global Citizen Vax TV special took place this past weekend with Mr. Eddie Vedder and friends up front and center for the first time in... when was the stone age again? Because we fancy ourselves as live music connoisseurs we thought this would be a great opportunity to react to the first Pearl Jam related instance since the pandemic started. Check it out, we h...

Big news announced in Pearl Jam's camp today that coincided with 186 shows being released on Spotify. The new Deep website is a spot where fans won't only listen to their favorite boots from the 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2013 tours, but they'll be able to create their favorite playlists from all of the featured shows. We were thankful enough to be invited to be involved in it and in this short briefing...

In this episode we go back to our year long hometown series celebrating the best shows in the band's 30-year history emanating from their Seattle residence. This week we look at another important show in the lineage as this surprise Showbox show from 1996 was the tune up for that fall's No Code tour. We get EIGHT, yes, EIGHT song debuts from this night from the No Code record so there will be a lo...