Live On 4 Legs: Pearl Jam Podcast

We're coming down to the wire in our year long Around The World Series. As last week we wrapped up South America, today's episode we'll focus on the one and only time the band took a trip down to Central America as Ed and Boom were able to catch some waves down in Costa Rica. If your expectations for this show are as high as any show in Argentina, Brazil or Chile, do yourself a favor and lower the...

Happy Thanksgiving to our American listeners! This week we're gonna discuss one of South America's finest performances down in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013. This continues our Around The World Series that only has 3 more episodes that remain after this! We'll hit up Costa Rica, Mexico and Canada to close out 2020. The Argentinian crowds... hoo boy! They are something special. This show being a...

This week we're celebrating the city of Atlanta, Georgia that deserves praise recently for their tremendous voter turnout helping the state go blue for the first time in 28 years! And Atlanta knows about long periods of waiting because in this episode we'll discuss the last non-festival show in the city that happened 17 years ago! That's FIVE albums since Atlanta has gotten a proper show! This one...

The election is now in our rearview (sort of) and we can get back into business finishing off our year long Around The World series in South America. This week we dig into the band's only show in Colombia from the 2015 continental tour. As per usual with the South American crowd, they are on fire. From Ole chants to the patented singing during songs like Do The Evolution, Better Man, Even Flow and...

Happy Election Day! Remember to go out today and vote. This is the final episode in our month's long coverage of politically charged Pearl Jam shows and we finish off with a Vote for Choice show that became a Vault release in Constitution Hall 1998. Just like Charlotte 1996, this show was accompanied by Gloria Steinum with registering to vote as the priority of the night. This show is a Vault for...

Warning: This episode contains sensitive topics of a political nature including the landscape of the world after the 9/11 tragedy. The energy in this episode is more angry and fired up than usual, which is saying a lot. If this seems unsettling to you, please avoid this episode. But please vote on November, 3rd. So it's come to this. You knew we couldn't have a month featuring Pearl Jam's most pol...

Last week we celebrated a very important milestone in the history of Pearl Jam - their 30th anniversary! In this episode, we look back to the early 90s time period in Seattle before and around the date of Pearl Jam's Off Ramp show. It's our pleasure to welcome Rick and Chris Friel, Mike McCready's former Shadow bandmates, to talk about being there at their first ever show and relive some of the ri...

Happy 30th anniversary week! On October, 22 1990, Pearl Jam played their first show as Mookie Blaylock at Seattle’s Off Ramp venue. To celebrate the monumental occasion, we’re going back two decades to the band’s ten year anniversary that took place in Vegas on the Binaural tour. Joining us for this episode for some crossover love is Branden Palomo from the Better Band Podcast. While the band came...

We continue the month of October's politically charged Pearl Jam theme with a show that sets the standard for the band's dedication to encouraging their fans to vote. Originally dubbed as a retirement party for former NC Senator, the bigoted Jesse Helms, this show in Charlotte prior to the 1996 election was one where the music was secondary to the mission which was to get the young people in atten...

Hey, won't you look at that? We've hit another milestone! This is our 100th (official) episode and what a way to celebrate then to kick off our month of political Pearl Jam shows. As you guys know, we have a major election in less than 30 days so we thought a great way to remind you guys to vote would be to share the best of the voter outreach shows. Toledo 2004 might be the most memorable of them...

This episode features a preview of the new Pearl Jam book coming out on October, 15 called Not For You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense. It's our pleasure to invite the author of the book, Ronen Givony, on the show to discuss some of his ideas and research findings for the book and some of the topics that make this one of the best Pearl Jam publications you'll be able to find. There have been book...

Continuing our trip through South America, this week we bring you to where it all began in 2005. This show from Santiago, Chile is the band's first ever in the continent, and while there was some hesitation and concern due to the crowd's size in the early onset, the boys found their comfort zone and fed off the energy of such a passionate group of fans. Joining us on this episode is our friend and...

We're finally here! Around The World has taken us to South America and what better way to start than in the biggest country Brazil! This week we're celebrating a Sao Paolo show from 2015 that had incredibly emotional ties to it being performed only one day after the Paris terrorist attacks. The band knows when they are in a position of power to bring people together in a time where its needed and...

We're getting ready to feature out first episodes covering Pearl Jam's South American shows, and what better way to help us kick off that week than to welcome one of the best tribute band's to Pearl Jam that there is - straight out of Brazil, this episode we'll be talking to the boys in Black Circle! Their debut album of originals entitled Mercury will be out on October 5 and we'll be spinning the...

We conclude the European portion of our Around The World series this week with a stop in Lisbon, Portugal that happened to be the final night of the No Code tour in 1996. The band and crowd brought their a-games and it made for an electrifying atmosphere with lots of chanting and hi-jinx abound. A big talking point from this show is centered around Mr. Stone Gossard who's parents were in attendanc...

We're back around the world this week and we'll continue the series this entire month finishing up two more stops and Europe and FINALLY getting to some highly regarded South American shows. This week though we kill two birds with one stone (Gossard) as we'll also treat this episode as a Patreon request from our friend Luke who attended this show! The best thing that you can say about a Pearl Jam...

It's the 2 year anniversary of our podcast's birth and we thought it would be appropriate to give everyone, including ourselves, a little gift. This week we're covering Benaroya Hall - the 2,500 seat capacity Seattle venue usually known for being an orchestra concert hall was taken over by an insane Pearl Jam crowd there to witness the band perform some of their rarest cuts in rare form. The band...

This week we're celebrating our 2-year anniversary as a pod and joining the show to talk about his Pearl Jam fandom is none other than ESPN SportsCenter anchor Kenny Mayne. We get to chat with Kenny about some of his favorite shows, his friendship with Jeff Ament and how they met, and some great stories about meeting Stevie Wonder and Tom Petty. One of Kenny's best stories he shares is about the f...

And now for something kind of different. Usually this podcast does a deep dive into Pearl Jam's live catalog, but in this episode we change it up just a little bit. We take a deep dive into the short-lived Mirror Ball tour that spanned 11 shows in the summer of 1995 to promote the album. With the other 4 band members joining a rock n roll legend, how does the dynamic change not having Ed up on sta...

A little surprise for you all today. We usually post these setlist drafts over at our Patreon page, but for this month we decided to do something different. Since we had such a good month of Wrigley content in July, we wanted to follow that up by tailoring our setlist draft to be specific to Wrigley. So there are sets being drafted, however there are caveats. They MUST add a rain delay into their...

Who out there loves a show featuring a ton of back catalog? Well, if you're someone who does then you are gonna really like this show. Newark from 2010 on the Backspacer Tour was sandwiched in between shows in two major cities, so the band was able to play around with the setlist to bring in some of the more obscurer tracks in their history. It all starts with the opener to set the mood for the ni...

A jam packed show this week as we go back around the world for the first time in over a month. We're close to rounding out our European trip and what's Europe without doing a show in London? We go back to 1993, two months before Vs. was distributed, to talk about a show in the famous Brixton Academy club. Prior to our show coverage, we had the privilege to chat with Tom Pugh, the founder of a char...

We're taking a request today from not just one, but two of our patrons! We welcome Sean Rashkis and Brian Anderson to the show to talk about a rare occasion in Pearl Jam's live catalog - a night 3 show, this one from the batch of San Francisco shows in 2006. Surprisingly, these set of shows were the first time the band played the bay area city since the infamous Polo Fields show from 1995 where Ed...

Our final release of Wrigley Month - if you listened to part 1 of our fanmail and didn't get to hear your story, this is where you'll find it! We finish up our Wrigley stories in this one and tell more great tales from the fans. Thanks again to everyone who participated! Support the show: http://patreon.com/liveon4legs

We've come a long way this month - we've talked to great people, talked about great shows and basked in the amazing moments this band has celebrated at one of the United States most treasured landmarks in Wrigley Field. And now it's time for this month to come to a close, but we're gonna go out with a bang! Just like we started, Night 2 of 2018's big storyline was the rain. This time it was differ...