But even if you stopped caring after Vs, this evening found the band on fire. Leave it to Pearl Jam to kick off a two-night arena stand by playing Binaural, their dark and neglected sixth album, in its entirety. One of the best Black solos Mike McCready has ever played. Plus: features the only appearance of Breath that year. Heading back to nearly the beginning and with good reason – from the tip-toed opening riff in Sometimes to the Ozzy Osbourne tag on Yellow Ledbetter, everything just cooks here. This performance is a little heavy on the covers, but you should never skip a show that features the triple whammy of Footsteps, Brain of J and Fuckin’ Up Guitar Highlight Stone Gossard’s crunchy tone in the first Daughter bridge at 1:05. Frontman Eddie Vedder is in fine form all night. The band paint here with many colors, moving gracefully between their most breakneck and their most stately. Taken together, they offer a scrapbook of the band’s travels and transformations over the last two decades. Instead, these are the 20 best cohesive listening experiences out of some 400-plus in circulation (less the ones that your correspondent personally attended as it’s hard to be objective if you were there!). Some great tours, meanwhile, suffered from subpar recording quality (2005) and some songs got their definitive versions during shows that were otherwise average. These are not strictly the band’s 20 greatest shows in that regard, as for the sake of consistency we’ve excluded everything pre-2000 as well as the non-bootleg Vault releases like Chicago 2007. To mark the 20th anniversary of this unprecedented endeavor, here’s our ranking of the series’ 20 best offerings. Would it be feasible? Would there be demand? Wouldn’t some shows just suck – embarrassing the band if preserved?īut the bootlegs kept coming, and continued far beyond that original 2000 tour – they now document (almost) every subsequent Pearl Jam gig. No one knew whether this Official Bootleg series, as the band labeled it, would stick. They would release full-length, professionally recorded live albums capturing all 72 shows on their 2000 Binaural tour. Twenty years ago, Pearl Jam made an absurd announcement.
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