I highly recommend their MTV unplugged version of Black. It's not energetic like this was, but it's also not that type of song. It's extremely powerful and highlights Eddy Vedder's (singer) voice. He actually had a cold for that performance which makes it that much more impressive. Those of you that know what I am talking about please hit the thumbs up for this comment. Also, I hope this means you are going down a 90s sort of road. So much good music from the time period before everything became over produced. Good job, and keep up the good work.
I was at the concert you alluded to at the end. It happened in Denmark in 2000 at my first ever festival at age 16. Nine people died and I helped carrying one of them out of the place. The concert was interrupted 4-5 times by security to try to get the 65,000 of us to take a few steps back to relieve the pressure up front. And eventually it was called off. I also remember watching frontman Eddie Vedder sitting out over the edge of the stage crying his eyeballs out. Because from up on stage he had had a first row seat to what was happening to the fans up front. The band since invited the loved ones of those who died to come and talk about it. A kind of cathartic exercise for all of them. Almost all of the families accepted, and it eventually developed into a book released years later. As for myself, it had been a traumatic experience, but two years ago I was able to see the band again and together put it behind us because I finally - 22 years later - got to finish my Pearl Jam concert the way it ought to finish.
@@5skov It was. I could fill a book of my own about stories from that festival. Including just to get a hold of my parents. This was just before cellphones was a real thing, so the festival actually had phonebooths! Long story short: I kept going to the festival for the entire rest of the decade. Then branched out to Germany and nowadays to smaller parts of Denmark. But even though it was my first ever festival it hooked me for life.
Eddie said he met a homeless vet outside his studio in his younger years, and everyday he bought sandwiches for them both until he disappeared and Eddie said he thought he lost him but in fact he found him living under a viaduct, he later died breaking Eddie's heart 😢
As much as you seem to like Chris Cornell.. now that you’ve checked out Pearl Jam.. you HAVE to do a Temple of the Dog. That’s Eddy and Chris singing together
As others said, Black from MTV unplugged is great, but also check out Better Man live from Madison Square Garden (the one that is 12 years old). The crowd interaction is fantastic!
Glad to see someone with kind words for this classic - I feel like most times I’ve heard it discussed, people call it annoying or preachy, but I always loved it.
4 big grunge bands Nirvana, Sound Garden, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam. Though Temple of the Dog's Hunger Strike with Vedder and Cornell is an amazing song.
Dinosaur Jr. is an underappreciated band that may qualify as grunge. Hits all the key grunge notes: Droning sound along with some harsher beats, very sarcastic tone, ultimately optimistic despite all the rolled eyes implied in the notes and lyrics.
Yes it is Grunge. Pearl Jam formed in 1991 and they are still together and are set to release a new album. They have sold over 85 million albums and are one of the most successful band in the world. This video is from around 1991. Eddie Vedder is the lead singer and they are involved in a lot of social and environmental causes and their music is very political as well. Do yourself a favor and explore their massive catalog of songs, you won't regret it.
Eddie Vedder has one of the greatest rock voices of all time. Be sure to check out Black, Alive, Better Man (basically all of Ten, their first album). Then check out The Counting Crows, not rockers like Pearl Jam, but great song writing and vocals from the same period. Mr Jones, Round Here, Long December, to name a few.
I am beyond excited for you to be reacting to Pearl Jam, absolutely love this band and "Even Flow" is one of my favourites from their debut album "Ten". There are so many iconic songs from this album "Black", "Jeremy" and "Alive" to name a few! This song was written by Vedder about a homeless ex veteran man, also named Eddie who he met when working as a security guard in a warehouse just before Vedder joined Pearl Jam, sadly the homeless guy passed away without knowing he was the source of inspiration behind this song. Thanks BP great reaction, I really hope you continue exploring more from Pearl Jam and their timeless classics.
Are you thinking of ebb and flow? That's a term having to do with tides and cycles. Also Pearl Jam did a concert in Denmark in 2000 where nine people were crushed by the crowd. It really affected the band.
He absolutely means ebb and flow. I guess it would be an easy mistake if you've never seen it written or had it explained to you. For those that don't know, ebbing is when the tide is going out and flowing is when the tide is coming in. Not much of either happening in Colorado..
At first I thought he just didn't know the word "even," but later as he described what he thought it meant, he was definitely thinking of "ebb and flow."
Great job! You've finally hit Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam. Thank you, thank you! It's grunge and there's a mosh pit happening. Eddie was homeless before Pearl Jam and he still keeps it real. He was good friends with Chris Cornell (check out hunger strike with Temple of the Dog and Pearl Jam) and Chester Bennington (Linkin Park). Pearl jam was inducted in the R&R Hall of game in 2017. Yes, they are in my top 5 all time favorites. Check out 'Jeremy' and 'Black' by Pearl Jam. I think those will hit you.
Eddie Vedder wasn't homeless, never! People should think before write a comment, and not put stupid things here. As Eddie said many times, there was a man who inspired the song: "...At a subsequent show in Seattle on August 8, 2018, Vedder revealed that the song was inspired by a homeless Vietnam War veteran (also named Eddie)..."
Pearl Jam performed on 30 June 2000 at Roskilde Festival's main stage, the Orange Stage. Here, pressure among the audience meant that several were trambled, and suffocated or could not get air. A total of nine people in the audience lost their lives. Perhaps that is what you remember?
Oooohhh!!! Are we sliding into the 90s? 😏 Hell ya! Music from the 90s is just special!! I mostly just listened to the Alternative Rock/Grunge, but this decade is the only decade that I will listen to anything close to pop music! It doesn't get much better than Eddie Vetter, tho! Pearl Jam has so many good songs!! One of my favorite songs from the 90s is Runaway Train by Soul Asylum!!
The 90s. had some excellent bands and music. A great decade for music. However, I find the 70s thru the 90s to be one of the best. The most creative, the most involved and the best of actual musicians and singers. Amazing music
I saw Pearl Jam in Austin TX, in Sept. of 1995 with the Ramones. One of the best concerts ever. Eddie Vedder (the singer) stopped the concert when someone in the mosh pit fell and was having trouble getting up, made sure she got helped up and out of the pit before continuing the song. That band loved its fans and did everything they could to make sure we got our money's worth and were taken care of. The concert was outside and it was super hot and they were charging like 2 bucks for bottled water - they again stopped the concert and made the venue spray us down with water and give out free water from hoses. I have the utmost respect for Pearl Jam.
Definition from google. "Definition of Even Flow" - Evening flow: A term used to describe the night when homeless people try to find a place to sleep. It can also refer to the mental state of a homeless person with mental illness.
Pearl Jam was from Seattle and was definitely a part of the "grunge" scene. Now you can watch Temple of The Dog, and see Chris Cornell sing with all the musicians from Pearl Jam. :)
I was fortunate enough for Eddy to step on our blanket in ATL on his way to the back wall of the amphitheater. Where he climbed said wall, turned around and fell back into the crowd. His feet NEVER touched the ground until he was carried all the way back to the stage. Fucking nuts 😂😮😊
IMO, greatest American rock band in the last 30 years (I'm not American) .. I love Pearl Jam, they have been the sound track to my life .. also this video, they were very young ;)😂 ... oh new album coming out... buy it
Even Flow means a state of mind that is pure, Zen-like and free from external influences, as in the song "Even Flow" by Pearl Jam. The song is about a homeless man who achieves this state of mind despite his hardships. Pearl Jam was doing some recordings in an abandoned warehouse in Seattle and there was a homeless veteran living there. Eddie would often share his lunch sandwich with the homeless and have several conversation with the vet. Pearl Jam later went out on tour and when they returned to Seattle, the homeless vet was no longer there and Eddie has never seen him since.
I was at this show. I went not knowing who they were. After the show I said "These guys are going to be huge" . It was the most amazing concert I have ever been too. I could not believe he climbed the wall and jumped off. I carried him back to the stage. ABSOLUTELY INSANITY! I believe you are thinking Ebb and Flow.
@@carlastanley1138 1/17/92 Moore Theater in Seattle. I was at this show as well and down front when Eddie falls into the crowd off the wall. My sister is in the video but I'm in the middle of the crowd catching him. Gruntruck was the opening band.
You nailed it so perfectly on what the song was about. Eddie Vedder (the singer) wrote this song about a homeless Vietnam veteran he met while working on their music. He wrote it after he found out the man died while they were on tour.
@@brettholcomb3763 It would be a more accurate criticism if it tackled corporatism since that's what what people think modern Capitalism is. Capitalism as presented, a free market, would lift just about every boat that it could since it gives power to people to succeed or fail on their own merits. Corporatism isn't a free market, it's a market that's been reduced down to (usually) duopolies or triopolies, basically cartels that stay out of each other's way, forcing reduced choice on people. That is not capitalism, that is the exact opposite of capitalism, where the guardrails were either circumvented or removed by political interest and corruption. The same could be said for other economic systems such as say Communism where the idealized version would theoretically be idyllic but falls far short due to easy paths for corruption and self interest. Though I've heard it put rather succinctly that at least Capitalism has never had to put up walls to keep their populations inside their borders, whereas Communism, fascism, monarchy, etc. all have to one degree or another. Perhaps we just haven't reached that point yet, or perhaps something like company towns of old would be the closest equivalent. Both systems are flawed, I however view capitalism as less flawed in this example as it puts the onus on self reliance and self uplift rather than being forced to live on handouts which might one day be denied without recourse or alternative options if the powers that be do not like how you live or what you have to say. That's little better than being a pet or beast of burden, to be worked and taken out behind the woodshed at someone else's leisure when you no longer serve their purposes. At least here, now, there are options. That might change in the future, if it ever goes the way of cyberpunk dystopia where corporations are likened to governments, where technology binds just as tightly as any chains but until then, I think that working to make better what has been one of the best things for humankind in human history, rather than trying to throw that out for other structures that have not only failed, but actively consumed itself on multiple occasions, at the cost of millions of lives, seems a tad... shortsighted? Eh, perhaps I'm getting a bit too wordy about this. No system can serve every person. Some will inevitably slip through the cracks either because they were unlucky, some because they chose to be that way either by lifestyle or drug habit. And then some just never had a chance in the first place because their mind was not their own, through disease or injury making them incapable of controlling their own lives. Sad, but it sometimes does happen.
@ComotoseOnAnime Actually, what you are describing is what we call "late stage capitalism" or simply neoliberal capitalism. The merits you assign to a mythical, pure form of capitalism are assigning to it much more than what it is. Capitalism emerged as an improvement on the previous system, which was feudalism. You can define it with three simple characteristics. 1. Ownsership of capital, or the means of production, is held privately. Corporations are just an extension of private ownership, set up mainly to transfer liability from an individual to a board, which is still a legal person 2. Everything needed for life is produced privately, by the capitalist, and turned into a commodity to be bought and sold in markets for profit 3. Labor becomes a commodity, and one sells his/her labor as a commodity and is paid for that labor in the form of wages. The difference between what the worker is paid plus the manufacturing cost, and the price of the product, that difference is called the surplus and is taken by the capitalist and pocketed as profit. Not everyone in a capitalist system is a capitalist. Only someone who has capital to invest can make profits, and keep reinvesting those profits to build bigger factories and hire more workers to produce more goods, services and profits. Those are the basic elements of capitalism. Capitalists keep wages low by ensuring there is always a reserve army of labor, people kept destitute who can pick up the slack when times are booming and be fired when the business cycle contracts.The reserve army of labor in our society is usually coded by race or immigration status. These folks are sacrificed by the system so that those on top can keep their profits high. That's where homelessness comes Monopolies aren't unique to corporatism and corporatism is an integral part of capitalism. Under capitalism, all business leads to or tends toward monopoly. The goal of any capitalist, the pinnacle of success, is monopoly. It wasn't until after the gilded age that governments realized the need to impose regulations to curb the power of monopolies, which were called Trusts at the time. Trusts had amassed so much wealth that they could purchase the government and threaten democracy. So that's why we have an entire body of anti trust laws. Or at least we did. Historically, certain political parties favored anti trust enforcement while certain others have opposed it as stifling a free market. We are now living at the tail end of what has been a 40-year consensus to not enforce these regulations, that's what the Reagan revolution, also known as neoliberal economics, has been all about (privatization, deregulation, financialization and globalization), which brings us to the present So the late stage capitalism era we are living in is called neoliberalism or neoliberal capitalism. Liberal, in economics, refers simply to free markets, not to liberalism as FDR defined it in the New Deal. Anyway, hope this helps, because you were mixing up a lot of concepts above and contorting and parsing capitalism to mean one small subset of things that it really isn't while inventing categories of things that are basically just neoliberalism
@@lunadyana3330 "The merits you assign to a mythical, pure form of capitalism are assigning to it much more than what it is." I'm not talking about a pure form of capitalism. Pure capitalism is basically either laissez-faire or anarcho-capitalism (Or one of the more niche of the bottom/corner capitalisms, whose names I can't recall offhand), which will never really work because, as you said, Capitalism tends to snowball and requires anti-trust laws to keep that from shifting to a monopoly. That doesn't stop capitalism from being one of the best things to happen in human history, responsible for the markets that enabled the majority of advances we all experience to this day, including the one we're experiencing this on right now. "Not everyone in a capitalist system is a capitalist. Only someone who has capital to invest can make profits, and keep reinvesting those profits to build bigger factories and hire more workers to produce more goods, services and profits." The point I was making about capitalism is that, specifically about the lightly regulated kind, even if not everyone is a capitalist anyone *can* be one with the right skills, knowledge, and goods which are even more abundant and available now in the age of the internet and information. You don't have to "win" at capitalism to "succeed" with capitalism, so long as the market isn't stifled either by not enough regulation allowing corporations to stomp out competition by already having infrastructure like the railroads of old, or too much regulation which allows corporations to starve out competition by being big enough already to eat the losses whereas the competition can't (Or worse government bailouts preventing their failure, or preferential treatment as recent as covid, where big business were allowed to stay open while small businesses were left to crumble). The only ways you could feasibly combat that is to prevent that conglomeration in the first place (anti-trust) or legitimize the monopoly and regulate the hell out of it, like what happened with the US postal service, but that comes with a slew of it's own issues, like the current problem of replacing the horribly outdated vehicles that they drive, or being forced to go through an act of congress to change their prices and remain competitive with semi-adjacent services like Fedex or UPS. "Monopolies aren't unique to corporatism and corporatism is an integral part of capitalism. Under capitalism, all business leads to or tends toward monopoly. Monopolies are not unique to it, no. But they are also not required to function either like in a lot of other economic systems which generally require heavy centralization and/or authoritarianism (sometimes both) to ensure it runs correctly at large scales. Essentially in the worst case scenario you're juggling between monarchy and nobility, in whatever form that happens to take whether that be an actual king and his court, a land baron, or a CEO and board of directors. As for it being integral to it, I somewhat disagree, Saying that Corporatism is integral to Capitalism is like saying that Authoritarianism is integral to Communism due to the centralization needed to ensure redistribution of wealth (willingly or unwillingly) which leads/tends towards authoritarians taking power because it makes such things expedient/easy. Yes that can and often will happen but it requires there being no checks or balances. Unfettered anything is usually a bad thing because corruption is inherently easy and people are generally out for them and theirs. I still prefer a democratic republic capitalist society, where changes can be made through legislation and political action, whereas more authoritarian leaning economic systems you tend to only break away from those systems violently, either through dissolution of the state or open warfare. "Anyway, hope this helps, because you were mixing up a lot of concepts above and contorting and parsing capitalism to mean one small subset of things that it really isn't while inventing categories of things that are basically just neoliberalism" I was presenting general capitalism, which among other things among it's tenants is a competitive market. Without a competitive market you get Corporatism or it might be Corporatocracy, those get used often enough interchangeably I can't recall offhand the differences between the two. On the other side, with a completely free and unregulated market you get laissez-faire or anarcho-capitalism, I was specifically advocating for a more moderate example. I've heard it called Open Market rather than Free Market capitalism, I suppose that is what I view as the ideal of capitalism, with just enough regulation and enforcement of that regulation that allows for competitive markets, without putting unreasonable stress on newcomer businesses trying to break into the market. For example, Liquid death. A water-in-a-can company that broke into the beverage market where Coke and Pepsi are basically a Duopoly and are (pardon the pun) killing it, entirely via exceptional marketing and engaging with their consumers.
Couple members were in a group called mother love bone .they were the first band signed out of Seattle. Andrew wood the lead singer dies of an overdose. They grab eddie from cali and form pearl jam. Alice in chains does a sound called wood in his honor, it is a banger
Temple of the dog also does a great tribute to Andrew Wood with say hello to heaven with Chris Cornell lead singing, Chris Cornell was Andrew Woods roommate. Eddie Vedder was also in that band. The grunge community was very talented.
I was not a big PJ fan but this has been my choice for the video that best represents the grunge era for decades. When my grandkids want to know what grunge was, this is what I'll show them. Love everything about it ❤
Everyone is recommending old 90s Pearl Jam (quite rightly too) but they have had some awesome songs from recent times too, probably Sirens being a stand out and more mellow and melodic. The band is still going strong today
Oh how I love these boys! I have seen them so many times and one of my faves was Red Rocks! This album changed my life! There are some amazing songs from them Black, Jeremy, Alive... Eddie is amazing!
They are still a force of nature live. Not quite as angry-energetic but they give it their EVERYTHING. My first show of theirs was 3 hours, 2nd was a little over 2 hours but that's because it was a festival set instead of a stand-alone show. I am CRUSHED that I'm missing this year's tour....
Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog. It's most of this band and half of Soundgarden. Listening to this singer (Eddie Vedder) and Soundgarden's singer (Chris Cornell) sing harmonies together is nuts!!!
I’m 56. Graduated from the University of Oregon in 1990. That was soon after the beginning of the grunge scene that started in Seattle. At that point, Sound Garden had been around the longest and was the most professional. Then came Nirvana and Alice In Chains. Pearl Jam came along a few years later, but felt fully formed. I saw all these bands in bars, playing parties and later in large venues. My favorite is still Alice In Chains. Try “Angry Chair.” Don’t think it’ll make your playlist, but it defines a Pacific Northwest sound. The Grunge scene was essentially the antidote to the Hair Bands of Los Angeles. There are a number of other important bands that influenced one another back then, but never made it to national fame. My favs were: Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, and Sleater-Kinney.
It was overseas, at the Roskilde concert tragedy. Eddie was devastated about it. He talked about it with Lily Cornell (Chris Cornell's daughter) talking about how they'd just found out she was born right before the band went on stage. He isn't from Seattle, but California .... Hunger Strike with Chris Cornell (Temple Of The Dog) was the first time he really recorded something in a studio.
Pearl Jam wrote a song called Love Boat Captain about their experience and feelings when their fans were crushed and died at that festival in Denmark. The experience was almost more than the band could handle and almost broke up because of it. You should react to that song. Love Boat Captain is all about love.
There's a video compilation of Eddie climbing stuff at concerts in their early days. It's 20 minutes long, and even though I know how they all turn out...Eddie's still with us...I still get anxious watching.
"Other influences that Vedder has cited include Pete Townshend and The Who, which the singer considers to be his favorite band of all time, The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Fugazi." Wikipedia
The event u were talking about was the Roskilde festival in Denmark where Pearl Jam was playing in June 2000 w/ various bands like Oasis, Iron Maiden, etc ... Tragedy struck during their set when the 100K+ crowd became chaotic and crushed 9 concertgoers to death and injured 26... The deaths had a profound effect on Pearl Jam's members - they were notoriously private and it was an incident that held heavily against them and they never forgot the lives that had been lost... Pearl Jam was not the only band that experienced death at their concerts... In 1979, The Who were informed that poor crowd control outside a Cincinnati venue in which they were playing in resulted in fatalities... Guns N' Roses were one of the bands on the 1988 Monsters of Rock festival in Donington, UK and a few fans died during the set in the crowd surge ... AC/DC were informed that 3 fans were killed on the concert floor at their show in Salt Lake City in 1991when the crowd surged forward... Metallica were shocked at the escalation of the brutality when they played their first concert in Russia to 1 million fans at a free concert - people were beaten to death... rapes had been reported... Since then, festivals have had limited attendance and ticket sales to festival shows to avoid fatalities that result from oversized crowd w/ poor security and crowd control.
Eddie Vedder is one of my favorite rock voices! Yes - as others have said, must do’s are the MTV Unplugged version of ‘Black’ and the official unedited video of ‘Jeremy’.
Pearl Jam definitely part of the grunge era. So freakin good! Thankfully, he hasn’t ended up like so many of the other lead vocalists of that time who passed way to young.
Pearl Jam is such an amazing band! I grew up with their music and all the other bands in the grunge era. You might be thinking about the term “Ebb and Flow”
You’re probably thinking of “ebb and flow”, which is about recurrent or rhythmic patterns of coming and going, or decline and regrowth. Like the rising or falling tides. “Even flow” is about the constant and steady flow of something, like water in pipes. It could also refer to be in a “flow state”, like when an athlete is in the zone. Things just happen naturally
Just dawned on me that you would enjoy Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog. Temple of the Dog is a band/project collab between Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. So you get both Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder singing vocals on the same song. Really amazing performance and a song with a powerful message.
I saw them twice back in the day, once at Lollapalooza and once with Neil Young. The crowd was never violent. The media dubbed it "grunge," but that was just what we looked like if you were in your teens or 20s in the Pacific Northwest, where most of these bands were from.
One of my Fav Songs ever!!!!.... I miss the 90´s Grunge and Musics Period.... like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, R.A.T.M., Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden etc... a time when People said what they thought and how they thought about it.... Nowadays everything is softened and the music industry tells us what to do... that makes me sick!
Yes, Pearl Jam was one of the pioneering Grunge bands. The whole scene reoriented commercial 80s rock and glam bands. It was about expressing emotion rather than a more perfect vocal sound, which was quite different at the time. They "grunged" it up and paved the road for both alternative rock and hybrid bands that were able to mix up genres (like Linkin' Park). I highly recommend the official music video for "Jeremy," which is no longer censored as it was in the 90s. It's in part about a real boy who was bullied until he shot himself in front of his class. Mind you, this was years before Columbine. Then I'd recommend pretty much anything from their MTV Unplugged, but especially "Black" and "Alive." Feel free to peep the lyrics. Pearl Jam is still touring, and are awesome live.
This was Pearl Jam in 1991 after releasing their debut album 'Ten'... it sold poorly initially... but after Seattle rockers Nirvana broke big in late '91, the focus fell on breaking the next rock band from Seattle... which happened to be Pearl Jam. Their sound became linked to the 90's 'grunge rock' scene and 'Ten' would go on to sell 13 million copies to date in the US alone and was a huge worldwide hit by 1992... especially after the dark & powerful music video for Pearl Jam's single 'Jeremy' ... became a hit on MTV. Pearl Jam were formed in 1991 after Stone Gossard (guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass) were hit by tragedy when their Seattle rock band Mother Love Bone lost their singer Andrew Wood to a he+++n OD in 1990 after recording their debut album... Mike McCready (guitar) joined w/ Dave Krusen (drums)... Finally, Eddie Vedder (vocals) joined and Pearl Jam was born... The new band recorded the album 'Ten' in 1991 and also recorded a tribute album to the late Andrew Wood w/ Soundgarden singer/ guitarist Chris Cornell - it was released in '91 as the album 'Temple of the Dog'... and it also became a platinum success by 1992 w/ the MTV single 'Hunger strike'... Dave Krusen (drums) recorded 'Ten' but was replaced by drummer Dave Abbruzzese for the tour. With Pearl Jam riding high in 1992, the band was unexpectedly overwhelmed by their massive success and surprised everyone by retreating from public view and refusing to appear on MTV or make music videos in 1993 and beyond... They felt that the album 'Ten' was too radio-friendly and wanted a hard rock album 'Versus' that was released in 1993. It went to #1 on the charts & sold 7x platinum in the US without any MTV exposure... They wanted their music to be heard and used radio airplay to promote themselves. Pearl Jam released 3rd album 'Vitalogy' in 1994 and it went to #1 and sold 5x platinum... Jack Irons (drums) replaced Dave Abbruzzese... However, the Seattle scene was hit hard by the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain that year... Pearl Jam wandered into more psychedelic music on their 1996 album 'No Code'... it went to #1 but only sold platinum... They released another hard rock album 'Yield' in 1998 as Matt Cameron (drums) joined the band from Soundgarden... their 2000 album 'Binaural' was a platinum hit but rather hazy sonically... Pearl Jam has continued to record and tour globally in the 2000's and their latest album is due out in 2024... However, Pearl Jam in concert today is nowhere as energetic as their 90's performances in the heyday of grunge rock... More Pearl Jam songs - 'Alive' ... 'Animal' ... 'Immortality' ... 'Daughter' ... 'Black' ... 'Better man' ... 'Given to fly'... 'Red mosquito'... 🔥🔥🤘🤘
I saw this song live Oct 1991 front row center when Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Ames, Iowa. Been a massive fan since then!!
You need to listen to them perform one of my all time favorites - “Porch” - the unplugged version. It’s one of the most intense unplugged songs of all time
Love Pearl Jam!! I was at a comedy club one night & the guy started talking about Pearl Jam! He's like y'all know that last song before you could no longer understand what they were saying!! 🤣🤣🤣 I laughed so hard! Because it was kinda like that! 😎
Welcome to the Pearl Jam family. The most wonderful community of music fans I have ever met. Welcome with open arms. Regarding the phenomenal Pearl Jam, I just want to say Eddie is the best songwriter of our time. Their songs are 4-minute emotional roller coasters. Eddie is the best lyricist, song writer. Great reaction video. Really enjoyed it. And for those who dont know, this song is about homelessness and a homeless person Eddie befriended. Look up some articles, its a touching story.
You might be thinking of the term "ebb and flow," but he is saying "eeven flow" here. Thanks for the reaction! As others have said, check out their MTV Unplugged versions of Black and others. Also, Temple of the Dog is an amazing band. Chris Cornell with lots of PJ band members, including Eddie on Hunger Strike, and Eddie doing backup vocals a little here and there for other songs. Read up on Temple of the Dog, too. It's such a great album/band. Thanks again for the reaction!
FYI this is my favorite band of all time. Jeremy, black (unplugged), alive, daughter, rearviewmirror, courdaroy, elderly woman behind the counter in a small town
13:30 Eddie Vedder is just a natural athlete....and a surfer. He also played basketball for fun. Fun fact: During his epic stage diving days, the next morning after some shows he would wake up and wonder why is my back feeling weird and kind of burning. The crowd left scratches up and down his back.
A younger son went to metal concerts with mosh pits. I freaked. It seemed to me that the time of Pearl Jam's determined belief in the crowds to support them was well in the past. After all, the care of the mentally ill and people/children on the edge wasn't a priority. People's willingness to catch each other was at, my perceived, low ebb. The son said I should have seen it. Stupid crazy boys and girls bouncing off each other with joy, and a circle of protectors surrounding them. He said a dude tried to break into the pit, obviously with bad intent. Protectors escorted him out. Son stood in until the brawn returned. So many brave artists and their fans out there.
I love Eddie vedder n pearl jam!! Im excited to see you check them out. They got alot of great songs. And yes I would class them as grunge. The mtv live performance is mesmerising ✌️🖤
I'll repeat what others have said because this one is something else, MTV unplugged "Black" is just a must! Powerful, otherworldly, touching, just crazy.
You're thinking about "Ebb and Flow". This song is about the life of a homeless person that he met outside the studio in Seattle while they were recording their first album. He used to buy him a sandwich everyday and then one day the guy was gone. Then he wrote these lyrics to it. Watch the official uncensored video for their song Jeremy. You'll never forget it.
This is the band that boycot ticket master with their fees and streaming music, back in the 90s. Definitely check out the MTV unplugged for them, along with Alice In Chains, Nirvana & Tesla all iconic performances! Yes this would be grunge. One of the first & top grunge artists.
So many fond memories to the goo ol grunge times. End of 80s early 90s. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice and Chains. God that was amazing music.
I highly recommend their MTV unplugged version of Black. It's not energetic like this was, but it's also not that type of song. It's extremely powerful and highlights Eddy Vedder's (singer) voice. He actually had a cold for that performance which makes it that much more impressive. Those of you that know what I am talking about please hit the thumbs up for this comment. Also, I hope this means you are going down a 90s sort of road. So much good music from the time period before everything became over produced. Good job, and keep up the good work.
1000 times YES!
Yes!!! MTV Unplugged Pearl Jam - Black !!!
I 100% guarantee you will be blown away!!
Lol I recommended this on his nothing compares to you reaction as well!!!!
Yes, my favorite Pearl Jam performance. Eddie's voice and passionate delivery are simply amazing.
One of my all time absolute favs!!
I was at the concert you alluded to at the end. It happened in Denmark in 2000 at my first ever festival at age 16. Nine people died and I helped carrying one of them out of the place. The concert was interrupted 4-5 times by security to try to get the 65,000 of us to take a few steps back to relieve the pressure up front. And eventually it was called off. I also remember watching frontman Eddie Vedder sitting out over the edge of the stage crying his eyeballs out. Because from up on stage he had had a first row seat to what was happening to the fans up front.
The band since invited the loved ones of those who died to come and talk about it. A kind of cathartic exercise for all of them. Almost all of the families accepted, and it eventually developed into a book released years later.
As for myself, it had been a traumatic experience, but two years ago I was able to see the band again and together put it behind us because I finally - 22 years later - got to finish my Pearl Jam concert the way it ought to finish.
I was there, scouting for a spot to watch "the cure", they got canceled. What a grim night.
@@5skov It was. I could fill a book of my own about stories from that festival. Including just to get a hold of my parents. This was just before cellphones was a real thing, so the festival actually had phonebooths! Long story short: I kept going to the festival for the entire rest of the decade. Then branched out to Germany and nowadays to smaller parts of Denmark. But even though it was my first ever festival it hooked me for life.
Thank you for sharing that emotional story, I'm sure it wasn't easy 😢. Hugs 🫶
@@ErinsEnergy313 Hugs right back atcha, Erin!
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This is 90s grunge. One of the best grunge- r’s!
Eddie said he met a homeless vet outside his studio in his younger years, and everyday he bought sandwiches for them both until he disappeared and Eddie said he thought he lost him but in fact he found him living under a viaduct, he later died breaking Eddie's heart 😢
Confirmed, he talked about this at the first Seattle Home Show in 2018
That is so sad. How nice of Eddie to buy the guy a sandwich everyday.
Every song on this album is fantastic. 'Jeremy' is an absolute must - make sure to watch the official music video.
As much as you seem to like Chris Cornell.. now that you’ve checked out Pearl Jam.. you HAVE to do a Temple of the Dog. That’s Eddy and Chris singing together
Absolutely one of my favorite songs
Hunger strike
Mad season is another one
most necessary!!!
Call Me a Dog
As others said, Black from MTV unplugged is great, but also check out Better Man live from Madison Square Garden (the one that is 12 years old). The crowd interaction is fantastic!
Glad to see someone with kind words for this classic - I feel like most times I’ve heard it discussed, people call it annoying or preachy, but I always loved it.
4 big grunge bands Nirvana, Sound Garden, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam. Though Temple of the Dog's Hunger Strike with Vedder and Cornell is an amazing song.
I add Stone Temple Pilots as the Big 5 of grunge.
YES!!!!!! 100%%%
STP def belongs 💯
Dinosaur Jr. is an underappreciated band that may qualify as grunge. Hits all the key grunge notes: Droning sound along with some harsher beats, very sarcastic tone, ultimately optimistic despite all the rolled eyes implied in the notes and lyrics.
Don't forget Mother Love Bone and the band Vedder said heavily influenced him Kings X.
Yes it is Grunge. Pearl Jam formed in 1991 and they are still together and are set to release a new album. They have sold over 85 million albums and are one of the most successful band in the world. This video is from around 1991. Eddie Vedder is the lead singer and they are involved in a lot of social and environmental causes and their music is very political as well. Do yourself a favor and explore their massive catalog of songs, you won't regret it.
Formed in 1990*
Eddie Vedder has one of the greatest rock voices of all time. Be sure to check out Black, Alive, Better Man (basically all of Ten, their first album). Then check out The Counting Crows, not rockers like Pearl Jam, but great song writing and vocals from the same period. Mr Jones, Round Here, Long December, to name a few.
Black a must
Great suggestions.
I love the Counting Crows! Seen them in concert a few times in San Francisco small clubs
I am beyond excited for you to be reacting to Pearl Jam, absolutely love this band and "Even Flow" is one of my favourites from their debut album "Ten". There are so many iconic songs from this album "Black", "Jeremy" and "Alive" to name a few!
This song was written by Vedder about a homeless ex veteran man, also named Eddie who he met when working as a security guard in a warehouse just before Vedder joined Pearl Jam, sadly the homeless guy passed away without knowing he was the source of inspiration behind this song.
Thanks BP great reaction, I really hope you continue exploring more from Pearl Jam and their timeless classics.
YES Joanne!!
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Are you thinking of ebb and flow? That's a term having to do with tides and cycles. Also Pearl Jam did a concert in Denmark in 2000 where nine people were crushed by the crowd. It really affected the band.
He absolutely means ebb and flow.
I guess it would be an easy mistake if you've never seen it written or had it explained to you.
For those that don't know, ebbing is when the tide is going out and flowing is when the tide is coming in.
Not much of either happening in Colorado..
@@srdgrantIsn't Ebbing in Nilfgaard?😉
@@shanegooding4839 only if it has a capital E. 🤓
At first I thought he just didn't know the word "even," but later as he described what he thought it meant, he was definitely thinking of "ebb and flow."
Also another meaning is back and forth
Great job! You've finally hit Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam. Thank you, thank you! It's grunge and there's a mosh pit happening.
Eddie was homeless before Pearl Jam and he still keeps it real. He was good friends with Chris Cornell (check out hunger strike with Temple of the Dog and Pearl Jam) and Chester Bennington (Linkin Park).
Pearl jam was inducted in the R&R Hall of game in 2017. Yes, they are in my top 5 all time favorites.
Check out 'Jeremy' and 'Black' by Pearl Jam. I think those will hit you.
Black is a must
Eddie Vedder wasn't homeless, never! People should think before write a comment, and not put stupid things here. As Eddie said many times, there was a man who inspired the song: "...At a subsequent show in Seattle on August 8, 2018, Vedder revealed that the song was inspired by a homeless Vietnam War veteran (also named Eddie)..."
I dont remember Chester Bennington being part of The Temple of Dog.
Pearl Jam performed on 30 June 2000 at Roskilde Festival's main stage, the Orange Stage. Here, pressure among the audience meant that several were trambled, and suffocated or could not get air. A total of nine people in the audience lost their lives. Perhaps that is what you remember?
Even flow was the name of a needle manufacturer like shooting up. You know... Song is about a homeless heroin addict with little hope
Oooohhh!!! Are we sliding into the 90s? 😏 Hell ya! Music from the 90s is just special!! I mostly just listened to the Alternative Rock/Grunge, but this decade is the only decade that I will listen to anything close to pop music! It doesn't get much better than Eddie Vetter, tho! Pearl Jam has so many good songs!! One of my favorite songs from the 90s is Runaway Train by Soul Asylum!!
The 90s. had some excellent bands and music. A great decade for music. However, I find the 70s thru the 90s to be one of the best. The most creative, the most involved and the best of actual musicians and singers. Amazing music
Porch live @ Pinkpop👌🏼❤️
Yessssssss!!!!!!!
Absolutely!
Wild, yes
I saw Pearl Jam in Austin TX, in Sept. of 1995 with the Ramones. One of the best concerts ever. Eddie Vedder (the singer) stopped the concert when someone in the mosh pit fell and was having trouble getting up, made sure she got helped up and out of the pit before continuing the song. That band loved its fans and did everything they could to make sure we got our money's worth and were taken care of. The concert was outside and it was super hot and they were charging like 2 bucks for bottled water - they again stopped the concert and made the venue spray us down with water and give out free water from hoses. I have the utmost respect for Pearl Jam.
I was there! Lost a pricey pair of Ray-bans in the mosh pit. It was nuts! PJ is ALWAYS on point. And The Ramones killed it!
I still can't believe the Ramones played their whole set in full leathers in that heat.....
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I saw them in New Orleans for that tour
Definition from google. "Definition of Even Flow" - Evening flow: A term used to describe the night when homeless people try to find a place to sleep. It can also refer to the mental state of a homeless person with mental illness.
Pearl Jam was from Seattle and was definitely a part of the "grunge" scene. Now you can watch Temple of The Dog, and see Chris Cornell sing with all the musicians from Pearl Jam. :)
I was fortunate enough for Eddy to step on our blanket in ATL on his way to the back wall of the amphitheater. Where he climbed said wall, turned around and fell back into the crowd. His feet NEVER touched the ground until he was carried all the way back to the stage. Fucking nuts 😂😮😊
IMO, greatest American rock band in the last 30 years (I'm not American) .. I love Pearl Jam, they have been the sound track to my life .. also this video, they were very young ;)😂 ... oh new album coming out... buy it
Eddie Vetter is an awesome rock singer🔥💪🎵
Even Flow means a state of mind that is pure, Zen-like and free from external influences, as in the song "Even Flow" by Pearl Jam. The song is about a homeless man who achieves this state of mind despite his hardships. Pearl Jam was doing some recordings in an abandoned warehouse in Seattle and there was a homeless veteran living there. Eddie would often share his lunch sandwich with the homeless and have several conversation with the vet. Pearl Jam later went out on tour and when they returned to Seattle, the homeless vet was no longer there and Eddie has never seen him since.
I'm 44, and I absolutely love them. Saw them on MTV unplugged when I was 13, and thats it I was hooked. Eddie has the greatest voice.
Ditto!!!
Same I feel old. This was everything 🙌
I was at this show. I went not knowing who they were. After the show I said "These guys are going to be huge" . It was the most amazing concert I have ever been too. I could not believe he climbed the wall and jumped off. I carried him back to the stage. ABSOLUTELY INSANITY! I believe you are thinking Ebb and Flow.
Where was this show?
@@carlastanley1138 1/17/92 Moore Theater in Seattle. I was at this show as well and down front when Eddie falls into the crowd off the wall. My sister is in the video but I'm in the middle of the crowd catching him. Gruntruck was the opening band.
You nailed it so perfectly on what the song was about. Eddie Vedder (the singer) wrote this song about a homeless Vietnam veteran he met while working on their music. He wrote it after he found out the man died while they were on tour.
I would add it is a critique of capitalism. Or, at the very least a criticism of the economic idea that "a rising tide (necessarily) lifts ALL boats."
@@brettholcomb3763 It would be a more accurate criticism if it tackled corporatism since that's what what people think modern Capitalism is. Capitalism as presented, a free market, would lift just about every boat that it could since it gives power to people to succeed or fail on their own merits. Corporatism isn't a free market, it's a market that's been reduced down to (usually) duopolies or triopolies, basically cartels that stay out of each other's way, forcing reduced choice on people. That is not capitalism, that is the exact opposite of capitalism, where the guardrails were either circumvented or removed by political interest and corruption.
The same could be said for other economic systems such as say Communism where the idealized version would theoretically be idyllic but falls far short due to easy paths for corruption and self interest. Though I've heard it put rather succinctly that at least Capitalism has never had to put up walls to keep their populations inside their borders, whereas Communism, fascism, monarchy, etc. all have to one degree or another. Perhaps we just haven't reached that point yet, or perhaps something like company towns of old would be the closest equivalent.
Both systems are flawed, I however view capitalism as less flawed in this example as it puts the onus on self reliance and self uplift rather than being forced to live on handouts which might one day be denied without recourse or alternative options if the powers that be do not like how you live or what you have to say. That's little better than being a pet or beast of burden, to be worked and taken out behind the woodshed at someone else's leisure when you no longer serve their purposes. At least here, now, there are options. That might change in the future, if it ever goes the way of cyberpunk dystopia where corporations are likened to governments, where technology binds just as tightly as any chains but until then, I think that working to make better what has been one of the best things for humankind in human history, rather than trying to throw that out for other structures that have not only failed, but actively consumed itself on multiple occasions, at the cost of millions of lives, seems a tad... shortsighted?
Eh, perhaps I'm getting a bit too wordy about this. No system can serve every person. Some will inevitably slip through the cracks either because they were unlucky, some because they chose to be that way either by lifestyle or drug habit. And then some just never had a chance in the first place because their mind was not their own, through disease or injury making them incapable of controlling their own lives. Sad, but it sometimes does happen.
@ComotoseOnAnime Actually, what you are describing is what we call "late stage capitalism" or simply neoliberal capitalism.
The merits you assign to a mythical, pure form of capitalism are assigning to it much more than what it is. Capitalism emerged as an improvement on the previous system, which was feudalism. You can define it with three simple characteristics.
1. Ownsership of capital, or the means of production, is held privately. Corporations are just an extension of private ownership, set up mainly to transfer liability from an individual to a board, which is still a legal person
2. Everything needed for life is produced privately, by the capitalist, and turned into a commodity to be bought and sold in markets for profit
3. Labor becomes a commodity, and one sells his/her labor as a commodity and is paid for that labor in the form of wages. The difference between what the worker is paid plus the manufacturing cost, and the price of the product, that difference is called the surplus and is taken by the capitalist and pocketed as profit.
Not everyone in a capitalist system is a capitalist. Only someone who has capital to invest can make profits, and keep reinvesting those profits to build bigger factories and hire more workers to produce more goods, services and profits.
Those are the basic elements of capitalism. Capitalists keep wages low by ensuring there is always a reserve army of labor, people kept destitute who can pick up the slack when times are booming and be fired when the business cycle contracts.The reserve army of labor in our society is usually coded by race or immigration status. These folks are sacrificed by the system so that those on top can keep their profits high. That's where homelessness comes
Monopolies aren't unique to corporatism and corporatism is an integral part of capitalism. Under capitalism, all business leads to or tends toward monopoly. The goal of any capitalist, the pinnacle of success, is monopoly. It wasn't until after the gilded age that governments realized the need to impose regulations to curb the power of monopolies, which were called Trusts at the time. Trusts had amassed so much wealth that they could purchase the government and threaten democracy. So that's why we have an entire body of anti trust laws.
Or at least we did. Historically, certain political parties favored anti trust enforcement while certain others have opposed it as stifling a free market. We are now living at the tail end of what has been a 40-year consensus to not enforce these regulations, that's what the Reagan revolution, also known as neoliberal economics, has been all about (privatization, deregulation, financialization and globalization), which brings us to the present
So the late stage capitalism era we are living in is called neoliberalism or neoliberal capitalism. Liberal, in economics, refers simply to free markets, not to liberalism as FDR defined it in the New Deal. Anyway, hope this helps, because you were mixing up a lot of concepts above and contorting and parsing capitalism to mean one small subset of things that it really isn't while inventing categories of things that are basically just neoliberalism
@@lunadyana3330 "The merits you assign to a mythical, pure form of capitalism are assigning to it much more than what it is."
I'm not talking about a pure form of capitalism. Pure capitalism is basically either laissez-faire or anarcho-capitalism (Or one of the more niche of the bottom/corner capitalisms, whose names I can't recall offhand), which will never really work because, as you said, Capitalism tends to snowball and requires anti-trust laws to keep that from shifting to a monopoly. That doesn't stop capitalism from being one of the best things to happen in human history, responsible for the markets that enabled the majority of advances we all experience to this day, including the one we're experiencing this on right now.
"Not everyone in a capitalist system is a capitalist. Only someone who has capital to invest can make profits, and keep reinvesting those profits to build bigger factories and hire more workers to produce more goods, services and profits."
The point I was making about capitalism is that, specifically about the lightly regulated kind, even if not everyone is a capitalist anyone *can* be one with the right skills, knowledge, and goods which are even more abundant and available now in the age of the internet and information. You don't have to "win" at capitalism to "succeed" with capitalism, so long as the market isn't stifled either by not enough regulation allowing corporations to stomp out competition by already having infrastructure like the railroads of old, or too much regulation which allows corporations to starve out competition by being big enough already to eat the losses whereas the competition can't (Or worse government bailouts preventing their failure, or preferential treatment as recent as covid, where big business were allowed to stay open while small businesses were left to crumble). The only ways you could feasibly combat that is to prevent that conglomeration in the first place (anti-trust) or legitimize the monopoly and regulate the hell out of it, like what happened with the US postal service, but that comes with a slew of it's own issues, like the current problem of replacing the horribly outdated vehicles that they drive, or being forced to go through an act of congress to change their prices and remain competitive with semi-adjacent services like Fedex or UPS.
"Monopolies aren't unique to corporatism and corporatism is an integral part of capitalism. Under capitalism, all business leads to or tends toward monopoly.
Monopolies are not unique to it, no. But they are also not required to function either like in a lot of other economic systems which generally require heavy centralization and/or authoritarianism (sometimes both) to ensure it runs correctly at large scales. Essentially in the worst case scenario you're juggling between monarchy and nobility, in whatever form that happens to take whether that be an actual king and his court, a land baron, or a CEO and board of directors. As for it being integral to it, I somewhat disagree, Saying that Corporatism is integral to Capitalism is like saying that Authoritarianism is integral to Communism due to the centralization needed to ensure redistribution of wealth (willingly or unwillingly) which leads/tends towards authoritarians taking power because it makes such things expedient/easy. Yes that can and often will happen but it requires there being no checks or balances. Unfettered anything is usually a bad thing because corruption is inherently easy and people are generally out for them and theirs.
I still prefer a democratic republic capitalist society, where changes can be made through legislation and political action, whereas more authoritarian leaning economic systems you tend to only break away from those systems violently, either through dissolution of the state or open warfare.
"Anyway, hope this helps, because you were mixing up a lot of concepts above and contorting and parsing capitalism to mean one small subset of things that it really isn't while inventing categories of things that are basically just neoliberalism"
I was presenting general capitalism, which among other things among it's tenants is a competitive market. Without a competitive market you get Corporatism or it might be Corporatocracy, those get used often enough interchangeably I can't recall offhand the differences between the two. On the other side, with a completely free and unregulated market you get laissez-faire or anarcho-capitalism, I was specifically advocating for a more moderate example. I've heard it called Open Market rather than Free Market capitalism, I suppose that is what I view as the ideal of capitalism, with just enough regulation and enforcement of that regulation that allows for competitive markets, without putting unreasonable stress on newcomer businesses trying to break into the market.
For example, Liquid death. A water-in-a-can company that broke into the beverage market where Coke and Pepsi are basically a Duopoly and are (pardon the pun) killing it, entirely via exceptional marketing and engaging with their consumers.
Couple members were in a group called mother love bone .they were the first band signed out of Seattle. Andrew wood the lead singer dies of an overdose. They grab eddie from cali and form pearl jam. Alice in chains does a sound called wood in his honor, it is a banger
Temple of the dog also does a great tribute to Andrew Wood with say hello to heaven with Chris Cornell lead singing, Chris Cornell was Andrew Woods roommate. Eddie Vedder was also in that band. The grunge community was very talented.
I’d say queensryche and Hendrix were signed out of Seattle first
I was not a big PJ fan but this has been my choice for the video that best represents the grunge era for decades. When my grandkids want to know what grunge was, this is what I'll show them. Love everything about it ❤
Yes please react to BLACK the MTV unplugged one!
Everyone is recommending old 90s Pearl Jam (quite rightly too) but they have had some awesome songs from recent times too, probably Sirens being a stand out and more mellow and melodic. The band is still going strong today
Oh how I love these boys! I have seen them so many times and one of my faves was Red Rocks! This album changed my life! There are some amazing songs from them Black, Jeremy, Alive... Eddie is amazing!
So excited to see Pearl Jam later on in the year.
Me too!
Listen to how he's pronouncing Even in the song.
They are still a force of nature live. Not quite as angry-energetic but they give it their EVERYTHING. My first show of theirs was 3 hours, 2nd was a little over 2 hours but that's because it was a festival set instead of a stand-alone show. I am CRUSHED that I'm missing this year's tour....
Omg eddies voice is indescribably beautiful. You always know it’s him. ❤️
Imo Eddie V ad Chris Cornell are my top 2 rockers
The name Pearl jam comes from a band members grannies hallucinogenic jelly. Her name was Pearl.
Eddie vedders great grandma's hallucinogenic jelly*
Temple of the Dog!! Eddie and Chris together. It is magical!
Another dive would be Supertramp… “take the long way home” or the “Logical Song”
Supertramp is a good shout!!
Appreciate the content BP ✌️
Yes Black MTV unplugged…..an amazing vocal and emotional performance
Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog. It's most of this band and half of Soundgarden. Listening to this singer (Eddie Vedder) and Soundgarden's singer (Chris Cornell) sing harmonies together is nuts!!!
I’m 56. Graduated from the University of Oregon in 1990. That was soon after the beginning of the grunge scene that started in Seattle. At that point, Sound Garden had been around the longest and was the most professional. Then came Nirvana and Alice In Chains. Pearl Jam came along a few years later, but felt fully formed. I saw all these bands in bars, playing parties and later in large venues. My favorite is still Alice In Chains. Try “Angry Chair.” Don’t think it’ll make your playlist, but it defines a Pacific Northwest sound. The Grunge scene was essentially the antidote to the Hair Bands of Los Angeles. There are a number of other important bands that influenced one another back then, but never made it to national fame. My favs were: Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, and Sleater-Kinney.
It was overseas, at the Roskilde concert tragedy. Eddie was devastated about it. He talked about it with Lily Cornell (Chris Cornell's daughter) talking about how they'd just found out she was born right before the band went on stage.
He isn't from Seattle, but California .... Hunger Strike with Chris Cornell (Temple Of The Dog) was the first time he really recorded something in a studio.
Pearl Jam wrote a song called Love Boat Captain about their experience and feelings when their fans were crushed and died at that festival in Denmark. The experience was almost more than the band could handle and almost broke up because of it. You should react to that song. Love Boat Captain is all about love.
even measurement or rate: An even flow is a measurement or rate that remains at a similar level.
There's a video compilation of Eddie climbing stuff at concerts in their early days. It's 20 minutes long, and even though I know how they all turn out...Eddie's still with us...I still get anxious watching.
Pearl Jam, MTV Unplugged: State of Love and Trust - The whole concert really. Next level.
"Other influences that Vedder has cited include Pete Townshend and The Who, which the singer considers to be his favorite band of all time, The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Fugazi." Wikipedia
The 90's were built different
The event u were talking about was the Roskilde festival in Denmark where Pearl Jam was playing in June 2000 w/ various bands like Oasis, Iron Maiden, etc ... Tragedy struck during their set when the 100K+ crowd became chaotic and crushed 9 concertgoers to death and injured 26... The deaths had a profound effect on Pearl Jam's members - they were notoriously private and it was an incident that held heavily against them and they never forgot the lives that had been lost...
Pearl Jam was not the only band that experienced death at their concerts... In 1979, The Who were informed that poor crowd control outside a Cincinnati venue in which they were playing in resulted in fatalities... Guns N' Roses were one of the bands on the 1988 Monsters of Rock festival in Donington, UK and a few fans died during the set in the crowd surge ... AC/DC were informed that 3 fans were killed on the concert floor at their show in Salt Lake City in 1991when the crowd surged forward...
Metallica were shocked at the escalation of the brutality when they played their first concert in Russia to 1 million fans at a free concert - people were beaten to death... rapes had been reported...
Since then, festivals have had limited attendance and ticket sales to festival shows to avoid fatalities that result from oversized crowd w/ poor security and crowd control.
Saw them for free in 1992. Day on the Hill at the University of Kansas. Unbelievable experience. Pearl Jam was just getting popular.
Eddie Vedder is one of my favorite rock voices! Yes - as others have said, must do’s are the MTV Unplugged version of ‘Black’ and the official unedited video of ‘Jeremy’.
Pearl Jam definitely part of the grunge era. So freakin good! Thankfully, he hasn’t ended up like so many of the other lead vocalists of that time who passed way to young.
Pearl Jam is such an amazing band! I grew up with their music and all the other bands in the grunge era. You might be thinking about the term “Ebb and Flow”
You’re probably thinking of “ebb and flow”, which is about recurrent or rhythmic patterns of coming and going, or decline and regrowth. Like the rising or falling tides.
“Even flow” is about the constant and steady flow of something, like water in pipes. It could also refer to be in a “flow state”, like when an athlete is in the zone. Things just happen naturally
React to a Pearl Jam Porch-Live at Pink Pop....wild scene.
That's where it's at. I have a bootleg DVD of that set. Get the popcorn.
My favorite grunge band. "Betterman" live at Madison Sq is awesome. Thank you for this.
Just dawned on me that you would enjoy Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog. Temple of the Dog is a band/project collab between Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. So you get both Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder singing vocals on the same song. Really amazing performance and a song with a powerful message.
I saw them twice back in the day, once at Lollapalooza and once with Neil Young. The crowd was never violent. The media dubbed it "grunge," but that was just what we looked like if you were in your teens or 20s in the Pacific Northwest, where most of these bands were from.
One of my Fav Songs ever!!!!.... I miss the 90´s Grunge and Musics Period.... like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, R.A.T.M., Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden etc... a time when People said what they thought and how they thought about it.... Nowadays everything is softened and the music industry tells us what to do... that makes me sick!
Yes, Pearl Jam was one of the pioneering Grunge bands. The whole scene reoriented commercial 80s rock and glam bands. It was about expressing emotion rather than a more perfect vocal sound, which was quite different at the time. They "grunged" it up and paved the road for both alternative rock and hybrid bands that were able to mix up genres (like Linkin' Park).
I highly recommend the official music video for "Jeremy," which is no longer censored as it was in the 90s. It's in part about a real boy who was bullied until he shot himself in front of his class. Mind you, this was years before Columbine. Then I'd recommend pretty much anything from their MTV Unplugged, but especially "Black" and "Alive." Feel free to peep the lyrics.
Pearl Jam is still touring, and are awesome live.
This was Pearl Jam in 1991 after releasing their debut album 'Ten'... it sold poorly initially... but after Seattle rockers Nirvana broke big in late '91, the focus fell on breaking the next rock band from Seattle... which happened to be Pearl Jam. Their sound became linked to the 90's 'grunge rock' scene and 'Ten' would go on to sell 13 million copies to date in the US alone and was a huge worldwide hit by 1992... especially after the dark & powerful music video for Pearl Jam's single 'Jeremy' ... became a hit on MTV.
Pearl Jam were formed in 1991 after Stone Gossard (guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass) were hit by tragedy when their Seattle rock band Mother Love Bone lost their singer Andrew Wood to a he+++n OD in 1990 after recording their debut album... Mike McCready (guitar) joined w/ Dave Krusen (drums)... Finally, Eddie Vedder (vocals) joined and Pearl Jam was born... The new band recorded the album 'Ten' in 1991 and also recorded a tribute album to the late Andrew Wood w/ Soundgarden singer/ guitarist Chris Cornell - it was released in '91 as the album 'Temple of the Dog'... and it also became a platinum success by 1992 w/ the MTV single 'Hunger strike'... Dave Krusen (drums) recorded 'Ten' but was replaced by drummer Dave Abbruzzese for the tour.
With Pearl Jam riding high in 1992, the band was unexpectedly overwhelmed by their massive success and surprised everyone by retreating from public view and refusing to appear on MTV or make music videos in 1993 and beyond... They felt that the album 'Ten' was too radio-friendly and wanted a hard rock album 'Versus' that was released in 1993. It went to #1 on the charts & sold 7x platinum in the US without any MTV exposure... They wanted their music to be heard and used radio airplay to promote themselves.
Pearl Jam released 3rd album 'Vitalogy' in 1994 and it went to #1 and sold 5x platinum... Jack Irons (drums) replaced Dave Abbruzzese... However, the Seattle scene was hit hard by the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain that year... Pearl Jam wandered into more psychedelic music on their 1996 album 'No Code'... it went to #1 but only sold platinum... They released another hard rock album 'Yield' in 1998 as Matt Cameron (drums) joined the band from Soundgarden... their 2000 album 'Binaural' was a platinum hit but rather hazy sonically...
Pearl Jam has continued to record and tour globally in the 2000's and their latest album is due out in 2024... However, Pearl Jam in concert today is nowhere as energetic as their 90's performances in the heyday of grunge rock...
More Pearl Jam songs - 'Alive' ... 'Animal' ... 'Immortality' ... 'Daughter' ... 'Black' ... 'Better man' ... 'Given to fly'... 'Red mosquito'... 🔥🔥🤘🤘
My first show of PJ's was 1993 at the Alladin in Las Vegas...I've been to 40 now. Will be seeing them at Wrigley Field (again) this summer
I’m so privileged to say I crowd-surfed for the first time at a Pearl Jam concert in 1992 at 17. Growing up Gen X really was the best. 🖤
I saw this song live Oct 1991 front row center when Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers. Ames, Iowa. Been a massive fan since then!!
Definitely unplugged Black. Really cool 😎 journey that you are on, totally here for it
You need to listen to them perform one of my all time favorites - “Porch” - the unplugged version. It’s one of the most intense unplugged songs of all time
Eddie is so so so good. Dive deeper, you won't regret it. ❤
The Pantene pro v line was priceless!! 🔥
Loved your reaction like always!
Cheers from Berlin 👍🍀😎
Eddie climbing up to the balcony at the Trocadero in Philly! Those were glorious days!
I was in my 40’s when there guy burst on the scene. At 72 they are still in-my top 10 favorite. Still amazing live.
One of the best live shows you will ever see!
Love Pearl Jam!! I was at a comedy club one night & the guy started talking about Pearl Jam! He's like y'all know that last song before you could no longer understand what they were saying!! 🤣🤣🤣 I laughed so hard! Because it was kinda like that! 😎
Welcome to the Pearl Jam family. The most wonderful community of music fans I have ever met. Welcome with open arms. Regarding the phenomenal Pearl Jam, I just want to say Eddie is the best songwriter of our time. Their songs are 4-minute emotional roller coasters. Eddie is the best lyricist, song writer. Great reaction video. Really enjoyed it. And for those who dont know, this song is about homelessness and a homeless person Eddie befriended. Look up some articles, its a touching story.
Yes they had a death at a concert. They have a song about it called Love Boat Captain
I love Pearl Jam.. always have.. xo
You might be thinking of the term "ebb and flow," but he is saying "eeven flow" here. Thanks for the reaction! As others have said, check out their MTV Unplugged versions of Black and others. Also, Temple of the Dog is an amazing band. Chris Cornell with lots of PJ band members, including Eddie on Hunger Strike, and Eddie doing backup vocals a little here and there for other songs. Read up on Temple of the Dog, too. It's such a great album/band. Thanks again for the reaction!
FYI this is my favorite band of all time. Jeremy, black (unplugged), alive, daughter, rearviewmirror, courdaroy, elderly woman behind the counter in a small town
“Jeremy” is one of the top ten most tragic iconic songs to this day.
13:30 Eddie Vedder is just a natural athlete....and a surfer. He also played basketball for fun. Fun fact: During his epic stage diving days, the next morning after some shows he would wake up and wonder why is my back feeling weird and kind of burning. The crowd left scratches up and down his back.
I love it when he does the fall of that high place on the wall man it's super cool.
A younger son went to metal concerts with mosh pits. I freaked. It seemed to me that the time of Pearl Jam's determined belief in the crowds to support them was well in the past. After all, the care of the mentally ill and people/children on the edge wasn't a priority. People's willingness to catch each other was at, my perceived, low ebb.
The son said I should have seen it. Stupid crazy boys and girls bouncing off each other with joy, and a circle of protectors surrounding them. He said a dude tried to break into the pit, obviously with bad intent. Protectors escorted him out. Son stood in until the brawn returned.
So many brave artists and their fans out there.
Nice to see you checking out some grunge. Best music ever. So much passion. And we were so spoiled by the amount of talent.
Eddie Vedder, unbelievable songwriter, check out some of it. He was the lead singer for the band.
What an amazing and epic album!
The early 90’s were FREAKING GREAT bro🤘🤘🇺🇸👍. Awesome memories for sure!
I love Eddie vedder n pearl jam!! Im excited to see you check them out. They got alot of great songs. And yes I would class them as grunge. The mtv live performance is mesmerising ✌️🖤
The last kiss.... Phenomenal
Yes on the grunge , they came from Seattle along with Nirvana, sound garden , Alice in chains, mud honey and others I can't remember
Definitely watch MTV’s live version of “Black”
These guys are some of the best examples of Grunge. I still love it!
I'll repeat what others have said because this one is something else, MTV unplugged "Black" is just a must! Powerful, otherworldly, touching, just crazy.
thanks for breaking it down 60 now K time hearing 1st time lyric breakdown👍💯
"Porch" live at pinkpop. The best of all pearl jam vids
Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters are two of the best concerts ive ever seen.
You're thinking about "Ebb and Flow". This song is about the life of a homeless person that he met outside the studio in Seattle while they were recording their first album. He used to buy him a sandwich everyday and then one day the guy was gone. Then he wrote these lyrics to it. Watch the official uncensored video for their song Jeremy. You'll never forget it.
This is the band that boycot ticket master with their fees and streaming music, back in the 90s. Definitely check out the MTV unplugged for them, along with Alice In Chains, Nirvana & Tesla all iconic performances! Yes this would be grunge. One of the first & top grunge artists.
So many fond memories to the goo ol grunge times. End of 80s early 90s. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice and Chains. God that was amazing music.
Pearl Jam was real..... They fought against the cost of their ticket's being so costly.... They truly were an icon.... Love the hippie stuff...😂🤘
I saw Pearl Jam for the first time in 2022 in Philly at age 58. Amazing show. Definitely would see them again. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻