Episode 359: San Sebastian, ESP - 5/26/2000
About this episode
The episode discusses Pearl Jam's early 2000 concert in San Sebastian, Spain, focusing on their evolving sound and live performance dynamics during the Binaural era.
The Chronology Series takes us to the turn of the century as Pearl Jam hit the new millennium with a new album, Binaural. As the landscape of the music industry was changing and cater to a larger pop, hip hop and nu metal fan contingent, Pearl Jam decided to stray as far away from the mainstream as possible. Binaural didn't sound like a typical record of theirs, but the live shows and performances continued to get stronger and the fanbase was as dedicated as the previous decade. In this episode we dig into an early show from their European run in San Sebastian, Spain. This lighthearted show took place before the incident at Roskilde that changed everything for the band later that tour. One of the big stories from 2000 was the release of an official bootleg for every show that was played, and we'll dig into that discussion to talk about the distribution in Javi's home country of Chile and how he came across this boot. This show has early seeds planted for the tour where they were still trying to figure out what to do with the new songs. We get a rare non-opener version of Of The Girl in this show, and Breakerfall is used in a spot before Rearviewmirror that hinders it's impact…
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- Episode 361: Tokyo, JPN - 3/3/2003
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