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…

People in this episode

Hosts: Randy Sobel, Javier Hervas

Topics covered

• Pearl Jam
• Binaural album
• live performances
• European tour
• music industry changes
• official bootlegs
• concert analysis

Keywords

• Pearl Jam
• Binaural
• San Sebastian
• live show
• official bootleg
• concert
• music industry
• 2000 tour
• European run

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pearl Jam

Books & works: Binaural, Of The Girl, Breakerfall, Rearviewmirror, Last Exit, Hail, Hail, Smile, Immortality, Alive

Places: San Sebastian

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