Pearl Jam

Mad Season reunites after 20 years

A few of the most influential grunge musicians from Seattle celebrated Mad Season’s legacy with a single reunion show in Seattle on Friday night.

Surviving members, Mike McCready and Barrett Martin were joined by Chris Cornell from Soundgarden, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, and Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam and Duff McKagan from Guns N’ Roses. Joining the supergroup were the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, who performed solo and orchestral arrangements of original Mad Season music. It was the first Mad Season performance since 1995.

The set which consisted of eight songs included performances of  “Long Gone Day,” “River of Deceit,” and “I Don’t Know Anything” played by McCready, Martin, Cornell, and McKagan. Cameron joined for “Wake Up,” and played with Gossard and Ament for “Call Me A Dog” and “Reach Down”.  Jeff Angell from Walking Paper made an appearance on “Lifeless Dead.” The show ended with “All Alone” which features vocal recordings of late frontman, Layne Staley. Watch footage of “Call Me A Dog,” “Reach Down,” and “All Alone” below.

Setlist:
Long Gone Day
River of Deceit
I Don’t Know Anything
Wake Up (with Matt Cameron and Kim Virant)
Lifeless Dead (with Jeff Angell)
Call Me A Dog (with Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, and Jeff Ament)
Reach Down (with Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament)
All Alone (with Sean Kinney and Layne Staley vocal recording)

Pearl Jam Plays New Song “Moline” and Perform No Code in Entirety In Moline

Alternative Nation brings up the fact that fans at Pearl Jam show in Moline, Illinois last night were given huge surprises.

Pearl Jam set include a completely unannounced performance of their fourth studio album, No Code in its entirety. This marked the second time in the their history that they played an album in whole in concert, according to Eddie Vedder.

The band also debuted a brand new song called “Moline” to start their first encore. Vedder wrote the song 10 minutes before the show and said it was related to the band’s single, “Better Man”.

The song and setlist are below.

Setlist:

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

No Code
Sometimes
Hail Hail
Who You Are
In My Tree
Smile
Off He Goes
Habit
Red Mosquito
Lukin
Present Tense
Mankind (Tour debut)
I’m Open (Tour debut)
Around the Bend

Given to Fly
Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd cover)
Corduroy
Mind Your Manners
Brain of J.
Infallible
Even Flow
Gone
Garden
Porch

Encore
Moline (New Song)
Bee Girl
Imagine (John Lennon cover)
In Hiding
Lightning Bolt
Do the Evolution
Jeremy
Why Go

Encore 2
Eruption (Van Halen cover)
Alive
Fuckin’ Up (Neil Young cover)
Yellow Ledbetter

 

Jack White’s Lazaretto is Best-Selling Album of the Year

Jack White, a true enthusiast of everything related to vinyl, broke sales records with his sophomore solo album Lazaretto. The album at number 27 on the charts and the album has sold over 60,000 copies of its vinyl. Therefore making it the best-selling vinyl LP of 2014 and the best-selling of all time since Vitalogy by Pearl Jam. The Arctic Monkeys’ AM, sold 29,000 is the second best-selling vinyl copy, but that is a mere second to Jack White.