The Off Ramp, Seattle 13 November 1990 For the first few minutes all we see is darkness and random lights, all we hear is crowd noise and various guitar-like burps. Then, a riff: wow, it's the intro to "River of Deceit" by Mad Season. Is this a Pearl Jam vid? No, it's not, which makes it even more amazing. This is a video of the only full performance of Temple Of The Dog to have taken place. It's still dark and we see nothing, but now we hear the intro chords to "Hunger Strike" and we hear a voice that could only belong to Chris Cornell begin singing. The band sounds almost tentative; Chris' voice is almost drowned out by the crowd chatter. It's still dark when Matt Cameron kicks in, solid and steady as ever. Finally, the camera moves and there they are, overshadowed by a giant mirror ball on the ceiling, catching most of the light. |
Irvine Meadows, California 13 September 1992 Members of the Jesus and Mary Chain, Lush, Ministry and a cast of thousands join Pearl Jam for a chaotic "Rockin In The Free World": the stage is so crowded it's difficult to tell who is who! "Is there anyone else left back there to play?" Eddie asks. "Oh, there is someone," as Chris Cornell strolls onstage and the crowd erupts. "So, do you guys deserve this?" Cornell asks in his traditional deadpan manner. "Well, I think you probably do, and if you don't at least we do. So we're gonna do this anyway... This is a song we haven't played too many times in our lives and so we're probably gonna trainwreck it and totally fuck it up. But you might recognize it, it's called 'Reach Down'... I think... is that what we're playing? No, we're not gonna play that, we're gonna do a cover, we're gonna do an MTV song instead." |