![]() ![]() Fuck those fans! And fuck that band.īut what’s this? They’ve just released the Unplugged album officially as audio – finally?Įven better, they haven’t tried to “fix” it. Collectors buying those cardboard-sleeve rip-off concert bootlegs. Guys that thought it was as important as any classic rock and better than a lot. There are about 2,500 Pearl Jam live albums – all these silly official bootlegs of the same songs over and over and over and the thing more frightening than Pearl Jam’s eventual mediocrity was always the rabid fan-base. And Pearl Jam’s song that said as much was either blasting from the speakers or ringing in my ears wringing from my ears… And if I had a few too many beers – only once or twice – I could put it on autopilot and it would mostly miss the walls as it arrived back up the driveway. And I had a huge blue Volvo with 200,000+ kms on its clock. I had the first album with a bonus five-track cassette-tape EP. But back when Pearl Jam released its first two albums, and this Unplugged concert – which arrived right in the middle – I didn’t think they were shit. And yes, I was Team Nirvana all the way, or at least until April of 1994. Sure, we had a few chats about Nirvana and Pearl Jam being the 90s version of the Beatles/Rolling Stones conversation, because this was before Blur and Oasis. Eddie Vedder with his weapons-grade laryngitis – making enough bad music himself but having undue influence on the awful Nu-Metal Years where the Creeds and Stainds of that world gargled marbles and spat out cliches. ![]()
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