He gets the audience all riled up with excitement and then the band goes in to the biggest treat on here, “State of Love and Trust” which was not on the debut album, but a demo that was later released on a re-issue. Eddie sounds almost a little nervous at first until he gets in to the song a little and then he settles right in sounds like a man on a mission. The album opens with the love song about Eddie’s surf board, “Oceans”. The crowd was in to it, the band was in to and the TV audience was in to it. They attacked the performance with an energy that was more than contagious. You get a performance from a band that was on the rise, the flavor of the day, but yet a band that had something to prove. The packaging is a beautiful gatefold for only 1 LP which I always love to see. But there was something about this show that resonated and when I saw it was coming out on vinyl, it was a no-brainer. I was not a Grunge fan at all as I come from the 80’s and the whole 80’s Rock scene. When I watched this back in the day, I realized than that the guys were pretty freaking great. The album was recorded in 1992 right after the end of the Tour for their debut album ‘Ten’ and a set list that covers that album quite nicely, you are treated to one mesmerizing and very special performance. And I’ll be honest, this is the FIRST Pearl Jam album I have actually bought on vinyl…I know, crazy right!! But what a way to start. Another exclusive I wanted was Pearl Jam’s MTV Unplugged appearance from 1992 finally being released on vinyl. This was the first time that record was to be released on vinyl. Now I'm always up for five or six acoustic songs somewhere in the middle of a set, because you just hear him in a way I find so pleasing.For Record Store Day Black Friday 2019, I got up bright and early to go stand in line for some Exclusive vinyls and most notably was for Matt Nathanson’s 2007 album ‘Some Mad Hope’. “ showed that Ed could really be in that kind of a setting, and really, I'm sure we learned something about that, too. “We relied a lot on the noise and the wildness of our shows to generate energy,” Gossard says. You can hear his voice unleashed here, free of expectations or Ten’s infamous reverb, jumping octaves on “Black” and erupting over time on “Porch.” Every emotion was laid bare, a rarity in stadium-ready rock. In stripping their songs down-nearly all of them pulled from the band’s 1991 debut, Ten-they took note of what made them so powerful: the melodic contours of “Oceans” and “Alive” (their only single at the time), the natural dynamism of “State of Love and Trust” and “Even Flow.” Most enlightening was the performance of frontman Eddie Vedder, who still found a way to captivate in the relative cold of a TV studio environment, without a crowd to surf or walls to climb. “But we had played very little acoustically.” When the set eventually aired in May of that year, it was both a revelation and an introduction. Recorded just three days after they’d completed their first European tour-at midnight, immediately following tapings by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men-the all-acoustic set came at a formative moment for Pearl Jam: Far from being a household name, the Seattle outfit were on their initial ascent, figuring themselves out just as they were about to very quickly (and unexpectedly) become icons. “I remember being nervous,” Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard tells Apple Music of performing for MTV’s Unplugged in March 1992.
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