Jason and Paul welcome a titan of the Pearl Jam fan community to the show to discuss and celebrate the Voters for Choice concerts in Washington, D.C 30 years later. Kathy Davis started the Footsteps fanzine in 1992 and was co-editor/founder of fan website Two Feet Thick until its shuttering in 2013. She's been to nearly 200 shows and has stories fo…

Kentucky is not a state that Pearl Jam has frequented often, so when the 2016 tour schedule released with Lexington as one of the announced dates, folks from the Bluegrass State were overjoyed that the band would be returning for the first time in 13 years. That's the focal point for this this episode. This is a show that is somehow approaching it'…

Jason and Paul are joined by Pearl Jam Radio's Rob Bleetstein and engineer/mixer Brett Eliason to look back Pearl Jam's unique 4+ hour syndicated radio broadcast Self-Pollution Radio. The show, hosted by Eddie Vedder with Pearl Jam bandmates Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard featured live performances from Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Fastbacks, Ma…

There are plenty of milestone anniversaries in Pearl Jam history that we have to celebrate in 2025 - the 25th anniversary of the Binaural tour and the 20th anniversary of the 2005 Canadian leg come to mind, but one of the big anniversaries that we'll be digging into this year is the 30th anniversary of the legendary 1995 Vitalogy tour. This was a y…

Happy New Year to the Pearl Jam Podcast Community! 2025 is set to be another great year for the band on tour in April and May, and hopefully more will get announced at some point soon. To kick off the year, we are gonna finish our look back on 2024 by covering the highly talked about tour closer in Sydney. With a plethora of storylines leading up t…

It's the last week of 2024, and in year's past the final episode of the year has been solely dedicated to our Hall Of Fame Episode Induction, but this year we're changing things up a little bit. After releasing the our Top 50 moments of Pearl Jam's 2024 Tour list on liveon4legs.com, we've taken this episode and turned it into a recap of the year. I…

Jason and Paul ring out 2024 by creating their wishlist and answering mailbag questions from their patrons. They also pretend to resurrect the 10 club holiday single, picking their A and B sides and their cover art. Thank you for a great year! Please consider donating to our December fundraiser Toys For Tots HERE Become a Patron Watch Us on YouTube…

For the third week in a row, you voted for which 2024 Pearl Jam show to cover - this time from the second North American leg! Without question, it was an easy choice as Philly Night 1 ended up with nearly 70% of the vote! And no bias came into play here at all! A large percentage of you are well aware that this was a special night for me, but beyon…

Jason and Paul welcome filmmaker Jordan Albertsen to the show to discuss his documentary on the rise, fall and revival of legendary -- if wildly unknown -- punk band, The Sonics. You'll never guess how the project went from dead in the water to back on... Please consider donating to our December fundraiser Toys For Tots HERE. Become a Patron Watch …

We're continuing our coverage featuring the best shows from 2024 this week with the selection from the European tour - Barcelona Night 1. There weren't many shows to choose from thanks to a few cancelations on this run in London and Berlin for two shows, but this Barcelona show is the return after Ed caught a serious case of bronchitis that put him…

Back so soon? After Pearl Jam just finished up a 37-show 2024 tour, they leave almost no time to breathe before announcing their next set of dates featuring shows in the south and the rust belt. Randy and Javier break everything down from the importance of some of the locations where they have not stepped foot in in well over a decade to some of th…

Jason and Paul welcome two touring fan veterans to the show to discuss Pearl Jam's 2024 Dark Matter tour -- Sheehan Perera aka Concerpants and Jaco Van Heerden aka Evil Little Goat. The guys talk about what made this tour special, the concerts, the set lists, the standout performances and the fans themselves. Originally recorded live on Youtube and…

It's that time of year! We have eleven months to take in all of our experiences from 2024 that we bottle up for one big review of everything once December rolls around. So this entire month will feature episodes covering Pearl Jam shows from each leg of the 2024 Dark Matter tour as voted on by you the listeners! So we're kicking it off with the win…

Jason and Paul return to their Write Your Own Pearl Jam Song series...and just in time for Vitalogy's 30th birthday. A complex, dense record is rich with sonics the band had yet explored forces your hosts to make hard choices when composing a new set of lyrics from those therein. After that they each articulate three things they're grateful for - P…

Happy Thanksgiving to you and all of your loved ones! Out of absolutely no attempts to make any puns or jokes for this episode, it just so happens that we are covering the 1996 show from Istanbul, Turkey. Yeah, believe it or not it's just total coincidence that it's coming out this week... Anyway, this is the one and only time that Pearl Jam has tr…

Jason and Paul welcome Stip and Brandon Rector to the show to discuss their new book 'I Am No Guide - Pearl Jam Song by Song'. Both gentlemen are veterans of the Pearl Jam online fan community for over 20 years moderating theskyigcrape.com and its Red Mosquito forums. The analyses of Pearl Jam's music herein are requisite reading for any Pearl Jam …

We've come to the end of Pearl Jam's 2024 Dark Matter tour, and our final destination of the year is Sydney, Australia. We go back to a show from 1995 in this episode to get you hyped up for the last shows. This was on the band's first ever tour of Australia, so they are familiarizing themselves with this crowd and territory. Not to mention, this w…

Jason and Paul celebrate Pearl Jam's Riot Act on its 22nd birthday with a review of the album...retroactively speaking, of course. How do the songs hit the guys over two decades later and how do the lyrical themes from 2002 mesh with the zeitgeist and political landscape of 2024? Please consider donating to our November fundraiser benefitting the W…

Pearl Jam's short Australia/New Zealand is underway, and the next stop on the map is Melbourne! It's a city that has a very rich history with this band featuring countless of classic shows from the early 90's. Due to special Patreon request, this week we are covering the 2009 show. It's a different setlist than what we covered from Auckland last we…

Jason and Paul welcome graphic artist and former in-house art director for Pearl Jam, Brad Klausen, back to the show to discuss the expanded edition of his book From a Basement In Seattle: The Poster Art of Brad Klausen. It's always a treat to talk with Brad and this conversation was no exception...so much so it trickled over into Patreon. You can …

Pearl Jam goes back on the road this week, and for the first time in ten years, they are making stops in Australia and New Zealand! The run will begin in Auckland, which is where our episode this week took place in on the 2009 Backspacer tour. Thanks to our Kiwi friend, Chris Warne, for putting in this episode request through our Patreon. He'll hav…

Jason and Paul welcome ConcertPants main man, Sheehan Perera, and author of I Am No Guide: Pearl Jam Song-by-Song, Brian Stipelman aka Stip, back to the show to dissect Pearl Jam's album Vs...from a superlatives point of view. The gang also contrasts their opinions with that from the show's Patreon members. Please consider donating to the October 2…

The 2024 election is upon us and there's no better way to celebrate than to cast your vote early or on this upcoming Tuesday. The second best way to celebrate is by going back and reliving Pearl Jam's 2004 run on the Vote For Change Tour! Through a run of six swing states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri and Florida as well as North…

Jason and Paul head back to their LP2EP series -- where you have to try and squeeze a full-length Pearl Jam album down into an EP (under 30min). Tough choices ahead for this one as the guys choose to tackle Vs. on its 31st birthday. What say you? Please consider donating to the October 2024 fundraiser benefitting Planned Parenthood HERE. Become a P…

Happy 34th birthday, Pearl Jam! This week we are celebrating the anniversary of the band's debut show from the Off Ramp back in 1990 by covering the show that happened on the last time they played the anniversary date in 2014. There are certain shows that are highly praised in their catalog for being marathon shows playing upwards of nearly 40 song…

Jason and Paul welcome photographer Geoff Whitman to the show to discuss his career in photography, wine making, and acting (!). Geoff tells many stories including his many run-ins with actor Jeff Bridges. And, of course, many details were shared about Geoff's experience as Pearl Jam's official photographer for the Dark Matter tour. Please consider…

You may not recognize this show by name, but Columbia, Maryland 1998 is a pivotal show in Pearl Jam history due to one moment that was immortalized on a record title Live On Two Legs (yes, it does feel weird to say that sometimes). This is the first instance that a little improv was introduced prior to the performance of MFC that to this day is kno…

¡Ole Ole Ole Ole! This week we're digging into one of the best places to see a Pearl Jam concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina! We all know those South American shows are special whether it be in Brazil, Chile or Peru, but there is something about the Argentinian crowd that makes your hair stand on end. The passion for the band mixed with their natura…

Jason and Paul welcome filmmaker Ryan Cory to the show to discuss his career directing, producing, and editing all kinds of videos for brands from Microsoft to Easy Street Records, artists, photographers, and bands...like Pearl Jam! Ryan has produced documentaries on Lance Mercer, Danny Clinch and has a new one debuting at the 2024 Seattle Internat…

We're picking up where we left off last week as this episode focuses on night two of the two show run from Pearl Jam's shows in Atlantic City in 2005. High octane performances, an intimate crowd and a Bruce Springsteen cover happen in night one, but what could possibly top that? A song debut from an unreleased album, Stone Gossard grabbing the mic …

Jason and Paul finally give Painted Shield 3 the quasi-review it deserves articulating their three biggest takeaways from the record. They also react to CBS Sunday Morning's interview with Ed Vedder and Jeff Ament that aired recently and also pontificate on a recent online petition to get Pearl Jam back on Saturday Night Live. Please consider donat…

This episode begins a two-part series where we dig into the shows at the Borgata in Atlantic City from 2005. These shows were unique for the band because of the small venue size holding a little over 2,500 people, but also due to the general admission area which was something that they had not done very often since the Roskilde tragedy in 2000. Aft…

Jason and Paul welcome Grammy-nominated graphic artist, author, producer and art director for Pearl Jam's Dark Matter tour, Rob Sheridan, to the show. Rob discusses his creative approaches to both his 15 years with Nine Inch Nails and his latest project, creating on-stage visuals for Pearl Jam's Dark Matter tour. The guys get into the weeds on how …

When proposing an episode for this week's show, the goal was to put focus on a tour that we haven't discussed a whole lot on this podcast - the 2011 Canadian tour. The question here was which show would be the one to cover. So we crowd sourced it and got some great answers, but the best answer was a suggestion to do the episode in tribute of former…

Jason and Paul welcome back to the show drummer, singer, songwriter, producer and friend Richard Stuverud back to the show to catch up and dive into his brand new record Sunset Ghosts. It features a number of excellent musicians including Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam, Neal Walter, Dave Flores, Tim DiJulio, and many more. It's a hell of a record and Ri…