Seeing Pearl Jam with Ben Harper and the Relentless 7 as the opening act at the Gibson Theatre this next week will be phenomenal. Period. Guaranteed. DUH. Don’t trust me! Read reviews from the first two shows. It is obviously sold out and if you’ve ever seen Pearl Jam then you know that seeing them in a venue with seats is key. Why?....
If you have ever seen Pearl Jam live then you know why seats are key. The fans are ridiculous. They will pack like sardines, NO. Like a 350 pound person into an extra small pair of spandex shorts!! toward the stage and all the way back. Last time I saw the boys was in San Francisco at Bill Graham Auditorium with their always rocking heros Sonic Youth as the openers on the tour to support Pearl Jam also known as the Avocado Album. They must have sold a thousand extra tickets to this show because you couldn’t even move in there. My friend literally had to urinate in a bottle mid show because he couldn’t and didn’t dare move away from his spot near the front. My buddy got sick and we had to move toward the back...Done-zo. We even tried to move up to the balcony, but the Ten Club members looked like killers as we considered squeezing in to the farthest corners of the place. These kids are hard core!!! And they aren’t even kids anymore.
If you love Pearl Jam then chances are you like Ben Harper at least a little. Ben’s cover of “Indifference,” has always been a favorite of mine and his passion makes me put it right there with the original. Ben also comes out to sip wine and duet the song with the boys often, which is captured in the groups Madison Square Garden DVD from a few years back. Ben’s new band is cool and the album has its ups and downs, but he is a brilliant performer and has never let me down. I used to have a bit of an obsession with the Lap Steel chops and have seen him somewhere in the teens times so trust me when I say HE HAS NEVER LET ME DOWN. ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW. BRING YOUR GIRL AND WATCH HER HEART SWELL AND BREAK AND THEN REPEAT.
So...apparently the new album is number one and everyone is going nuts over it, which makes me laugh because their last album, Pearl Jam, was JUST AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER, but no one cared because they were too busy yucking it up over the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s double album, which sucked. “ Hey Dudes! How many different songs can we write where we rhyme words with California? Hey, I got an idea...Let’s do all of the states!!” Yip. E. No one listened while I constantly shot it down and pumped Pearl Jam. Now here we are a few years later and PJ still rocks and their new album picks up where the Avocado left off and everyone is peeing themselves all over again. Well, I’m happy for the boys because they definitely deserve it. Keep rocking Pearl Jam and I will keep listening and I suggest you try to score some tix to the shows if you read this mama. See you on StubHub...
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