Pearl Jam and Jay-Z perform '99 Problems' ‎

Go to a Pearl Jam show and you expect to hear one of the songs that made the Seattle band one of the all-time best: “Even Flow,” “Daughter,” “Jeremy.”

But the Jay-Z song “99 Problems?”

Fans at the Made in America Festival, the two-day Philadelphia event headlined and curated by Jay-Z, had that experience Sunday night.

Near the end of their 10-song encore, Pearl Jam teamed with Jay-Z on “99 Problems,” then finished their show with a cover of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

What’s “99 Problems?” It’s a rap song that went platinum and in 2009 took the No. 2 spot on Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Songs of the Decade list. The song was produced by Rick Rubin – the man who helped launch the Beastie Boys and many others – and a modified version of the song was played at the last official event of Barack Obama’s inauguration.

There must be something about early September for Pearl Jam.

A year ago this week, the band played brought fans from around the world to East Troy, Wis., where it played a 20^th anniversary show. Both nights included “Hunger Strike” with Chris Cornell, many other guests, and set lists that longtime Pearl Jam fans hope are released on CD sometime soon.

A gallery from the PJ20 show is below, including pictures of the Pearl Jam museum.

Mike McCready: New Pearl Jam Album in ‘Holding Pattern’

Fans are desperately awaiting for the the follow-up to Pearl Jam’s 2010 album ‘Backspacer’, fans now  have to wait for some more time.It has been confirmed by McCready that despite the reports that band members are spending time together in the studio, they are currently in a ‘holding pattern.’

“We’re just kind of sitting around, writing songs,” he says. “We have about seven ideas so far that we did last year and we’re just kind of sitting on those right now.” Vocalist Eddie Vedder is preparing for a solo tour, and drummer Matt Cameron is working with Soundgarden, so the members have a lot on their plates.

Additional tickets were sold out for Pearl Jam concert!!!

For the Pearl Jam September 30 show at MISSOULA, additional 1000 tickets were sold out within 15 minutes. This news was broken by from the Adams Center at the University of Montana.

The show will be a "360-degree" event, with seating all around.

This is the band's only non-festival U.S. appearance this year. Those fans of Pearl Jam willing to attend the gig try their luck, but some could able to get the ticket and other still waiting for next event to be happened.
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Superfan selected Pearl Jam Setlist

One of the Pearl Jam fans dream came true when he was elected by front man Eddie to select out the band's setlist.

Superfan named Brian Farias participated in more than 108 gigs,has been a member of Pearl Jam's fan group Ten Club for more than two decades.

He tells RollingStone.com, "I thought I was hearing things when Eddie offered it to me... It still doesn't seem real. As more time goes on, it gets even more emotional. It's better than winning the lottery. All the money in the world, I couldn't bribe Eddie Vedder to let me make his setlist. It was like programming your iPod and then Pearl Jam show up in your yard and play it for you".

He adds, "The bow meant more to me than everything. For the Pearl Jam audience to give me that much love, I can't imagine what Eddie feels"

Pearl Jam - 'American Masters: Pearl Jam Twenty' profiles

VH1 "Behind the Music" biography series often around 40 minute mark of tragedy, usually in the band or jail or on drugs or alcohol, the singer's best befalls.

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But in "American Masters: Pearl Jam Twenty," airing Friday, Oct. 21, on PBS -- as part of the first PBS Arts Fall Festival (check local listings) -- Documentary film director and music journalist originally from Cameroon to do two hours 40 minutes and then there is marked - since all the founding members of Pearl Jam continue alive and free.

Crowe says, "People used to say, about some of the stories that I wrote for Rolling Stone, they would say, 'Why don't you write about Iggy Pop? Why don't you write about Stiv Bators?' And I'd be like, 'Well, let the Stiv Bators story be written by somebody who's invested in that music.'

"But still, that was the challenge, to do a movie about a band that wasn't that, and did survive. That's why there are leaps we had to take, years where literally they're just surviving and playing concerts. So that became part of the story."

And this story, the tragedy is also the first Pearl Jam was formed.

Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were band member who also in another Seattle band in the '80s, called Mother Love Bone, alongside charismatic frontman Andrew Wood.

Sadly, at 24, Wood died following a heroin overdose.

As to whether the film is, in a way, Wood's story, Crowe says, "It is kind of that. When we started, that was one of the things that I really thought about. His story needed to be told, and from that, I thought the whole Pearl Jam tale should come, as it did in life."

By film's end, there is, here is even footage of Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder performing one of Wood's songs.

Crowe says, "I did an interview with them early on, where Eddie wouldn't tell me what song it was that he would sing, at some point, of Wood's. So when I heard that he played 'Crown of Thorns' at the concert, I said, 'Fantastic, I've got to get a recording.' "

Strangely enough, a "Behind the Music" is a tragedy that a Pearl Jam documentary that attracted me to lack.

He says, "If we had the movie where somebody does die at the 40-minute mark, we wouldn't be here. I wouldn't have done it; you wouldn't be talking to me. Just another one of those films … .

"I always get the feeling that, if civilization disappears for a while, and all this stuff that exists now goes into a time capsule, somebody comes along later, goes, 'Oh, rock music, it was made by people that die young.' "

Pearl Jam's recording his new album has reached the halfway point

Pearl Jam's recording his new album has reached the halfway point and the beginning of next year is expected to complete the session.

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Speaking to Rolling Stone, bassist Jeff Ament said that the grunge veterans hace made on their 10th studio LP, a "great, great start".

The band with longtime producer Brendan O'Brien have been recording the album, although they native of Seattle compared to normal, but Los Angeles is working on content - something Ament said has helped them work efficiently.

Ament commented:

We made the bulk of our records in Seattle, so it's just great to get out of Seattle for me. Everybody leaves all their stuff at home and you just go down for 12 days and it's all you do.

He added that the band hit the studio has added a trigger in time when they're promoting their new documentary Pearl Jam Twenty and accompanying book.

Ament remarked, "It's been really important for us that in the middle of all this, we got together and recorded a bunch of songs. It sort of gave us a breath to go, 'OK, we can go back and get ready for the show and book and movie and all that stuff'".

Pearl Jam "Crown Of Thorns" from Twenty Soundtrack

Pearl Jam "Crown Of Thorns" from Twenty Soundtrack is set to be available IN-STORES AND ONLINE on 20th September 2011.

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Pearl Jam's cover of Mother Love Bone's "Crown Of Thorns" is now streaming online!

"Crown of Thorns," Pearl Jam Twenty soundtrack to release the next track before the MGM Grand in Las Vegas I was directly recorded on 10/22/2000.

Excerpted from PJ20 CD Booklet:
Cameron Crowe: "I asked Vedder about Andrew Wood, the late singer-songwriter of Mother Love Bone, whose passing left the place that Vedder would later fill. Though Vedder chose not to name the song, he did say there was one Wood composition he would be honored to sing 'one day.' He declined to say more."