Live On 4 Legs: Pearl Jam Podcast

2016 was a huge touring year for Pearl Jam. Every show of theirs felt like a massive event with a surprise that could shock the crowd at any moment. From the three full album shows to the ballpark spectacles, there is a lot that fans still love to go back on a decade later. But within the big shows are usually shows with less of a reputation due to either location or being overshadowed by everything around it. Ottawa 2016 is the next show on the Chronology Series, and it fits right in with the unsung shows from 2016 that don't get the flowers that they deserve.

This Ottawa show does not start off on the best foot. The beginning came off as a little sluggish, and it took some time in order for this one to hit it's stride. But when it does, it features some incredible moments that would be hard for any show to top. Highlights from this show include Love Boat Captain, I Am Mine, Faithfull and Speed Of Sound, but the two moments from the first encore that make an everlasting impact on this show are their cover of Love Reign O'er Me and Better Man. We'll go in depth on both songs and how locked in this band was, and we'll talk about whether a full Save It For Later tag is something that you can sense coming.

Also, we'll reacquaint ourselves with a character from a Live On 4 Legs episode from YEARS ago, and discuss why the hell Big Wave is being played in a city that doesn't have any surfing?

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Este es nuestro primer episodio realizado íntegramente en español y está dedicado al concierto que Pearl Jam ofreció en Santiago de Chile en 2015. Acompaña a Javier y a sus amigos Camilo y Sandra —miembros de la comunidad chilena de fans de Pearl Jam— mientras comparten historias sobre lo que este concierto y la música de la banda significan para ellos, además de relatar cómo su presencia en línea ayudó a conseguir que se incluyera una dedicatoria especial para este espectáculo durante la interpretación del tema Light Years.

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The Chronology Series takes a stop at 2014 for this episode. It's a year full of big time Pearl Jam shows including some full album experiments, 3 hour marathons and showstopping performances. This episode covers their Milton Keynes show that ended the European run that July. This show was a quintessential performance of the era with a masterful setlist construction that didn't need to be chock full of surprises to blow people away.

This show has an "it" quality that you hope for when traveling to see this band. The main set is charged up with songs that typically get played early in the night, giving it a feel of anything goes and barely stopping for air. We'll get to talking about some of the changes made from Lightning Bolt songs that we discussed in our 2013 episodes that had evolved after a year of playing them. This includes a more substantial outro on Sirens and a better placement for Let The Records Play alongside Spin The Black Circle. We'll also talk about an appearance from Pete Townshend's brother Simon for the song I Am The Answer, the connection of the early Mother Love Bone and Bad Radio songs played at this show, and an rage inducing rant during Daughter where Ed pleads to stop using tax payer money to drop bombs on children.

This memorable show has been on our radar for a while, so the question heading in is how close will this get into the LO4L Hall of Fame? Will conversations about Pete Puma and children of The Beatles help push it to the top? Tune in to find out!

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A new year, a new album and a new tour, 2013 was a big one for Pearl Jam. Riding high off of brand new album Lightning Bolt, the band took to North America for 25 shows in the fall of that year debuting brand new songs, bringing back long lost ones and revitalizing fan favorites. As they made their way across the country, they trekked to places where they hadn't been to in a handful of years. One of those places happened to be Oklahoma City.

Now the Seattle natives and massive basketball fans went into the Thunderdome with a bit of a chip on their shoulder having lost their beloved Supersonics to them five years earlier. A big portion of this show features Ed and Jeff airing their grievances over the fall out of the move and sale, and even tossed in a not so subtle performance of the Backspacer track that shares the name with the former Seattle franchise. We'll go a little bit further into the story of how this sale and move all came to be, as well as how the Sonics made a cultural impact on the game of basketball that tied into both NBA Jam and the Singles film.

Come for the Sonics talk and stay for the rest of the performances as we'll break down a marathon 31-song setlist featuring plenty of tracks off the new album at the time, as well as a few unexpected moments thrown in!

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Pearl Jam's 2012 was more of a transitional year than anything. Backspacer had been released four years prior, and while they weren't ready to release new material, they still went through on a short touring stint of Europe and a U.S. festival run. One of their European stops happened to be at the Rock Werchter Festival, a festival that they've appeared at a total of six times throughout the years. We'll dig into this show for this episode and discuss the stigma surrounding Pearl Jam at festivals and the type of fans they are aimed to structure their setlist for.

This shows clocks in at just over an hour and a half featuring only 20 of their mostly popular tracks, but don't let the setlist fool you as the die hard European crowd brings the heat and stays loud and engaged the entire night. Songs like Corduroy, Small Town, Even Flow and Better Man - if these performances were introduced to you, you'd never know that it was from a festival. We'll compare and contrast the European and U.S. festival crowds and how the setlist construction may not fulfill the diehards, and why in some cases that may not be a bad thing.

Tune into this episode as we'll treat you to an under the radar performance and continue telling the story of Pearl Jam through the Chronology Series!

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