Video exists and a clip was shown at the PJ20 museum.

Y'all can be so cruel..I'm going to cry myself to sleep

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But back to this...I'd heard that the PJ20 museum had some stuff from this show, just strange that there's very little video/photo evidence out there in t public realm…seems very protected for some reason.

There were rumors years ago of video shot sidestage, but I don't know if it was ever a real thing.

I think part of it was just the nature of the night. If you somehow had a ticket, you were lucky as hell. They easily could have sold out an arena (and probably several nights), but played two nights at a 4000-capacity venue instead. Tickets sold out as quickly as the TM outlets could print them. Would you have really wanted to risk not getting in, or getting thrown out? Even with photos - cameras were still entirely verboten at concerts.

And this wasn't an arena-type show where you could hide upstairs and shoot video without anyone noticing. Given the shape of the venue, anyone filming upstairs would have been seen by the ushers at the front of the balcony, and most people downstairs would have had to hold the camera over their heads to be able to capture anything. Downstairs at The Fox was built for people to sit during shows, so with everyone standing, your line of sight isn't that good - I was somewhere around row CC, and I was basically standing on the seat or on the armrests for most of the show.

Honestly, my friend and I were surprised that night that there weren't any cameras. We totally expected the band to film it. But we didn't see any.

They easily could have sold out an arena (and probably several nights), but played two nights at a 4000-capacity venue instead.

Does anyone have information about their booking choices for this tour? As you mention, they chose the theater in Atlanta. In other places, they played small- and mid-sized arenas.

Had there originally been a bigger New York City concert scheduled, but cancelled? I've always wondered why they only played one night at the theater there.

The Concert Chronology says tickets were only available to fan club members and radio contest winners

The concert shirts from that era didn't include New York on them (see an example here)

That lists dates starting in Denver and running through Boston. It's also missing the Pensacola show, which was a Rock for Choice benefit. And it includes a Charlotte stop between Atlanta and Springfield that didn't happen. Can't find anything as to why.

It seemed like it was a hastily thrown together tour. But it was hard to tell, given the band's antics around it.

The dates weren't released (and tickets didn't go on sale) until mid-February for shows that started in early March. Even a cobbled-together tour dates list on a.m.p-j at the end of February had several dates that got changed or moved. (The Orpheum show was added later.)

As far as Atlanta went, I somehow heard something was coming in early February. I called Ticketmaster every couple of days to see if they had any info, and it was always the same: "We have no information about a Pearl Jam show in Atlanta." That included the morning that the tickets went on sale. I found out the details about the show(s) later that afternoon when I walked past a record store that had a sign on the door that read: "Pearl Jam in Atlanta Sold Out".

In at least a couple of cases (including Atlanta), they announced the show and put the tickets on sale less than an hour later. Friends in Atlanta told me it was chaos - the announcement was made on 99X (radio) at like 3:00pm on a Thursday, so people were streaming out of high schools trying to get to TM outlets. There were stories at the time of people jumping out of moving vehicles - there was a rumor that a kid got killed in Virginia because of the chaos around the Fairfax on-sale, but I never heard officially that it happened. (The internet has always been full of bullshit, even in 1994.)

With the obvious exceptions of Chicago and Boston Gardens, most of the shows on the tour were in the 4-8000 range. (The Paramount in Denver holds less than 2000.) If you think about the current pop acts who book stadium shows a year in advance - they were closer to that in 1994.

Btw - most of us thought the band were being complete assholes to do a tour like this and sell it that way. I would genuinely be surprised if someone didn't get killed. (The indication was that they were doing it that way to beat scalpers. The arena shows on college campuses were usually sold to students first.) At the time, the announcement of the satellite broadcast almost felt like an apology - "we know a lot of you missed out, so we're doing this for you."

As for Charlotte: there was apparently a local newspaper article claiming that there would be a show in the area around the time of the Final Four, which was in Charlotte the weekend of April 1st. I wondered if that ended up being a complication, or if the band decided to spend longer in Atlanta, possibly to work on Vitalogy (or to prepare for the Fox gigs).

keep in mind the tour was most likely conceived, planned, and carried out under the direct orders of this individual: