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Joined: Thu March 07, 2013 7:53 pm Posts: 240 Location: LA, CA
Hey, I want to talk Pearl Jam improvs. Remember when the band actually came up with improvs? Crazy, I know. And remember when some of them were better than songs that made it on to albums? I really miss this element of their live performance. I personally have seen Pearl Jam 17 times but was only lucky to hear one improv (St Louis 2003, which had some potential but was pretty meh overall).
Anyway, I wanted to gauge your thoughts on what you feel are the bands' best improv performances. I personally have three that stand out:
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 2:04 pm Posts: 37156 Location: September 2020 Poster of the Month
stonefury wrote:
Mansfield 2000
That's the only one I got to see live and I'm so grateful that I was able to see the band during a point in their career when they still did this kind of stuff.
My favorites tend to be the pre-Habit improvs from the 98 tour.
I know it's not cool to discuss 1992 here, but basically every show had a decent if not great improv. 2000 had some great ones as well (i.e, 6/22, 6/25, 8/4, 8/9, 8/29, 11/3 off the top of my head).
Here's a compilation of improvs from 1992-1995 I made that's worth checking out:
01. Stockholm Improv (2-7-92) 02. Netherlands Improv I (3-1-92) 03. Netherlands Improv II (3-1-92) 04. Sayin' No (Netherlands, 3-2-92) 05. Boston Improv (4-12-92) 06. Straight To Hell Now (Netherlands, 3-6-92) 07. New Orleans Improv (4-20-92) 08. The Part Where I Play The Pope (Milan, 6-17-92) 09. Shower The People/Brass in the Pocket/Meaningless (6-18-92) 10. Zurich Improv/Suggestion (6-18-92) 11. Selfish Man (Paris, 6-22-92) 12. Paris Improv (6-22-92) 13. London Improv (7-11-92) 14. Some People (Phoenix, 9-8-92) 15. Honolulu Improv (9-26-92) 16. I Could Prove To You (San Francisco, 10-28-93) 17. Indio Improv (11-5-93) 18. Seattle Improv (12-7-93) 19. Jack Irons Chant (Seattle, 2-6-95) 20. Springfield Improv (4-6-94) 21. Casper, WY Soundcheck Improv (6-16-95) 22. Fallin' Down (Red Rocks, 6-20-05) 23. Open Road (Phoenix, 9-13-95) 24. Unknown Improv I 25. Unknown Improv II
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