Thursday, January 28, 2021

CoronaVinyl Day 206 (P): Live at Third Man Records 6.09.16 by Pearl Jam

For an explanation of CoronaVinyl, click here.

I had to skip yesterday because I had too much going on to post anything, but I'm going to make up for it with a nice little nugget.  I don't have any more albums by "O" artists, so today's CoronaVinyl category is "P," and I'm going with Pearl Jam's Live at Third Man Records album.

As with some other albums I've featured during CoronaVinyl, I got this album as part of my subscription to the Third Man Records Vault record club.  As the title implies, this album was recorded live at Third Man Records in Nashville in June 2016.  It was a secret show, recorded a couple days before the band headlined Bonnaroo that year.  Only 250 people were there.  The coolest part is that the album was recorded direct to acetate and then released a couple weeks later to Pearl Jam Ten Club members and then a couple months after that, it was sent to Third Man Vault club members.  As you can see, the album was pressed in a cool half-black, half-gold vinyl pattern.

Their set featured songs from various albums on the first side and then three non-album tracks (two of which were released on their 2003 Lost Dogs album, which featured b-sides and unreleased songs), and there's even an appearance from Jack White (Third Man's co-founder/co-owner).  All in all, it's a pretty damn good live album, and I'm definitely jealous of the 250 lucky souls who got to attend.

The album is not available on Spotify or any other service, so I can't embed anything and you'll just have to take my word for it.  Here is the setlist, with the Pearl Jam album that the song was originally from (with the original release date):

Side 1
1.  "Pendulum" (Lightning Bolt, 2013)
2.  "Mind Your Manners" 
(Lightning Bolt, 2013)
3.  "1/2 Full" (Riot Act, 2002)
4.  "Life Wasted" (Pearl Jam, 2006)
5.  "Deep" (originally from Ten, 1990)

Side 2
1.  "Of the Earth" (with Jack White) (unreleased song originally from around 2006)
2.  "Hard to Imagine" (unreleased song originally from 1993)
3.  "Let Me Sleep (unreleased song originally from 1991)

Favorite song from Side 1:  "Mind Your Manners"
This is a frantic, hard rocking song that you would expect from Pearl Jam.  Though it was originally released in 2013, it sounds like vintage '90s PJ.

Favorite song from Side 2:  "Off the Earth"
This song kicks off the second side, and for it, Pearl Jam invited Jack White (Third Man co-owner/co-founder) to join them.  You know I love Jack White, and he and Mike McCready trade off some awesome guitar solos on this one.

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