Pearl Jam

[*jason*]

(10-02-2016, 09:01 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Did that impact how you perceived them moving forward?

When The Black Crows released Shake Your Moneymaker, I REALLY dug them.  I caught them 3 times on that tour.   The third time they opened for ZZ Top and I drove 3 hours back to town to catch them in the middle of vacation.  They were tanked, and it was absolutely awful.  Never saw them again after, and it really impacted how I perceive their music.  The songs stopped sounding as good because they were able to do that to the fans who spent their hard earned money on the performance.

I'd only seen the video for Alive on 120 Minutes on MTV a week or so before I saw them. It was that early on in their career. I didn't know what to expect. They weren't very good that night. I've seen videos of their live shows in the months and years that followed that... They seem like their amazing live... That night Smashing Pumpkins, who went on after Pearl Jam, were better. That was back when Gish was out. I bought Ten not long after that show, and loved it. It was cool to see Pearl Jam in its infancy as a bad live though.