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Three of the first seven songs Pearl Jam performed, including the show-opening “Pendulum,” are from the new album. He also prudently noted: “The traffic still sucks!” It was a sentiment surely shared by anyone who got caught in the massive traffic jams before and after the concert. Or, as Vedder playfully observed to the sold-out audience of 12,426: “It’s a perfect Seattle day here in San Diego!” That title almost seemed prophetic Thursday, when the rain and cold seemed decidedly uncharacteristic for this time of year in Southern California. The concert is apparently the longest Pearl Jam has done thus far on this tour, which includes shows Saturday and Sunday at the Los Angeles Sports Arena and is timed to coincide with the band’s latest album, “Lightning Bolt.” They were delivered with a degree of vigor that was almost startling, coming more than two-and-a-half-hours into the concert. Together, those eight songs clocked in at about 47 minutes. (During the combustible “Alive,” McCready playfully superimposed parts of the guitar solos from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” into his own solo.)
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(Apart from Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Phish and the Allman Brothers Band, is there any group whose concerts approach, let alone surpass, the three-hour mark?)Īlso remarkable was the full-throttle velocity with which Pearl Jam performed the eight songs that comprised the second of its two encores - “Leaving Here,” “Black,” “Do the Evolution,” Alive,” “Baba O’Riley,” “Yellow Ledbetter,” lead guitarist Mike McCready’s Jimi Hendrix-inspired solo rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” and the concert-concluding rave-up on Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World,” for which the band was joined on guitar by young Ray Cameron, the son of drummer (and San Diego native) Matt Cameron. The length of the concert, which took a while to click into gear and had some lulls in between its heady highs, was remarkable. Eddie Vedder raises his guitar as he and Pearl Jam end their third song.