You know, there’s something really nice about a job where you can come in and listen to an entire Pearl Jam concert (setlist) without anyone bugging you. This is great, simply because I’m always listening to music when I work at home and sometimes it can really help you get motivated…
I wish more bands would follow Pearl Jam’s example… When they were on tour you could go to www.pearljambootlegs.com (now redirects to their main website) and buy a copy of any concert you wanted for about $10 to $15… Once you had done that you could then download an unmastered copy of the concert (not quite CD quality, but better than radio quality) for your listening pleasure then about a week or so later a CD of the concert would flop through your letterbox for you to enjoy whenever you wanted.
I bought their second Madison Square Garden concert from July to join my Glasgow one from their European tour in 2000 and it’s really, really good. I’d advise anyone out there to go see Pearl Jam if they ever roll into a place near you.
But anyways, as I was saying… I wish a few bands would follow their lead, when I think of all the great concerts I’ve been to over the years (U2, Foo Fighters, Gomez, Beastie Boys, Ani DiFranco), I’d kill to have CD copies of them to listen to and remember how great it really was.