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It’s been a very bumpy ride, but we’ve finally made it to the end of this European tour. We closed it out in Lisbon, Portugal’s NOS Alive Festival, the same festival in which we covered an episode for this past week. And guess what? They didn’t do the same set as Madrid! In fact, we got a tour debut in this one! I can’t believe it took them 16 shows to play Animal, but we can now breathe a sigh of relief! Almost got Indifference to make it’s touring debut as well, but just missed out.

We have some things to talk about here, including a new spot in the set for Dark Matter that I have been begging for months, and yes… we got Imagine here in Portugal again and there’s no lack of conversation for that stemming off of this past week’s episode. Once again, a big big thank you to everyone who contributed their reactions to this show – Aline Barbosa, Brian Anderson, Nuno Vale and Angel Gallo!

One note to bring up that wasn’t shared in the episode, the President of Portugal was in attendance at this show and stood within the crowd instead of the VIP section. A report from site said that he was informed of the attempted assassination towards the end of the show.

After two big Barcelona shows, the band stuck around in Spain and took on their first of two European festival shows at the Mad Cool Festival. The setlist on paper probably won’t impress the fan that’s digested their entire catalog, but there is something to be said for the the energy that a festival crowd of around 50k+ can rally around. The setlist will be a hot topic of conversation here due to its resemblance to the set that took place at Bottlerock two months ago, but we’ll find the moments to pick out that people will remember, such as Mike and Jeff switching instruments on Rockin’ In The Free World.

We will also address the recent news surrounding Josh Klinghoffer, who continues to play with the band amidst the ongoing lawsuit. But most importantly we get to hear from some great fans who got to witness everything go down. You’ll hear from Alina Barbosa, Brian Anderson, Rosemary Kearny and Martin Bax talk about the atmosphere and their favorite moments!

Riding off the energy and momentum from their return on Saturday, Pearl Jam took the stage Monday keeping those positive vibes going. It’s a great follow up setlist with plenty of great moments to digest. This includes Oceans opening the show, and we’ll get into why that’s such an important moment for Barcelona. How about more No Code songs? Both Off He Goes and Smile played here. Want to go real deep? 1/2 Full gives us some Riot Act representation. We’ll also talk about how fired up the crowd was during Even Flow that caused Ed to pull out a sporadic improv. And how about inviting a fan up on stage to play Yellow Ledbetter? He needs to join the Javier and Josh Arroyo supergroup!

Once again, we’ll hear from many of our friends out on the road who witnessed this set. Big thanks to Eric Stevenson Gonzales, Brad Arundale, Luke Dalley, Josh and Yonat Goldberg, Sehr Rahim Pirzada and Jeff Zieba! See you on Thursday for the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid!

After 11 days of illness and uncertainty since performing in Manchester, Pearl Jam powered back to prove their resilience for a great show in Barcelona. It was a show that had a great mix of the lovable hits, the new Dark Matter songs, the deep cut favorites and the band’s energy radiating throughout a passionate crowd in Spain.

It felt like Ed came back as healthy as he could and basked in the support of this crowd knowing what he had gone through. Under the Wasted Reprise intro, Ed gets emotional about his time dealing with illness that we’ll touch up on in great detail here. We’ll also hear from our good friends kind enough to send us their thoughts after attending the show. We’ll hear from Eric Stevenson Gonzales, Lori Jernberg and friends, Brad Arundale, Lisa O’Connor and Carrie Klingman and Sonia Weber. See you back for night 2 on Monday!

Welp, it wouldn’t be a European tour without some bumps in the road. We all know the recent history. In 2018, Ed has to go on vocal rest after night one of what was originally slated to be a two night stay. They postpone night two and had to make it up at the end of the tour. Two years ago in Paris, Ed states that the smoke from the wildfires is affecting his vocal chords. This led to the band having to cancel three shows in Europe, and for setlists to be restructured for him to save his voice.

It looks like we’re on that road again as Ed showed up to tonight’s show in Manchester far from being in top shape. We had reported that he was getting winded during songs in Dublin, but it seemed to have escalated last night. Regardless, the band came out to play the fan favorites on this night – Of The Girl, Present Tense, Immortality, I Got Shit, Inside Job, State Of Love And Trust and Fuckin’ Up were all included on the set. We invite back John Cooney who interviews friends out on site after the show. We’ll also hear from Alex Hoggard, Brad Arundale, Rob Darcy and Aurelien Moureaux talk about what they witnessed from their points of view.

Leg 2 is officially underway! For the first time in 14 years, Pearl Jam has returned to Dublin, Ireland where they’ve been sorely missed for over a decade. Looking at the setlist won’t tell the entire story of this show as we’ll get to hear about some of the emotional moments brought to the table here, as well as energy and excitement. We’ll hear from John Cooney out of site interviewing a bus load of people from the Pearl Jam Ireland group, and we’ll also hear fans Lisa O’Connor and Steve Skikas weigh in as well for a show that we here on the outside had no livestream to pay attention to, so it’s great to have all of these voices relay the story!

The west coast leg of the Dark Matter tour has been completed, and we went out with a bang! The hometown crowd experienced something special tonight with all eyes on the band thanks to a streaming performance on Sirius. And they came out HOT! Black as an opener for the first time since CBGB’s in 1991! Immortality early on. Come Back, Pilate and In My Tree holding down the fort. HURT?!?!? Yeah. Kitchen sink kind of shit.

Coming into this show we were presented with some news that will change the landscape of this country, if not this world. Knowing the band and what they stand for, they were not going to leave home without addressing it, and boy did they ever. Ed makes an impassioned speech about unity and ending division without mentioning anyone by name, and the message received is that we are all humans who have the same basic needs, and we need to recognize that and get back to standing up for one another instead of standing up for politicians. Love Boat Captain was the message sent this night, because all you need is love.

The entire crew is back to express their thoughts and share their happiness after a wonderful week in Seattle.

Live directly from the Climate Pledge Arena in the very city that birthed a little band called Mookie Blaylock, the Live On 4 Legs community got together to talk about what was an amazing first night of a hometown stay! So many surprises happened on this night and everything impressed the masses. For starters, seemingly hands down the most emotional moment of the night came within a tribute to Bill Walton that followed with a heartbreaking performance of Man Of The Hour. If that was it, that would be a pretty solid show. Buttttt…

What else is there to say? Thin Air, I Am Mine tour debut, an absolutely mind blowing version of Waiting For Stevie, Satan’s Bed, Rearviewmirror, River Cross, Deep, and then of course the grand finale featuring a version of All Along The Watchtower with Deep Sea Diver and a massive surprise mixing in Little Wing with Ledbetter. This was absolutely to die for.

We’ll speak with our friends including 9-year old Coda Capps who had a TWICE in a lifetime experience this night, our buddy McRib gives us an exciting update on his Felicity’s Surprise sign, we get possibly the greatest combo in this podcast’s history where Javier talks gear with Josh Arroyo, and thoughts and reactions from our friends from all around the world. If there’s anything this night proved, it’s that it would be nearly impossible to top!

Thursday? Can’t wait!

Last night the band played their lone festival show of this west coast run in wine country out in Napa, California! with stricter time restraints, we only got a 2 hour set, but there were still some notable moments to make note of. For the first time in the band’s history, Lukin was used as the opener! We got a throw back to the Bridge School shows when Ed dedicated Last Kiss to Marikor, and a surprise guest appeared as Bradley Cooper joined Ed on stage to play Maybe It’s Time.

We chat with Amy, Mar and friends out on site to get their first hand experience of this one. See you in a few days where we’ll be coming to you LIVE from Seattle!!!

Tuesday’s night 1 show featured a fun setlist alongside an energetic crowd. How could night 2 live up to that? How about having a fun setlist alongside an energetic crowd? Last night’s show kicked off with an audible as Footsteps was cut from the set in favor of a highly emotional Long Road. How often have we seen Ed stop the band to share something on his mind mid-song in the opener? He pauses for a second to pay tribute to his Uncle John who had passed away 10 years ago yesterday.

Speaking of yesterdays, one of the big talking points of the night are three songs played in the middle of the main set representing Yield – Untitled, MFC and All Those Yesterdays. What was the level of excitement for those songs in a bit of a shock moment? Mike Mcrib, Lori and Becky join us from outside of the Forum to give their insight on everything that happened here, including an update on the Felicity’s Surprise sign. Also, hear the outcome from a Twitter comment gone wrong in reference to Go. See you back for the wine festival on Saturday! And then, it’s off to the motherland!

As the tour keeps moving forward, the band keeps finding a groove here and start to add more songs to the mix. This night brought us 10 tour debuts, including more Vs. songs! Rearviewmirror featured Andrew Watt on guitar and Leash in the encore was a very welcome addition. But also we were greeted with the first two Backspacer songs of the tour, an Oceans opener, In My Tree, Save You and for some reason they waited until the seventh show to play State Of Love And Trust!

Mcrib is back to assess all of what he saw from this night where we’ll talk about sign confiscation, and how some signs that weren’t confiscated became very important plot points of the show. Of course there was more Harrison Butker trolling, but an emotional dedication to a fan named Michele who passed away a week ago was a headlining moment as Faithfull had a redemption from the last time played in Sacramento. Enjoy this one, and we’ll see you tomorrow night!

Pearl Jam threw us some curveballs during their second and final night in Vegas. We have been talking so much about how those first four album songs in the set had been such a staple so far that we wondered if they’d end up breaking from that. We got a hint of it at night 1 swapping Daughter with Dark Matter, but tonight showed that they are more than comfortable maneuvering things around in the set. No Scared Of Fear, no Upper Hand and no Waiting For Stevie, but Won’t Tell and Something Special get tossed back into the fold.

This was also a good night for rarities, and that was apparent when the began the night with Of The Girl. Adding Severed Hand, Out Of My Mind, Spin The Black Circle and for the first time in 59 shows, You Are returned to a set. This setlist has a little bit of everything, and the interactions at this show are some great talking points too. We’ll hear from our crew out on site led by Joey Goodsir and get their reaction to everything they witnessed!

After the Sacramento show we were all wondering if the band was ready to take the next step within their setlist curation and add some old favorites into the fold. While Vs. still hasn’t seen more than two songs get played (Binaural now at three), a lot of crowd favorites were brought into the fold. Hard To Imagine, Hail, Hail, Tremor Christ, Breakerfall on the Binaural birthday, Inside Job. Even Eddie breaking out a cover of Maybe It’s Time from the Star Is Born soundtrack. As Joey will say in the episode, this had the feeling of a set that Ed would write at 4 am.

We’ll speak to our crew on site featuring Joey Goodsir, Mike Cribier, Ned Lally and Jeff Tracy to get their instant reaction takes, and we’ll be back Sunday morning to cap off a crazy weekend in Sin City!

We’re in the thick of it! The tour continues onward through Northern California with this stop in Sacramento. We’ll hear from our friends from site today led by Ned Lally, and we’ll get into a lot about the energy in the building that made this a great experience. We’ll touch up on the Light Years dedication, Picture In A Frame, the confounding lack of Vs. songs, the Faithfull debacle and much more!

It’ll be a beautiful weekend in Vegas, so let’s play two!

Last night we rocked Portland! Show #3 of the Dark Matter tour is in the books, and we got a fun Friday night out of it. The big question on everyone’s mind was when will they debut Waiting For Stevie, and even though it’s the namesake’s birthday on Monday where they’ll be in Sacramento, it seems like they didn’t want to wait at all. How about a little left turn at the end of the set? A mixed up Mamasan with Footsteps FOLLOWING Alive can certainly be considered at the first true ‘holy shit’ moment so far.

We got our friends that stuck around after the show here to recap everything – Mike, Lori, Amy, Mar and Jennifer, and they’ll zip up and down the setlist to talk about what they loved from this one. Until Sacramento!

The first two nights in Vancouver have been completed and now we have an idea of the structure moving forward on this Dark Matter tour. Jason from Edmonton will join us from site to talk about his vantage point as well as some of the moments that stuck out to him, maybe even a few on his wishlist that he didn’t get. But here’s how we stand right now – ten of the eleven Dark Matter songs have now been featured with the only one left very shockingly is Waiting For Stevie. We’ll tap into that and compare this with the first show while looking forward to Friday’s show in Portland.

Wellllll we finally have our first Pearl Jam show of the Dark Matter era! Lot’s to talk about here. We heard NINE of the eleven tracks from the album, and spoiler alert, but they absolutely delivered. We also got to see the usage of a brand new screen that presented a cool experience unseen in 30+ years of Pearl Jam.

We’ll talk about all of the new songs, including the major tease of the full album being played, holding out until the 5th song til play anything from it, a brand new show closer and a surprise appearance of Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns. Mar, Margaret and Kiley join us to discuss what they heard from this show!

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