Pearl Jam has always treated their fans quite well.

The Ten Club is incredible (annual Christmas single and priority seating at concerts).

Even back during their 1998 Yield tour, the band allowed us to bring in our own digital audio recorders. I remember the fun of tape trading back in the days. Now we can buy an mp3 (or high quality version if preferred) within a days of any show we attend. Remarkable. I have absolutely no problem paying this band my hard earned money....well worth the costs!

Does this mean they will finally stop apologetically namechecking underground bands in an attempt to not seem like a bloated arena act?

It's smart of them. I absolutely detest their music (personal choice, it's just not my thing, but I don't sit around and bag on it), but I support their attitude about the industry.

I've always liked Pearl Jam.

Metallica, they had their day in the sun and they blew it.

When they let people daisy chain off the soundboard, I'll be impressed.

Or even setup a taper section in the crowd.

Geez, what other bands have been doing this for years, even decades?

benlonghair: When they let people daisy chain off the soundboard, I'll be impressed.

Or even setup a taper section in the crowd.

No shiat. If only some band would have thought of...

The songs that we hear are just songs of our own.

As for the mobile option, bootlegs of three live tracks per show will be released following each show on Verizon's V CAST phones and through a Jam-branded Verizon site.

I thought you said 'popular'?

there are tons of bands who do this, and have for a while. Not very often does a band allow you to daisy chain off the soundboard, however.

Archive.org has tons of stuff. And actually it's FREE.

I'm not a huge fan of having to purchase the set, so archive.org is great to me. This store reminds me of livephish.com.

SangamonTaylor: Pearl Jam has always treated their fans quite well.

Yes. Yes, they have.

jonasborg: Not very often does a band allow you to daisy chain off the soundboard, however.

They're dead, Jim.

They realized that the only way they are going to stay relevant as a rock act is to keep a cult following of the same fans. I sorta include myself in this, but their recent politicization has really turned me off (politics in music: a little bit, and subtly goes a long way).

However, they are doing it right. They're not going to gain a lot of new, young fans like they did in the 1990s, but their old fans will follow them around to multiple shows, buy massive bootlegs, bootleg and trade themselves, and become a community.

It all means sales of *something* in the end. T-shirts, books, whatever.

Smart guys.

I wonder what other band did stuff like this?

Because People in power are Stupid: I wonder what other band did stuff like this?

shhhhh....you'll wake the youngsters.

Actually, even Ratdog and The Other Ones don't allow daisy chaining any more. (At least the last couple shows I went to they didn't.) But the taper sections are always hopping.

Kyosuke: Because People in power are Stupid: I wonder what other band did stuff like this?

shhhhh....you'll wake the youngsters.

Well, it must be the red-x band... (I hate it when that happens)

make me some tea: I've always liked Pearl Jam.

Metallica, they had their day in the sun and they blew it.

Pearl Jam has always pwned Metallica, even when PJ sucked.

_{10 - Worst Pearl Jam Album evar!}

SockMonkeyHolocaust: Does this mean they will finally stop apologetically namechecking underground bands...

As a teenager, said name-checking saved me from the sad vortex of never-ending suck that was to become mainstream radio... so I'm gonna say, hopefully not. For the children.


I think this could be a great way for bands to bring in additional revenue. It's incredibly tough for a small band to break even on a tour... so maybe to bring in a little extra cash, you say to the crowd, "If you'd like a bootleg of tonight's show, go give $5 to our merch booth and we'll send you a link to download it." If all it takes is plugging a handheld in to the mixer, and then uploading the files to a server...

Think of some of the best shows you've been to... and how much you'd give to have a recording of the actual event.

Pearl Jam is still around? Huh, the more you know.

benlonghair: When they let people daisy chain off the soundboard, I'll be impressed.

Or even setup a taper section in the crowd.

I'm fairly certain they've never discouraged people taping. I miss B&Ps.

SockMonkeyHolocaust: stop apologetically namechecking underground bands

What is namechecking?

eabod:

I think this could be a great way for bands to bring in additional revenue. It's incredibly tough for a small band to break even on a tour...


On top of everything else, you've got to think the current gas crunch must be hell on lower-tier bands trying to tour.

(*cough*) I'm waiting, Metallica.

Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Pearl Jam.

All heroes of my youth. Validated. :)

theurge14: Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Pearl Jam.

All heroes of my youth. Validated. :)

Get off my lawn.

MickeyD: Pearl Jam is still around? Huh, the more you know.

Yup. On tour this summer. My daughter (9) liked the Vedder "Into the Wild" ST and wanted more. So I bought her Rearview Mirror...she loves the stuff. One of the few bands that I don't have to censor now.

FTA:In preparation for their 2008 summer tour, Pearl Jam is offering three ways for fans

Oh rats, there was more to this sentance.

BobtheFascist: Geez, what other bands have been doing this for years, even decades?

Uh, yeah, but times changed for the worse. You should ask, how many do it NOW?

They're keeping that vibe from being completely dead, and I for one am grateful.

Kyosuke: theurge14: Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Pearl Jam.

All heroes of my youth. Validated. :)

Get off my lawn.

My dad's heroes of his youth:

The Who, Edgar Winter Band, Fleetwood Mac

/dances on your lawn

This reminds me, I need to join the Ten Club before they release a new album and do another world tour. They are a good live act, but it probably helps to sit closer than the rafters in the some crappy venue that doubles as a basketball court and hockey rink.

Pearl Jam is great to their fans.

Verizon is not great to their customers.

I'm not interested.

Because People in power are Stupid: I wonder what other band did stuff like this?

Spinal Tap?

Boritom: Worst

Surely you jest young man?

/Will stop calling you Shirley.

And this is why I've been saying that Pearl Jam is the greatest live band in the world.

They give first dibs on tickets to their fans not some record company douchebag, so real fans get front row seats. They've always tried to make their ticket prices reasonable. They've been playing together for 18 years, their one of the tightest bands around. And they usually play 2 1/2 hour shows, sometimes even longer.

And they allow taping and have been offering high quality downloads of each of their concerts for years.

Pearl Jam kicks ass. I hope they swing by the west coast later this summer.

Whoop-dee-doo, what's Candlebox up to?

Wait...so they finally figured out what the Grateful Dead twigged to forty farking years ago?!?

Good job, you irrelevant gits.

/Record industry? Oh yeah, circling the drain
//Live music? Never better, thanks

Bootleg recording: an otherwise unavailable audio or video recording distributed without the artist's consent

Exactly why are these called bootlegs? Especially the recordings they release??

I am taking the CD option - its nice to have the physical media (I am still one of those people who love vinyl - which for you youngsters is a music format that came before CDs).

PJ have always been really cool about open taping (apart from Eddie's solo gigs), but its still nice to get some quality control at a reasonable price.

Its just a shame that I live in the UK and can't get over to the States for the current tour.

/still building up the 2000 and 2003 bootlegs
//love PJ
///Have PJ tattoo
////Love slashies
//Not enough to get a slashy tattoo

browntimmy: Whoop-dee-doo, what's Candlebox up to?

Probably playing the state fair circuit with Collective Soul and the Stone Temple Pilots.

/I think the Gin Blossoms are the opening act.

One of the best live-bands of our time and always good to their fans, PJ making a move like this doesn't surprise me and they're going to reap the rewards. I personally own about fifty bootlegged PJ shows dating all the way back to 93, but the ease of getting them and the quality of sound since 2001 when they started releasing them officially is incomparable. Viva Pearl Jam!

Open Taping Policy FTW!

"The Smashing Pumpkins live recordings can be uploaded to archive.org. The band is allowing archive.org to create mp3's / streaming derivatives from taper's lossless (.flac or .shn) seed files.

Live recordings only please. No Inner Ear Monitor (IEM) / Assisted Listening Device (ALD) sources. Shows recorded off of FM radio broadcasts / TV broadcasts are okay. no unauthorized SBD recordings. If you have a SBD recording you would like to upload, contact Frank at frank AT frankquinto DOT com first to get approval to upload it to archive.org. No profiting on any recordings. We reserve the right to take down any recording that does not fit this policy.

All Smashing Pumpkins live recordings are allowed to be uploaded to archive.org regardless of when the date of performance is (i.e. ALL shows are OK, not just the new 2007 performances.)

-Frank"

DarthStomper: Wait...so they finally figured out what the Grateful Dead twigged to forty farking years ago?!?

Good job, you irrelevant gits.

/Record industry? Oh yeah, circling the drain
//Live music? Never better, thanks

Well, actually, Pearl Jam has had an open bootleg policy for their entire history, so they figured it out only twenty years after the Grateful Dead. That better?