Instead, these are the 20 best cohesive listening experiences out of some 400-plus in circulation (less the ones that your correspondent personally attended as it’s hard to be objective if you were there!). Some great tours, meanwhile, suffered from subpar recording quality (2005) and some songs got their definitive versions during shows that were otherwise average. These are not strictly the band’s 20 greatest shows in that regard, as for the sake of consistency we’ve excluded everything pre-2000 as well as the non-bootleg Vault releases like Chicago 2007.
To mark the 20th anniversary of this unprecedented endeavor, here’s our ranking of the series’ 20 best offerings. Would it be feasible? Would there be demand? Wouldn’t some shows just suck – embarrassing the band if preserved?īut the bootlegs kept coming, and continued far beyond that original 2000 tour – they now document (almost) every subsequent Pearl Jam gig. No one knew whether this Official Bootleg series, as the band labeled it, would stick.
They would release full-length, professionally recorded live albums capturing all 72 shows on their 2000 Binaural tour. Twenty years ago, Pearl Jam made an absurd announcement.
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