Released November 24, 1998 - Epic: EK 69752
Length: 71:17
Mike McCready - guitar left
Matt Cameron - drums
Ed Vedder - vocals, guitar
Stone Gossard - guitar right
Jeff Ament - bass
Recorded and Mixed by: Brett Eliason
Mastered by: Joe Gastwirt
Assistant Engineers: Sam Hofstedt, John Burton
Layout by: Jeff Ament, Barry Ament, George Estrada, Coby Schultz, Mark Atherton, and Jerome Turner, courtesy of Ames.
Color Photos by: Kristin Callahan, and Lance Mercer.
BandW Portraits by: Jeff Ament.
Poster Art by: Barry Ament, George Estrada, Coby Schultz, Mark Atherton, Vito Costarella, Ward Sutton, Nate Williams and Hatch Show Prints.
As a band we all agree that the 98 tour has been one of our most fulfilling and exhilarating to date. Our sincerest thanks to everyone that attended and participated. The band also owes a huge debt of gratitude to our crew and manager who have not only given us outstanding technical and organizational support over the years, but who have also become our friends and loved ones. These are some of the faces that made this last tour possible. Thanks again.
And a P.S. to the Raleigh, NC and Hartford, CT Police Departments. Get a life. Leave those kids alone.
Comments
Release the 1998 boots!
Where is; Benaroya Hall
...here is your comment. I love our world sometimes :)
So I listened to the boot I found of MSGII from 1998. Black, specifically, but I'll get to that in a moment. I was sitting above, and behind the bands left shoulder. In retrospect, they were perfect seats. Looking down. Looking at Ed's left, his shoulder. Looking at Matt, and he does a wicked drum fill that blows me away. Later...
They start to play Black. I'd been trying to focus, to become one with the music, to assist, to be there...I guess I was trying to help Eddie, if that makes sense. I wasn't trying to sing myself, I was trying to help him sing. And during Black...
I'm looking down, nearly having tears in my eyes. I always sing "someday be a star in the sky / why can't it be mine" as "why can't it be yours", always have, it rings truer in my heart I guess. So that one part of the song I sing myself, and then go back to helping Ed. The song feels so close, so thick, so deep, so immediate. Like everything has synchronized up to a single point, a single beat, a single meaning. Like I'm vibrating in time with the music. It just feels so real, so natural, so alive like nothing I can ever remember feeling. Emotional.
And I'm just pouring myself out emotionally, and Ed starts singing "walk in me", and it was the most magical thing I had ever experienced...
...until a few seconds later when Mike shredded the rest of my soul with his guitar.
That point. That single event, that single time, that single song. Validated the things I had felt my entire life but never had words for. I guess we still don't have words for, not likely for a long time.
I think I've told this story before, in different times, in different places, in different ways. But, I just listened to it again, playing along poorly with my guitar, singing along poorly with my voice. And I felt the memory, felt the echo. Felt that vibration with which I had rung, and continue to ring.
I'm not sure it would sound as magical on a full boot, but that is a chance I'm willing to risk. The boot tape is odd, it compresses down and expands out like a living thing, more and less flowing through it from then to now, the space it holds the music in...changing with the song I guess. But again, a risk I'm willing to take.
Release the 1998 boots.
I was sitting behind the "Mike" side of the stage. Just high enough to see over the backdrop. That was the first time I saw PJ in concert and although the next time they played MSG was also great (along with every other time I've seen them) that show in September of 1998 will never leave me. I listened to Eddie tell us that these concerts are like his church and if ever I had a religious experience that was it.
I saw PJ play Honolulu at Blaisdell one week before I saw them open for U2 at Aloha Stadium. The show at Blaisdell was by far the best concert I've been to. I heard they released it. What's up? I can't find it.
Pearl Jam live is something every rock fan should experience.
Live at Easy Street isnt a complete concert.. its an EP of only a few songs that where played at that show
Is it i was wonder why there was only a small seletions of songs on it, the song with john is amazing tho on it
what about Live at Easy Street, shouldn't you list this? It sure is a kick ass show -- cheers ten club mates. all the best at christmas and for the year ahead.