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The University Daily Kansas Thursday October 19, 2000
Evolving Pearl Jam rocks live
By Chris Barniger
Kansan managing editor
My, how things have changed. Back when baggy flannel shirts and tattered jeans were all the rage, Pearl Jam reigned supreme as the poster band for grunge.
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder sends an intense stare out to the crowd during "Do the Evolution." Thursday's concert at Sandstone Amphitheatre in Bonner Springs helped promote the band's release of several live shows recorded over the summer. Photo by Nick Krug/KANSAN
That genre may be dead, but the band that took grunge to the mainstream is far from it. The evidence: Pearl Jam's performance Oct. 12 at Sandstone Amphitheatre in Bonner Springs.
In the nine years since the band released its blockbuster debut, Ten, Pearl Jam has done a lot of growing up — as has its legion of fans. Eddie Vedder and company are hardly the group of young faces from Seattle that found huge commercial success in 1991. Most of them cut their hair, and Vedder now sports a thick beard.
Factor in the considerable sonic evolution from Ten to Binaural, which was
released this spring, and the addition of drummer Matt Cameron (of fellow Seattle band Soundgarden, another casualty of grunge's demise), and it's clear Pearl Jam is a totally different band.
It's the diversity of songwriting with a Pearl Jam concert truly exciting to see. Songs such as the band's first single, "Even Flow," contrast beautifully with more recent efforts such as "Nothing as it Seems." The roller coaster of energy this dynamic creates takes the audience on one hell of a ride.
Surprisingly, Pearl Jam's performance was packed with hits from earlier albums instead of tracks from Binaural, which received justifiably lackluster reviews. The band kicked off its performance with "Release," a serene track from Ten, before launching into the hard-rocking "Do the Evolution" from 1989's Yield.
An onslaught of the band's greatest songs followed in the next two hours, including "Black," "Jeremy" (with Vedder fumbling the lyrics), "Animal," "Rearviewmirror,"
"Corduroy," "Red Mosquito"
"Given to Fly."
Noticeably absent, however,
were "Alive" and "Not for You."
Just listening to studio
albums robs listeners of the Pearl Jam experience; this is a band that demands to be heard live. But leave your flanned shirt at home.
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