On The Edge...
For those of you on the edge of your seats, (Who us? WOW!) here's the latest info on the tour... and we have one additional date to announce! Pearl Jam will kick off their U.S. tour on June 16th at the Boise State University Pavilion in Idaho! Their next stop will be on June 17th in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Wolfe Mtn. Amphitheatre, and then they'll play two dates on the 19th and 20th at Red Rocks in Denver. After Denver, Pearl Jam will grace the Boreal Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, Nevada on June 22nd. Let's hope the guys don't leave their hearts in San Francisco at the Golden Gate Park on June 24th because they are due on the 26th AND the recently added second date of the 27th to play San Diego's Del Mar Fairgrounds. Then it's on to Old Memorial Coliseum on the 29th of June in Phoenix, Arizona for another rocking show! The guys will end the month of June on the 30th in Las Cruces, New Mexico at the Pan Am Center.Pearl Jam's tour will then start off the month of July in Austin, Texas at South Park Meadows on the 2nd. From Austin, they'll continue on to Tad Gormley Stadium in New Orleans on Independence Day (July 4th). They'll be jammin' at the Milwaukee Summerfest for two make-up dates on July 8th & 9th. The last announced date up to the moment will have Pearl Jam playing in Chicago on July 10th but we don't know where yet!
I Won't Change Direction, And I Won't Change My Mind...
Pearl Jam will be touring this summer without Ticketmaster! They'll be using the California-based ticket agency ETM. Tickets, which have been designed by the band, will be sold through an automated telephone system using an 800 number and through the Ten Club to fan club members only. For you net surfers, tickets will also be available through the World Wide Web. Pearl Jam tickets will be offered to Ten Club members first but you must have been a member before March 31, 1995 to be eligible this time. You'll receive a flyer in the mail which will entitle you to purchase two tickets to any one show on the tour. The flyer will have a phone number for you to call and your tickets will have a lower service charge than those sold through ETM! Further details will be announced as they become known.Pearl Jam are still trying to book something for the Los Angeles area. More dates are expected to be announced after the first leg of the tour. Hang in there you east coasters and Canadians...Pearl Jam hasn't forgotten you.
Please Stand By The Shore...
Pearl Jam will be appearing at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle during Labor Day weekend and those plans are still being worked out. There are still no plans to play a venue in Orange, Massachusetts and European dates will not be planned for 1995 but will probably be made for 1996.I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me...
Due to some embellishment by the Auckland, New Zealand lifeguards and the press, Pearl Jam fans got a terrible scare! Despite what the news reports said, Eddie Vedder did NOT almost drown while surfing in the New Zealand waters. We're happy to hear that!
Miscellaneous Q's...
Q: I was wondering if they have played Nothingman live yet anywhere and if so where and when?A: Not yet. [Sometimes they forget. Nothingman was played only on 3/20/94 in Ann Arbor.]
Q: Did the Ten Club give out the lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter to someone online?
A: No way!
Q: About the new song Lukin: was this written on tour? before or after Vitalogy? Is it fast or slow? Where will it be released?
A: This song was written on tour and is fast. We don't know where or when it will be released yet.
Q: Will PJ be touring with Neil Young? What about the album?
PEARL Rumor: Is it true that PJ is playing at Ohio Stadium?
PEARL Rumor: The band Hovercraft, one of the openers for Watt on his upcoming tour, is actually Eddie Vedder's side band. True or False?
A: Pearl Jam will not be touring with Neil Young this summer. The Neil Young/Pearl Jam collaboration is planned for release sometime in June.
Rumors, Rumors, Rumors...
PEARL Rumor: Last June there was a big rumor that Pearl Jam was going to play Henley Island outside of St. Catharines Ont., near Toronto. It is still floating around. Is there any truth to it at all?
JAM Fact: Could be... (what a wishy-washy JAM Fact answer! Sorry...watch this space!)
JAM Fact: No, not true.
JAM Fact: False.
