Chill is definitely not a word I associate with grunge. Even the "relaxed" songs of the genre are still intense due to the lyrical geniuses and emotion behind them.
_Chill is definitely not a word I associate with grunge_ You can't write things like this while i'm drinking my water....it ends up all over my computer screen.
Right-grunge does not mean chill. Ever listen to the Bleach album by Nirvana? School, Love Buzz, and Paper Cuts are just a few on the tip of my memory, without checking the album. You should take a listen!
I think it was in the MTV's contract that they had to keep seated or incur a fine and they misbehaved on the porch song on the mtv unplugged performance as well lol
My thoughts exzctly. MTV Unplugged had rules that had to be followed. PJ almost didn't do Unplugged for that reason and it's still the best Unplugged concert ever
It was good but for my money Alice In Chains were really good, even as messed up layne was at that point he still sang incredibly well and even without practicing him and jerry still nailed singing in unison which is extremely hard to do. PJ was definitely entertaining though not like I’m hating
THIS is why Pearl Jam is a great band. The radio tracks are all great and all, but they are a ROCK band, and this is how you rock! Also, "grunge" is and was a made-up label thrown onto a wide variety of rock music that was coming up and displacing the hair metal and arena rock that dominated the 70s and 80s. A lot of the initial bands came from the northwest scene, but the term eventually kind of superceded the older ones such as "alt rock" and "college rock," but never identifying a specific sound, style or genre. Fucking Pearl Jam, though! Killing it!
I have to disagree a little, I mean everything is a "made-up label" but it did come to define a genre if you start talking grunge as opposed to college rock or really any rock you know you're about to hit certain bands, you wouldn't call eve6 or REM Grunge one's College Rock and the other is post-grunge/Alt-Rock. But you will most likely bring up the big 4 (Nirvana, Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains) Hole, Mother Love Bone, Smashing Pumpkins, L7 and probably someone in the other room will shout Screaming Trees
@@endless013 yes, and people will also include Sonic Youth, the Pixies, the Melvins, STP, and some people include Tool, amongst others. The other labels are "made up" but they have much more narrow and specific bandwidths. REM is a great example of college rock, but Live got thrown into the "grunge" category and they're far more REM than Soundgarden. Grunge just isn't really a thing. It's more like a merchandise label for a period of time than any kind of genre or style.
@@syntheticsleep Perfectly said. There are so many various influences and styles when it come to those "big 4" everyone knows and grunge is more a construction as you said then music genre and it mostly gravitates to bands that started all this from Seattle.
This might be OT but Pearl Jam is also unique amongst grunge bands for being very much a “jam band”. They just go completely off the cuff and jam right in the middle of a song for however long they feel like, sometimes half an hour or more. I don’t think Nirvana or AIC ever did anything like that. Edit: just now dawned on my that “Jam” is half of the band’s name
The grunge you guys have done so far has been mostly radio friendly. Do some deeper cuts off the early albums, and you’ll have a better understanding of what grunge is. It’s often fast, loud, irreverent, aggressive, lots of distortion. Especially when you guys do polls, you’re gonna get the singles, the hits, which are great bc they’re hits for a reason, but if you want a solid understanding of the genres and eras, you should check out the other tracks too.
Lex would like Spin the Black Circle. Brad may like the context of the lyrics too. All about the love for playing a new vinyl album. Getting back to the punk grunge roots.
He was known in the early days for crowd surfing and climbing up really high on equipment and jumping into the crowd. But we all have to grow up and get back pain eventually 😂
Iconic. I lived in The Netherlands from 1999-2012. Every year, this song was used to promote the Pinkpop Festival. These guys are the soundtrack to my life, been a fan since day dot and lucky to have seen them 10 times.
Big props to the crew on this one. That boom camera is very carefully balanced pre-show for the weight of the camera and operator out on the end of that long lever. Then Eddie adds a sudden 170 pounds of rockstar, and even more suddenly, subtracts it again. Figure that’s a 4 or 5 to 1 ratio, so they very quickly had to add around 850 in crew members to the short end, and time letting go perfectly to not literally catapult the operator when Eddie jumped.
as a cam op, who is responsible for providing his own camera and equipment for ANY show I film, Ed would have gotten a punch in the head trying that with me.
@@jasonmgomez I’m a scenic carp who learned how to shoot camera to stay busy (and on the clock) once the set was loaded in. I’ve never done boom but I’ve certainly seen my share.
He recently explained what happened. He thought the cameraman was angry at him but he met the guy and told a completely different story. It’s on UA-cam Must see
This was their largest venue they played at that time. You can see Eddie’s face in awe as he is looking into the crowd. He later brought his video recorder out and filmed the audience
The sitting on a stool singing is usually excellent grunge bands playing UNPLUGGED! WITHOUT AMPLIFICATION. Displaying the same incredible musicianship, but in a small intimate venue and MUCH quieter. God, I love both versions, though.
This is definitely the Pearl Jam I remember seeing live in the 90's. You've just reacted to more of their softer stuff so far. I've never thought of Grunge as chill, but I think the softer side of grunge has more mass appeal, and therefore more longevity.
Damn I’m a lucky woman to have seen them live the first time on this tour in ‘92! The energy back when they-we-were all still young, and Eddie was doing crazy shit like that on a pretty regular basis.
Saw them live at Lallapalooza that year with Soundgarden, RHCP, Ministry, Ice Cube, etc. Pinkpop is in the Netherlands. This was their energy in the early years, and it was lit!
Saw that Lollaplooza show too but in Cleveland. When PJ hit the stage the rain started and hundreds of people rushed past me towards the stage. The energy of that show was unbelievable. One of my favorite concert experiences. That and getting front row of the pit for their Toledo (no code) show! Always try and catch them when they come by!
Pinkpop was amazing in this period, especially this PJ performance. Reminds me of the 90s, collecting all the new audio and video live boot recordings!!!
@@Sedat028 eddy still jumps around like a mountaingoat and mike still destroys guitars and stuff. Okay maybe there is a bit more tambourine throwing and a little less hair whipping but they play state of love and trust with the same energy as always.
Crowd surfing is a literal term lol. One of the band members (usually the singer but I've seen guitarists do it too) will literally be a surfboard and surf the crowd. Even crazy fans try to do it. 🤣🤣🤣
Eddie is one of the pillars of the whole grunge scene. The fact that he is one of the few left alive is made even more insane if you know that this dive is one of his safest he ever made. Thankfully he is still with us :)!
_"How is that safe?"_ Oh, it isn't, but Eddie didn't really care about that. It's kind of surprising he's the one that survived of the big name vocalists of that era.
Welcome to what it was like going to a festival/ rock show in the 90's. Nothing was clean, or pretty, or perfectly choreographed. There were no cell phones, no bullshit social media distractions, no posers pretending to be rock Gods whilst they lip synced their way through crap music someone else had written. Rock shows were real, and raw, and messy. If you didn't wind up with bruises, covered in sweat and spilled drinks, at the very least, the show was lame af. I miss how raw everything was, how we didn't give any fucks about being insta-perfect. I miss how it was about the music, the experience of feeling the explosion of all that insane energy, the feeling of being being so fucking alive, you burst the seams of your own body, because it was always too much for any singular physical boundary to contain. We were all overflowing with messy life, and it was gotdamn glorious.
100% agree. Aside from the nerfed-up, clean and safe, gentrification of modern concerts, my biggest gripe is the phones. I have no idea how we, with no cell phones, were somehow able to locate our friends in the middle of crowded concerts and festivals, (often times tripping on psychedelics)... but we somehow always did it... Which made finding each other like a huge celebration. And 90's concerts were way more memorable, seared into our minds, because everyone in the venue collectively hyper-focused their attention at the band and each other. When that many people focus together, it creates an energy that you rarely find today. Nowadays, if you manage to not be distracted by your own phone, then you're distracted by everyone around you holding up their phone, watching a concert through a 3 inch screen, gathering up a collection of shitty pics and videos that they will quickly ignore and forget..
You are so right! We'd walk around in dirty clothes and didn't wash for 3 days and eat greasy crap and rocked out. Some of my best memories are from going to these festivals with my friend.
I would love to see more reactions to Live performances. It is something special when the fans and artists can feed off each others energy. I'll admit, this performance by the band, with Eddie stage diving and crowd surfing will be hard to top.
That was a mosh pit that Eddie fell into, people did alot of that at concerts, but Eddie is the only lead singer I've seen do that. He is soooo awesome!!!
When Nirvana came to my city on their Bleach tour (‘91), Kurt walked across the pit while playing the guitar. Some missed/sour notes, but still really cool to watch.
I love your reactions to live performances. I understand the need for lyric videos but there are such cool things in concerts that you will never experience otherwise. So i hope you do more. Thanks for your reactions.
This was from their first tour & they were crazy. I saw them on this tour at Lollapalooza outside of Houston & Eddie climbed up the scaffolding, then jumped down onto a moving truck then into the crowd. He calmed down after the first tour I think.
Eddie is straight up crazy...he is famous for this sort of stuff at live shows. The funny thing is that in person he is one of the most down to earth humble people you can ever meet. I have been lucky enough to know him well and have some incredibly fun times with him.
Yeah, you should really see more live videos of grunge bands. Even the more “chill” songs are still wild. Most grunge came from a more punk and underground metal scene, and their performances will show it.
👏👏👏 And FINALLY!!🤗 Btw, Grunge IS Rock.... always was, always will be!! It's Rock with a purpose (IMO) They don't just create music they evoke emotion and inspire! Hope that makes sense to y'all!!🤷♀️ Lol!! And this performance is epic and where you get to see what we PJ fans have affectionately called "Crazy Eddie" for 30 years now!! LOVE IT!!😁 Great reaction and keep going with PJ.... you gotta see PORCH on MTV Unplugged!! Even though it's accoustic and an intimate setting.....Eddie loses his ish in that one too!! Great reaction as always guys!!!🤟😎❤
Rock concerts in the 90's were something else, luckily I was there to experience them. This show was only 1 year after their debut Album Ten was released and one of their first big shows in Europe. It's absolutely incredible.
There is a UA-cam clip out - believe their last show or two there when Eddie reunites with the camera man and apologizes for being a fool. PJ was great and is still great today, have made some timeless music
Lol! Lex says, "They're grunge...which is usually sit on a stool and vibe." Well...not all the time. :) And I love how guitarist Mike McCready played just a little bit of Voodoo Child in that solo!!
This was PJs first HUGE show. Ed was crazy back then. Listen to their first 3 albums a mix of this and the chill that you are used to. Actually most of their albums are. They put on a hell of a show still even though his vocal style has changed from age and years of singing like this. Love watching people experience this music for the first time.
You can see in the pj20 documentary how eddy felt. They had never played for this many people before. He was really shook up about it. I was there in the crowd somewhere. Got a black eye in the moshpit haha
eddie would climb up the lighting rig and monkeybar across the stage 30 ft off the deck with no net on a regular to this song-which was usually the last song
Cool video! Pearl jam is my favourite band and it's cool seeing you react to them. This was at the pinkpop festival in my home country. Legendary performance. Keep it up!
That’s the beauty of Pearl Jam and why they are my favorite band of all time. They encompass so many different genres and have aged like fine wine until today…that being said Porch is my favorite PJ track of all time ! It’s so good live too…and even the unplugged version is awesome
Revisit that concert (pinkpop festival 1992) again by watching their hard played Neil Young cover of "keep on rocking in the free world". It's a must, above all because it comes after "porch", which is not the last song of their concert as you put it, but that cover is. In it you will find more musical intensity than in "porch", so for that it is worth being reviewed. Great review! By the way, the name of that festival is ambiguous: it traditionally took place on the Pentecost weekend (in the nederlands). The dutch name of Pentecost is "pinksteren". Originally it was a pop music festival, with a wide sense of what popular music can be. The name "pinkpop" is put together of "pinksteren" and "pop". The icon of the festival is a doll dressed in pink. Translated into dutch, "doll" means "pop" = also pop music. Discover that icon in the video! On a short list of greatest pinkpop festival music to me personally Rage against the machine must be put with "fistful of steel" (pinkpop 1993), where you can see their guitarist Tom Morello (later with Audioslave) doing not before and after seen weirdest and best things on his guitar. Be mind-blown by watching that crowd reacting...
@@JoeBlow_4 Yeah, it's almost like their inaccurate perception of both grunge music and Pearl Jam, which is based on their circumstantial exposure to only some of their uncharacteristically subdued performances, somehow made the situation funny and led to my comment, uh? I guess Alanis Morissette would even say that the whole situation was ironic. 🤣
I can't even fathom how awesome that would be. To be in front of a crowd and everyone clapping or jumping in unison just grooving to your music. It looks unreal
I saw them live that same year in Minneapolis. Same shit. Dude climbed the scaffolding on the side of the stage and jumped. Pearl Jam was the real deal.
Oh nice… I was there in 1992, 2000, 2018 and will again next year 2022….🤩can’t wait to see my favorite band again. Funny story, in 2018 Eddie revisited this moment where he jumps from the crane. He thought the camera guy was angry at him because he was screaming. So in 2018 he wished to see the camera guy to apologize. So they found him (he was already retired) and the guy told Eddie the true story, that he was not shouting at Eddie but at the crew to hold the crane down.
Eddie Vedder is a beautiful singer & vocalist. That unmistakable voice that hits you in just a couple of bars. Grunge. So many highs and lows in his voice. His range is enigmatic, especially as he thrashes around the stage like a punk rock metal dude. You can ALWAYS ALWAYS hear the emotions in his performances & the depth of his songs. Props to Eddie for staying relllllaaatively clean. The only one of the Big 5 to survive. ..."I'm Still Alive" The song is not about drugs - but that lyric certainly is fitting. I found the ENTIRE uncut "Unplugged on MTV". Straight through - no cuts even as the filming stopped in between each song for the show. This camera kept rolling for everything. Y'all it is INCREDIBLE. Link in comments.
They WANTED him to jump, they were going to do everything in their power to break his fall(they succeeded), and anyone who may have been hurt LOVED IT. That was Vedder's thing, crazy ass stage dives, and the crowd absolutely loved it.
Eddie Vedder = GOAT There will never be another front man like this. He emotionally and physically kills himself night after night, year after year and he's a great singer. Lyrically, he writes the best songs. The talent and skill level of this band is astronomical. They have about 10 studio albums. They can play metal, punk, blues, folk, hard rock, progressive, funk, pop, and even sludge. Just for some variety check out these songs... Crazy Mary Footsteps Go Habit All Or None Dance Of The Clairvoyant Elderly Woman Spin The Black Circle Grievance Indifference Tremor Christ Let Me Sleep It's Christmas
These amazing live concert moments are why you guys gotta do Def Leppard Rocket in Sheffield 1993 HQ version. 60k people with a tag-team improv solo in the middle of the song.
Eddie's an avid surfer, so that's something. Not to take away from this incredible performance, but Peter Gabriel did this first. Check out the live version of "Lay Your Hands On Me," I think from '86/'87 tour.
Grunge is the raw energy of punk, hardcore and metal without the posturing and ridiculous spandex outfits and perms of 80's metal. "Come as you are" ;)
Eddie in the 1990s he was wild. Climbed lights above stage and scaring the members. I've seen them twice and they give it all onstage. Lived in Seattle and was such a fun time for music. ❤
Grunge is a commercial name for bands who happened to be from Washington state at that time. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, and Soundgarden are known as the big four of the genre. This is real live concert grunge, the unplugged stuff was just a watered down version of kick ass hard songs that's all✌🤘
I’ve seen Pearl Jam live about 4 times and they never disappoint! Love Eddie!!! ❤️ once saw him open up for Pearl Jam because sonic youth who was supposed to open had an emergency so Eddie came out by himself and sat on a stool and did a few songs by himself! It was incredible!
Man do I love this song and performance!! This encapsulates exactly what grunge is. Back in the day Eddie would swing on just about anything, this is prob the safest thing he's done. Eddie and Pearl jam are still a powerful tour de force!!
Eddie is the closest thing to Spiderman. Even though you don't make videos anymore, you are my oasis that I visit from time to time, you are both wonderful.
THIS IS grunge! You were watching an "Unplugged" acoustic version on the MTV show. This is the real deal! You REALLY need to go down the rabbit hole on this band.
I know time stands still for no one, but, I miss this version of Ed! I've been to 11 PJ shows and most of them were in the 90s! We thought there was no way he was going to make it out of the 90s alive! The irony of it all? He's the only original grunge frontman still alive!
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Chill is definitely not a word I associate with grunge. Even the "relaxed" songs of the genre are still intense due to the lyrical geniuses and emotion behind them.
I mean there are slow or acoustic grunge songs...
The only word you can reliably stick a pin on grunge's chest with is counter-culture.
_Chill is definitely not a word I associate with grunge_
You can't write things like this while i'm drinking my water....it ends up all over my computer screen.
Well said. The lyricism of the 90s was unbelievable.
Right-grunge does not mean chill. Ever listen to the Bleach album by Nirvana? School, Love Buzz, and Paper Cuts are just a few on the tip of my memory, without checking the album. You should take a listen!
Sitting on a stool and vibe is MTV unplugged grunge. THIS is grunge.
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@@richardleneau You just came up with the best definition of grunge that I have ever heard.
Rock on 🤘
I think it was in the MTV's contract that they had to keep seated or incur a fine and they misbehaved on the porch song on the mtv unplugged performance as well lol
My thoughts exzctly. MTV Unplugged had rules that had to be followed. PJ almost didn't do Unplugged for that reason and it's still the best Unplugged concert ever
It was good but for my money Alice In Chains were really good, even as messed up layne was at that point he still sang incredibly well and even without practicing him and jerry still nailed singing in unison which is extremely hard to do. PJ was definitely entertaining though not like I’m hating
THIS is what grunge is/was. The chill stuff was great too but this is what it was all about.
For sure. Great stuff. They probably have the most diverse catalog of that whole era as well.
Haha I came here to say this
I smoke weed on my UA-cam channel & i do reaction videos 🥺💨
This track is pure grunge punk mixed with metal and some jimi hendrix in there..
@the world has fallen yeah garbage was a pretty good band too.
This is probably one of the safest things Eddie did at shows back then lol.
yeah i caught him in cleveland
...caught him in Detroit 🤣
Yeah in Philly at the Tower back in the day , look out !! Ha !!
He did stuff where his bandmates literally looked the other way to not see him die.
Eddie is just doing the good old Eddie stuff 😂😂 he is so crazy and I love it
THIS is why Pearl Jam is a great band. The radio tracks are all great and all, but they are a ROCK band, and this is how you rock!
Also, "grunge" is and was a made-up label thrown onto a wide variety of rock music that was coming up and displacing the hair metal and arena rock that dominated the 70s and 80s. A lot of the initial bands came from the northwest scene, but the term eventually kind of superceded the older ones such as "alt rock" and "college rock," but never identifying a specific sound, style or genre.
Fucking Pearl Jam, though! Killing it!
I have to disagree a little, I mean everything is a "made-up label" but it did come to define a genre if you start talking grunge as opposed to college rock or really any rock you know you're about to hit certain bands, you wouldn't call eve6 or REM Grunge one's College Rock and the other is post-grunge/Alt-Rock. But you will most likely bring up the big 4 (Nirvana, Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains) Hole, Mother Love Bone, Smashing Pumpkins, L7 and probably someone in the other room will shout Screaming Trees
@@endless013 yes, and people will also include Sonic Youth, the Pixies, the Melvins, STP, and some people include Tool, amongst others. The other labels are "made up" but they have much more narrow and specific bandwidths. REM is a great example of college rock, but Live got thrown into the "grunge" category and they're far more REM than Soundgarden. Grunge just isn't really a thing. It's more like a merchandise label for a period of time than any kind of genre or style.
@@syntheticsleep Perfectly said. There are so many various influences and styles when it come to those "big 4" everyone knows and grunge is more a construction as you said then music genre and it mostly gravitates to bands that started all this from Seattle.
This might be OT but Pearl Jam is also unique amongst grunge bands for being very much a “jam band”. They just go completely off the cuff and jam right in the middle of a song for however long they feel like, sometimes half an hour or more. I don’t think Nirvana or AIC ever did anything like that.
Edit: just now dawned on my that “Jam” is half of the band’s name
@@endless013 IKR ALL labels are MADE-UP!
The grunge you guys have done so far has been mostly radio friendly. Do some deeper cuts off the early albums, and you’ll have a better understanding of what grunge is. It’s often fast, loud, irreverent, aggressive, lots of distortion.
Especially when you guys do polls, you’re gonna get the singles, the hits, which are great bc they’re hits for a reason, but if you want a solid understanding of the genres and eras, you should check out the other tracks too.
The bleach album has the grungiest sound honestly
Lex would like Spin the Black Circle. Brad may like the context of the lyrics too. All about the love for playing a new vinyl album. Getting back to the punk grunge roots.
What they need to do is cover some bands other reactors won't touch: Mudhoney, Green River, Mad Season, Tad, Mother Love Bone...
Ya, that's why those livestream polls frustrate me. They're always filled with radio singles
@@mikethemotormouth Dont forget Screamin Trees
He was known in the early days for crowd surfing and climbing up really high on equipment and jumping into the crowd. But we all have to grow up and get back pain eventually 😂
This comment broke my hip 🤣
Sad but true. My shoulder is currently fkd
I was born in 97' and it's a shame I wasn't able to experience Pearl Jam in this era of theirs.
Iconic. I lived in The Netherlands from 1999-2012. Every year, this song was used to promote the Pinkpop Festival.
These guys are the soundtrack to my life, been a fan since day dot and lucky to have seen them 10 times.
Big props to the crew on this one. That boom camera is very carefully balanced pre-show for the weight of the camera and operator out on the end of that long lever. Then Eddie adds a sudden 170 pounds of rockstar, and even more suddenly, subtracts it again. Figure that’s a 4 or 5 to 1 ratio, so they very quickly had to add around 850 in crew members to the short end, and time letting go perfectly to not literally catapult the operator when Eddie jumped.
as a cam op, who is responsible for providing his own camera and equipment for ANY show I film, Ed would have gotten a punch in the head trying that with me.
@@jasonmgomez I’m a scenic carp who learned how to shoot camera to stay busy (and on the clock) once the set was loaded in. I’ve never done boom but I’ve certainly seen my share.
@@JoeBlow_4 its just plain unsafe. and as much as i love rock n roll, you put my safety at risk and I respond accordingly.
not just unsafe for me as cam op, but if that metal boom collapses on the crowd, thats a negligent injury or death on the band's head. not cool.
He recently explained what happened.
He thought the cameraman was angry at him but he met the guy and told a completely different story.
It’s on UA-cam
Must see
Seeing him jump into the crowd and your reaction, I’m guessing you haven’t reacted to their video to Evenflow yet. That is a must!
They did but turned off the video and went to lyric video in the mid... They missed it
This was their largest venue they played at that time. You can see Eddie’s face in awe as he is looking into the crowd. He later brought his video recorder out and filmed the audience
The sitting on a stool singing is usually excellent grunge bands playing UNPLUGGED! WITHOUT AMPLIFICATION. Displaying the same incredible musicianship, but in a small intimate venue and MUCH quieter. God, I love both versions, though.
This is well said
This is real grunge. It’s all encompassing from the aggressive and fast to the slow and thoughtful.
This is definitely the Pearl Jam I remember seeing live in the 90's. You've just reacted to more of their softer stuff so far. I've never thought of Grunge as chill, but I think the softer side of grunge has more mass appeal, and therefore more longevity.
Damn I’m a lucky woman to have seen them live the first time on this tour in ‘92! The energy back when they-we-were all still young, and Eddie was doing crazy shit like that on a pretty regular basis.
i remember seeing you there .
Saw them early at lalapolloza. Nobody knew who they were yet. They started with about 500 people watching and turned it to 15000 quick
@@markvanderstelt8999 😂👍
I know! He was so wild. I was at this very concert, part of the pinkpop festival in the Netherlands. I've loved these guys since ten came out.
Saw them live at Lallapalooza that year with Soundgarden, RHCP, Ministry, Ice Cube, etc. Pinkpop is in the Netherlands. This was their energy in the early years, and it was lit!
Went to the Saratoga Springs NY Lollapalooza loved them since that day!
Saw that Lollaplooza show too but in Cleveland. When PJ hit the stage the rain started and hundreds of people rushed past me towards the stage. The energy of that show was unbelievable. One of my favorite concert experiences. That and getting front row of the pit for their Toledo (no code) show! Always try and catch them when they come by!
Pinkpop was amazing in this period, especially this PJ performance. Reminds me of the 90s, collecting all the new audio and video live boot recordings!!!
I saw them during the same Lollapalooza. The good ol' days when Lollapalooza travelled and toured. It was great lineup! 👍
THIS is Grunge. Grunge has strong punk, metal, classic rock roots💚
I miss concerts in the early 90s
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Pj still give concerts like this. I've seen so many of their shows and they are always amazing.
@@sergeflameling9369 come on man 😂
They way more chill these days
@@Sedat028 eddy still jumps around like a mountaingoat and mike still destroys guitars and stuff. Okay maybe there is a bit more tambourine throwing and a little less hair whipping but they play state of love and trust with the same energy as always.
They posted a picture together Eddie and the cameraman, just recently. they obviously looked much older but it was cute to see them together again
Crowd surfing is a literal term lol. One of the band members (usually the singer but I've seen guitarists do it too) will literally be a surfboard and surf the crowd. Even crazy fans try to do it. 🤣🤣🤣
Eddie is one of the pillars of the whole grunge scene. The fact that he is one of the few left alive is made even more insane if you know that this dive is one of his safest he ever made. Thankfully he is still with us :)!
Oh he's jumped from WAY higher before. Give that man a balcony & a crowd of Pearl Jam fans....& see what happens.
I’ll never get tired of watching young people react to this performance. One of the great live bands of our lifetimes.
_"How is that safe?"_
Oh, it isn't, but Eddie didn't really care about that. It's kind of surprising he's the one that survived of the big name vocalists of that era.
Welcome to what it was like going to a festival/ rock show in the 90's.
Nothing was clean, or pretty, or perfectly choreographed.
There were no cell phones, no bullshit social media distractions, no posers pretending to be rock Gods whilst they lip synced their way through crap music someone else had written.
Rock shows were real, and raw, and messy.
If you didn't wind up with bruises, covered in sweat and spilled drinks, at the very least, the show was lame af.
I miss how raw everything was, how we didn't give any fucks about being insta-perfect.
I miss how it was about the music, the experience of feeling the explosion of all that insane energy, the feeling of being being so fucking alive, you burst the seams of your own body, because it was always too much for any singular physical boundary to contain.
We were all overflowing with messy life, and it was gotdamn glorious.
100% agree. Aside from the nerfed-up, clean and safe, gentrification of modern concerts, my biggest gripe is the phones. I have no idea how we, with no cell phones, were somehow able to locate our friends in the middle of crowded concerts and festivals, (often times tripping on psychedelics)... but we somehow always did it... Which made finding each other like a huge celebration. And 90's concerts were way more memorable, seared into our minds, because everyone in the venue collectively hyper-focused their attention at the band and each other. When that many people focus together, it creates an energy that you rarely find today. Nowadays, if you manage to not be distracted by your own phone, then you're distracted by everyone around you holding up their phone, watching a concert through a 3 inch screen, gathering up a collection of shitty pics and videos that they will quickly ignore and forget..
You are so right! We'd walk around in dirty clothes and didn't wash for 3 days and eat greasy crap and rocked out. Some of my best memories are from going to these festivals with my friend.
I would love to see more reactions to Live performances. It is something special when the fans and artists can feed off each others energy. I'll admit, this performance by the band, with Eddie stage diving and crowd surfing will be hard to top.
Live is always better, they just have to find the right videos.
That was a mosh pit that Eddie fell into, people did alot of that at concerts, but Eddie is the only lead singer I've seen do that. He is soooo awesome!!!
My nose doesn't point straight anymore ever since I started doing that in the 90s lol
When Nirvana came to my city on their Bleach tour (‘91), Kurt walked across the pit while playing the guitar. Some missed/sour notes, but still really cool to watch.
First of all, let me start by saying I LOVE BRAD’S FACE! So yeah, this was the 90s they pretty much perfected the art of mosh and stage diving.
Your definition of grunge might be inaccurate
I was thinking the same because this is grunge 🤟
Several definitions of grunge are inaccurate.
This is Grunge....Better yet just good old Rock n Roll...
This.
I love your reactions to live performances. I understand the need for lyric videos but there are such cool things in concerts that you will never experience otherwise. So i hope you do more. Thanks for your reactions.
One of the most memorable moments IMHO in rock history.
its was voted most memorable moment on pinkpop at least
This was from their first tour & they were crazy. I saw them on this tour at Lollapalooza outside of Houston & Eddie climbed up the scaffolding, then jumped down onto a moving truck then into the crowd. He calmed down after the first tour I think.
Eddie is straight up crazy...he is famous for this sort of stuff at live shows. The funny thing is that in person he is one of the most down to earth humble people you can ever meet. I have been lucky enough to know him well and have some incredibly fun times with him.
Sure you know him well…..
@@1971wbr He is my cousin.
Grunge to me was always about an honest, rough at the edges sound, few frills. That it verges into a punk feel at times seems very right to me.
Saw them live at the Gorge in eastern Washington and Eddie has the best stage presence and charisma I've ever seen.
Yeah, you should really see more live videos of grunge bands. Even the more “chill” songs are still wild. Most grunge came from a more punk and underground metal scene, and their performances will show it.
👏👏👏 And FINALLY!!🤗 Btw, Grunge IS Rock.... always was, always will be!! It's Rock with a purpose (IMO) They don't just create music they evoke emotion and inspire! Hope that makes sense to y'all!!🤷♀️ Lol!! And this performance is epic and where you get to see what we PJ fans have affectionately called "Crazy Eddie" for 30 years now!! LOVE IT!!😁 Great reaction and keep going with PJ.... you gotta see PORCH on MTV Unplugged!! Even though it's accoustic and an intimate setting.....Eddie loses his ish in that one too!! Great reaction as always guys!!!🤟😎❤
Hi @Tina Gilbert
This whole concert is on UA-cam. It's pretty amazing.
(you can understand these guys still like to come over to the Netherlands. )
Rock concerts in the 90's were something else, luckily I was there to experience them. This show was only 1 year after their debut Album Ten was released and one of their first big shows in Europe. It's absolutely incredible.
THIS IS WHAT GRUNGE IS you guys haven’t really dove into the genre !!!
LOL...Welcome to the REAL vibe, Brad the music on stage and the crowd will give you energy off the charts alone
Love it when live show videos show the pulse of the crowd.
@@scapito Likewise
My first indoor gig was Pearljam at London’s Brixton Academy back in 92 , seeing Eddie climb the walls and jump into the crowd was unforgettable.
There is a UA-cam clip out - believe their last show or two there when Eddie reunites with the camera man and apologizes for being a fool. PJ was great and is still great today, have made some timeless music
Lol! Lex says, "They're grunge...which is usually sit on a stool and vibe." Well...not all the time. :)
And I love how guitarist Mike McCready played just a little bit of Voodoo Child in that solo!!
McCready is awesome. Hope they do some Mad Season, November Hotel from the Moore. 👍🏻
Eddie’s energy live is totally legendary
Lex that’s a WAH-Wah peddle that the guitarist uses in solo. Clapton used it with CREAM, as well as Jimi Hendrix, SRV, etc.
This was PJs first HUGE show. Ed was crazy back then. Listen to their first 3 albums a mix of this and the chill that you are used to. Actually most of their albums are. They put on a hell of a show still even though his vocal style has changed from age and years of singing like this. Love watching people experience this music for the first time.
You can see in the pj20 documentary how eddy felt. They had never played for this many people before. He was really shook up about it. I was there in the crowd somewhere. Got a black eye in the moshpit haha
Actually eddie behave crazy during the tour of ten, vs and vitalogy were the angry side of the band in general
eddie would climb up the lighting rig and monkeybar across the stage 30 ft off the deck with no net on a regular to this song-which was usually the last song
The early days of grunge was influenced heavily by punk rock. Such a great era for music
Cool video! Pearl jam is my favourite band and it's cool seeing you react to them. This was at the pinkpop festival in my home country. Legendary performance. Keep it up!
Grunge is a term used not only to identify a sound, but more a place and time in history. Seattle, 1990.
That’s the beauty of Pearl Jam and why they are my favorite band of all time. They encompass so many different genres and have aged like fine wine until today…that being said Porch is my favorite PJ track of all time ! It’s so good live too…and even the unplugged version is awesome
Revisit that concert (pinkpop festival 1992) again by watching their hard played Neil Young cover of "keep on rocking in the free world". It's a must, above all because it comes after "porch", which is not the last song of their concert as you put it, but that cover is. In it you will find more musical intensity than in "porch", so for that it is worth being reviewed. Great review! By the way, the name of that festival is ambiguous: it traditionally took place on the Pentecost weekend (in the nederlands). The dutch name of Pentecost is "pinksteren". Originally it was a pop music festival, with a wide sense of what popular music can be. The name "pinkpop" is put together of "pinksteren" and "pop". The icon of the festival is a doll dressed in pink. Translated into dutch, "doll" means "pop" = also pop music. Discover that icon in the video! On a short list of greatest pinkpop festival music to me personally Rage against the machine must be put with "fistful of steel" (pinkpop 1993), where you can see their guitarist Tom Morello (later with Audioslave) doing not before and after seen weirdest and best things on his guitar. Be mind-blown by watching that crowd reacting...
"Alive" is awesome so is Rearview mirror
LOL! "Is he gonna jump" Eddie Vedder didn't create stage diving, but he perfected it! The higher the better...
"I did not expect Pearl Jam to act like Pearl Jam" is what this reaction boiled down to. 😂
@@JoeBlow_4 Yeah, it's almost like their inaccurate perception of both grunge music and Pearl Jam, which is based on their circumstantial exposure to only some of their uncharacteristically subdued performances, somehow made the situation funny and led to my comment, uh? I guess Alanis Morissette would even say that the whole situation was ironic. 🤣
State of love and trust from MTV’s unplugged!!
I can't even fathom how awesome that would be. To be in front of a crowd and everyone clapping or jumping in unison just grooving to your music. It looks unreal
Seeing Pearl Jam during those years, was a experience, 90 min of raw energy from crowd to band ,band to band,and band to crowd
I saw them live that same year in Minneapolis. Same shit. Dude climbed the scaffolding on the side of the stage and jumped. Pearl Jam was the real deal.
This is what music in the early 90's looked like. Young Pearl Jam was just all energy in a live concert.
"How is that safe?"
I laughed. The entire point of it was that it isn't. :-)
The good old stage diving, crowd surfing, mosh pits.. Magical when I did it the first time, 16 years old loaded with these teenage hormones 😁
Oh nice… I was there in 1992, 2000, 2018 and will again next year 2022….🤩can’t wait to see my favorite band again. Funny story, in 2018 Eddie revisited this moment where he jumps from the crane. He thought the camera guy was angry at him because he was screaming. So in 2018 he wished to see the camera guy to apologize. So they found him (he was already retired) and the guy told Eddie the true story, that he was not shouting at Eddie but at the crew to hold the crane down.
This is grunge. And they play with this intensity for 3 hours - even on the soft songs
Eddie is a shaman. ❤
I like how Mcready slipped into a little Voodoo Child during the solo.
Eddie Vedder is a beautiful singer & vocalist. That unmistakable voice that hits you in just a couple of bars. Grunge. So many highs and lows in his voice. His range is enigmatic, especially as he thrashes around the stage like a punk rock metal dude. You can ALWAYS ALWAYS hear the emotions in his performances & the depth of his songs.
Props to Eddie for staying relllllaaatively clean. The only one of the Big 5 to survive. ..."I'm Still Alive" The song is not about drugs - but that lyric certainly is fitting.
I found the ENTIRE uncut "Unplugged on MTV". Straight through - no cuts even as the filming stopped in between each song for the show. This camera kept rolling for everything. Y'all it is INCREDIBLE. Link in comments.
MTV "Unplugged" (UNCUT)
ua-cam.com/video/VmeZ3kOgIOE/v-deo.html
They WANTED him to jump, they were going to do everything in their power to break his fall(they succeeded), and anyone who may have been hurt LOVED IT. That was Vedder's thing, crazy ass stage dives, and the crowd absolutely loved it.
Best set of all time
Eddie Vedder = GOAT
There will never be another front man like this. He emotionally and physically kills himself night after night, year after year and he's a great singer. Lyrically, he writes the best songs. The talent and skill level of this band is astronomical. They have about 10 studio albums. They can play metal, punk, blues, folk, hard rock, progressive, funk, pop, and even sludge. Just for some variety check out these songs...
Crazy Mary
Footsteps
Go
Habit
All Or None
Dance Of The Clairvoyant
Elderly Woman
Spin The Black Circle
Grievance
Indifference
Tremor Christ
Let Me Sleep It's Christmas
Favorite song off their first record! 👍
These amazing live concert moments are why you guys gotta do Def Leppard Rocket in Sheffield 1993 HQ version. 60k people with a tag-team improv solo in the middle of the song.
This wasn’t the last performance, they came out and did an encore - you should check that out too! Rockin in the free world, Pinkpop ‘92
that whole concert is amazing.
Eddie's an avid surfer, so that's something. Not to take away from this incredible performance, but Peter Gabriel did this first. Check out the live version of "Lay Your Hands On Me," I think from '86/'87 tour.
Back at that time the Seattle sound bands were trying to out do each other with crazy stuff at shows and audience’s got a real bonus for it.
Remember watching Eddie use Tipitinas in New Orleans as his personal jungle gym back in 92! It was incredible! The energy was unreal!
Grunge is the raw energy of punk, hardcore and metal without the posturing and ridiculous spandex outfits and perms of 80's metal. "Come as you are" ;)
So much energy on display in this one. Wish I could have been there.
And this was their first gig ever outside of a small club....!!! Great review of this Brad and Lex
That's a real concert!! If you haven't been to one of those you definitely NEED to!!!
Eddie in the 1990s he was wild. Climbed lights above stage and scaring the members. I've seen them twice and they give it all onstage. Lived in Seattle and was such a fun time for music. ❤
All of their concerts in 1992 were this level of energy from start to finish.
Pearl Jam in 1992 was something else.
It was amazing growing up thru during grunge. Stage diving, crowd surfing, mosh pits. legit fun. Music was so so good.
Grunge is a commercial name for bands who happened to be from Washington state at that time. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, and Soundgarden are known as the big four of the genre. This is real live concert grunge, the unplugged stuff was just a watered down version of kick ass hard songs that's all✌🤘
I’ve seen Pearl Jam live about 4 times and they never disappoint! Love Eddie!!! ❤️ once saw him open up for Pearl Jam because sonic youth who was supposed to open had an emergency so Eddie came out by himself and sat on a stool and did a few songs by himself! It was incredible!
I loved this. These were happy times. It was all about having fun. It was a whole vibe.
Sitting down and "vibing" unplugged is not grunge, this shit's grunge, the nasty, raw shit!
Man do I love this song and performance!! This encapsulates exactly what grunge is. Back in the day Eddie would swing on just about anything, this is prob the safest thing he's done. Eddie and Pearl jam are still a powerful tour de force!!
More of them please!
As a teenager in the age of grunge...it was a beautiful time to be alive and experience concerts like this first hand.
Eddie is the closest thing to Spiderman. Even though you don't make videos anymore, you are my oasis that I visit from time to time, you are both wonderful.
A Pearl Jam song you should check, is Do the Evolution.
You both have to see them live. I saw them live in Portland, Oregon back in 1993, at their height...once of the best concerts I have been to.
THIS IS grunge! You were watching an "Unplugged" acoustic version on the MTV show. This is the real deal! You REALLY need to go down the rabbit hole on this band.
I know time stands still for no one, but, I miss this version of Ed! I've been to 11 PJ shows and most of them were in the 90s! We thought there was no way he was going to make it out of the 90s alive! The irony of it all? He's the only original grunge frontman still alive!
Crazy, just saw Pearl jam live on Pinkpop 2022 last night, and this video was from when i went to Pinkpop for the first time 30 years ago.
That catch is a testament to how much people LOVE Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam!!!TRUST
Usually you can jump straight off the stage into the crowd, but the gap from the arena setup meant he had to use a camera boom to reach them.
How ironic would it have been if, after surviving that leap unscathed, Eddie would have seriously injured himself tripping over the speaker.