Pearl Jam ( http://www.pearljam.com/ )
Live 2000
Epic Records
Rating: 2.5 Flaming Goat Heads
The concept is simple, yet overwhelmingly bizarre. One tour, two continents, 9000+ minutes of rock and roll boiled down into more than 70 double disc bootleg (?) releases. And you thought the Grateful Dead was prolific. The most obvious question is, does even the most hardcore of hardcore Pearl Jam fan need this? For the record, Recoil Magazine was fortunate enough to receive copies of show 51 (Detroit, Oct 7) and show 52 (Milwaukee, Oct 9). Sounds good, looks good, nice long set lists, everything neatly packaged and mastered, yet something about this is bothersome. This is Pearl Jam right? The same Jam that spit in the face of Ticketmaster? The same Jam that refuses to indulge or contribute to the lucrative world of MTV? The same holier-than-thou Jam? How, then, can they justify such an intensely commercial endeavor? Go to your local Best Buy or Tape World or whatever and check the Pearl Jam section, these bootlegs are taking over the racks like a virus, spilling over into the aisles, preying upon the simpleminded Pearl Jam fan and squeezing him out of 12 bucks per. My advice to Jam fans is to screw paying for all of these shows, maybe it's cool to have the show you went to preserved on disc, I can understand that, but even though they make a concerted effort to change the set list every night, they pretty much sound the same. Put this under the failed experiment category.-Andrew Watson
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