Episode 154: Key Arena - 12/6/2013

Continuing our trip through South America, this week we bring you to where it all began in 2005. This show from Santiago, Chile is the band's first ever in the continent, and while there was some hesitation and concern due to the crowd's size in the early onset, the boys found their comfort zone and fed off the energy of such a passionate group of fans. Joining us on this episode is our friend and patron Javier Hervas who gets to talk a little about his experience of living down in Chile and never getting a chance to see the band. He'll discuss the crowd and how early they were to get there, what it meant to hear the band kick off the show with Release and Corduroy as well as the influence that The Ramones had on South American fans and why their performance of I Believe In Miracles was so special from this night. We'll listen to some outstanding performances and crowd reactions throughout this night including a powerful Even Flow, an outstanding version of Save You and a rendition of Black that blew the crowd away. If you want more from Live On 4 Legs, come join our team on Patreon! For contributing, you'll receive extra bonus episode content (Bridge School shows, song Evolutions) monthly bootlegs of future shows we're covering and a chance to have your Pearl Jam show story told on the podcast! join here: http://patreon.com/liveon4legs

30 Sep 20201h 32min

We're finally here! Around The World has taken us to South America and what better way to start than in the biggest country Brazil! This week we're celebrating a Sao Paolo show from 2015 that had incredibly emotional ties to it being performed only one day after the Paris terrorist attacks. The band knows when they are in a position of power to bring people together in a time where its needed and right from the start, Ed makes sure that 60,000 in this crowd are part of a family. There are no lack of emotional moments in this show and that's always apparent whenever Long Road pops in as your opener. During Love Boat Captain he has the crowd in his full grasp capturing an incredible moment where he goes back n forth at the end repeating the word love. The emotion continues when the approach Come Back and then again in the encore for Imagine, Sirens, I Am Mine and Black. The healing power of all these songs are immeasurable and you can feel the crowd attaching themselves to every moment. Not only did they have to battle the state of the world, they also had to battle the weather conditions of the night. Ed even quips during Lightning Bolt by saying it's a clear night tonight just for the Gods of rock n roll to strike down upon the stage with rain and major windstorms. In a moment of turbulence, Ed calms the crowd with a beautiful rendition of Elderly Woman giving them a spotlight while the rest of the band takes safety precautions. The rain would continue to come down, most notably during Better Man where it looked as if bullets were dropping from the sky. And as always, the crowds are what make these Brazil shows so good. Getting amazing sing-alongs on Do The Evolution, Jeremy and RVM are the reasons why the band keeps going back down there for more. Thanks to Black Circle for joining us earlier this week, we included a byte from their episode that we saved for this one talking about some of their favorite Brazil show moments. And thanks to fan page Pearl Jam To Fly for selecting a great show for us to discuss! We are still taking donations for September for our fundraiser for runfreely.org. A charitable organization founded by ESPN's Kenny Mayne that donates its funds to manufacturing mobility braces for veterans with severe ligament damage. If you'd like to contribute, head to http://patreon.com/liveon4legs to support the cause!

25 Sep 20201h 57min

We're getting ready to feature out first episodes covering Pearl Jam's South American shows, and what better way to help us kick off that week than to welcome one of the best tribute band's to Pearl Jam that there is - straight out of Brazil, this episode we'll be talking to the boys in Black Circle! Their debut album of originals entitled Mercury will be out on October 5 and we'll be spinning the Black Circle on TWO of their songs during the show! Our conversation ranges from topics such as the importance of their presence during the unfortunate events of COVID-19 and how certain members of the band took notice, including Eddie who had some fantastic words of wisdom for lead singer Lenny Prado. We'll talk a little about their debut album and how while staying a tribute to Pearl Jam, they'd still like to branch out and push their original music. And we'll also talk about some of their favorite and least favorite PJ songs to play. We'll have more from Black Circle in our episode covering Sao Paolo 2015 later this week where the boys in the band will share their favorite moments from PJ shows in Brazil! Keep a look out for that! This month we're taking donations for runfreely.org, a non-profit organization that helps create knee braces for veterans with major ligament damage that provide comfortable mobility and prevents a possible amputation. If you'd like to contribute, please head over to our Patreon - http://patreon.com/liveon4legs and tribute any amount you see fit!

23 Sep 20201h 21min

We conclude the European portion of our Around The World series this week with a stop in Lisbon, Portugal that happened to be the final night of the No Code tour in 1996. The band and crowd brought their a-games and it made for an electrifying atmosphere with lots of chanting and hi-jinx abound. A big talking point from this show is centered around Mr. Stone Gossard who's parents were in attendance to witness the event. You can tell its a setlist curated to some of Stone's favorites because he's always been a proponent of getting the hits in the set - which is why we see a three headed combo of Even Flow, Jeremy and Daughter in a row. But they also take a few fan requests to play some rarely heard tracks, one of which wasn't played due to Stone forgetting the song enitrely. Other cool facets of this setlist include the OTOTO opener of Who You Are which would almost fade into oblivion after this tour, Not For You which features a classic Ed moment where he takes a second to rant about the meaning of the song, an Immortality that absolutely steals the show, and then of course Ed makes love to a push broom during Porch. How else is a tour supposed to end? If you enjoy the show and would like to contribute to keep it afloat, be involved in cool projects such as fan forums and setlist drafts, head to our Patreon and help us out - http://patreon.com/liveon4legs

16 Sep 20201h 28min

We're back around the world this week and we'll continue the series this entire month finishing up two more stops and Europe and FINALLY getting to some highly regarded South American shows. This week though we kill two birds with one stone (Gossard) as we'll also treat this episode as a Patreon request from our friend Luke who attended this show! The best thing that you can say about a Pearl Jam show is that when you hear the city and year, you know immediately what it attaches to. For this one, it's Oceans for Israel. Israel was a fan from Mexico who was set to attend this show, but in June of that year suffered a heart attack and would later pass away due to complications from surgery. His friends and fans alike started a social media campaign to get the band to play Oceans, his white whale, at the show. And as the band always does, they take it a step further with a section that could've been seen as dedicated to Israel featuring Oceans, Light Years and Daughter with an Esta Bien tag. Other great things from this show - we'll get to hear a great crowd participate on their most popular of songs such as Black and Do The Evolution and we FINALLY get to cover Riot Act deep cut Ghost for the first time ever on this show. Want to get your story told on the podcast while simultaneously receiving more great episode content? head over to our Patreon page for more: http://patreon.com/liveon4legs

9 Sep 20201h 42min

It's the 2 year anniversary of our podcast's birth and we thought it would be appropriate to give everyone, including ourselves, a little gift. This week we're covering Benaroya Hall - the 2,500 seat capacity Seattle venue usually known for being an orchestra concert hall was taken over by an insane Pearl Jam crowd there to witness the band perform some of their rarest cuts in rare form. The band usually known for their on-stage energy were confined to a seated position as they busted out, for the most part, an acoustic set of songs that fans hadn't heard live before. They were treated to live debuts of two original songs - Fatal and Man of the Hour and a rare Johnny Cash cover of 25 Minutes To Go. But alongside the debuting tracks were songs so deep in the band's back catalog that these fans might've needed to be on a different continent in order to have heard them before. Versions of Low Light and Around The Bend were sparse at the time and adding songs such as Parting Ways, All Or None, Dead Man and Masters of War gave the crowd plenty to cross off the checklist. We'll do it old school style and go song-by-song in full as we talk about the once in a lifetime event and what made it so legendary. We'll also recap the story shared by Kenny Mayne in our profile episode earlier this week about how a ticket to this show fell into his lap during a Sonics game. Every contribution we make on Patreon for the month of September will be donated to runfreely.org - Kenny's organization helps fund the creation of ligament braces for ailing veterans. if you'd like to chip in to help the cause, head on over to http://patreon.com/liveon4legs to donate by the end of the month!

2 Sep 20201h 56min

This week we're celebrating our 2-year anniversary as a pod and joining the show to talk about his Pearl Jam fandom is none other than ESPN SportsCenter anchor Kenny Mayne. We get to chat with Kenny about some of his favorite shows, his friendship with Jeff Ament and how they met, and some great stories about meeting Stevie Wonder and Tom Petty. One of Kenny's best stories he shares is about the famous Benaroya Hall show from 2003 and how he was able to get his hands on a ticket. Stay tuned tomorrow as we'll be back in our regular episode time slot to talk about the Benny show in full. This month all of our Patreon contributions will be donated to Kenny's http://runfreely.org that raises money to help create mobility braces for veterans with limb salvage conditions. head to http://patreon.com/liveon4legs to help support Kenny's cause for the month of September.

1 Sep 20201h 1min

And now for something kind of different. Usually this podcast does a deep dive into Pearl Jam's live catalog, but in this episode we change it up just a little bit. We take a deep dive into the short-lived Mirror Ball tour that spanned 11 shows in the summer of 1995 to promote the album. With the other 4 band members joining a rock n roll legend, how does the dynamic change not having Ed up on stage with them? It's tough to make comparisons because they are of completely different styles and backgrounds, but the way Neil utilizes the band is not much different than how he would utilize Crazy Horse when touring with them. Neil is the general on stage and we'll talk about how the band was thrust into elongated, 15+ minute jam sessions on powerful songs such as Scenery, Cortez The Killer and Like A Hurricane. This was out of Pearl Jam's wheelhouse, but being such a talented core they were able to stretch their limits and follow Neil's lead which would certainly help them grow as musicians during their prime. We'll also talk Mirror Ball songs, Neil performing solo and we'll chat with our Patreon forum about how the band was in the midst of bouncing back from the infamous Polo Fields show. Contribute and subscribe to the show, get more content and be a part of what we're doing. Head here for more: http://patreon.com/liveon4legs

26 Aug 20201h 35min