Pearl Jam

Grunge heavyweights Pearl Jam were in town Saturday night, in support of their eleventh studio album, Gigaton, which was released in 2020.

Showing off his musical chops, Klinghoffer was on the guitar, bass, piano, and drum pads while singing. Their 1994 album Vitalogy was the second fastest selling CD in history up to that point, with 877,000 sold in under a week. The tour was rescheduled after COVID-19 hit, and finally made its way to the Canadian Tire Centre over the Labour Day weekend.

At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Pearl Jam was an early victim, one of the first bands forced to cancel a world tour that was to be in.

It seems like Pearl Jam have struck the fountain of youth. So as a nod to them, the band turned around and performed ‘Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town’ almost exclusively for them. Several times he toasted the audience with his ever-present bottle of red wine. That led into a jam session worthy of the band’s name. After banging on his tambourines, Eddie would throw them out to the audience like a frisbee, go back and get more, play them, then throw them out to the audience. So Eddie and Josh brought out theirs as well; four guitars is always better when you want to make a point, sometimes you just want an orchestra of electric guitars. [Pearl Jam ](https://pearljam.com/)was an early victim, one of the first bands forced to cancel a world tour that was to be in support of their then-recently-released album Gigaton. “Seeing Taylor’s son Oliver play today, I broke down.” The band then played ‘Better Man’ in memory of Taylor; Eddie finished the song with some windmills à la Pete Townshend. Josh closed out his set with a cover of ‘Sometimes’ by Canadian Daniel Lanois which was very well received by the audience. With two principal guitarists (Mike and Stone Gossard), plus sometimes Eddie on rhythm guitar, all being pushed by an outstanding bass and drum rhythm section of Jeff Ament and Matt Cameron, nothing is missing. There was plenty of passion inflected in their music, but also a subdued groove. Josh started off his set with his single ‘The Night Won’t Scare Me’, an alt-rock song that he wrote at the height of the pandemic.

Watch the band play the 'Lost Dogs' track in Hamilton for the first time since 2016. By Andy Kahn Sep 7, 2022 • 8:35 am PDT.

Pearl Jam’s North American Tour 2022 continues its way through Canada with a show in Toronto on Thursday, September 8. A pair of Ten selections wrapped up the 19-song set, with “Black” tagged with “Androgynous Mind” and Ricki Lee Jones’ “We Belong Together,” followed by “Porch” serving as the closer. The audience at FirstOntario Centre was treated to a setlist featuring several additional songs not played by the band in several years.