Live On 4 Legs: Pearl Jam Podcast

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Pearl Jam Deprogrammed Championship Edition - Top 40 Dec 22, 2020

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It's time to play Pearl Jam Deprogrammed: Championship Edition! In this two part episode, we take six incredibly passionate fans of the band and see how they agree and disagree on their favorite songs. The way we do that is by playing a game called Deprogrammed, a podcast that collaboratively comes up with a starter kit for an artist. In this instance, we will be deciding on the Top 10 songs in Pearl Jam's catalog until we get down to selecting the song chosen as number one with a bullet. Since this is an expanded version of the podcast, we've taken songs from each of Pearl Jam's albums and grouped them together. There are 4 groups, each group contains 42-44 songs. From that selection, every member of the panel will pick their 15 favorites with the ultimate goal of creating a Top 10 in each group. If all 6 agree unanimously on a song, it automatically reaches the top 10 of its group. Anywhere from 5-3 votes will put a song in the conversation to advance to the top 10 and 2 or less votes will prevent a song from entering that conversation. Here are the album groups that we will be debating on: Group 1: Ten, Riot Act, Gigaton, Merkin Ball, 4 Lost Dog disc 1 tracks Group 2: Vs., Binaural, Avocado, Singles Soundtrack, 4 Lost Dogs disc 1 tracks Group 3: Vitalogy, Lost Dogs disc 2, Backspacer, 4 Lost Dogs disc 1 tracks Group 4: No Code, Yield, Lightning Bolt, 4 Lost Dogs disc 1 tracks Stay tuned for the next episode where we'll take the 40 selected in this show and whittle it down to the final ten! http://patreon.com/liveon4legs

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Dec 21, 2020

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We have a big announcement to make, listen in! We also touch on THAT VIDEO that was posted and give you a teaser for this week's Deprogrammed: Championship Edition that you won't want to miss! Liveon4legs.com

Pearl Jam Deprogrammed: Championship Edition Teaser Trailer Dec 19, 2020

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This week: Live on 4 Legs converts to a game show as six mega-fans pick their favorite songs in the entire discography in order to determine the top-10 BEST Pearl Jam songs of all-time! Stay tuned Tuesday 12/22 and Wednesday 12/23 for the episode drops

Episode 110: Toronto, ONT (Binaural) - 5/10/16 Dec 16, 2020

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Well, we finally did it! We traveled the entire globe and covered Pearl Jam shows from almost every country in one full calendar year! It was a massive challenge, but also a joyful experience to get the pleasure to listen to how crowds all over the world respond to Pearl Jam's presence. To celebrate the final live performance we'll cover in 2020, we picked a good one going back only a few years to when the band played the full Binaural album in Toronto. The band at this point is coming off two full album shows in 2014 as well as two earlier in 2016 with Vs. in Greenville and Ten in Philadelphia. Since Toronto was the last spot on the tour and a city that the band has such rich history in, they busted out the album with possibly the rarest songs they've ever played live. While this is such a huge treat to all the Pearl Jam lifers, Binaural isn't an album that resonates that well with the casual crowd. So 13 songs in a row that they almost never play live will leave you a mixed reaction no matter how you slice it. But the situation was of course unique and a service to the many late era fans who probably checked off a lot of serious collector boxes this night. God's Dice, Evacuation, Rival, Sleight of Hand and Parting Ways are songs that were barely consistent in their set when the album came out in 2000 so to get them here, and as a podcast we don't get to cover these songs too often, it's a treat break these songs out of the back catalog. Along with the entire album we'll discuss the rest of the set, the hits and misses and what made this show so hard to construct a set for. Patreon: http://patreon.com/liveon4legs Discord: https://discord.gg/jbpughvC

Episode 109: Mexico City, MEX Night 3 - 7/19/03 Dec 09, 2020

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This is the penultimate episode in our Around The World series as we dip into this great Mexico City tour closer from 2003. There are many ingredients in the recipe for a perfect show, but the integral pieces from this set are so unique and unlike any other of its kind. First off, it's a tour closer. Second, it's a lucrative night 3 show, those don't come around too often. Does it have rare songs? You bet! Guest appearances? Hell Yeah! Well, it can't possibly happen to have all of that AND be on the birthday of a band member, right? Oh you are in for a treat my friend! The band says goodbye to the far traveled and controversial Riot Act tour by throwing a massive party to celebrate. It happens to be the founding member, Stone Gossard's date of birth, so what's a better gift than to bring out a mariachi band to sing Las Mananitas, La Bamba and Guantalamera? You can tell from the energy on the stage how good a mood everyone is in for this show as they play up to a red hot crowd and hangout with friends and tour opener Sleater-Kinney. Big highlights from this night include an opener of Wash, Hunger Strike feat. Corin Tucker, Black, Rearviewmirror with an improv, Mankind for Stone and a phone call to none other than Johnny Ramone before a performance of I Believe In Miracles. It's a show more than worthy of a high spot on Pearl Jam's all-time lists! Patreon: http://patreon.com/liveon4legs Discord: https://discord.gg/jbpughvC

Episode 108: San Jose, Costa Rica - 11/20/11 Dec 02, 2020

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We're coming down to the wire in our year long Around The World Series. As last week we wrapped up South America, today's episode we'll focus on the one and only time the band took a trip down to Central America as Ed and Boom were able to catch some waves down in Costa Rica. If your expectations for this show are as high as any show in Argentina, Brazil or Chile, do yourself a favor and lower them immediately. You cannot go into this show thinking that the crowd is going to be red hot for everything. They had their moments where they came through and sounded pretty good on the boot, but this should not be lumped into the same category as shows from those other nations. With that being said, this show coming towards the end of the 2011 run which was still promoting an album that many people deemed unspectacular doesn't raise a lot of eyeballs. Some nice moments such as a Vs. opener combo of Go into Animal, a great Daughter/Why Go transition that was completely dictated by the crowd and a nice little surprise Oceans in the encore are enough to raise eyebrows, but some strange setlist decisions and way too much from Ten doesn't set this show enough apart from others. We'll dissect what worked and what didn't and we'll also mention a mini riot that occurred near the beginning of the show. Patreon: http://patreon.com/liveon4legs Discord: https://discord.gg/jbpughvC

Episode 107: Buenos Aires, ARG - 4/3/13 Nov 25, 2020

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Happy Thanksgiving to our American listeners! This week we're gonna discuss one of South America's finest performances down in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013. This continues our Around The World Series that only has 3 more episodes that remain after this! We'll hit up Costa Rica, Mexico and Canada to close out 2020. The Argentinian crowds... hoo boy! They are something special. This show being a part of a festival set was nothing on the rare side, but in every single song they played you could hear and feel the crowd's reactions. From the opening of songs like Even Flow, Given To Fly and Hail Hail the crowd sings the patented guitar parts and at some points does it louder than the band. It happens all night, even on the songs you least suspect. Even something more quiet like Just Breathe has a massive crowd response. You won't want to miss this episode if you love the way the band interacts with the crowd. As we'll share, you'll hear in two separate instances where Ed will have to completely stop a song in order to collect his thoughts. On a highlight such as Daughter, you'll get to hear Ed tap into his inner bi-linguist as he sings the entire It's OK tag in Spanish in what's a massive highlight. Join our Patreon - http://patreon.com/liveon4legs Join our Discord - https://discord.gg/PCpyhxDR

Episode 106: Atlanta, GA 4/19/03 Nov 18, 2020

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This week we're celebrating the city of Atlanta, Georgia that deserves praise recently for their tremendous voter turnout helping the state go blue for the first time in 28 years! And Atlanta knows about long periods of waiting because in this episode we'll discuss the last non-festival show in the city that happened 17 years ago! That's FIVE albums since Atlanta has gotten a proper show! This one is an important one, and we invite long time patron Glenn Bobe to tell his story from that night. After a contentious performance in Nashville the night prior, the political rage was building up during this time period. Anything having to do with patriotism, support of President Bush or the Iraq War set the band off. This show has a moment from the very early onset where an oversized American flag was blocking the view of fans seated on the lawn. This set Ed off during an aggressive performance of Grievance and set the tone for a night where politics needed to be part of the conversation. But that was the era - a tumultuous time that had everyone on edge. However, the band brought their A (or B+) game for a show that doesn't get talked about all that often during this era. This show had its crowd pleasing moments with a few rare appearances including Glorified G that made a comeback that year, Present Tense that was played for the first time in 65 shows and only the 3rd appearance of Crown of Thorns with the first noted Chloe Dancer tease accompanying it. You'll also hear stellar performances of 1/2 Full and Black and a moment in Corduroy that is commonplace for today's versions, but was potentially snuck in for the first time here. Join our Patreon - http://patreon.com/liveon4legs Join our Discord - https://discord.gg/KmPyGph3

Episode 105: Bogota, COL - 11/25/15 Nov 11, 2020

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The election is now in our rearview (sort of) and we can get back into business finishing off our year long Around The World series in South America. This week we dig into the band's only show in Colombia from the 2015 continental tour. As per usual with the South American crowd, they are on fire. From Ole chants to the patented singing during songs like Do The Evolution, Better Man, Even Flow and Black. The band gets themselves acclimated nicely to the new country and even shares a statement for violence against women awareness where they all wear orange t-shirts in the final set. Stay tuned in this episode for information about our Christmas Party and Secret Santa gift exchange! Contribute to the show - http://patreon.com/liveon4legs

Episode 104: Constitution Hall - 9/19/98 Nov 03, 2020

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Happy Election Day! Remember to go out today and vote. This is the final episode in our month's long coverage of politically charged Pearl Jam shows and we finish off with a Vote for Choice show that became a Vault release in Constitution Hall 1998. Just like Charlotte 1996, this show was accompanied by Gloria Steinum with registering to vote as the priority of the night. This show is a Vault for a reason. Whenever they release a show as a Vault they do it consciously knowing that there are going to be songs on this release that you don't often get to hear live. Right off the bat, Act Of Love as the 2nd song in exemplifies that. They first time they played Act Of Love was in that same venue, it happened to be twice in one night for the same voter benefit show. Considering they've only played this song 10 times and only once since this night, it was easily one of the most memorable moments. Other rare live moments that you get from this show were two of the rarest from Yield - All Those Yesterdays and Push Me Pull Me. We talk a lot about big moments from this show such as Black with a blistering McCready solo and multiple songs where Ed's gravelly growl is in full force. Contribute to our Patreon and help the show: http://patreon.com/liveon4legs

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