Pear Jam - Unauthorised - Jeremy (1994) Bootleg

(U.S 1990 - Present)

This show was supposed to be in LA but Pearl Jam were having their war with Ticketmaster and so they refused to do a show there. Empire Polo Fields: Indio, California was chosen instead.

This show became legendary for the tirade that Eddie Vedder threw because of the shoe throwing. People were pelting the bands with shoes and anything else they could find. Eddie Vedder threatened to wait at the gate and kick the shit out of whoever was barefoot. During ‘Porch,’ Ed invites the audience to spit at him. They finished the show playing behind their amps to keep away from the shoes.

This show, was also problematic with respect to parking and cold temperatures. The unruly crowd was moshing in line during the soundcheck and to PA music! Before Pearl Jam started, a roadie sang a hysterical rendition of ‘Copa Cabana.’

The audience is launching shoes at the stage even before and during the opening acts. In fact, during Eleven’s set, a shoe hits Jack Iron’s bass drum, he stops the song and says that if he finds out who threw it he would make him pay for the damages (quite pissed).

Finally, Pearl Jam hits the stage, with the audience behaving outrageously. Prior to playing "Deep", Ed remarks, “Kill your local rapist, but torture him first, then serve him to your enemy for dinner.” Later: “The first guy I met today gave me this book and asked if I wanted to know the secret for living forever.” Tossing it into the crowd, he says, “Why the fuck would I want to live forever?” During "Porch", Ed invites the audience to spit at him. The agitated crowd, continuing to throw stuff onto the stage, leads Ed to comment that “… me and Jeff are going to the front gate and when you exit, we are going to beat the shit out of every barefoot person here” and “… throw a gun so I can shoot you.” 

The band eventually plays from behind their amps so they won’t be hit by the flying shoes. This audience was awful. The recording of "Blood" from this show is released on the "Daughter" single. "Fuck Me in the Brain" was released later on the third fan club single (as "Ramblings"). The guys deserve a medal for playing this long and this well despite the rowdy crowd. [extract from pearljamfm.com]

Concert Review: Los Angles Times, 8th Nov 1993
'Pearl Jam Blossoms in Desert'

BY STEVE HOCHMAN

INDIO — Early in Pearl Jam’s concert on Friday at the Empire Polo Club in this desert city, singer Eddie Vedder--commenting on the out-of-the-way location--told the huge audience, “You gotta run pretty far to get some space for yourself these days.”

But even Vedder, for all his recent comments about the pressures of stardom, probably never imagined that later he and his bandmates would have to seek space behind the amplifier stacks, running for cover from a barrage of shoes thrown at them by a pea-brained contingent of the audience.

Vedder and the band made the most of this, hiding from the crowd while performing the Dead Boys’ old punk song “Sonic Reducer” in a memorable moment of unplanned rock theater in Pearl Jam’s biggest concert so far of its new tour.

Neither the tongue-in-cheek retreat nor the rest of the show, however, really answered whether Pearl Jam, with its record-breaking album sales, is a band for the ages or the band of the moment.

Vedder left no doubt about his own talents, with his charismatic intensity losing nothing in this vast setting, where 25,000 people--an estimated 15,000 of them having driven the two or three hours from the L.A. area, which the band is avoiding for now--stood in the middle of the California desert singing along to anthems of youthful alienation, suicide and survival.

Vedder was clearly communicating with his fans, and such songs as the new “Daughter” and “Animal” and the now-standards “Alive” and “Jeremy"--portraits of young people haunted by familial betrayal and a world with no ground rules--rang solidly true.

The band, though, didn’t quite seem ready to jump to the arena and stadium headlining status, showing occasional sloppiness that might have been electrifying in a smaller setting, but didn’t really get across in the great outdoors. But maybe it’s good that for all its impact, Pearl Jam has room--and promise--for growth.

The site itself--essentially a really, really big, palm-lined lawn--proved on the whole a success, comfortably accommodating the large crowd with relatively few traffic and parking problems. It was certainly far better than last summer’s “Lollapalooza” shows at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in those respects. [taken from www.latimes.com]

This post consists of MP3's (320kps) ripped  from my Grapefruit CD which I picked up recently from my local Salvos store.  Just love these Unauthorised boots - they keep popping up every now and then.  This particular release is one of the few that has the correct release date on the front cover and is the first half of the original concert. I suspect the 2nd half of the concert was released under the title of 'Unauthorised - Blood' which I have yet to locate. And so the hunt continues.

This particular concert doesn't start well and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the first 2 tracks. Things start to improve when they play "Animal" but its not until they play their controversial single "Jeremy" when they start to shine.  This is by far the best track here in my opinion, closely followed by "Daughter" and "Alive".  

To make your listening experience more enjoyable, I have taken the liberty of enhancing the volume on all tracks and also removing the first minute of the opening track "Release", as it only contained a few clicks and thuds while the band walks on stage.

Please note that this concert has been released under various titles, such as 'Manifesting Morrison' (by Hawk) and 'One Way Needle' (by Alley Kat). Covers for these releases are shown right

Track Listing

01. Release

02. Go

03. Animal

04. Why Go

05. Deep

06. Jeremy

07. Glorified G

08. Daughter

09. Alive

10. Rearview Mirror

Pearl Jam are:

Eddie Vedder (vocals)

Stone Gossard (guitar)

Jeff Ament (bass)

Mike McCready (guitar)

Dave Krusen (drums)

 

Pearl Jam Unauthorised (114Mb) New Link 27/01/2026

Pearl Jam - Unauthorised Alive - Live In Atlanta (1994) Bootleg

 (U.S 1990 - Present)

Nirvana's "smells Like Teen Spirit" and album Nevermind brought the pacific Northwest music scene into the spotlight, but it was pearl Jam's Ten and its attendant singles that assured the spotlight would stay there and focus on a hotbed of  talent that also included Alice h Chains, Soundgarden, and Sir Mix-a-Lot.

"Alive", Ten's first single, released worldwide on September 1, 1991, was key not just to Pearl Jam's breakthrough but to Pearl Jam becoming a band in 1990, bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard had seen their previous band dissolve due to a drug fatality. 

They recorded demos with new guitarist Mike McCready, which were passed on to singer Eddie Vedder then living in San Diego, by a mutual friend. Vedder provided lyrics and vocals for three songs, the first of which was 'Alive." That fall, Vedder relocated to Seattle and Pearl Jam were on their way.

Though seen as a celebratory anthem due to its stirring chorus,"Alive" is more a painful journey of self-discovery. Vedder later revealed the song's dark inspiration, based on his troubled youth.
As a teen, Vedder learned that his father was actually his step-father and his biological father had died years before.

Eddie Vedder

The second verse hints at incest, underscored by McCready's searing guitar solo. Despite its darkness, the song struck a nerve, hitting the Top 20 on both the Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts even though only available in the U.S. on import. [by Gillian G.Gaar]

Most major rock acts go on tour and play the same exact set every night, sometimes even repeating their stage banter verbatim like they’re reading from a script. Pearl Jam have always taken a different path. Their set list is like the complete Pearl Jam catalog on shuffle where any song can surface at any point. Back in the 1990s, it caused their hardcore fans to feverishly trade bootlegs on cassette tapes and burned CDs, but in 2000 the group began selling pristine recordings of every show. This is one of their better bootleg releases

By the end of the Vs. tour, Pearl Jam were playing at absolute peak form. This widely bootlegged live radio broadcast contains nearly all of Vs. and Ten, mixed with snippets of covers like “Angie” by the Rolling Stones and even Kiss’ “Detroit Rock City.” The show came just as news broke that Kurt Cobain was missing after walking out of a rehab facility. “Hope he’s all right,” Vedder says. “Please be all right.”

This bootleg recording is taken from an FM broadcast of Pearl Jam live at Fox Theater, Atlanta, Georgia, USA on 3rd April 1994., and was ripped to MP3 (320) format from my Grapefruit Australian CD release. This concert is also available as "Atlanta" from the Kiss The Stone label.

Full album artwork is included plus some choice photos taken from the Kiss The Stone release.

Note that this release features only half of the Atlanta concert set list while the other half is available on the Grapefruit release entitled 'Daughter' (regrettably, I have yet to source this one). Bummer !

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Track Listing

01. State Of Love And Trust 4:09

02. Black 5:36

03. Alive 6:02

04. Blood 3:56

05. W.M.A. 7:04

06. Better Man / Introductions 6:02

07. Elderly Woman 4:18

08. Medley: Rats / Ben 4:25 

09. Satan's Bed 4:30  

(Listed as "Already In Love")

10. Once 5:40

11. Sonic Reducer 4:00

12. Indifference 4:57

Pearl Jam Unauthorised (143Mb)  Link Fixed

Pearl Jam - Animal - Unauthorised (1994) Bootleg

(U.S 1990 - Present)
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has consisted of Eddie Vedder (lead vocals), Mike McCready (lead guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass). The band's fifth member is drummer Matt Cameron (also of Soundgarden), who has been with the band since 1998. Boom Gaspar (piano) has also been a session/touring member with the band since 2002. Drummers Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese and Jack Irons are former members of the band.
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One of the most successful rock bands of the past quarter-century, Pearl Jam have released 10 studio LPs and numerous live records and official bootlegs over the course of their career, selling an estimated 60 million albums worldwide. But if they’d released only one record – their 1991 debut, Ten – their place in rock history would still be secure. Ten, which turns 25 on August 27th, unleashed the modern-rock classics “Alive,”  “Jeremy” and “Even Flow,” established the previously unknown Eddie Vedder as a superstar frontman and went on to sell more than 13 million copies in the U.S. alone.

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For better or worse, the success of Ten also helped push the Seattle rock scene that spawned it (and “grunge” culture in general) squarely into the national spotlight, and inspired a host of lesser bands who blatantly imitated Pearl Jam’s densely rumbling attack and Vedder’s distinctive baritone roar. It also effectively blurred the lines between so-called alternative and mainstream rock, igniting a heated debate among the band’s critics, fans and fellow musicians over whether Pearl Jam were major-label sell-outs, or committed artists whose musical vision just happened to be broad enough to fill arenas. [extract from Rolling Stone, 'Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know', August 2016]
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The Pearl Jam 1993 European/North American Tour
Pearl Jam embarked on this tour after completing the recording sessions for its second album, Vs. The Europe leg included a few shows in which the band opened for U2 on the band's Zoo TV Tour, while both legs included several shows in which the band opened for Neil Young on his Harvest
Moon tour. Guitarist Mike McCready said that when the band opened for U2 in Europe the crowds hated Pearl Jam. The short tour of North America focused on Canada and the West Coast of the United States.

In 1993, Neil Young collaborated with Booker T and the MGs for a summer tour of Europe and North America, with Blues Traveler, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam also on the bill. Some European shows ended with a rendition of "Rockin’ In The Free World" played with Pearl Jam, foreshadowing their
eventual full-scale collaboration two years later.  Bassist Jeff Ament said that playing with Neil Young was the most inspiring thing that we've ever been involved in.

Eddie Vedder  & Neil Young

The bootleg recording posted here comes from their 07/16/93 concert held at the Sportpaleis Ahoy: Rotterdam, Holland with an attendance of 9,500. Supporting act were Tribe After Tribe.

The full set consisted of:
Release, Why Go, Deep, Jeremy, Rear view mirror, Elderly Woman, Glorified G, Daughter/(WMA), Garden, Go, Animal, Alive, Black, Porch/ Tearing, improvisation, Once, Fuckin' Up, Leash
Encore 1: Sonic Reducer, Rockin' in the Free World, State of Love and Trust
Encore 2: Indifference

Notes: Pearl Jam has a few problems adjusting to the size of this venue. Ed introduces 'Go' as "... a song you can sing to your own body ..." and he calls it "Don't Go Out On Me." Ed requests the lights be turned on and left on for 'Alive' ("Hey, we'd like to be able to see these people"). 
It was a Great show!
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The post consists of MP3 (320kps) ripped from a very juicy Grapefruit Bootleg CD and includes the usual generic red artwork, along with alternative covers from similar bootleg releases, namely 'Jeremy Live', 'Against' and the Swingin' Pig release 'Europe 93'.
As indicated below, this bootleg is a combination from three different sources, and not just L.A in 1993 as indicated on the cover.
Recording quality is excellent and most certainly comes from Soundboard feeds. This bootleg is a must for any Pearl Jam enthusiast and for the uninitiated, this recording is a great starting point to familiarise oneself with this 90's Grunge band.
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Tracklist
01 Release 4:25
02 Why Go 3:38
03 Deep 4:18
04 Jeremy 4:59
05 Daughter / W.M.A. 4:46
06 Garden 5:35
07 Even Flow 4:54
08 Go 2:34
09 Alive 4:53
10 Black 5:14
11 Fuckin' Up 4:09
12 Leash 2:49
13 Sonic Reducer    3:49
14 State Of Love And Trust 3:40
15 Baba O'Riley 3:55
16 Animal 3:08
17 Rockin'In The Free World
(Feat. Neil Young) 6:44

Band Members:
Jeff Ament – bass guitar
Stone Gossard – rhythm guitar
Mike McCready – lead guitar
Eddie Vedder – lead vocals, guitar
Dave Abbruzzese – drums

Tracks 1 to 13: radio-show recorded live at the Ahoy, Rotterdam (day 1 of 2), July 16, 1993. Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea.

Tracks 14 to 15: recorded live at the Park Plaza Hotel Ballroom, Los Angeles, September 10, 1992.
Premiere party for the "Singles" movie which was partly broadcasted by MTV. Due to the use of heavy profanity by Eddie during the live performance of "State Of Love And Trust", the broadcasted version was partly mixed with the studio version of the song and played with members of Alice In Chains as the last song.

Tracks 16 and 17: recorded live at the Universal Amphitheatre, Universal City, September 2, 1993.
Complete performance of Pearl Jam at the MTV Video Music Awards 1993 ceremony, "Rockin' In The Free World" was played with Neil Young as unannounced guest on guitar and vocals.
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Pearl Jam Unauthorised Link (172Mb) New Link 13/08/2024

Pearl Jam - Unlicensed Live Vol.1 (1993) Ex. Bootleg

(U.S  1990 - Present)
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Stone Gossard (guitar), Jeff Ament (bass), Mike McCready (guitar), Dave Krusen (drums) and Eddie Vedder (vocals). The band's fifth and current drummer is Matt Cameron of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998.
Along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam were initially known for popularizing grunge, the Seattle sound that exploded nationwide in the early Nineties. But the band became an American rock institution by broadening their heavy, Led Zeppelin-influenced sound while maintaining the emotional depth that made their songs so resonant in the first place. Leaping from obscurity to superstardom, the band sold more than 15 million copies of its first two albums, and after a couple of years during which they got mired in high-profile controversies, Pearl Jam recovered and were still filling arenas at the close of the 2000s.

They originally called themselves Mookie Blaylock, in honor of the basketball player, but changed the name to Pearl Jam, purportedly after a psychedelic confection made by Vedder's half-Native American great-grandmother, Pearl. (Vedder finally admitted the story was bogus in 2006).  The band was signed by Epic Records in 1991, releasing their debut album 'Ten' in 1992

The band toured extensively, headlining small halls and opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and U2. They headlined the 1992 Lollapalooza Tour and opened for Keith Richards on New Year's Eve 1992. Vedder, Gossard and Ament took time out to play Matt Dillon's backing band, Citizen Dick, in the 1992 Seattle-based movie Singles. By the end of 1992, Pearl Jam was among the biggest bands in the world. Vedder's intense, clenched-teeth delivery gave life to his personal travails ("Alive," "Black"), while songs like "Jeremy" and "Why Go" were easy rallying cries for teenagers seeking music they could call their own.

Pearl Jam embarked on their 1993 European / North America tour after completing the recording sessions for its second album, VS. The Europe leg included a few shows in which the band opened for U2 on the band's Zoo TV Tour, while both legs included several shows in which the band opened for Neil Young on his Harvest Moon tour. Guitarist Mike McCready said that when the band opened for U2 in Europe the crowds hated Pearl Jam. The short tour of North America focused on Canada and the West Coast of the United States. When the band opened for Neil Young, Young often brought the band out for encores to perform "Rockin' in the Free World". Bassist Jeff Ament said that playing with Neil Young was "the most inspiring thing that we've ever been involved in."

This bootleg was recorded at Brixton Academy, London, 07-14-93. It took me a while to work this one out, but once I matched up the track listing for this release (along with the listing for Vol.2) it became quickly apparent that this concert has been released under different titles (ie. Brixton, Live at Brixton Academy) and is renowned for some of Vedder's more colourful dialog with the crowd.
  
"Lookee here!" Eddie dangles a tampon before his Jim Morrisonian leer. "It's the personal gifts that mean the most, man," he cackles. "This song is called Blood, as a matter of fact"

One song in and the stage is already littered with the debris of feminine appreciation. Two songs in and it's time to take a couple of steps back so the idiots at the front can breath again.

Rock hysteria ripples through the steaming, tightly-packed, check-shirted flesh. This is one of the cool bands you're supposed to freak out to. I think I'll give that a miss and listen to the music instead.

Even Flow is staggering and, of course, there's that stuka dive-bomber of a voice roaring out of the sky. 'Even Flow' is stopped until someone in the crowd who is down gets back up. Ed starts counting the people in front to see if everyone is all right. 

The Rolling Stones' 'Beast of Burden' is covered briefly, with the lyrics modified to "... all I want from you is to make love to me" with Ed clarifying that those are just lyrics and they don't really mean it.

But it's not too long before Pearl Jam realise they've got an uncritical audience, and the grungey guitars and launchpad song structures start bleeding into one big musical hairball of yowls and fuzz. Alive is set up on the altar inscribed "Here's one ya all know," but sounds the way burning sugar smells.

Later on the dive bomber drops a few new songs, which sound good on the way down, but don't quite explode, except for Indifference, a comparative whisper of a song that transmits itself almost telepathically across the hushed auditorium - a ghost at this feast of over-cooked rock n' howl...
[extract from C.B.Liddell]

This post consists of MP3 (32kps) ripped from a rather unattractive Bootleg release by AMCOS (Australian label) but the quality of the recording is A+.  Full album artwork is included (plain as it might be) along with some alternative artwork from other bootleg releases of Brixton Academy, London, 07-14-93.
Vol 1 is the first half of the concert only. (Vol 2 contains the 2nd half of the concert which I have yet to source)
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Full concert details are:
Brixton Academy: London, England (07-14-93)
Attendance: 6,426
Support act: Tribe After Tribe
Set List:
Release, Even Flow (song stops), Blood, Animal, Why Go, Deep, Jeremy, Rear View Mirror, Beast of Burden/(Suck You Dry), Alive, Black, Go, Daughter/(W.M.A.), Porch/(Tearing), Once, Garden, Blues Jam/State of Love and Trust
Encore 1: Leash, Fuckin’ Up, Sonic Reducer
Encore 2: Indifference
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Track Listing (Vol 1)

01  - Release    
02  - Even Flow    
03  - Blood    
04  - Animal    
05  - Why Go    
06  - Deep    
07  - Jeremy    
08  - Rear View Mirror    
09  - Beast Of Burden (Suck You Dry) 
10  - Alive    
11  - Black    
12 -  Don't Go Under
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Pearl Jam Link (125Mb)
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