Toronto Mike

Pearl Jam

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What Are the Odds?

Yesterday, Bob Willette took me to see FOTM Danny Greaves and Big Wreck at The Phoenix. It was a great show, and a great night, but the mindblow is the shirts we coincidentally decided to wear on this lovely October evening. We both wore the same Pearl Jam shirt (although
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Pearl Jamming

I've loved Pearl Jam since I first heard them in 1991. I think it was Alive, but it could have been Even Flow, and I was off to buy Ten. Ten remains one of my favourite albums of all-time. I fucking love this band. Pearl Jam still tour, I've seen
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Pearl Jam Needs A New Drummer

Matt Cameron has quit as Pearl Jam's drummer. Pearl Jam has had several drummers over the years, but Matt was there the longest. After 27 fantastic years, I have taken my final steps down the drum riser for the mighty Pearl Jam. Much love and respect to Jeff, Ed, Mike
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Pearl Jam Twenty Soundtrack

Billboard has a great synopsis of the Pearl Jam Twenty soundtrack. The die-hards have probably already seen it.  If you're one of those early birds, please don't give away the ending.  I want to see this. "Release" (from Sept. 16, 2006 Verona, Italy)"Written shortly after Eddie Vedder's arrival in
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Your Pearl Jam Primer

I'm writing this Pearl Jam primer off the top of my head, because I was there and I remember. For me, Pearl Jam flew in under a cloud of Nirvana dust.  My ear buds were freaking out over Nirvana's Nevermind when our local alt rock station, CFNY, started playing Pearl
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Vedder Wins Golden Globe

The 65th annual Golden Globe Awards were awesome, weren't they?  The biggest casualty of the writer's strike to date, the Golden Globes were awarded via some kind of a press conference thing.  It somehow seems fitting that Eddie Vedder would win in a year when the pomp and circumstance is
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Eddie Vedder's Big Hard Sun

Coach  Carter made sure I had the MP3 of Eddie Vedder's solo song from the Into The Wild soundtrack.  As I was listening to it for the first time, I realized it wasn't an Eddie original but a song I had heard many times on local radio stations.  It was
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