Pearl Jam ...

Eddie Vedder just has to be one of the ultimate rock gods around.  Last night, C and I went to see Pearl Jam in concert which was amazing given that Pearl Jam's music was among the first that I owned as a hip (!) teenager.  The concert certainly didn't disappoint.  Eddie had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand.  In fact, the audience members on the floor looked remarkably like Hitler's followers many years ago, albeit slightly less brainwashed.  I've never been to a huge rock 'n' roll concert where the guitarists go mental and the crowd are on their best head-banging behaviour.  It was amazing.

The rock god himself ... Eddie Vedder

The support act was Mudhoney, who we'd never heard of but Googled quickly during their first song (thank goodness for iphones!).  It turns out that Mudhoney were actually deemed the founders of grunge music in Seattle ... their music was popular way before Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam hit the big time with their grunge.  Kind of funny to think that 25 years ago they were bigger than these three (now) well-known acts but are now playing support gigs.  Mudhoney were pretty good in a frenzied, screaming kind of way.

Mudhoney

Then came Pearl Jam.  Wow, did they put on a good show.  They played for over two hours, including not one, but two encores.  They played a ton of hits as well as some that I didn't know (including a song called 'Rats', which was played in honour of the fact that Alberta has been rat-free for 50 years, a fact of I was not aware!).  The only disappointment from rock god Eddie was that they didn't play 'Spin the Black Circle' or 'Better Man', my two favourites.  I was dying to see 'Spin the Black Circle' live, but had to make do with a youtube clip this morning ...