Eddie Vedder wrapped a brief run of dates along with his solo band Earthlings final evening (Oct. 7) at Las Vegas’ Dolby Reside at Park MGM, and saved a particular deal with for the encore: he and his mates’ debut reside cowl of The Remedy’s basic “Simply Like Heaven.”
Beforehand, Vedder instructed the viewers concerning the COVID-era dance events he and his spouse Jill would normally stage of their storage, full with disco lights and smoke machines. “I’ll all the time have nice reminiscences of these unbelievable dance events,” he mentioned. “The children would are available in and verify on us and form of get embarrassed and have to depart, however we had a fuckin’ blast. This is likely one of the ones that we’d play. We’ve by no means performed it earlier than — we solely performed it about an hour in the past proper earlier than we got here out, however we’re gonna strive it now.”
Vedder and Earthlings (guitarist Andrew Watt, multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer, bassist Chris Chaney and drummer Chad Smith) performed their first present in additional than seven months final Saturday at Vedder’s Ohana competition in Dana Level, Calif., and likewise carried out Wednesday in Pasa Robles, Calif. The set lists went heavy on materials from Vedder’s Earthling album, plus Pearl Jam songs comparable to “Rearviewmirror,” “I Obtained ID” and “Porch” and covers of songs by George Harrison, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince and the Pretenders.
Earthlings additionally debuted Temple of the Canine’s “Starvation Strike” throughout the quick run, with Watt dealing with the late Chris Cornell’s vocal half. The exhibits got here on the again of Pearl Jam’s fall North American tour, with no 2023 plans having but been introduced for the band.
Vedder is predicted to take part within the Nov. 20 Enterprise Into Cures fundraising occasion for the pores and skin illness epidermolysis bullosa, a trigger he and his spouse have championed for a few years.
