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Myself and my very good friend Vin drove from Long Island, where we lived at the time, to our campus townhouse at Le Moyne College in East Syracuse on Saturday the 26th of November. The CD came a couple of weeks after, in early December. Vitalogy’s initial release was vinyl-only, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving in 1994. Album Release & a Highly Anticipated Journey to “Spin the Black Circle” Pearl Jam has built a lot of their good will with the fanbase by not forgetting that.
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Getting a bootleg of something raw and unearthed was like a badge, a prime piece of your musical shelf. Some of that spark of being in the moment is born of the bands that Pearl Jam themselves admired as young fans. It is not an album tour, it is a live concert. Still, in some small measure, one must imagine it was a way to drive their manager, producer, and more so their label, a little bit bonkers. One suspects this approach was at least partly driven by a sense of carpe diem, don’t let pass a moment with the muse you may never have again. This was just the way in the early days of Pearl Jam. “ Better Man” and “ Whipping” also made their first appearances at the infamous Slim’s performance. Meanwhile, “ Last Exit” was not the first Vitalogy track performed live by the band. “ Leash” was, of course, even earlier, having debuted on November 9, 1991. “ Daughter” made its debut at Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit on November 1, 1992. Three other tracks were first played in Missoula, Montana in June. songs were debuted at a small club in San Francisco called Slim’s (which unfortunately closed on March 18, 2020) in May 1993. When the band waltzes into this live performance of “ Last Exit,” every track on the record Vs. But when Eddie Vedder rattles those words out with a Gene Wilder-as-Willy Wonka-channeled sarcasm, he is setting the stage for the premiere of “ Last Exit,” the lead track on the bands 3rd record, that would be released over a year later on November 22, 1994. Naturally, you might be thinking, big deal, all the songs were relatively new. Pearl Jam is supporting the album Vs., released a few weeks earlier. “These are the words…these are the words to a new song.” It is late in the evening, November 16, 1993, at the UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans.