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PEARL JAM ANNOUNCE EAST COAST SUMMER TOUR DATES

SEATTLE – Pearl Jam announced today a ten date East Coast tour, which begins June 11th in West Palm Beach, FL and wraps June 30th in Mansfield, MA.

Tickets for this tour go onsale Friday, April 4th at XXam EDT for all shows except New York City, which goes onsale Friday, April 11th at XXam. Tickets are XX and are available at XX.

Kings of Leon will open the June 11-17th concert dates. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists will open the remaining dates from June 19-30th. Doors for all shows are 6:30pm. Showtime is 7:30pm.

Pearl Jam East Coast tour dates:

DATE CITY VENUE
11-Jun West Palm, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
12-Jun Tampa, FL St Pete Times Forum
13-15 Jun Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Festival **
16-Jun Columbia, SC Colonial Center
17-Jun Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
19-Jun Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
22-Jun Washington, DC Verizon Center
24-Jun New York, NY Madison Square Garden
25-Jun New York, NY Madison Square Garden
27-Jun Hartford, CT Dodge Amphitheater
30-Jun Mansfield. MA Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts

**As previously announced, Pearl Jam will also perform the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, TN the weekend of June 13-15th. Tickets for this performance are currently on sale through www.bonnaroo.com.

I think I'll wait until they come to the midwest, which I hope happens.

You going to any of these Solace? Do you follow them around much or just wait for them to come to you?

Solace, any word if they'll be adding any more dates or is this it?

good for Ted Leo, though. seriously.

Solace,
Did you here anything about PJ headlining ACL this year? I thought they were a lock.
I would hate to get east coast tix and then find out they are playing ACL.

I agree w/Maloney, to a point.
PJ does a great job o selecting opening acts. As an example I've seen Frank Black, The Buzzcocks, My Mornning Jacket and others open for them.
Unfortunately it seems most people ignore/tolerate the opening act, regardless of how great they are.
I would like to see KoL & Ted Leo garner some new fans from this outing, but realisticly I doubt they'll be able to add much to their fan base. Still, I give PJ credit for trying to give a helping hand to bands that deserve wider exposure.

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Solace, thanks for the info. It's always easier for me to ask you than to try slogging through PJ's own message board.

^ what he said. Forget how you feel about their music, Pearl Jam has always been great about that. (personally, I like most of PJ's stuff, have all their records, and think they do a far better job than most artists who reach their level at practicing independent values, being active in their local music scene and community, etc. When selecting a support act, most artists at their level defer to whichever opener the label, manager, or agent are trying to develop.

I saw Ted Leo twice last year in Seattle, a KEXP members-only show at Triple Door (like Park West only 1/3 the size) and at Bumbershoot (festival). He blew me away both times. Great for him, to be on a tour where he'll playing for a few thousand more folks than usual. They'll mostly be filing in and getting situated during his set, but some of them will be geeks like us, who will hit the merch stand and either buy the record or at least sign up for the email list. Ted will break more new ground for his career on this tour than he would playing for the already-converted on a club tour of his own.

I agree w/Maloney, to a point.
PJ does a great job o selecting opening acts. As an example I've seen Frank Black, The Buzzcocks, My Mornning Jacket and others open for them.
Unfortunately it seems most people ignore/tolerate the opening act, regardless of how great they are.
I would like to see KoL & Ted Leo garner some new fans from this outing, but realisticly I doubt they'll be able to add much to their fan base. Still, I give PJ credit for trying to give a helping hand to bands that deserve wider exposure.

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Solace, thanks for the info. It's always easier for me to ask you than to try slogging through PJ's own message board.

Vedder Warms Up For Solo Trek With Seattle Gigs
Eddie Vedder

March 26, 2008, 11:00 AM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder stunned Seattle fans who'd bought tickets for a screening of "Into the Wild" on Monday and Tuesday by instead performing a full solo set, in advance of the April 2 launch of his maiden solo tour.

Tickets to the gigs at Kenyon Hall were sold for $5 by Easy Street Records, with less than 150 people on hand each night. A number of fans who lined up outside the venue but were initially unable to get inside were treated to coffee by the Easy Street staff, before being ushered in gratis after the show had started.

Vedder played guitar for most of the shows but also strapped on a banjo for Cat Stevens' "If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out" and switched to harmonica, mandolin and ukulele on a host of other tunes.

As expected, the set lists mixed Pearl Jam tracks ("Around the Bend," "I Am Mine," "Dead Man") with songs from Vedder's "Into the Wild" soundtrack ("Guaranteed," "No Ceiling," "Society") and a bevy of covers (Bruce Springsteen's "Growin' Up," Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down," Bob Dylan's "Forever Young, Tom Waits' "Picture in a Frame").

Also performed were James Taylor's "Millworker," unreleased solo cuts like "Broken Hearted" and “You’re True,” and "No More," Vedder's contribution to the recent "Body of War" compilation album. Last night, the artist occasionally flubbed lyrics, but endeared the audience with apologies for Pearl Jam not having played in Seattle proper since the spring of 2005.


In related news, the guitar Vedder used to write the Pearl Jam song "Love Boat Captain" sold for $8,000 last night during a West Memphis 3 fundraiser at the New York home of Peter, Paul & Mary's Peter Yarrow. Pearl Jam has long been a vocal advocate for the innocence of the men, who were convicted of the 1993 murder of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark.

A new hearing in the case, which will present DNA evidence defense attorneys claim exonerates the men, is scheduled for April 14