so let me get this right...

the live album doesn't come with the cds, only with the vinyl?

You can get the live show as part of the 3 CD package.

So on the Pearl jam message board, somebody is stating that this festival thing they are doing this summer is going to be at alpine...does anybody have any inside info or thoughts?

Also, if at Alpine, how many tics do you think will go to Ten club? One person is saying all, but I can't believe that Pearl Jam would come to Wisconsin for the first time in I don't know how many years and then not make most of the tickets available to the public...even without the festival thing, they could probably easily sell out at least one regular show at Alpine. With it being a special event and all, I am thinking they could do three nights easy with high demand.

So on the Pearl jam message board, somebody is stating that this festival thing they are doing this summer is going to be at alpine...does anybody have any inside info or thoughts?

Also, if at Alpine, how many tics do you think will go to Ten club? One person is saying all, but I can't believe that Pearl Jam would come to Wisconsin for the first time in I don't know how many years and then not make most of the tickets available to the public...even without the festival thing, they could probably easily sell out at least one regular show at Alpine. With it being a special event and all, I am thinking they could do three nights easy with high demand.

the festival will be 2 or 3 days

i'd imagine they'll sell as many tickets to fan club members as possible, which might be all of them, yes.

hah.

Detroit Lakes would certainly allow for more capacity than Alpine...

my thing is, if i can't get in the seated area at Alpine, i won't go. i'm not about to spend 2 days on the lawn with 30k+ people. and there's only 7500 seats at Alpine, so the chances of getting those will be tough unless they go by seniority.

hah.

Detroit Lakes would certainly allow for more capacity than Alpine...

my thing is, if i can't get in the seated area at Alpine, i won't go. i'm not about to spend 2 days on the lawn with 30k+ people. and there's only 7500 seats at Alpine, so the chances of getting those will be tough unless they go by seniority.

what do you dudes have against lawn seats? i've had some good times occupying lawn seats.

not my idea of fun.

plus, no offense, but a good majority of PJ fans are meathead jock types whose other favorite artists are DMB, Linkin Park, Jack Johnson, etc.

not my idea of fun.

plus, no offense, but a good majority of PJ fans are meathead jock types whose other favorite artists are DMB, Linkin Park, Jack Johnson, etc.

Yup. 2 of the last 3 PJ shows I've been to I've been sat next to dopes who buy four beers each at once, and proceed to get smashed before the show starts, then jump around like idiots slamming into people. It's one thing if it's a GA show, but when it's seated, it's a problem. One of them even ripped up the seat in front of him and started waving it in the air.

already have a room booked a mile from the venue. camping at festivals ain't my bag.

what weekend?

thanks for the recommendation - does it take 127 hours to get out of the parking lot on said shuttle after the show?

already have a room booked a mile from the venue. camping at festivals ain't my bag.

My PJ buddy

speaking of PJ side projects....

Anyone heard Ament's side project Tres Mts?

Is it any good?

very psyched for this - remember hearing some of this stuff almost 10 years ago and immediately wanting him to put them out. can't believe he's finally doing it. actually think it's a cool move to do a uke album instead of a straight-up solo album. think it helps expectation levels that it's so specific and it doesn't take away from something that could have gone on a pearl jam record.

Side project with McCready, one of the Fastbacks, and Doug Pinnick of King's X. Parts of it are really good, others not so much.

Tres Mts will be on Kimmel 3/24 if you want to check them out "live", though.

eh... judging by the material on Into The Wild, i don't think there was much confusion or interest in having any of those songs be Pearl Jam tunes

I'd like to Belushi EV's ukelele.
I understand mellowing with age, but Vedder's ukelele, surfing bullshit (no more wave,water,ocean imagery...we get it), and kinship with dudes like Ben Harper and Jack Johnson are slowly ruining what is good about Pearl Jam. Maybe he can go do this solo things and they can get back to making some decent rock music. Maybe even let Mike McCready play some guitar. Maybe a lead, even.

here's so much going on between this Tres Mts. project and Pearl Jam stuff for the rest of the year that I'm going to be plenty busy," bassist Jeff Ament says. That, Pearl Jam fans, is a huge understatement.

Ament's first trip to SXSW later this week with his new side band, Tres Mts., is just the tip of the iceberg of a hectic 2011 for Pearl Jam and its members -- one which Ament tells Billboard.com will hopefully include a brand new Pearl Jam album and a solo tour by frontman Eddie Vedder, in addition to the already announced the Cameron Crowe-directed Pearl Jam documentary, official book and weekend festival, all celebrating the band's 20th anniversary. Throw in a new Eddie Vedder solo album, a Soundgarden record in the works (which includes drummer Matt Cameron, who plays in both bands), and Ament putting the finishing touches on his own second solo album, and you've got a very full docket for the veteran Seattle quintet.

All of the new action starts in April, Ament explains, when Pearl Jam convenes not only to begin recording the follow up to 2009's "Backspacer," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, but also to announce the location and other details for the Pearl Jam Twenty festival, which Ament says will likely take place on or around Labor Day weekend.

"We did a whole bunch of demos and everybody's got a disc of 25 [songs] right now," Ament says of Pearl Jam's plans to hit the studio next month. "April will be the time where we get together and learn to play all these demos and figure out which 12-15 of them float to the top. Hopefully we can get something done this year."

"There's been so much focus on the past that I think all of us are really excited to make a new record and have something to look forward to because we've been digging in the boxes in our basement a lot the last year or so," Ament says.

That digging, of course, has been in the service of creating the Pearl Jam Twenty documentary, which tells the story of the band's career, and an accompanying book, both due in late summer/early fall around the exact 20th anniversary of the band's blockbuster debut album, August 1991's "Ten."

The group also unearthed a raft of archival goodies for the special edition box set of reissues due on March 29 -- which includes expanded versions of 1993's Vs. and 1994's Vitalogy.

As far as the Pearl Jam festival goes, Ament says that the band is looking to finalize the location and the other bands on the bill by the end of March and announce everything in April. "We've reached out to a few [other bands]. It's mostly people that we're friends with. I don't think that anybody's fully signed on yet. We're not 100% where we're going to have it yet, so it's a little bit tricky... If it's Labor Day, that's three or four months; that should be plenty of time for people to make reservations."

Frontman Eddie Vedder, who is currently on tour on his own in Australia, will probably be hitting the road solo again this year, according to Ament. Vedder, meanwhile, has also made a new solo album likely due in the coming months. He recently told Austin, Texas radio station AM 1300 that the songs were written on the ukulele, which has been a staple of his non-Pearl Jam work for a decade. It hasn't yet been confirmed whether any of the many ukulele songs Vedder debuted at solo shows in early 2002 -- but never released -- will be on the new album, but a version of one of them, "Longing To Belong," was posted by the website Antiquiet yesterday.

Ament, for his part, also has a his own new solo album "pretty much in the can." Recorded "a few months ago," Ament says he's "just waiting for a little bit of airspace to finish it up" and that it probably won't see release until 2012.

As previously reported, Soundgarden -- drummer Cameron's other band -- has also been in the studio making its first studio album in 15 years. No release date has yet been set.

Sorry, re Tres Mts I meant Ament. McCready is doing some live dates with them, but you are all correct.

New Eddie Vedder Record and DVD Coming May 31

Eddie Vedder will release a solo album, Ukulele Songs, on Tuesday, May 31st (May 30th internationally) through Pearl Jam's Monkeywrench Records. Ukulele Songs is a collection of original songs and covers performed by Vedder on ukulele. The first single from the album, "Longing to Belong," will be available for sale through digital retailers on Tuesday, March 22nd (March 21st internationally).

Also released on May 31st is Water on the Road, a live-concert DVD directed by Brendan Canty of Fugazi and Christoph Green featuring performances from Vedder’s August 16th and 17th 2008 solo tour engagements at Washington, D.C.'s Warner Theatre. The DVD features a live performance of "You're True" from Ukulele Songs as well as a mix of Pearl Jam catalog, covers and songs from Vedder’s critically acclaimed, award-winning solo record, Into The Wild.

Ten Club pre-sale info will be announced at a later date, stay tuned!

Ukulele Songs Album Tracklisting:

1. Can't Keep
2. Sleeping by Myself
3. Without You
4. More Than You Know
5. Goodbye
6. Broken Heart
7. Satellite
8. Longing to Belong
9. Hey Fahkah
10. You're True
11. Light Today
12. Sleepless Nights (featuring Glen Hansard)
13. Once in Awhile
14. Waving Palms
15. Tonight You Belong to Me (featuring Cat Power)
16. Dream a Little Dream

Water on the Road Live Concert DVD Tracklisting:

1. The Canyon
2. Sometimes
3. Trouble
4. Around the Bend
5. Girl From the North Country
6. Guaranteed
7. Setting Forth
8. Far Behind
9. No Ceiling
10. Rise
11. Golden State
12. Society
13. Forever Young
14. Ed Piano (Instrumental)
15. I’m Open
16. Man of the Hour
17. Driftin’
18. No More
19. You’re True
20. Ukulele Interlude (Instrumental)
21. Unthought Known
22. Arc
23. Hard Sun
24. The Canyon (reprise)