Pearl Jam: Ten Live (2LP)

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Thirty-five years after Ten changed the course of American rock, Pearl Jam are revisiting their landmark debut from a much more interesting angle than simply pressing the studio album again. Ten Live captures the band performing the entire record, in sequence, during an extraordinary 29 April 2016 concert at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center—and this is the first time that performance has been released on vinyl.

By 2016, Pearl Jam were a vastly different band from the one that recorded Ten. Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament had spent another quarter-century living with these songs, while Matt Cameron had long since made the drum stool his own. That’s precisely what makes Ten Live worthwhile. This isn’t an attempt to recreate 1991; it’s the sound of a veteran Pearl Jam taking those songs apart onstage and playing them with the muscle, looseness and confidence accumulated over decades.

The circumstances behind the performance make it even better. This was Pearl Jam’s tenth sold-out South Philadelphia concert, an achievement the Wells Fargo Center commemorated with a special banner. Vedder saw the number ten and decided there was really only one appropriate response: play Ten. The band then launched into the album from beginning to end. It was only the second complete performance of Ten in Pearl Jam’s history, following Munich in 1992, and the first ever in the United States.

And what an album to hear in this setting. The enormous songs remain enormous, but some of the deeper material benefits even more from the live treatment. McCready’s playing stretches beyond the confines of the original studio recording, Vedder attacks the material as the older man looking back rather than the furious 20-something who originally sang it, and the band’s interplay gives the album a different weight. Instead of nostalgia, it feels like Pearl Jam reclaiming the record that has followed them around for 35 years.

Importantly, this isn’t simply an old soundboard recording transferred to vinyl. Pearl Jam engineer and producer Josh Evans has remixed the performance, while Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering handled the mastering and lacquer cutting. The album is spread across three sides of a 2LP set, giving the recording considerably more breathing room than squeezing the complete performance onto a single record.

For Pearl Jam collectors, Ten Live hits a particularly nice sweet spot. It’s historically significant, previously unavailable on vinyl and directly connected to the 35th anniversary of one of the defining rock albums of the 1990s. Rather than asking fans to buy Ten yet again, Pearl Jam have given them a genuinely different way to experience it.

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