Vedder Tuesday Ⅻ
I’ve got a treat for readers this week: I converted (YouTube) videos from the 2009-10-06 Los Angeles Pearl Jam concert to mp3 and I’m making them available for your downloading pleasure. Why should you especially care about this concert? Well — Ben Harper playing slide guitar on “Red Mosquito”? Jerry Cantrell playing a second “Alive” solo? Chris Cornell joining PJ onstage for a reunion of Temple of the Dog, and the band performing “Hunger Strike”? A string quartet joining the band for three songs, including (for real) an acoustic version of “Lukin”? If those descriptions do’t prompt you to download, you’re going to have to go sit in the hallway. (The two tracks that are missing — “Comatose” and “Save You” — are missing in the source.)
That show begins with “Sometimes”. I’ve always loved the lyrics, especially as the beginning of a concert (it also begins the album No Code). It seems an entirely reasonable song for the twelfth installment of this series.
Sometimes
Large fingers pushing paint
You’re God and you’ve got big hands
The colors blend:
The challenges you give manSeek my part
Devote myself
My small self
Like a book amongst the many on a shelfSometimes I know
Sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall
Sometimes I don’t
Sometimes I cringe
Sometimes I live
Sometimes I walk
Sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all
Sometimes I reach to myself, dear God
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November 24th, 2009 at 03h28
Oh. Huh. The videos are available in “high quality” at YouTube with 44.1kHz sample rate, which is double the “low-quality” versions I used. So I’d like to do the conversions again.
November 24th, 2009 at 04h56
Back with a vengeance! Will download later on today, sir.
November 24th, 2009 at 04h58
Wait until I post here that I’ve uploaded the higher res versions. They’re much better, and I’m converting them now.
November 24th, 2009 at 21h14
Oh, uh, by the way, it’s been ready for about 15 hours.
November 25th, 2009 at 05h00
OK. Maybe some day I’ll be able to listen to that performance of “The End” without sobbing. Wow. That wrecks me.
November 25th, 2009 at 05h02
At the end of “Given To Fly”:
Yeah, kick ass, Ed.
November 25th, 2009 at 13h40
Sure, kicks ass…Too bad we keep on waiting for the plane to depart, but nothing happens.
I can’t believe Ed ruined my song by talking.
About to download…
November 25th, 2009 at 13h41
Oh “Unthought Known” live!
November 26th, 2009 at 00h39
Too bad we keep on waiting for the plane to depart, but nothing happens.
I’m not exactly sure we’re living on the same planet — but that’s OK. I’m sure there are interesting things on your planet, too.
November 26th, 2009 at 10h41
Yep. We have chocolate!