Happy Thanksgiving all you Frontloaders!!!!
I would like to thank you again for being a part of this site. Building and watching this site grow has been an incredibly fun and exciting process. We’ve been working hard here at TheFrontloader.com to not only build a community but also provide you with “quality” articles and music… I put quotes around “quality” because it’s all subjective, man… all subjective.
BUT, I hope you have been enjoying everything here. I care, but Sherman doesn’t give a rat’s ass. All he cares about is that he gets his daily National Treasure viewing and some time with one of his “Hotties with the Body.” I guess it’s the simple things in life….
Is music one of those “simple things?” I’ve often wondered about that, considering how much work and dedication goes into every song, every performance, and every lyric.
I guess it’s a “simple thing in life” for the listeners, but not so much for the artists… do you concur?
Anyhow, for this Thanksgiving Day, I present to you a cool bootleg of a show Pearl Jam and Robert Plant did together in 2005. This performance took place on October 5, 2005, and was the last show of Pearl Jam’s tour. The ticket price was a whopping $1000 (I did not attend, I only had $999 on me at the time) at the Chicago House of Blues and was considered a benefit for those affected by hurricane Katrina. All proceeds went towards Katrina relief… I don’t know how much was raised, but it was a LOT more than nothing, and that’s what matters.
According to Blair Fischer at Rolling Stone magazine, ”It was a sermon- and filibuster-free night, devoid of cracks at the Commander in Chief and without a rendition of the band’s vitriolic “Bushleaguer.” Vedder’s first mention of Katrina came during the first encore, when he briefly acknowledged FEMA’s failures before adding, “Hopefully they’ll learn in the future.” That was as didactic as it got.”
Half the fun of this bootleg is the audience. With every song, you can hear people screaming out things like “Oooooohhhh!” or “Ahhhhhhhh!!!!” in approval. Great, great stuff.
One highlight here is the performance of the Zeppelin classic, “Fool in the Rain.” Both Plant and Vedder trade verses, and both have flubber moments. At the end of the song, Plant admits that neither of them have ever played the song live before, stating, “I never remember me own words.”
The B3 organ solo at the end of “Thank You” is frikkin’ awesome!!!! I LOVE the grinding sound of an overdriven Leslie.
I often curse myself for not walking back to my car to search underneath the seats for a dollar in change.
Let this be a lesson to you all: if the concert ticket price is $1000, you KNOW something special’s gonna happen. If you’re a dollar short, sell your shoes, your shirt, your watch, hell, sell your BODY to get that extra hundred cents. It’ll most likely be worth your while.
On this Thanksgiving Day, eat a lot of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie… whatever floats your boat. Thank you again for making TheFrontloader.com a regular stop in your Internet day.
You’ll notice a big reddish banner on the right sidebar. This is for Stereogum.com’s annual “Gummy Awards”. Please click on it and vote for TheFrontloader.com in the “Best Music Blog” category!!!! I would be ever so grateful!
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!
By the way, if you’re planning on doing some Black Friday shopping on Amazon.com, or any sort of shopping through Amazon.com, you can click the link below (or any other amazon links on the site) to be taken to the site. The link below takes you to Amazon’s Black Friday “Deals” page, and I gotta say, there are some GREAT deals there!
Buy Robert Plant on Amazon
Buy Robert Plant on iTunes
Buy Pearl Jam on Amazon
Buy Pearl Jam on iTunes
Your Dig-It Downloads:
Download: Goin’ To California (Pearl Jam & Robert Plant live)
Download: Little Sister (Pearl Jam & Robert Plant live)
Download: Money (That’s What I Want) (Pearl Jam & Robert Plant live)
Download: Fool in the Rain (Pearl Jam & Robert Plant live)
Download: Thank You (Pearl Jam & Robert Plant live)
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Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Chris Moran
this is definitely one of those shows I wish I would have gone to. I think I made up for it by hitting up Clapton’s Crossroads Festival (also in Chicago) a couple of years later.
Happy Turkey Day to you too!!! THANK YOU for putting up some GREAT sounds to draw me out of my turkey coma!!! AWESOME!!!
Pleasure to be here!!! Love the site…thanks for all!!
These are great. Love the crowd – singing along, reacting…so fun! :) Thank you for the downloads! Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving!
Eddie Veddie and Robert Plant, since Jackie hasn’t shown up yet, I’ll just say, “that’s hawt!” :)
Thanks for the tunes. Hope you have a nice “Black Friday”, my 14 year old daughter is wanting to go to the mall, “eh!!”.
…and the mall was AWESOME. If you could actually see beyond the swarms of bag-carrying bodies to the merchandise beyond, that is.
Love the bootlegs.
Yeah well, just another Eddie Vedder appearance I missed cuz I am stupid and POOR. I remember when I heard the announcement on the radio, that not only EV but Robert Plant were gonna be at HOB of all places I got sooooo excited, and then they said how much the tickets were and man, I crashed HARD. I never before wished I owned my own business – since it was a charity event that ticket would’ve been a tax deduction!! DAMMIT ALL….
Anyway, thanks for these downloads!! My favorite is actually “Little Sister” but they are all aweseome!!
And oh yeah, thanks for reminding me Cindy….Eddie Vedder is hot.
Wow that would have been a great concert.
Wow that would have been a great concert.