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EDDIE VEDDER Plays Surprise Warm-Up Show

March 27, 2008

According to The Pulse of Radio, PEARL JAM frontman Eddie Vedder surprised fans on Monday and Tuesday (March 24 and March 25) by playing unannounced shows at Seattle's Kenyon Hall as a warm-up for his first-ever solo tour, which begins on April 2 in Vancouver. According to Billboard.com, fans had bought five-dollar tickets for what they thought were screenings of "Into the Wild", the recent film for which Vedder wrote and recorded nine original songs. They got a full set from Vedder instead, including songs from "Into the Wild", PEARL JAM tracks like "I Am Mine" and "Dead Man", other rare solo tracks and covers such as BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's "Growin' Up", TOM PETTY's "I Won't Back Down" and BOB DYLAN's "Forever Young".

Vedder also sang "No More", his contribution to the new documentary "Body of War". The singer played guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin and ukulele during the show.

Less than 150 people were at each show. A number of fans who were initially unable to get in were eventually ushered inside for free.

Meanwhile, a guitar that Vedder used to write the PEARL JAM song "Love Boat Captain" fetched $8,000 at a private auction in New York City on Tuesday night. The event raised funds for the defense of the West Memphis Three, a trio of young Arkansas men who many feel were wrongly convicted in 1993 for the murder of three eight-year-old boys.

PEARL JAM will begin a 10-date summer tour on June 11th in West Palm Beach, Florida, including a mid-June appearance at the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. The band is also working on its next album.

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