The band had been open in the past about allowing fans to make amateur recordings, and these "official bootlegs" were an attempt to provide a more affordable and better quality product for fans. The band has sold more than 3.5 million copies of shows since launching the bootleg series in 2000.
The official bootlegs are a complete record of almost every show the band plays, excluding club "warm-up" dates. One of the shorter sets on the European tour, the Pink Pop festival isn't short on great material. Maybe due to the brevity of their time slot, Pearl Jam chose to give the fans a treat and dust off four tracks from Ten: "Even Flow," "Once," "Black," and "Jeremy," a tune that only rarely shows up on the European tour.
The show really begins on a high note with "Corduroy," kicking things off with a jolt on a tour in which quieter, slower tunes usually lead things off. In fact, the first four songs are all pretty high-energy until vocalist Eddie Vedder paints a little more somber picture with the introduction of "Rival" and "Jeremy."
He describes the rarely played tunes as "a couple of songs about Americans killing each other" after he sarcastically notes that "we Americans have really futuristic ways of handling our population problem we give each other guns and kill one another." On a lighter note, the set ends with a spectacular, full-tilt version of the rock & roll nugget "Leaving Here."
01. Corduroy (5:35)
02. Breakerfall (2:51)
03. Animal (2:35)
04. Hail Hail (4:51)
05. Rival (3:33)
06. Jeremy (5:41)
07. Nothing As It Seems (6:03)
08. MFC (2:30)
09. Habit (4:29)
10. Light Years (4:55)
11. Lukin (1:09)
12. Even Flow (5:19)
13. Brain Of J (3:01)
14. Insignificance (4:28)
15. Betterman (4:10)
16. Rearviewmirror (6:44)
17. Once (4:12)
18. Fuckin Up (9:13)
19. Black (6:44)
20. Leaving Here (3:20)
Label - Epic
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