Daniel Kreps for Rolling Stone:
Pearl Jam are offering fans an immersive plunge into the band’s live archives with their newly announced Deep, a digital collection of nearly 200 Pearl Jam concerts spanning from 2000 to 2013.
The just-launched Deep hub on Pearl Jam’s official site allows visitors to access 186 bootlegs and 5,404 tracks from the past two decades, with each gig accompanied by show descriptions written by members of the band’s Ten Club fan club.
39 year-old me: amazing. 16 year-old me: holy shit.
Not to say I love Pearl Jam any less than I once did, but my god. I remember scouring through some shady sections of record store after record store looking through $30+ bootleged CDs for Pearl Jam shows. Now they just… released them all.
Of course, Pearl Jam did this before, in a less all-encompassing way, with their official tour CDs launched en masse in 2006. They even set sales records thanks to it. I probably bought 10–15 shows, but it was hard to know which to buy other than by playlist (or if there was good word-of-mouth about one show in particular). Now you can listen to them all (assuming you have Spotify/Apple Music).
My head is still exploding over this.
