[ATTENDED: September 14, 2022] Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam released Gigaton, their first album in seven years back in 2020. They announced a US tour, but it was remarkably limited in scope. There was an NYC date, but that sold out really quickly.
It was postponed for COVID and when they announced their 2022 tour, they threw in a stop in Camden as well. So we actually had a chance to see them (us and 25,000 other people).
Well, getting there was a nightmare! We got to Camden with no trouble and then it took us an hour to get from the Camden exit to a parking space.
I don’t know if this is a Camden problem or if the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion is to blame (they are at least the third owners since I’ve been going there and it doesn’t get better).
We missed the opening band Pluralone entirely and were actually worried we might miss the opening of the Pearl Jam set. We didn’t but we only had to wait about 15 minutes. And of course, we were REALLY far back.
Pluralone is the creation of Josh Klinghoffer who also played guitar and more with Pearl Jam on this tour. I was really surprised that they had an opening band as recently they haven’t been having one. I’m glad there was one as we would have missed the band if there hadn’t been. But it also meant a shorter set (I think).
Pluralone plays some interesting experimental music. They would have probably been pretty interesting to see, although Klinghoffer did wind up playing with Pearl Jam for the entire set,
C. went with us for this one (his first and hopefully not last Pearl Jam show). T. was going to come with us, but she bailed. It’s probably just as well, as we had to walk about a mile to our car and she didn’t really know them all that well.
Without question, I will not be going to another show in Camden again. They simply don’t have the infrastructure for that capacity crowd.
But all was forgiven when the band came out. (more…)
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