We welcome you to the PEARL JAM RUMOR PIT Issue #54 - May 15, 2003 Hey Jammers! This newsletter was created as a direct link to the fans. If you would like to ask a question about Pearl Jam, please direct your questions (not fan club issues) to OfTheSea@aol.com or DigitalKat@aol.com. We're off now...into the Pit! PJ-O-METER... Pearl Jam music. Pearl Jam tour. Pearl Jam bootlegs. Pearl Jam DVD. Additional Pearl Jam shows! Here a Pearl Jam, there a Pearl Jam, everywhere a Pearl Jam. You could be experiencing overload at this point or maybe you're feverishly anticipating more of anything that begins with a P and a J or perhaps your Pearl Jam hunger is just right and anything else is jam...err...gravy. Ok, checking your PJ meter... PJ TOUR Pearl Jam will shortly begin gearing up for the next leg of their world tour which resumes in Missoula, Montana on May 28. Additional shows extending the tour were recently added to the previously announced schedule ... 7/11 in Mansfield, MA, 7/12 in Hershey, PA, 7/14 in Holmdel, NJ, and for now, 7/17 and 7/18 in Mexico City, Mexico. Ass kickin' rockin' Sleater-Kinney will be opening these shows. Tickets for the added U.S. shows are already on sale. Tickets for the Mexico shows will go on sale through www.ticketmaster.com.mx or by phone 011-525-55-325-9000 on May 21 at 11am local time. Current Ten Club members living in Mexico should have already been contacted by the promoter about their fan club ticket offer. Don't forget to check the Tour List page on Synergy for links to venues and any other changes to the schedule. PEARL JAM BOOTS... For your ears not your feet, but wouldn't that be warm? The official U.S. tour bootlegs of the recent April/May dates are still available at pearljam.com, tenclub.net and pearljambootlegs.com and will be until May 27th. Prices are a low cost of $12.98 for fan club members and $14.98 for non-members. After the 27th, it'll be time to make room for the second leg NorthAm bootlegs that will be available until shortly after the tour. One show from each leg will also be available in retail stores. So far the Feb 23rd show from Perth, Australia and the March 3rd show from Tokyo, Japan will be available commercially on CD in stores on June 10th. The two shows from the North American leg have not yet been chosen and release dates are not yet available. PJ on DVD... And for your ears and eyes, the December 6, 2002 warm-up show at the Showbox club is available for only $15.00 at tenclub.net or at the upcoming shows for $20.00; part of the proceeds will be going to charity. "Live At The Showbox" includes Pearl Jam's set from beginning to end and is brought to you by the same terrific people who did Touring Band 2000, namely, crew members Liz Burns, Steve Gordon and Kevin Shuss. This DVD will also be available at the shows during the next leg of the tour that begins on May 28th. For those who asked, the DVD is not region coded, and yes, it's in NTSC format. We're sorry but there's no VHS release. The set list includes 10 songs from the new album, Riot Act and is as follows. Set List: Small Town, Off He Goes, Thumbing My Way, Thin Air, Breakerfall, Green Disease, Corduroy, Save You, Ghost, Cropduster, I Am Mine, Love Boat Captain, Gods' Dice, 1/2 Full, Daughter/(War by Edwin Starr), You Are, Rearviewmirror; 1st encore: Bu$hleaguer, Insignificance, Better Man, Do The Evolution, Yellow Ledbetter; 2nd encore: Soon Forget, Don't Believe in Christmas by The Sonics PJ MUSIC Yes, there's more. Pearl Jam's rarities album is still in the works and should be delivered in August...still working on the rest of the details. RUMORS, RUMOURS, RUMORS... PEARL Rumor: PJ is going to play a few dates at the Gorge in George, WA later this summer. JAM Fact: False. PEARL Rumor: It has been widely rumored that PJ would be touring Europe in 2003. JAM Fact: This is false as the plans were never finalized. Perhaps in 2004 but nothing is solid at the moment. ~Q&A~Q&A~Q&A~Q&A~ Q: Will PJ cancel the Toronto show because of SARS? A: No plans to cancel. Q: Will any dates be scheduled for the Pacific Northwest on the upcoming North American legs? Portland or Seattle for example? A: Just Vancouver, BC. Q: Have Pearl Jam left their record company yet? A: Yes. Q: Will the band play Bu$hleaguer again? A: Ya never know... Q: Any chance of a Letterman or SNL appearance while PJ is in the Big Apple? A: No plans. Q: The band was OK with trading official boots from the 2000 tour. What's their position on this for the 2003 tour boots? A: By trade, do you mean burning copies? Q: Does PJ allow free trading of their official bootlegs? A: Free trading? Not while they're for sale, thank you. Q: How about trading the MP3 links? A: No, thanks. Q: This is my first question to the Pit. Who is the manufacturer of the black and white electric ukulele Ed is playing on this tour? Thanks in advance. A: Ed’s black and white Telecaster-like ukulele was built by Joel Eckhaus at Earnest Instruments. He’s a luthier in the Portland, Maine area. More information (and a picture of Ed’s uke) can be found at http://www.earnestinstruments.com. ~ TEN CLUB Q & A ~ Q: Will there be special arrangements for Ten Club members to pick up their tickets at will-call for the Madison Square Garden shows? A: We're working on a plan to start the day before. Either at or near the Garden. Q: How will 10c tickets/seating arrangements be affected by venues with season ticket holders? Normally season ticket seats are front row. Will they still be front row or will Ten Club members be front row? A: With the exception of a couple of venues, we have all of the good seats and always the front rows. Q: Are there any unclaimed fan club seats ever available on the day of the show for current club members? A: No. Q: Is there anyway Pearl Jam can set up something that allows the fan to buy a song from the set list instead of buying the entire show? I have bought three shows already, some for just a couple of songs. Thank you. A: We're working on that. Q: Was the Jan. 24th Ten Club ticket offer the end for this tour or will we get to a point where so many new shows are added that another offering is possible? A: No, there will not be another ticket offer. Q: How come Pearl Jam doesn't offer the members of the Ten Club an option of CD or vinyl for their fan club singles? I know many people love the vinyl format, but some of us, like myself, do not have access to a record player and therefore must download the songs off of the internet. Is there any way they might change this in the future? A: Spin the black circle... Heard Rumors? Have Questions? Ask, We're An Ear. When you send your rumors and questions in to us at the Rumor Pit, please put "PJ Rumor Pit" in the Subject line of your question message and please remember that personal questions, requests for autographs and lyrics information won't be answered. Don't forget to check the past Rumor Pit issues in case your question has already been answered. Welcome to our new Subscribers: This is your first e-mailed issue of the Rumor Pit. Updates can be frequent when the guys are busy so for current news in between e-mailed issues, please visit Synergy at http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/. Just click on What's New for the latest. We hope to see you on the Message Board too! Peace and Love, Kat and Sea *If you would like to unsubscribe from this mailing list, just reply and say Bucket!