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Vs. Tour

Tour by Pearl Jam
Location United States
Associated album Vs.
Start date October 28, 1993
End date April 17, 1994
Legs 2

No. of shows
52 in United States
52 in total

Pearl Jam concert chronology





  • 1993 European/North American Tour
    (1993)




  • Vs. Tour
    (1993–1994)




  • Vitalogy Tour
    (1995)



The Vs. Tour was a concert tour by the American rock band Pearl Jam to support its second album, Vs.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Tour dates


  • 3 Band members


  • 4 Songs performed


  • 5 References





History


Pearl Jam promoted Vs. with tours in the United States in the fall of 1993 and the spring of 1994. The fall 1993 tour focused on the Western United States, while the spring 1994 tour focused on the Eastern United States. Industry insiders compared Pearl Jam's tour to the touring habits of Led Zeppelin, in that the band "ignored the press and took its music directly to the fans."[1] During this tour the band set a cap on ticket prices in the attempt to thwart scalpers.[2]


During the tour Pearl Jam concurrently worked on its third album. Several songs from the band's third album, Vitalogy, were premiered during this tour. These include "Last Exit", "Spin the Black Circle", "Not for You", "Tremor Christ", "Nothingman", "Whipping", "Corduroy", "Satan's Bed", "Better Man", and "Immortality".[3]


On the evening of November 5, 1993, Pearl Jam performed before almost 25,000 fans that stood and sat through the night on the lawns of Indio, California previously rock-festival free Empire Polo Club. (This show is well-known among fans because halfway through the set, fans in the pit began pelting the band with shoes, provoking Vedder and the band to walk off stage, only to come out and play the rest of the set from behind a wall of speakers.) Although band management had chosen this untested and under-developed site as part of a boycott of Ticketmaster and the Southern California auditoriums it controlled, the event established the new venue's suitability for large-scale rock events. Pearl Jam's November 30, 1993 concert in Las Vegas at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts featured a reunion by the grunge band Green River. Participating in the reunion were Pearl Jam members Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, Mudhoney members Mark Arm and Steve Turner, and Chuck Treece, who filled in on drums for Green River drummer Alex Vincent.


Pearl Jam was outraged when it discovered after a pair of shows in Chicago in March 1994 that ticket vendor Ticketmaster had added a service charge to the tickets.[4] The band's April 3, 1994 concert in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre was broadcast live on the radio in the United States and was also eventually released as a part of the "Dissident"/Live in Atlanta box set released in Europe. On April 8, 1994, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead in his home in Seattle due to an apparent suicide, which deeply affected Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder. At the band's April 8, 1994 concert in Fairfax, Virginia at the Patriot Center, Vedder proclaimed, "I don't think any of us would be in this room tonight if it weren't for Kurt Cobain."[5] Vedder later said that "the day that we found out about Kurt...I was just spinning. I was lost and didn't know if we should play, or if we should just go home, or if we should attend the services. I still have some regrets about that, even though in the end it was probably better that we played the last two weeks of the tour. I decided I would play those next two weeks and then I'd never have to play again."[6] This was Pearl Jam's last tour with drummer Dave Abbruzzese.


Following the tour, the band brought a lawsuit against Ticketmaster that accused them of being a monopoly whose anticompetitive practices allowed markup prices of more than 30%. The band's intention was to get ticket prices lowered for its fans.[7] Pearl Jam's plans for a 1994 summer tour were cancelled as a result of a Ticketmaster boycott.[8]



Tour dates


Information taken from various sources.[9][10][11]

















































































































































































































































































Date
City
Country
Venue
Opening act
Warm-Up Shows
October 25, 1993

Seattle
United States
Off Ramp Café

October 27, 1993

Santa Cruz
The Catalyst

American Music Club
United States Leg 1
October 28, 1993
San Francisco
United States

The Warfield Theatre

Rollins Band
October 30, 1993

San Jose

SJSU Event Center
October 31, 1993
Los Angeles

Greek Theatre
Rollins Band, American Music Club
November 2, 1993

San Diego

Civic Theatre
American Music Club
November 3, 1993
November 4, 1993

West Hollywood

Whisky a Go Go
November 5, 1993

Indio

Empire Polo Club
American Music Club, Weapon of Choice, Eleven
November 6, 1993

Mesa

Mesa Amphitheatre

Bill Miller, Butthole Surfers
November 7, 1993
November 9, 1993

Albuquerque

Convention Exhibition Hall
Butthole Surfers
November 11, 1993

Denton

University of North Texas Coliseum, Super Pit
November 12, 1993

Dallas

Moody Coliseum
November 16, 1993

New Orleans

Lakefront Arena

Urge Overkill
November 17, 1993
November 19, 1993
November 20, 1993

Nacogdoches

William R. Johnson Coliseum at Stephen F. Austin State University
November 22, 1993

Little Rock

Barton Coliseum
November 23, 1993

Oklahoma City
T&T Center
November 24, 1993

Wichita

Century II
November 26, 1993

Boulder

Balch Fieldhouse, University of Colorado Boulder
Urge Overkill, Mudhoney
November 27, 1993
Mudhoney
November 28, 1993

Balch Fieldhouse, University of Colorado at Boulder Cancelled
November 30, 1993

Las Vegas

Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts
Previously scheduled for the Sands Hotel.
Mudhoney
December 1, 1993
December 2, 1993

Reno

Lawlor Events Center
Urge Overkill, Mudhoney
December 7, 1993
Seattle

Seattle Center Arena
Urge Overkill, Six in the Clip
December 8, 1993

December 9, 1993
Urge Overkill, Hater
United States Leg 2
March 6, 1994

Denver
United States

Paramount Theatre

The Frogs
March 7, 1994
March 9, 1994

Pensacola

Civic Center

L7, Follow for Now
March 10, 1994

Chicago

Chicago Stadium
The Frogs, Urge Overkill
March 13, 1994

New Regal Theater
The Frogs, Magic Slim and the MGs
March 14, 1994

St. Louis

Fox Theatre
The Frogs, Grant Lee Buffalo
March 15, 1994
The Frogs
March 17, 1994

West Lafayette

Elliot Hall, Purdue University
Grant Lee Buffalo
March 19, 1994

Detroit

Masonic Theater
March 20, 1994

Ann Arbor

Crisler Arena
March 22, 1994

Cleveland

Cleveland State University Convocation Center
March 24, 1994

Louisville

Louisville Gardens

King's X
March 25, 1994

Memphis

Mid-South Coliseum
March 26, 1994

Murfreesboro

Murphy Center
March 28, 1994

Miami

Bayfront Amphitheater
March 29, 1994

St. Petersburg

Bayfront Arena
April 2, 1994

Atlanta

Fox Theatre
April 3, 1994
April 6, 1994

Springfield

Civic Center
Mudhoney
April 7, 1994

Rochester

War Memorial
April 8, 1994

Fairfax

Patriot Center
April 10, 1994

Boston

Boston Garden
April 11, 1994
April 12, 1994

Orpheum Theatre
April 17, 1994
New York City

Paramount Theater


Band members




  • Jeff Ament – bass guitar


  • Stone Gossard – rhythm guitar


  • Mike McCready – lead guitar


  • Eddie Vedder – lead vocals, guitar


  • Dave Abbruzzese – drums



Songs performed












References





  1. ^ DeRogatis, Jim. Milk It!: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the 90's. Cambridge: Da Capo, 2003. .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
    ISBN 0-306-81271-1, pg. 58



  2. ^ DeRogatis, Jim. Milk It!: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the 90's. Cambridge: Da Capo, 2003.
    ISBN 0-306-81271-1, pg. 59



  3. ^ Pearl Jam: Song Index. pearljam.com.


  4. ^ Wall, Mick. "Alive". Nirvana and the Story of Grunge. Q p. 99


  5. ^ Gunderson, Edna. "Musical artists offer commentary on the late Kurt Cobain" Archived 2009-02-14 at the Wayback Machine. Gannett News Service.


  6. ^ Marks, Craig. "Let's Get Lost". Spin. December 1994.


  7. ^ "PJ's testimony before Congress regarding Ticketmaster". June 30, 1994.


  8. ^ Gordinier, Jeff (1994-10-28). "The Brawls in Their Courts". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2007-09-03.


  9. ^ "Pearl Jam: Set Lists". Pearljam.com. Retrieved 2007-12-08.


  10. ^ "The Five Horizons Concert Chronology". fivehorizons.com. Retrieved 2007-12-08.


  11. ^ "The Pearl Jam Concert Chronology". twofeetthick.com. Retrieved 2007-12-08.










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