{"id":792251,"date":"2019-01-22T09:16:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=782241"},"modified":"2019-01-22T09:16:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:16:06","slug":"flashback-pearl-jam-debut-lightning-bolt-at-2013-wrigley-field-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-pearl-jam-debut-lightning-bolt-at-2013-wrigley-field-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Pearl Jam Debut \u2018Lightning Bolt\u2019 at 2013 Wrigley Field Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s been a little over five years since Pearl Jam<\/a> released an album of new material and it doesn\u2019t seem like one is coming at any point in the immediate future. \u201cIt\u2019d be fun to record or even just write a song together,\u201d bassist<\/a> Jeff Ament<\/a> recently told Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI think when Chris [Cornell] passed, that\u2019s really been a tough one to wrap our heads around, and then there\u2019s just life stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ament did say that the group has at least attempted to record new material in recent years. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone in, probably, four or five times in the last couple of years, so we have a whole ton of unfinished stuff,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re just sort of in a little bit of limbo. I\u2019m sure everybody\u2019s got a bunch more riffs, and I\u2019m sure Ed\u2019s got a handful of journal lyrics. It\u2019s just going to take us all getting into a room together for six weeks and just knocking something out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pearl Jam have taken long breaks between releasing new albums in the past \u2014 most notably between 2002\u2019s Riot Act<\/em> and 2006\u2019s Pearl Jam<\/em> and 2009\u2019s Backspacer<\/em> and 2013\u2019s Lightning Bolt<\/em> \u2014 but this is the first time it\u2019s gone quite this long. That doesn\u2019t mean, however, that the group has been inactive. They toured heavily to support Lightning Bolt<\/em> in 2013 and 2014 and have done shows every year since, besides 2017 when they only played at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Many of their American shows in the past few years have been at baseball stadiums, a practice they began in 2013. They played Chicago\u2019s Wrigley Field on July 19th of that year and picked the occasion to debut the title track to Lightning Bolt,<\/em> which was due out that October. A colossal storm (complete with actual lightning bolts) hit the city that night and the group was forced to delay the show for nearly three hours after playing just seven songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a little tense here and there, because the band really wanted it to work out,\u201d Pearl Jam producer Brendan O\u2019Brien told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> shortly after the show. \u201cThis was a real big moment for those guys \u2014 for Eddie, for all of them. They were really concerned it was gonna get blown out. I don\u2019t believe there was a \u2018rain day\u2019 anywhere. There wasn\u2019t a chance to make it up.They were determined to make it work. Their road manager, Smitty, just worked those people at the neighborhood coalition to let them extend the curfew until two a.m.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a fan shot video of the premiere of \u201cLightning Bolt,\u201d which was the first glimpse the fans had of the new Pearl Jam album. The group did release the new song \u201cCan\u2019t Deny Me\u201d last March and they played it live throughout the year. With no concerts on the books for 2019 so far maybe they\u2019re finally going to have the time to write more tunes and finish the album.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a little over five years since Pearl Jam released an album of new material and it doesn\u2019t seem like one is coming at any point in the immediate future. \u201cIt\u2019d be fun to record or even just write a song together,\u201d bassist Jeff Ament recently told Rolling Stone. \u201cI think when Chris [Cornell] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 17:40:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}