Pearl Jam survives, struggles with changing times.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October, 2000 | by Guarino, Mark

EAST TROY, WIS. - You'd think temperatures in the 20s and a bracing Wisconsin wind would lock Pearl Jam's Sunday show in a deep freeze. But if the elements were a problem, the Seattle-based band certainly didn't show it opening its Chicago area stand here at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre (they play the Allstate Arena today).

Entering to the recorded strains of the The Who's Baba O'Riley, the band tore into mid-career power anthems and ballads, including "Hail, Hail," "Even Flow," and "elderly woman behind the counter in a small town." All were epic sing-alongs, but none so more than "Corduroy," which allowed leader singer Eddie Vedder to assure "absolutely nothing's changed." It's a stand the band has spent the last decade working to prove. Next...