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He thanked the Coyotes "for lending us this space tonight" and noted that two of his favorite Coyotes - Christian Fischer and Clayton Keller - were in the house. Vedder peppered the set with local references. I was broke, I was stuck and I was not going anywhere."Īt the story's conclusion, he launched into "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town," the first of many massive singalongs. "And it was almost like life forced me to stop. "If you've ever seen Gila Bend, you see it for about 90 seconds as you're driving through at 80 miles an hour," Vedder said. He was driving from San Diego to Phoenix when his car broke down in Gila Bend, where a friendly couple took him in for a few days. Then, Vedder shared the first of several lengthy monologues, this one concerning a trip he took in 1988. Pearl Jam opened their powerful headlining set with a moody rendition of "Wash," the B-side to their anthemic first single, "Alive," before following through with the mainstream-rock-radio chart-topper "Given to Fly" from 1997's "Yield." 'The best band in the world' and why he quit: A conversation with Steve Hackett of Genesis Eddie Vedder talks about his Arizona connections
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Suffice to say, he didn't end up singing any Jane's Addiction songs. He even joked that he'd play Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says" if they did. "I heard that it's what they call Victory Day today in Russia," Klinghoffer said before ending his set with a cover of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance," encouraging the crowd to keep it going for half an hour until Pearl Jam came out on stage. The multi-instrumentalist was joined by Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard on "Buttercup," a song by one of Gossard's other projects, Brad, in a set whose highlights ranged from Pluralone's "Rat Bastards at Every Turn" to "Backwater," a song by Tempe's Meat Puppets chosen to honor the show's proximity to their hometown.