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Article: Pearl Jam rewards faithful with inspiring show.(NEWS)(Review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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It had been six years since Pearl Jam, the biggest U.S. rock band to emerge in the 1990s, performed in the Twin Cities. In popular music, six years can be an era.
Since Pearl Jam last played at Lollapalooza '92 in St. Paul, grunge died, so did alternative-rock, and Seattle is no longer the epicenter of music. (Not to mention that Pearl Jam has released four albums of its own plus one with Neil Young.) So it goes in ever-changing rock 'n' roll.
At the Seattle quintet's overdue return Tuesday night at instantly soldout Target Center in Minneapolis, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder, after receiving a louder-than-a-sonic-boom ovation during the band's encore, ...