Article: PEARL JAM'S PAIN AND LOSS Recalling Cobain in church of rock

PEARL JAM

At: Boston Garden with Mudhoney, through tonight. At the

Orpheum Theater, tomorrow night.

You don't think the renditions of "Jeremy," about a teen suicide, and "Alive," a defiant, proud affirmation of that state of being, had special resonance during Pearl Jam's soldout concert at Boston Garden last night?

Oh yes, chills went right up and down the spine.

Singer Eddie Vedder admitted from the stage that he had doubts about whether Pearl Jam should even play. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's leader and Pearl Jam's antagonist-peer-rival, had killed himself just days earlier; a memorial service in Seattle was yesterday afternoon. After playing "Jeremy," the seventh song in the set, ...

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