Touring Band 2000

Pearl Jam has always filmed its live shows for archival purposes, but the idea to compile a selection of songs from the U.S. shows and release them on a DVD evolved over the course of last year's tour.

As a result, the band expanded the roles of three of its touring crew members to include videoing each of the shows from different positions in the house to see what they could come up with.

About midway through leg one of the US tour, they presented some of the footage to the band.

Kelly Curtis, the band's manager, explains how the project progressed: "The band liked what they saw, and the idea of creating a mock set list of songs from different cities on the tour and releasing them via DVD came up….About 3 months later, the band had a full length DVD that everyone was excited about - it's very raw and realistic footage done without directors or producers, and it gives fans a chance to see a little more behind the scenes stuff than has previously been available," says Curtis.

This first Pearl Jam full-length DVD features 3 hours of live and montage footage from the band's 2000 U.S. and European tours.

The main body of the DVD programme is comprised of 28 full song performances filmed in various cities on the band's 2000 48-city U.S. tour, reflecting the time and composition of an actual concert set list.

The DVD was filmed by Pearl Jam crew members without directors or producers.

An additional fifty minutes of special bonus features includes footage from the band's 2000 European tour, backstage footage, previously unreleased music, special consumer chosen camera angles, the previously unreleased video for "Oceans," and more.

Special bonus features:

Stationary "Matt-cam" footage is available with a heavier percussion mix for two of the songs featured on the main body of the DVD: "Evacuation" and "Even Flow" and also for "In My Tree." ( The Matt-cam" is a special camera positioned behind the drummer Matt Cameron that the consumer can switch to while viewing the DVD.)

European Montages: City, band and fan montages from the European tour with "Yellow Ledbetter" live and unreleased instrumentals recorded by Pearl Jam during early Binaural sessions. Instrumentals titled: "Thunderclap," "Foldback" and "Harmony."

Outtakes of band on U.S. tour, set to the song "Smile."

Do The Evolution" video - animated by Todd McFarlane.

"Oceans" video - never before released in the U.S. directed by Josh Taft.

This is the visual equivalent of the bootleg CDs that were released in 2000… a basic document of what may occur at any given Pearl Jam concert.

At the request of the band and those who worked on this project, PLEASE PLAY IT LOUD.