![]() ![]() The weather lasted about and hour and the clock blew past ten and eleven o’clock as all waited for the all-clear. The rains, thunder and lightning came once the field emptied. Pearl Jam Announces New Album ‘Lightning Bolt’ Vedder said there was “potential weather we might have to get through as a team” and announced that the concert was on hold as the stage, and fans in the GA and field sections would have to shelter in the building and wait for the storm to pass, though he promised the band would come back hard. A few streaks of jagged lightning lit the sky behind the band - whose just-announced fall album, fittingly, is called “Lightning Bolt” - during “Come Back” (off Pearl Jam’s 2006 self-titled album). With just a miniset of seven of PJ’s more gentle songs played (“Nothingman” from “Vitalogy,” “Present Tense” from “No Code”), Mother Nature intervened to halt the show at 9pm. “Not only is this the crown jewel of Chicago, but the crown jewel of the whole planet earth.” “It’s kind of like I’ve been waiting a lifetime for this one,” The Chicago native and avid, lifelong Cubs fan said a few songs later. 1 In U.K.įrontman Eddie Vedder was emotional as he sang brooding, building show opener “Release” (1991) to the sold-out crowd of 40,000-plus fans in the fine, if humid, twilight.
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