I've always loved Pearl Jam and loved Billy Corgan getting all pissy that Pearl Jam was still selling out arenas while the Smashing Punpkins were attracting flies.
This latest tour was huge, though. Like 2 sold out baseball stadium shows in most American major cities. They've basically been playing to 80k fans over two nights in most cities.
That's bigger than I can comprehend for Pearl Jam, unless they made an annoucment that it was their last and I missed it? That's the only reason I can think of that they could draw that large. That's bigger crowds than almost any band in the world can attract right now, what am I missing?
This article was unclear, as it mentioned "farewell shows", but they were in Chicago and it was the last shows of the tour and sounded more like the reviewer was a huge fanboy and calling it the farewell shows of this particular tour.
http://antiquiet.com/reviews/2016/08...-from-the-pit/
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The electrified roar of the crowd at Wrigley, packed to its 41,268 person capacity
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