Pearl Jam recently performed Ten and Vs. front to back in their entirety, following performances of No Code and Yield in 2014. Mike McCready told Rolling Stone yesterday that he would like to see Pearl Jam performs all of their albums live in a residency.
McCready saw Cheap Trick play their early albums during a 1998 residency at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, and he’d love to see Pearl Jam do something similar at some point down the line. “That’s a fantasy of mine,” he says. “We could do every record in a residency. It would be so cool. We could play the B-sides along with the album and get really creative with it.”
“I was excited, but hesitant in a way,” he says. “I feel sometimes when you do a whole record, not that we’d done it a lot, but you have to stay in formula about how the record is, and there’s not a lot of spontaneity. But Vs. was really fun since there’s a lot of upbeat songs. It had energy I didn’t know it would have. I remember I struggled with No Code a couple of years ago, so I was happy that didn’t happen again.”
