Traveling to Seattle with a coworker, my best friend, and his then-girlfriend was an amazing experience. The ending of РІР‚Сљ CropdusterРІР‚Сњ, the choruses of РІР‚Сљ GhostРІР‚Сњ and РІР‚Сљ Help HelpРІР‚Сњ, and various other parts of the album were swirling in my head leading up to the shows and getting to see most of them in the РІР‚Сљhomeland,РІР‚Сњ so to speak, was an incredible experience. To me, the album and those Seattle shows will always be intertwined in my head. But in 2002, I decided to go one step further: I booked a trip to catch the two Key Arena shows in Seattle in early December. Over the years, I had already managed to see them all over the northeast, traveling to Boston, Philly, up to Montreal, and several points in between.

I was no stranger to traveling to see the band by that point, but living in the northeast, it was always easy to catch a few shows every tour. A Pilgrimage to Seattle & an Epic 6-Show Run in the Northeast

РІР‚Сљ CanРІР‚в„ўt KeepРІР‚Сњ sucked me in immediately with itРІР‚в„ўs seductive drum beat and trippy guitar parts, but as the album unfolded, I realized that what they were going for on the album was a real bare-bones approach, and it sounded like a lot of it was recorded live in the studio, which I thought was a nice approach. I dug both songs, and I could tell that the forthcoming album was going to be a vastly different affair than its predecessor, Binaural. Upon its release, all I knew were РІР‚Сљ I Am MineРІР‚Сњ and РІР‚Сљ Bu$hleaguerРІР‚Сњ from the previously released single. So I want to discuss what this album and era mean to me, personally. Any attempts to try to dissect and give the songs justice have already been done. ItРІР‚в„ўs the first album post-Roskilde and post-2000 election, and it wears its anger and vitriol on its sleeve. It holds a very unique place in the PJ canon.

ItРІР‚в„ўs a raw, personal album to some, a super-charged political album to others, and to some itРІР‚в„ўs a disjointed effort with few highlights (and I could not disagree more). What I find fascinating is how this album resonates with a lot of hardcore fans in very unique ways compared to other albums. ThereРІР‚в„ўs the era in which it came out and how the songs weave a story with what was going on in society, politics, and the bandРІР‚в„ўs recent history. ThereРІР‚в„ўs the album itself, with its stripped-down aesthetic and overtly political stance. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as 'the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s.There are a lot of ways to unpack, dissect, and analyze Riot Act. Pearl Jam has outlasted and outsold many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the decade. To date, the band has sold more than 31.5 million records in the U.S, and an estimated 60 million worldwide. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having 'spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame.' One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, over the course of the band's career, its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices, including refusing to make music videos, giving interviews and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster.

The band's fifth and current drummer is Matt Cameron of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998.Р”Р‡ormed after the demise of Gossard and Ament's previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten, in 1991. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Stone Gossard (guitar), Jeff Ament (bass), Mike McCready (guitar), and Eddie Vedder (vocals). Pearl Jam is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990.

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