Backspacer Tour

Backspacer Tour
Tour by Pearl Jam
Associated album	Backspacer
Start date	August 13, 2009
End date	July 10, 2010
Legs	6
Shows	33 in North America 16 in Europe 7 in Oceania 56 in total
Pearl Jam tour chronology
2008 U.S. Tour (2008) Backspacer Tour (2009 – 2010) Pearl Jam Twenty Tour 2011

The Backspacer Tour was a concert tour by the American rock band Pearl Jam to support its ninth album, Backspacer.

History

Pearl Jam promoted Backspacer with tours in Europe, North America and Oceania in 2009 and further legs in North America and Europe in 2010.

In August 2009, Pearl Jam headlined the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, which was preceded by five shows in Europe and three in North America. This tour preceded the release of Pearl Jam's 2009 album, Backspacer. On August 11, 2009, the band played an intimate show at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London. The band was joined onstage by The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood to play a cover of "All Along the Watchtower". Later that night the band was joined by Simon Townshend, younger brother of Pete Townshend, to perform The Who's "The Real Me".

On August 21, 2009, the band played in Toronto, Ontario. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists were scheduled to be the support band, but Leo was unable to attend, after being stuck at the border. This resulted in vocalist Eddie Vedder taking to the stage to cover Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain" and "The Needle and the Damage Done". Guitarist Mike McCready then played two songs, followed by guitarist Stone Gossard covering "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" by Johnny Thunders, before The Pharmacists played their set.

In October 2009, Pearl Jam headlined the Austin City Limits Music Festival. The Austin City Limits appearance took place amidst the fourteen-date North American leg of the tour. On October 6, 2009, the band played in Los Angeles, California at the Gibson Amphitheatre. They were joined onstage by former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell to perform the Temple of the Dog song "Hunger Strike". This was followed with an appearance by Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell on "Alive".

Pearl Jam was the final band that performed at the Wachovia Spectrum with four shows that took place on October 27–28 and October 30–31. At the final show at the Spectrum, the band played the song "Bugs" from their 1994 album Vitalogy for the first time. The band also performed a cover of Devo's "Whip It" in full costume. An additional leg consisting of a tour of Oceania took place afterward. The band played at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 1, 2010. They then played twelve dates in America in the same month and completed a second European leg in July 2010.

While most shows on the 2010 US leg were met with positive reviews, Dan Aquilante of the NY Post commenting on the first night at Madison Square Garden, said the lyrics were "mostly indiscernible" and "were little more than garbled jibber-jabber". At the show at the O2 in Dublin, a fan broke his arm in three places, after he jumped off the balcony and landed on the canopy above the mixing desk.

Official bootlegs are available for this tour through the band's official website in FLAC, MP3, and CD formats.

Tour dates

Information taken from various sources.

Europe Leg 1

Date	Location	Venue	Opening act
August 11, 2009	London, England	O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
August 13, 2009	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Sportspaleis Ahoy	Gomez
August 15, 2009	Berlin, Germany	Wuhlheide
August 17, 2009	Manchester, England	MEN Arena
August 18, 2009	London, England	O2 Arena

North America Leg 1

Date	Location	Venue	Opening act
August 21, 2009	Toronto, Ontario	Molson Amphitheatre	The Pharmacists
August 23, 2009	Chicago, Illinois	United Center	Bad Religion
August 24, 2009
August 28, 2009	San Francisco, California	Outside Lands Festival

North America Leg 2

Date	Location	Venue	Opening act
September 21, 2009	Seattle, Washington	KeyArena	Ben Harper and Relentless7
September 22, 2009
September 25, 2009	Vancouver, British Columbia	General Motors Place
September 26, 2009	Ridgefield, Washington	The Amphitheater at Clark County
September 28, 2009	West Valley City, Utah	E Center
September 30, 2009	Los Angeles, California	Gibson Amphitheatre
October 1, 2009
October 4, 2009	Austin, Texas	Austin City Limits Music Festival
October 6, 2009	Los Angeles, California	Gibson Amphitheatre	Ben Harper and Relentless7
October 7, 2009
October 9, 2009	San Diego, California	Viejas Arena
October 27, 2009	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Wachovia Spectrum	Social Distortion
October 28, 2009
October 30, 2009			Bad Religion
October 31, 2009

Oceania Leg

Date	Location	Venue	Opening acts
November 14, 2009	Perth, Australia	Members Equity Stadium	Liam Finn, Ben Harper and Relentless7
November 17, 2009	Adelaide, Australia	Adelaide Oval
November 20, 2009	Melbourne, Australia	Etihad Stadium
November 22, 2009	Sydney, Australia	Sydney Football Stadium
November 25, 2009	Brisbane, Australia	Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre
November 27, 2009	Auckland, New Zealand	Mt Smart Stadium
November 29, 2009	Christchurch, New Zealand	AMI Stadium

North America Leg 3

Date	Location	Venue	Opening act
May 1, 2010	New Orleans, Louisiana	New Orleans Jazz Festival	Band of Horses
May 3, 2010	Kansas City, Missouri	Sprint Center
May 4, 2010	St. Louis, Missouri	Scottrade Center
May 6, 2010	Columbus, Ohio	Nationwide Arena
May 7, 2010	Noblesville, Indiana	Verizon Wireless Music Center
May 9, 2010	Cleveland, Ohio	Quicken Loans Arena
May 10, 2010	Buffalo, New York	HSBC Arena
May 13, 2010	Bristow, Virginia	Jiffy Lube Live
May 15, 2010	Hartford, Connecticut	XL Center
May 17, 2010	Boston, Massachusetts	TD Garden
May 18, 2010	Newark, New Jersey	Prudential Center
May 20, 2010	New York City, New York	Madison Square Garden	The Black Keys
May 21, 2010	New York City, New York	Madison Square Garden	Band of Horses

Europe Leg 2

Date	Location	Venue	Opening acts
June 22, 2010	Dublin, Republic of Ireland	The O2	Ben Harper and Relentless7
June 23, 2010	Belfast, Northern Ireland	The Odyssey
June 25, 2010	London, England	Hard Rock Calling	Ben Harper and Relentless7, The Gaslight Anthem, The Hives
June 27, 2010	Nijmegen, The Netherlands	Rock In Park Festival
June 30, 2010	Berlin, Germany	Wuhlheide	Ben Harper and Relentless7
July 1 , 2010	Gdynia, Poland	Heineken Open'er
July 3 , 2010	Arras, France	Main Square
July 4 , 2010	Werchter, Belgium	Rock Werchter
July 6, 2010	Venice, Italy	Heineken Jammin' Festival
July 9 , 2010	Bilbao, Spain	BBK Live Festival
July 10, 2010	Oeiras, Portugal	Optimus Alive!

Band members

Pearl Jam

• Jeff Ament – bass guitar
• Stone Gossard – rhythm guitar
• Mike McCready – lead guitar
• Eddie Vedder – lead vocals, guitar
• Matt Cameron – drums

Additional musicians

• Boom Gaspar – Hammond B3 and keyboards

Songs performed

Originals

• "1/2 Full"
• "Alive"
• "All Night"
• "All Those Yesterdays"
• "Alone"
• "Amongst the Waves"
• "Animal"
• "Bee Girl"
• "Better Man"
• "Big Wave"
• "Black"
• "Black, Red, Yellow"
• "Blood"
• "Brain of J."
• "Brother"
• "Breakerfall"
• "Breath"
• "Bugs"
• "Comatose"
• "Come Back"
• "Corduroy"
• "Daughter"
• "Deep"
• "Dissident"
• "Do the Evolution"
• "Down"
• "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town"
• "The End"
• "Even Flow"
• "Fatal"
• "Faithfull"
• "The Fixer"
• "Footsteps"
• "Force of Nature"
• "Garden"
• "Ghost"
• "Given to Fly"
• "Glorified G"
• "Go"
• "Gods' Dice"
• "Gone"
• "Gonna See My Friend"
• "Got Some"
• "Greatest Waterfall"
• "Green Disease"
• "Grievance"
• "Hail, Hail"
• "Habit"
• "Hard to Imagine"
• "Hold On"
• "I Am Mine"
• "I Got Id"
• "I'm Open"
• "Immortality"
• "In Hiding"
• "In My Tree"
• "Indifference"
• "Inside Job"
• "Insignificance"
• "Jazz Odyssey"
• "Jeremy"
• "Johnny Guitar"
• "Just Breathe"
• "Last Exit"
• "Leash"
• "Leatherman"
• "Life Wasted"
• "Light Years"
• "Long Road"
• "Low Light"
• "Lukin"
• "Man of the Hour"
• "Mankind"
• "Marker In The Sand"
• "MFC"
• "No More"
• "No Way"
• "Not for You"
• "Nothing as It Seems"
• "Nothingman"
• "Oceans"
• "Of the Earth"
• "Of the Girl"
• "Off He Goes"
• "Once"
• "Out of My Mind"
• "Parachutes"
• "Parting Ways"
• "Pilate"
• "Porch"
• "Present Tense"
• "Push Me, Pull Me"
• "Rats"
• "Rearviewmirror"
• "Red Mosquito"
• "Release"
• "Rival"
• "Sad"
• "Satan's Bed"
• "Save You"
• "Severed Hand"
• "Sleight of Hand"
• "Smile"
• "Sometimes"
• "Speed of Sound"
• "Spin the Black Circle"
• "State of Love and Trust"
• "Supersonic"
• "Sweet Lew"
• "Tremor Christ"
• "Undone"
• "Unemployable"
• "Unthought Known"
• "Untitled"
• "Wash"
• "Wasted Reprise"
• "Whipping"
• "Why Go"
• "Wishlist"
• "World Wide Suicide"
• "Yellow Ledbetter"
• "You Are"

Covers

• "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" (Van Halen)
• "All Along the Watchtower" (Bob Dylan)
• "Angie" (The Rolling Stones) (snippet)
• "Another Brick in the Wall" (Pink Floyd) (snippet)
• "Arms Aloft" (Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros)
• "Atomic Dog" (George Clinton) (snippet)
• "Baba O'Riley" (The Who)
• "Ben" (Michael Jackson) (snippet)
• "Better Be Home Soon" (Crowded House) (with Neil Finn and Liam Finn)
• "Blitzkrieg Bop" (Ramones) (snippet)
• "Brain Damage" (Pink Floyd)
• "Crazy Mary" (Victoria Williams)
• "Crown of Thorns" (Mother Love Bone)
• "Dead Flowers" (The Rolling Stones)
• "Driven To Tears" (The Police)
• "Fuckin' Up" (Neil Young)
• "Goin' Back to Indiana" (The Jackson 5)
• "Golden State" (John Doe)
• "Happy Birthday" (traditional)
• "Heaven and Hell (snippet) (Black Sabbath)
• "Hunger Strike" (Temple of the Dog)
• "I Believe In Miracles" (Ramones)
• "I Got You" (Split Enz) (with Neil Finn and Liam Finn)
• "If You Want Blood You've Got It" (AC/DC)
• "Interstellar Overdrive" (Pink Floyd) (snippet)
• "Jersey Girl" (Tom Waits)
• "Kick Out the Jams" (MC5)
• "Last Kiss" (Wayne Cochran)
• "Leaving Here" (Edward Holland, Jr.)
• "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix)
• "Love, Reign o'er Me" (The Who)
• "Modern Girl" (Sleater-Kinney) (snippet)
• "Mountain Song" (Jane's Addiction)
• "Not Given Likely"(Chris Knox) (with Neil Finn and Liam Finn)
• "The Needle and the Damage Done" (Neil Young)
• "People Have the Power" (Patti Smith) (snippet)
• "Public Image" (Public Image Ltd.)
• "The Real Me" (The Who)
• "Rockin' in the Free World" (Neil Young)
• "Save It for Later" (The Beat) (snippet)
• "Search and Destroy" (The Stooges)
• "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" (The Byrds)
• "Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)" (Arthur Alexander)
• "Sonic Reducer" (The Dead Boys)
• "The Star-Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith)
• "Sugar Mountain" (Neil Young)
• "Sympathy for the Devil" (Jagger/Richards) (snippet)
• "Throw Your Hatred Down" (Neil Young)
• "Under Pressure" (Queen)
• "Whip It" (Devo)
• "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" (Johnny Thunders)
• "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (The Beatles)

Gallery

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  Pearl Jam fans outside the Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England on August 11, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in London, England on August 11, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in London, England on August 11, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam, with Ronnie Wood, performing "All Along the Watchtower" in London, England on August 11, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in Manchester, England on August 17, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in Manchester, England on August 17, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in Manchester, England on August 17, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in Manchester, England on August 17, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in Adelaide, Australia on November 17, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in Adelaide, Australia on November 17, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in Melbourne, Australia on November 20, 2009.

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  Eddie Vedder in Melbourne, Australia on November 20, 2009.

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  Ben Harper and Eddie Vedder covering "Under Pressure" in Sydney, Australia on November 22, 2009.

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  Eddie Vedder in Sydney, Australia on November 22, 2009.

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  Ben Harper and Eddie Vedder covering "Under Pressure" in Brisbane, Australia on November 25, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam in Brisbane, Australia on November 25, 2009.

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  Pearl Jam at Madison Square Garden on May 20, 2010.

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  Pearl Jam at Madison Square Garden on May 20, 2010.

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  Pearl Jam at Madison Square Garden on May 21, 2010.

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  Pearl Jam at Madison Square Garden on May 21, 2010.