PEARL JAM Reissuing 'Ten' In Deluxe Edition

December 11, 2008

The Pulse of Radio reports that PEARL JAM will reissue its classic 1991 debut album, "Ten", on March 24, in a deluxe edition that will be available in four different versions. Each version will include a remastered version of the original album along with a completely new remix of the set by longtime PEARL JAM producer Brendan O'Brien. Bassist Jeff Ament also supervised a revamped version of the album artwork. The remixed version of the CD contains six previously unreleased songs from the same period, including early versions of "Breath" and "State of Love and Trust", a vocal version of "Brother", plus "Just a Girl", "Evil Little Goat" and "2,000 Mile Blues".

The "Legacy" edition of the package will contain a DVD of PEARL JAM's 1992 performance on MTV's "Unplugged", which has never before been released, while a vinyl version of the release will feature the original album on one platter and O'Brien's remix on the other.

The "Super Deluxe Edition" will feature two CDs, a DVD and four vinyl records. The two additional vinyl discs will contain a September 20, 1992, concert at Magnuson Park in Seattle. But the most startling addition to this edition is a duplicate copy of the original 1990 PEARL JAM demo, in which Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard recorded three instrumental tracks and sent them to a then-unknown Eddie Vedder to record vocals over. Those songs became PEARL JAM staples "Once", "Alive" and "Footsteps".

Although poor bootlegs of the demo have circulated for years, the version contained in this edition will have clear sound and appear as a replica of the original cassette.

The "Super Deluxe Edition" will come in a linen-covered clamshell case and will also contain an Eddie Vedder-style composition notebook filled with replica personal notes, images and mementos from Vedder and Ament's collections, a vellum envelope with replicated ephemera from PEARL JAM's early work and a two-sided print commemorating the Seattle concert.

The reissue of "Ten" is the first of a series of events that will lead up to PEARL JAM's 20th anniversary in 2011, with more to be announced.

The band is currently recording its ninth studio album and first with O'Brien behind the mixing board since 1998's "Yield".

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