PEARL JAM Releases Rare Live Cut From Soundtrack

August 18, 2011

According to The Pulse Of Radio, PEARL JAM has released the first cut from the soundtrack to the upcoming band documentary "Pearl Jam Twenty", a rare live version of the song "Crown Of Thorns". The tune was originally written and performed by MOTHER LOVE BONE, the late '80s Seattle band that included future PEARL JAM bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard. MOTHER LOVE BONE collapsed when singer Andrew Wood died in 1990 from a heroin overdose, but Ament and Gossard regrouped and put together PEARL JAM.

This version of "Crown Of Thorns" was recorded at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on October 22, 2000, as part of a lengthy tribute to Wood.

"Pearl Jam Twenty" director Cameron Crowe says in his soundtrack liner notes that PEARL JAM frontman Eddie Vedder once told him that "Crown Of Thorns" was the one MOTHER LOVE BONE song he would be "honored to sing one day."

Even though MOTHER LOVE BONE was poised for success before Wood's death, Ament told The Pulse Of Radio that PEARL JAM's goals when they started out were modest. "You know, I think we all thought, like, if we sold 50, 60,000 records, that would allow us to make a new record and, you know, I think mostly we wanted to get out and play," he said. "You know, I think we wanted to be a touring band and we wanted to be better musicians and we wanted to be more powerful and tighter. And we knew in that process we'd be better songwriters, and so I think for us, you know, at the time the focus was just to be a better band."

"Pearl Jam Twenty", which chronicles the group's 20-year history, will make its world premiere at at the prestigious 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 10. Following the premiere, the movie will begin screening in cities around the country for one night only on September 20, with weeklong runs in selected markets starting on Friday, September 23.

The film will have its television premiere on Friday, October 21 at 9:00 p.m. ET, as part of the PBS American Masters series.

It will also be available on demand with a DVD edition of the film to be released worldwide on October 25. A companion book, also called "Pearl Jam Twenty", will be published on September 13, while the soundtrack is due out on September 20.

PEARL JAM is currently at work on its tenth studio album.

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