Live at Benaroya Hall is a two-disc live album by Pearl Jam, recorded on October 22, 2003 at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington and released on July 27, 2004 through BMG. The concert which took place on October 22, 2003 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Washington is acoustic, and was performed and released as a benefit for YouthCare, a non-profit charity in Seattle. The album was also released as a limited edition quadruple vinyl through Ten Club, Pearl Jam’s fan club. Only 2,000 were pressed each individually numbered by hand and sold out within minutes of being on sale.
Live at Benaroya Hall was released through a one-album deal with BMG, and the band used the experiment to later sign with BMG subsidiary J Records to produce the album Pearl Jam (Avocado). It debuted at number 18 on the Billboard 200 chart and sold approximately 52,000 copies in its first week. As of April 2006, Live at Benaroya Hall has sold 168,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Tracklist:
Disc One
- Of the Girl (Stone Gossard)
- Low Light (Jeff Ament)
- Thumbing My Way (Eddie Vedder)
- Thin Air (Gossard)
- Fatal (Gossard)
- Nothing as It Seems (Ament)
- Man of the Hour (Vedder)
- Immortality (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder)
- Off He Goes (Vedder)
- Around the Bend (Vedder)
- I Believe in Miracles (Dee Dee Ramone, Daniel Rey)
- Sleight of Hand (Ament, Vedder)
- All or None (Gossard, Vedder)
- Lukin (Vedder)
Disc Two
- Parting Ways (Vedder)
- Down (Gossard, McCready, Vedder)
- Encore Break
- Can’t Keep (Vedder)
- Dead Man (Vedder)
- Masters of War (Bob Dylan)
- Black (Vedder, Gossard)
- Crazy Mary (Victoria Williams)
- 25 Minutes to Go (Shel Silverstein)
- Daughter (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder)
- Encore Break
- Yellow Ledbetter (Ament, McCready, Vedder)
Pearl Jam
Jeff Ament: bass guitar, double bass
Matt Cameron: drums
Stone Gossard: guitars
Mike McCready: guitars
Eddie Vedder: vocals, guitars, ukulele
Additional musicians and production
Ed Brooks at RFI CD Mastering: mastering
John Burton: recording
Brett Eliason: mixing
Boom Gaspar: Hammond B3, Fender Rhodes
Brad Klausen: design
