Immortality...(11/9)

After years, it is Pearl Jam who remains the pick in my musical box...
During the golden era of Seattle grunge movement, the raw and primitive sound of rock'n'roll dominated the US music market. No one could imagine the albums of Nirvana were brutally sold in millions copies. Focus at the moment was put on the two giant groups - Nirvana and Pearl Jam. That was the time when youth conquered the speech. It was the tattoo of the age. Losing the fate on the burdening tour life and dullness of the perceived world, Kurt Cobain committed suicide in 1994, and Nirvana ended its legendary life. Suddenly Pearl Jam seemed to lose its ground as the only pillar of the grunge movement. Media stated that 'the grunge is dead', and shortly after Kurt's death, Pearl Jam released their important album Vitalology. It was the time when I fell in love with the band, a sensible transformation to its post-grunge musical world.

The group had their live concert at Bercy this evening to demonstrate its 1.5 decade about the beauty of rock. Powerful and groovy are the trademark of Pearl Jam, and varied from its debut raw sound of grunge, the band plays very skillful and structural melody of hard art rock. Accompanied with a set of decent lighting effect throughout the concert, the music of Pearl Jam never stopped. It was touching when they played songs like Better Man...when you see all the thirty-something fans wearing T-shirts of Pearl Jam from various stages and the harmonised dance of the crowd, you simply get the rhythm of a stagnant eternity since the past. I was listening again to the song 'indifferent' from their debut album Ten, and this is what to be called 'immortality'...