The ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist had come out with Pawnshop Guitars, an excellent solo album we’d been playing a lot (having Slash and Axl on it didn’t hurt). A show with those songs plus some tasty covers (including Guns N’ Roses) made for a sweet show.
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D Generation was being pushed by EMI so we got tickets free. I liked them, but I like lead singer Jesse Malin’s solo career more.
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After such an amazing experience seeing Pearl Jam, I was determined to recapture the magic. They announced they were playing two nights of benefit shows for Voters for Choice at Constitution Hall, and the only way to get tickets was with a postcard lottery. At this point I was working at a record store I co-owned, and we would print and mail brightly colored postcards to our mailing list so I made 20 and sent them in. I got chosen for the first show and took my sister.
It was an amazing show. L7 and Neil Young opened, but the audience was clearly there for Pearl Jam. And they were rewarded for their patience with an epic show featuring plenty of songs from Vitalogy (still my favorite album of theirs). New drummer Jack Irons took on his first full length show without a problem and Neil Young joined them during the encore for Neil’s new song “Act Of Love”.
