The Van Goes Home

At the Cat's Cradle

Three nights earlier the band had played the Vatican in Houston; that night is told in Half-Full at the Vatican. Between them the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology lists the Point in Atlanta on Sunday, October 13. The band's own tour book for the run, as the same chronology reproduces it, has Atlanta on the 13th and the Cat's Cradle on the 14th, in a town it gives as Chapel Hill where the chronology gives Carrboro, the next town west by Wikipedia's account.

The run had begun on September 25 in Victoria, British Columbia, under a heading in which the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology calls it the band's first as a headliner in the United States, in support of Ten, with I Love You opening for the most part. The same heading says the tour was cut short when the Red Hot Chili Peppers offered Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam the opening slot on a two-month Blood Sugar Sex Magik tour of North America; Wikipedia's account of the tour says the band canceled the remaining dates of its own planned tour to take the slot.

At soundcheck, the entry says, "Black" was played over and over while Eddie Vedder worked out the vocals.

The Performance

The set as the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology gives it was eleven songs: "Wash," "Once," "Even Flow," "State of Love and Trust," "Alive," "Garden," "Deep," "Black," "Jeremy," "Why Go," and "Porch"; the encore was "I've Got a Feeling," with I Love You joining the band for it.

The eleven are the Dallas list of four nights earlier without its fragment, and the I-Beam list of September 30 title for title, in the same order; the encore is the Beatles song alone, without the "Breath" of Dallas.

Attendance was below capacity, the entry says, without a figure, but the band played hard for the crowd, in its words.

The Next Step

The van, the entry says, was driven back to Seattle after this show; for the next few months, on the Red Hot Chili Peppers tour, its replacement would be a bus, with a driver it names as Frank. The tour book had the run going on: a club it prints as the 930 Club in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, October 15, then Philadelphia, New York, a tentative date in Amherst, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago through October 26. Five Horizons carries a bare line for Nightclub 9:30 in Washington, D.C., on October 15 and nothing for the rest, and Wikipedia's table of the tour marks that date canceled. The Pearl Jam Concert Chronology has no October 15 entry; its next, under a new heading for the Red Hot Chili Peppers tour, is Wednesday, October 16, at the Oscar Mayer Theater in Madison, Wisconsin, the first of the dates with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins by its listing and by Wikipedia's.