Two Songs and a Sketch
The Pearl Jam Concert Chronology heads the night at NBC Studios in New York City with Saturday Night Live in brackets, and Five Horizons heads it Saturday Night Live: New York, NY, naming no building; both give a soundcheck of "Alive" and "Porch" twice each and a set of the same two. The note the two share calls it a television performance and has the band appear briefly in a sketch with Sharon Stone; no attendance, support act, broadcast date or live status is printed by either.
On Saturday, April 11, 1992, Pearl Jam played Saturday Night Live in New York, at a building the Pearl Jam Concert Chronology heads NBC Studios, in New York City, and Five Horizons, heading its entry Saturday Night Live: New York, NY, does not name. Neither chronology prints an attendance or a studio-audience figure, and neither names a support act or another musical guest. Five Horizons brackets 10m after its heading, a figure the chronology does not print; what it measures is not stated. Both list a soundcheck of "Alive" twice and "Porch" twice, and a set of "Alive" and "Porch." Both notes call it a television performance and have the band appear briefly in a sketch with Sharon Stone; the broadcast date, the details of its airing and whether it went out live are stated by neither.
The show
Four Images, Two Titled as Promo Photos
The chronology's page links four images under the date; their markup titles carry two personal names in one, the band's name in another, and the band's name with a bracketed promo-photo label in the other two. A markup title is the chronology's identification and not a caption read on the image; none of the four titles carries a credit, and whether any of the four was taken at this performance is stated by no document on the page. The chronology heads the night NBC Studios, New York City, NY, USA, with the programme in brackets; Five Horizons heads it by the programme and the city, Saturday Night Live: New York, NY, and names no building, and the two forms are printed here as each gives them. Beyond its heading, the chronology prints a soundcheck line, a setlist line and a note, and no attendance, opening-act or encore line; Five Horizons prints a soundcheck line, a set line and a note, and no attendance or support-act line.
The Performance
Both documents give the soundcheck as "Alive" and "Porch," each twice, the chronology as a bracketed count after each title and Five Horizons by printing each title twice; both give the set as "Alive" and "Porch." The note is one text printed twice: a television performance, and a brief appearance by the band in a sketch with Sharon Stone. Nothing in either document says when the performance was broadcast or whether it went out live, and neither names another act.
The Next Step
Philadelphia, the night before, is told in Trocadero Theatre, Trocadero Club. Both documents put the next show at the Limelight in New York the following night; it is told in One Title Listed Three Ways.
Recording & sound
What the Record Preserves
Four objects hang under this date on the chronology's page, the four images. Whether any recording or broadcast capture of the night exists is stated by no document on the page. The night comes down to two songs, listed twice at soundcheck and once in the set, a building the chronology names and Five Horizons does not, a bracketed figure that of the two chronologies only Five Horizons prints, four images whose titles are the chronology's identifications and not captions, and one note printed twice.
Other Media (1)
Other accounts
No further accounts of this show have been added.
Sources & thanks (3)
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — 1992 page
- Five Horizons — Concert chronology 1992, entries for 04/10/92, 04/11/92 and 04/12/92
- Pearl Jam Concert Chronology — The chronology's page for the date: the four images linked under the April 11, 1992 entry (1992-04-11-p1.webp, 1992-04-11-p2.webp, 1992-04-11-p3.webp and 1992-04-11-p4.webp)