Pearl Jam - State of Love and Trust (live at Newcastle, England 22 Feb, 1992)
Pearl Jam were still known as Mookie Blaylock when they appeared as the band Citizen Dick, Matt Dillon's backing musicians, in the 1992 film Cameron Crowe film Singles.
Mookie Blaylock was an NBA basketball player, who asked them nicely to change the band name. The 'official lie' used to be that the band's name is a reference to Eddie Vedder's great-grandmother Pearl, who was married to a Native American and had a special recipe for peyote-laced jam. Everybody should know it's just a witty euphemism for semen.
This is from a bootleg CD, on the KTS label, (Kiss The Stone), that had headquarters in San Marino, a small country completely contained within Italy, about 26 square miles.
San Marino had different copyright laws, for a while. KTS bootlegs were usually very high quality recordings. I have about five. They had a little booklet inside, with all of the releases, and they could be ordered by mail. That's how the guy that owned the Indy record store used to get them for me.
Nowadays, Pearl Jam releases every one of their concerts on limited edition CDs. Some guys collect all of their shows. Some guys want the shows they actually saw. Pearl Jam doesn't make any money from it, because they only make a couple of thousand of each. They do, however, prevent other people from making money selling CDs of Pearl Jam concerts. The fans win, and that makes it a good thing for them to do. They have enough money, but every fan counts.
San Marino is an independent country because a Pope granted the land to a wealthy Knight, who killed lots of Saracens in The Holy Land during The Crusades, eight or nine hundred years ago.
