THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Pearl Jam, MTv Unplugged, Kaufman Astoria, New York, NY March 16, 1992

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

     "You're looking and talking more like a soldier and less like my drummer."
     "I'm not your drummer. You're my guitar player." He laughed. "And I got to get back in the right frame of mind. That's all."
     "Sometimes I forget I don't know you as a soldier. You keep that part hidden from me and Pauly. But I see it when you're with the guys from your unit. I feel like the stories we have can't compete with your army stories—"
     Stu cut me off. "That's bullshit and you know it, man. You think I tell army stories when we're in the shit waiting for a patrol to come back, or waiting for air support? Fuck no. I tell them about the road trip to Huntington when we told Pauly we were going to Seattle and how he didn't know the difference because he'd never been out of Morgantown. Shit like that."
     He put his hand on my shoulder. "Listen, I tell band stories over there to remind myself what I'm fighting for. I tell army stories back here so I don't forget what it took to win it."

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Seattle was my New York or Hollywood, the place I figured I'd have to make it to if I was going to make it. To me it was a happy land where people dressed like I did and drank java, whatever that was. I guess I scanned ROLLING STONE and GUITAR FOR THE PRACTICING MUSICIAN for bits of info about Eddie Vedder and Stone Gossard.

And I guess that would've been about 20 years ago. Can't believe it. Candlebox, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, The Melvins. May as well be Badfinger, The Faces and Sly and the Family Stone.

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Pearl Jam
Kaufman Astoria (MTV Unplugged)
New York, NY
03/16/92

Source: dSBD > DAT > dEDIT (level adjustment only) > mkwACT > .shn

Disc 1: (soundcheck)

Oceans
Tuning Up
State of Love & Trust
Alive
Black
More Tuning
Jeremy
Still More Tuning
Porch
Finishing Up

Disc 2: (show)

Intro
Oceans
State of Love & Trust
Alive
Black
Angie (Rolling Stones) / Improv
Jeremy
Porch
Even Flow
Rockin' in the Free World