Good morning gremmies. Today we’ve added a video which was produced in 1995 during the band’s world tour. Some have dubbed it “Sponsored by No One” pursuant to the image you see here, others “Pearl Jam: The Movie“. Not much verifiable information about this video has surfaced, but we did manage to dig up a fairly robust synopsis from the an old e-Bay ad. See below:
The Pearl Jam Movie!! That’s right, Made in 1995 by the band when Jack Irons was drummer and filmed over the course of the tour in Japan, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand…it’s half tour documentary and half movie (over 3 hours long).
This movie was apparently scrapped by the band at the final mixing stage for some unknown reason. The counterbars for post production mixing & editing are even visible (small) in the corners of the screen…but they show the date and time of th clip being filmed, as well as the master timer for the whole movie & some other technical stuff I don’t understand. This is legit & unbelievably rare!! I’ve only met 2 other people in my life who’d even heard of this movie before. It full of weird little skits by the band (like Ed and Jack acting out some strange Godzilla attack on the beach – hilarious!), airplane, backstage & soundcheck footage of all the band members, the band on the streets & taking in the culture of the countries they’re visiting, Ed smoking a fat dube while watching the local Japaneese tv, etc.Like I said, this is incredibly rare. The overall sound and video of the tape are VERY GOOD and this is a master tape…not a copy of a copy or anything like that. I’ll give a very brief rundown of what this incredible 3 hour movie contains
The movie intro (great footage of the band with classical msic playing ine background)
Japan footage (backstage/airports/on the plane, etc.
Concert footage
The band on the streets in Japan, ed’s disguises are priceless!
Ed smoking what’s (clearly not a cigarette) on the toilet while watching cheesy Japaneese TV in the hotel before leaving for a night out on the town
Concert footage
Japan montage
Ed & Jack’s Godzilla movie
Taiwan footage
Concert footage – Eddie comes out of his cocoon (literally!)
Rehearsal footage
Training the foreign security guards in the art of crowd-surfing
Evenflow (with an incredible never-before-heard intro)
Great editing teqniques (similar to Single Video Theory)
Nothing Man video!!!
Singapore footage
Immortality video!!!
Sydney, Australia
Concert footage
Sydney tv footage/story on PJ
Adelaide footage
scalper busted by the Pearl Jam crew (with fans help)
Backstage footage with Flea!
concert footage
“Happy Birthday” is sung to Jeff before he, Eddie, Stone and Flea get into a cake fight with Jeff’s cake
Flea sings “The Needle and the Damage Done” for Jeff
the Betterman montage
Backstage footage
Soundchecks at Melbourne and Adelaide
Canberra, Australia concert footage, etc.
Deep video with trippy effects
Ed backstage
Ed’s N.W. speech
Porch video/fan montage
After Porch – Mike totally destroys his Telecaster, then proceeds to strip down to his boxers & band members keep pulling them down exposing poor Mike
soundcheck with sheep roaming the stage
more fan and band footage
New Zealand footage – jam (very effects laden)
Ed’s speech
jam with Split Enz
Ed says Bye, then returns to play solo
credits roll and then a jam after that
