Anyway, my reason for choosing Pearl Jam wasn’t purely musical. Pearl Jam was playing at Wrigley Field, and I had loved seeing PJ play the Friendly Confines a few years earlier. It was one of my favorite concerts ever, in part because there was a three-hour rain delay that divided the concert into two parts. Admittedly, this is an odd, contrarian view of the gig. Many Pearl Jam fans hated this Wrigley show, because it didn’t wrap until after two a.m. and the band was forced to cut many of the songs that it had promised to play that night. But for me it was awesome because I spent that delay
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