9.11.2011 Toronto, Canada

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9.11.2011 Toronto, Canada
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ReleasedNovember 10, 2011 (2011-11-10)
RecordedSeptember 11, 2011, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Length145:42
LanguageEnglish
Label Monkeywrench
Pearl Jam albums chronology
Pearl Jam Twenty
(2011)
9.11.2011 Toronto, Canada
(2011)
Lightning Bolt
(2013)

9.11.2011 Toronto, Canada is a 2011 live album released by American alternative rock band, Pearl Jam. [1] The album was released exclusively as a free digital download through Google Play Music on November 10 in anticipation of the official launch of said site on November 16. [2]

Contents

Overview

The album was recorded during Pearl Jam's September 11, 2011, show in Toronto, Ontario at the Air Canada Centre. [3] The concert commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. [4] The band was also in Toronto, as their Cameron Crowe-directed documentary, Pearl Jam Twenty , had premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival the night before. [4] This was the first of two shows played in Toronto on consecutive days during the Pearl Jam Twenty Tour. [4] The opening act for the September 11 and 12 shows was Mudhoney. [5] The concert also marked the first time that Pearl Jam had played Toronto since August 21, 2009. [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Eddie Vedder, except where noted

9.11.2011 Toronto, Canada track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Long Road" 5:37
2."Do the Evolution" Stone Gossard & Vedder3:39
3."Once"Gossard & Vedder3:18
4."Got Some" Jeff Ament & Vedder4:25
5."Faithfull" Mike McCready & Vedder4:57
6."Nothing as It Seems"Ament5:32
7."Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" 7:08
8."Setting Forth" (Eddie Vedder cover) 1:27
9."Not for You" (segues into "Modern Girl", a Sleater-Kinney cover)Vedder / Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker & Janet Weiss 6:30
10."Given to Fly"McCready & Vedder3:59
11."Just Breathe" 3:58
12."Off He Goes" 5:31
13."Daughter" (segues into "It's OK", a Dead Moon cover)Vedder & Gossard / Fred Cole 6:42
14."Grievance" 3:14
15."Down"Gossard, McCready & Vedder3:04
16."Unthought Known" 4:01
17."The Fixer" Matt Cameron, Gossard, McCready & Vedder3:18
18."Porch" 7:21
19."Encore Break 1" 3:30
20."Nothingman"Ament & Vedder4:25
21."Better Man" (segues into "Save It for Later", an English Beat cover)Vedder / Roger Charlery, Andy Cox, Everett Morton, David Steele & Dave Wakeling 8:20
22."Leatherman" 2:32
23."Black"Gossard & Vedder7:48
24."Rearviewmirror" 7:01
25."Encore Break 2" 0:37
26."Chloe Dancer" (Mother Love Bone cover)Ament, Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore, Gossard & Andrew Wood 2:06
27."Crown of Thorns" (Mother Love Bone cover)Ament, Fairweather, Gilmore, Gossard & Wood5:53
28."Alive"Gossard & Vedder6:48
29."Rockin' in the Free World" (featuring Neil Young)Neil Young12:44
Total length:145:42

Personnel

Pearl Jam


Additional musicians

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