Eddie Vedder and the Earthlings Cover the Cure

Eddie Vedder wrapped a brief run of dates along with his solo band Earthlings final night time (Oct. 7) at Las Vegas’ Dolby Reside at Park MGM, and saved a particular deal with for the encore: he and his mates’ debut stay cowl of The Remedy’s basic “Simply Like Heaven.”

Beforehand, Vedder advised the viewers in regards to the COVID-era dance events he and his spouse Jill would typically stage of their storage, full with disco lights and smoke machines. “I’ll at all times have nice recollections of these unbelievable dance events,” he mentioned. “The youngsters would are available and test on us and type of get embarrassed and have to go away, however we had a fuckin’ blast. This is without doubt one of the ones that we might play. We’ve by no means performed it earlier than — we solely performed it about an hour in the past proper earlier than we got here out, however we’re gonna attempt it now.”

Vedder and Earthlings (guitarist Andrew Watt, multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer, bassist Chris Chaney and drummer Chad Smith) performed their first present in additional than seven months final Saturday at Vedder’s Ohana pageant in Dana Level, Calif., and likewise carried out Wednesday in Pasa Robles, Calif. The set lists went heavy on materials from Vedder’s Earthling album, plus Pearl Jam songs equivalent to “Rearviewmirror,” “I Acquired ID” and “Porch” and covers of songs by George Harrison, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince and the Pretenders.

Earthlings additionally debuted Temple of the Canine’s “Starvation Strike” through the brief run, with Watt dealing with the late Chris Cornell’s vocal half. The exhibits got here on the again of Pearl Jam’s fall North American tour, with no 2023 plans having but been introduced for the band.

Vedder is anticipated to take part within the Nov. 20 Enterprise Into Cures fundraising occasion for the pores and skin illness epidermolysis bullosa, a trigger he and his spouse have championed for a few years.