It was a moment I’ll never forget.
Sitting in our room in Sacramento, my eyes nearly bugged out of my head when I read this email from Taylor at Live Nation: “You are approved for 2 Tickets + 1 Photo pass for Pearl Jam tonight at Golden 1 Center.”
I immediately went down the beautiful wooden staircase inside the HI Sacramento Hostel – which is an immaculately refined 1885 mansion, complete with original Victorian details – to tell Dana.
“We just got approved to cover Pearl Jam,” I told her. And for anyone who knows Dana, her natural and immediate response was, “Eeeeeee!”
Everything moved quickly the rest of that day, as I got my camera gear ready for the show and tried to mentally prepare to cover Pearl Jam in California’s capital city.
The story I wrote from the show and the photos I snapped are included in the pages of ‘Issue Zero’ and truly was one of the main catalysts for wanting to put SWOMP in print. I felt moments like these needed more than simply being published online and shared on social media. It needed an “official” documentation. People needed to hold it in their hands and have the ability to feel the energy that, in this case, was palpable inside the Golden 1 Center as Pearl Jam played songs from their latest album Dark Matter for one of the first times.
An element of this Sacramento show that was unique from our perspective, was the new video display and art work included in the set, a first for Pearl Jam in 30-plus years.
The incredible art was mind blowing when we saw it for the first time.
Who was responsible for creating this visual masterpiece? Rob Sheridan – who is pictured beside Eddie Vedder on SWOMP Magazine ‘Issue Zero’!.
We caught up with Rob for an interview and it’s featured inside the magazine, along with some stunning photos shared by Rob from the tour.
The only place to read this is in ‘Issue Zero’!
Here are some photos from the experience:
