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Maybe, one day, while wandering through your favorite music store, you'll catch a glimpse of the DVD section; perhaps you'll find this "Immagine in Cornice" by Pearl Jam under your hand - which is a bit difficult in my area. Maybe you'll also have the cash to buy it. And you, without maybe, buy it.
First, because Pearl Jam is amazing, Eddie and Mike especially, but also Stone, Jeff, and Matt - maybe Boom Gaspar a bit less. Then because this DVD "frames" various performances from their Italian tour two years ago, with dates in Bologna, Milan, Turin, Verona, and Pistoia. It was director Danny Clinch's skill to assemble the various concerts, make the selection, choose the best, and embellish everything with numerous backstages - very interesting ones. All the songs are played masterfully; credit to them, but also a bit to us, as the Italian public at concerts brings out a unique energy - McCready himself says so. Just a handful of tracks would be enough to convince one to buy: "Come Back", with Vedder's deeply bluesy voice enchanting a nocturnal Pistoia (And sometimes you’re here and you’re talking back to me / Come the morning I could swear you’re next to me / And it’s okay...); an overwhelming "Porch" (What the fuck is this world / Running to, you didn’t...), and an "Even Flow" no less; "Alive", never played so well, with the Milan audience in a frenzy shouting I’m still alive - and even Vedder in a frenzy, shaking, jumping, falling to the ground. And climbing the scaffolding to sing ("Rockin’ In The Free World", a tribute to Neil Young). However, how I would have loved to see among the extras - along with "Yellow Ledbetter" - a "Breath" or a "Crazy Mary"... But "Immagine in Cornice" is also something else, that is, those backstages that intersperse one song and another: fans singing "Porch", almost as well as Eddie; an acoustic "Lukin" that McCready doesn’t take seriously at all; Ament going skateboarding, and even falling; Boom Gaspar playing the organ in the ancient cathedral of Pistoia; McCready and an old Bolognese man talking about wars...
The beauty of this DVD is that it shows the Pearl Jam on stage, and the Pearl Jam off stage. And it reveals what their strength is. Because after watching the DVD, you understand that Pearl Jam could very well be your neighbors, very normal people, lovable. Your friends. But friends with immense musical talent.
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