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Fans at Roger Daltrey's Seattle show lucked out when Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder joined The Who singer on stage and they performed Pearl Jam's Better Man together.

"We've played a lot of shows here over the years," Eddie Vedder said from the stage of the Spectrum on Friday night after a fist-pumping, standing-on-the-speakers singalong encore of Pearl Jam's emphatic anthem "Alive." "We started in a little place called J.C. Dobbs that held about 65 people," he added before taking a moment to take in the ardent ...

By Kelly Roncace kroncace@sjnewsco.com When the lights go down, and the final guitar string is strummed, the year-long farewell to the Spectrum will finally come to an end.

Pearl Jam gave the last concert ever at the legendary Philadelphia Spectrum on Saturday night , wrapping up a four-night stand at the venue with a three-and-a-half hour, 41-song behemoth of a set.

Following the triumph/debacle of my much-lauded/derided U2 Top 40 list , it seemed like a great/terrible idea to give some other band the brilliant/redonkulous list treatment.

Rockers Pearl Jam became the latest act to close a fabled music venue on Halloween night when they performed the final show at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Photos from the Pearl Jam concert on October 31, 2009 at The Spectrum in Philadelphia.

If Halloween was the appropriate night for the final concert at The Spectrum in Philadelphia - " All Hallows Eve on hallowed ground - " then Pearl Jam provided a fitting end to 42 years of concerts there: A long, exciting night of mostly treats, with a few tricks.

Tonight is the night - the final concert ever at the Spectrum after 42 years. Grunge rock band Pearl Jam is sending the legendary venue out with four concerts - the first were Tuesday and Wednesday, one was Friday and the last is tonight.

Adam Mentzer got out his diminutive ukulele at a recent show he was playing with a few members of his band, Ripe.

The long goodbye to the Spectrum is almost over. Prior to Pearl Jam taking the stage Tuesday night at the venerable 42-year-old venue, a "best-of" montage of Spectrum moments hit two screens on the side of the stage.

Live music and more, tonight through Thursday, compiled by Shaun Brady, Laurie T. Conrad, Tom Di Nardo, James Johnson, and Sara Sherr.

Due to the mechanical failure of an American Eagle puddle jumper, I missed the first night of Pearl Jam's final stand at the Spectrum.

The final concert ever to be held at The Spectrum in Philadelphia - - " in fact, the final event there - - " is set for Saturday.

Caption: A sweaty Mike McCready ) out and about in Manhattan New York City, USA .... Artists including PEARL JAM, R.E.M. and RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE have formed a coalition to support U.S. President BARACK OBAMA's efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

A group of musicians are to launch a legal bid to discover if their songs were used in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.

We are now at 2001 which I discovered was actually a pretty good year for music overall, at least in terms of the albums that were under consideration and ultimately made the final list.

The closing of the Spectrum has been the most drawn-out affair since the 2000 election, maybe since the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco .

Share + Oct 22, 2009 5:17 am US/Central 1 of 4 Pearl Jam: Mike McCready, Matt Cameron, Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard AP 2 of 4 NIN 3 of 4 Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs during the "Music For Relief Concert" at the Wiltern Theatre on Jan.

Pearl Jam is auctioning off a Flying V guitar autographed by all five members of the band to help raise money for various charities through the group's Wishlist Foundation.