Notably, Pearl Jam teamed up with long-time foe Ticketmaster to design and implement a fan-to-fan face-value ticket exchange that effectively eliminated secondary markets in all but two states, Colorado and New York where consumer “protection” laws demand the transferability of tickets by legislation. Face-value tickets were hard to come by for sure and the cheapest entry for last night’s show was trading at over $500 with the least expensive front-facing tickets on the floor or lower bowl going for multiples of that on secondary markets. Originally scheduled for March 30th, 2020, the band and fans alike endured a pandemic-induced postponement which in the final analysis only served to raise goosebumps and heighten anticipation when the show was conspicuously rescheduled for 9/11 almost two-and-a-half years later. Adding to their rich history at The World’s Most Famous Arena-marked by five two-night runs in 1998, 2003, 2008, 2010, and 2016-the band returned on Sunday for a single night that completed a nontraditional weekend sweep of Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue separated by ninety-two city blocks. Roughly five miles north in Harlem, Seventh Avenue is called Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard and there resides the Apollo Theater where one night prior Pearl Jam played a historic invite-only show as part of Sirius XM’s Small Stage Series.

On Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street in Manhattan sits Madison Square Garden.

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