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A month after the European tour concluded, Pearl Jam embarked on its two-leg 2000 North American tour. On October 22, 2000, Pearl Jam played the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, celebrating the tenth anniversary of its first live performance as a band. Eddie Vedder took the opportunity to thank the many people who had helped Pearl Jam come together and make it to ten years. He noted that "I would never do this accepting a Grammy or something." The song "Alive" was purposely omitted from all shows on this tour until the final night in Seattle. The band performed that night for over three hours, playing most of its hits along with covers such as "The Kids Are Alright" and "Baba O'Riley" by The Who. After concluding the Binaural Tour, Pearl Jam released Touring Band 2000 the following year. The DVD featured select performances from the North American legs of the tour.
In 1998, Pearl Jam recorded "Last Kiss", a cover of a 1960s ballad made famous by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers. It was recorded during a soundcheck and released on Pearl Jam's 1998 fan club single. The following year, the cover was put into heavy rotation across the country. By popular demand, the cover was released to the general public as a single in 1999, with all of the proceeds going to the aid of refugees of the Kosovo War. The band also decided to include the song on a charity compilation album, No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees. "Last Kiss" peaked at number two on the Billboard charts and became Pearl Jam's highest-charting single.
Pearl Jam entered Seattle's London Bridge Studios in March 1991 to record its debut album Ten. Krusen left Pearl Jam in May 1991 after checking himself into rehabilitation; Pearl Jam was replaced by Matt Chamberlain, who had previously played with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. After playing only a handful of shows, one of which was filmed for the "Alive" video, Chamberlain left to join the Saturday Night Live band. Chamberlain suggested Dave Abbruzzese as Pearl Jam's replacement. Abbruzzese joined the group and played the rest of Pearl Jam Pearl Jam's live shows supporting the Ten album.
Pearl Jam decided to record every show on its 2000 Binaural Tour professionally, after noting the desire of fans to own a copy of the shows they attended and the popularity of illegal bootleg recordings. The band had been open in the past about allowing fans to make amateur recordings, and these "official bootlegs" were an attempt to provide a more affordable and better quality product for fans. The band originally intended to release them to only fan club members, but their record contract prevented them from doing so. Pearl Jam released all of the albums in record stores as well as through its fan club. The band released 72 live albums in 2000 and 2001, and set a record for most albums to debut in the Billboard 200 at the same time.
Released on October 19, 1993, Pearl Jam Pearl Jam's second album Vs. sold a record 950,378 copies in its first week of release and outperformed all other entries in the Billboard top ten that week combined. Vs. included the singles "Daughter", "Dissident", "Go", and "Animal". The band decided, beginning with the release of Vs., to scale back its commercial efforts. The members declined to produce any more music videos after the massive success of "Jeremy" and opted to give fewer interviews and make fewer television appearances. Industry insiders compared Pearl Jam Pearl Jam's tour that year to the touring habits of Led Zeppelin, in that Pearl Jam "ignored the press and took its music directly to the fans." During the Vs. tour, Pearl Jam set a cap on ticket prices in an attempt to thwart scalpers.
In 2003, Pearl Jam embarked on its Riot Act Tour, which included tours of Australia and North America. The band continued its official bootleg program, making every concert from the tour available in CD form through its website. A total of six bootlegs were made available in record stores: Perth, Tokyo, State College, Pennsylvania, two shows from Madison Square Garden, and Mansfield, Massachusetts. At many shows during the 2003 North American tour, Vedder performed Riot Act's "Bu$hleaguer", a commentary on President George W. Bush, with a rubber mask of Bush, wearing it at the beginning of the song and then typically hanging it on a mic stand to allow him to sing. The band made news when it was reported that several fans left after Vedder had "impaled" the Bush mask on Pearl Jam's mic stand at Pearl Jam's Denver, Colorado show.
No Code and Yield: 1996-1999
On February 3, 1998, Pearl Jam released its fifth album, Yield. The album was cited as a return to Pearl Jam's early, straightforward rock sound, Yield debuted at number two on the Billboard charts, but like No Code soon began dropping down the charts. It included the singles "Given to Fly" and "Wishlist". The band hired comic book artist Todd McFarlane to create an animated video for the song "Do the Evolution" from the album, its first music video since 1992. A documentary detailing the making of Yield, Single Video Theory, was released on VHS and DVD later that year.
With the addition of Dave Krusen on drums, Pearl Jam took the name Mookie Blaylock, in reference to the then-active All-Star basketball player. The band played their first official show at the Off Ramp club in Seattle on October 22, 1990, and soon signed to Epic Records. However, concerns about trademark issues necessitated a name change; Pearl Jam's name became "Pearl Jam". In an early promotional interview, Vedder claimed that the name "Pearl Jam" was a reference to Pearl Jam's great-grandmother Pearl, who was married to a Native American and had a special recipe for peyote-laced jam. In a 2006 Rolling Stone cover story however, Vedder admitted that this story was "total bullshit" (even though Pearl Jam's great-grandma was indeed named Pearl). Ament and McCready explained that Ament came up with "pearl", and that Pearl Jam later settled on "Pearl Jam" after attending a concert by Neil Young, in which Pearl Jam stretched up Pearl Jam's songs as improvisations of 15-20 minutes in length, a practice known as jamming.