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Deluna Festival 2012 -- day 1 in pics (Pearl Jam, Guided By Voices, Ben Folds Five, Fishbone, Band of Skulls + more)

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

Pearl Jam at Deluna Fest 2012
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Over the two hours and 15 minutes that followed, [Pearl Jam] would play 28 songs, which included two encore breaks, that spanned 21 years and nine studio albums. Two of the band’s most popular cover versions, “Interstellar Overdrive” by Pink Floyd and “Baba O’Riley” by The Who, were included, while Mike McCready took the second encore’s final song, the oft unintelligible “Yellow Ledbetter” into a “Star Bangled Banner” guitar solo, a la Jimi Hendrix. The crowd was, as expected, one of the two biggest of the weekend… The band played seven of the 11 tracks from its legendary debut Ten, including: “Once,” “Even Flow,” “Alive,” “Why Go,” “Black,” “Oceans” and “Porch.” Vedder boasted of the band’s terrific relationship with one another, one that has kept it in tact for more than two decades.

…the festival’s most memorable moment came during Gaslight Anthem‘s Friday set. Lead singer Brian Fallon invited Eddie Vedder onstage, suggesting that anyone that came was there to work and there would be no “phoning it in.” Vedder proceeded to perform Pearl Jam’s “State of Love and Trust” with Gaslight Anthem… The early festival collaboration was its most talked about and its defining moment. -[al.com]

Of course, the third annual Deluna Festival in Pensacola, Florida wasn’t just the Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam show. The first day of the festival (9/21) also featured performances from Fishbone, Band of Skulls, Ben Folds Five (who played NYC recently and play Comic Con soon), Guided By Voices (whose members have an art show next week) and more. More pictures from the first day of Deluna 2012, below…

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