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Last night's marathon performance, their first European date since 2000, showcased their strengths and weaknesses. Before an audience that included Robert Plant, singer Eddie Vedder, moving (and sometimes sounding and looking) more like Joe Cocker with each passing year, guzzled almost an entire bottle of wine. And his equating London to "a shaft of light" drew bemusement rather than gratitude.

Yet, Vedder's role as the most charismatic singer spawned by grunge is not wholly a distant memory, be it performing their staples Even Flow and Alive as if for the first time or coating the brand new World Wide Suicide and Army Reserve with an aura of intrigue that has eluded Pearl Jam for years.

And while not every Pearl Jam song yearns to be padded out by a tedious Mike McCready guitar solo, and much of their canon meshes far too seamlessly into one popgrunge whole, there are many worse things than having them back.

Pearl Jam