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Pearl Jam

At the Canadian Tire Centre

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Reviewed Sunday

A revved-up Pearl Jam put the pedal to the metal at Canadian Tire Centre on Sunday, dishing out a mother of a Mother’s Day concert that witnessed by a close to sold-out crowd of about 15,000.

The renowned Seattle rockers burst out of the starting gate at breakneck speed, leaping into Lightning Bolt, the sizzling title track from their most recent album, the 10th studio effort, now almost three years old.

Although promoting the album is not the band’s top priority on this tour, the song set the pace for an intense opening stretch that showed off the band’s punk and metal influences. Guitars blazing, they tore through Mind Your Manners, Do The Evolution and Save You before Eddie Vedder, the band’s incredibly powerful singer, came up for breath and greeted the audience.

“When you cross the border, and you’ve been in America a little bit and you’ve got a guy like Donald Trump in the running,” he said, triggering a chorus of boos at the mention of the presumptive Republican candidate’s name, “it kinda makes you feel like (it’s) one of the signs that the world is gonna end.”