We already talked about grunge in the Nirvana — Cobain and company famously played at Palmer Auditorium in 1993 — but it's time to circle back. After nearly three decades of performing, Pearl Jam finally played in the Quad-Cities for the first time in 2014. It was a highly anticipated show that met the moment in terms of ticket sales — 11,470 tickets sold to see Pearl Jam at the iWireless Center, the most of 2014 and one of the biggest gigs in the history of the arena.
That part wasn't a surprise. After all, the Seattle band had one of the most consistent runs of success of any band from its generation. "Ten," released in 1991, is one of the best-selling rock albums of all-time.
It was named the 11th favorite album of all-time by Quad-Cities music fans in a Moline Dispatch poll from 1999. By 2012, Pearl Jam had sold more than 30 million albums in the U.S and managed to sell out almost every show across the country.
That's all despite being one of the first bands to sue Ticketmaster for its alleged monopoly on the live entertainment ticket industry. For the show in Moline, the band put a four-ticket maximum on ticket purchases, and sold all tickets at a flat rate of $69.50.
Their tenth album, "Lightning Bolt," came out a year before Pearl Jam's stop in the Quad-Cities, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. So the success of this show wasn't a shock.
The real surprise on October 17, 2014, came with Pearl Jam's setlist. To this day, Pearl Jam's show in Moline is the o.