On New Year's Eve, 1992, Pearl Jam had the opportunity to open a show for Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards, when the guitarist played with his 'other' band The X-Pensive Winos, at The Academy in New York. Given that the band's debut album, Ten, had reached number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart six months earlier, the Seattle quintet no longer really needed to be play second fiddle to anyone in clubs, but the fact that The Rolling Stones were guitarist Mike McCready's favourite band meant that the fast-rising grunge stars were more than happy to pay their respects.
Back in April, McCready and Eddie Vedder reminisced about the experience during an interview with US broadcasting legend Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show, though the pair's main memories of the evening seem to have mainly revolved around seeing Richards brandishing a knife backstage.
