Origin and Recording
Throwing ceremonial first pitchAlthough Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder, who was raised in Evanston, Illinois and later San Diego County, California, is closely associated with grunge music, he has been a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan. He has performed the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch at several Cubs games and thrown out the ceremonial first pitch at Wrigley Field. His first seventh-inning stretch performance had been on Independence Day (July 4) 1998.
Vedder has attended the Cubs fantasy camp for several years. While attending the camp one year, former Cubs shortstop and first baseman Ernie Banks requested that Vedder write a song about the Cubs. Vedder wrote "All the Way" the night before the camp started and first performed it at Pearl Jam's August 2, 2007 concert at The Vic Theatre in Chicago with Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood and other Cubs players in attendance. On August 3, 2007, one day after "All the Way" was premiered live, Vedder performed "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field for the fourth time and threw out the first pitch for the first time. Vedder's band, Pearl Jam, was in Chicago that week to perform at Lollapalooza, where the band was the headlining act for the three-day festival that ended on August 5, 2007.
The version of "All the Way" heard on the commercial single release is mixed from recordings of the August 21, 2008 and August 22, 2008 solo performances of the song by Vedder at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. Vedder performed at the Auditorium Theatre on August 21 and August 22, 2008 on a three-week extension of his solo tour that began in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Opera House (1980) and ended in Chicago. The solo tour had originally begun in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at The Centre on April 2, 2008. This tour was Vedder's first solo tour.
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