The DVD documents Pearl Jam on its 2003
Riot Act Tour, the band's first with organist
Boom Gaspar. The concert was also made available as the 7/8/03 - New York, New York official bootleg. It includes several bonus songs, including four montages, as well as the Matt Cam feature (which debuted on one of the band's previous DVD releases, Touring Band 2000) with which you can watch selected songs from the camera focused on drummer
Matt Cameron. Live at the Garden has been certified three times platinum by the
RIAA.[1]
The DVD features an improv by lead guitarist
Mike McCready within "
Even Flow" that goes on for nearly five minutes. "
Wishlist" contains a tag of the
Buzzcocks song "Why Can't I Touch It?" Pearl Jam performed the
Mother Love Bone song "
Crown of Thorns" at the concert. Vocalist
Eddie Vedder, in tribute to the late Mother Love Bone vocalist
Andrew Wood, says, "I think
Jeff and
Stone will back me up on this: Andy would have loved it here."
The DVD contains an
easter egg in the form of "
Hunger Strike" from 7/19/03,
Palacio de los Deportes,
Mexico City,
Mexico, performed with Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney. To access it, click on the setlist feature on the main menu screen of disk one, scroll down to "Black" and hit the right button twice rapidly.
If the above method doesn't work you can also try inserting disc 1, press stop until you have your DVD players loading screen, press 2 then press play.