WATCH: Pearl Jam perform 'Angel' for the first time in 22 years

A favourite amongst Pearl Jam purists, the track was originally released in 1993 as the A-side to their third annual Ten Club holiday singles. The 7” single was released to 50,000 copies and came backed with a live version of ‘Ramblings’.

Introducing it, Eddie Vedder told the Ride Festival crowd: "Some of you may know that this next song doesn’t get played much and some of you may not.

"It was written by the guy who was our drummer. Dave Abbruzzese. We wish him well."

The track is such a rarity on the live stage that it has only been performed four times by the Seattle rockers previously.

One of those performances was an acoustic rendition at the 1992 Bridge School benefit concert with Abbruzzese swapping his drums for the guitar.

On the road to celebrate their 25th anniversary, Pearl Jam have been digging deep into their musical arsenal to perform rarities as well as unlikely covers of the Police with Sting (‘Driven to Tears’) and the Doobie Brothers (‘Takin' It to the Streets’).

At the Ride Festival gig on Saturday, the band also performed their 2009 holiday single ‘Santa Cruz’ for the second time ever.

> Angel in Telluride. #Nowplaying #PJTelluride pic.twitter.com/NYT5Rfmo48 > > — Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) July 10, 2016

The full setlist was as follows:

Nothingman
Pendulum
Thin Air
Sleeping by Myself
Off He Goes
Just Breathe
Angel
Society (Jerry Hannan cover)
Low Light
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
Setting Forth
Corduroy
Why Go
Mind Your Manners
Even Flow
Glorified G
Daughter
Sirens
Unthought Known
Better Man

Santa Cruz
I Won’t Back Down
Smile
Given to Fly
Comfortably Numb
Black
Crazy Mary
Alive
Yellow Ledbetter