FANTASY JAM: Another Fox sci-fi show, “Sliders,”...

FANTASY JAM: Another Fox sci-fi show, “Sliders,” probably appeals to concert promoters these days. Each week on the show, which just completed its initial run, a group of people slipped into a different alternate Earth where things were just slightly different.

The promoters would love to visit an Earth where Pearl Jam isn’t feuding with Ticketmaster and where the band agrees to play stadium concerts. That, they say, would turn the expected dreary concert season into a memorable year.

In fact, promoters assert, it would put Pearl Jam--whose brief U.S. tour begins June 16 in Casper, Wyo., one of several out-of-the-way locales on the trek--in the ranks of U2 and Guns N’ Roses as the only relatively young acts that have been able to compete with classic-rockers the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd as multiple-night stadium attractions.

“They could do at least three nights at Dodger Stadium, with 60,000 people per show,” says Brian Murphy, president of Los Angeles-based Avalon Attractions, the company whose season last year was highlighted by a total of five concerts at the Rose Bowl by the Stones, Floyd and the Eagles.

Jim Koplik, president of New Jersey-based Metropolitan Entertainment, says Pearl Jam could easily sell out 40 dates of 50,000-capacity sites this summer--a total of 2 million tickets. The Stones sold 2.6 million in 60 dates last year.

“I offered them four days [at Devore] with a 50,000 capacity,” says Hal Lazereff, director of West Coast booking for Pace/Sony Concerts, which operates the Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion in Devore. “It’s very frustrating to know you could do that business.” .