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Pearl Jam Covers Devo’s “Whip It” In Costume For Halloween 2009
April 6th, 2010
Pearl Jam covered Devo on October 31, 2009 at The Spectrum in Philadelphia in full costume for Halloween.
Check out the video of Eddie Vedder doing the Devo dance…
Eddie Vedder Stage Dives Were “Death Defying”
March 16th, 2010
Eddie Vedder has made some of the best stage dives early in his career. This dive Vedder took below was one of his best…it came during the song “Porch” with Pearl Jam at the Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, Netherlands on June 8, 1992.
Here’s some more shots of Vedder in his younger days “defying death”
Check out this dive during a Lollapalooza Tour stop in Miami, Florida on August 22, 1992.
Dive happens at at around 4:45…
Eddie Vedder’s Sticker On His Vintage Fender Esquire Guitar
February 28th, 2010
Eddie Vedder must have received a pack of stickers from Obey that he used on his guitars. We did a previous post about Eddie Vedder’s Vintage Martin Acoustic With Sticker. It ended up being an Obey sticker.
Now we found another Vedder guitar with an Obey sticker. This time is is on his vintage “Fender Esquire.”
Here’s a close up…
Th sticker comes in a pack along with the one he stuck on the Martin guitar, also here’s a close up of the EV guitar pick he has wedged under the pick guard.
Check out our STICKERS ON INSTRUMENTS section to check out some more…
Eddie Vedder’s Jumping Point In Pearl Jam’s “Evenflow” Video
February 25th, 2010
On January 17th, Pearl Jam performed at the Moore Theater in Seattle. The show was videotaped by Director Josh Taft and the footage was used for the ‘Even Flow‘ video.
The video shows Eddie Vedder climbing the theatre, and then jumping down between fans at the concert. At one point during the show, Vedder had even stopped the proceedings, clearly of the opinion that Taft’s presence was intrusive. “This is not a TV studio, Josh” he’d yelled indignantly, in an interlude that Taft left in his final cut but that MTV clipped out of most versions it aired. “Turn those lights out, it’s a fucking rock concert!”
Here’s a photo’s of the ledge at The Moore Theatre where Vedder took the leap..
The footage used in the video is actually spliced from different songs: for instance Stone Gossard and Mike McCready each play two different guitars, Vedder wears a hat at some point and the theatre climb actually occurred during “Porch“. The alternate studio recording of “Even Flow“, which was recorded in 1992 with Dave Abbruzzese on drums, was used for the video instead of the album version as the band felt it synched up well with the live footage. The video was released in April 1992.
Pictures Of The Day…Vedder Having A Beer, Cobain And A Fan
January 30th, 2010
Every once in a while we come up on a picture that just stands out for some reason. Enjoy…
Eddie Vedder enjoying a Corona (or a Heineken)
Kurt Cobain grinning for a fan photo.
Eddie Vedder’s Blue Duesenberg Mike Campbell Signature TV Guitar
January 25th, 2010
During Pearl Jam’s of “Porch” for the Austin City Limits show, Eddie Vedder plays this blue Duesenberg Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) Signature TV Guitar. The guitar looks so nice that the crowd starts to cheer for the guitar itself.
After doing a bit of research I’m pretty sure it was a gift to Vedder from Mike Campbell because the guitar started showing up after Pearl Jam toured with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers a few years back.
Here’s a few more photo’s of Vedder playing the Duesenberg Guitar.
Pearl Jam & Perry Farrell Doing Jane’s Addiction “Mountain Song” Live
January 17th, 2010
Perry Farrell joined Pearl Jam on stage during Austin City Limits on October 4, 2009. When joined by Farrell, Eddie Vedder announced him as the “a guy who invented everything we’re doing up here, and probably most of what you’re doing out there” then they did a thundering take on Jane’s Addiction’s “Mountain Song.”
Check it out…Pretty amazing!!!
Andrew Wood Of Mother Love Bone Died Here
January 5th, 2010
Andrew Wood lead singer of the band Mother Love Bone died here at Virginia Mason Hospital in downtown Seattle on March 19, 1990. Andy passed away from “complications” from a heroin overdose because sources that suggest Andy survived the overdose, but rather was killed by an allergic reaction to drugs that were administered to him while he was in a coma in the hospital. He was only 24 when he died just before the release of Mother Love Bone’s debut album Apple.
His death closed the door on the future of Mother Love Bone but sent the doors wide open for Pearl Jam and the tribute band Temple Of The Dog founded by Andy’s roomate Chris Cornell. After Temple of the Dog, ex-Mother Love Bone members Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament founded Pearl Jam along with Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder and Dave Krusen. So basically if Andy was alive today, Pearl Jam would never have existed.
Andy was living with his fiance, Xana La Fuente who discovered his overdosed body. “He was dead when I found him, and I didn’t really realize it,” she remembers. “I flipped him over and was shaking him. I looked at his arm and dialed 911 . They told me to get him on his back and give him CPR. When they arrived, they pronounced him dead, made me sign this paper, and then told me to go to the hospital. When I got to the hospital, Andy was alive. He was alive for three days.
“He had an aneurysm in his brain that would have caused him to have a stroke eventually; so he did the drugs and probably had a stroke a few hours later, which knocked him out. They got his heart going again at the hospital, but his brain had swelled up from not breathing. They told me he could get worse, which he did. We had a meeting with the doctors on that Monday, and they said Andy’s brain was dying, and it wasn’t going to get any better. We had three hours to say goodbye to him.”
“His whole family was at the hospital, like 20 people. They all went in and saw him. Then all of his friends went in and saw him. Then I went in had cut his hair off and kept it. I played some Queen for him-they were his favorite band. The doctors turned everything off, and I just held him really tight and listened to his heart until it stopped. It took like 15 minutes. God, it’s so wild. I can’t believe I went through that. When I think about it all, it freaks me out.”
He was sober for 161 days when he overdosed. The heroin dose he overdosed on was extremely small and the Hospital had reported four other heroin over doses that evening Andy was brought to the hospital, so it was definitely a “bad batch” that had hit the streets and wound up in Andy’s arm.
Along with being the inspiration for all the songs on the Temple Of The Dog album and essentially kick starting Pearl Jam, the song Would? by Alice in Chains is dedicated to Andrew Wood.
Rock Stars Throwing Out The Ceremonial First Pitches
December 27th, 2009
America’s pastime has had it’s share of Rock Star ceremonial first pitch thrown before games…Here’s a few of our favorites…
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) & Nathan Followill (Kings Of Leon)
Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)
Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Tom Morello - (Rage Against The Machine & Audioslave)
Old school picture of Geddy Lee (Rush) taking batting practice with the then California Angels.
And just cause we love Oasis - Liam Gallagher & Noel Gallagher with boxer Ricky Hatton.
