Who else LOVES Eddie Vedder?

*swoon*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-IrhEz6i0

Nobody I guess...:cry:

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on my dialup at the house.

I'll watch it tomorrow! :hi:

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He's the dude from Pearl Jam is all! :P

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I'm bad with names. :silly:

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ps Nevada Barr was also wiped out by the hurricane. The new book won't be for a while. :(

she wiped out a lot of folks :(

Maybe by the time I get through reading the collection you sent (I've read some, my focus isn't right and I don't read as much as I once did) the new book will be completed.

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I love Eddie. :)

Ever hear of The Stone Temple Pilots? Mudhoney? The Butthole Surfers? They had the same style of music as Pearl Jam but rocked about 1,000 times harder. Not to mention many other bands. Mtv created Pearl Jam, but Mtv had little to do with grunge music.

The Butthole Surfers rocked harder than Pearl Jam? The Fuckin' Stone Temple Pilots were wussies who sang about you destroying your wicked garden. "Can you see like a child?" please. Mudhoney never cracked the airwaves. Pearl Jam sung about Columbine before it actually happened. They sung about incest and homeless people. That's pretty hard-core if you ask me.

Since you said nothing about the Butthole Surfers, besides them rocking less hard than Pearl Jam, I won't say anything except "I don't give a fuck about the FBI." STP, as far as I'm concerned, their lyrics had little to do with their music, and their music rocked harder than any thing Pearl Jam ever did. The Misfits never cracked the airwaves either, but they're still one of my favorite bands, and one of the most hardcore bands, in fact, one of the founders of hardcore. Corporate radio doesn't decide good music. And Pearl Jam didn't sing about Columbine, they sang about a dork who couldn't handle life and killed himself in front of his class. What a loser. And homeless people have little to do with hardcore. And incest has more to do with country music than it does with hardcore.

and instead I ended up in a youtube comments war...

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Pepper? That's a catchy little tune and I'm sure they got a few bucks from that one, but what did they really contribute to the scene? They were a punk band from way back who sold out. Most of STP's music was whining about some long lost girl. "Sex Type Thing" really did rock and they shook up the scene with that one, but they will always be remembered for that "half the man I used to be song" that the divorced rednecks really love and don't have a clue about what "Sex Type Thing" really means.

What was Columbine? A group of dorks who couldn't handle life who took a bunch of innocent folks out with them. Remember the video for "Jeremy"? It showed a lot of innocent kids getting shot by some dork who couldn't handle life. Sounds like Columbine to me.

You don't have to contribute to the scene to rock harder than someone.
Pearl Jam's music was constant whining about Eddie Vedder's angst. And the video for Jeremy was about one dork who killed himself in front of his class, he didn't kill a lot of innocent kids...If he did, that was the worst special effects I've ever seen. A millionaire rock band can afford better effects than that. Watch the video again.
So a bunch of wife beaters define a whole band as great as STP? I don't think so.

Pearl Jam was a great band and they are still together and making great music. I loath STP and the Butthole Surfers make my dick limp. Nice arguing with you. If you want to argue with me again I post often here in the lounge and I will be happy to argue with you. I think this thread is now "Dead and Bloated" ;)

I feel the same way about Pearl Jam as you do about STP and the Butthole Surfers, nothing personal. Have a good night. I mostly hang out in the lounge too. Reasonable people can disagree.

brought to the scene then, emotional authenticity, really was unique and I don't know if anyone has done it to the extent that he did since. I'm always touched when I hear him sing in a way that I rarely am by male singers, because his music is so emotional and introspective and he was brave enough to go there, instead of just being needlessly abstract like a lot of bands. He actually related to his audience that he was writing for, and told stories that they could apply to their own lives, he wrote about things that they had experienced. I really don't believe that MTV created Pearl Jam, I believe that Vedder's emotional intensity touched a chord with people in a unique way. Also he touched on topics, like mother-son incest, that nobody was willing to tackle. I have a great amount of respect for what he did as a writer. His writing reminds me of that quote (I can't remember the source) that "Everyone has talent; what's rare is the courage to follow that talent into the dark place to which it leads" or something like that...Vedder charged right into that dark place.

But that's between me and him.

Seriously, he's made some great music and I'm sure he'll make many more great songs despite his old fart status by rock-n-roll standards.

a fan of Neil Finn and any fan of Neil Finn is alright by me. Plus he hates Bush, so we know he's intelligent!

Eek!

called The Kids of Today (Should Defend Themselves Against The 70's) on Mike Watt's Ballhog or Tugboat CD.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-647877711444041939&q=Robert+Plant+Pearl+Jam

It's funny that Plant needed the lyrics for the song but it was the last album before Bonham's death and "Fool in the Rain" was never performed live

That's AWESOME!!! I've never seen that!!!

I love Pearl Jam

raspberry too :silly:

I have been enamored with Eddie since I was about 13 years old (waaaay back in the glorious early 90's.) ;-) I love him not only because of his musical talent, but also because of who he is as a human being. I love that he was involved in fighting for women's rights through Rock for Choice and other organizations. I love that he's always seemed to actually give a fuck about what's going on in the world. And I love that he's used his celebrity to do good things, rather than just to fuck random groupies and otherwise revel in the stupid "decadent rock star lifestyle."

He's one of the good guys. :thumbsup:

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