![]() “Ah, this is it huh? Look, this is my phone number on the back.”Ĭrowe gets an idea, and asks Vedder something here I absolutely love: He wrote his phone number on the tape and sent it back to them. They were looking for a new vocalist after the passing of Andrew Wood.Įddie was given the tape by a mutual friend, Jack Irons.Ĭame home “with sand still between my toes” and dubbed his vocals on the tape. Referring to the original cassette tape Vedder received in 1990 with 3 or 4 instrumental songs on it from Jeff Anent and Stone Gossard. He pulls out an audio cassette tape and says to Eddie: On this night in 1992, they were unknowingly at the very edge of becoming integral to millions of lives.Ĭameron Crowe sits with Eddie Vedder in his 2011 documentary: “Pearl Jam: Twenty”. Legions of fans descended on them out of know where. It sat, like a bomb in plain sight, on the shelves for almost a year. They released it four months later, on August 27, 1991. They recorded it in one month, between March and April 1991. Pearl Jam spent the later portion of 1991 and most of 1992 relentlessly touring to promote their debut album, Ten. They provided the soundtrack to my life, and millions of other lives, for many years to come. They were a radical departure from the rock stars we had been listening to for the past decade. They united the youth of this nation at a time when I was coming into manhood. They were a core part of my development as a man, as they were for many. I’ve loved and studied Vedder & Pearl Jam for more than half my life now. Sending the poor and less privileged off.Īs Dylan had 30 years earlier, Vedder was speaking directly to them that night. The billionaires who “hide in their mansions” and send the country’s young man off to war to kill and to be killed, in the name of control and world domination. This song called out the establishment and the ruling class… would leave office in two months, ushering in the Clinton administration. This was a potent, combustible combination.Īt this moment in time, the war in Kuwait was behind us. What we are treated to is Eddie Vedder’s translation of Bob Dylan’s anti-war poem…ĭylan’s honest and hard-hitting lyrics, mixed through Vedder’s power and command of the room. The sentiment of the song was…and is…very real for Vedder. The lyrics are brought to life as you’d never heard them emphasized before, as I’m sure Dylan hadn’t. Now within the first minute of this performance, Vedder trips a bit on vocals, finding his range for what’s to come. They introduced the artists who inspired them to a whole new generation. They had no idea how I incredible they were. They weren’t interested in separating themselves from the crowd, quite the opposite. It infused the youth of that era with hope.Īs they walked around shocked at their success, they felt…and we felt…anything was possible. They were thrilled they were able to play music for a living. Those early years of the band are fantastic to listen to now because while we know what comes next, we are watching five blue-collar guys on stage giving everything they had every moment they could because they were thrilled it was working. The gods had willed Pearl Jam into existence, it was destiny. ![]() On October 16, 1992, 2 years later, he was standing on stage in front of a full house at Madison Square Garden, serenading Bob Dylan. This is the day he left San Diego and arrived in Seattle to join Pearl Jam. Working at a gas station, surfing and writing songs. October 13, 1990, Eddie Vedder was anonymous. ![]() The song is Bob Dylan’s “Masters Of War”.īob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, for which multiple artists took to the stage to perform Dylan’s songs for the legendary singer/songwriter at Madison Square Garden, New York City on October 16, 1992. This is a live performance by Eddie Vedder, accompanied by Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready & former SNL bandleader G.
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