What does Eddie drink on stage?

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  • Wallawallapj
    Wallawallapj Posts: 83
    Might be dificult and cost prohibitive to ship to Europe! Plus you already have about 50,000 wineries in France and Italy!
    "Worship the music, not the musician"
    EV
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    i thought Mike didn't drink because he was a recoving alcoholic? didn't he go to rehab back in the day.
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    McCready has had two different bouts with substance abuse. The first came in the early 1990s, when McCready was fighting drug and alcohol addiction:

    We had a lot of meetings where they would say, 'Hey Mike, you're getting way too fucked up.' But we're all really good friends and we love each other and I think they actually thought I was going to die, but they never took steps to kick me out of the band, which I can't believe because I fucked up so many times. I was drunk and making an ass out of myself and they were concerned about it....I'd clean up for a little while then I'd fall off the wagon, like addicts do....When everything blew up, everybody kind of lost their minds....I was clean for about a month...well, semi-clean; I can't bullshit about that...but I fell off the wagon after the Kurt Cobain thing. That fucked with everybody really hard. I mean, how do you get to that point of depression where suicide's the only way out?[27]

    McCready's second bout came during the sessions for Pearl Jam's 2000 album, Binaural:

    I was going through some personal problems. It was my own stuff I was dealing with. That was a tough time. I was out of it. That was due, at the time, I was taking prescription drugs. I got caught up in it, because of my pain.[8]

    Thank God he's ok, would not be the same band without em. :)
  • BALLBOY
    BALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,037
    My first show back in 1995 Ed had a sore throat so he was on hot tea. At one point he said they would not play another song until water was given to the people down the front, he sad he would give his but it was hot tea. My enduring memory of that show was buckets & bottles of water being thrown to the crowd for thw whole show. AAAHHH the memories.
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,206
    i love it that at shows ed insists yhat water is available at the front to those who want it, v. cool


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  • shep
    shep Houston Posts: 5,902
    Ed has four bottles on stage, 2 are red wine (not sure what kind) and 2 are dummy's filled with Gatorade. He doesn't mark which bottles are which... this is why you frequently see him take a swig from a bottle and spit it all back out..

    How do I know this? One of my friends is high up in the Molson Ampitheater in Toronto, found this out when they played there the summer. For some reason he was helping set up some of the stage equipment and was talking to the stage manager about it.

    Cheers,

    shep
    Houston, Texas... Believe it or not, there are 7 million people here... must be a couple of fans who'd love to see you play.

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