If you met Eddie Vedder...what would you say?

violetpsyche

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

i tell myself he's only a guy just like me but who can sing alot better than i can.

Of course, you are absolutely right and I know this logically. However, 16 years is a long time to have thought about the various things Pearl Jam have meant to me and I think I would be fairly paralysed by this mass of thoughts and feelings. I know I would probably do the "Hi and thanks" thing and try and make myself as un-annoying as possible because it must get a bit waring for him.
It really is best kept in the realms of fantasy, as I would only obsess over how stupid I must have seemed afterwards

Clarice

FrankieG wrote:

If I ever met Eddie, I have no idea what I would do. It would be very surreal and I would probably be very shy.

But meeting someone is totally different than talking to them.

I am one of the lucky few to talk to Ed over the phone. We actually talked twice. The first time he called we talked about the recent shows I went to, a couple questions I had and the reason for the call. I was speechless for the majority of the call. He said he would call me back in a week or so, and that I should think of some questions I had for him. So after a week went by, he called again. I asked him a couple more questions and he told me about the double rainbow he saw in Hawaii, that is at the end of the Iconoclast episode with him and Laird Hamilton. I called him back after the episode aired and also during Lolla, and left him 2 messages. We haven't talked since, but I hope we do in the future.

Great..may be if he call me we would talk about the rainbow..i love rainbow;

IamMine

Dante's Beatrice wrote:

Of course, you are absolutely right and I know this logically. However, 16 years is a long time to have thought about the various things Pearl Jam have meant to me and I think I would be fairly paralysed by this mass of thoughts and feelings. I know I would probably do the "Hi and thanks" thing and try and make myself as un-annoying as possible because it must get a bit waring for him.
It really is best kept in the realms of fantasy, as I would only obsess over how stupid I must have seemed afterwards

That is exactly how I feel, too!

I still feel stupid after one experience with a famous person whom I won't mention.... and that feeling stings from time to time going, "ugh oh my god."

It'd be 100 times worse with PJ.

That's why I prefer to live through the "meet *insert PJ member name*" stories told by other fans. And why I stopped hanging around the buses before or after the shows.

I'd sweat if I were in the same room with any of them and going, "OMG, how am I going to live with how I behaved if I dared to...."

rage against tm

i'd say you are everything and everything is you, i want to "get right" with you! nuf said

Surf Rider

I have thought about this alot. I would ask him...................What would you do for a Klondike Bar?

merepatt

After the SD show in 06, my car was wayyyyy up on the top level of the parking garage with one exit. We weren't going anywhere for a while. My friend and I decided to wait down by the tour bus parking with about 30 other people. An hour and a half later the cars were gone, but now the crowd dwindled to about 10 or 12 of us and folks with backstage passes started coming out. Then Kelley Slater left. So we were like, if the surfer's left the party it's got to be over.

About that time it hit me - I might actually meet Eddie or another band member - holy crap! What to say? So there's these 2 16-year-old girls standing next to us, who were in diapers when Ten came out (not dissing them - just pointing out the time difference of how long we've been obsessing over this band and dreaming of meeting them - I'm well into my 30's now), and they're wondering out loud, "Oh my god! I'll totally die if I get to meet him! To talk to him for 5 minutes would be amazing!" I'm thinking, crap - 5 min. would be great, but out here like this, we'll be lucky if we get 30 seconds.

I thought, I've got to come up with something that won't get a restraining order issued on me - something short and sweet.

Now, it's like 30 minutes even later and the 2 young gals left, we're down to 8 or so people. Sure enough, an SUV stops and his bodyguard came out first and said, "OK, no pictures, no autographs." That was a bummer - a memento would be nice, but hey, I get it, he's tired after that AMAZING show. So did everyone else - we all put our cameras and pens away.

Ed got out and just went down the line, shaking hands and talking to each person. My friend isn't the major obsessive fan like me, so she was just thanked him and pointed to me, saying "she's the one to talk to."

He shook my hand - held on to my hand - and looked me straight in the eye and said hello. I swear, those eyes are mesmerizing, hypnotizing. If he commanded me to do something, anything, I would have been like, "yes master." Others have pointed out the eyes - and the hands. Yeah, they are rough.

So, here it is.. the moment of truth. What the hell is going to come out of my mouth? A strange peace came over me and I actually spoke intelligible English.

I said, "Wow, thank you, Eddie, for making the music that's been the soundtrack to my life." I know, not that original but for me at that moment, it was all I could muster. Eddie - still holding my hand - bent his knees a little and put his left hand over his heart and said, "No, thank you sweetheart. I hope it's been a good one." Oh my god - just a perfect f-ing moment.

Then I added, "I hope to see you guys at the Fonda in LA - I'm still trying to win tickets." I have no idea why that came out of my mouth, other than wanting the moment to last as long as possible and that's what my brain came up with. He responded, "Shit man, I'm so tired, I hope I even make it there." Everyone around laughed. Then Ed said, "I hope to see you there, too."

He then moved on down the line. I have no idea what he said to anyone else. I just watched him walk on down, finish talking with the last person, wave a big good-bye to everyone and get back in the SUV to drive off.

As soon as the car was gone, my adrenaline wore off and my knees buckled and I had to sit down and cry a little. I was realizing I just got to cross off "meet Eddie Vedder & tell him how much the music means to you" from my life's to-do list.

Just then I got a text from a PJ buddy that he and his bandmate just won tickets to the Fonda show. Ha! I got to text right back that I just meet Eddie and told him I hope to see him at that show. Cool.

Addendum: I didn't get to go to the Fonda, but my buddy who won the tickets - his beautiful little niece was born while PJ was on stage. He got to go right from the Fonda to the hospital to meet her.

Urban Hiker

Wow, merepat. Very well told story. Hopefully, people will just pass right by mine, 'cause I know I'll get some shit.

But, thanks to people that keep telling me stuff, I would be hard-pressed not to ask him....

How much work have you had done on your house without permits? :cool:

dimitrispearljam

hi there,,ok,,i hope this year to meet ed and im travelling to new york from greece at 23-6 for the both shows 24-6 and 25-6..for have the change to meet him,,,im sure that ill tell him what my sister tell him to say that her last thing she want to do is take a hug of him,,,and i just want to make eye contact to him and say,,,stay still your self and enjoy the love we have for you.and i will make him to promise that they will come to greece again,,couse
after they play at 30-9-2006 we cant find a better ,,,band!!!!and that i was last year in venice italy and the storm broke the scene and i broke my leg ,,!!!,and the worst is that the concert canceled,,,and i was in an a hospital in italy without see them!!!!!!!!!!and finally i ask him to sing in to my greek flag,,,,,
fuck!!!what question is that?i think more to say or to do!!!

South of Seattle

I'd tell him to buy some new clothes.

URthekey

"Hi ummm...... Mr.

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Ed.

duh ohh hee hee,

I'm not as think as you drunk I am."

emeraldkity

I'd tell him to buy some new clothes.

I have seen him dressed up so I know he has other clothes, but I swear on tour he just packs what he can fit into his guitar case.
But I married a man who wears 501s virtually everyday of his life so more wardrobe money for me!

pjtaper

again, I'd ask for chips and dip... and I wouldn't accept just one, he is rich!

patrickredeyes

pjtaper wrote:

again, I'd ask for chips and dip... and I wouldn't accept just one, he is rich!

Chips and salsa you mean.

FrankieJ

pjtaper wrote:

again, I'd ask for chips and dip... and I wouldn't accept just one, he is rich!

Am I out of the loop?

WTF is with the chips and dip????
Please fill me in.

FrankieJ

FrankieG wrote:

WTF is with the chips and dip????

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laudenum

he drank tea,and i had a glass of red.we talked about ishmael,among other things

81

mca47 wrote:

"Get your ass to Alpine Valley!"

when did you run into him?

mfc2006

if i ever met any of the guys in PJ, i'd just want to say thanks.

Jeanwah

I said 'Thanks for the music and inspiration' and got in return the compliment of a lifetime. It was awesome!

Tboz51

Excellent question....

1) do you realize the impact you have had on millions of people like myself who have loved, suffered, cried to the words you express in your lyrics? Thank you and I am alive, because you've helped me to love and live.

2) when you go into the hall of fame please treat it with every ounce of respect you can. You are a deserving band and never doubt that notion. Thank you again