Relay of Eddies stories
ItsOKaye
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Thought it might be nice to have a thread purely for the stories that Eddie tells at his concerts.
For those of us who cant be there, please share with us some of his stories and which concerts they came from.....
For those of us who cant be there, please share with us some of his stories and which concerts they came from.....
Im so happy with my righteous self..
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I personally enjoyed the story he told in St Louis about his anticipation of the birth of one of his daughters. He made mention of waiting for the baby, feeling her kick, playing music for her with headphones before she was born. And then waiting for her to be born and there was nothing for him to do but watch objectively, and he was waiting and waiting and waiting....and then she was born...and he said.....what the fuck is is this. She was all purple and had black hair all matted down and he thought she was the most beautiful Filipino baby he'd ever seen, which is strange because neither parent is Filipino
BEAUTIFUL story.
Great idea! Love the stories and find them to be great moments! Now to dig in the memory bank ...
The Alpine Hotel story - he told the story of playing a show at Alpine Valley in the early 1990s (Lollapalooza 1992?), and in the hotel room all he was wearing to bed was an army helmet and a T-shirt that probably said, "Welcome Back Kotter". He woke up and thought he heard music, and went into the hallway to check to see if it was a live band playing. He threw the door open behind him to peek, thinking he could get back in time, but the door slammed shut and locked, leaving him pantless in the hallway. All of the other band members had pseudonyms, and he couldn't remember what any of them were, so he couldn't contact them ("there were no cell phones, dude, this was the 1990s"). He tied his T-shirt around his waist, but it didn't cover the front, so he put his army helmet in front of his privates and took the elevator down to the front desk (encountering some shocked families along the way). He then had to stand in line at the front desk and wait...he said it was probably Easter morning and everyone was there for brunch. He finally got to the desk and said he was locked out, and the lady told him she needed to see ID. He removed the army helmet from his junk and yelled, "Oh, come on!"
A story about being at the Chicago Theatre in the late 1970s, taking the El to the State Street stop, back when the theater "was a s---hole, and I was a s---head". He saw "Silent Night, Deadly Night", and you could get in for only a few dollars. The screen was full of holes from people throwing things at it, there was a broken seat down front that he used to sit in, and the fountain was filled with beer cans.
Chicago 2:
Another Chicago Theatre story - back when he was 17 and had just gotten back to Chicago after living in California for a little while (early 1980s), he accompanied his mother downtown so that she could apply for food stamps, and since she had to wait a long time, she told him to take a walk and come back. He had $15 in his pocket, and decided to spend $3 to see "Superman 2" at the Chicago Theatre. While he was there, a black man approached him and offered to sell him 5 joints for $10. He figured after smoking part of the one the man held that it was a pretty good deal, and that joints would be all he needed for the week anyway. He bought them, went up into the balcony (which was closed off at the time because it was dangerous), attempted to smoke one and realized that it was full of pencil shavings. He thought to himself, "Welcome home." Then he left the movie early to rejoin his mom, and they ended up waiting at the food stamps office for another 4 hours. He realized that they had to get out of that situation. He commented that now, his mom has a much more decent place to live ("It's not paid off yet...").
The Rolling Stones story - Ed went to hang out with Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones in a hotel once after being invited (Pearl Jam opened for the Stones in 1997), and every Stones member pretty much got their own floor. Ed and Ronnie were smoking and listening to loud music on a gigantic portable sound system that Ronnie had, and someone called to complain. Ronnie turned to his wife, who was on the phone with the complainer, and said, "You tell them to f--- off, we're the Rolling Stones, we know what we're doing." Later another phone call came, and Ronnie said, "I thought I told you to tell them to f--- off!" and his wife said, "No, this time it's Charlie (Watts, the drummer)." Charlie was upstairs and had just met up with his wife. "Should we turn it down?" Ronnie's wife asked, and he said, "No, just switch it to something romantic."
One time Eddie was in England recording at London Bridge Studios staying at some type of bed and breakfast with the band, and a lady who worked at the house heard "Black"...she asked him, "Who's that singing?" and he said it was him, and she said, "That's brilliant." He was excited; the song was fairly new and there hadn't been a big response to it yet. He wrote a postcard to his brother saying that he thought they might be on to something. The next morning, as Stone was making toast, Ed overheard the lady say to him, "Oh, making toast, eh? That's brilliant. Love, could you put this orange peel in the trash? Brilliant." Ed was like, "F---", and then he went upstairs and tore up the postcard he had written.
I love Ed's stories.
Well done iamica! I have been trying to decide today if I remembered those stories in enough detail to share. I think I would have omitted many details!
please keep then coming!
would live to hear more!
EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
10/25/13 Hartford
Any from last night?
That was a great story, I love it when he shares personal stories. I also really enjoyed the one about the Snoopy terrorist
fade away...
I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
EV - 5
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That was at St. Louis b/c his oldest and my little boy are just months apart and I leaned over to him during the show and told him not to get any ideas.
fade away...
I am at peace with my lust.....for Eddie.
Regal Theater, 1994--most amazing night ever.
Oh man, this is a great story! Just a taste of how awesome it must have been to hang out with The Rolling Stones. Thanks for sharing.
He had a great story about being in a SF hotel room with the Stones and Hunter S Thompson. Then it morphed into a story of Johnny Depp talking like HST. Eddie did a brilliant impersonation of JD impresonating HST. I can't remember details. I was laughing too hard. Someone recall the details?
Ed is hilarious and has told some real gems this tour.
Another great story is Eddie being at the back of the bus practicing as they pull into Oakland. The pull up next to a city bus and Eddie is playing to the people on the bus. The busses keep moving along next to each other and one guy finally recognizes him and starts pointing and telling others on the bus. The others just look at the guy like wtf do I care. This morphed into being on the bus after late shows in the early days of touring. They couldn’t sleep so they indulged in what Eddie called substance use, not substance abuse. Their then manager, Eric Johnson, who now works for uncle Neil, would make g-strings out of duct tape. They would then pull their bus up next to some lonesome truck driver on the road. They would put on the strobe light and Eric would dance around in his g-string and long hair. Eddie said that the drivers would just about lose their chewing tobacco at the sight.
There was an uncle John story, who was in the third row that night. He said when he was about 5 or 6 uncle John would give him 45’s he thought were appropriate for a six year old, like Yellow Submarine. But one day when his uncle was not around he snuck into his room and started listening to all kinds of things and though he hit the goldmine. He listened to the Woodstock album, and talked about when they say give me an F, U, C, K, what does that spell? F**K. He then told his friends and then at school when the teacher would spell a word and say what does that spell, they would say, F**K.
Last story is another Stones story, when they played with them in Oakland. The elevators at the center were decorated in leopard prints and things dangling from the ceiling which was standard Stone’s décor. Eddie’s in the back of the elevator when two old guys that look like they have been part of the band’s crew since the beginning, get on the elevator. One guy looks to the other and says (Eddie doing a great stuffy English Accent) “Do you think the band believes the whole world looks like this?” The other responds, “Yes, I do believe they do.” Eddie imitating them was hysterical. Fun stories, hard to remember them all.
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7/12/11 - EV Oakland 2, 10/22/11 - EV Bridge School
9/25/11 Vancouver, 11/26/13 - Oakland, 11/7/15 - Buenos Aires
Pretty sure it was Crip and not Crit, pot that cripples you , and it was pretty funny... Eddie acting it out physically kinda bouncing around the stage as he's describing walking up to Hunter and Keith who are "Uh, organizng things over on the desk area..." There was an ever so slight hand motion of straightening things into, uh, lines? hehehe
At the end of the Uncle John story was the Uncle discovering records missing and Eddie's mom getting the call, a bit of, "Eddie, your Uncle is on the phone! He's missing Hot Rocks" With 1st Grade Eddie rocking out singing Brown Sugar in his room. And mom then "John, at school today Eddie used a certain word..." in ref to the country joe/woodstock song earlier.
Awesome recall though! Thanks!
Need to hear some of those stories in detail please....
I'll let you know the stories from night 2 tomorrow!
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
Towards the end of the St. Louis show he talked about a painting of a big guy in the hallway right outside the dressing room that Jeff Ament did in 1994. All their signatures were on it, except for his. He couldn't find his. He thought it was pretty cool that it was still there. He was looking at it and eventually did find his signature. It was right at the bottom kind of purposefully small and said "I live to die". He was reading it and thinking "Who was that asshole and what was he thinking?" He thought if they had ever met he might have had to kick his ass. "I could have too, he was just a little scrawny fuck." He thought the painting was done before Immortality, and realized the song said "Some die just to live". He thought it was better the other way, "Living to die is better, but living to live is the way to go. Even on bad days. That's why there's guitars, eukeles, ands paints and canvases, and blank sheets of paper."
Then he went into an acoustic version of Lukin.