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Pearl Jam drug use

fava1974fava1974 Posts: 12
edited July 2011 in The Porch
Just out of curiosity, has anybody read or heard about any drug use from the band since it's early days? I know Dave Krusen had a problem with booze and was basically asked to leave the group. In an early interview Eddie flashed a shirt to the camera that boldly stated "DROP ACID". Was it a joke or did he partake in psychedelics?
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  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    edited July 2011
    The band's private life should be....kept private......
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  • faceinthecloudsfaceintheclouds Posts: 1,739
    Drugs r bad. Mmmmmmmm Kay.
    Just, not enough.
    I need more.
    Nothing seems to satisfy.
    I said, I dont want it.
    I just need it.
    To breathe, to feel, to know Im alive.
  • nuclear ukulelesnuclear ukuleles Posts: 660
    thefixer9 wrote:
    The band's private life should be....kept private......
    Lol it's just a question. I've wondered the same myself, just because a lot of other bands have drug stories that have been made public (i.e. Metallica being deemed "Alcholllica"). There's a difference between being nosy and being curious. I have no idea....Severed Hand is about psychotropics?
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  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 10,061
    Ed talked about Some in Rollingstone a few years ago

    Hardly " the bands private life" if he's talking about it
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,963
    I'd say all the answers you need are in the band's lyrics.
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  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    nuclear ukuleles wrote:
    thefixer9 wrote:
    The band's private life should be....kept private......
    Lol it's just a question. I've wondered the same myself, just because a lot of other bands have drug stories that have been made public (i.e. Metallica being deemed "Alcholllica"). There's a difference between being nosy and being curious. I have no idea....Severed Hand is about psychotropics?

    Yeah but still, your not going to get any answers from them.... :roll:
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  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Stone has been in High Times Magazine a few times, including this article

    http://pearljamhistory.no.sapo.pt/PJArticles_Interviews_08-xx-95_-_high_times.htm

    There was another one I read somewhere that really didn't focus on the drugs, but the journalist commented on being in a studio with Stone and he was smoking, I want to say it was some guitar magazine. Normally I wouldn't comment on what they do in their private time, but Stone has discussed it openly, or allowed journalists to discuss it on several occasions. Granted, this was back in the 90's, I don't know or care if he or anybody in the band still smokes pot.
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  • Cool Face RyanCool Face Ryan Posts: 1,254
    Ed has said in the past he used to smoke pot before some shows. And he's always got a bottle on stage.

    Mike had some drug problems that he took care of in 95, I believe.

    Boom is always high. ON LIFE.
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  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 10,061
    Ed talks about his "ecstasy phase"
    In the June 2006 RS article

    He says he tried to record some techno :)

    Who knows if he is full of it, but it's a good read
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,963
    http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/m ... pearl-jam/
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  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    IBTL.
  • Cool Face RyanCool Face Ryan Posts: 1,254
    CROJAM95 wrote:
    Ed talks about his "ecstasy phase"
    In the June 2006 RS article

    He says he tried to record some techno :)

    Who knows if he is full of it, but it's a good read
    So Cornell has an excuse for that Timbaland mess?
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  • washedinblack91washedinblack91 Posts: 3,078
    yeah, this is a delicate subject. pretty sure it will be locked though since it's talking about the band's life, no matter if they talk about it or not. maybe if we stick to already documented cases where the band members willingly talk about it and no speculation... but still, wouldn't be surprised at all if it got locked.
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  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 10,061
    manutd3581 wrote:
    CROJAM95 wrote:
    Ed talks about his "ecstasy phase"
    In the June 2006 RS article

    He says he tried to record some techno :)

    Who knows if he is full of it, but it's a good read
    So Cornell has an excuse for that Timbaland mess?

    And I quote

    "that didn't work out. But I enjoyed the ecstasy"

    Eds funny
  • Jokertt14Jokertt14 Posts: 2,566
    Ed talks about shrooms .


    Was that at Austin city limits fest. he said dont take the brown acid but the shrooms are OK >

    something like that .



    I would have to think flat out they all partied like rock stars . <--- look at some of the MTV music awards pics they all have beers in hand . i think ED has two beers in hand !! :mrgreen:

    Mike talks about taking heroin or something like that for his crohn's disease in the early days before "mad season" ..
  • Jokertt14Jokertt14 Posts: 2,566
    thefixer9 wrote:
    The band's private life should be....kept private......


    your right im always Hesitant to even try these threads you never know when there going to lock it down .


    they ones you would think they would lock down they dont . I am clueless !!


    just like the J on that uke book and shirts .

    are we starting Rumors ??? . lol. :lol::lol: ..

    why dont someone just tell us what it means . :mrgreen:
  • Jamminonthe1Jamminonthe1 Posts: 1,243
    Eddie had a long rant about weed in Hartford earlier this month. And then outed Glen Hansard as a smoker, too.
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    edited July 2011
    Mike is happily sober.
    Stone is an enigma, but we know he's a pimp.
    Eddie and Matt are both happily stoners.
    I tried to buy some island kind off of Boom in Hawaii but he told me we were on the wrong island for him to score, so we smoked a joint of ours with him in consolation.
    We know Boom shares the love with Matt and Eddie.
    Matt asked a friend of a friend if he could score some weed when I was in St. Johns.
    That was funny.

    Pretty sure everyone but Mike drinks,
    and that Eddie will still do anything recreationally if he's in the mood. He's admitted several things publicly in recent years (the MDMA\techno thing being one, Severed Hand being some vague psychedelic reference, and over in Holland he said if Caleb (KoL) ever offers you a pill, don't take it - some sort of pharme, i think ... he was pretty fucked up that show ...)
    and Jeff is probably too burnt to do much other than bake down these days. lol
    (sorry Jeff)
    :D

    Pretty sure NO one is doing the H anymore.
    That would just be dumb.
    I know someone in the band has a nose for something or other, but I wouldn't dare say more.

    Now ...
    Go ahead and lock it Kat, sheesh.
    ;)
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  • acutejamacutejam Posts: 1,433
    During the latest ev solo tour, Ed mentioned spending all day to get to a certain state of mind and wondering why everyone was going to sleep. So he grabbed a recorder and some headphones and recorded the ocean, before stumbling into some sticker bushes. Oakland 1. But that sounded like drunken tales. (He played that ocean track in the background during a uke song at the show, and said he had to cut the track short, about the 3 min mark you hear him go, "Ow! Fuck! What the...")

    At Seattle 1 he was talking about pot and made it sound like he had stopped awhile ago. If he could tour with Ben Harper and pull that off, bravo! Ben has been pretty open about....

    But as rock stars, I'm sure there is a natural inclination to heavily suggest it, portray the lifestyle. Keep up the act.

    As for relying on their lyrics, please, I'd put money down that none of them are seeing dragons.....
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  • Jokertt14Jokertt14 Posts: 2,566
    ED talked about Weed . in more then one Solo show this time around .
  • PapPap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,405
    As we all know, Eddie drinks a lot on stage. Mike finished with drug problems sometime around 2000 (before Riot Act was released). The latest thing I know is an interview Matt gave to one famous Greek music magazine called Pop & Rock, while they were rocking Athens back in 2006. He said: We are all older now, we are parents and we cannot take so many drugs as we did in the past. According to the magazine, that statement was followed by a big laughter.
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  • Tboz51Tboz51 Posts: 2,808
    Lock City!
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  • brianwilsonbrianwilson Posts: 406
    thefixer9 wrote:
    The band's private life should be....kept private......

    All due respect, Fixer, I notice you make PC statements about the band, like you're the PR Mgr. or a blood relative. And your not the board moderator, but I wouldn't doubt that you narc on people here.

    Who cares if people are curious about this, especially since the members of PJ publicly talk about many private subjects - drugs, relationsips, et. al.? Get a grip, and get off your soap-box.... And I do mean it when I say all due respect.
  • marcosmarcos Posts: 2,112
    I think it's actually a good thing to know about the band though I can also understand how it falls under the privacy issue of their lives. But the fact that they lived through it and seem like reasonably intelligent nice guys; it could be inspiration for people that suffer drug addiction.
  • nuclear ukulelesnuclear ukuleles Posts: 660
    brianwilson wrote:
    thefixer9 wrote:
    The band's private life should be....kept private......

    All due respect, Fixer, I notice you make PC statements about the band, like you're the PR Mgr. or a blood relative. And your not the board moderator, but I wouldn't doubt that you narc on people here.

    Who cares if people are curious about this, especially since the members of PJ publicly talk about many private subjects - drugs, relationsips, et. al.? Get a grip, and get off your soap-box.... And I do mean it when I say all due respect.
    :lol:
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  • CH156378CH156378 Posts: 1,539
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHnZW6grgPk
  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    brianwilson wrote:
    thefixer9 wrote:
    The band's private life should be....kept private......

    All due respect, Fixer, I notice you make PC statements about the band, like you're the PR Mgr. or a blood relative. And your not the board moderator, but I wouldn't doubt that you narc on people here.

    Who cares if people are curious about this, especially since the members of PJ publicly talk about many private subjects - drugs, relationsips, et. al.? Get a grip, and get off your soap-box.... And I do mean it when I say all due respect.

    Woah.... :shock: Guess I'll back off then. I'll just let the mods do their jobs..... 8-)
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  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    nuclear ukuleles wrote:
    brianwilson wrote:
    thefixer9 wrote:
    The band's private life should be....kept private......

    All due respect, Fixer, I notice you make PC statements about the band, like you're the PR Mgr. or a blood relative. And your not the board moderator, but I wouldn't doubt that you narc on people here.

    Who cares if people are curious about this, especially since the members of PJ publicly talk about many private subjects - drugs, relationsips, et. al.? Get a grip, and get off your soap-box.... And I do mean it when I say all due respect.
    :lol:

    What are you laughing at blondie!? :x
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  • BALLBOYBALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,032
    mookeywrench wrote:
    I'd say all the answers you need are in the band's lyrics.
    The first 5 songs on Backspacer kind of give you sense that the names of the songs are about drugs, Gonna See My Friend, Get Right, The Fixer, Johnny Guitar & Just Breathe. Anyone else ever thought of that?
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