Did eddie actually know andy?

Brony
Brony Posts: 653
edited October 2011 in The Porch
did pj20 say that he ever had the chance to meet him......or just knew of him thru stories from stone and jeff?
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    I wondered this as well and I don't think they ever met each other...just my feeling.
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    no, he didn't. but you'd think he did by the way he talks in the movie ("Andy would have loved this"). it's weird.
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    How would they have met? EV didn't come to Seattle til Stone, Jeff and Mike were lookin for a singer after Andy died. Did any of Ed's bands play on any bills with the know Seattle musicians with connections to Andy. Doesn't seem like EV knew many of the Seattle guys, but he obviously had some connection with Irons.
  • Brony
    Brony Posts: 653
    DewieCox wrote:
    How would they have met? EV didn't come to Seattle til Stone, Jeff and Mike were lookin for a singer after Andy died. Did any of Ed's bands play on any bills with the know Seattle musicians with connections to Andy. Doesn't seem like EV knew many of the Seattle guys, but he obviously had some connection with Irons.
    how big was MLB at the time? were they "country-wide"? is it like people knowing the lead singer of KOL or another popular band nowadays?
  • zagi
    zagi Posts: 414
    i think i've read somewhere that eddie first heard of mother love bone when he drove back from that yosemite park trip with jack. and a few days later he saw small article and mlb picture in rolling stones or some other magazine, but all after andy died
  • whygohome
    whygohome Posts: 2,305
    We can say that he knew him from Stone, Jeff, and Chris's stories, right? He was (is) very, very close to them, so through the stories, he surely could claim to know him, rather than just know of him. I'm sure we can relate.
  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    Eddie was obviously sincere, but I wondered the same thing
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    I think EV talks now about how good life is, and if only other musicians could have held on past all the difficult times it gets better.

    I think it is this above sentiment combined with knowing Andy through pictures, stories, and most importantly a somewhat shared existence. Fronting a band and being friends with all the people that loved him. Not to mention the Temple of the Dog experience.

    Must have bonded with those guys to a degree that he felt extremely close to Andy. (and took the torch from him...completing his journey and its a good one)


    Plus in the movie I think playing arena's in front of 60K is what Andy dreamed of and Eddie knew that.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    I guess it's not the first time Eddie's stretched to truth to make a story a little better. In the book he also talks about I Got Shit and how the chords are the same as Cinnamon Girl and that he recently realized it, but there' s bootleg from a show in Italy in 06 where he explains the whole story. I don't think the interviews for the book/movie were goin on that far back.
  • Tracer
    Tracer Posts: 110
    DewieCox wrote:
    I guess it's not the first time Eddie's stretched to truth to make a story a little better. In the book he also talks about I Got Shit and how the chords are the same as Cinnamon Girl and that he recently realized it, but there' s bootleg from a show in Italy in 06 where he explains the whole story. I don't think the interviews for the book/movie were goin on that far back.

    The interviews for the book are culled from a ton of different sources from the last twenty years. Their not specifically sourced but are indexed in the back.

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