EVERYBODY LOOOOOVES EDDIE VEDDER! (Reading related)
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If you were the guy directly behind me at Reading chanting this, football fan style, between every song, during every solo, over every intro, over everytime Eddie spoke then... DAMN YOU!
I can't get this damn chant out of my head! It's been five days now and still it won't go, I can't watch the vids of the show without that ringing in my brain, I can't listen to the song without being plagued by it. The two guys I was with find it highly amusing to yell this over every song I now play.
Yes, everybody does love Eddie Vedder, which is why we'd rather listen to him than listen to you going on and on and on and on and on!
Damn good job the show was so frickin excellent you didn't manage to wreck it's memory for me.
I can't get this damn chant out of my head! It's been five days now and still it won't go, I can't watch the vids of the show without that ringing in my brain, I can't listen to the song without being plagued by it. The two guys I was with find it highly amusing to yell this over every song I now play.
Yes, everybody does love Eddie Vedder, which is why we'd rather listen to him than listen to you going on and on and on and on and on!
Damn good job the show was so frickin excellent you didn't manage to wreck it's memory for me.
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PJ are bigger than just eddie, sooner the swoony girls realise that, the better eh.
Edit: I was going to ask you if "gorls" was a term for "guys" in Ireland, but then you edited your thread. I liked that word! Too bad it was a typo!
I have flying monkeys, and I'm not afraid to use them.
YDWWMPJC?!!
Hehe, he's great yes, but on here you'd think he was the reincarnation of jesus Christ and nothing else mattered, it's about the music you fools!
nyway, yeah, there was a few behind us at one point at Reading, shouting STUPID shite like .. "we want Eddie" .. he's fucking right there you muppets! .. or "Black, black, black , black ..etc ..." .. If they want to play it, they will, now STFU while we at least here the rest of the set!!!
Grrr. Sometimes I hate PJ fans! :eek:
I mean, sure, love the music, I know I do and have done for many a year, this does not mean I think every joke they crack is hilarious, every pose they inadvertantly strike is 'hot', everything they say is gospel. And people are so quick to jump on anyone who disagrees with any of these things.
I think people forget Pearl Jam are just people too.
Exactly. I've been into PJ now for 15 years, since they broke through basically, so don't get me wrong here, I do love them with a passion! But .. I don't 'love' Eddie specifically, or rant and rave like a sad teenager about how wonderful and beautiful he is, when the man's obviously aging rapidly, and is in fact losing some of those marvelous vocal tones from 10 years back .. that all the newcomers and extreme fans prefer to deny, or state that he now sounds even 'sexier' because of those smokey voval tones ... bolox you fools, he's getting OLD
He certainly does not look near as hot either, not that he could give a shit, he's in love with a model half his age (well, she is alot younger!) and I doubt he ever gave a toss about potential wannabe 'groupies' or the few sad lonely housewives who threw themselves towards the stage in the hope he would bat an eyelid or even remotely glance in their general direction! Harsh? not at all, get over it you munters!
Love them for the tunes, love the band .. or go get into the Back Street Boys all over again ...
He may be a fine looking man for his age, but come on, some of you make a mockery of a great 'Rock band' by making Ed out to be the be-all-and-end-all of them, and over-doing it on the "he makes me wet" front at times. pffft.
I hear Lost prophets are hiring desperate groupie huns ...
Man, you're brave!
But yeh, been into this band 15 years myself, since Ten was released here, and while I can appreciate Eddie has some good looks going on there, I really can't see how that relates to the music at all though. I got into this band way way before I even saw what they looked like.
The whole hero worship thing does kinda detract from the music, for me anyway.
I feel as much of a right to a say as any of the cretins on 'ere.
Let's have it then.
Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!
Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing
Wembley 2007
Ed does. or Pearl Jam do?
Either love the band as a whole I say, and I mean musically, or don't consider yerself a true fan. Ed'loving is a whole weird different matter, a geeky one that needs addressing.
Tell me you weren't doing it every 30 seconds though, getting progressively more slurred as the cheap warm beer took effect?
This guy seriously pissed me off!
My first PJ show, I was gonna be happy however bad it smelled and looked. Still buzzing now.
Only my second, and in that same week (Dublin) ... and yeah, never bothered me really, and certainly didn't interupt any enjoyment of the actual show for me, I just distinctly remember before, during and after at certain times, especially when sipping a beer, that the stench was terrible, and worsening rapidly ... it really got up my nose! But who cares? PJ were incredible as expected, though, still, I wish I'd seen them 14 years earlier ...
Yeh as much as I loved every second I couldn't help the odd thought of 'I've wasted 15 years here!' I should've been doing this stuff back when I was 20.
hell no i was sobre as a judge
Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!
Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing
Wembley 2007
It wasn't untill I had them drummed into my head by a few mates I had at the time, male and female, that I took notice and ... then ... wondered ... why .. the ... hell ... I hadn't been in awe from the off! And obviously this was all just songs from 'Ten'
Around the same time I discovered Alice in chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden .... and that's why the early 90's for me were THE best years musically, ever.
Sounds just like me. It was the slight Soundgarden obsession that got me into Pearl Jam, via Temple Of The Dog. Those CDs I bought in those coupla years are the ones I still play the most now, I get accused of living in the past lots, but to hell with them all. That was all just the perfect music at the perfect time for me.
Nah, I love his appreciation of The Who, and his joyful enthusiasm for UK music. His enthusiasm has reminded me, since 1991, of how I've felt for all that music, that got me excited as a youngster, and made me keen to play music, myself. Except that he got the chance to play with his heroes, and I haven't. Er, yet.
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people getting excited, jumping around, yelling, singing, laughing, have a good time. I just had a problem with this one particular overly-drunk repetative droning moron.
I still have his off key voice rattling round my head now.
I understand what you mean...i just tought it was funny that we feel the same but then about people who did opposit things...
I agree with alot of what you have said in this thread. I think that Pearl Jam as a unit are 5 (is boom considered a band member now?... then 6) ordinary people who've come together to do something extrodinary.
Do I think Ed would be some bum surfer w/out Pearl Jam? No, deffinately not. I do think that we are all lucky that these five people came together to make music. Seems to be a wonderful combination of talented individuals, who would ALL have contribued in some way with or without Pearl Jam.
As far as the Ed obsession goes.... here's my take. 1) most folks, with any given band, identify the most with the frontman/singer. They put the words to the music, and therefore are the most accessable, if that makes sense. 2) Ed does the talking, through lyrics, and on stage. I think that because Ed has been so falable in a public way, speaks from his heart and uses the platform of Pearl Jam to speak about what he, and the band, care deeply about, people don't see him as a "rockstar". By extension, many people who are long time fans feel that all of the guys are "just like them", falable, passionate, and trying to find their way in this world. That is a theme that runs throughout their catalogue of music, and in many fans (and non fans) lives.
Here's the thing. While Eds lyrics are haunting a moving, what gives them the lungs to breathe is the music that accompanies them. Its the marriage between the music and the words that makes Pearl Jam what it is.
Of course the man is to be respected as a musician .. but that whole swoony obsessive screamy squeally "oooh how hot is he" thing is what he means..and it is a bit sad in fairness.
He may be a good lookin man, but that shouldn't even come into the equation.Thats not what being a fan is about. You shouldnt love a band because you think that the lead singer is a fine thing.How pathetic is that. You should love the band because theyre a fucking brilliant band that write the most unbelievable inspiring songs as 5 (or 6
All my hopes and anger, pride and shame
Make myself a pact not to shut doors on the past
Just for today I am free"
Dublin 23/08/2006 ~~~Reading 27/08/2006
Wembley June '07 !!
Oh, so he's a "fine thing" now??? eh, don't remember anyone saying that.
To put it simpler for yis, this aint feckin Bon-fucking-Jovi.
Eddie is an attractive man. Yes, the swooning can be a bit much. But, you can't fault anyone for noticing that he is an attractive person. I actually think all of the members of Pearl Jam are attractive, and I don't think that makes me less of a fan.
I would imagine that if Eddie were to actually read the threads dedicated to his physique on this board, he would throw up... and maybe rightly so, but that is part of being famous.
Just out of curiosity... I am assuming that you all are guys right? Its an interesting point that you make, valid for the most part...
I'm a chick, wish that there were more guys in this world like you all, since you clearly believe that objectifying any human based on phisique is innapropriate. Kudos to you.
Of course I can tell too when a man's a looker, as I am quite the looker myself
Wait a minute... there is a pic of ed covered in chocolate? I gotta see this
Its all good, I do find it refreshing that a guy would think its wrong to reduce someone to physical appearance alone.