How About a Pearl Jam Obscure Fact Repository

pleatherman

teeman wrote:

pleatherman wrote:

'Gimme Some Truth' was the song Eddie originally planned on performing for "America: A Tribute to Heroes" as a statement against the political climate post-9/11. In the end, however, he decided to take part in the healing process with 'Long Road.'

Do you have a source on this one?

Where, oh, where did my article go?
The internet needs to do a better job of saving this stuff :oops:

pleatherman

Cliff Poncier= Jeff and Eddie's love child.
Matt Dillon's character on Singles, Cliff, physical appearance was an amalgam of Jeff and Eddie. For a couple thousand bucks, Cameron Crowe and co. borrowed Jeff's clothing for Dillon and cut off a "big chunk" of Eddie's hair to make a wig! That wig belongs in the PJ20 museum!

pleatherman

According to Billy Corgan, Pearl Jam was on the verge of losing interest from their label during the '91 RHCP, SP, and PJ tour. I know how grateful the guys are for having been added to the bill. Who knows, that tour may have saved them from being dropped by Sony. But I'll let Billy tell it.

"Pearl Jam's album had just come out, and they put out their first song, which was "Alive," and it was doing okay but it wasn't doing amazing. It was doing okay. And I walked into their dressing room at some point or something and they all had sad faces on. And I said, "What's going on?" And they were like, "We just found out that the record company is gonna pull all our money and we may even have to cancel the rest of the dates on the tour for us." And this was a successful tour. Chili Peppers had "Under the Bridge" and it went on to be a very big album for them. And it was a lot of energy, the tour was very exciting. And I was like, "Wow, that's incredible" and they were like, "Yeah, we don't know what to do." And of course like a week later, MTV added "Alive" and it became a massive hit. But I actually saw it happen with another band which obviously went on to be very successful. Of them sitting there going, "What the fuck are we gonna do?" And that's the part that a normal fan... it's not their problem, but a normal fan doesn't understand those moments in a musician's life ..."

NadjaZ

Dear Pearl Jam Fans,

I have a huge request,
we are a man and woman from Germany/Berlin, Pearl Jam Fans since 20 years and can win a travel to the concert in Seattle with our local radio station. For this we need your help as much as possible.
Can you vote for us to be the winner TODAY and very often!!! at

http://www.rockland.fm/start.php?uservoting

just click for Nadja and Thorsten and see our marry proposal on the vinyl as love letters.

Till thursday evening in Germany the winner will be announced in the radio. So long we need much much more votings to have a chance!!!

I have no Idea how to contact as many fans as possible.

So if you all can please send this to more fans, because they know how great this would be to meet Pearl Jam.

Please vote for the two of us as often as you have the time for (you can vote ever and ever again)
thank you so much for this support,
Nadja

BinFrog

NadjaZ wrote:

Dear Pearl Jam Fans,

I have a huge request,
we are a man and woman from Germany/Berlin, Pearl Jam Fans since 20 years and can win a travel to the concert in Seattle with our local radio station. For this we need your help as much as possible.
Can you vote for us to be the winner TODAY and very often!!! at

http://www.rockland.fm/start.php?uservoting

just click for Nadja and Thorsten and see our marry proposal on the vinyl as love letters.

Till thursday evening in Germany the winner will be announced in the radio. So long we need much much more votings to have a chance!!!

I have no Idea how to contact as many fans as possible.

So if you all can please send this to more fans, because they know how great this would be to meet Pearl Jam.

Please vote for the two of us as often as you have the time for (you can vote ever and ever again)
thank you so much for this support,
Nadja

Please stop posting this everywhere. Keep it to the thread that you started. This does not belong here (or in the Phoenix review thread, or anywhere else)

TunnelThroughDenial

Love this thread.

10/5/93 Pearl Jam played a surprise secret show at the Off Ramp to prep for the Vs. tour

10/25/93 - The Off Ramp: Seattle, WA
attendance: 299
set: Go, Animal, Baba O'Riley, Daughter, Dissident, Even Flow, Glorified G, Indifference, Once, Rats, Rearviewmirror, State of Love and Trust, Why Go, WMA, My Generation
notes: A "secret" show in preparation for their tour in support of Vs.

We waited for hours outside trying to get in and were told NO ONE ELSE is getting in according to the fire marshal. McCready was waving at us from the top floor dressing room window.

To our dismay, right as the band started new Seahawks quarterback Rick Mirer walked right to the front of the line and was let right in.

Mirer was just selected #2 overall in the 1993 draft by the Seahawks. He started off well but rapidly sucked and was traded. PJ should have let me in instead.

TunnelThroughDenial

Tuesday night in Phoenix Ed changed the lyrics of Down to say "time to throw these cigarettes away' instead of 'these fucking pills' away.

TunnelThroughDenial

Eddie has a bong in the likeness of Michael Jordan

TunnelThroughDenial

11.3.93
San Diego

At one point, Ed has the lights turned on saying the band had sushi that night, he has some leftover rice and wants to "try something." He flings the rice into the crowd and it spews out in a million pieces. He says, "Now that's not Minute Rice. It was supposed to stick together." Apparently he was trying to launch a ball of the rice into the balcony

pleatherman

The Incredible Floating Head of Pete Townshend

Ever notice that giant portrait of Pete Townshend behind Eddie.

Well, it just so happened to have been part of the stage design for Bad Radio. Go to the 3:30 mark if you're interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjI9XzMHVdk
It skipped town with Ed and eventually was put in a frame and found a nice home at the PJ warehouse.


And here is the original source.

Emm

pleatherman wrote:

The Incredible Floating Head of Pete Townshend

Ever notice that giant portrait of Pete Townshend behind Eddie-
https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/images/medium/EV_TenSess.jpg
Well, it just so happened to have been part of the set design for Bad Radio. Go to the 3:30 mark if you're interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjI9XzMHVdk
It skipped town with Eddie and eventually was put in a frame and found a nice home in the PJ warehouse
http://www.twofeetthick.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/pj4compr.jpg
http://www.pearljamonline.it/LP9/Unofficial%20Photos/PJ%20at%20The%20Warehouse,%20January%202009-2.jpg

Sorry for all the crazy links but the dimensions are too big to paste any of the pix here. Except this one.

wheres the rest of the story in the last link??

pleatherman

Mike McCready- The Shiva of Rock
Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction/creation embodies itself during Mike's part in 2 Pearl Jam songs, "Go" and "Brain of J.F.K."
He ends the recording in each of those songs with the levitation, crash, and possible demise of a six-string instrument. For "Go" it was a yellow Telecaster and for "Brain of J," a Fender bass. Both of which made it onto the final take and can especially be heard on "Brain of J." I'm sure the guitar tech is thankful he never replicates that sound live, except that one time for "Brain of J" during the MW radio broadcast captured in "The Fans are Alright".

pleatherman

Ron Anderson has been credited with giving Eddie singing lessons

We all know Eddie began his career as a self-taught singer. But it makes sense at some point he might be interested in learning tricks of the trade to help either, realize his potential or at the very least preserve his capabilities so he can still knock us off our feet in his late-40's. So this Ron Anderson has been credited as a vocal coach for everyone from Mary J. Blige to LeAnn Rimes to Chris Cornell and, of course EV.

It would be really interesting to know when and what lessons he took from Anderson. There has been a lot of evolution in Eddie's delivery over the years, e.g. in '95 when he really loosened his throat or by the time of Binaural which he admits to finding his own "voice". I'm not that into the technical aspects of music but I think an interview with EV about his singing, which is the main instrument of the band, done comparable to Stone and Mike's Guitar World interviews is long overdue.

green_girl

pleatherman wrote:

Ron Anderson has been credited with giving Eddie singing lessons

We all know Eddie began his career as a self-taught singer. But it makes sense at some point he might be interested in learning tricks of the trade to help either, realize his potential or at the very least preserve his capabilities so he can still knock us off our feet in his late-40's. Anyways, this Ron Anderson has been credited as a vocal coach for everyone from Mary J. Blige to LeAnn Rimes to Chris Cornell and, of course EV.

It would be really interesting to know when and what lessons he took from Anderson. There has been a lot of evolution in Eddie's delivery over the years, e.g. in '95 when he really loosened his throat or by the time of Binaural which he admits to finding his own "voice". I'm not that into the technical aspects of music but I think an interview with EV about his singing, which is the main instrument of the band, done comparable to Stone and Mike's Guitar World interviews is long overdue.

Love this thread!
I've been especially curious about whether or not EV's had a vocal coach, so thanks!

pleatherman

A nice personalized Mookie Blaylock first recording from Eddie. I imagine this might have been given to the same ex-roommate of Ed's named Mike who also wrote and eventually abandoned an Eddie Vedder biography about his days in San Diego. This is right up there with the Mamason tape, in terms of historical significance.

ikiT

pleatherman wrote:

teeman wrote:

pleatherman wrote:

'Gimme Some Truth' was the song Eddie originally planned on performing for "America: A Tribute to Heroes" as a statement against the political climate post-9/11. In the end, however, he decided to take part in the healing process with 'Long Road.'

Do you have a source on this one?

Where, oh, where did my article go?
The internet needs to do a better job of saving this stuff :oops:

It's in Pearl Jam Twenty, the book, on pg 247.

pleatherman

the tiki bomb wrote:

teeman wrote:

pleatherman wrote:

'Gimme Some Truth' was the song Eddie originally planned on performing for "America: A Tribute to Heroes" as a statement against the political climate post-9/11. In the end, however, he decided to take part in the healing process with 'Long Road.'

Do you have a source on this one?

It's in Pearl Jam Twenty, the book, on pg 247.

Excellent. You think that would have been the first spot I checked

pleatherman

As documented in PJ20, the footage from 01/11/91 at Town Pump in Vancouver, BC during 'Breath' has been credited as the defining moment when "shy" Eddie became super "intense" Eddie.

However, as dynamic as that scene was, Jeff credits the show previous on 01/10/91 at Harpo’s in Victoria, BC as, in his words, the "big turning point for Eddie." The event that transpired on that particular night included an ambivalent audience completely disinterested in the opening act, Mookie Blaylock. To make his case, Eddie unscrewed the steel base from the microphone stand and proceeded to launch it an entire 50-60 ft. to the other end of the club, supposedly inches above their heads, until it crashed against the back wall.

From here on in, it became, according to Jeff a "circus event" as far as Eddie's stage persona was concerned.

ikiT

pleatherman wrote:

the tiki bomb wrote:

It's in Pearl Jam Twenty, the book, on pg 247.

Excellent. You think that would have been the first spot I checked

I remember reading it there, and it's word for word from the book.

Google is your friend, although, let's face it, he or she is friend who knows WAY too much about you.

pleatherman

We all know how strong Pearl Jam was in their convictions during the Ticketmaster debacle. It sidelined and strained the touring aspect of the band in the mid-90s. Once Pearl Jam rescinded so they could finally play in normal venues again, they reclaimed their status as the touring band we all know, love, and follow around. But at one point, they were so compelled to never fall under the control of Ticketmaster that Kelly Curtis offered this statement in 1995:

"It would be impossible to do a normal tour without Ticketmaster. But what that means is Pearl Jam will probably never do a regular tour again."