Greatest Line Eddie Ever Said!

BrokenHalos

There is a similar thread about the greatest line Eddie ever wrote. I am more interested in the concert banter. Anybody know of any good off the cuff/rants/quips?

SVRDhand13

My favorite is his description of himself in a cab mirror with the NYC skyline behind him

BrokenHalos

Do we have audience tapers here? Someone should compile a Stage Banter cd! I mean, I for one would appreciate such a thing...

belthook

I loved when he started talking about skinning cats right before Lukin II at MSG in 2010.

BrokenHalos

Yep, that's a memorable topic!

Ms. Haiku

Shoe the Shoeless!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nd9iOpMSOns

BrokenHalos

High-Larious! Mahalo - exactly the stuff I was envisioning

BrokenHalos

Found this one this morning -

At Pearl Jam's March 28, 1994 concert at the Bayfront Amphitheater in Miami, Florida, Vedder introduced the song by saying, "I thought I'd throw in a bit of street education while you still have an open mind....Right across the street there's a little homeless community that lives under the bridge. You should just know that those people ain't all crazy and sometimes it's not their fault. This song is called 'Even Flow'."

rollings

December 1, 2012, Ft. Lauderdale, FL,, Theater Ventricle of the Arts, Eddie Vedder Solo Career..,

"Can you play tickets on the table turner? Of course you not! You sleep through kindergartens again? Go back and get learned. He needs help getting his air for the tickets where the the air is thicker, lower. Better seats make breathing easier. Waiste pipes not allowed so you go easy now away, you pappanase."

rollings

In Bristow, VA (which is really Washington DC) in 2010, Vedder encouraged those in the audience who were also lobbyists, to feel free to "{edit} do us all a favor and {unedit} go ahead and kill yourselves".

I screamed in excitement, while other people in pissedoffness, up and left

BrokenHalos

MAAAAHALO for those two additions

Natashapearljamfan

You need Pap here, he does awesome quotes in the bootleg thread.

Pap

Thank you Natasha! Much appreciated!

So, here I am:

Chicago 17/05/06

There's a war going on outside and this feels like a safe place to play music and feel like a family and feel safe... And think about things and express ourselves... Thanks so much for coming down to the gig and being part of it and making us feel like human beings... Thank you so much...~ Eddie Vedder

Pay attention to democracy... It's a living thing... We have to be part of it... It's not something... It's not a table that just exists... Democracy is a living thing that in order to keep it strong and real... We don't live in a democracy, we're attempting a democracy here in the United States... It's our part to be part of it... ~ Eddie Vedder

Eddie must have read a lot of the writings of Greek philosophers.

Pap

Leeds 08/07/14

A while back, this is a request from Matt Cameron... Matt Cameron on the drums... It's about a young kid... He was about to go on a big journey, and he doesn't know where the fuck is gonna take him... But he knows he has to get out of the place where he is at the time... And no matter what happens, it's gonna be better than where he currently was... Even before the first time we ever got here, I probably spent like a large amount of time in my adolescence in Leeds... Like thousand hours in Leeds... With the headphones on... Listening to a record called Live at Leeds by the Who... I was that young kid... I still, pretty much, am that young kid... And now we are here, and we get to play for you all... And it's not lost on us for one second... We're very grateful for our lives... Twenty something years... And not to be silly about it, we've grown up in many many many many ways... We are very responsible in many many ways... But I'm glad that we've just hold on to a little bit of who we were and who we always were... So this is about like not forgetting who you are... A kid... ~ Eddie Vedder

BrokenHalos

Damn Pap - kleenex ain't cheap these days man...

Pap

Worcester 15/10/13

This one's about being a friend when your friend doesn't want any friends... This ones' about being a friend when your friend needs a friend... And this is about not saying no when your friend doesn't want your company... ~ Eddie Vedder

Foriginal Sin

San Diego 2009 during the song Rock N Roll Star. He tells his story of being a Gas Station attendant "20 years ago." its like 3 minutes long and fucking amazing

CountingSteps

I love this one from Brooklin 19/10/2013:

I know that the thing that bonds my friends, us together usually is that at one point we were probably pretty broken. Sometimes people, they steer away from broken people. And those are the people, usually, that have never been broken... There is nothing wrong with being broken. You can get fixed. You can fix yourself. Things break and then they get fixed, but usually with the help of other people... We should celebrate what we’ve been through. It’s the people without the scars, those are the ones you’ve got to worry about. It’s only a matter of time

BrokenHalos

Thanks guys, these are great

Pap

scorpio2k said:

Damn Pap - kleenex ain't cheap these days man...

By the way, we share the same birthday. How cool is that!

BrokenHalos

Scorpios of the World - UNITE!

Pap

Pap

Perth 23/02/03

While we have everyone here... There's a good friend of mine who's worked on a certain cause... It's something called Ningaloo Reef... Sounds like it's one of the most beautiful places in the world... And it sounds like now is the time to be active on it, so it doesn't turn into Miami Beach, Florida... So, I guess there's a website called ningalooreef.com... You can check on, find out how to be active... I guess it goes down in the next few months... And I guess you've got a guy called Geoff Gallop... Representing... He knows it's the right thing to do... It's not that they don't wanna do anything there... It's just that they wanna do it properly, and not let man take over, and ruin one of the few reefs that still exist in that kind of form... He knows what the right thing to do is... He just needs public support so he knows politically it works out for him to do the right thing, and you can do that... You can show him by just supporting him, writing, and attending any rallies that might happen in the next few months... Cause it's evolution... And you gotta participate... Thanks for letting me say that... ~ Eddie Vedder

idreaminred

The song “Future Days” was dedicate to fans Dan and Beverly, which Vedder would then inform the crowd that each song is open for interpretation but let the crowd know what that “Future Days” inspiration was really about… “Parenting but not with your kids. It’s about wanting time with your partner. About the time to give you a chance to fuck your partner.” As the audience laughed Vedder mentioned he was sorry if there was a parent in attendance with their child in attendance, and for maybe having to making them answer the hard life question of a child to a parent of what “fucking is.”

I was there...it actually was pretty funny. We ended up using FD as our wedding song

Natashapearljamfan

idreaminred said:

The song “Future Days” was dedicate to fans Dan and Beverly, which Vedder would then inform the crowd that each song is open for interpretation but let the crowd know what that “Future Days” inspiration was really about… “Parenting but not with your kids. It’s about wanting time with your partner. About the time to give you a chance to fuck your partner.” As the audience laughed Vedder mentioned he was sorry if there was a parent in attendance with their child in attendance, and for maybe having to making them answer the hard life question of a child to a parent of what “fucking is.”

I was there...it actually was pretty funny. We ended up using FD as our wedding song

Congrats on the wedding, great song choice.
I love it!!! Future Days is a beautiful song, I will listen to it very differently now What show did Eddie say that at?

rollings

December 1, 2012, Ft Lauderdale, Ed (solo)

Vedder described a dialogue between two people where person #1 was trying to describe a recent unfortunate personal happening to person #2 who could only respond with "I can't imagine what you're going through, I just can't imagine..."...

Ed's point was for person #2 to try

rollings

Same show. In regards to an "us vs. them" mentality with regards to patriotism and the way a person might cheer on the United States (vs. other nations) (God bless America style), Ed said something like "the world is not a football game" .

That was pretty cool

Pap

rollings said:

Same show. In regards to an "us vs. them" mentality with regards to patriotism and the way a person might cheer on the United States (vs. other nations) (God bless America style), Ed said something like "the world is not a football game" .

That was pretty cool

Very nice!

Juannicenboim

"every time i try to speak portuguese sounds like peaces of shit comin´out of my mouth...that´s why i brush my teeth all the time whenever im in Brazil" Sao Paulo 2015

Sarah

Pap said:

Worcester 15/10/13

This one's about being a friend when your friend doesn't want any friends... This ones' about being a friend when your friend needs a friend... And this is about not saying no when your friend doesn't want your company... ~ Eddie Vedder

What song followed this?

Sarah

The "You are somebody" speech from 9/29/96.