Great show! Getting through was almost harder than the Apollo tickets!! I finally got in, told the producer my question and then was on hold for about 35 mins. Fully expecting to get on I took the time to type up my question, but never made it on air. Anyways, here is what I was planning to ask and I wish I had the opportunity to ask! Next time!! Here it goes:
We recently passed the 20 year anniversary of VA Beach (first show after Roskilde) and the first time you guys tagged Daughter with It’s Okay, which was followed by a second performance at Jones Beach, NY a couple weeks later (both extremely moving performances and the NY show was only my 4th).
It’s Okay is still a highlight for me and countless fans at shows today (and thanks for all the love it was shown in 2018). For me this has always been my healing song and still is to this day. Was it a healing song for the band too back then and how has the meaning changed for you over the last 20 years?
The callers were at times insufferable. I’d rather have just heard rob ask him questions.
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The callers were at times insufferable. I’d rather have just heard rob ask him questions.
What about if it was Twitter and Rob asked questions that way? Then again, this seemed more personal than when they did that online chat on YouTube or whatever it was.
Presidential Advice from President-Elect Mike McCready: "Are you getting something out of this all encompassing trip?"
Many of the callers seemed star struck. Some tried to play it cool but failed. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to hear Ed request a song (Buckle Up) and I’m pretty sure at one stage he indicated an interest in Toronto real estate. Did anyone else hear that part?
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EV Solo: 2017 Louisville and Franklin, 2018 Ohana, 2019 Innings Fest, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dublin and Ohana; 2021 Ohana Friday (from beach) and Saturday; 2022 Earthlings Newark; 2023 Innings Fest and Benoraya 1-2.
Gutted: London 2 2018, Sacramento 2022, Noblesville 2023
Many of the callers seemed star struck. Some tried to play it cool but failed. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to hear Ed request a song (Buckle Up) and I’m pretty sure at one stage he indicated an interest in Toronto real estate. Did anyone else hear that part?
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Many of the callers seemed star struck. Some tried to play it cool but failed. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to hear Ed request a song (Buckle Up) and I’m pretty sure at one stage he indicated an interest in Toronto real estate. Did anyone else hear that part?
Is that wishful thinking on your part?
Perhaps. That’s why I’m asking if anyone else heard that.
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EV Solo: 2017 Louisville and Franklin, 2018 Ohana, 2019 Innings Fest, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dublin and Ohana; 2021 Ohana Friday (from beach) and Saturday; 2022 Earthlings Newark; 2023 Innings Fest and Benoraya 1-2.
Gutted: London 2 2018, Sacramento 2022, Noblesville 2023
Many of the callers seemed star struck. Some tried to play it cool but failed. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to hear Ed request a song (Buckle Up) and I’m pretty sure at one stage he indicated an interest in Toronto real estate. Did anyone else hear that part?
Is that wishful thinking on your part?
Perhaps. That’s why I’m asking if anyone else heard that.
2016 I think he joked around about moving there. I took it as a joke at least.
Many of the callers seemed star struck. Some tried to play it cool but failed. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to hear Ed request a song (Buckle Up) and I’m pretty sure at one stage he indicated an interest in Toronto real estate. Did anyone else hear that part?
Is that wishful thinking on your part?
Perhaps. That’s why I’m asking if anyone else heard that.
2016 I think he joked around about moving there. I took it as a joke at least.
He should move to Columbus. He can choose to buy a house from a relator named Jim Hendrix (although he may just do commercial property) or a home relator named John Lennon...and I know people who can highly recommend John Lennon.
Presidential Advice from President-Elect Mike McCready: "Are you getting something out of this all encompassing trip?"
Thank you for not hating on me, Stern can be very polarizing.
Old Howard who had to get ratings and make a name for himself? Yes.
The new Howard who saw a shrink and who saves cats while hanging with Jimmy Kimmel and big-name celebrities? He's entirely a different person.
Yeah Howard is great...that would be a great interview. Howard is a big PJ fan
Have you listened to Stern in the last few years? Every question will be Stern playing armchair psychologist or saying thing like "Remember when you wrote this one?" Stern plays a little of Jeremy. Eddie laughs uncomfortably.
Thank you for not hating on me, Stern can be very polarizing.
Old Howard who had to get ratings and make a name for himself? Yes.
The new Howard who saw a shrink and who saves cats while hanging with Jimmy Kimmel and big-name celebrities? He's entirely a different person.
Yeah Howard is great...that would be a great interview. Howard is a big PJ fan
Have you listened to Stern in the last few years? Every question will be Stern playing armchair psychologist or saying thing like "Remember when you wrote this one?" Stern plays a little of Jeremy. Eddie laughs uncomfortably.
Yeah, I don’t know how good that interview would be. I feel Ed is very evasive. I wonder if it was Ed or the whole band or just a couple of them.
Many of the callers seemed star struck. Some tried to play it cool but failed. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to hear Ed request a song (Buckle Up) and I’m pretty sure at one stage he indicated an interest in Toronto real estate. Did anyone else hear that part?
i haven't listened yet, but ed often makes comments about moving to canada or a general admiration for our country when a republican is in office. i wouldn't put any stock in it.
Thank you for not hating on me, Stern can be very polarizing.
Old Howard who had to get ratings and make a name for himself? Yes.
The new Howard who saw a shrink and who saves cats while hanging with Jimmy Kimmel and big-name celebrities? He's entirely a different person.
Yeah Howard is great...that would be a great interview. Howard is a big PJ fan
Have you listened to Stern in the last few years? Every question will be Stern playing armchair psychologist or saying thing like "Remember when you wrote this one?" Stern plays a little of Jeremy. Eddie laughs uncomfortably.
Yeah, I don’t know how good that interview would be. I feel Ed is very evasive. I wonder if it was Ed or the whole band or just a couple of them.
stern seems like a big music fan, but he doesn't seem to do his research. he asks a lot of questions of artists that are, on the surface, easy to answer and pretty much anyone listening would probably know the answer to already.
Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder Is Still Lamenting the Apollo Show — and Howard Stern Interview — That Never Was
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Eddie Vedder discussed working on new music during COVID-19 quarantine, memories from Pearl Jam
shows with Robert Plant and Neil Young and why he finally joined
Instagram during a wide-ranging call-in Q&A with listeners on the
band’s SiriusXM channel yesterday (Sept. 2).
Vedder said the members of Pearl Jam have not been in the same room
since the pandemic and are “taking quarantine very seriously.” But he
confirmed that, in tandem with longtime collaborator Glen Hansard and
Cat Power’s Chan Marshall, he “contributed all the songs” to the new
Sean Penn film “Flag Day,” which will be out next year.
“That was a great, powerful project to have laid at our feet during
all of this,” he said. “All three of us had to do most of the recording
by ourselves — I mean, literally by ourselves. Most of us either have
kids or elders we look after, so it was no joke. But with Sean at the
helm, and some great performances in the film, and a great story, that
was a powerful thing to have the opportunity to work on.”
Based on the Jennifer Vogel’s book “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story Of
My Father’s Counterfeit Life,” the film stars Penn alongside his
children Dylan and Hopper. Vedder previously wrote an entire album of
original music for the soundtrack to Penn’s 2007 film adaptation of Jon
Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild,” winning the Best Original Song honor at
the Golden Globes for the song “Guaranteed.”
Vedder had made his first Instagram posts earlier in the day, showing
off his Washington State mail-in ballot and encouraging his followers
to get out the vote. He admitted he still has concerns over how social
media can impact young people, including his two adolescent daughters,
but said he created his own account in hopes of “disseminating some
positive information. I will try to keep it interesting and maybe
artistic. [But] I realized there was something I agreed wholeheartedly
with Donald Trump in regards to [this being] no doubt the most important
election in our country’s history. Finally, we agreed on something.
Let’s make sure we can vote by mail in places where we can.”
Other highlights from the 90-minute conversation:
On the activism he is seeing from young people leading up to the election:
“They’re getting involved in the voting process even before they’re
18. They’re using their voices even prior to being able to register —
just being active citizens. We’re talking 16 year olds, and maybe even
younger. The next generation is going to be way more informed. And I
think on a lot of the big issues, whether it’s race issues or gender
issues, they’re going to be so much more adept at navigating the future.
I just don’t even think those are gonna be issues, because they’ve just
grown up in a different time of acceptance and understanding.”
On having to postpone a planned invite-only March concert at New
York’s legendary Apollo Theatre as part of the tour in support of the
new Pearl Jam album, “Gigaton”:
“It was definitely a formidable show, just because of the history of
the place, and our reverence for that history. The opportunity to play
that stage, we did not take it lightly. For me, I think the band feels
like we got tickets to that show. We were trying to schedule a Howard
Stern interview, and I was excited about that as well. You know, play
the Apollo, have a few drinks, sleep it off the next day, and then talk
to Howard the next day. I was ready. He’s a great interviewer.”
On his 30-year relationship with Pearl Jam co-founders Jeff Ament
and Stone Gossard, who themselves have been playing together in other
bands for even longer:
“I think at some point we functioned without a leader. If I ended up
in that situation, I think it was reluctantly. It was by no means a
hostile takeover. It was their world that started all this. It was Green
River. And it was Mother Love Bone. To be friends with all the great
humans in Green River to this day [and] to be carrying on still with
this .. this is a great relationship of Stone and Jeff. I’ve never
stopped admiring it and I’m just so glad to be part of it. I might be
some kind of de-facto leader in that I do set lists, or they trust me to
present an idea on how the record might be sequenced or something like
that. But there’s so much that we work on that’s on complete equal
footing, and that’s probably why we’re as proud of this record as any,
because the music was made using a completely democratic process.”
On the “Gigaton” song “Buckle Up,” which features both words and music from Gossard:
“It’s a Stone Gossard song through and through. Everybody kind of
came in and laid some pieces over it. I’m singing his vocal exactly like
he sang it [on the demo]. I really just wanted to do what he did
justice. Usually i’ll go to the raucous, make the windows shake-kind of
song to get me through any kind of pain and frustration, but i feel like
this was one of those ones [where] there’s a meditation to it, and a
mantra. For these days, it seems so applicable.”
On the infamous June 1995 free concert at San Francisco’s Golden
Gate Park, when Vedder, debilitated by food poisoning, had to leave the
stage after seven songs and was replaced by Neil Young:
“One of the worst days of my life. It was so brutal. I stayed in [the
night before] and had hotel room service. I lost like eight pounds that
night and then went into the hospital in the morning to get an IV. They
jammed another IV in me as Bad Religion was playing and I was in the
trailer. Neil had white gym shoes on, and I’m laying on the floor. I can
barely open my eyes, and I open my eyes, and there’s Neil’s white
tennis shoes. And he just said, ‘Put me in, coach!’ I would have rather
taken mushrooms than eaten that goddamned fish sandwich. That would have
been a crazy thing — ‘Sorry, Neil. I can’t go on. I’m tripping balls
right now.’”
On his tragicomic efforts to finally see a concert by one his favorite musicians, Nick Cave:
“He came through town, and the night he was playing, we had our first
child. And then the next time he came through town, a couple years
later, we were mixing ‘Into the Wild.’ I thought I was going to leave,
see the show, and come back, [but] I realized the workload was too much.
Here he is, right down the street [but] I can’t go see him. [We were]
in the studio until 5 in the morning. The third time he comes into town,
we are in the hospital having our second child.”
On having Robert Plant open for Pearl Jam at a 2005 Hurricane Katrina benefit in Chicago:
“We all knew him from a few past meetings, even going back to Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame and Neil Young. But to really talk music and to
play music together, old songs and new songs, and even at the end, you
know, he played guitar. He actually used my guitar, which i was really
happy about. Robert Plant playing my guitar — it was really one of those
little things. What a great, great human. We played ‘Fool in the Rain,’
which I believe was a Zeppelin song that they never played live
before.”
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very cool moments tho for a lot of people
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Reading the comments on here I am a bit worried about the calls. 😅
What about if it was Twitter and Rob asked questions that way? Then again, this seemed more personal than when they did that online chat on YouTube or whatever it was.
You're welcome.
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Who is wrong and who’s right
Gutted: London 2 2018, Sacramento 2022, Noblesville 2023
He should move to Columbus. He can choose to buy a house from a relator named Jim Hendrix (although he may just do commercial property) or a home relator named John Lennon...and I know people who can highly recommend John Lennon.
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2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
Tons of credit to Ed for hanging in there. He's a solid guy.
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Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder Is Still Lamenting the Apollo Show — and Howard Stern Interview — That Never Was
Eddie Vedder discussed working on new music during COVID-19 quarantine, memories from Pearl Jam shows with Robert Plant and Neil Young and why he finally joined Instagram during a wide-ranging call-in Q&A with listeners on the band’s SiriusXM channel yesterday (Sept. 2).
Vedder said the members of Pearl Jam have not been in the same room since the pandemic and are “taking quarantine very seriously.” But he confirmed that, in tandem with longtime collaborator Glen Hansard and Cat Power’s Chan Marshall, he “contributed all the songs” to the new Sean Penn film “Flag Day,” which will be out next year.
“That was a great, powerful project to have laid at our feet during all of this,” he said. “All three of us had to do most of the recording by ourselves — I mean, literally by ourselves. Most of us either have kids or elders we look after, so it was no joke. But with Sean at the helm, and some great performances in the film, and a great story, that was a powerful thing to have the opportunity to work on.”
Based on the Jennifer Vogel’s book “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story Of My Father’s Counterfeit Life,” the film stars Penn alongside his children Dylan and Hopper. Vedder previously wrote an entire album of original music for the soundtrack to Penn’s 2007 film adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild,” winning the Best Original Song honor at the Golden Globes for the song “Guaranteed.”
Vedder had made his first Instagram posts earlier in the day, showing off his Washington State mail-in ballot and encouraging his followers to get out the vote. He admitted he still has concerns over how social media can impact young people, including his two adolescent daughters, but said he created his own account in hopes of “disseminating some positive information. I will try to keep it interesting and maybe artistic. [But] I realized there was something I agreed wholeheartedly with Donald Trump in regards to [this being] no doubt the most important election in our country’s history. Finally, we agreed on something. Let’s make sure we can vote by mail in places where we can.”
Other highlights from the 90-minute conversation:
On the activism he is seeing from young people leading up to the election:
“They’re getting involved in the voting process even before they’re 18. They’re using their voices even prior to being able to register — just being active citizens. We’re talking 16 year olds, and maybe even younger. The next generation is going to be way more informed. And I think on a lot of the big issues, whether it’s race issues or gender issues, they’re going to be so much more adept at navigating the future. I just don’t even think those are gonna be issues, because they’ve just grown up in a different time of acceptance and understanding.”
On having to postpone a planned invite-only March concert at New York’s legendary Apollo Theatre as part of the tour in support of the new Pearl Jam album, “Gigaton”:
“It was definitely a formidable show, just because of the history of the place, and our reverence for that history. The opportunity to play that stage, we did not take it lightly. For me, I think the band feels like we got tickets to that show. We were trying to schedule a Howard Stern interview, and I was excited about that as well. You know, play the Apollo, have a few drinks, sleep it off the next day, and then talk to Howard the next day. I was ready. He’s a great interviewer.”
On his 30-year relationship with Pearl Jam co-founders Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, who themselves have been playing together in other bands for even longer:
“I think at some point we functioned without a leader. If I ended up in that situation, I think it was reluctantly. It was by no means a hostile takeover. It was their world that started all this. It was Green River. And it was Mother Love Bone. To be friends with all the great humans in Green River to this day [and] to be carrying on still with this .. this is a great relationship of Stone and Jeff. I’ve never stopped admiring it and I’m just so glad to be part of it. I might be some kind of de-facto leader in that I do set lists, or they trust me to present an idea on how the record might be sequenced or something like that. But there’s so much that we work on that’s on complete equal footing, and that’s probably why we’re as proud of this record as any, because the music was made using a completely democratic process.”
On the “Gigaton” song “Buckle Up,” which features both words and music from Gossard:
“It’s a Stone Gossard song through and through. Everybody kind of came in and laid some pieces over it. I’m singing his vocal exactly like he sang it [on the demo]. I really just wanted to do what he did justice. Usually i’ll go to the raucous, make the windows shake-kind of song to get me through any kind of pain and frustration, but i feel like this was one of those ones [where] there’s a meditation to it, and a mantra. For these days, it seems so applicable.”
On the infamous June 1995 free concert at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, when Vedder, debilitated by food poisoning, had to leave the stage after seven songs and was replaced by Neil Young:
“One of the worst days of my life. It was so brutal. I stayed in [the night before] and had hotel room service. I lost like eight pounds that night and then went into the hospital in the morning to get an IV. They jammed another IV in me as Bad Religion was playing and I was in the trailer. Neil had white gym shoes on, and I’m laying on the floor. I can barely open my eyes, and I open my eyes, and there’s Neil’s white tennis shoes. And he just said, ‘Put me in, coach!’ I would have rather taken mushrooms than eaten that goddamned fish sandwich. That would have been a crazy thing — ‘Sorry, Neil. I can’t go on. I’m tripping balls right now.’”
On his tragicomic efforts to finally see a concert by one his favorite musicians, Nick Cave:
“He came through town, and the night he was playing, we had our first child. And then the next time he came through town, a couple years later, we were mixing ‘Into the Wild.’ I thought I was going to leave, see the show, and come back, [but] I realized the workload was too much. Here he is, right down the street [but] I can’t go see him. [We were] in the studio until 5 in the morning. The third time he comes into town, we are in the hospital having our second child.”
On having Robert Plant open for Pearl Jam at a 2005 Hurricane Katrina benefit in Chicago:
“We all knew him from a few past meetings, even going back to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Neil Young. But to really talk music and to play music together, old songs and new songs, and even at the end, you know, he played guitar. He actually used my guitar, which i was really happy about. Robert Plant playing my guitar — it was really one of those little things. What a great, great human. We played ‘Fool in the Rain,’ which I believe was a Zeppelin song that they never played live before.”
On President Obama:
“He has great penmanship.”