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I never knew this... Dennis Rodman VM in the middle of BRY

OceansJennyOceansJenny Manhattan, NY Posts: 3,395
edited April 2009 in The Porch
The Pearl Jam song "Black, Red, Yellow" is about the Rodman-era Chicago Bulls teams. The middle of the song features a voice-mail message Rodman left for Vedder asking Vedder to return his call.

Rodman's voicemail from Black, Red, and Yellow:
"Yo bro. Tell us what's happenin'. Um, I'm on the west, west side of, on the west coast.
Give me a jingle, uh, when you get in from where the fuck you're at."

More about Rodman and Vedder:
Rodman has cited Pearl Jam as his favorite band and befriended them in the mid 1990s. During their No Code Tour, on September 26, 1996, he briefly came onstage to the excitement of the crowd and gave frontman Eddie Vedder a piggyback ride. Rodman later received a Walkman carved with Vedder's initials and containing the concert recording. He has since cited this as one his most thrilling experiences and claimed, "If it wasn't for Pearl Jam, my life would be a hell of a lot less fulfilling." Not long after, Rodman also gave his unworn #69 Lakers jersey to Eddie Vedder, and he cited Pearl Jam song lyrics in his 1996 autobiography, Bad As I Wanna Be.

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  • PillowPantsPillowPants Posts: 4,877
    Rodman's involvement at the Augusta Maine show was much more than a piggy back

    Ed was belting out Alive while climbing Rodman... it was insane

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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Didn't he also join the band onstage in Portugal or Spain on the 2000 tour? I remember hearing a boot of it.
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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Yep Rodman is a pretty big fan of PJ... I remember him having a yield sign stenciled in his hair back when he was on the bulls (i believe)
  • brainofcbrainofc Posts: 60
    He was also at Lolla in 2006 and I believe he was one of the many that came on the stage at the end of the show.
  • journeymanjourneyman Posts: 135
    Yeah, I was in Lisbon 2000, Rodman came on stage.
  • arthurdentarthurdent Posts: 969
    IIRC, Rodman's eye is one of the polaroids on the No Code cover
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  • release30release30 Posts: 2,051
    He lives in Miami..Comes to my club often....I talk PJ with him all the time...I am gonna see if I can get that walkman from him that Ed game him....He may do it for a bottle Jager... :mrgreen:
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  • LukinFanLukinFan Florida Posts: 29,070
    release30 wrote:
    He lives in Miami..Comes to my club often....I talk PJ with him all the time...I am gonna see if I can get that walkman from him that Ed game him....He may do it for a bottle Jager... :mrgreen:
    Are you serious? Rodman's my favorite NBA player of all time! No shit. When he retired, I stopped watching the NBA
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  • wma11wma11 Posts: 790
    not to quabble, but I think those lyrics are off...he ends by saying "I wanna fuck it up..." :roll:
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  • hadfiiwhadfiiw Posts: 202
    arthurdent wrote:
    IIRC, Rodman's eye is one of the polaroids on the No Code cover


    Also the nose ring (I believe it is upside down)
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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    release30 wrote:
    .He may do it for a bottle Jager... :mrgreen:

    I thought he was a cranberry and vodka guy.

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  • release30release30 Posts: 2,051
    LukinFan wrote:
    release30 wrote:
    He lives in Miami..Comes to my club often....I talk PJ with him all the time...I am gonna see if I can get that walkman from him that Ed game him....He may do it for a bottle Jager... :mrgreen:
    Are you serious? Rodman's my favorite NBA player of all time! No shit. When he retired, I stopped watching the NBA



    Yea I see him at least once a week...He loves my club...Always jumping up and down non-stop...
    Conversations getting dull
    There's a constant ringing in my ears
    Sense of humor's void and numb
    And I'm bored to tears.......
  • release30release30 Posts: 2,051
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    release30 wrote:
    .He may do it for a bottle Jager... :mrgreen:

    I thought he was a cranberry and vodka guy.

    PBM


    Last time he was in my club he got a bottle of Jager...And he wanted a deal on it.. :lol:
    Conversations getting dull
    There's a constant ringing in my ears
    Sense of humor's void and numb
    And I'm bored to tears.......
  • idratherbeidratherbe Posts: 367
    Dallas '98, ridiculous:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in33uVrf ... PL&index=4

    Rodman was wasted.

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  • NoCode_inMTNoCode_inMT Posts: 551
    There was a rumor that he was in Missoula in 1998.
    Then the next night at the Canyons(park city, ut), Ed said "Rodman says hi"(Jazz were playing/had played the Bulls in the Finals that year)
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  • JM55546JM55546 Posts: 134
    Rodman also sat in his car one night in the Piston's parking lot ready to kill himself before listening to Indifference, which is at the point he decided not to.
  • joe2468joe2468 Posts: 3,049
    JM55546 wrote:
    Rodman also sat in his car one night in the Piston's parking lot ready to kill himself before listening to Indifference, which is at the point he decided not to.


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  • joe2468joe2468 Posts: 3,049
    ill be honest... i love the song..but really never "listened" to it till this post....im shocked i never picked it that up........im a bad pearl jam fan.........go ahead you all can yell at me now
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  • JM55546JM55546 Posts: 134
    I'm trying to find the Indifference reference, I remember reading it from years ago in an interview.


    This is from Wikipedia:
    One night in May 1993, Rodman was found asleep in his car with a loaded rifle. Four years later in his biography As Bad As I Wanna Be, he confessed having thought about suicide and described that night as an epiphany: "I decided that instead [of killing myself] I was gonna kill the impostor that was leading Dennis Rodman to a place he didn't want to go... So I just said, 'I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it and be happy doing it.' At that moment I tamed [sic] my whole life around. I killed the person I didn't want to be.
  • JM55546JM55546 Posts: 134
    Here it is:
    http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/new ... eal_w.html

    Three years ago, in the parking lot outside the Palace at Auburn Hills, Dennis Rodman sat in his pickup playing Pearl Jam at a vicious volume with a rifle across his lap while trying to figure out whether or not to blow his head off.

    Although the article says he made the whole thing up, so who knows.
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    I also remembering hearing that his jersey number he had when he played with the Bulls was picked by the band, hence why he got to be featured in a song by the band.

    Was a little deal they made. :mrgreen:
  • InHiding19InHiding19 Posts: 2,385
    Rodman is the man. I was laughing my ass of when he had Ed siting on his shoulders at Lolla a couple years back!!
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    There's a youtube of him singing Alive at some club.
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  • rodentrodent Posts: 133
    i could be way off on this but i kind of remember reading that the song Smile was somehow related to him.
  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    rodent wrote:
    i could be way off on this but i kind of remember reading that the song Smile was somehow related to him.

    Naw, that's the wrong Dennis... Ed got the lyrics to Smile from a note that was written by Dennis Flemion (spelling?) from The Frogs. People do confuse this though mainly because on the back of the Smile Polaroid (included in some copies of no code) is the actual note and is signed from Dennis. Also, Ed introduced Dennis at a show at Alpine Valley (the year escapes me) right before they played Smile...
  • release30release30 Posts: 2,051
    Saw Dennis last night and told him Eddie was on a solo tour..And he flipped out!!! I also told him he could have my second ticket to each Atlanta show for the cassette player Eddie gave him years ago and he started to laugh his ass off... :lol:8-)
    Conversations getting dull
    There's a constant ringing in my ears
    Sense of humor's void and numb
    And I'm bored to tears.......
  • LukinFanLukinFan Florida Posts: 29,070
    release30 wrote:
    Saw Dennis last night and told him Eddie was on a solo tour..And he flipped out!!! I also told him he could have my second ticket to each Atlanta show for the cassette player Eddie gave him years ago and he started to laugh his ass off... :lol:8-)
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    release30 wrote:
    Saw Dennis last night and told him Eddie was on a solo tour..And he flipped out!!! I also told him he could have my second ticket to each Atlanta show for the cassette player Eddie gave him years ago and he started to laugh his ass off... :lol:8-)


    Haha, man I would offer it to him for free. Though the chances of him accepting would be slim, if he did, it would be kick arse being at a show with him. Plus he is sure to get you some fringe benefits with taking you backstage.

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