Are Ed and Adam Duritz acquainted?

Not sure if they know each other, but I remember Adam on the cover of Rolling Stone years ago wearing a Pearl Jam t-shirt. So I suppose he's a fan.

DaytimeDilemma wrote:

God I hope not.

Took the words right outta my mouth.

macci wrote:

A few years back I heard Adam on Howard Stern, he said Eddie had some beef with him. He said they had hung out a couple of times, got along great & that Ed was very cool. However, after the Crows let one of their songs be used in a Coke commercial, Eddie left Adam a book called "The Evils of Coca-Cola" in his dressing room. I believe both bands were playing a festival in Seattle.

Not word for word, but this is what I recall.

Yeah I can believe that, I love Ed but he could be a bit pretentious when he wanted to be. I'm sure someone could've written a book called 'The evils of EPIC records' if they'd tried. Corporation sucks.

macci wrote:

A few years back I heard Adam on Howard Stern, he said Eddie had some beef with him. He said they had hung out a couple of times, got along great & that Ed was very cool. However, after the Crows let one of their songs be used in a Coke commercial, Eddie left Adam a book called "The Evils of Coca-Cola" in his dressing room. I believe both bands were playing a festival in Seattle.

Not word for word, but this is what I recall.

yep i remember that. stone was apparently pretty dissappointed too, august & everything after is supposedly a fav of his

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

Surely a stupid little incident like that didn't mar his opinion of a great album?

nah not the album, just dissappointed in adams turn-about of ideals i think, im sure he didn't really care that much

MLC2006 wrote:

wonder if Ed has dropped Pete Townsend any not-so-subtle hints for all the shit that Who songs have been used to promote? because if not, then doing that to Duritz would pretty much make Ed a douche. unless of course it was meant as a joke and nothing more.

hell, you can go down the list of cover songs that PJ has done and look at all the heroes that have allowed their song to be used in commercials....the Who? Rolling Stones? Johnny Cash? AC/DC? that's just the tip of the iceberg. I guess it's ok for an artist who's sold 100+ million albums and doesn't even need money but not ok for an artist who hasn't had a real standout hit in over 10 years.

Here here.

yeah, and for the record, I think that a lot of things that may have been ripped on by Eddie when he was younger may not even phase him now; like most of us have grown as well.

Like I was watching the youtube clip of the famous grammy award speech that caused all the hype and I realized what he meant by the "this doesn't mean a thing" bit. He wasn't dissing the award at all; what he meant was that there were many artists there (as he directly said) and then when he said that, about the not meaning a thing, he meant that in regard to them winning over someone else that didn't mean that they were better.

The media in any way at all, inspires a lot of bad things that may not even be true.

digster wrote:

Ed's not really in a great place to point fingers (wasn't Yellow Ledbetter in the last episode of Friends?).

That isn't quite the same thing.



But I think it is funny how Eddie bashes everyone who wants to make a dime, but defends his buddy Pete left and right. I personally don't care if artists sell their songs, but don't be a hypocrite.

The biggest irony would be if the Coca Cola book story is true. Yeah, coke has a long history of horrible employment practices, but Eddie, Mr "go-green. love the environment" doesn't call out the Who for selling "Happy Jack" for a freaking HUMMER commercial.