Thanks Pete Townshend! Glad Ed didn't retire

duggro
duggro Posts: 1,345
edited July 2008 in The Porch
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_212160030.shtml


"Pete Townshend Talked Eddie Vedder Out Of Retirement


Pearl Jam fans have The Who's Pete Townshend to thank for the Alive rockers' longevity - he talked frontman Eddie Vedder out of retiring.

Townshend claims Vedder contacted him in the early 1990s as he was considering walking away from rock music.

In an email to Rolling Stone, Townshend praises Vedder and his band for their performance at the recent Vh1 Rock Honors tribute show to The Who, adding, "It sounded amazing. Eddie seems to be very shiny these days. To think he nearly quit in 1993 and went back to some surfing beach.

"Lucky he came to speak to Uncle Pete. I told him - submit." "
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  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    Could uncle Pete POSSIBLY be more full of himself...
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • 3inputchick
    3inputchick Posts: 845
    Someone tell Pete the Who died in 1978.
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  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,345
    ooooh not a lotta love for townshend here
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  • chromiam
    chromiam Posts: 4,114
    duggro wrote:
    ooooh not a lotta love for townshend here

    People don't like hearing the truth sometimes.... about Ed, not Pete
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  • Gonzo1977
    Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    Eddie has really cool uncles

    Uncle Neil
    Uncle Bruce
    Uncle Pete
  • guitar_davey
    guitar_davey Posts: 111
    Gonzo1977 wrote:
    Eddie has really cool uncles

    Uncle Neil
    Uncle Bruce
    Uncle Pete


    Just watch out for Uncle Ernie!!
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    This is the third or fourth thread on this matter, but I have to respond to any post that mentions my man Pete :D
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    3inputchick wrote:
    Someone tell Pete the Who died in 1978.


    Have you ever seen them?

    You wouldn't say that if you have, and you shouldn't be posting about what you have no clue about
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • ajedigecko
    ajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,431
    he should have used the word "quit".

    "retire" is reserved for people who spend their entire life working.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,345
    PureandEasy wrote:
    This is the third or fourth thread on this matter, but I have to respond to any post that mentions my man Pete :D
    hmmm, i did a search and saw nothing
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  • ajedigecko
    ajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,431
    duggro wrote:
    hmmm, i did a search and saw nothing
    who cares............there are 3 or 4 threads about everything.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • Fatal
    Fatal Posts: 821
    I'm not sure that i fully buy into all that.

    Ed may have been down on the music biz at that time, but i highly doubt he would have given it all up, with or without Pete's help.
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  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    It had nothing to do with being down on the music business, it had to do with the instant stardom thrown upon them. Ed couldn’t even leave his house, people were trolling his drive way, he was receiving threats to his girlfriend. He didn’t like the spotlight and was ready to give it all up. He has said so himself before.



    Oh and to the original poster, I didn't mean anything when I said it was a repeat thread. Like I said, if it mentoins Pete, it's ok with me :D
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  • Indifference
    Indifference Posts: 2,794
    Drive down the street can't find the keys to my own fucking home.
    I'll take a walk so I could curse my ass for being dumb.
    I'll make a right, after the arches, stinking grease and bone.
    Stopped at the supermarket people stare like I'm a dog.

    I'm going to Lukin's.
    I've got a spot at Lukin's.
    I knocked the door at Lukin's.
    Open the fridge. Now I know life is worth.

    I found the key but I return to find an open door.
    Some fucking freak who claims I fathered, by rape, her own son.
    I find my wife, I call the cops, this days work's never done.
    The last I heard that freak was purchasing a fucking gun

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  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,422
    3inputchick wrote:
    Someone tell Pete the Who died in 1978.

    I don't think the Who was really gone until John died...they definitely weren't the same without Keith though
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