Eddie on the phone

Surf Rider · July 2008

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BMoore09 · July 2008

keep the #?

vic in T.O. · July 2008

pretty funny because i tried calling in that night as well....it was the night before VS was released and Ed gave out his number and encouraged people to call and chat...i tried the number because i really didnt think it would have been his number,i never got through but apparently it was his real number from stories ive read on this board.I still have that whole show on cassette

Motown322 · July 2008

Mrs_Vedder78 wrote:

I dont see that so frightening...

The phone, I can understand... the unsent Father's Day card... uhhhhhhhhhh.

FrankieJ · July 2008

Hey, I have a similar story to jniko. I came home one night and Ed called my house. I was so surprised. We talked for awhile, aked questions, it was so surreal. He called back the next week, and hes a really cool guy. But i didn't get anything signed :(, But that is ok cause I talked to him.

BMoore09 wrote:

keep the #?

Hell Yeah!!!

But I heard he got a new number. :( But I'n not sure.:)

writersu · July 2008

Corey Lynn wrote:

This is odd, but I have always thought about it after it happened. It was October 18, 1993 (I was 13 years old) and Eddie was on rockline. I sat up all night and listened to it. At the end he gave out his phone number to talk to fans that could not get through on the show.(same show he played Bee Girl for the first time) Well, I wrote down this number that night. I told my sister and her friend about it the next day, never thinking that he would answer, and after trying just a few times they called out to me that he was on the phone. She told him "my sister wants to talk to you". For some reason I froze...I freaked out. I have never wanted to be "that fan", the one who laughs uncomfortably and says "I love you Eddie"....I did not know what to say...so I said nothing at all...I didn't even get on the phone. Then the moment was over. I guess in some way , I may have never wanted him to be real. Even then he was so iconic in my mind, that I did not know where to start... how to tell him that his band had changed my life...that I was allowed a sense of belonging just from listening to his bands music. It was the height of grunge...and I was fully immersed...and I could not find a way to tell my hero what his music meant to me. So, it is 15 years later and they remain one of the dearest things in my life...and given that chance over....I still do not know what the hell I would say....I would not know where to begin. I am not sure that I would pick up the phone and speak, if it happened again tomorrow.

I agree and would be tongue tied as well I think. I think for me though it is more about not wanting to sound like I was just a crazy fan (because I love him --his music is what I really do mean---doesn't make me crazy......???? see what I mean, I am, sounding crazy) and also I would be afraid that I would sound like such an ass that I would totally be making an ass out of myself just because I was so nervous.
Now if I met him just as a regular person then I think it would be totally cool because there are certain things that I find cool about him as a person; just like any other people that I might meet or want to meet.
But in your situation I would be totally choked up.
Ok, though come clean.....how many times did you want to dial that number after that just for the hell of it?

writersu · July 2008

radiohead33 wrote:

I am the same way. How do you express to someone, not only that the music they created was enjoyable, but that the music is a soundtrack to your life. That the music helped you through life. That the music is essential to you as breathing or eating.

I remember how I felt in 1991-1994. Even as a youngster I felt the absolute power and certainty that grunge music inside me. I felt like these people were speaking to and about me. It was a special feeling.

I think its hard to in words convey to those jammers who werent born yet, about the grunge heydey. What it meant. What it felt like. How unreal and disturbing Kurt's death was to the whole scene.

may I ask, are you 33? Then you dear are my youngster........

writersu · July 2008

PJAMEDVED wrote:

i cant quit laughing at this story, the more i think about it the funnier it is

ok, then I have another one.

In 1994 PJ was in Chicago. I heard Eddie was recording at a studio on Halsted Street, way the other way from Greek Town (ok so even local geography is not my strength). So, I took my two combat boot wearing sons, then 4 and 2 and my baby boy Jeremy with me downtown, past some recording studio and asked if Eddie Vedder was there to some window washer. He said, "I am not at liberty to say", which was most likely fucking with me, but I took it as "he is here!".

Long time ago. I was a lot younger. Now I would feel weird. But I think of it and laugh still.

Corey Lynn · July 2008

writersu wrote:

I agree and would be tongue tied as well I think. I think for me though it is more about not wanting to sound like I was just a crazy fan (because I love him --his music is what I really do mean---doesn't make me crazy......???? see what I mean, I am, sounding crazy) and also I would be afraid that I would sound like such an ass that I would totally be making an ass out of myself just because I was so nervous.
Now if I met him just as a regular person then I think it would be totally cool because there are certain things that I find cool about him as a person; just like any other people that I might meet or want to meet.
But in your situation I would be totally choked up.
Ok, though come clean.....how many times did you want to dial that number after that just for the hell of it?

Lol. I guess I did want to dial the number again...but, I did not.

writersu · July 2008

jniko wrote:

I talked to Edddie on the phone once. A friend of mine was out with him and had him call me at home. It was midnite and the phone rang. I picked up and it was fucking Eddie Vedder. I totally flipped out. I talked to him for about 15 minutes. I told him I was out in Italy and caught the show in Pistoia. I asked him some questions and than my wife talked to him for a while. The next day my friend called me and said Eddie was going to sign a guitar for me. He did and he personally signed it and drew a picture of the tower in Pistoia that's in the DVD. Eddie is a totally cool guy.

ok, so on the "one away from" ,mindset, can I hang around with you and your wife and that friend who hangs out with Eddie?

Corey Lynn · July 2008

slightofjeff wrote:

This thread is a tad frightening.

I was wondering if anyone would respond like this. I did not want to sound like a stalker...quite the contrary. I know that with fame comes a certain degree of paranoia...and I have never wanted to play into that by acting obsessive in any way.

I look at my love for PJ like this:

When I saw the ocean for the first time last summer I realized something...that no matter where I would be for the rest of my life...the waves would continue to crash on the beach..no matter what I am doing or where I am going...
and this is how I feel about PJ...my constant in the turmoil of life.

With risk of sounding corny....or possibly more obsessive...this is how I feel.

SDHSClassof82 · July 2008

I don't mean to bring the negativity at all. I've done the hero worship thing too for other musicians in my younger days. But.....

I love the music. I admire Ed's activism. Ed is a regular human being....really.

P.S. If I were 13 in 91, I would have made the call too. Wonder how long he kept *that* number ?

Fighting Hellfish · July 2008

PJAMEDVED wrote:

i cant quit laughing at this story, the more i think about it the funnier it is

well, just a tad bit embarrassing to tell it, so I'm glad someone got a laugh over it

Heineken Helen · July 2008

FrankieG wrote:

Hey, I have a similar story to jniko. I came home one night and Ed called my house. I was so surprised. We talked for awhile, aked questions, it was so surreal. He called back the next week, and hes a really cool guy. But i didn't get anything signed : (, But that is ok cause I talked to him.

Hell Yeah!!!

But I heard he got a new number. :( But I'n not sure.:)

Huh? Does Ed just call random people to talk?

Eddie on the phone

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