20 Bizarre Facts about Pearl Jam-VH1

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  • PJ & Bompton
    PJ & Bompton Posts: 92
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Ed wrote Betterman when he was like 16 years old. First played it with Bad Radio (the terrible band he was in pre-Pearl Jam).

    What Ed meant at MSG in '03 was that without Stone and Jeff founding Pearl Jam, he wouldn't get to play it at a place like Madison Square Garden ... He'd be stuck playing in places that "smelled like piss."

    sure Bad Radio never hit it big obviously but they were far from terrible...Believe You Me, Crossroads, Reggae Woman, Homeless and Betterman were all real good tunes...
  • Ghost Of K.
    Ghost Of K. Posts: 170
    PJ & Bompton wrote:
    sure Bad Radio never hit it big obviously but they were far from terrible...Believe You Me, Crossroads, Reggae Woman, Homeless and Betterman were all real good tunes...
    I love that song, but don't know where to find it.

    Anyone want to share? Believe You Me, I mean
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  • mehitabel
    mehitabel Posts: 14
    Yellow Bedwetter wrote:
    look at post #9


    A friend who was trying to help me through a rough patch gave me the book back in ’96. I know for certain that I absolutely HATED, I mean HATED it.
    My recollection:

    The concepts were more soft, and cuddly than insightful.

    The device is thin. Gorilla communicating gentle wisdom about the state of man. (ugggh)

    The prose was uninteresting (I mean, honestly, if you’re gonna stoop to using a gorilla to simply vomit your own ill thought-out ideas at least exercise some skillful prose or other inventive device)

    I know this sounds harsh, and I have felt like a genuine ass being that soulless ape who can't commune with the hairy kind—so I’d like to give it another go IF I can get someone who wants to talk about it to do the same.

    Takers?
  • SammyK14
    SammyK14 Posts: 287
    mehitabel wrote:
    A friend who was trying to help me through a rough patch gave me the book back in ’96. I know for certain that I absolutely HATED, I mean HATED it.
    My recollection:

    The concepts were more soft, and cuddly than insightful.

    The device is thin. Gorilla communicating gentle wisdom about the state of man. (ugggh)

    The prose was uninteresting (I mean, honestly, if you’re gonna stoop to using a gorilla to simply vomit your own ill thought-out ideas at least exercise some skillful prose or other inventive device)

    I know this sounds harsh, and I have felt like a genuine ass being that soulless ape who can't commune with the hairy kind—so I’d like to give it another go IF I can get someone who wants to talk about it to do the same.

    Takers?

    i'm willing to partake in the first installment of the pearl jam book club. when's our first meeting?
    5 years of Jam...

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  • Detroit2NYC
    Detroit2NYC New York, NY Posts: 337
    What about #13? How can we forget Eddie inducting REM into the Rock Hall on March 13, 2007?! I was there!!!
  • Stone Irons
    Stone Irons Posts: 430
    Detroit2NYC wrote:
    What about #13? How can we forget Eddie inducting REM into the Rock Hall on March 13, 2007?! I was there!!!

    This article was originally written in 2006, a year before he inducted R.E.M. Here's the original version of the article: http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1535383/20060629/story.jhtml
    Can't escape from the common rule...
    If you hate something, don't you do it too
  • Detroit2NYC
    Detroit2NYC New York, NY Posts: 337
    Stone Irons wrote:
    This article was originally written in 2006, a year before he inducted R.E.M. Here's the original version of the article: http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1535383/20060629/story.jhtml

    Ooooh, ok. Well STILL, they need to update their info!! :)
  • TheJUGGERNAUT29
    TheJUGGERNAUT29 Posts: 160
    Cool article! Thanks for posting
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    PJ & Bompton wrote:
    sure Bad Radio never hit it big obviously but they were far from terrible...Believe You Me, Crossroads, Reggae Woman, Homeless and Betterman were all real good tunes...

    Nah ... they were terrible. Just terrible. Even their version of Betterman is all f'ed up. There's a reason Ed made it big as the lead singer of Pearl Jam, not Bad Radio.
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  • MrFadedGlory
    MrFadedGlory Posts: 207
    SOLAT319 wrote:
    Interesting for those who are just now getting into the daze. You and me and a few others I know, around here, on the other hand, look at these so-called "bizarre" facts and for each of them, go "knew that"..."nothing special"...."already got the article"...etc.

    My 5 year old has this bad habit of saying I knew that all the time...but then again he's 5.

    I had no knowledge of Matt's "Puberty Love" song - hillarious, thanks for sharing.
    Left the Porch
  • MrFadedGlory
    MrFadedGlory Posts: 207
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Nah ... they were terrible. Just terrible. Even their version of Betterman is all f'ed up. There's a reason Ed made it big as the lead singer of Pearl Jam, not Bad Radio.
    I tend to agree - BR was very hard to listen to.
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  • MrFadedGlory
    MrFadedGlory Posts: 207
    mehitabel wrote:
    A friend who was trying to help me through a rough patch gave me the book back in ’96. I know for certain that I absolutely HATED, I mean HATED it.
    My recollection:

    The concepts were more soft, and cuddly than insightful.

    The device is thin. Gorilla communicating gentle wisdom about the state of man. (ugggh)

    The prose was uninteresting (I mean, honestly, if you’re gonna stoop to using a gorilla to simply vomit your own ill thought-out ideas at least exercise some skillful prose or other inventive device)

    I know this sounds harsh, and I have felt like a genuine ass being that soulless ape who can't commune with the hairy kind—so I’d like to give it another go IF I can get someone who wants to talk about it to do the same.

    Takers?
    Hahaha no, I'd like to think of myself as a giver;)

    Did you give any thought as to why the author used a gorilla (that may help)?
    Left the Porch
  • SBC03
    SBC03 Posts: 502
    "Puberty Love".....anyone heard this? have it?

    I would to hear eV play Believe You Me, maybe on eVl2
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  • bettermanofthehour
    bettermanofthehour Posts: 355
    so who else was hoping for, but knowing they weren't going to get, some weird fact about the band you didn't already know.
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    maaaaaaaa fooooooooooooooo!
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    i actually really enjoyed Ishmael..and also My Ishmael and the Story of B...good reads, get ya thinking a little bit :-)
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  • moses562
    moses562 Posts: 1,382
    Thanks for the great share!
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  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    Yellow Bedwetter wrote:
    Have any of you actually read "Ishmael" (#8)


    yes...


    and i still see NO connection to YIELD whatsoever
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    bettermanofthehour wrote:
    so who else was hoping for, but knowing they weren't going to get, some weird fact about the band you didn't already know.


    I know--I thought of that after my original post...but it was too late. I should have said "20 Non-bizarre-things-you-probably-already-knew-with-the- exception-of-#9-About-Pearl-Jam"

    tee hee hee...
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    my2hands wrote:
    yes...


    and i still see NO connection to YIELD whatsoever

    DTE is totally related to Ishmael.
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