Eddie Vedder featured in Song Sung Blue. NOW AVAILABLE

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  • Pamela0222
    Pamela0222 Posts: 1,544
    demetrios wrote:
    Catwoman1 wrote:
    I saw this movie several years ago at a film festival. You will love Eddie even more after seeing it. It's a hard movie to watch in many ways, but well worth it.

    Just finished watching the film. It was pretty emotional. What Ed did @ the end sure made me love him even more. The guy has truly a heart of gold.

    Did you pay the $15 to ship to Canada or have that changed?
    The thing I like most about time is that it's not real. It's all in the head. Sure, it's a useful trick to use if you want to meet someone at a specific place in the universe and have tea or coffee- but that's all it is- a trick. There is no such thing as the past. It exists only in the memory. There is no such thing as the future. It exists only in our imagination. If our watches were truly accurate, the only thing they would ever say is "Now". That's what time it is. It's "Now". - Damien Echols
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,411
    Pamela0222 wrote:
    demetrios wrote:
    Catwoman1 wrote:
    I saw this movie several years ago at a film festival. You will love Eddie even more after seeing it. It's a hard movie to watch in many ways, but well worth it.

    Just finished watching the film. It was pretty emotional. What Ed did @ the end sure made me love him even more. The guy has truly a heart of gold.

    Did you pay the $15 to ship to Canada or have that changed?

    I can't remember if it was that much. Best to email them to see if they can ship it out to you cheaper.
  • Pamela0222
    Pamela0222 Posts: 1,544
    Good idea. :)
    The thing I like most about time is that it's not real. It's all in the head. Sure, it's a useful trick to use if you want to meet someone at a specific place in the universe and have tea or coffee- but that's all it is- a trick. There is no such thing as the past. It exists only in the memory. There is no such thing as the future. It exists only in our imagination. If our watches were truly accurate, the only thing they would ever say is "Now". That's what time it is. It's "Now". - Damien Echols
  • Heisenberg
    Heisenberg Los Pollos Hermanos Posts: 4,958
    The Q&A from Ebertfest has a really good Eddie story as well and if I remember right, 10c even gets a mention
  • Callaway
    Callaway Posts: 635
    Heisenberg wrote:
    The Q&A from Ebertfest has a really good Eddie story as well and if I remember right, 10c even gets a mention

    He starts talking about the Eddie story around the 18:30 mark.

    http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/6441834
  • bobasfeet
    bobasfeet Posts: 1,208
    Can you stream this anywhere?
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,411

  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 32,852
    demetrios said:

    One of my top 5 weekends of shows 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,411
    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DiMMnc7UA/


  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,118
    Looks like they took the liberty of keeping him as 1991 Ed.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,411
    Yes, That Eddie Vedder Scene in Song Sung Blue Really Happened. Read the Sweet Note the Pearl Jam Singer Later Wrote 

  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,411

  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,411
    https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1ptif92/song_sung_blue_review_thread/
  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,338
    mookeywrench said:
    Looks like they took the liberty of keeping him as 1991 Ed.
    Right from Pinkpop to the movie set! 😂
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,411
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDukMQIz1Sc
  • THEBIBLEISTEN
    THEBIBLEISTEN Posts: 2,024
    That was incredible. 
  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,077
    Beautiful stuff!
    Nature drunk and High
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,411
    ‘Song Sung Blue’ Director Craig Brewer Says Studios Kept Rejecting His Movie About a Midwestern Couple: Audiences Won’t ‘Like These People’  


    How did you find out about Mike and Claire Sardina?

    I came across this documentary, which was barely distributed anywhere, about Mike and Claire. The only way you could watch it was to email its director Greg Kohs and he would burn a DVD for you. But anytime I’d have friends over, I’d show it and people would just be really moved by it. The story felt aligned with the ideals of “Hustle & Flow,” where it’s about people that are marginalized or forgotten about. People that others would call “nobodies.”

    After “Dolomite Is My Name” came out, I went for a meeting with the producers, John Davis and John Fox. When they asked me what I wanted to do next, I told them about this Neil Diamond cover band made up of a couple that got together in their 50s. And there’s this really tragic car accident that sets the family back. They’re dealing with addiction. They’re dealing with with alcoholism. It’s just a family trying to survive. They were immediately supportive. They said, “We’re making it. We just know that it’s going to be really hard.” And boy, were they were right.



  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 99,411
    Fact vs. fiction in Song Sung Blue: Heart attacks, a horrific accident, and Eddie Vedder's unexpected call https://ew.com/song-sung-blue-true-story-fact-vs-fiction-11876118

    Eddie Vedder asked Mike and Claire to open for Pearl Jam

    "This is true. Eddie Vedder is the MVP of Lightning & Thunder. Not only did he hear about them from a Milwaukee group, the Frogs, when Pearl Jam was coming into town and they were like, 'Hey, what are some other bands that are good that we can maybe have be in our showcase?' And the Frogs were like, 'Believe it or not, there's this Neil Diamond tribute band called Lightning & Thunder...' So Eddie Vedder had them be in his show, but then, later when the documentary that Greg Kohs made about Mike and Claire was about to have its premiere at a festival, and he got a cease-and-desist letter from Neil Diamond's publishing company saying, 'You can't use the music, so you can't show this movie.' Eddie Vedder called up Neil Diamond, sent him the documentary, and said, 'You gotta watch this and you gotta let them use the music.' Neil Diamond saw the movie, he was so touched by it, and he intervened and told his publishing company to leave Greg alone and show the movie. So Eddie, even, even to this day, has been such a support in telling the story of Lightning & Thunder, even to the extent of — we wanted to use the song 'Alive' off of his first album. They have never licensed that song, ever. It's always been an automatic no. And he gave it to us."



  • ceska
    ceska New York Posts: 1,153
    Alive was played in the movie when Lightning and Thunder walk up to the venue and fans are lined up outside. In the end credits the song is attributed as a live version from Seattle, WA, March 2017. A rehearsal for the Hall of Fame ceremony that April?

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