EV Austin 2 poster

perfectlefts14 wrote:

TN70407 wrote:

smanchac1 wrote:

What is the actual event? I lived in Austin a while and I'm very curious.

Did Ed climb the Texas state Capitol building??

I second that, come on historians hook is up with some knowledge!

From the Pearl Jam Twenty book:
April 28-30 1992
City Coliseum, Austin Texas; Bronco Bowl, Dallas; Unicorn Club, Houston

Pearl Jam opens three shows for
Soundgarden in Texas. Vedder gives
Everybody another huge scare while
climbing an I-beam in Dallas.



Eddie Vedder: In the beginning, the urge
to stage climb was from being in the
crowd waiting for the next band to go
on, and there'd be thirty minutes as a set
change, and I'd be looking at the venues
and the theaters and the balconies and
the shapes of the rooms, and I thought,
God, it would be great to be able to climb
up there, and I bet you could go from
that point to that point. Like, if you had
the opportunity, wouldn't that be a great
thing to do? And then all of a sudden
you had the chance to do that; like you
had the mike and you had the stage and
you could do that. And then once you
got up there, you realized, Wow, no one's
been up here for a long time! There were
inches of dust. Who knows what had
happened in that building for years? But I
definitely went to places that no one had
been to in a long time.

Matt Cameron: He got to the very top
of this thing, and it's probably, like an
eighty-foot fall or something, and I was
just thinking, He's really going to hurt
himself if he continues doing these types
of performances. But he has that sort
of mental toughness, like he's able to
visualize his next step. That might have
saved him from a big injury. But I'm glad
he's not doing that anymore.

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Dr. Delight wrote:

from Insidetherockposters blog:

What is cool about this poster is that it was based on an actual event. In 1992 the capital was under construction and the guys were on tour with a stop in Austin. At night Ed decided to climb to the top of the building. Yes he did climb to the top.

perfectlefts14 wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

ps...well mr kozik....thats a fuckin great tree poster if u ask me....

:thumbup:
It puts that atrocious Mickey Mouse thing to shame.