famous controversial performances

Daughter from the Showboat DVD w/ the War tag

http://youtu.be/EmoAa93IpT0

Daughter from the Showbox is so powerful, particularly considering he took the stand 4 months before the invasion started and the jingoism in this country was at a fever pitch. Very few people listened to Scott Ritter and other inspectors who were critical of the intelligence that was made public.
It reminds me of some of Bruce's shows in the 70's and 80's when he took very similar stands.

Not so much a performance but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHTfKueFL4

mcgruff10 said:

besides bushleaguer in uniondale and porch during unplugged, how are any of the rest controversial? he said some anti war stuff...that's controversial or just voicing an opinion?

Agree

Milton Keynes was anti war. Typical Ed. I don t think it was highly controversial. Porch on unplugged, yeah that was pretty bold writing pro choice on your arm while on national TV. The first time you come back to New York after 9/11 you play bush leaguer? Probably the most controversial show ever as that show made national headlines. You could even mention the Denver show from 03.

Hershey 03.....shitting in little girls heads or whatever he said.... That show left a bad taste in my mouth.

mrk2 said:

Re: Milton Keynes, this is not controversy? https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=pearl+jam+israel

It s typical eddie. How is that controversial? The 2004 vote for change tour was a hell of a lot more controversial than a two minute speech in the middle of daughter supposedly about Israel.
This is like being pissed if Ed totally bashed fox news or the gop.

So they are only controversial for people who will end up on the wrong side of history?

I'd personally include the Denver '03 show... It was a huge deal around these parts when the national media picked up on the fact that a bunch of people apparently left that show in protest. It even seemed to rattle the band a bit.

I was not a fan at the time this happened, but have seen a snippet of the t-shirt burning on an old MTV segment off a friend's tape... Courtesy the 5 Horizons/Two Feet Thick Concert Chronology...

11/07/93 - Mesa Amphitheater: Mesa, AZ
attendance: 5,000
support act: Mohican singer-songwriter, Bill Miller and Butthole Surfers

notes: Ed tells the crowd that after visiting the mountain with some of the Native Americans who held the land sacred, the band had decided to donate ALL of the proceeds from the shows to benefit their cause.
Before 'Leash,' the audience tosses a University of Arizona sweatshirt onstage which Ed drapes over a mic stand and burns, being displeased with the university because they were trying to develop an otherwise pristine piece of land holding significant historical worth to the Apaches.
About Mount Graham: Mount Graham is the most sacred mountain to the traditional San Carlos Apache people and home to many plants and animals that don't exist elsewhere. The Mount Graham Coalition is an international group (associated with Earth First!) working to protect the mountain from development of an astronomical complex of observatories that was then under construction by the University of Arizona. The University and the Vatican want to put an observatory on Mt. Graham for the purpose of searching for alien life. The mountain is sacred to the tribe(s) in the area. When the rest of the world was expecting Pearl Jam to focus on a world tour in support of Vs., the band took time out to play two benefit shows for this cause. Late, they wrote a letter to President Clinton expressing their support for the Coalition.