While Black was filled with the pure emotion of loss and defeat, Porch was rebellion. He needs a moment to shake off the pain and continue with the setĪnd then he marches into a song that I never cared for until that night. I had never seen or heard anything like it. He took this beautiful, haunting song took the next level…Īnd as the song began to close, Eddie starts to scream… “WE…” “WE BELONG…” “WE BELONG TOGETHER….” I know you’ll be a star…in somebody else’s sky…but why? “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life. He climbed a mountain and he is screaming, professing his love for her in front of the world.īut you simply cannot fake the earnestness in his eyes. His face starts to change as the song progresses. “I take a walk outside…And I’m surrounded by….Some kids that play!” Over the course of the next hour, Pearl Jam became my favorite band. I had never seen Eddie perform live, and I had never watched him for longer than four minutes in a video… ![]() The energy was pumping off the screen as they played Alive, Jeremy, State Of Love And Trust. We were at his friend Luke’s house, and Luke and Dana lived in this awesome loft in Huntington Village, so we waited, drank red wine. Where is the “Dazed and Confused” for the 1990’s? The alternative music scene was fucking everywhere and great music was exploding from all directions. Vitalogy had just come out, The war has just begun with Ticketmaster. Which was a mishmash of life covers Pearl Jam had done in 19. ( Five Against One) exploded, brother Shaun bought it for me for my 19th birthday also with a live bootleg disc “Covering Themselves”… Now a few years had passed since Ten came out. This is what made me fall in love with the band. Unless somebody had a VCR tape of it, you had to wait until it aired.īrother Jeff were all going out into Huntington Village to raise hell that night… “Pearl Jam did an episode of MTV Unplugged? I didn’t know that?” “Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged is on tonight we should watch it before we go out.” I’m 20 we’re getting ready to go out one night Brother Jeff is excited. I could sing that song to my mother and mean every word of it. I remember replaying that song over and over, tears streaming down my face, screaming to my mom. I didn’t know at the time that was the case, but I could tell from the song… He was screaming to someone on the other side. It sounded like Eddie was talking about his father who had maybe passed away? It was a tough time and I started to think about my mom. I had listened before, but hadn’t heard it. The first time I truly “Heard” Release…I was alone in my apartment at 18 years old, and I started to cry. It’s that vocally, he would stretch out the words in the verses…Įlongate certain words, drag them out so long that you didn’t know when one word ended and the next began. It’s not that the lyrics were so hyper intelligent we couldn’t grasp them. We would both sit at opposite ends of this thing, sitting maybe 30 feet across from each other…Īnd we would sing our asses off, our voices echoing throughout this large empty cement garage.Īnd you don’t know this really unless you went through it as it was coming out…īut most of us didn’t know what the fuck Eddie Vedder was talking about. We would meet up at like 11 at night, smoke some weed and go to this parking garage by our house that emptied at 6pm. This was completely unlike any other popular music I’d been exposed to before.Īnd we are talking real 1992 grunge living here, we were 18… That these new bands, they were part of a community. Hearing that, I remember, was intriguing to me. Why the hell haven’t the done a second Temple album? “No, it’s on this other album that they all got together and made called “ Temple Of The Dog“ “You know that’s Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam singing blacking vocals….and Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.” That was undoubtedly strong and made me want to scream my face off. I heard it when I heard the album for the first time all the way through. They would only release live performances of their singles.īecause the alt music scene was beginning to take hold, it was hard to know at first if they were for real or not.īut I wasn’t sold on the rest of the stampede. They were all talking about the mysterious lead singer and this new angst driven (I hate writing that) sound. I need to get to know them inside and out.Īll these people began to talk about them and I’m just fucking weary of popular “Fad” shit like that. It takes me a while to get used to new things. It took a while because I’m stubborn, very stubborn.Īnd at that age I wasn’t open minded at all…not that I am now. ![]() Now, I post this because it wasn’t until I saw this performance that I became a die hard fan.
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