December 6th, 2011
Zoom Mudhoney’s Mark Arm and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder at the White House, April 9, 1994.MARK ARM (Mudhoney singer/guitarist) [Director of the White House Office of Personnel Security] Craig Livingstone—he popped up in the news later when he got canned for something—was the one who welcomed both bands. And then Pearl Jam went on to meet Clinton. We were hoping to meet him, but I think we knew ahead of time that we weren’t going to get the full deal.MATT LUKIN (Mudhoney bassist) We got a behind-the-velvet-rope tour. Then some kid recognized us as Mudhoney and asked us for an autograph. So, sure, we gave him an autograph, and as soon as that went down, people just started pouring in, thinking we were Pearl Jam. We’re like, “No, no, no, you don’t know who we are. You don’t want our autograph.” And they’re like, “No, no, you’re Pearl Jam.”DAN PETERS (Mudhoney drummer) I’m sure once they get home and realize that some guy named Dan Peters signed their piece of paper, they were like, “Who the fuck was that?”Excerpted from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge.

Mudhoney’s Mark Arm and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder at the White House, April 9, 1994.

MARK ARM (Mudhoney singer/guitarist) [Director of the White House Office of Personnel Security] Craig Livingstone—he popped up in the news later when he got canned for something—was the one who welcomed both bands. And then Pearl Jam went on to meet Clinton. We were hoping to meet him, but I think we knew ahead of time that we weren’t going to get the full deal.

MATT LUKIN (Mudhoney bassist) We got a behind-the-velvet-rope tour. Then some kid recognized us as Mudhoney and asked us for an autograph. So, sure, we gave him an autograph, and as soon as that went down, people just started pouring in, thinking we were Pearl Jam. We’re like, “No, no, no, you don’t know who we are. You don’t want our autograph.” And they’re like, “No, no, you’re Pearl Jam.”

DAN PETERS (Mudhoney drummer) I’m sure once they get home and realize that some guy named Dan Peters signed their piece of paper, they were like, “Who the fuck was that?”

Excerpted from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge.

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September 14th, 2011
Zoom Politico highlights the political tidbits in my new book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, including the story behind Pearl Jam’s April 9, 1994, White House visit. (Photo credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library)See another previously unpublished photo of PJ hobnobbing with President Clinton here. 

Politico highlights the political tidbits in my new book, Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, including the story behind Pearl Jam’s April 9, 1994, White House visit. (Photo credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library)

See another previously unpublished photo of PJ hobnobbing with President Clinton here. 

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August 31st, 2011
Zoom PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTO! On April 9, 1994—the day after Kurt Cobain’s body was found—Pearl Jam met President Clinton in the Oval Office. Learn how this historic meeting came about (and what Eddie Vedder and the president discussed in a one-on-one conversation) in the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, out Tuesday, September 6 (preorder here, here or here) (Photo credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library)

PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTO! On April 9, 1994—the day after Kurt Cobain’s body was found—Pearl Jam met President Clinton in the Oval Office. Learn how this historic meeting came about (and what Eddie Vedder and the president discussed in a one-on-one conversation) in the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, out Tuesday, September 6 (preorder here, here or here) (Photo credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library)

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August 3rd, 2011

TAD’s Kurt Danielson on the infamous toking Clinton poster



In this excerpt from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, ex-TAD bassist Kurt Danielson clears up the story behind this infamous TAD tour poster:

“We were dropped from Giant when were in Europe with Soundgarden. What screwed things up with Giant wasn’t really the way it’s been told—as being because of the poster with Clinton on it. Have you seen that poster? I don’t know who did it; it was somebody in connection with the European tour. It was a black- and-white photograph of Bill Clinton making a speech. And his hand gestures and facial gestures were perfect for the insertion of a fake joint, and there was a quote on the bottom saying ‘THIS IS HEAVY SHIT,’ referring to TAD’s music, of course. It was hilarious.

“Unfortunately, somebody at Giant didn’t have a sense of humor and thought it was a politically damaging thing, even though not that many people saw it. Giant used that poster as their excuse to drop us. But more important than that was that we had a manager at the time who was less than trustworthy, let’s just put it that way. All we can surmise is that he must have caused more problems than solutions when he dealt with Giant. And we weren’t selling a lot of records.”

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