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From The Chicago Tribune

Luis Gomez About Last Night

10:03 a.m. CDT, May 21, 2012

It looks like life-long Cubs fan Eddie Vedder didn’t take his team’s loss to the White Sox in the Crosstown Classic too hard.

The Pearl Jam rocker partied with former Blackhawk Chris Chelios and the now retired Kerry Wood at Stanley’s Kitchen & Tap in Lincoln Park Sunday after attending the game at Wrigley Field and turned the bar’s famous live band karaoke into an impromptu performance.

It all began when one bar patron opted to sing Pearl Jam’s “Alive.” Vedder joined him on stage and turned the song into the duet, much to the delight of half the bar. I hear the other half of the bar was too in the bag to realize what was happening.

The Evanston native sang around five songs, including The Band’s “The Weight” and The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” (aka “Teenage Wasteland”). He took a break afterward but would return to join another patron who was struggling through his respective song.

This wasn’t Vedder’s first time giving an impromptu performance after a Cubs game. Vedder unexpectedly performed at Murphy’s Bleachers in Wrigleyville last July following a game between the Cubs and San Francisco Giants.

Willie Nelson and son Lukas cover Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe” live on SiriusXM. In related news, here’s audio of a conversation between Willie Nelson and Eddie Vedder.

That Metal Show backstage exclusive: Mike McCready’s worst gig (H/T GrungeReport.net)

“Skipping,” a new song by Eddie Vedder, from the Every Mother Counts 2012 benefit album.

First came the Chilean Eddie Vedder. Now there’s a Peruvian Kurt Cobain.

Jack Johnson and Eddie Vedder performing Johnson’s “Constellations” at the Kokua Festival in Hawaii, 2007. This version will be featured on Johnson’s live album, Best of Kokua Festival, out April 17.

Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell perform “Hunger Strike” on the Lollapalooza side stage, Phoenix, Sept. 8, 1992. (H/T Rocket)

“Mookie Blaylock’s first tour was with Alice in Chains, down the West Coast. There was the Alice in Chains minivan and the Mookie Blaylock minivan, and my best friend Keith was driving the Alice in Chains minivan and being an all-around roadie/tech/lighting guy. I was in the van with Mookie Blaylock, and we would have food fights between the minivans at 80 miles an hour on I-5.

“Mookie Blaylock and Alice in Chains were different on every level. Why they would fit together I didn’t know, but they almost seemed like one big band then.”

—Eric Johnson, former Mookie Blaylock/Pearl Jam tour manager, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

(Source: the-defection-of-the-soul)