May 21st, 2012

deeperintoblack:

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.

Reblogged from Deeper into Black
May 15th, 2012

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.

May 11th, 2012

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

May 4th, 2012
Check out the Everybody Loves Our Town–inspired Pinterest board my publisher put together.crownpublishing:

Are you a grunge fan? Check out our Pinterest board. We’ve curated the best images and videos of grunge to celebrate the paperback release of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm.
(via History of Grunge)

Check out the Everybody Loves Our Town–inspired Pinterest board my publisher put together.

crownpublishing
:

Are you a grunge fan? Check out our Pinterest board. We’ve curated the best images and videos of grunge to celebrate the paperback release of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm.

(via History of Grunge)

Reblogged from Crown Publishing
April 24th, 2012
Noted playwright Mando Alvarado’s modern spin on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet places the plot in the Lower East Side for a more relatable take on the quintessential tale of struggling family dynamics, power, and revenge. Fusing the music and themes from American rock icon Pearl Jam’s ground-breaking album, Ten, with a gritty Lower East Side dynamic, this concert event relates Shakespeare’s 17th century literature to 21st century New York City.
description of the SummerStage theater piece A King of Infinite Space, to be performed in the Bronx July 13 and 14

(Source: gothamist.com)

April 6th, 2012

Hear Willie Nelson and son Lukas cover Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe.” The father-son duet appears on Willie’s album Heroes, out May 15. 

April 5th, 2012
April 2nd, 2012

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.

March 29th, 2012

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

March 23rd, 2012

“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)

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