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When Eddie Vedder & Pearl Jam Proved Them Wrong [Highlight From Episode 332] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on
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  Speaker 1: Rock Jelina Fragassi her brand new book, Pearl Jam Live
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  Speaker 1: Thirty five years of legendary music and revolutionary Shows. Take
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  Speaker 1: us back to October twenty second, nineteen ninety. This is the
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  Speaker 1: very first show by Pearl Jam. They won't call Pearl
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  Speaker 1: Jam yet, They're called Mookie Blaylock. This is an infamous
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  Speaker 1: hole in the wall club in Seattle called the Off
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  Speaker 1: Ramp Cafe. Tell us about this show because this is
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  Speaker 1: not long after Mother Lovebone had suddenly ended, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just a few months prior in March nineteen ninety, and
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  Speaker 2: he would sadly passed away. Stone and Jeff were left
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  Speaker 2: to kind of consider their future for a time. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't really want to pursue music in an official capacity
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  Speaker 2: until they met Eddie Vetter. And really it was a
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  Speaker 2: demo tape that got into the hands of Eddie Vedder
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  Speaker 2: that Stone's instrumentals were on it. At he created music
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  Speaker 2: and lyrics. He wrote his own version of Really, Who's Tommy,
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  Speaker 2: his own rock opera.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy feluck about it, but you know, it really struck
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  Speaker 2: a chord and had an impact on this band and
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  Speaker 2: So the craziest thing is that Eddie Vedder came to
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  Speaker 2: Seattle permanently October eighth, fourteen days later. They had their
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  Speaker 2: first show and a lot of material written, which just
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  Speaker 2: seems impossible to me to have material in chemistry and
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  Speaker 2: be ready to have a show, And the amount of
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  Speaker 2: pressure on everyone, particularly Eddie Vedder at this very first date,
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  Speaker 2: knowing the Seattle community was there to see kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: who's this guy taking the place of Andy Wood. It was,
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  Speaker 2: to quote Chris Cornell, one of the best debuts he's
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  Speaker 2: ever seen. And in that room that night, pearl jam
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  Speaker 2: was made.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he came from San Diego, he sure did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the mother lovedorn. Photographer was talking about it. People weren't welcoming, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't welcoming Eddie Vedder with open arms. They did
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  Speaker 1: not want to accept him. But he won people over
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  Speaker 1: pretty quickly, I would.
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  Speaker 2: Say, so, Yeah. I think like he had a lot
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  Speaker 2: to prove that and I think he made a lot
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  Speaker 2: of non believers sort of give him a chance. Lance
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  Speaker 2: is very vocal about the fact that he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: walk out when he saw this new guy on stage,
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  Speaker 2: and I think you have to understand the magnanimous of
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  Speaker 2: Andy what people loved him. He was a showman. He
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  Speaker 2: was the heart and soul of the Seattle seen him
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  Speaker 2: and he passed. My God, you cannot replace the man
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  Speaker 2: and Stone and Jefferly didn't want to. That's why they
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  Speaker 2: began a new project and took someone really outside of
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  Speaker 2: Seattle to make this project gel And so there were
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people who had their doubts, who wanted
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  Speaker 2: to see Eddie prove himself. But I think he sure
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  Speaker 2: did that first night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a pretty pivotal moment when Eddie Vetter
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  Speaker 1: finds his on stage powers, magic or his influence over
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  Speaker 1: the audience. You called in the book the Night Eddie
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  Speaker 1: Came Alive January tenth, nineteen ninety one. Tell us about
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  Speaker 1: this one in Canada of Victoria, BC, Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Pearl Jam had only had several shows under
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  Speaker 2: their bell at this point. It was only a few
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  Speaker 2: months after their first show, and they were opening for
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  Speaker 2: Alison Chains whose Facelift EP was out, so they were
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  Speaker 2: the support act. They only played a few songs, but
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  Speaker 2: Eddie was noticing the crowd was really rowdy and not
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  Speaker 2: paying attention, and I think he was motivated to get
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  Speaker 2: them to pay attention, so he did the unthinkable and
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  Speaker 2: just started his very crazy Tarzan theatrics