[Scoop]

Hey Pearl Jam. They used to be a band or something, right?

[w_over_w]

Pearl Jam Trashes Bush at Concert

Who?

[Cinnamon Girl]

It doesn't surprise me that they would be "opposed to the war" (which is really a euphamism for "We're anti-Bush"-- but the head on a stick thing is disgusting and derranged. Why didn't EVERYONE walk out?

[Dirk McQuickly]

Time for FREEPers to take the war to Pearl Jam.

[DoughtyOne]

Let them play to an empty hall tonight.

[Scothia]

Third post, same topic

[Tribune7]

There's another thread describing how fans walked out.

[chemicalman]

"Did someone just say, 'Shut up'? I don't know if you heard about this thing called freedom of speech, man. It's worth thinking about it, because it's going away," Vedder said. "In the last year of being able to use it, we're sure as (expletive) going to use it and I'm not gonna apologize."

I'm going to exercise my free speach...:
"Hey Eddie Vedder, you are one moronic, stupid f'n a__hole! So I say shut the F up!"

[weegee]

Most of Vedder's antiwar remarks earlier in the Pepsi Center show

It would be interesting to hear from Pepsi Co. how they feel about the association just made in that sentence. Do they like or dislike being associated with Mr. Vedder's antiwar remarks?

[American Soldier]

I can't believe I used to like these guys. Why can't we go back in time and make Vedder and Kurt Cobain switch places?

[Made In The USA]

"Did someone just say, 'Shut up'? I don't know if you heard about this thing called freedom of speech, man."

Eddie... Freedom of speech doesn't mean those around you have to listen, accept, or agree- especially when you try to give us your "intellectual guidance" by way of torturing our President in effigy. Eddie, Freedom of Speech means we can tell you to shut up. Moreover, we allowed to be offended by your words and walk out of your concert. We can stop buying your recordings. It's not an attack on your freedom of speech or economic well being, it's a consequence of your own actions. May want to consider the fact that you're running a business, and if not consider what you say, than certainly how you say it.

[TSgt]

My wife and I attended a Pearl Jam concert a couple years ago. We liked their music however we couldn't find a place in the entire ampatheater, Riverbend in Cincinnati, where we could stand without getting a contact high from all of the pot smoking. That was our first and last Pearl Jam concert and now I'm going to trash their CD's I own and free up some space on my hard drive by deleting their MP3's.

[metalboy]

Shut up is right. I wouldn`t take too seriously a band that takes the gay slang for sperm as a name anyway.

[Destro]

Posting this is meaningless unless you like to fume for nothing-Pear Jam is immune from what happened to the Dixie Chicks.

[wimpycat]

Hey, Eddie! In case you haven't heard, free speech means a paying member of your audience can tell you to SHUT UP! It works both ways, man.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

If there had been any justice in the world, it would have been Mudhoney & Tad making it big out of Seatlle instead of Pearl Jam...

[weegee]

The singer was incensed when someone in the crowd yelled, "Shut up!"

"Did someone just say, 'Shut up'? I don't know if you heard about this thing called freedom of speech, man. It's worth thinking about it, because it's going away," Vedder said. "In the last year of being able to use it, we're sure as (expletive) going to use it and I'm not gonna apologize."

Mr. Cheese and Whine (Cheddar), let me inform you of a common business belief: The customer is always right. The audience paid to hear your pop songs, not your Green Party rhetoric. So in the words of Frank Zappa, "Shut up and play yer guitar."

[Barnacle]

Pearl Jam? Oh, yeah. They’re famous. They’re the guys that burned down a nightclub. Right?

[thesoothsayers]

Poor Eddie, he is mad at Bush because of the opium trade being hit hard and poor Eddie can't get his fixes anymore. HE has taken WAY to much heroin anyway.

[Jhensy]

The Seattle band plays Oklahoma City tonight.

Hang on...it's gonna be a bumpy night....