Pearl Jam Booed at concert for Anti-Bush remarks

http://www.sunspot.net/entertainment/music/bal-artslife-news-pearljam03,0,981156.story?coll=bal ^

[submarinerswife]

Dozens walk out of Pearl Jam concert after anti-Bush song, remarks Lead singer Eddie Vedder told the crowd he was against the war and President Bush. DENVER -- Dozens of fans walked out of a Pearl Jam concert after lead singer Eddie Vedder took a mask of President Bush and impaled it on a microphone stand. Several concertgoers booed and shouted Tuesday night for Vedder to shut up as he told the crowd he was against the war and Bush. He impaled the mask during the encore of the band's opening show of a U.S. tour. "It was like he decapitated someone in a primal ritual and stuck their head on a stick," fan Keith Zimmerman said. Vedder used a Bush mask in Australia and Japan to perform the song "Bushleaguer," from the band's latest album, "Riot Act." The song's lyrics say, "He's not a leader, he's a Texas leaguer." During the show, Vedder said: "Just to clarify... we support the troops." "We're just confused on how wanting to bring them back safely all of a sudden becomes non-support," he said. "We love them. They're not the ones who make the foreign policy .... Let's hope for the best and speak our opinions." Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.

[flushed with pride]

PJ is over. In fact, from a creative standpoint, they were done about 5 years ago. They could only ride the gravy train of teenage-angst-music for so long. After that it grows stale and repititious, and then it becomes a joke. I guess EV thought that the only way he could reconnect with his audience was to go politically left since there was not much left in the tank talent-wise. Bad move, but oh so typical of the 'artist' set.

[F16Fighter]

My son ain't gonna like this much....

[Lancey Howard]

Condoleezza Rice:
Career: National Security Advisor
Earned her Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. (Note: Rice enrolled at the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science (Cum Laude). She earned a Master's Degree at the University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies. Both of her advanced degrees are also in Political Science.) She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, and the University of Notre Dame in 1995. At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions. From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military. She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco. Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, and the University of Notre Dame in 1995. She resides in Washington, D.C.

Eddie Vedder
Career: Singer in rock band.

It will never cease to amaze me why jack-in-the-box clowns like Vedder figure they can inject themselves into areas they know nothing about. Well, so much for Eddie Vedder. Any respect I may have had for him is gone for good. What a punk.

[gaucho]

I happen to like some of his songs, but over the years Eddie Veder has done/said things that really make him look like an A$$.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Don't these idiots ever learn? LOL

[DeepInEnemyTerritory]

See post #22 admitting my mistake regarding Eddie's father. I have been out of the music scene for a long time and made a mistake. I asked the moderator to remove my posts to make sure I did not start an internet rumor.
Of course I have a CD Player, sheesh.
I am well aware of their politics. If you would have taken the time to read my post before starting on your diatribe, you would have noted that I said I have known about Eddie's liberal politics and I saw this coming. His politics have always been common knowledge.
So now because I don't agree with what Eddie said and did, I am not a Pearl Jam fan. Is that what you are saying? I have bought many Pearl Jam tapes (before CD's were popular) and CD's, but have given almost all of them to friends.
I will never again buy another Pearl Jam CD or go to another concert because Eddie just went too far this time. I cannot justify putting a dime of my money into the hands of such a disrespectful person.

"This country was founded on certain inalienable rights unfortunately; slowly we are losing those rights without even noticing"

This sentence shows your total ignorance of politics and current events.
1. Property Rights, yes, thanks to your beloved Democrats
2. Free Speech, no, There has never been more free speech than now thanks in large part to the internet.

Tell me, monkey, what rights are we loosing besides property rights?

[wafflehouse]

LOL, yea it would

[Route66]

'Dozens walk out of Pearl Jam concert after anti-Bush song...'
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Too bad it was only dozens.

[norcalvet]

Bono is as liberal as they come, AND has a big mouth, but he's just a little smarter than Eddie about knowing his audience. I saw U2 in concert right after 9-11, and it was probably all acting, but they did exactly the right thing. At the end of one of their sets, Bono had draped his flag jacket on Larry's drum, walked back to the mike, and soberly said "that flag has has done a lot for me." Maybe worded a little awkwardly, but the tone was right, and the message came across. Is it any surpise that U2 is wildly popular? Musicians should take some lessons from this Irish band on how to market themselves to an American demographic. They can't expect to trumpet their silly leftist beliefs AND make lot's of money any more.

[wafflehouse]

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EddieVeddersVoice signed up 2003-04-04.

[droberts]

Why is being 'anti-Bush' considered 'anti-American'?

[submarinerswife]

Pearl Jam supported Ralph Nader in the 2002 Election. They are Greenpeace scum that is typical of the anti-America movement. This wasn't a huge surprise but for him to say it this late in the game, makes me think Eddie Vedder just woke from a drug induced coma.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Most of the audience will eat that anti-Bush stuff up.

Maybe so, but based on this report, not enough to keep them from catching some serious ca-ca for saying/doing it. This is an encouraging sign.

[Fraulein]

I had no idea that Pearl Jam was still around. I mean, isn't grunge dead and over?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Here's a limerick for the occasion:

No Pearls of wisdom from Jam
(Their brains are related to Spam).
But with music that sounds
Like artillery rounds
You’d think they could help Uncle Sam.
- - Freeper, Dionysius

Check out This Thread for some more Friday limerick fun.

[j_k_l]

Why is being 'anti-Bush' considered 'anti-American'?

Their is a vast difference in opposing your president and legitimately disagreeing with him and using your celebrity status to spew hate towards someone because of his political party. Pearl Jams popularity was at it’s peak during the same time that Clinton was sending troops to Somalia, Haiti, Serbia and firing patriot missiles into Iraq. Eddie was silent. Now that the president has an ‘R’ by his name "the president is evil".

In short, being anti-president is not un-American, being a hypocrite is.

[KCmark]

In short, being anti-president is not un-American, being a hypocrite is.

Oh please. Lack of protesting is not supporting, and I think we all are a little guilty of hypocrisy. Sometimes, ....